Uni-Tübingen

Publications

Originalpublikationen

Albert M, Jehle AK, Mueller K, Eisele C, Lipschis M, Felix G. 2010. Arabidopsis thaliana pattern recognition receptors for bacterial elongation factor Tu and flagellin can be combined to form functional chimeric receptors. J. Biol. Chem. 285:19035-19042.

Albert I., Böhm H., Albert M., Feiler C.E., Imkampe J., Wallmeroth N., Brancato C., Raaymakers T.M., Oome S., Zhang H., Krol E., Grefen C., Gust A.A., Chai .J, Hedrich R., Van den Ackerveken G., Nürnberger T. 2015. An RLP23-SOBIR1-BAK1 complex mediates NLP-triggered immunity. Nat Plants. 1: 15140. doi: 10.1038/nplants.2015.140.

Alt S, Burkard N, Kulik A, Grond S, Heide L. 2010. An artificial pathway to 3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid allows generation of a new aminocoumarin antibiotic recognized by catechol transporters of E. coli. Chem. Biol. 18(3):304-13. Highlighted in Nature Biotechnology May 2011


Alt S, Mitchenall LA, Maxwell A, Heide L. 2011. Inhibition of DNA gyrase and DNA topoisomerase IV of Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli by aminocoumarin antibiotics. J Antimicrob Chemother. 66(9):2061-9.


Alvarez BH, Gruber M, Ursinus A, Dunin-Horkawicz S, Lupas AN, Zeth K. 2010. A transition from strong right-handed to canonical left-handed supercoiling in a conserved coiled-coil segment of trimeric autotransporter adhesins. J. Struct. Biol. 170:236-245.

Andrä J, Goldmann T, Ernst CM, Peschel A, Gutsmann T.2011. Multiple Peptide Resistance Factor (MprF)-mediated Resistance of Staphylococcus aureus against Antimicrobial Peptides Coincides with a Modulated Peptide Interaction with Artificial Membranes Comprising Lysyl-Phosphatidylglycerol. Journal of Biological Chemistry 286:18692-18700.


Autenrieth SE, Linzer TR, Hiller C, Keller B, Warnke P, Koberle M, Bohn E, Biedermann T, Buhring HJ, Hammerling GJ, Rammensee HG, Autenrieth IB. 2010. Immune Evasion by Yersinia enterocolitica: Differential Targeting of Dendritic Cell Subpopulations In Vivo. PLoS Pathog 6:e1001212.

Aymanns S, Mauerer S, van Zandbergen G, Wolz C, Spellerberg B. 2011. High-level fluorescence labeling of gram-positive pathogens. PLoS One 6:e19822.

Banjac A, Zimmermann MO, Boeckler FM, Kurz U, Schultz A, Schultz JE.(2012).Intramolecular signaling in tandem-GAF domains from PDE5 and PDE10 studied with a cyanobacterial adenylyl cyclase reporter. Cellular Signalling 24: 629–634.

Banjac A, Kurz U, Schultz JE. 2012. The regulatory tandem domains of human phosphodiesterases 1 and 4 regulate a cyanobacterial adenylyl cyclase.
Cell Signal. 24(8):1479-84. doi: 10.1016/j.cellsig.2012.03.019.

Basitta P, Westrich L, Rösch M, Kulik A, Gust B, Apel AK (2017). AGOS: A Plug-and-Play Method for the Assembly of Artificial Gene Operons into Functional Biosynthetic Gene Clusters. ACS Synth Biol. doi: 10.1021/acssynbio.6b00319.

Bäsell K, Otto A, Zühlke D, Rappen G, Schmidt S, Hentschker C, Macek B, Ohlsen K, Hecker M, Becher D. 2013. The phosphoproteome and its physiological dynamics in Staphylococcus aureus. Int J Med Microbiol. 2013 Dec 1. pii: S1438-4221(13)00193-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2013.11.020.

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.

