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Michael A. Kertesz

Michael A. Kertesz

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
45
Citations
7408
World Ranking
19125
National Ranking
568

Overview

Michael A. Kertesz is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and works primarily in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research encompasses multiple subfields, including Plant Science, Pharmacology, Soil Science, Molecular Biology, and Ecology.

The scientist's research topics focus on:

  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Fungal Biology and Applications
  • Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques
  • Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Frequent coauthors associated with Michael A. Kertesz include Meghann Thai, Tina L. Bell, Sui Nin Nicholas Yang, Nicholas V. Coleman, and Emmanuel Frossard.

The scientist has published in a range of venues, with repeated contributions to Environmental Microbiology, Journal of Fungi, Journal of Applied Microbiology, ISME Communications, and Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.

Notable recent publications include:

  • "The Effects of Nitrogen and Phosphorus on Colony Growth and Zoospore Characteristics of Soil Chytridiomycota," 2022, Journal of Fungi
  • "Bacterial interactions with the mycelium of the cultivated edible mushrooms Agaricus bisporus and Pleurotus ostreatus," 2022, Journal of Applied Microbiology
  • "Dynamics of microbial community and enzyme activities during preparation of Agaricus bisporus compost substrate," 2022, ISME Communications
  • "Nitrogen balance and supply in Australasian mushroom composts," 2024, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • "A novel soluble di-iron monooxygenase from the soil bacterium Solimonas soli," 2024, Environmental Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Riding the sulfur cycle - metabolism of sulfonates and sulfate esters in Gram-negative bacteria

    Michael A. Kertesz

  • phoD Alkaline Phosphatase Gene Diversity in Soil.

    Sabine A. Ragot;Michael A. Kertesz;Else K. Bünemann

  • Characterization of α-Ketoglutarate-dependent Taurine Dioxygenase from Escherichia coli

    Eric Eichhorn;Jan R. van der Ploeg;Michael A. Kertesz;Thomas Leisinger

  • The role of soil microbes in plant sulphur nutrition

    Michael A. Kertesz;Pascal Mirleau

  • Identification of sulfate starvation-regulated genes in Escherichia coli: a gene cluster involved in the utilization of taurine as a sulfur source.

    J R van der Ploeg;M A Weiss;E Saller;H Nashimoto

  • Soil phoD and phoX alkaline phosphatase gene diversity responds to multiple environmental factors.

    Sabine A. Ragot;Michael A. Kertesz;Éva Mészáros;Emmanuel Frossard

  • 1.3 Å structure of arylsulfatase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa establishes the catalytic mechanism of sulfate ester cleavage in the sulfatase family

    Imke Boltes;Honorata Czapinska;Antje Kahnert;Rixa von Bülow

  • Purification and characterization of the arylsulfatase synthesized by Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO during growth in sulfate-free medium and cloning of the arylsulfatase gene (atsA).

    Stefan Beil;Hans Kehrli;Peter James;Werner Staudenmann

  • Effect of Sphingobium yanoikuyae B1 inoculation on bacterial community dynamics and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degradation in aged and freshly PAH-contaminated soils

    Michael Cunliffe;Michael A. Kertesz

  • Posttranslational Formation of Formylglycine in Prokaryotic Sulfatases by Modification of Either Cysteine or Serine

    Thomas Dierks;Claudia Miech;Jörg Hummerjohann;Bernhard Schmidt

  • Microbial metabolism of sulfur- and phosphorus-containing xenobiotics

    Michael A. Kertesz;Alasdair M. Cook;Thomas Leisinger

  • Bacterial transporters for sulfate and organosulfur compounds.

    Michael A Kertesz

  • Characterization of a sulfur-regulated oxygenative alkylsulfatase from Pseudomonas putida S-313.

    Antje Kahnert;Michael A. Kertesz;Michael A. Kertesz

  • Pathways of assimilative sulfur metabolism in Pseudomonas putida.

    Paul Vermeij;Michael A. Kertesz

  • Proteins induced by sulfate limitation in Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas putida, or Staphylococcus aureus.

    Michael A. Kertesz;Thomas Leisinger;Alasdair M. Cook

  • Analysis of global responses by protein and peptide fingerprinting of proteins isolated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Application to the sulfate-starvation response of Escherichia coli.

    Manfredo Quadroni;Werner Staudenmann;Michael Kertesz;Peter James

  • Compost bacteria and fungi that influence growth and development of Agaricus bisporus and other commercial mushrooms.

    Michael A Kertesz;Meghann Thai

  • Regulation of the sulfate starvation response in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: role of cysteine biosynthetic intermediates

    Jörg Hummerjohann;Erika Küttel;Manfredo Quadroni;Jürgen Ragaller

  • The ssu locus plays a key role in organosulfur metabolism in Pseudomonas putida S-313.

    Antje Kahnert;Paul Vermeij;Claudia Wietek;Peter James

  • Genotype‐by‐Genotype Interactions Modified by a Third Species in a Plant‐Insect System

    Catherine Tétard‐Jones;Michael A. Kertesz;Patrick Gallois;Richard F. Preziosi

Frequent Co-Authors

Else K. Bünemann
Else K. Bünemann Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
Feike A. Dijkstra
Feike A. Dijkstra University of Sydney
Alasdair M. Cook
Alasdair M. Cook University of Konstanz
Peter James
Peter James Lund University
Richard F. Preziosi
Richard F. Preziosi Plymouth University
Jan Jansa
Jan Jansa Czech Academy of Sciences
Astrid Oberson
Astrid Oberson ETH Zurich
Bernhard Schmidt
Bernhard Schmidt University of Göttingen

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