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  1. Masters of change

    Article • Biological Chemistry, October 2020, De Gruyter

    Professor Erhard Bremer

  2. The ups and downs of ectoine: structural enzymology of a major microbial stress protectant and versatile nutrient

    Article • Biological Chemistry, August 2020, De Gruyter

    Professor Erhard Bremer

  3. OpuF, a NewBacillusCompatible Solute ABC Transporter with a Substrate-Binding Protein Fused to the Transmembrane Domain

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, August 2018, ASM Journals

    Professor Erhard Bremer

  4. Arsenobetaine: an ecophysiologically important organoarsenical confers cytoprotection against osmotic stress and growth temperature extremes

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, December 2017, Wiley

    Professor Erhard Bremer

  5. Tinkering with Osmotically Controlled Transcription Allows Enhanced Production and Excretion of Ectoine and Hydroxyectoine from a Microbial Cell Factory

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, November 2017, ASM Journals

    Professor Erhard Bremer

  6. Transcriptional regulation of ectoine catabolism in response to multiple metabolic and environmental cues

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, October 2017, Wiley

    Professor Erhard Bremer

  7. Synthesis of the compatible solute proline by Bacillus subtilis : point mutations rendering the osmotically controlled proHJ promoter hyperactive

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, August 2017, Wiley

    Professor Erhard Bremer

  8. Clostridium difficile: A bad bug goes into defensive mode

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, May 2017, Wiley

    Professor Erhard Bremer

  9. From substrate specificity to promiscuity: hybrid ABC transporters for osmoprotectants

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, March 2017, Wiley

    Professor Erhard Bremer

  10. Guardians in a stressful world: the Opu family of compatible solute transporters from Bacillus subtilis

    Article • Biological Chemistry, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Professor Erhard Bremer

  11. Feeding on compatible solutes: A substrate-induced pathway for uptake and catabolism of ectoines and its genetic control by EnuR

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, August 2016, Wiley

    Professor Erhard Bremer

  12. Strangers in the archaeal world: osmostress-responsive biosynthesis of ectoine and hydroxyectoine by the marine thaumarchaeonNitrosopumilus maritimus

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, January 2016, Wiley

    Professor Erhard Bremer

  13. Salt-sensitivity of σHand Spo0A prevents sporulation ofBacillus subtilisat high osmolarity avoiding death during cellular differentiation

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, January 2016, Wiley

    Professor Erhard Bremer

  14. Abiotic stress protection by ecologically abundant dimethylsulfoniopropionate and its natural and synthetic derivatives: insights fromBacillus subtilis

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, December 2014, Wiley

    Professor Mohamed Jebbar, Professor Erhard Bremer

  15. Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Structure-Guided Mutagenesis Provide Insight into the Architecture of the Catalytic Core of the Ectoine Hydroxylase

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, February 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Erhard Bremer

  16. Mutational activation of the RocR activator and of a crypticrocDEFpromoter bypass loss of the initial steps of proline biosynthesis inBacillus subtilis

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, July 2013, Wiley

    Professor Erhard Bremer