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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2023

The Targeted Deletion of Genes Responsible for Expression of the Mth60 Fimbriae Leads to Loss of Cell-Cell Connections in Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus ΔH.

Christian Fink, Gines Martinez-Cano, Jeremiah Shuster, Aurora Panzera, Kim E Rennhack, Nils Rohbohm, Largus T Angenent, Bastian Molitor

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Christian FinkEnvironmental Biotechnology Group, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Gines Martinez-CanoEnvironmental Biotechnology Group, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Jeremiah ShusterTübingen Structural Microscopy, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Aurora PanzeraBioOptics Facility, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Kim E RennhackEnvironmental Biotechnology Group, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Nils RohbohmEnvironmental Biotechnology Group, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Largus T AngenentEnvironmental Biotechnology Group, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0180-1865
Bastian MolitorEnvironmental Biotechnology Group, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0776-1668
University of Tübingen · DEAarhus University · DKMax Planck Institute for Biology · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study is a continuation by the Environmental Biotechnology Group of the University of Tübingen in memoriam to Reinhard Wirth, who initiated the work on Mth60 fimbriae at the University of Regensburg. Growth in biofilms or biofilm-like structures is the prevailing lifestyle for most microbes in nature. The first crucial step to initiate biofilms is the adherence of microbes to biotic and abiotic surfaces. Therefore, it is crucial to elucidate the initial step of biofilm formation, which is generally established through cell-surface structures (i.e., cell appendages), such as fimbriae or pili, that adhere to biotic and abiotic surfaces. The Mth60 fimbriae of Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus ΔH are one of only a few known archaeal cell appendages that do not assemble via the type IV pili assembly mechanism. Here, we report the constitutive expression of Mth60 fimbria-encoding genes from a shuttle-vector construct and the deletion of the Mth60 fimbria-encoding genes from the genomic DNA of

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BiofilmsFimbriae, BacterialMethanobacteriaceaeadherencearchaeagene deletiongeneticsMethanothermobacterMth60 fimbriae

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PMID37310347
PMCPMC10370314
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