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Saidykhan, L, Correia, J, Romanyuk, A, Desanti, GE, Taylor-Smith, L, Makarova, M, Ballou, ER & May, RC 2022, 'An in vitro method for inducing titan cells reveals novel features of yeast-to-titan switching in the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus gattii', PLoS Pathogens, vol. 18, no. 8, e1010321. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1010321
Seoane Denicola, P, Taylor-Smith, L, Stirling, D, Bell, LCK, Noursadeghi, M, Bailey, D & May, R 2020, 'Viral infection triggers interferon-induced expulsion of live Cryptococcus neoformans by macrophages', PLoS pathogens, vol. 16, no. 2, e1008240. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008240
Lim, J, Coates, CJ, Seoane, PI, Garelnabi, M, Taylor-Smith, LM, Monteith, P, Macleod, CL, Escaron, CJ, Brown, GD, Hall, RA & May, RC 2018, 'Characterizing the Mechanisms of Nonopsonic Uptake of Cryptococci by Macrophages', Journal of Immunology, vol. 200, no. 9, pp. 3539-3546. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1700790
Garelnabi, M, Bielska, E, May, R, Taylor-Smith, L, Hall, R & Stones, D 2018, 'Quantifying donor-to-donor variation in macrophage responses to the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans', PLoS ONE, vol. 13, no. 3, e0194615. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194615
Dambuza, I, Drake, T, Chapuis, A, Zhou, X, Correia, J, Taylor-Smith, L, LeGrave, N, Rasmussen, T, Fisher, M, Bicanic, T, Harrison, T, Jaspars, M, May, R, Brown, G, Yuecel, R, MacCallum, D & Ballou, ER 2018, 'The Cryptococcus neoformans titan cell is an inducible and regulated morphotype underlying pathogenesis', PLoS pathogens, vol. 14, no. 5, e1006978. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006978
Perez Soto, N, Moule, L, Crisan, D, Insua Lopez, I, Taylor-Smith, L, Voelz, K, Fernandez-Trillo, F & Krachler, AM 2017, 'Engineering Microbial Physiology with Synthetic Polymers: Cationic Polymers Induce Biofilm Formation in Vibrio cholerae and Downregulate the Expression of Virulence Genes', Chemical Science. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7SC00615B
Taylor-Smith, LM & May, RC 2016, 'New weapons in the Cryptococcus infection toolkit', Current Opinion in Microbiology, vol. 34, pp. 67-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2016.07.018
Smith, LM, Dixon, EF & May, RC 2015, 'The fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans manipulates macrophage phagosome maturation', Cellular Microbiology, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 702–713. https://doi.org/10.1111/cmi.12394
Voelz, K, Johnston, SA, Smith, LM, Hall, RA, Idnurm, A & May, RC 2014, '‘Division of labour’ in response to host oxidative burst drives a fatal Cryptococcus gattii outbreak', Nature Communications, vol. 5, 5194. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6194
Smith, LM & May, RC 2013, 'Mechanisms of microbial escape from phagocyte killing', Biochemical Society Transactions, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 475-90. https://doi.org/10.1042/BST20130014
Cumley, N, Smith, L, Anthony, M & May, R 2012, 'The CovS/CovR Acid Response Regulator Is Required for Intracellular Survival of Group B Streptococcus in Macrophages', Infection and Immunity, vol. 80, no. 5, pp. 1650-1661. https://doi.org/10.1128/IAI.05443-11
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Saidykhan, L, Correia, J, Romanyuk, A, Peacock, AFA, Desanti, GE, Taylor-Smith, L, Makarova, M, Ballou, ER & May, RC 2022, 'Correction: An in vitro method for inducing titan cells reveals novel features of yeast-to-titan switching in the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus gattii', PLoS Pathogens, vol. 18, no. 11, e1011001. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1011001
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