Bauer S., Rautenberg M., Faulstich M., Grau T., Severin Y., Unger C., Hoffmann W., Rudel T, Authenrieth I., Weidenmaier C. 2014. Nasal epithelial receptor for Staphylococcus aureus WTA governs adhesion to epithelial cells and modulates nasal colonization. PLoS Pathog 10:e1004089

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), http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.13098

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


Bera A, Biswas R, Herbert S, Kulauzovic E, Weidenmaier C, Peschel A, Götz. 2007. Influence of wall teichoic acid on lysozyme resistance in Staphylococcus aureus. J. Bacteriol. 189: 280-283.

Berendt S, Lehner J, Zhang YV, Rasse TM, Forchhammer K, Maldener I. 2012. Cell wall amidase AmiC1 is required for cellular communication and heterocyst development in the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120 but not for filament integrity. J Bacteriol. 194(19):5218-27. doi: 10.1128/JB.00912-12.


Bertsche U, Weidenmaier C, Kuehner D, Yang SJ, Baur S, Wanner S, Francois P, Schrenzel J, Yeaman MR, Bayer AS. 2011. Correlation of daptomycin resistance in a clinical Staphylococcus aureus strain with increased cell wall teichoic acid production and D-alanylation. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 55(8):3922-8.

Bertsche U, Yang SJ, Kuehner D, Wanner S, Mishra NN, Roth T, Nega M, Schneider A, Mayer C, Grau T, Bayer AS, Weidenmaier C. 2013. Increased cell wall teichoic acid production and D-alanylation are common phenotypes among daptomycin-resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clinical isolates. PLoS One. 2013 Jun 13;8(6):e67398. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067398.


Biedzka-Sarek M, Salmenlinna S, Gruber M, Lupas AN, Meri S, Skurnik M. 2008 Functional mapping of YadA- and Ail-mediated binding of human factor H to Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O:3. Infect Immun. 2008 Nov;76(11):5016-27.

Biswas R, Martinez RE, Göhring N, Schlag M, Josten M, Xia G, Hegler F, Gekeler C, Gleske A, Götz F, Sahl HG, Kappler A, Peschel A. 2012. Proton-binding capacity of Staphylococcus aureus wall teichoic acid and its role in controlling autolysin activity. PLOS. One 7: e41415.


Boll B, Taubitz T, Heide L. 2011. Role of MbtH-like proteins in the adenylation of tyrosine during aminocoumarin and vancomycin biosynthesis. J Biol Chem. 21;286(42):36281-90.


Boll B, Hennig S, Xie C, Sohng JK, Heide L. 2011. Adenylate-forming enzymes of rubradirin biosynthesis: RubC1 is a bifunctional enzyme with aminocoumarin acyl ligase and tyrosine-activating domains.Chembiochem. 12(7):1105-14.

Boll B, Heide L. 2013. A domain of RubC1 of rubradirin biosynthesis can functionally replace MbtH-like proteins in tyrosine adenylation. Chembiochem. 2013 Jan 2;14(1):43-44.

Borisova, M., Gisin, J. and Mayer, C. Blocking peptidoglycan recycling in Pseudomonas aeruginosa attenuates intrinsic resistance to fosfomycin. (2014) Microb Drug Resist 20(3): 231–237

Borisova M, Gisin J, Mayer C. (2017) The N-Acetylmuramic Acid 6-Phosphate Phosphatase MupP Completes the Pseudomonas Peptidoglycan Recycling Pathway Leading to Intrinsic Fosfomycin Resistance. mBio. 8. pii: e00092-17. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00092-17.

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.


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, Mahren S.2007. Transfer of energy and information across the periplasm in iron transport and regulation. In: The Periplasm (M. Ehrmann, ed.) ASM Press, pp 276-286.

Braun V, Endriss S.2007. Energy-coupled outer membrane transport proteins and regulatory proteins. BioMetals. 20:219.231.

Braun, V., Helbig, S. Patzer, S.I. Import of periplasmic bacteriocins targeting the muein. Biochem. Soc. Trans. 40:1449-1455 (2012).

Braun V, Herrmann C.2007. Docking of the periplasmic FecB binding protein to the FecCD transmembrane proteins in the ferric citrate transport system of Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 189:6913-6918.

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

Braun V, Hantke K. 2011. Recent insights into iron import by bacteria. Curr Opin Chem Biol. 15:328-334.

