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  1. Complete Genome Sequences of 13 Bacillus subtilis Soil Isolates for Studying Secondary Metabolite Diversity

    Article • Microbiology Resource Announcements, January 2020, ASM Journals

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  2. Metal ions weaken the hydrophobicity and antibiotic resistance of Bacillus subtilis NCIB 3610 biofilms

    Article • npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  3. Surfactin production is not essential for pellicle and root-associated biofilm development of Bacillus subtilis

    Article • December 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  4. Fungal hyphae colonization by Bacillus subtilis relies on biofilm matrix components

    Article • Biofilm, December 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  5. Depiction of secondary metabolites and antifungal activity of Bacillus velezensis DTU001

    Article • Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology, September 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  6. Privatization of biofilm matrix in structurally heterogeneous biofilms

    Article • August 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  7. Fungal hyphae colonization by Bacillus subtilis relies on biofilm matrix components

    Article • August 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  8. Are There Circadian Clocks in Non-Photosynthetic Bacteria?

    Article • Biology, May 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  9. Depiction of secondary metabolites and antifungal activity of Bacillus velezensis DTU001

    Article • March 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  10. The Ectomycorrhizospheric Habitat of Norway Spruce and Tricholoma vaccinum: Promotion of Plant Growth and Fitness by a Rich Microorganismic Community

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, February 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  11. Evolved Biofilm: Review on the Experimental Evolution Studies of Bacillus subtilis Pellicles

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, February 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  12. Cheater-mediated evolution shifts phenotypic heterogeneity in Bacillus subtilis biofilms

    Article • December 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  13. Hampered motility promotes the evolution of wrinkly phenotype in Bacillus subtilis

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  14. Collapse of genetic division of labour and evolution of autonomy in pellicle biofilms

    Article • Nature Microbiology, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  15. Division of Labor during Biofilm Matrix Production

    Article • Current Biology, June 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  16. Effect of Novel Quercetin Titanium Dioxide-Decorated Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Nanocomposite on Bacillus subtilis Biofilm Development

    Article • Materials, January 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  17. Dissimilar pigment regulation in Serpula lacrymans and Paxillus involutus during inter-kingdom interactions

    Article • Microbiology, January 2018, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  18. Division of labor during biofilm matrix production

    Article • December 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  19. From Cell Death to Metabolism: Holin-Antiholin Homologues with New Functions

    Article • mBio, December 2017, ASM Journals

    Dr Akos T Kovacs, Professor Oscar P. Kuipers

  20. Impaired competence in flagellar mutants of Bacillus subtilis is connected to the regulatory network governed by DegU

    Article • Environmental Microbiology Reports, December 2017, Wiley

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  21. Surfing of bacterial droplets: Bacillus subtilis sliding revisited

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  22. Pyruvate Transport and Regulation in Bacillus subtilis

    Article • mBio, October 2017, ASM Journals

    Matthieu Jules, Dr Akos T Kovacs, Dr Dominique G Le Coq

  23. Impaired competence in flagellar mutants of Bacillus subtilis is connected to the regulatory network governed by DegU

    Article • September 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  24. Evolution of exploitative interactions during diversification in Bacillus subtilis biofilms

    Article • August 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  25. The Role of Functional Amyloids in Multicellular Growth and Development of Gram-Positive Bacteria

    Article • Biomolecules, August 2017, MDPI AG

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  26. Lysinibacillus fusiformis M5 Induces Increased Complexity in Bacillus subtilis 168 Colony Biofilms via Hypoxanthine

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, June 2017, ASM Journals

    Dr Akos T Kovacs, Pierre Stallforth

  27. Sliding on the surface: bacterial spreading without an active motor

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, May 2017, Wiley

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  28. De novo evolved interference competition promotes the spread of biofilm defectors

    Article • Nature Communications, May 2017, Nature

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  29. Lysinibacillus fusiformis M5 induces increased complexity in Bacillus subtilis 168 colony biofilms via hypoxanthine

    Article • March 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  30. Presence of Calcium Lowers the Expansion of Bacillus subtilis Colony Biofilms

    Article • Microorganisms, February 2017, MDPI AG

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  31. Application of quercetin and its bio-inspired nanoparticles as anti-adhesive agents against Bacillus subtilis attachment to surface

