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Overview

Erich Lanka is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with particular emphasis on molecular biology and genetics as subfields.

The main topics covered in Lanka's work include:

  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology

Recent publications by Lanka feature research on primase enzymes and their molecular mechanisms. Selected recent papers include:

  • "Helix Bundle Domain of Primase RepB' Is Required for Dinucleotide Formation and Extension" (2021), published in ACS Omega
  • "The helix bundle domain of primase RepB' is required for dinucleotide formation and extension" (2020), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Lanka frequently collaborates with a consistent group of coauthors across multiple publications. These frequent coauthors are:

  • Sofia Banchenko
  • Christoph Weise
  • Wolfram Saenger
  • Sebastian Geibel

Publication venues where Lanka's work has appeared include:

  • ACS Omega
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Molecular cloning of the plasmid RP4 primase region in a multi-host-range tacP expression vector.

    Jens P. Fürste;Werner Pansegrau;Ronald Frank;Helmut Blöcker

  • Complete nucleotide sequence of Birmingham IncP alpha plasmids. Compilation and comparative analysis.

    Werner Pansegrau;Erich Lanka;Peter T. Barth;David H. Figurski

  • DNA Processing Reactions in Bacterial Conjugation

    Erich Lanka;Brian M. Wilkins

  • Common mechanisms in bacterial conjugation and Ti-mediated T-DNA transfer to plant cells

    Monika Lessl;Erich Lanka

  • The mating pair formation system of conjugative plasmids—A versatile secretion machinery for transfer of proteins and DNA

    Gunnar Schröder;Erich Lanka

  • Crystal structure of the hexameric traffic ATPase of the Helicobacter pylori type IV secretion system.

    Hye-Jeong Yeo;Savvas N Savvides;Andrew B Herr;Erich Lanka

  • Complete sequence of the IncPβ plasmid R751: implications for evolution and organisation of the IncP backbone

    Peter B Thorsted;Donia P Macartney;Parveen Akhtar;Anthony S Haines

  • VirB11 ATPases are dynamic hexameric assemblies: new insights into bacterial type IV secretion.

    Savvas N. Savvides;Hye‐Jeong Yeo;Hye‐Jeong Yeo;Moriah R Beck;Franca Blaesing

  • Dissection of IncP conjugative plasmid transfer: definition of the transfer region Tra2 by mobilization of the Tra1 region in trans.

    M Lessl;D Balzer;R Lurz;V L Waters

  • Conjugative pili of IncP plasmids, and the Ti plasmid T pilus are composed of cyclic subunits.

    Ralf Eisenbrandt;Markus Kalkum;Erh-Min Lai;Rudi Lurz

  • Sequence similarities between the RP4 Tra2 and the Ti VirB region strongly support the conjugation model for T-DNA transfer.

    M Lessl;D Balzer;W Pansegrau;E Lanka

  • Site-specific cleavage and joining of single-stranded DNA by VirD2 protein of Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti plasmids: analogy to bacterial conjugation.

    Werner Pansegrau;Fabrice Schoumacher;Barbara Hohn;Erich Lanka

  • KorB protein of promiscuous plasmid RP4 recognizes inverted sequence repetitions in regions essential for conjugative plasmid transfer.

    Dietmar Balzer;Güunter Ziegelin;Werner Pansegrau;Volker Kruft

  • TraG-Like Proteins of DNA Transfer Systems and of the Helicobacter pylori Type IV Secretion System: Inner Membrane Gate for Exported Substrates?

    Gunnar Schröder;Sabine Krause;Ellen L. Zechner;Beth Traxler

  • In vitro assembly of relaxosomes at the transfer origin of plasmid RP4.

    Werner Pansegrau;Dietmar Balzer;Volker Kruft;Rudi Lurz

  • Enzymology of DNA Transfer by Conjugative Mechanisms

    Werner Pansegrau;Erich Lanka

  • Bacterial conjugation mediated by plasmid RP4: RSF1010 mobilization, donor-specific phage propagation, and pilus production require the same Tra2 core components of a proposed DNA transport complex.

    J Haase;R Lurz;A. M. Grahn;Dennis Bamford

  • The mating pair formation system of plasmid RP4 defined by RSF1010 mobilization and donor-specific phage propagation.

    M Lessl;D Balzer;K Weyrauch;E Lanka

  • TraG from RP4 and TraG and VirD4 from Ti Plasmids Confer Relaxosome Specificity to the Conjugal Transfer System of pTiC58

    Claire M. Hamilton;Hyewon Lee;Pei-Li Li;David M. Cook

  • Relaxase (TraI) of IncP alpha plasmid RP4 catalyzes a site-specific cleaving-joining reaction of single-stranded DNA.

    Werner Pansegrau;Werner Schroder;Erich Lanka

Frequent Co-Authors

Rudi Lurz
Rudi Lurz Max Planck Society
Gabriel Waksman
Gabriel Waksman University College London
Jens A. Hammerl
Jens A. Hammerl Federal Institute for Risk Assessment
Christopher M. Thomas
Christopher M. Thomas University of Birmingham
Olaf Pongs
Olaf Pongs Universität Hamburg
Wolfram Saenger
Wolfram Saenger Freie Universität Berlin
Udo Heinemann
Udo Heinemann Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
José María Carazo
José María Carazo Spanish National Research Council
Fernando de la Cruz
Fernando de la Cruz University of Cantabria
Alfred Pühler
Alfred Pühler Bielefeld University

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