Brock AK, Willmann R, Kolb D., Grefen L, Lajunen HM, Bethke G, Lee J, Nürnberger T, Gust AA. 2010. The Arabidopsis mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphatase PP2C5 affects seed germination, stomatal aperture, and abscisic acid-inducible gene expression. Plant Physiol. 153:1098-1111.

Brown S, Xia G*, Luhachack LG, Campbella J, Meredith T, Chen C, Winstel V, Gekeler C, Irazoqui JE, Peschel A, Walker S *. 2012. Methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
requires glycosylated wall teichoic acids. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA,109 : 18909-18914. *Joint corresponding author; Highlights, commentary in PNAS, recommended by Faculty of 1000 Prime Chemical Biology; Pharmacology & Drug Discovery.


Burian M, Rautenberg M, Kohler T , Fritz M, Krismer B, Unger C, Hoffmann WH, Peschel A, Wolz C, Goerke C. 2010. Temporal expression of adhesion factors and activity of global regulators during establishment of Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization. J. Infect. Dis. 201: 1414-21.


Burian M, Wolz C, Goerke C. 2010. Regulatory adaptation of Staphylococcus aureus during nasal colonization of humans. PLoS One 5:e10040.

Burian M, Grumann D, Holtfreter S, Wolz C, Goerke C, Broker BM. 2012. Expression of staphylococcal superantigens during nasal colonization is not sufficient to induce a systemic neutralizing antibody response in humans. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 31:251-256.

Burian M, Velic A, Matic K, Günther S, Kraft B, Gonser L, Forchhammer S, Tiffert Y, Naumer C, Krohn M, Berneburg M, Yazdi AS, Maček B, Schittek B. 2014. Quantitative Proteomics of the Human Skin Secretome reveal a Reduction of Immune Defense Mediators in Ectodermal Dysplasia Patients. J Invest Dermatol. doi: 10.1038/jid.2014.462.

Büttner F.M., Faulhaber K., Forchhammer K., Maldener I., Stehle T. (2016 ) Enablingcell-cell communication via nanopore formation: structure, function andlocalization of the unique cell wall amidase AmiC2 of Nostoc punctiforme. FEBS J.
283(7):1336-50. doi: 10.1111/febs.13673.

Carpy A, Krug K, Graf S, Koch A, Popic S, Hauf S, Macek B. 2014. Absolute Proteome and Phosphoproteome Dynamics during the Cell Cycle of Schizosaccharomyces pombe (Fission Yeast). Mol Cell Proteomics. 2014 Aug;13(8):1925-36. doi: 10.1074/mcp.M113.035824.


Chevillotte M, Menges R, Muth G, Wohlleben W, Stegmann E. 2008. A quick and reliable method for monitoring gene expression in actinomycetes. J. Biotechnol. 135:262-265.


Chinchilla D, Zipfel C, Robatzek S, Kemmerling B, Nürnberger T, Jones JDG, Felix G, Boller T. 2007. A flagellin-induced complex of the receptor FLS2 and BAK1 initiates plant defense. Nature 448: 497-500.

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.


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.

Denger K1, Weiss M2, Felux AK2, Schneider A3, Mayer C3, Spiteller D1, Huhn T4, Cook AM1, Schleheck D1 2014. Sulphoglycolysis in Escherichia coli K-12 closes a gap in the biogeochemical sulphur cycle. Nature. 2014 Jan 26. doi: 10.1038/nature12947

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 MJ, Abrusci P, Yan J, Franz-Wachtel M, Schärfe C, Zilkenat S, Grin I, Galán JE, Kohlbacher O, Lea S, Macek B, Marlovits TC, Robinson CV, Wagner S.(2016): Structural and Functional Characterization of the Bacterial Type III Secretion Export Apparatus. PLoS Pathog. 2016 Dec 15;12(12):e1006071. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006071. eCollection 2016 Dec. PMID:27977800

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.


Dunin-Horkawicz S, Lupas AN. 2010. Measuring the conformational space of square four-helical bundles with the program samCC. J. Struct. Biol. 170:226-235.

