Publications
2024
Journal Article
80, 102515 (2024)
Editorial overview: Rise of the bacterial nanomachines. Current Opinion in Microbiology
Journal Article
80, 102517 (2024)
Editorial overview: Systems and synthetic biology of microbial cells and communities. Current Opinion in Microbiology
Journal Article
17 (7), e14527 (2024)
Design, construction and optimization of formaldehyde growth biosensors with broad application in biotechnology. Microbial Biotechnology
Journal Article
7 (1) (2024)
Revealing reaction intermediates in one-carbon elongation by thiamine diphosphate/CoA-dependent enzyme family. Communications Chemistry
Journal Article
Chloroplast Cell-Free Systems from Different Plant Species as a Rapid Prototyping Platform. ACS Synthetic Biology (2024)
Journal Article
15 (1), 6014 (2024)
A deterministic, c-di-GMP-dependent program ensures the generation of phenotypically similar, symmetric daughter cells during cytokinesis. Nature Communications
Journal Article
385 (6705), pp. 174 - 178 (2024)
Integrated translation and metabolism in a partially self-synthesizing biochemical network. Science
Preprint
Membrane binding properties of the cytoskeletal protein bactofilin. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.06.14.599034 (2024)
Journal Article
The role of chloroplast SRP54 domains and its C-terminal tail region in post- and cotranslational protein transport in vivo. Journal of Experimental Botany, erae293 (2024)
Journal Article
15 (1), 5797 (2024)
Polar confinement of a macromolecular machine by an SRP-type GTPase. Nature Communications
Journal Article
108, 410 (2024)
A pH-dependent shift of redox cofactor specificity in a benzyl alcohol dehydrogenase of aromatoleum aromaticum EbN1. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Journal Article
A (metaphorical) moment for RNA-based biotechnology?: Current metaphors for RNA limit development of and public communication about RNA-based technologies. EMBO Reports, pp. 1 - 5 (2024)
Preprint
Frequent transitions in self-assembly across the evolution of a central metabolic enzyme. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.07.05.602260 (2024)
Journal Article
0, e0152424 (2024)
Multiple levels of transcriptional regulation control glycolate metabolism in Paracoccus denitrificans. mBio
Preprint
Bottom-up reconstruction of minimal pyrenoids provides insights into the evolution and mechanisms of carbon concentration by EPYC1 proteins. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.06.28.601168 (2024)
Preprint
Promiscuous NAD-dependent dehydrogenases enable efficient bacterial growth on the PET monomer ethylene glycol. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.06.28.601223 (2024)
Preprint
Yersinia actively downregulates type III secretion and adhesion at higher cell densities. bioRxiv, 2024.06.27.601021 (2024)
Preprint
A compact model of Escherichia coli core and biosynthetic metabolism. arXiv, arXiv:2406.16596 (2024)
Preprint
In- & Out-Cloning: Plasmid toolboxes for scarless transcription unit and modular Golden Gate acceptor plasmid assembly. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.06.22.600171 (2024)
Journal Article
135 (7), lxae149 (2024)
Enhanced production of trans-cinnamic acid in Photorhabdus luminescens with homolog expression and deletion strategies. Journal of Applied Microbiology
Journal Article
18 (1), wrae096 (2024)
Genome-wide screen of genetic determinants that govern Escherichia coli growth and persistence in lake water. The ISME Journal
Journal Article
Visualization of Type IV-A1 CRISPR-mediated repression of gene expression and plasmid replication. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.06.12.598411 (2024)
Journal Article
33 (6), e5018 (2024)
Mutational and structural studies of (βα)8-barrel fold methylene-tetrahydropterin reductases utilizing a common catalytic mechanism. Protein Science
Journal Article
Subtleties in clathrin heavy chain binding boxes provide selectivity among adaptor proteins of budding yeast. bioRxiv, 2024.05.30.596561 (2024)
Journal Article
7 (5), pp. 472 - 474 (2024)
Bioproduction from methanol. Nature Catalysis
Journal Article
Investigation of the Odilorhabdin biosynthetic gene cluster using NRPS engineering. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, e202406389 (2024)
Journal Article
25, pp. 2162 - 2167 (2024)
