Jeffrey S. McLean

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Direct collaborators. Node size = influence, colour = community, dashed = past collaboration.

• Nanosynbacter lyticus gen. nov., sp. nov., an ultrasmall, obligate epibiont bacterium and the proposal of Nanosynbacteraceae fam. nov., Nanosynbacterales ord. nov. and Nanosynbacteria class nov.

  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY · 2026-05-08

• Phosphorylated lantibiotics-producing commensals integrate into the human oral microbiome to suppress pathogens and promote microbiome homeostasis

  npj Biofilms and Microbiomes · 2026-04-03

• Ultrasmall oral Saccharibacteria modulate gingival immunoactivation through type IV pili and TLR2-dependent endocytosis

  Nature Communications · 2026-03-28 · 2 citations

• DNA and RNA-based amplicon sequencing of paired supragingival and dentin lesion plaque in children with severe early childhood caries

  International Journal of Oral Science · 2026-02-24 · 4 citations

• Ultrasmall episymbiont <i>Nanosynbacter lyticus</i> employs multiple ATP-generating metabolic pathways during horizontal transmission

  The ISME Journal · 2025-12-28 · 2 citations

• Identifying essential genes in <i>Schaalia odontolytica</i> using a saturated transposon library

  Journal of Bacteriology · 2025-08-01 · 2 citations

• Episymbiotic Saccharibacteria suppresses epithelial immunoactivation through Type IV pili and TLR2 dependent endocytosisPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-06-02 · 4 citations

• Distal gut colonization by oral bacteria during intensive chemotherapy: direct evidence from strain-level analysis of paired samples

  npj Biofilms and Microbiomes · 2025-05-26 · 5 citations

• Complete genome sequence of <i>Veillonella parvula</i> strain PK1910

  Microbiology Resource Announcements · 2025-02-25

• Shotgun sequencing of oral and colonic microbiota in patients with acute myeloid leukemia

  Oral Surgery Oral Medicine Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology · 2025-01-07

• Saccharibacteria deploy two distinct type IV pili, driving episymbiosis, host competition, and twitching motility

  The ISME Journal · 2025-01-01 · 8 citations

• Complete genome of <i>Nanosynbacter</i> sp. strain BB002, isolated and cultivated from a site of periodontal disease

  Microbiology Resource Announcements · 2024-11-27 · 1 citations

• Saccharibacteria deploy two distinct Type IV pili, driving episymbiosis, host competition, and twitching motilityPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2024-11-25 · 5 citations

• Identifying essential genes in <i>Schaalia odontolytica</i> using a highly-saturated transposon libraryPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2024-07-18 · 1 citations

• Familial clustering of dysbiotic oral and fecal microbiomes in juvenile dermatomyositis

  Scientific Reports · 2024-07-12 · 2 citations