Ebner P, Prax M, Nega M, Koch I, Dube L, Yu W, Rinker J, Popella P, Flötenmeyer M and Götz F .2015. Excretion of cytoplasmic proteins (ECP) in Staphylococcus aureus. Molecular Microbiology, 97: 775–789. doi: 10.1111/mmi.13065

Ebner P, Rinker J and Götz F .2015. Excretion of cytoplasmic proteins in Staphylococcus is most likely not due to cell lysis. doi:10.1007/s00294-015-0504-z


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

Ebner, P., A. Luqman, S. Reichert, K. Hauf, P. Popella, K. Forchhammer, M. Otto & F. Götz, (2017) Non-classical Protein Excretion Is Boosted by PSMalpha-Induced Cell Leakage. Cell Reports 20: 1278-1286.

Eisenbeis S, Lohmiller S, Valdebenito M, Leicht S, Braun V. 2008. NagA-dependent uptake of N-acetyl-glucosamine and N-acetyl-chitin oligosaccharides across the outer membrane of Caulobacter crescentus. J. Bacteriol. 190:5230-5238.


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.

Ernst C, Peschel A. 2011. Broad-spectrum antimicrobial peptide resistance by MprF-mediated phospholipid modification and flipping. Mol Microbiol 80:290-299.


Espinosa J, Brunner T, Fiedler N, Forchhammer K, Muro-Pastor AM, Maldener I. 2010. DevT (Alr4674), resembling a Ser/Thr protein phosphatase, is essential for heterocyst function in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120. Microbiology. 156(12):3544-55. PMID: 20798164.


Fedtke I, Mader D, Kohler T, Moll H, Nicholson G, Biswas R, Henseler K, Götz F, Zähringer U, Peschel A. 2007. A Staphylococcus aureus ypfP mutant with strongly reduced lipoteichoic acid (LTA) content: LTA governs bacterial surface properties and autolysin activity. Mol. Microbiol. 65: 1078-1091.


Ferris HU, Dunin-Horkawicz S, García Mondéjar L, Hulko M, Hantke K, Martin J, Schultz JE, Zeth K, Lupas AN, Coles M. 2011. The mechanisms of HAMP-mediated signaling in transmembrane receptors. Structure.19(3):378-385.

Ferris HU, Dunin-Horkawicz S, Hornig N, Hulko M, Martin J, Schultz JE, Zeth K, Lupas AN, Coles M. 2012. Mechanism of Regulation of Receptor Histidine Kinases.
Structure 20: 56–66.

Findeisen F, Linder JU, Schultz A, Schultz JE, Brügger B, Wieland F, Sinning I, Tews I. 2007. The structure of the regulatory domain of the adenylyl cyclase Rv1264 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis with bound oleic acid. J. Mol. Biol. 369: 1282-95.


Flinspach K, Westrich L, Kaysser L, Siebenberg S, Gomez-Escribano J, Bibb M, Gust B, Heide L. 2010. Heterologous expression of the biosynthetic gene clusters of coumermycin A1, clorobiocin and caprazamycins in genetically modified Streptomyces coelicolor strains. Biopolymers 93:823-832.

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.


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.


Gallo G, Renzone G, Alduina R, Stegmann E, Weber T, Lantz AE, Thykaer J, Sangiorgi F, Scaloni A, Puglia AM. 2010. Differential proteomic analysis reveals novel links between primary metabolism and antibiotic production in Amycolatopsis balhimycina. Proteomics. 10:1336-58.


Gerlach RG, Jäckel D, Stecher B, Wagner C, Lupas AN, Hardt WD, Hensel M. 2007. Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 4 encodes a giant non-fimbrial adhesin and the cognate type 1 secretion system. Cell. Microbiol. 9:1834-1850.

George, S. E., Nguyen, T., Geiger, T., Weidenmaier, C., Lee, J. C., Liese, J., and Wolz, C. (2015) Phenotypic heterogeneity and temporal expression of the capsular polysaccharide in Staphylococcus aureus. Molecular microbiology 98, 1073-1088

Gisin, J, Schneider, A, Nägele, B, Borisova, M, Mayer, C (2013) A cell wall recycling shortcut that bypasses peptidoglycan de novo biosynthesis. Nature Chem. Biol. 9: 491-493.

