Publications 2016

Bauer JS, Hauck N, Christof L, Mehnaz S, Gust B, Gross H (2016). The Systematic Investigation of the Quorum Sensing System of the Biocontrol Strain Pseudomonas chlororaphis subsp. aurantiaca PB-St2 Unveils aurI to Be a Biosynthetic Origin for 3-Oxo-Homoserine Lactones. PLoS One. 11(11):e0167002.

Bekiesch P, Franz-Wachtel M, Kulik A, Brocker M, Forchhammer K, Gust B, Apel AK (2016) DNA affinity capturing identifies new regulators of the heterologously expressed novobiocin gene cluster in Streptomyces coelicolor

M512. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 100(10):4495-509

Beltz Stephanie, Jens Bassler, and Joachim Schultz: Regulation by the quorum sensor from Vibrio indicates a receptor function for the membrane anchors of adenylate cyclases. eLife (2016), dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.13098

Borisova M, Gaupp R, Duckworth A, Schneider A, Dalügge D, Mühleck M, Deubel D, Unsleber S, Yu W, Muth G, Bischoff M, Götz F, Mayer C. 2016. Peptidoglycan Recycling in Gram-Positive Bacteria Is Crucial for Survival in Stationary Phase. MBio. 7(5). pii: e00923-16. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00923-16.

Büttner F.M., Faulhaber K., Forchhammer K., Maldener I., Stehle T. (2016 ) Enablingcell-cell communication via nanopore formation: structure, function and localization of the unique cell wall amidase AmiC2 of Nostoc punctiforme. FEBS J.

283(7):1336-50. doi: 10.1111/febs.13673.

Curkic, I., M. Schütz, P. Oberhettinger, M. Diard, M. Claassen, D. Linke, and W.D. Hardt, Epitope-Tagged Autotransporters as Single-Cell Reporters for Gene Expression by a Salmonella Typhimurium wbaP Mutant. PLoS One, 2016. 11(5): p. e0154828 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154828.

Deuschle E, Keller B, Siegfried A, Manncke B, Spaeth T, Köberle M, Drechsler-Hake D, Reber J, Böttcher RT, Autenrieth SE, Autenrieth IB, Bohn E, Schütz M.: Role of β1 integrins and bacterial adhesins for Yop injection into leukocytes in Yersinia enterocolitica systemic mouse infection. Int J Med Microbiol. 2016 Feb;306(2):77-88. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2015.12.001. Epub 2015 Dec 15. PMID:26718660

Dietsche T., Tesfazgi Mebrhatu M., Brunner M.J., Abrusci P., Yan J., Franz-Wachtel M., Schärfe C., Zilkenat S., Grin I., Galán J.E., Kohlbacher O., Lea S., Macek B., Marlovits T.C., Robinson C., Wagner S. (2016). Structural and functional characterization of the bacterial type III secretion export apparatus. PLoS Pathogens 12:e1006071

Drechsler-Hake D, Alamir H, Hahn J, Günter M, Wagner S, Schütz M, Bohn E, Schenke-Layland K, Pisano F, Dersch P, Autenrieth IB, Autenrieth SE. Mononuclear phagocytes contribute to intestinal invasion and dissemination of Yersinia enterocolitica. Int J Med Microbiol. 2016 Sep;306(6):357-66. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2016.04.002.

Ebner Patrick , Janina Rinker, Minh Thu Nguyen, Peter Popella, Mulugeta Nega, Arif Luqman, Birgit Schittek, Moreno Di Marco, Stefan Stevanovic, and Friedrich Götz: Excreted cytoplasmic proteins contribute to pathogenicity in Staphylococcus aureus. Infect. Immun. Accepted manuscript posted online 21 March 2016 , doi:10.1128/IAI.00138-16

Flores E., Herrero A., Forchhammer K., Maldener I.(2016) Septal Junctions in
Filamentous Heterocyst-Forming Cyanobacteria. Trends Microbiol. 24(2):79-82. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2015.11.011.

Hartmann, M. D., Mendler, C. T., Bassler, J., Karamichali, I., Ridderbusch, O., Lupas. A. N., Hernandez Alvarez B. α/β coiled coils. Elife. 2016 Jan 15;5. pii: e11861. doi: 10.7554/eLife.11861. PMID: 26771248

Jores T, Klinger A, Groß LE, Kawano S, Flinner N, Duchardt-Ferner E, Wöhnert J, Kalbacher H, Endo T, Schleiff E, Rapaport D. (2016) Characterization of the targeting signal in mitochondrial β-barrel proteins. Nat Commun. 7:12036. doi: 10.1038/ncomms12036.

