Dr. Kirsty Agnoli-Antkowiak
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
University of Zürich
Zollikerstrasse 107
CH-8008 Zürich
k.agnoli@botinst.uzh.ch

phone:
+41 (0)44 63 48227
fax:
+41 (0)44 63 48204
Research Interests
List of Publications

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Research Interests

Biocontrol, synthetic biology, regulation and pathogenicity Funding: Gebert Ruef Stiftung grant GRS-076/19


List of Publications

Butt, A. T., Banyard, C. D., Haldipurkar, S. S., Agnoli, K., Mohsin, M. I., Vitovski, S., Paleja, A., Tang, Y., Lomax, R., Ye, F., Green, J., and M.S. Thomas. 2022. The Burkholderia cenocepacia iron starvation sigma factor, OrbS, possesses an on-board iron sensor. Nucleic Acids Res. 5 (7):3709-26.
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Purtschert-Montenegro, G., Carcamo-Oyarce, G., Pinto-Carbo, M., Agnoli, K., Bailly, A., and L. Eberl. 2022. Pseudomonas putida mediates bacterial killing, biofilm invasion and biocontrol with a type IVB secretion system. Nat Microbiol.1547-57
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Schnyder, A., Eberl, L., and K. Agnoli. 2022. Investigating the Biocontrol Potential of the Natural Microbiota of the Apple Blossom. Microorganisms. 1 (12).
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Mannweiler, O., Pinto-Carbo, M., Lardi, M., Agnoli, K., and L. Eberl. 2021. Investigation of Burkholderia cepacia Complex Methylomes via Single-Molecule, Real-Time Sequencing and Mutant Analysis. J Bacteriol. 20 (12):e0068320.
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Agnoli, K., Haldipurkar, S. S., Tang, Y., Butt, A. T., and M.S. Thomas. 2019. Distinct Modes of Promoter Recognition by Two Iron Starvation sigma Factors with Overlapping Promoter Specificities. J Bacteriol. 20 (3).
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Sathe, S., Mathew, A., Agnoli, K., Eberl, L., and R. Kummerli. 2019. Genetic architecture constrains exploitation of siderophore cooperation in the bacterium Burkholderia cenocepacia. Evol Lett. (6):610-22. doi: 10.1002/evl3.144. PubMed PMID: 31844554; PubMed Central PMCID: PMCPMC6906993.
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Gomes, M.C., Tasrini, Y., Subramoni, S., Agnoli, K., Feliciano, J.R., Eberl, L., Sokol, P., O'Callaghan, D., and A.C. Vergunst. 2018. The afc antifungal activity cluster, which is under tight regulatory control of ShvR, is essential for transition from intracellular persistence of Burkholderia cenocepacia to acute pro-inflammatory infection. PLoSPathog. 2018 Dec 4;1 (12):e1007473. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007473.
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Agnoli, K., Freitag, R., Gomes, M.C., Jenul, C., Suppiger, A., Mannweiler, O., Frauenknecht, C., Janser, D., Vergunst, A.C., and L. Eberl. 2017. Use of synthetic hybrid strains to determine the role of replicon 3 in virulence of the Burkholderia cepacia complex. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 16;8 (13). doi: 10.1128/AEM.00461-17.

Agnoli, K., Frauenknecht, C., Freitag, R., Schwager, S., Jenul, C., Vergunst, A., Carlier, A., and L. Eberl. 2014. The third replicon of members of the Burkholderia cepacia complex, plasmid pC3, plays a role in stress tolerance. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2013 Dec 13. PMID: 24334662 [Epub ahead of print

Carlier, A., Agnoli, K., Pessi, G., Suppiger, A., Jenul, C., Schmid, N., Tümmler, B., Pinto-Carbo, M., and L. Eberl. 2014. Genome Sequence of Burkholderia cenocepacia H111, a Cystic Fibrosis Airway Isolate. Genome Announc. 10; (2). pii: e00298-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00298-14.

Kost, T., Stopnisek, N., Agnoli, K., Eberl, L., and L. Weisskopf. 2014. Oxalotrophy, a widespread trait of plant-associated Burkholderia species, is involved in successful root colonization of lupin and maize by Burkholderia phytofirmans. Front Microbiol. 2014 Jan 9;4:421. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00421
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Sass, A.M., Schmerk, C., Agnoli, K., Norville, P.J., Eberl, L., Valvano, M.A, and E. Mahenthiralingam. 2013. The unexpected discovery of a novel low-oxygen-activated locus for the anoxic persistence of Burkholderia cenocepacia. ISME J. 2013 7:1568-81. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2013.36.

Schwager, S., Agnoli, K., Köthe, M., Feldmann, F., Givskov, M., Carlier, A.L., and L. Eberl. 2013. Identification of Burkholderia cenocepacia H111 virulence factors using non-mammalian infection hosts. Infect. Immun. 81:143-53
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Subramoni, S., Agnoli, K., Eberl, L., Lewenza, S., and P.A. Sokol. 2013. Role of Burkholderia cenocepacia afcE and afcF genes in determining lipid-metabolism-associated phenotypes. Microbiology 159:603-14.

Agnoli, K., Schwager, S., Uehlinger, S., Vergunst, A., Viteri, D.F., Nguyen, D.T., Sokol, P.A., Carlier, A., and L. Eberl. 2012. Exposing the third chromosome of Burkholderia cepacia complex strains as a virulence plasmid. Mol. Microbiol. 83:362-78

Asghar, A. H., Shastri, S., Dave, E., Wowk, I., Agnoli, K., Cook, A. M., Thomas, M. S. 2011. The pobA gene of Burkholderia cenocepacia encodes a Group I Sfp-type phosphopantetheinyltransferase required for biosynthesis of the siderophores ornibactin and pyochelin. Microbiology-Sgm. 157:349-61
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Agnoli, K., Lowe, C. A., Farmer, K. L., Husnain, S. I., Thomas, M. S. 2006. The ornibactin biosynthesis and transport genes of Burkholderia cenocepacia are regulated by an extracytoplasmic function sigma factor which is a part of the Fur regulon. J Bacteriol. 18 (10):3631-44.
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