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Leendert W. Hamoen is a researcher affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their work spans several areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental science. The focus of their research includes molecular biology, genetics, ecology, materials chemistry, and biophysics.

Their scientific contributions cover a range of topics, notably bacterial genetics and biotechnology, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, enzyme structure and function, genomics and phylogenetic studies, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, as well as bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing.

Leendert W. Hamoen has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • A flat embedding method for transmission electron microscopy reveals an unknown mechanism of tetracycline (2021, Communications Biology)
  • A chromosomal loop anchor mediates bacterial genome organization (2022, Nature Genetics)
  • The Bacillus subtilis Minimal Genome Compendium (2021, ACS Synthetic Biology)
  • Control of septum thickness by the curvature of SepF polymers (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Membrane depolarization kills dormant Bacillus subtilis cells by generating a lethal dose of ROS (2024, Nature Communications)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Biwen Wang, with 14 joint publications
  • Michaela Wenzel, with 6 joint publications
  • Frans van der Kloet, with 6 joint publications
  • Gaurav Dugar, with 5 joint publications
  • Mariah B.M.J. Kes, with 5 joint publications

Leendert W. Hamoen's research appears regularly in several publication venues, with repeated contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Microbial Cell Factories, Microbiology Spectrum, Molecular Microbiology, and Nature Communications.

Best Publications

  • Membrane potential is important for bacterial cell division

    Henrik Strahl;Leendert W. Hamoen

  • Bet-hedging and epigenetic inheritance in bacterial cell development

    Jan Willem Veening;Eric J. Stewart;Eric J. Stewart;Thomas W. Berngruber;François Taddei;François Taddei

  • Controlling competence in Bacillus subtilis: shared use of regulators

    Leendert W. Hamoen;Gerard Venema;Oscar P. Kuipers

  • Daptomycin inhibits cell envelope synthesis by interfering with fluid membrane microdomains

    Anna Müller;Michaela Wenzel;Henrik Strahl;Fabian Grein

  • Localisation of DivIVA by targeting to negatively curved membranes

    Rok Lenarcic;Sven Halbedel;Loek Visser;Michael W. Shaw

  • The mycosubtilin synthetase of Bacillus subtilis ATCC6633: a multifunctional hybrid between a peptide synthetase, an amino transferase, and a fatty acid synthase.

    Erwin H. Duitman;Leendert W. Hamoen;Martina Rembold;Gerard Venema

  • Biochemical characterization of a molecular switch involving the heat shock protein ClpC, which controls the activity of ComK, the competence transcription factor of Bacillus subtilis.

    Kürşad Turgay;Leendert W. Hamoen;Gerard Venema;David Dubnau

  • comK encodes the competence transcription factor, the key regulatory protein for competence development in Bacillus subtilis

    Douwe van Sinderen;Amy Luttinger;Liyun Kong;David Dubnau

  • Control of the cell elongation-division cycle by shuttling of PBP1 protein in Bacillus subtilis.

    Dennis Claessen;Robyn Emmins;Leendert W. Hamoen;Richard A. Daniel

  • Analysis of Antimicrobial-Triggered Membrane Depolarization Using Voltage Sensitive Dyes.

    J. Derk te Winkel;Declan A. Gray;Kenneth H. Seistrup;Leendert W. Hamoen

  • Stripping Bacillus: ComK auto-stimulation is responsible for the bistable response in competence development

    Wiep Klaas Smits;Caroline C. Eschevins;Kim A. Susanna;Sierd Bron

  • Transient heterogeneity in extracellular protease production by Bacillus subtilis

    Jan-Willem Veening;Jan-Willem Veening;Oleg A Igoshin;Robyn T Eijlander;Reindert Nijland

  • The actin homologue MreB organizes the bacterial cell membrane

    Henrik Strahl;Frank Bürmann;Leendert W. Hamoen

  • Two-step assembly dynamics of the Bacillus subtilis divisome.

    Pamela Gamba;Jan Willem Veening;Nigel J. Saunders;Leendert W. Hamoen

  • Phosphatases modulate the bistable sporulation gene expression pattern in Bacillus subtilis.

    Jan-Willem Veening;Leendert W. Hamoen;Oscar P. Kuipers

  • Antibiotic acyldepsipeptides activate ClpP peptidase to degrade the cell division protein FtsZ.

    Peter Sass;Michaele Josten;Kirsten Famulla;Guido Schiffer

  • SepF, a novel FtsZ-interacting protein required for a late step in cell division.

    Leendert W. Hamoen;Jean Christophe Meile;Jean Christophe Meile;Wouter De Jong;Philippe Noirot

  • A small gene, designated comS, located within the coding region of the fourth amino acid-activation domain of srfA, is required for competence development in Bacillus subtilis

    Leendert W. Hamoen;Hans Eshuis;Jan Jongbloed;Gerard Venema

  • Extreme slow growth as alternative strategy to survive deep starvation in bacteria

    Declan A. Gray;Gaurav Dugar;Pamela Gamba;Henrik Strahl

  • Improving the predictive value of the competence transcription factor (ComK) binding site in Bacillus subtilis using a genomic approach

    Leendert W. Hamoen;Wiep Klaas Smits;Anne de Jong;Siger Holsappel

Frequent Co-Authors

Oscar P. Kuipers
Oscar P. Kuipers University of Groningen
Jan-Willem Veening
Jan-Willem Veening University of Lausanne
Jeff Errington
Jeff Errington University of Sydney
David Dubnau
David Dubnau Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Wilbert Bitter
Wilbert Bitter Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Douwe van Sinderen
Douwe van Sinderen University College Cork
Sierd Bron
Sierd Bron University of Groningen
Gerhardus Venema
Gerhardus Venema University of Groningen
Jan Löwe
Jan Löwe MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Hans-Georg Sahl
Hans-Georg Sahl University of Bonn

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