Jorge AM, Schneider J, Unsleber S, Göhring N, Mayer C, Peschel A (2016) Utilization of glycerophosphodiesters by Staphylococcus aureus. Mol. Microbiol. doi: 10.1111/mmi.13552. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mmi.13552/abstract

Kilian, R., H. J. Frasch, A. Kulik, W. Wohlleben and E. Stegmann (2016). "The VanRS homologous two-component system VnlRSAb of the glycopeptide producer Amycolatopsis balhimycina activates transcription of the vanHAXSc genes in Streptomyces coelicolor, but not in A. balhimycina." Microb Drug Resist 22: 499-509.

Klotz, A., Georg. J., Bucinska, L., Watanabe, S., Reimann, V., Januszewski, W., Sobotka , R., Jendrossek, D., Hess, W.R. and Forchhammer, K. (2016) Awakening of a Dormant Cyanobacterium from Nitrogen Chlorosis Reveals a Genetically Determined Program. Curr Biol. 26, 2862-2872

Koç Cengiz, Guoqing Xia, Petra Kühner, Silvia Spinelli, Alain Roussel, Christian Cambillau & Thilo Stehle: Structure of the host-recognition device of Staphylococcus aureus phage ϕ11. Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 27581 (2016)
doi:10.1038/srep27581

Koiwai, K., Hartmann, M.D., Linke, D., Lupas, A.N., Hori. K.: Structural Basis for Toughness and Flexibility in the C-terminal Passenger Domain of an Acinetobacter Trimeric Autotransporter Adhesin.
J Biol Chem. 2016 Feb 19;291(8):3705-24. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M115.701698. Epub 2015 Dec 23. PMID: 26698633

Leo, J.C., P. Oberhettinger, S. Yoshimoto, D.B. Udatha, J.P. Morth, M. Schütz, K. Hori, and D. Linke, Secretion of the Intimin Passenger Domain Is Driven by Protein Folding. J Biol Chem, 2016. 291(38): p. 20096-112 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M116.731497.

Li Xuehua, Cengiz Koç, Petra Kühner, York-Dieter Stierhof, Bernhard Krismer, Mark C. Enright, José R. Penadés, Christiane Wolz, Thilo Stehle, Christian Cambillau, Andreas Peschel & Guoqing Xia:
An essential role for the baseplate protein Gp45 in phage adsorption to Staphylococcus aureus. Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 26455 (2016) doi:10.1038/srep26455

Perez, R., Forchhammer. K., Salerno, G. and Maldener, I. (2016) Clear differences in metabolic and morphological adaptations of akinetes of two Nostocales living in different habitats. Microbiology.162: 214 – 223

Pfitzner, A.K., N. Steblau, T. Ulrich, P. Oberhettinger, I.B. Autenrieth, M. Schütz, and D. Rapaport, Mitochondrial-bacterial hybrids of BamA/Tob55 suggest variable requirements for the membrane integration of beta-barrel proteins. Sci Rep, 2016. 6: p. 39053 DOI: 10.1038/srep39053.

Pozzi R, Coles M, Linke D, Kulik A, Nega M, Wohlleben W, Stegmann E.: Distinct mechanisms contribute to immunity in the lantibiotic NAI-107 producer strain Microbispora ATCC PTA-5024.
Environ Microbiol. 2016 Jan;18(1):118-32

Sigle S, Steblau N, Wohlleben W, Muth G.: The polydiglycosylphosphate transferase PdtA (SCO2578) of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) is crucial for proper sporulation and apical tip extension under stress conditions. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2016 Jul 15. pii: AEM.01425-16.


Sigle S, Steblau N, Wohlleben W, Muth G.: A toolbox to measure changes in the cell wall glycopolymer composition during differentiation of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2).
J Microbiol Methods. 2016 Sep;128:52-7. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2016.07.002. Epub 2016 Jul 9. PMID:27401190

Studer, P., Borisova, M., Schneider, A., Ayala, J.A., Mayer, C., Schuppler, M., Loessner, M.J. and Briers, Y. The absence of a mature cell wall sacculus in stable Listeria monocytogenes L-form cells is independent of peptidoglycan synthesis. (2016) PLoSOne, 5;11(5):e0154925, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154925

Thoma, L, Vollmer B, Muth G. 2016. Fluorescence microscopy of Streptomyces conjugation reveals DNA-transfer at the lateral walls and the spreading of the plasmid in the recipient mycelium. Environ Microbiol. 18(2):598-608. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.13027.

Wohlleben W, Mast Y, Stegmann E, Ziemert N.: Antibiotic drug discovery. Microb Biotechnol. 2016 Sep;9(5):541-8. doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.12388. Epub 2016 Jul 29.

Reviews

Thoma L, Muth G. 2016. Conjugative DNA-transfer in Streptomyces, a mycelial organism. Plasmid. 28. pii: S0147-619X(16)30065-8. doi: 10.1016/j.Plasmid.2016.09.004