Chen H, Malengo G, Wang L, Vogler O, Renner M, Glatter T, Paczia N, Unterweger D, Sourjik V, Diepold A (2025): Coordination of virulence factors and lifestyle transition in Pseudomonas aeruginosa through single-cell analysis. Communications Biology 8(1):1236. (Link)
Habich A, Chaves Vargas V, Robinson LA, Luke PA, Unterweger D (2025): Distribution of the four type VI secretion systems in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and classification of their core and accessory effectors.
Nature Communications 16:888. (Link)
Highlighted in Trends in Microbiology (Link)
Highlighted in Biospektrum (in German) (Link)
Selected as ‘paper of the month’ by the German Society of Hygiene and
Medical Microbiology (Link)
Andreani NA, Unterweger D, Schreiber S, Baines JF (2024): Evolutionary medicine for chronic inflammatory diseases of the gut: more than a clinical fantasy? Gastroenterology S0016-5085(24)05583-5. (Link)
Liu Y, Unterweger D (2024): Microbiology: Murder as a solution to promiscuity? Current Biology 34(11):R539-R541. (Link)
Habich A, Unterweger D (2024): Investigating Secretion Systems and Effectors on Galleria mellonella. Methods Mol Biol. 2715:601-608. (Link)
Unni R, Andreani NA, Vallier M, Heinzmann SS, Taubenheim J, Guggeis MA, Tran F, Vogler O, Künzel S, Hövener JB, Rosenstiel P, Kaleta C, Dempfle A, Unterweger D, Baines JF (2023): Evolution of E. coli in a mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease leads to a disease-specific bacterial genotype and trade-offs with clinical relevance. Gut Microbes 15(2):2286675. (Link)
Bonczarowska JH , Susat J, Krause-Kyora B, Dangvard Pedersen D, Boldsen J, Agersnap Larsen L, Seeberg L, Nebel A, Unterweger D (2023). Ancient Yersinia pestis genomes lack the virulence-associated Ypf Φ prophage present in modern pandemic strains. Proc Biol Sci. 290(2003):20230622. (Link)
Fokt H, Sakalyte G, Unni R, Abukhalaf M, Cassidy L, Marinos G, Godfroid M, Kinfu BM, Schmitz RA, Kaleta C, Tholey A, Baines JF, Dagan T, Unterweger D (2023): Closely related Bacteroides of the murine intestinal microbiota affect each other’s growth positively or negatively. bioRxiv. (Link)
Habich A, Galeev A, Chaves Vargas V, Vogler O, Ghoul M, Andersen SB, Krogh Johansen H, Molin S, Griffin AS, Unterweger D (2022): Core and accessory effectors of type VI secretion systems contribute differently to the intraspecific diversity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. bioRxiv. (Link)
Fokt H, Unni R, Repnik U, Schmitz RA, Bramkamp M, Baines JF, Unterweger D (2022): Bacteroides muris sp. nov. isolated from the cecum of wild-derived house mice. Archives of Microbiology 204(9):546. (Link)
Unterweger D (2022): DNA-Abwehrsysteme schützen Cholerabakterien vor Plasmiden und Phagen. Biospektrum 28(4):406-407. (In German only) (Link)
Unni R, Pintor KL, Diepold A, Unterweger D (2022): Presence and absence of type VI secretion systems in bacteria. Microbiology (Reading) 168(4). (Link)
Among the most read publications of the journal in May 2022.
Kostiuk B, Santoriello FJ, Diaz-Satizabal L, Bisaro F, Lee KJ, Dhody AN, Provenzano D, Unterweger D, Pukatzki S (2021): Type VI secretion system mutations reduced competitive fitness of classical Vibrio cholerae biotype. Nature Communications 12(1):6457. (Link)
News coverage by the The Philadelphia Inquirer
Turner JW, Duran-Gonzalez J, Laughlin DA, Unterweger D, Silva D, Ermolinsky B, Pukatzki S, Provenzano D (2021): Draft Genome Sequences of 13 Vibrio cholerae Strains from the Rio Grande Delta. Microbiology Resource Announcements 10(22):e0030821. (Link)
Santoriello FJ, Michel L, Unterweger D, Pukatzki S (2020): Pandemic Vibrio cholerae shuts down site-specific recombination to retain an interbacterial defence mechanism. Nature Communications 11(1):6246. (Link)
Smith WPJ, Brodmann M, Unterweger D, Davit Y, Comstock LE, Basler M, Foster KR (2020): The evolution of tit-for-tat in bacteria via the type VI secretion system. Nature Communications 11(1):5395. (Link)
Merker M, Tueffers L, Vallier M, Groth EE, Sonnenkalb L, Unterweger D, Baines JF, Niemann S, Schulenburg H (2020): Evolutionary Approaches to Combat Antibiotic Resistance: Opportunities and Challenges for Precision Medicine. Frontiers in Immunology 11:1938. (Link)
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