Goerke C, Wolz C. 2010. Adaptation of Staphylococcus aureus to the cystic fibrosis lung. International journal of medical microbiology 300:520-525.


Göhring N, Fedtke I, Xia G, Jorge AM, Pinho MG, Bertsche U, Peschel A. 2011. New role of the disulfide stress effector YjbH in β-lactam susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2011 Dec;55(12):5452-8.


Gökay O, Kühner D, Los M, Götz F, Bertsche U, Albert K. 2010. An Efficient Approach for the Isolation, Identification and Evaluation of Antimicrobial Plant Components on an Analytical Scale Demonstrated on the Example Radix Imperatoriae. Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 398: 2039-47.

Grin I, Linke D. 2011. GCView: the Genomic Context Viewer for protein homology searches. Nucleic Acids Research 39: 353-356.

Grin I, Hartmann MD, Sauer G, Hernandez Alvarez B, Schütz M, Madlung J, Macek B, Felipe-Lopez A, Hensel M, Lupas A, Linke D. 2013. A Trimeric Lipoprotein assists in Trimeric Autotransporter Biogenesis in Enterobacteria. J Biol Chem. 2013 Dec 25.


Grosskinsky U, Schütz M, Fritz M, Schmid Y, Lamparter MC, Szczesny P, Lupas AN, Autenrieth IB, Linke D. 2007. A conserved glycine residue of trimeric autotransporter domains plays a key role in Yersinia adhesin A autotransport. J. Bacteriol. 189:9011-9.


Guggenberger C, Wolz C, Morrissey JA, Heesemann J. 2012. Two Distinct Coagulase-Dependent Barriers Protect Staphylococcus aureus from Neutrophils in a Three Dimensional in vitro Infection Model. PLoS Pathog. 2012 Jan;8(1):e1002434.


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.


Gust AA, Biswas R, Lenz HD, Rauhut T, Ranf S, Kemmerling B, Götz F, Glawischnig E, Lee J, Felix G, Nürnberger T. 2007. Bacteria-derived peptidoglycans constitute pathogen-associated molecular patterns triggering innate immunity in Arabidopsis. J. Biol. Chem. 282:32338-32348.


Gust AA, Brunner F, Nürnberger T. 2010. Biotechnological concepts for improving plant innate immunity. Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 21: 204-210.

Gust, B., Eitel, K. and Tang, X. 2013. The biosynthesis of caprazamycins and related liponucleoside antibiotics: new insights. Biol Chem. 94(2):251-9.


Hantke K, Winkler K, Schultz JE. 2011. Escherichia coli exports cyclic AMP via TolC. J Bacteriol. 2011 Mar;193(5):1086-9.

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


Hartmann H, Eltzschig H, Wurz H, Hantke K, Rakin A, Yazdi AS, Matteoli G, Bohn E, Autenrieth IB, Karhausen J, Neumann D, Colgan SP, Kempf VAJ. 2008. Hypoxia-independent activation of HIF-1 by Enterobacteriaceae and their siderophores. Gastroenterology 134:756-67.


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.

Hartmann, MD, Grin I, Dunin-Horkawicz S, Deiss S, Linke D, Lupas AN, Hernandez Alvarez B. 2012. Complete fiber structures of complex trimeric autotransporter adhesins conserved in enterobacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109(51):20907-12.

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.


Heide L, Gust B, Anderle C, Li SM. 2008. Combinatorial biosynthesis, metabolic engineering and mutasynthesis for the generation of new aminocoumarin antibiotics. Curr. Top. Med. Chem. 8:667-79.

Helbig S, Patzer SI, Schiene-Fischer C, Zeth K, Braun V. 2011. Activation of colicin M by the FkpA prolyl cis-trans isomerase/chaperone. J Biol Chem. 2011 Feb 25;286(8):6280-90. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M110.165274.

Heichlinger A, Ammelburg M, Kleinschnitz EM, Latus A, Maldener I, Flärdh K, Wohlleben W, Muth G. 2011. The MreB-like protein Mbl of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) depends on MreB for proper localization and contributes to spore wall synthesis. J Bacteriol. 193(7):1533-42.

