Publications
Analysis of SOS-induced spontaneous prophage induction in Corynebacterium glutamicum at the single-cell level. J Bacteriol. 2014;196(1):180-8.
. Application of a genetically encoded biosensor for live cell imaging of L-valine production in pyruvate dehydrogenase complex-deficient Corynebacterium glutamicum strains. PLoS One. 2014;9(1):e85731.
. A balancing act times two: sensing and regulating cell envelope homeostasis in Bacillus subtilis. Mol Microbiol. 2014;94(6):1201-7.
. Beyond growth rate 0.6: What drives Corynebacterium glutamicum to higher growth rates in defined medium. Biotechnol Bioeng. 2014;111(2):359-71.
. Chemical warfare and survival strategies in bacterial range expansions. J R Soc Interface. 2014;11(96):20140172.
. Density of founder cells affects spatial pattern formation and cooperation in Bacillus subtilis biofilms. ISME J. 2014;8(10):2069-79.
. Ectopic integration vectors for generating fluorescent promoter fusions in Bacillus subtilis with minimal dark noise. PLoS One. 2014;9(5):e98360.
. Evidence of autoinducer-dependent and autoinducer-independent heterogeneous gene expression in Sinorhizobium fredii NGR234. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2014.
. Evolution of resistance to a last-resort antibiotic in Staphylococcus aureus via bacterial competition. Cell. 2014;158(5):1060-71.
. Far from being well understood: multiple protein phosphorylation events control cell differentiation in Bacillus subtilis at different levels. Front Microbiol. 2014;5:704.
. Fitness and stability of obligate cross-feeding interactions that emerge upon gene loss in bacteria. ISME J. 2014;8(5):953-62.
. Impact of spatial distribution on the development of mutualism in microbes. Front Microbiol. 2014;5:649.
. Inflammation fuels colicin Ib-dependent competition of Salmonella serovar Typhimurium and E. coli in enterobacterial blooms. PLoS Pathog. 2014;10(1):e1003844.
. Less is more: selective advantages can explain the prevalent loss of biosynthetic genes in bacteria. Evolution. 2014;68(9):2559-70.
. LuxR solos in Photorhabdus species. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2014;4:166.
. Modelling and analysis of a gene-regulatory feed-forward loop with basal expression of the second regulator. J Theor Biol. 2014;363C:290-299.
. A modular view of the diversity of cell-density-encoding schemes in bacterial quorum-sensing systems. Biophys J. 2014;107(1):266-77.
. The orphan regulator ReiD of Salmonella enterica is essential for myo-inositol utilization. Mol Microbiol. 2014;94(3):700-12.
. Phosphorylation signalling through the Legionella quorum sensing histidine kinases LqsS and LqsT converges on the response regulator LqsR. Mol Microbiol. 2014;92(5):1039-55.
. Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in bacterial pathogens by toxin-antitoxin systems. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2014;4:6.
. The protein tyrosine kinases EpsB and PtkA differentially affect biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis. Microbiology. 2014;160(Pt 4):682-91.
. Quorum sensing restrains growth and is rapidly inactivated during domestication of Sinorhizobium meliloti. Environ Microbiol Rep. 2014.
. Reconstruction of mreB Expression in Staphylococcus aureus via a Collection of New Integrative Plasmids. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2014;80(13):3868-78.
. RNA-seq in the broad host range strain Sinorhizobium fredii NGR234 identifies a large set of genes linked to quorum sensing-dependent regulation in the background of a traI and ngrI deletion mutant. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2014.
. Secondary bacterial flagellar system improves bacterial spreading by increasing the directional persistence of swimming. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014;111(31):11485-90.
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