Publications 2009

Bourgeois I, Camiade E, Biswas R, Courtin P, Gibert L, Götz F, Chapot-Chartier MP, Pons JL, Pestel-Caron M. 2009. Characterization of AtlL, a bifunctional autolysin of Staphylococcus lugdunensis with N-acetylglucosaminidase and N-acetylmuramoyl-l-alanine amidase activities. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 290: 105-113.

Braun, V. 2009. FhuA (TonA), the career of a protein. J. Bacteriol 191:3431-3436.

Dangel V, Harle J, Goerke C, Wolz C, Gust B, Pernodet JL, Heide L. 2009. Transcriptional regulation of the novobiocin biosynthetic gene cluster. Microbiology 155:4025-35.

Engelhardt S, Lee J, Gäbler Y, Kemmerling B, Haapalainen ML, Li CM, Wie Z, Keller H, Joosten M, Taira S, Nürnberger T. 2009. Separable roles of the Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola accessory protein HrpZ1 in ion-conducting pore formation and activation of plant immunity. Plant J. 57:706-717.

Ernst CM, Staubitz P, Mishra NN, Yang SJ, Hornig G, Kalbacher H, Bayer AS, Kraus D, Peschel A. 2009. The bacterial defensin resistance protein MprF consists of separable domains for lipid lysinylation and antimicrobial peptide repulsion. PLoS Pathog 5: e1000660.

Föller M, Biswas R, Mahmud H, Akel A, Shumilina E, Wieder T, Götz F, and Lang F. 2009. Effect of peptidoglycans on erythrocyte survival. Int. J. Med. Microbiol. 299: 75-85.

Guo YL, Mayer H, Vollmer W, Dittrich D, Sander P, Schultz A, Schultz JE. 2009. Polyphosphates from Mycobacterium bovis: potent inhibitors of class III adenylate cyclases. FEBS J. 276: 1094–103.

Hartmann MD, Ridderbusch O, Zeth K, Albrecht R, Testa O, Woolfson DN, Sauer G, Dunin-Horkawicz S, Lupas AN, Alvarez BH. 2009. A coiled-coil motif that sequesters ions to the hydrophobic core. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 106:16950-16955.

Heide L. 2009. Genetic engineering of antibiotic biosynthesis for the generation of new aminocoumarins. Biotechnol. Adv. 27:1006-1014.

Heide L. 2009. Aminocoumarins: Mutasynthesis, chemoenzymatic synthesis, and metabolic engineering. Methods Enzymol. 459:437-55.

Heide L. 2009. The aminocoumarins: biosynthesis and biology. Nat. Prod. Rep. 26:1241–1250.

Köberle M, Klein-Günther A, Schütz M, Fritz M, Berchtold S, Tolosa E, Autenrieth IB, Bohn E. 2009. Yersinia enterocolitica targets cells of the innate and adaptive immune system by injection of Yops in a mouse infection model. PLoS Pathog 5:e1000551.

Küfner I, Ottmann C, Oecking C, Nürnberger T. 2009. Cytolytic toxins as triggers of plant immune response. Plant Signal. Behav. 4:977-979.

Li M, Rigby K, Lai Y, Nair V, Peschel A, Schittek B, Otto M. 2009. Staphylococcus aureus mutant screen reveals interaction of the human antimicrobial peptide dermcidin with membrane phospholipids. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 53: 4200-10.

Lutzner N, Patzold B, Zoll S, Stehle T, Kalbacher H. 2009. Development of a novel fluorescent substrate for Autolysin E, a bacterial type II amidase. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 380: 554-558.

Metzger U, Schall C, Zocher G, Unsöld I, Steck E, Li SM, Heide L, Stehle T. 2009. The structure of dimethylallyl tryptophan synthase reveals a common architecture of aromatic prenyltransferases in fungi and bacteria. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 106:14309-14314.

Nicolaisen K, Mariscal V, Bredemeier R, Pernil R, Moslavac S, López-Igual R, Maldener I, Herrero A, Schleiff E, Flores E. 2009. The outer membrane of a heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium is a permeability barrier for uptake of metabolites that are exchanged between cells. Mol. Microbiol. 74: 58-70.

Ottmann C, Luberacki B, Küfner I, Koch W, Brunner F, Weyand M, Mattinen L, Pirhonen M, Anderluh G, Seitz HU, Nürnberger T*, Oecking C*. 2009. A common toxin fold mediates microbial attack and plant defense. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 25:10359-10364.

Pohl K, Francois P, Stenz L, Schlink F, Geiger T, Herbert S, Goerke C, Schrenzel J, and Wolz C. 2009. CodY in Staphylococcus aureus: a regulatory link between metabolism and virulence gene expression. J. Bacteriol. 191: 2953-2963.

Remmert M, Linke D, Lupas AN, Söding J. 2009. HHomp--prediction and classification of outer membrane proteins. Nucl. Ac. Res. 37 (Web Server issue):W446-W45151.

Schmaler M, Jann NJ, Ferracin F, Landolt LZ, Biswas L, Götz F , Landmann R. 2009. Lipoproteins in Staphylococcus aureus mediate inflammation by TLR2 and iron-dependent growth in vivo. J Immunol 182:7110-7118.

Senyürek I, Döring G, Kalbacher H, Deeg M, Peschel A, Wolz C, Schittek B. 2009. Resistance to dermcidin-derived peptides is independent of bacterial protease activity. Int J Antimicrob Agents 34: 86-90.

Senyürek, I, Paulmann M, Sinnberg T, Kalbacher H, Deeg M, Gutsmann T, Hermes M, Kohler T, Götz F, Wolz C, Peschel A, Schittek B. 2009. Dermcidin-derived peptides show a different mode of action than the cathelicidin LL-37 against Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 53: 2499-2509.

Wohlleben W, Stegmann E, Süssmuth RD. 2009. Molecular genetic approaches to analyze glycopeptide biosynthesis. Methods Enzymol. 458:459-486.

Xuan NT, Shumilina E, Matzner N, Zemtsova IM, Biedermann T, Götz F, Lang F. 2009. Ca2+-dependent functions in peptidoglycan-stimulated mouse dendritic cells. Cell. Physiol. Biochem. 24: 167-176.

Yang SJ, Xiong YQ, Dunman PM, Schrenzel J, Francois P, Peschel A, Bayer AS. 2009. Regulation of mprF in daptomycin-nonsusceptible Staphylococcus aureus strains. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 53: 2636-2637.

Zanger P, Holzer J, Schleucher R, Steffen H, Schittek B, Gabrysch S. 2009. Constitutive expression of the antimicrobial peptide RNase7 is associated with Staphylococcus aureus infection of the skin. J. Infectious Diseases 200, 1907-1915.

Reviews and Bookchapters

Bertsche U. 2009. The polysaccharide peptidoglycan and how it is influenced by stress. In Bacterial Polysaccharides: Current Innovations and Future Trends. pp. 3-26. Ed. M. Ullrich. Hethersett, Norwich, U.K., Horizon Press.