Dennis Claessen

The paper uses FACS to analyze Escherichia coli L-forms and finds they maintain synchronized nucleic acid synthesis despite lacking a cell wall.

The paper identifies a family of over 2000 lanthipeptide biosynthetic gene clusters in Actinobacteria with anti-phage function, demonstrating their conservation and novel compound production.

This paper identifies essential structural domains of DivIVA in Actinomycetota by analyzing truncated variants and chimeric proteins, showing that polar growth depends on Actinomycetota-specific amino acid motifs.

This study shows that bacterial heterozygosity increases survival under multidrug selection by allowing flexible chromosome ratio adjustments, reducing fitness costs compared to homozygous cells.

This study shows that E. coli lacking a cell wall compensates by increasing extracellular matrix production, enhancing survival under stress.

This paper shows that CslA and GlxA from Streptomyces lividans form a functional cellulose synthase complex capable of synthesizing cellulose in vitro.

Rapidemic is a label-free DNAzyme-based platform for nucleic acid detection using RPA and LSDA, demonstrating visible color change without complex instrumentation.