Kürşad Turgay

The paper identifies the Y-complex as a regulator of RNase Y specificity in Bacillus subtilis, showing it mediates stress-induced ribosome degradation by targeting rRNA.

This paper uses soft X-ray tomography to analyze B.subtilis biofilm structure, showing structural changes in a tasA deletion mutant and the effect of TasA protein addition.

This study identifies MdfA as a ClpC adaptor protein in Bacillus subtilis that promotes spore metabolic dormancy by inducing ClpCP-mediated degradation of metabolic enzymes.