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25. Stamsås GS, Straume D, Ruud Winther A, Kjos M, Frantzen CA, Håvarstein LS (2017) Identification of EloR (Spr1851) as a regulator of cell elongation in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Mol Microbiol. 10.1111/mmi.13748

24. van Raaphorst R*, Kjos M*, Veening JW (2017) Chromosome segregation drives division site selection in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 114(29):E5959-E5968. *joint first authors. Se også: 1,2.

23. Liu X, Gallay C, Kjos M, Domenech A, Slager J, van Kessel S, Knoops K, Sorg RA, Zhang JR, Veening JW (2017) High-throughput CRISPRi phenotyping in Streptococcus pneumoniae identifies new essential genes involved in cell wall synthesis and competence development. Mol Syst Biol. 13:931.

22. Oppegård C, Kjos M, Veening JW, Nissen-Meyer J, Kristensen T (2016) A putative amino acid transporter determines sensitivity to the two-peptide bacteriocin plantaricin JK. MicrobiologyOpen. doi: 10.1002/mbo3.36.

21. Kjos M*, Miller E*, Slager J, Lake F, Gericke O, Roberts IS, Rozen DE, Veening JW (2016) Antibiotic-induced expression of pneumococcal bacteriocins via regulatory interplay with the competence system. PLoS Pathogens. 12(2):e1005422. *joint first authors.

20. Nourikyan J*, Kjos M*, Cluzel C, Morlot C, Mercy C, Noirot-Gros MF, Lavergne JP, Guiral S, Veening JW, Grangeasse C. (2015) Autophosphorylation of the bacterial tyrosine kinase CpsD coordinates capsule synthesis and cell division of Streptococcus pneumoniae. PLoS Genetics. 11(9):e1005518. *joint first authors.

19. Beilharz K, van Raaphorst R, Kjos M, Veening JW (2015) Red fluorescent proteins for gene expression and protein localization studies in Streptococcus pneumoniae and efficient transformation with DNA assembled via the Gibson assembly method. Appl Environ Microbiol. 81(20):7244-52.

18. Attaiech L, Minnen A, Kjos M, Gruber S, Veening JW (2015) The ParB-parS chromosome segregation system modulates natural competence development in Streptococcus pneumoniae. mBio. 6(4):e00662-15.

17. Paixão L, Oliveira J, Verissímo A, Vinga S, Lourenço E, Ventura R, Kjos M, Veening JW, Fernandes VE, Andrew PE, Yesilkaya H and Neves AR (2015) Host glycan sugar specific pathways in Streptococcus pneumoniae: galactose as a key sugar in colonisation and infection. PLoS One. 10(3):e0121042.

16. Kjos M, Aprianto R, Fernandes VE, Andrew PW, van Strijp JAG, Nijland R, Veening JW (2015) Bright fluorescent Streptococcus pneumoniae for live cell imaging of host-pathogen interactions. J Bacteriol. 197:807-18.

15. Kjos M*, Oppegård C*, Diep DB, Nes IF, Veening JW, Nissen-Meyer J, Kristiansen T (2014) Sensitivity to the two-peptide bacteriocin lactococcin G is dependent on an enzyme involved in cell-wall synthesis. Mol Microbiol. 92(6):1177-87. *joint first authors.

14. Slager J, Kjos M, Attaiech L, Veening JW (2014) Antibiotic-induced increase of origin proximal gene copy number triggers bacterial competence. Cell. 157(2):395-406.

13. Kjos M, Veening JW (2014) Tracking of chromosome dynamics in live Streptococcus pneumoniae reveals that transcription promotes chromosome segregation. Mol Microbiol. 91(6):1088-1105.

12. Hassan M, Kjos M, Nes IF, Diep DB, Lotfipour F (2014) Antimicrobial peptides from prokaryotes. In: Novel Antimicrobial Agents and Strategies (Phoenix DA, Harris F, Dennison SR, eds.). Wiley-VCH, Germany.

11. Pinho MG, Kjos M, Veening JW (2013) How to get (a)round: Mechanisms controlling growth and division of coccoid bacteria. Nat Rev Microbiol. 11:601-14.

10. Hassan M, Kjos M, Nes IF, Diep DB, Lotfipour F (2012) Natural antimicrobial peptides from bacteria: characteristics and potential applications to fight against antibiotic resistance. J Appl Microbiol. 113(4):723-36.

9. Nes IF, Kjos M, Diep DB (2011) Antimicrobial components of lactic acid bacteria. In: Lactic acid bacteria: microbiological and functional aspects, fourth edition (Lahtinen S, Ouwehand AC, Salminen S, von Wright A, eds.), CRC Press Taylor & Francis, USA.

8. Kjos M, Borrero J, Opsata M, Birri DJ, Holo H, Cintas LM, Snipen L, Hernandez PE, Nes IF, Diep DB (2011) Target recognition, resistance, immunity and genome mining of class II bacteriocins from Gram-positive bacteria. Microbiology. 157:3256-67.

7. Kjos M, Nes IF, Diep DB (2011) Mechanisms of resistance to bacteriocins targeting the mannose phosphotransferase system. Appl Environ Microbiol. 77(10):3335-42.

6. Kjos M, Salehian Z, Nes IF, Diep DB (2010) An extracellular loop of the mannose phosphotransferase system component IIC is responsible for specific targeting by class IIa bacteriocins. J Bacteriol. 192(22):5906-13.

5. Kjos M, Snipen LS, Salehian Z, Nes IF, Diep DB (2010) The Abi proteins and their involvement in bacteriocin self-immunity. J Bacteriol. 192(8):2068-76.

4. Kjos M, Nes IF, Diep DB (2009) Class II one-peptide bacteriocins target a phylogenetically defined subgroup of mannose phosphotransferase systems on sensitive cells. Microbiology. 155(9):2949-61.

3. Diep DB, Straume D, Kjos M, Torres C, Nes IF (2009) An overview of the mosaic bacteriocin pln loci from Lactobacillus plantarum. Peptides 30 (8): 1562-74.

2. Kjos M, Straume D, Nes IF, Diep DB (2009) Transposition of IS10R in Lactococcus lactis. J Appl Microbiol 106(1):288-95.

1. Straume D, Kjos M, Nes IF, Diep DB (2007) Quorum-sensing based bacteriocin production is down-regulated by N-terminally truncated species of gene activators. Mol Genet Gen. 278 (3): 283-93.