K. Julia Dierksheide

The paper investigates transcription termination in cyanobacteria, finding that most transcription units lack canonical intrinsic terminators and suggesting novel termination mechanisms.

The paper shows that purine bias in bacterial genes prevents premature transcription termination by evading Rho-dependent termination, leading to biased codon usage in species with runaway transcription.

The paper identifies a 227-bp deletion in a commonly used Bacillus subtilis integration vector that causes undetected loss-of-function mutations in the ldh gene.

The paper identifies endonucleolytic cleavage sites in Bacillus subtilis using transcriptome-wide mapping and deep mutational scanning, revealing distinct sequence determinants for different endoribonucleases.