Martin Thanbichler

Publications

Thanbichler, M. (2011): Good things come in small packages: subcellular organization and development in bacteria. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. (in press)
Briegel, A., Beeby, M., Thanbichler, M. and Jensen G. J. (2011): Activated chemoreceptor arrays remain intact and hexagonally packed. Mol. Microbiol. 82: 748-757.
Möll, A., Schlimpert, S., Briegel, A., Jensen G. J. and Thanbichler, M. (2010): DipM, a new factor required for peptidoglycan remodeling during cell division in Caulobacter crescentus. Mol. Microbiol. 77:90-107
Thanbichler, M. (2010): Synchronization of chromosome dynamics and cell division in bacteria. Cold Spring Harb. Perspect. Biol. 2:a000331.
Kühn, J., Briegel, A., Mörschel, E., Kahnt, J., Leser, K., Wick, S., Jensen, G. J. and Thanbichler, M. (2010): Bactofilins, a ubiquitous class of cytoskeletal proteins mediating polar localization of a cell wall synthase in Caulobacter. EMBO J. 29, 327-339.
Thanbichler, M. (2009): Spatial regulation in Caulobacter crescentus. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 12: 715-721.
Thanbichler, M. (2009): Closing the ring: A New Twist to Bacterial Chromosome Condensation. Cell 137: 598-600.
Möll, A. and Thanbichler, M. (2009): FtsN-like proteins are conserved components of the cell division machinery in proteobacteria. Mol. Microbiol.72: 1037-1053.
Radhakrishnan, S. K., Thanbichler, M. and Viollier, P. H. (2008): The dynamic interplay between a cell fate determinant and a lysozyme homologue drives the asymmetric division cycle of Caulobacter crescentus. Genes Dev. 22: 212-225.
Thanbichler, M. and Shapiro, L. (2008): Getting organized – how bacterial cells move proteins and DNA. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 6:28-40.
Thanbichler, M., Iniesta, A. A. and Shapiro, L. (2007): A comprehensive set of plasmids for vanillate- and xylose-inducible gene expression in Caulobacter crescentus. Nucleic Acids Res. 35: e137.
Thanbichler, M., and Shapiro, L. (2006): Chromosome organization and segregation in bacteria. J. Struct. Biol. 156: 292-303.
Thanbichler, M., and Shapiro, L. (2006): MipZ, a spatial regulator coordinating chromosome segregation with cell division in Caulobacter. Cell 126: 147-162.
Thanbichler, M., Wang, S. C., and Shapiro, L. (2005): The bacterial nucleoid: a highly organized and dynamic structure. J. Cell. Biochem. 96:506-521.
Gitai, Z., Thanbichler, M., and Shapiro, L. (2005): The choreographed dynamics of bacterial chromosomes. Trends Microbiol. 13:221-228.
Leibundgut, M., Frick, C., Thanbichler, M., Böck, A., and Ban, N. (2005): Selenocysteine tRNA-specific elongation factor SelB is a structural chimera of elongation and initiation factors. EMBO J. 24: 11-22.
Thanbichler, M., Viollier, P. H., and Shapiro, L. (2005): The structure and function of the bacterial chromosome. Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. 15:153-162.
Viollier^*, P. H., Thanbichler^*, M., McGrath^*, P. T., West, L., Meewan, M., McAdams, H. H., and Shapiro, L. (2004): Rapid and sequential movement of individual chromosomal loci to specific subcellular locations during bacterial DNA replication. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101: 9257-9262. (^* = equal contributions)
Böck, A., and Thanbichler, M. (2004): Selenocysteine. In Böck, A., Curtiss III, R., Kaper, J. B., Neidhardt, F. C., Nyström, T., Rudd, K. E., and Squires, C. L. (eds.), Escherichia coli and Salmonella. Cellular and Molecular Biology (EcoSal), ASM Press, Washington, USA, online at: www.ecosal.org.
Thanbichler, M., and Böck, A. (2003): Purification and characterization of hexahistidine-tagged elongation factor SelB. Protein Expr. Purif. 31: 265-270.
Böck, A., Thanbichler, M., Rother, M., and Resch, A. (2002): Selenocysteine, In: Ibba, M., Cusack, C. S., and Francklyn, S. (eds.), Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. Landes Bioscience, Georgetown, USA.
Thanbichler, M., and Böck, A. (2002): The function of SECIS RNA in translational control of gene expression in Escherichia coli. EMBO J. 21:6925-6934.
Thanbichler, M., and Böck, A. (2002): Selenoprotein biosynthesis: purification and assay of the components involved in selenocysteine biosynthesis and insertion in Escherichia coli. Methods Enzymol. 347: 3-16.
Thanbichler, M., and Böck, A. (2001): Functional analysis of prokaryotic SELB proteins. Biofactors 14:53-59.
Thanbichler, M., Böck, A., and Goody, R. S. (2000): Kinetics of the interaction of translation factor SelB from Escherichia coli with guanosine nucleotides and selenocysteine insertion sequence RNA. J. Biol. Chem. 275: 20458-20466.
Neuhierl, B., Thanbichler, M., Lottspeich, F., and Böck, A. (1999): A family of S-methylmethionine-dependent thiol/selenol methyltransferases. Role in selenium tolerance and evolutionary relation. J. Biol. Chem. 274:5407-5414.
Thanbichler, M., Neuhierl, B., and Böck, A. (1999): S-methylmethionine metabolism in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 181:662-665.
Maier, T., Drapal, N., Thanbichler, M., and Böck, A. (1998): Strep-tag II affinity purification: an approach to study intermediates of metalloenzyme biosynthesis. Anal. Biochem. 259:68-73.