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Jacques Izard*.
Cytoskeletal cytoplasmic filament ribbon of Treponema: a member of an intermediate-like filament protein family.
Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology (2006). Vol. 11 pp. 159-166 [click here].

Federico Foschi, Jacques Izard, Hajime Sasaki, Victorio Sambri, Carlo Prati, Ralph Müller, and Philip Stashenko.
Treponema denticola in disseminating endodontic infections. (Cover)
Journal of Dental Research (2006). vol. 85 (8) pp.761-765 [click here].

Jacques Izard, and Ronald J. Limberger.
Structural and genomic features of treponemal architecture.
Book Chapter in: Treponema molecular and cellular biology.
J. Radolf and S.A. Lukehart (ed.) Horizon Bioscience (2006). ISBN 1-904455-10-7 [click here].
[To get a complete description and to buy the book from Caister Academic Press, click here]

Anne C. R. Tanner and Jacques Izard.
Tannerella forsythia, a periodontal pathogen entering the genomic era.
Periodontology 2000 (2006). vol. 42 pp. 88-113 [click here].

Jacques Izard*, Chyongere-E. Hsieh, Carmen A. Mannella, Ronald J. Limberger, and Mike Marko.
Periplasm organization in Treponema denticola as studied by cryo-electron tomography.
Microscopy and Microanalysis (2005) vol. 11 (Suppl 2) pp340-341.[pdf file]

Anne C. R. Tanner and Jacques Izard.
Etiology of oral disease in view of microbial complexity.
Oral Biosciences & Medicine (2005) vol.2 n. 2/3 pp. 209-213. [pdf file 5MB]

Linda Slivienski-Gebhardt, Jacques Izard, William A. Samsonoff, and Ronald J. Limberger.
Development of a novel chloramphenicol-resistance expression plasmid used for genetic complementation of a fliG-deletion mutant of Treponema denticola.
Infection Immunity (2004), vol. 72(9) pp. 5493-5497.[abstract] [pdf file] [Infection Immunity - web site]

Jacques Izard*, Bruce F. McEwen, Rita M. Barnard, Thomas Portuese, and Ronald J. Limberger.
Tomographic reconstruction of treponemal cytoplasmic filaments reveals novel bridging and anchoring components.
Molecular Microbiology.(2004) vol. 51 (3) pp. 609-618. [abstract] [pdf file] [extra material (movie)] [Molecular Microbiology at Blackwell Publishing - web site]

Jacques Izard*, and Ronald J. Limberger.
Rapid Screening Method for Quantitation of Bacterial Lipids from Whole Cells.
Doi: 10.1016/S0167-7012(03)00193-3..
Journal of Microbiological Methods. (2003) vol. 55 n. 2, pp. 411-418. [abstract] [pdf file]

Jacques Izard* and Ronald J. Limberger.
Pleiotropic Defects in a Treponema denticola Cytoplasmic Filament Mutant.
Journal of Bacteriology (2001) vol. 183 n. 3 pp. 1078-1084. [abstract] [pdf file] [Journal of Bacteriology - web site]

Jacques Izard*, William. A. Samsonoff, Mary-Beth Coy and Ronald J. Limberger.
Genetic and Structural Analysis of the Cytoplasmic Filaments of Wild-type and a Flagella Filament-deficient Isolate of Treponema phagedenis.
Journal of Bacteriology (1999) vol. 181 n. 21 pp. 6739-6746 [abstract] [pdf file 4MB] [Journal of Bacteriology - web site]

Ronald J. Limberger, Linda L. Slivienski, Jacques Izard and William A. Samsonoff.
Insertional Inactivation of Treponema denticola tap1 Results in a Non-Motile Mutant with Elongated Flagellar Hooks.
Journal of Bacteriology (1999) vol. 181 n. 12 pp. 3743-3750 [abstract] [pdf file] [Journal of Bacteriology - web site]

Denis Duché, Jacques Izard, Juan M. Gonzalez-Mañas, Michael W. Parker, Martine Chartier and Daniel Baty.
Two Disulfide Bonds Introduced in the Colicin A Pore-forming Domain Block the in vivo but not the in vitro Toxin Activity.
Journal of Biological Chemistry (1996) vol. 271 n°26, pp. 15401-15406 [abstract] [pdf file]

Rita Vos and Yves Engelborghs; Jacques Izard and Daniel Baty.
Fluorescence Study of the Three Tryptophan Residues of the Pore-forming Domain of Colicin A Using Multifrequency Phase Fluorometry.
Biochemistry (1995) vol. 34, pp. 1734-1743 [abstract] [pdf file].

Jacques Izard, Michael W. Parker, Martine Chartier, Denis Duché and Daniel Baty. A Single Amino Acid
Substitution Can Restore the Solubility of Aggregated Colicin A Mutants in Escherichia coli.
Protein Engineering (1994) vol. 7 n°12, pp. 1495-1500 [abstract] [pdf file 8.6 MB] [Protein Engineering has been relauched in 2004 as Protein Engineering, Design and Selection - web site]