    Article • Materials Science and Engineering C, January 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  32. The Peculiar Functions of the Bacterial Extracellular Matrix

    Article • Trends in Microbiology, January 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  33. OUP accepted manuscript

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, January 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  34. Draft Genome Sequence of the Soil Isolate Lysinibacillus fusiformis M5, a Potential Hypoxanthine Producer

    Article • Genome Announcements, November 2016, ASM Journals

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  35. Unraveling the predator-prey relationship of Cupriavidus necator and Bacillus subtilis

    Article • Microbiological Research, November 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  36. Monitoring Spatial Segregation in Surface Colonizing Microbial Populations

    Article • Journal of Visualized Experiments, October 2016, MyJove Corporation

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  37. Structural damage of Bacillus subtilis biofilms using pulsed laser interaction with gold thin films

    Article • Journal of Biophotonics, October 2016, Wiley

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  38. Specific Bacillus subtilis 168 variants do form biofilms on nutrient rich medium

    Article • Microbiology, September 2016, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  39. YsbA and LytST are essential for pyruvate utilization inBacillus subtilis

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, August 2016, Wiley

    Dr Akos T Kovacs, Professor Oscar P. Kuipers

  40. The impact of manganese on biofilm development of Bacillus subtilis

    Article • Microbiology, June 2016, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  41. The global regulator CodY is required for the fitness ofBacillus cereusin various laboratory media and certain beverages

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, May 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  42. Laboratory Evolution of Microbial Interactions in Bacterial Biofilms

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, April 2016, ASM Journals

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  43. Motility, Chemotaxis and Aerotaxis Contribute to Competitiveness during Bacterial Pellicle Biofilm Development

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, November 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  44. Bacterial differentiation via gradual activation of global regulators

    Article • Current Genetics, October 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  45. A Duo of Potassium-Responsive Histidine Kinases Govern the Multicellular Destiny of Bacillus subtilis

    Article • mBio, July 2015, ASM Journals

    Dr Akos T Kovacs, Dr Roberto R Grau

  46. Einblicke in das Sozialleben von Mikroben

    Article • BIOspektrum, May 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  47. Spatio-temporal Remodeling of Functional Membrane Microdomains Organizes the Signaling Networks of a Bacterium

    Article • PLoS Genetics, April 2015, PLOS

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  48. Single Cell FRET Analysis for the Identification of Optimal FRET-Pairs in Bacillus subtilis Using a Prototype MEM-FLIM System

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2015, PLOS

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  49. Impact of spatial distribution on the development of mutualism in microbes

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, November 2014, Frontiers

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  50. Bacillus subtilisattachment toAspergillus nigerhyphae results in mutually altered metabolism

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, August 2014, Wiley

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  51. Special issue: Biofilms

    Article • Journal of Basic Microbiology, July 2014, Wiley

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  52. Density of founder cells affects spatial pattern formation and cooperation in Bacillus subtilis biofilms

    Article • The ISME Journal, April 2014, Nature

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  53. In Bacillus subtilis LutR is part of the global complex regulatory network governing the adaptation to the transition from exponential growth to stationary phase

    Article • Microbiology, November 2013, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  54. The YmdB Phosphodiesterase Is a Global Regulator of Late Adaptive Responses in Bacillus subtilis

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, October 2013, ASM Journals

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  55. Comparative genomics and transcriptomics analysis of experimentally evolvedEscherichia coli MC1000 in complex environments

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, August 2013, Wiley

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  56. Benchmarking Various Green Fluorescent Protein Variants in Bacillus subtilis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Lactococcus lactis for Live Cell Imaging

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, August 2013, ASM Journals

    Professor Oscar P. Kuipers, Dr Akos T Kovacs

  57. Repeated triggering of sporulation in Bacillus subtilis selects against a protein that affects the timing of cell division

    Article • The ISME Journal, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  58. Functional Analysis of the ComK Protein of Bacillus coagulans

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2013, PLOS

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  59. Crystal Structures of Two Transcriptional Regulators from Bacillus cereus Define the Conserved Structural Features of a PadR Subfamily

