Marcel Sprenger

The paper identifies an sRNA regulatory cascade in Dickeya solani that controls both antifungal and antibacterial activities by activating SlyA translation.

The paper shows that single-nucleotide mutations in the sRNA ArcZ of Dickeya solani generate social cheater variants during potato infection, which exploit a shared metabolic benefit without contributing to it.

The paper shows that T2 phage uses the host sRNA ArcZ to stabilize its own transcript and inhibit a bacterial restriction system.

The paper identifies and characterizes CisR, a small RNA that inhibits CTXφ phage production by repressing cep mRNA through Hfq-dependent base-pairing, linking phage activation to cell density and nutrient availability in V. cholerae.