Cell consciousness: a dissenting opinion: The cellular basis of consciousness theory lacks empirical evidence for its claims that all cells have consciousness. EMBO Reports
Journal Article
13 (5), e12447 (2024)
Lipid A in outer membrane vesicles shields bacteria from polymyxins. Journal of extracellular vesicles
Journal Article
15 (6), e01039-24 (2024)
Framework for exploring the sensory repertoire of the human gut microbiota. mBio
Preprint
Structure of the turnover-ready state of an ancestral respiratory complex I. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.05.14.594153 (2024)
Journal Article
15 (6), e00826-24 (2024)
Genome reduction and horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of Endomicrobia—rise and fall of an intracellular symbiosis with termite gut flagellates. mBio
Journal Article
9, e00095-24 (2024)
Deciphering the functional and structural complexity of the Solar Lake flat mat microbial benthic communities. mSystems
Preprint
Advancing chloroplast synthetic biology through high-throughput plastome engineering of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.05.08.593163 (2024)
Journal Article
205, 108126 (2024)
A taste of a toxin paradise: Xenorhabdus and Photorhabdus bacterial secondary metabolites against Aedes aegypti larvae and eggs. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
Journal Article
13 (5), pp. 1537 - 1548 (2024)
Modular low-copy-number plasmid vectors for Rhodobacterales with extended host range in Alphaproteobacteria. ACS Synthetic Biology
Journal Article
7 (1), 519 (2024)
Rationally designed chromosome fusion does not prevent rapid growth of Vibrio natriegens. Communications Biology
Preprint
The interplay between light, arsenic and H2O2 controls oxygenic photosynthesis in a Precambrian analog cyanobacterial mat. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.04.27.591451 (2024)
Preprint
In vitro transcription-based biosensing of glycolate for prototyping of a complex enzyme cascade. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.04.26.591264 (2024)
Preprint
A library-based approach allows systematic and rapid evaluation of seed region length and reveals design rules for synthetic bacterial small RNAs. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.04.24.590872 (2024)
Preprint
The role of chloroplast SRP54 domains and its C-terminal tail region in post- and cotranslational protein transport in vivo. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.04.21.590438 (2024)
Preprint
The SPFH complex HflK-HflC regulates aerobic respiration in bacteria. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.04.21.590321 (2024)
Preprint
Atomic insights into the signaling landscape of E. coli PhoQ Histidine Kinase from Molecular Dynamics simulations. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.04.19.590235 (2024)
Preprint
A cell-free system for functional studies of small membrane proteins. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2023.12.22.573026 (2024)
Journal Article
121 (17), e2321989121 (2024)
Tight-packing of large pilin subunits provides distinct structural and mechanical properties for the Myxococcus xanthus type IVa pilus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Journal Article
Natural products from Xenorhabdus and Photorhabdus show promise as biolarvicides against Aedes albopictus. Pest Management Science (2024)
Journal Article
13 (4), pp. 1116 - 1127 (2024)
An optimized genotyping workflow for identifying highly SCRaMbLEd synthetic yeasts. ACS Synthetic Biology
Journal Article
628 (8009), pp. 894 - 900 (2024)
Emergence of fractal geometries in the evolution of a metabolic enzyme. Nature
Journal Article
3, 100067 (2024)
The Type VI secretion systems of the insect pathogen Photorhabdus luminescens are involved in interbacterial competition, motility and secondary metabolism. The Microbe
Journal Article
2 (2), 023002 (2024)
Active density pattern formation in bacterial binary mixtures. PRX Life
Preprint
T4 phage RNA is NAD-capped and alters the NAD-cap epitranscriptome of Escherichia coli during infection through a phage-encoded decapping enzyme. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.04.04.588121 (2024)
Preprint
Polar confinement of a macromolecular machine by an SRP-type GTPase. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.04.02.587688 (2024)
