Scientific Publications

Köhler, A. M.; Thieme, S.; Gerke, J.; Thieme, K. G.; Harting, R.; Schmitt, K.; Valerius, O.; Chen, W.; Höfer, A.; Bastakis, E. et al.; Strohdiek, A.; Xylakis, E.-S.; Heinrich, A. K.; Bode, H. B.; Braus, G. H.: The VelB IDD promotes selective heterodimer formation of velvet proteins for fungal development. Life science alliance 9 (2), e202503395 (2026)

Ermoli, F.; Spahn, C. K.; Sadhir, I.; Bode, H. B.; Diepold, A.: Activation of the Yersinia type III secretion system induces large-scale spatial reorganization of chromosomal and virulence plasmid DNA. Cell Reports 44 (12), 116592 (2025)

Bange, G.; Hochberg, G. K. A.; Thormann, K.; Dornes, A.: Where and how many: evolutionary diversification of a molecular switch regulating flagellar patterns. Journal of Bacteriology 0 (0), e00329-25 (2025)

Schwabe, J.; Monjaras-Feria, J.; Glatter, T.; Blumenkamp, P.; Rupp, O.; Goesmann, A.; Valvano , M. A.; Søgaard-Andersen, L.: A single-domain response regulator activates exopolysaccharide biosynthesis by interaction with the initiating phosphoglycosyl transferase. mBio, e02986-25 (2025)

Wichmann, P.; Cox-Fermandois, A.; Küffner, A. M.; Linne, U.; Erb, T. J.; Nattermann, M.: Engineering a formic acid reductase. ACS Catalysis, pp. 20485 - 20495 (2025)

Kegel, N. B.; Yilmaz Demirel, N.; Glatter, T.; Höfer, K.; Kaufmann, A.; Bauer, S.: Proteins are a source of glycans found in preparations of glycoRNA. Experimental & Molecular Medicine (2025)

Ratnikava, M.; Lambrecht, O.; Sourjik, V.: Effects of multiple cell regulators on curli gene expression in Escherichia coli. Journal of Bacteriology 0 (0), e00281-25 (2025)

Brianceau, C.; Wimmi, S.; Kronenberger, T.; Diepold, A.: Continuous exchange of an inner-membrane ring component is required for assembly and function of the type III secretion system. Nature Communications 16 (1), 9889 (2025)

Mihajlovic, L.; Hofacker, L. M.; Lindner, F.; Jayakumar, P.; Diepold, A.; Huwiler, S. G.: A molecular toolbox to modulate gene expression and protein secretion in the bacterial predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. PLOS Genetics 21 (11), e1011935 (2025)

Di Dio, G.; Colin, R.: Active segregation in bacterial binary mixtures under flow. Communications Physics 8 (1), 426 (2025)

Yuan, J.; Koch, H.-G.; Berghoff, B. A.: Functional diversity and molecular interactions of small membrane proteins in bacteria. microLife 6, uqaf035 (2025)

Inckemann, R. M.; Chotel, T.; Burgis, M.; Brinkmann, C. K.; Andreas, L.; Baumann, J.; Sharma, P.; Klose, M.; Barrett, J.; Ries, F. et al.; Paczia, N.; Glatter, T.; Mackinder, L. C. M.; Willmund, F.; Erb, T. J.: A modular high-throughput approach for advancing synthetic biology in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas. Nature Plants 11 (11), pp. 2332 - 2349 (2025)

Henriques Pereira, D. P.; Xie, X.; Stewart, S. V.; Subrati, Z.; Beyazay, T.; Paczia, N.; Belz, J.; Volz, K.; Erastova, V.; Tüysüz, H. et al.; Preiner, M.: Reduction of NAD and NMN on mineral surfaces with H₂ reveals a functional role for the AMP moiety in a prebiotic context. Communications Chemistry 8 (1), 318 (2025)

Zaman, F.; Li, Z.; Fu, X.; Ma, W.; Wu, X.; Tian, J.; Peng, J.; Liesack, W.; Cui, Z.: Soil pH modulates microbial nitrogen cycling under integrated soil-crop system management across agroecosystems. Soil Ecology Letters 7 (4), 250360 (2025)

Liu, Y.; Wu, X.; Wegner, C.-E.; Ma, K.; Xu, G.; Cui, Z.; Zhang, F.; Liesack, W.; Peng, J.: Temperature increase in paddy soils remodels the relationship between the anaerobic food web and the Q10 of CH₄ production. Molecular Ecology 34 (22), e70156 (2025)

Lago-Maciel, A.; Soares, J. C.; Zarzycki, J.; Buchanan, C. J.; Reif-Trauttmansdorff, T.; Schmidt, F. V.; Lometto, S.; Paczia, N.; Schuller, J. M.; Hansen, D. F. et al.; Heller, G. T.; Prinz, S.; Hochberg, G. K. A.; Pierik, A. J.; Rebelein, J. G.: Methylthio-alkane reductases use nitrogenase metalloclusters for carbon–sulfur bond cleavage. Nature Catalysis 8 (10), pp. 1089 - 1099 (2025)

Podolski, A.; Lindeboom, T. A.; Präve, L.; Dehghan, M.; Minas, H. A.; Kranz, J.; Schindler, D.; Bode, H. B.: High-Throughput Engineering and Modification of Non-Ribosomal Peptide Synthetases Based on Golden Gate Assembly. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 64 (49), e202508967 (2025)

Zheng, X.; Guo, Z.; Chen, L.; Wang, H.; Freitag, J.; Li, A.; Bange, G.; Li, S.-M.; Zheng, L.: Molecular Insights into the Substrate Recognition and quasi-unidirectional Catalysis of OpaE, an Atypical Fungal Enzyme from the Asp/Glu Racemase Family. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 110828 (2025)

Keuthen, H.; Pozhydaieva, N.; Höfer, K.: Precise phage mutagenesis with NgTET-assisted CRISPR-Cas systems. Journal of Visualized Experiments (224), e69022 (2025)

Shah, M.; Xu, W.; Sourjik, V.: Response of Escherichia coli chemotaxis pathway to pyrimidine deoxyribonucleosides. Microbiology Spectrum 13 (11), e02048-25 (2025)