Helbig S, Braun V. 2011. Mapping functional domains of colicin M. J. Bacteriol. 193:815-821.

Helbig S, Hantke K, Ammelburg M, Braun V. 2012. CbrA is a flavin dinucleotide protein that modifies the Escherichia coli outer membrane and confers specific resistance to colicin M. J. Bacteriol. 194:4894-4903.

Helbig S, Patzer SI, Schiene-Fischer C, Zeth K, Braun V. 2011. Activation of colicin M by the FkpA prolyl-cis-trans isomerase/chaperone. J. Biol. Chem. 286:6280-6290.

Helle L, Kull M, Mayer S, Marincola G, Zelder ME, Goerke C, Wolz C, Bertram R. 2011. Vectors for improved Tet repressor-dependent gradual gene induction or silencing in Staphylococcus aureus. Microbiology 157:3314-3323.

Herbert S, Bera A, Nerz C, Kraus D, Peschel A, Goerke C, Meehl M, Cheung A, Götz F. 2007. Molecular basis of resistance to muramidase and cationic antimicrobial peptide activity of lysozyme in staphylococci. PLoS Pathog 3: e102.

Herbst DA, Boll B, Zocher G, Stehle T, Heide L. 2013. Structural Basis of the Interaction of MbtH-like Proteins, Putative Regulators of Nonribosomal Peptide Biosynthesis, with Adenylating Enzymes. J Biol Chem. 288: 1991-2003.


Hernandez Alvarez B, Hartmann MD, Albrecht R, Lupas AN, Zeth K, Linke D. 2008. A new expression system for protein crystallization using trimeric coiled-coil adaptors. Protein Eng. Des. Sel. 21:11-18.


Hirschhausen N, Schlesier T, Schmidt MA, Götz F, Peters G, Heilmann C. 2010. A novel staphylococcal internalization mechanism involves the major autolysin Atl and heat shock cognate protein Hsc70 as host cell receptor. Cell Microbiol. 12(12):1746-64. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2010.01506.x.

Hullmann J, Patzer SI, Römer C, Hantke K, Braun V. 2008. Periplasmic chaperone FkpA is essential for imported colicin M toxicity. Mol Microbiol. 69:926-937.

Jansen, A., C. Szekat, W. Schröder, C. Wolz, C. Goerke, J.C. Lee, M. Türck and G. Bierbaum. 2013. Production of capsular polysaccharide does not influence Staphylococcus aureus vancomycin susceptibility. BMC Microbiol. 2013 Mar 22;13:65. doi: 10.1186/1471-2180-13-65.

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.

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Senyürek I, Kempf WE, Klein G, Maurer A, Kalbacher H, Schäfer L, Wanke I, Christ C, Stevanovic S, Schaller M, Rousselle P, Garbe C, Biedermann T, Schittek B. 2014. Processing of Laminin α Chains Generates Peptides Involved in Wound Healing and Host Defense. J Innate Immun. 2014;6(4):467-84. doi: 10.1159/000357032.

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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.


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Shan L, He P, Li J, Heese A, Peck SC, Nürnberger T, Martin GB, Sheen J. 2008. Bacterial Effectors Target BAK1 to Disrupt MAMP Receptor Signaling Complexes and Impede Plant Innate Immunity. Cell Host Microbe 4:17-27.


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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).
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Spohn M, Kirchner N, Kulik A, Jochim A, Wolf F, Muenzer P, Borst O, Gross H, Wohlleben W, Stegmann E. 2014. Overproduction of ristomycin A by activation of a silent gene cluster in Amycolatopsis japonicum MG417-CF17. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. pii: AAC.03512-14.

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Szczesny P, Lupas A. 2008. Domain annotation of trimeric autotransporter adhesins--daTAA. Bioinformatics. 24:1251-1256.


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Thoma L, Muth G. 2012. Conjugative DNA transfer in Streptomyces by TraB: is one protein enough? FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2012 Dec. 337(2):81-8. doi: 10.1111/1574-6968.12031.

