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Overview

Manfred Rohde is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Germany. Their research spans interdisciplinary fields within the biological sciences, primarily focused on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with additional work in medicine and environmental science.

Their expertise covers several subfields including molecular biology, ecology, pharmacology, cell biology, and microbiology. The main topics of their work highlight areas such as genomics and phylogenetic studies, microbial community ecology and physiology, protist diversity and phylogeny, microbial natural products and biosynthesis, plant pathogens and fungal diseases, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, and streptococcal infections and treatments.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by this scientist include:

  • The planctomycete Stieleria maiorica Mal15T employs stieleriacines to alter the species composition in marine biofilms (2020, Communications Biology)
  • Symbiosis between nanohaloarchaeon and haloarchaeon is based on utilization of different polysaccharides (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • A single-nucleotide polymorphism in Helicobacter pylori promotes gastric cancer development (2023, Cell Host & Microbe)
  • Discovery of Paenibacillus larvae ERIC V: Phenotypic and genomic comparison to genotypes ERIC I-IV reveal different inventories of virulence factors which correlate with epidemiological prevalences of American Foulbrood (2020, International Journal of Medical Microbiology)
  • Unsaturated Fatty Acids Control Biofilm Formation of Staphylococcus aureus and Other Gram-Positive Bacteria (2020, Antibiotics)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most common coauthors include Christian Boedeker, Nicolai Kallscheuer, Mareike Jogler, Christian Jogler, and Sandra Wiegand.

Publications by Manfred Rohde are regularly featured in several scientific journals, with the highest number of contributions appearing in Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, followed by Frontiers in Microbiology, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Communications Biology.

Best Publications

  • Pretreatment of Mice with Streptomycin Provides a Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Colitis Model That Allows Analysis of Both Pathogen and Host

    Manja Barthel;Siegfried Hapfelmeier;Siegfried Hapfelmeier;Leticia Quintanilla-Martínez;Marcus Kremer

  • The multicellular morphotypes of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli produce cellulose as the second component of the extracellular matrix.

    Xhavit Zogaj;Manfred Nimtz;Manfred Rohde;Werner Bokranz

  • Muricauda ruestringensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic, appendaged bacterium from German North Sea intertidal sediment.

    Alke Bruns;Manfred Rohde;Luise Berthe-Corti

  • Helicobacter exploits integrin for type IV secretion and kinase activation

    Terry Kwok;Dana Zabler;Sylwia Urman;Manfred Rohde

  • Phagocytosis-independent antimicrobial activity of mast cells by means of extracellular trap formation.

    Maren von Köckritz-Blickwede;Oliver Goldmann;Pontus Thulin;Katja Heinemann

  • Complete genome sequence of DSM 30083(T), the type strain (U5/41(T)) of Escherichia coli, and a proposal for delineating subspecies in microbial taxonomy.

    Jan P. Meier-Kolthoff;Richard L. Hahnke;Jörn Petersen;Carmen Scheuner

  • A novel bacterial virulence gene in Listeria monocytogenes required for host cell microfilament interaction with homology to the proline-rich region of vinculin.

    E Domann;J Wehland;M Rohde;S Pistor

  • Illustration of Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Capsule during Adherence and Invasion of Epithelial Cells

    Sven Hammerschmidt;Sonja Wolff;Andreas Hocke;Simone Rosseau

  • alpha-Enolase of Streptococcus pneumoniae is a plasmin(ogen)-binding protein displayed on the bacterial cell surface.

    Simone Bergmann;Manfred Rohde;Gursharan S. Chhatwal;Sven Hammerschmidt

  • AgfD, the checkpoint of multicellular and aggregative behaviour in Salmonella typhimurium regulates at least two independent pathways.

    Ute Römling;Manfred Rohde;Arne Olsén;Staffan Normark

  • Clostridium difficile toxin CDT induces formation of microtubule-based protrusions and increases adherence of bacteria.

    Carsten Schwan;Bärbel Stecher;Tina Tzivelekidis;Marco van Ham

  • The fibronectin-binding protein of Streptococcus pyogenes, SfbI, is involved in the internalization of group A streptococci by epithelial cells.

    G Molinari;S R Talay;P Valentin-Weigand;M Rohde

  • Identification of SopE2 from Salmonella typhimurium, a conserved guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Cdc42 of the host cell.

    Silke Stender;Andrea Friebel;Stefan Linder;Manfred Rohde

  • Bacillus megaterium—from simple soil bacterium to industrial protein production host

    Patricia S. Vary;Rebekka Biedendieck;Tobias Fuerch;Friedhelm Meinhardt

  • A novel sheathed surface organelle of the Helicobacter pylori cag type IV secretion system.

    Manfred Rohde;Jürgen Püls;Renate Buhrdorf;Wolfgang Fischer

  • Small-Colony Variants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Cystic Fibrosis

    S Häussler;B Tümmler;H Weissbrodt;M Rohde

  • Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase of Streptococcus pneumoniae is a surface-displayed plasminogen-binding protein.

    Simone Bergmann;Manfred Rohde;Sven Hammerschmidt

  • A Methanogenic Archaeon from Ace Lake, Antarctica: Methanococcoides burtonii sp. nov.

    P.D. Franzmann;P.D. Franzmann;N. Springer;W. Ludwig;E. Conway De Macario

  • Highly adherent small-colony variants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis lung infection.

    Susanne Häußler;Isabell Ziegler;Alexandra Löttel;Franz v. Götz

  • Azithromycin Synergizes with Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides to Exert Bactericidal and Therapeutic Activity Against Highly Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacterial Pathogens

    Leo Lin;Poochit Nonejuie;Jason Munguia;Andrew Hollands

  • The pavA gene of Streptococcus pneumoniae encodes a fibronectin‐binding protein that is essential for virulence

    Ann R. Holmes;Roderick McNab;Kevin W. Millsap;Manfred Rohde

Frequent Co-Authors

Lynne Goodwin
Lynne Goodwin Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jonathan A. Eisen
Jonathan A. Eisen University of California, Davis
Miriam Land
Miriam Land Oak Ridge National Laboratory
John C. Detter
John C. Detter Los Alamos National Laboratory
Cliff Han
Cliff Han Los Alamos National Laboratory
Loren Hauser
Loren Hauser Digital Infuzion (United States)
Philip Hugenholtz
Philip Hugenholtz University of Queensland
Hans-Peter Klenk
Hans-Peter Klenk Newcastle University
Markus Göker
Markus Göker Leibniz Association
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Nikos C. Kyrpides Joint Genome Institute

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