Publications of Victor Sourjik

Baltaci, S. F.; Akolpoglu, M. B.; Kalita, I.; Sourjik, V.; Sitti, M.: Bacterial minicell-based biohybrid sub-micron swimmers for targeted cargo delivery. Advanced Science n/a (n/a), e05538 (2025)

Kalita, I.; Colin, R.; Hoch, S.; Baltaci, S. F.; Sitti, M.; Sourjik, V.: Motile and chemotactic minicells and minicell-driven biohybrids engineered for active cargo delivery. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 17 (25), pp. 36387 - 36399 (2025)

Pérez-López, M. I.; Lubrano, P.; Angelidou, G.; Hoch, S.; Glatter, T.; Paczia, N.; Link, H.; Sourjik, V.: The SPFH complex HflK-HflC regulates aerobic respiration in bacteria. PLOS Biology 23 (4), e3003077 (2025)

Lisevich, I.; Colin, R.; Yang, H. Y.; Ni, B.; Sourjik, V.: Physics of swimming and its fitness cost determine strategies of bacterial investment in flagellar motility. Nature Communications 16 (1), 1731 (2025)

Scarinci, G.; Ariens, J.-L.; Angelidou, G.; Schmidt, S.; Glatter, T.; Paczia, N.; Sourjik, V.: Enhanced metabolic entanglement emerges during the evolution of an interkingdom microbial community. Nature Communications 15 (1), 7238 (2024)

Sourjik, V.; Patil, K. R.: Editorial overview: Systems and synthetic biology of microbial cells and communities. Current Opinion in Microbiology 80, 102517 (2024)

Teteneva, N.; Sanches-Medeiros, A.; Sourjik, V.: Genome-wide screen of genetic determinants that govern Escherichia coli growth and persistence in lake water. The ISME Journal 18 (1), wrae096 (2024)

Robinson, D. G.; Mallatt, J.; Peer, W. A.; Sourjik, V.; Taiz, L.: Cell consciousness: a dissenting opinion: The cellular basis of consciousness theory lacks empirical evidence for its claims that all cells have consciousness. EMBO Reports 25, pp. 2162 - 2167 (2024)

Ross, P. A.; Xu, W.; Jalomo-Khayrova, E.; Bange, G.; Gumerov, V. M.; Bradley , P. H.; Sourjik, V.; Zhulin , I. B.: Framework for exploring the sensory repertoire of the human gut microbiota. mBio 15 (6), e01039-24 (2024)

Irazoki, O.; ter Beek, J.; Alvarez, L.; Mateus, A.; Colin, R.; Typas, A.; Savitski, M. M.; Sourjik, V.; Berntsson, R. P.-A.; Cava, F.: D-amino acids signal a stress-dependent run-away response in Vibrio cholerae. Nature Microbiology 8 (8), pp. 1549 - 1560 (2023)

Laganenka, L.; Sourjik, V.: Bacterial quorum sensing signals at the interdomain interface. Israel Journal of Chemistry 63 (5-6), e202200080 (2023)

Bi, S.; Kargeti, M.; Colin, R.; Farke, N.; Link, H.; Sourjik, V.: Dynamic fluctuations in a bacterial metabolic network. Nature Communications 14 (1), 2173 (2023)

Laganenka, L.; Lee, J.-W.; Malfertheiner, L.; Dieterich, C. L.; Fuchs, L.; Piel, J.; von Mering, C.; Sourjik, V.; Hardt, W.-D.: Chemotaxis and autoinducer-2 signalling mediate colonization and contribute to co-existence of Escherichia coli strains in the murine gut. Nature Microbiology 8 (2), pp. 207 - 214 (2023)

Lamprecht, O.; Ratnikava, M.; Jacek, P.; Kaganovitch, E.; Büttner, N.; Fritz, K.; Biazruchka, I.; Köhler, R. C.; Pietsch, J.; Sourjik, V.: Regulation by cyclic di-GMP attenuates dynamics and enhances robustness of bimodal curli gene activation in Escherichia coli. PLOS Genetics 19 (5), e1010750 (2023)

Xu, W.; Cerna-Vargas, J. P.; Tajuelo, A.; Lozano-Montoya, A.; Kivoloka, M.; Krink, N.; Monteagudo-Cascales, E.; Matilla, M. A.; Krell, T.; Sourjik, V.: Systematic mapping of chemoreceptor specificities for Pseudomonas aeruginosa. mBio 14 (5), e02099-23 (2023)

Bellotto, N.; Agudo-Canalejo, J.; Colin, R.; Golestanian, R.; Malengo, G.; Sourjik, V.: Dependence of diffusion in Escherichia coli cytoplasm on protein size, environmental conditions and cell growth. eLife 11, e82654 (2022)

Monteagudo-Cascales, E.; Martin-Mora, D.; Xu, W.; Sourjik, V.; Matilla, M. A.; Ortega, A.; Krell, T.: The pH robustness of bacterial sensing. mBio 13 (5), e0165022 (2022)

Chen, X.; Bi, S.; Ma, X.; Sourjik, V.; Lai, L.: Discovery of a new chemoeffector for Escherichia coli chemoreceptor Tsr and identification of a molecular mechanism of repellent sensing. ACS Bio Med Chem Au 2 (4), pp. 386 - 394 (2022)

Matilla, M. A.; Velando, F.; Tajuelo, A.; Martin-Mora, D.; Xu, W.; Sourjik, V.; Gavira, J. A.; Krell, T.: Chemotaxis of the human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa to the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. mBio 13 (2), e0345821 (2022)

Scarinci, G.; Sourjik, V.: Impact of direct physical association and motility on fitness of a synthetic interkingdom microbial community. The ISME Journal 17 (3), pp. 371 - 381 (2022)