Thoma L, Sepulveda E, Latus A, Muth G.: The stability region of the Streptomyces lividans plasmid pIJ101 encodes a DNA-binding protein recognizing a highly conserved short palindromic sequence motif.
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Thoma L, Dobrowinski H, Finger C, Guezguez J, Linke D, Sepulveda E, Muth G.:A Multiprotein DNA Translocation Complex Directs Intramycelial Plasmid Spreading during Streptomyces Conjugation.
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Thoma L, Vollmer B, Muth G.: Fluorescence microscopy of Streptomyces conjugation suggests DNA-transfer at the lateral walls and reveals the spreading of the plasmid in the recipient mycelium.
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Truman AW, Fan Q, Röttgen M, Stegmann E, Leadlay PF, Spencer JB. 2008. The role of cep15 in the biosynthesis of chloroeremomycin: reactivation of an ancestral catalytic function. Chem. Biol. 15:476-484.

Ulrich T, Gross LE, Sommer MS, Schleiff E, Rapaport D. 2012. Chloroplast β-barrel proteins are assembled into the mitochondrial outer membrane in a process that depends on the TOM and TOB complexes. J Biol Chem. 287(33):27467-79. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M112.382093.

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Wanke I, Steffen H, Christ C, Krismer B, Götz F, Peschel A, Schaller M, Schittek B.2011. Skin commensals amplify the innate immune response to pathogens by activation of distinct signaling pathways. J Invest Dermatol. 2011 Feb;131(2):382-90. doi: 10.1038/jid.2010.328.

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Yu W, Götz F. 2012. Cell Wall Antibiotics Provoke Accumulation of Anchored mCherry in the Cross Wall of Staphylococcus aureus. PLoS One.7(1):e30076.


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Bücher

Linke D, Goldmann A (eds.). 2011. Bacterial Adhesion. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 2011, Volume 715, 257-269, DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0940-9_16.

 

Buchkapitel

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.

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Grin I, Schwarz H, Linke D. 2011. Electron microscopy techniques to study bacterial adhesion. In: Bacterial Adhesion - Chemistry, Biology and Physics. Linke D and Goldman A, editors, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 715: 257-269.


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Mayer C. 2012. Bacterial cell wall recycling. In eLS. Encylopedia of life science, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester.


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Reviews

Böhm H, Albert I, Fan L, Reinhard A, Nürnberger T. 2014. Immune receptor complexes at the plant cell surface. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2014 May 15;20C:47-54. doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2014.04.007. Review.

Braun, V. 2015. Bacterial cell wall research in Tübingen: a brief historical account. Int. J. Microbiol. 305:178-182.


Braun, V., Helbig, S., Patzer, S.I., Pramanik, A., Römer, C. 2015. Import and export of bacterial protein toxins. Int. J. Microbiol. 305: 238-242.

Braun V, Patzer, SI. 2013. Intercellular communication by related bacterial protein toxins: colicins, contact-dependent inhibitors, and proteins exported by the type VI secretion system. FEMS. Microbiol. Lett. 345:1-9.

Braun, V. 2013. Energy-coupled transport across the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria. In “Bacterial Membranes (Eds. H. Remaut, R. Fronzes), Caister Academic Press, Norfolk, pp. 249 – 281.

Braun, V and Hantke, K .2013. The tricky ways bacteria cope with iron limitation. In "Iron uptake in bacteria with emphasis on E. coli and Pseudomonas" (Eds. R. Chakraborty, V. Braun, K. Hantke and P. Cornelis) Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 31–66.

Braun V, Patzer SI. 2013. Bakterielle Proteintoxine: Waffen gegen Konkurrenten. Biospektrum 19:22-24.

Brunner F, Nürnberger T. 2012. Identification of immunogenic microbial patterns takes the fast lane. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Mar 13;109(11):4029-30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1201444109. Commentary.

Götz, F., W. Yu, L. Dube, M. Prax & P. Ebner, (2015) Excretion of cytosolic proteins (ECP) in bacteria. Int J Med Microbiol 305: 230-237.

Gust AA, Willmann R, Desaki Y, Grabherr HM, Nürnberger T. 2012. Plant LysM proteins: modules mediating symbiosis and immunity. Trends Plant Sci. 2012 Aug;17(8):495-502. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2012.04.003. Review.