Journal Article
23, 98 (2024)
Genetic toolbox for Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus: pSEVA based heterologous expression systems and CRISPR/Cpf1 based genome editing for rapid natural product profiling. Microbial Cell Factories
Preprint
Physics and physiology determine strategies of bacterial investment in flagellar motility. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.03.30.587422 (2024)
Preprint
Enhanced metabolic entanglement emerges during the evolution of an interkingdom microbial community. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.03.30.587424 (2024)
Journal Article
15 (13), pp. 4960 - 4968 (2024)
Infrared spectroscopy reveals metal-independent carbonic anhydrase activity in crotonyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase. Chemical Science
Journal Article
121 (18), e2319205121 (2024)
Plasmid partitioning driven by collective migration of ParA between nucleoid lobes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Journal Article
121 (14), e2315568121 (2024)
Structural and mechanistic basis of the central energy-converting methyltransferase complex of methanogenesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Journal Article
15, 2666 (2024)
Synthetically-primed adaptation of Pseudomonas putida to a non-native substrate D-xylose. Nature Communications
Preprint
Revealing reaction intermediates in one-carbon elongation ThDP/CoA dependent enzyme family. Research Square (2024)
Journal Article
383 (6689), eadg4320 (2024)
Evolution-inspired engineering of nonribosomal peptide synthetases. Science
Preprint
Plasmid partitioning driven by collective migration of ParA between nucleoid lobes. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2023.10.16.562490 (2024)
Journal Article
121 (13), e2318969121 (2024)
Ferredoxin reduction by hydrogen with iron functions as an evolutionary precursor of flavin-based electron bifurcation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Preprint
2-oxoglutarate triggers assembly of active dodecameric Methanosarcina mazei glutamine synthetase. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2024)
Journal Article
11 (22), e2400184 (2024)
Polyketide trimming shapes dihydroxynaphthalene-melanin and anthraquinone pigments. Advanced Science
Journal Article
10, 30 (2024)
Enhanced assembly of bacteriophage T7 produced in cell-free reactions under simulated microgravity. npj Microgravity
Preprint
Experimental evolution of a reduced bacterial chemotaxis network. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.03.14.584839 (2024)
Journal Article
291 (11), pp. 2449 - 2460 (2024)
Isolation of an H2-dependent electron-bifurcating CO2-reducing megacomplex with MvhB polyferredoxin from Methanothermobacter marburgensis. The FEBS Journal
Preprint
Combinatorial control of type IVa pili formation by the four polarized regulators MglA, SgmX, FrzS and SopA. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.03.11.584430 (2024)
Preprint
Multiple levels of transcriptional regulation control glycolate metabolism in Paracoccus denitrificans. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.03.11.584432 (2024)
Preprint
The interplay between nutrition and the dynamics of the midgut microbiome of the mosquito Aedes aegypti reveals putative symbionts. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.03.04.583003 (2024)
Journal Article
436 (5) (2024)
One more for light-triggered conformational changes in cryptochromes: CryP from Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Journal of Molecular Biology
Journal Article
37 (3), pp. 250 - 263 (2024)
Novel secreted effectors conserved among smut fungi contribute to the virulence of Ustilago maydis. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
Journal Article
12, 39 (2024)
Time-shifted expression of acetoclastic and methylotrophic methanogenesis by a single Methanosarcina genomospecies predominates the methanogen dynamics in Philippine rice field soil. Microbiome
Journal Article
650, 121994 (2024)
Coupled carbon‑iron‑phosphorus cycling in the Rainbow hydrothermal vent field. Chemical Geology
Journal Article
15 (3), e0331423 (2024)
Two distinct ferredoxins are essential for nitrogen fixation by the iron nitrogenase in Rhodobacter capsulatus. mBio
Preprint