    Article • PLoS ONE, November 2012, PLOS

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  60. DEAD-Box RNA Helicases in Bacillus subtilis Have Multiple Functions and Act Independently from Each Other

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, November 2012, ASM Journals

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  61. The protective layer of biofilm: a repellent function for a new class of amphiphilic proteins

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, May 2012, Wiley

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  62. CodY, a pleiotropic regulator, influences multicellular behaviour and efficient production of virulence factors in Bacillus cereus

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, April 2012, Wiley

    Professor Oscar P. Kuipers, Dr Akos T Kovacs

  63. Transcriptional Responses of Bacillus cereus towards Challenges with the Polysaccharide Chitosan

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2011, PLOS

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  64. Distinct Roles of ComK1 and ComK2 in Gene Regulation in Bacillus cereus

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2011, PLOS

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  65. Biofilm formation and dispersal in Gram-positive bacteria

    Article • Current Opinion in Biotechnology, April 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  66. Rok Regulates yuaB Expression during Architecturally Complex Colony Development of Bacillus subtilis 168

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, November 2010, ASM Journals

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  67. Genetic Tool Development for a New Host for Biotechnology, the Thermotolerant Bacterium Bacillus coagulans

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2010, ASM Journals

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  68. Response of Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579 to challenges with sublethal concentrations of enterocin AS-48

    Article • BMC Microbiology, October 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hikmate Abriouel, Dr Akos T Kovacs

  69. Ubiquitous late competence genes in Bacillus species indicate the presence of functional DNA uptake machineries

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, August 2009, Wiley

    Dr Wiep Klaas Smits, Dr Akos T Kovacs

  70. Induction of natural competence in Bacillus cereus ATCC14579

    Article • Microbial Biotechnology, February 2008, Wiley

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  71. Hydrogen independent expression of hupSL genes in Thiocapsa roseopersicina BBS

    Article • FEBS Journal, September 2005, Wiley

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  72. The PpsR regulator family

    Article • Research in Microbiology, June 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  73. An FNR-Type Regulator Controls the Anaerobic Expression of Hyn Hydrogenase in Thiocapsa roseopersicina

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, April 2005, ASM Journals

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  74. The hydrogenases of Thiocapsa roseopersicina

    Article • Biochemical Society Transactions, February 2005, Portland Press Ltd.

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  75. Anaerobic regulation of hydrogenase transcription in different bacteria: Figure 1

    Article • Biochemical Society Transactions, February 2005, Portland Press Ltd.

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  76. Improvement of biohydrogen production and intensification of biogas formation

    Article • Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology, December 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  77. Modular Broad-Host-Range Expression Vectors for Single-Protein and Protein Complex Purification

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 2004, ASM Journals

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  78. Cyanobacterial-Type, Heteropentameric, NAD+-Reducing NiFe Hydrogenase in the Purple Sulfur Photosynthetic Bacterium Thiocapsa roseopersicina

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 2004, ASM Journals

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  79. Genes Involved in the Biosynthesis of Photosynthetic Pigments in the Purple Sulfur Photosynthetic Bacterium Thiocapsa roseopersicina

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, June 2003, ASM Journals

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  80. Accessory proteins functioning selectively and pleiotropically in the biosynthesis of [NiFe] hydrogenases inThiocapsa roseopersicina

    Article • European Journal of Biochemistry, April 2003, Wiley

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  81. Hydrogenases, accessory genes and the regulation of 6NiFe9 hydrogenase biosynthesis in Thiocapsa roseopersicina

    Article • International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, November 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  82. Transposon Mutagenesis in Purple Sulfur Photosynthetic Bacteria: Identification of hypF, Encoding a Protein Capable of Processing [NiFe] Hydrogenases in α, β, and γ Subdivisions of the Proteobacteria

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, June 2001, ASM Journals

    Dr Akos T Kovacs

  83. Genes involved in hydrogen and sulfur metabolism in phototrophic sulfur bacteria

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, November 1999, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Akos T Kovacs, Dr Christiane Dahl

  84. Genes involved in hydrogen and sulfur metabolism in phototrophic sulfur bacteria

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, November 1999, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Christiane Dahl, Dr Akos T Kovacs