Sandra Maaß

The paper identifies HERC4 as a regulator of ROS-induced DNA damage during bacterial and viral-bacterial infections, showing its role in DNA repair and potential as a therapeutic target.

The paper shows that Kre and SpoVG regulate EPE toxin production in B. subtilis by interacting with the epeX transcript, linking competence and cannibalism.

RAPDOR uses Jensen-Shannon distance to analyze complex proteomics datasets, identifying RNA-binding proteins in cyanobacteria and showing its utility in stress-induced protein redistribution.

The paper identifies LpdA as the source of intrinsic autofluorescence in filamentous actinobacteria and shows its role in metabolic organization during growth.

The paper investigates Gracilibacteria activity in a high-CO2 aquifer using metaproteogenomics, suggesting they may function as microbial predators.

The paper expands the known proteome of Sinorhizobium meliloti by identifying 48 novel small proteins using Ribo-seq and proteogenomics.

The paper identifies a small RNA (s479) in H. volcanii that regulates zinc transport and interacts with CRISPR-Cas components, suggesting a link between CRISPR-Cas and sRNA function.