Chloroplast Cell-Free Systems from Different Plant Species as a Rapid Prototyping Platform. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.02.19.580994 (2024)
Preprint
DEAD-box ATPase Dbp2 mediates mRNA release after 3'-end formation. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.02.17.580811 (2024)
Journal Article
16 (2), 108 (2024)
Genome sequence analysis of native Xenorhabdus strains isolated from entomopathogenic nematodes in Argentina. Toxins
Journal Article
15, 1351590 (2024)
Agrobacteria deploy two classes of His-Me finger superfamily nuclease effectors exerting different antibacterial capacities against specific bacterial competitors. Frontiers in Microbiology
Journal Article
A novel mechanism for dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium in Acididesulfobacillus acetoxydans. mSystems, e00967-23 (2024)
Preprint
Polyketide synthase-derived sphingolipids determine microbiota-mediated protection against pathogens in C. elegans. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.02.06.579051 (2024)
Journal Article
14 (2), 230414 (2024)
Combining single-molecule and expansion microscopy in fission yeast to visualize protein structures at the nanostructural level. Open Biology
Preprint
A deterministic, c-di-GMP-dependent genetic program ensures the generation of phenotypically similar, symmetric daughter cells during cytokinesis. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.02.06.579105 (2024)
Preprint
Use of a Golden Gate plasmid set enabling scarless MoClo-compatible transcription unit assembly. arXiv, arXiv.2402.03410 (2024)
Journal Article
12, RP86577 (2024)
A dynamic bactofilin cytoskeleton cooperates with an M23 endopeptidase to control bacterial morphogenesis. eLife
Journal Article
63 (6), e202316478 (2024)
Acyl and CO ligands in the [Fe]-hydrogenase cofactor scramble upon photolysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Journal Article
12, 16 (2024)
Functional similarity, despite taxonomical divergence in the millipede gut microbiota, points to a common trophic strategy. Microbiome
Journal Article
DuBA.flow─A low-cost, long-read amplicon sequencing workflow for the validation of synthetic DNA constructs. ACS Synthetic Biology (2024)
Preprint
Temporal epigenome modulation enables efficient bacteriophage engineering and functional analysis of phage DNA modifications. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.01.28.577628 (2024)
Preprint
Validation of Golden Gate assemblies using highly multiplexed Nanopore amplicon sequencing. arXiv, arXiv:2401.14191 (2024)
Preprint
Layered entrenchment maintains essentiality in protein-protein interactions. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.01.18.576253 (2024)
Journal Article
7, 111 (2024)
Differences in regulation mechanisms of glutamine synthetases from methanogenic archaea unveiled by structural investigations. Communications Biology
Preprint
Identification, structure and function of the methyltransferase involved in the biosynthesis of the dithiolopyrrolone antibiotic xenorhabdin. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.01.12.575338 (2024)
Preprint
MprF-mediated immune evasion is necessary for Lactiplantibacillus plantarum resilience in Drosophila gut during inflammation. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.01.09.574795 (2024)
Journal Article
High temporal resolution of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) dynamics during heat stress does not support a causative role in coral bleaching. Coral Reefs (2024)
Preprint
Genetic Toolbox for Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus: pSEVA based heterologous expression systems and CRISPR/Cpf1 based genome editing for rapid natural product profiling. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.01.07.574529 (2024)
Preprint
Cardiac stress leads to regulation of Filamin C dimerisation via an ancient phosphorylation-modulated interaction with HSPB7. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.01.05.574393 (2024)
Journal Article
121, pp. 304 - 323 (2024)
Pilotins are mobile T3SS components involved in assembly and substrate specificity of the bacterial type III secretion system. Molecular Microbiology
Journal Article
7, 772 (2024)
The cytoplasmic phosphate level has a central regulatory role in the phosphate starvation response of Caulobacter crescentus. Communications Biology