Caroline Graf

This study identifies a chaperone-guided donor-strand exchange pathway in Enterococcus faecalis that assembles a Gram-positive pilus, revealing a hybrid system combining chaperone-usher and sortase-dependent mechanisms.

This study shows that pks+ E. coli's ability to worsen colorectal cancer depends on adhesins that allow it to bind to host cells and produce the genotoxin colibactin.