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Technische Universität DresdenORCID 0000-0002-6300-5541Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints
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Pia Bethge, Berenike Schmalfuß, Samuel Ropert, Florian Schattenberg, Gorkhmaz Abbaszade, Susann Müller, Thomas Henle, Yael Politi, Thorsten Mascher
This study investigates water kefir grains as a model for microbial multicellularity, revealing an emergent growth function in multispecies biofilms.
bioRxiv · Oct 10, 2026 · PreprintMicrobiology
Lena Friebel, Jan-Philipp Knepper, Nathalie Sofie Becker, Gorkhmaz Abbaszade, Kathrin Stückrath, Jens Soltwisch, Susann Müller, Klaus Dreisewerd, Thorsten Mascher
This paper investigates how cannibalism in Bacillus subtilis biofilms affects structure and composition by analyzing toxin production and spatial distribution.
mBio · Jun 15, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology
Sarah Miercke, Kirsten Schaubruch, Sandra Maaß, Anne K. Russeck, Andreas C. Lawaetz, Emma L. Denham, Ralf Heermann, Thorsten Mascher
The paper shows that Kre and SpoVG regulate EPE toxin production in B. subtilis by interacting with the epeX transcript, linking competence and cannibalism.
bioRxiv · Apr 3, 2026 · PreprintMolecular Biology
Denis Iliasov, Ricardo Santander Gualdron, Pilar Lörzing, Sandra Maaß, Buse Cınar Cakmak, Bastian Wollenhaupt, Dietrich Kohlheyer, Dörte Becher, Christoph Loderer, Natalia Tschowri, Michael Schlierf, Vasily Zaburdaev, Thorsten Mascher
The paper identifies LpdA as the source of intrinsic autofluorescence in filamentous actinobacteria and shows its role in metabolic organization during growth.
bioRxiv · Mar 3, 2025 · PreprintMicrobiology
Delia Casas‐Pastor, Raphael Müller, Sebastian Jaenicke, Karina Brinkrolf, Anke Becker, Mark J. Buttner, Carol A. Gross, Thorsten Mascher, Alexander Goesmann, Georg Fritz
The paper expands and reclassifies the ECF σ factor family by analyzing NCBI data, identifying 157 phylogenetic groups and significantly increasing the number of classified sequences.
Nucleic Acids Research · Dec 7, 2020Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Hannah Piepenbreier, Andre Sim, Carolin Martina Kobras, Jara Radeck, Thorsten Mascher, Susanne Gebhard, Georg Fritz
The paper develops a computational model to analyze the interplay between two resistance modules in Bacillus subtilis under bacitracin stress, revealing how lipid II cycle changes regulate resistance.
mSystems · Feb 3, 2020Peer-reviewedSystems Biology