Gust AA, Nürnberger T. 2012. Plant immunology: A life or death switch. Nature 486: 198-199. Review.

Gust AA, Felix G. 2014. Receptor like proteins associate with SOBIR1-type of adaptors to form bimolecular receptor kinases. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2014 Jul 26;21C:104-111. doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2014.07.007. Review.

Gust A.A. 2015. Peptidoglycan Perception in Plants. PLoS Pathog. 11: e1005275. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005275.
Bertsche U., Mayer C., Götz F., Gust A.A. 2015. Peptidoglycan perception-sensing bacteria by their common envelope structure. Int J Med Microbiol. 305: 217-223. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2014.12.019.

Heide L. 2014. New aminocoumarin antibiotics as gyrase inhibitors. Int J Med Microbiol, 304(1):31-6. Review.

Leo JC, Grin I, Linke D. 2012. Type V secretion: mechanism(s) of autotransport through the bacterial outer membrane. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2012 Apr 19;367(1592):1088-101. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0208. Review.

Leo JC, Oberhettinger P, Schütz M, Linke D.: The inverse autotransporter family: intimin, invasin and related proteins. Int J Med Microbiol. 2015 Feb;305(2):276-82. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2014.12.011. Epub 2014 Dec 24. Review.

Schittek B. 2012. The multiple facets of Dermcidin in cell survival and host defense. J Innate Immun. PMID:22455996 DOI: 101159/000336844

Schittek B, Paulmann M, Senyürek I, Steffen H. 2008. The role of antimicrobial peptides in human skin and in skin infectious diseases.Infect Disord Drug Targets. 8(3):135-43. Review.


Schittek B. 2011. The antimicrobial skin barrier in patients with atopic dermatitis. Curr Probl Dermatol. 2011;41:54-67. Review.

Sigle S, Ladwig N, Wohlleben W, Muth G. 2015. The developmental life cycle of Streptomyces. Int. J. Med. Microbiol., 305:183-9.


Stegmann E, Frasch HJ, Wohlleben W.2010.Glycopeptide biosynthesis in the context of basic cellular functions. Curr Opin Microbiol. 2010 Oct;13(5):595-602. doi: 10.1016/j.mib.2010.08.011. Epub 2010 Oct 1. Review.

Thoma L, Muth G.: The conjugative DNA-transfer apparatus of Streptomyces.
Int J Med Microbiol. 2015 Feb;305(2):224-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2014.12.020. Epub 2014 Dec 24. Review. PMID:25592263

Vollmer W, Bertsche U. 2008. Murein (peptidoglycan) structure, architecture and biosynthesis in Escherichia coli. Biochem Biophys Acta 1778: 1714-1734.

Weidenmaier C, Goerke C, Wolz C. 2012. Staphylococcus aureus determinants for nasal colonization. Trends Microbiol. 2012;20:243-250.

Weirich, J., C. Bräutigam, M. Mühlenkamp, M. Franz-Wachtel, B. Macek, I. Meuskens, M. Skurnik, K. Leskinen, E. Bohn, I. Autenrieth, and M. Schütz, Identifying components required for OMP biogenesis as novel targets for antiinfective drugs. Virulence, 2017: p. 1-20 DOI: 10.1080/21505594.2016.1278333.

Winstel V, Xia G, Peschel A. 2013. Pathways and roles of wall teichoic acid glycosylation in Staphylococcus aureus. Int J Med Microbiol. 2013 Nov 1. pii: S1438-4221(13)00159-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2013.10.009.

Wohlleben W, Mast Y, Muth G, Röttgen M, Stegmann E, Weber T. 2012. Synthetic biology of secondary metabolite biosynthesis in actinomycetes: Engineering precursor supply as a way to optimize antibiotic production. FEBS Lett. 2012 Jul 16;586(15):2171-6. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2012.04.025. Epub 2012 Apr 21. Review.

Xia G, Wolz C. 2013. Phages of Staphylococcus aureus and their impact on host evolution. Infect. Genet. Evol. 2013 May 6. doi:pii: S1567-1348(13)00171-8. 10.1016/j.meegid.2013.04.022.