Publications
A balancing act times two: sensing and regulating cell envelope homeostasis in Bacillus subtilis. Mol Microbiol. 2014;94(6):1201-7.
. Basal expression rate of comK sets a 'switching-window' into the K-state of Bacillus subtilis. Mol Microbiol. 2007;63(6):1806-16.
. Beyond growth rate 0.6: Corynebacterium glutamicum cultivated in highly diluted environments. Biotechnol Bioeng. 2012.
. Beyond growth rate 0.6: What drives Corynebacterium glutamicum to higher growth rates in defined medium. Biotechnol Bioeng. 2014;111(2):359-71.
. BglJ-RcsB heterodimers relieve repression of the Escherichia coli bgl operon by H-NS. J Bacteriol. 2010;192(24):6456-64.
. The biofilm formation defect of a Bacillus subtilis flotillin-defective mutant involves the protease FtsH. Mol Microbiol. 2012;86(2):457-71.
. Bistability and nonmonotonic induction of the lac operon in the natural lactose uptake system. Biophys J. 2017;112:1984-1996.
. Bistability in myo-inositol utilization by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. J Bacteriol. 2011;193(6):1427-35.
. 'Blooming' in the gut: how dysbiosis might contribute to pathogen evolution. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2013;11(4):277-84.
. BtsT - a novel and specific pyruvate/H+ symporter in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 2018;200:e00599-17.
. Cannibalism enhances biofilm development in Bacillus subtilis. Mol Microbiol. 2009;74(3):609-18.
. Cannibalism Stress Response in Bacillus subtilis. Microbiology. 2015.
. A c-di-GMP-based switch controls local heterogeneity of extracellular matrix synthesis which is crucial for integrity and morphogenesis of Escherichia coli macrocolony biofilms. J. Mol. Biol. 2019;in press.
. Cell differentiation defines acute and chronic infection cell types in Staphylococcus aureus. eLife. 2017;6:e28023.
. The cell envelope stress response of Bacillus subtilis: From static signaling devices to dynamic regulatory network. Curr. Genet. 2017;63:79-90.
. Cellulose as an architectural element in spatially structured Escherichia coli biofilms. J Bacteriol. 2013;195(24):5540-54.
. Cell wall stress responses in Bacillus subtilis: the regulatory network of the bacitracin stimulon. Mol Microbiol. 2003;50(5):1591-604.
. Characterization of the myo-inositol utilization island of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. J Bacteriol. 2009;191(2):545-54.
. Chemical warfare and survival strategies in bacterial range expansions. J R Soc Interface. 2014;11(96):20140172.
. Chemotactic signaling via carbohydrate phosphotransferase systems in Escherichia coli. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012.
. Chemotaxis towards autoinducer 2 mediates autoaggregation in Escherichia coli. Nat Commun. 2016;7:12984.
. Classification of phenotypic subpopulations in isogenic bacterial cultures by triple promoter probing at single cell level. J Biotechnol. 2015;198:3-14.
. Collapse of genetic division of labor and evolution of autonomy in pellicle biofilms. Nature Microbiology. 2018;3(12):1451-1460.
. Comparative analysis of the Photorhabdus luminescens and the Yersinia enterocolitica genomes: uncovering candidate genes involved in insect pathogenicity. BMC Genomics. 2008;9:40.
. Comparative genomics of LytS/LytTR histidine kinase/response regulator systems in γ-proteobacteria. PLOS ONE. 2017;12(8):e0182993.
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