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120
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49561
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146
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71

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Olaf Schneewind was affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with particular contributions in the subfields of Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Genetics.

Their work centered on multiple main topics including Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus, Biochemical and Structural Characterization, Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Immune Response and Inflammation, Toxin Mechanisms and Immunotoxins, and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

Schneewind's recent publications included:

  • Engineered human antibodies for the opsonization and killing of Staphylococcus aureus, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Glycosylation-dependent opsonophagocytic activity of staphylococcal protein A antibodies, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • FmhA and FmhC of Staphylococcus aureus incorporate serine residues into peptidoglycan cross-bridges, 2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • The Expression of von Willebrand Factor-Binding Protein Determines Joint-Invading Capacity of Staphylococcus aureus, a Core Mechanism of Septic Arthritis, 2020, mBio
  • A protein A based Staphylococcus aureus vaccine with improved safety, 2021, Vaccine

Frequent co-authors in their research included Dominique Missiakas, Xinhai Chen, Miaomiao Shi, Hwan Keun Kim, and Muhammad S. Azam.

They published regularly in scientific journals such as mBio, Journal of Bacteriology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

During their career, Olaf Schneewind received recognition including becoming a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2006 and was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Surface Proteins of Gram-Positive Bacteria and Mechanisms of Their Targeting to the Cell Wall Envelope

    William Wiley Navarre;Olaf Schneewind

  • Exogenous and endogenous glycolipid antigens activate NKT cells during microbial infections

    Jochen Mattner;Kristin L. DeBord;Nahed Ismail;Randal D. Goff

  • Staphylococcus aureus Sortase, an Enzyme that Anchors Surface Proteins to the Cell Wall

    Sarkis K. Mazmanian;Gwen Liu;Hung Ton-That;Olaf Schneewind

  • Sortases and the Art of Anchoring Proteins to the Envelopes of Gram-Positive Bacteria

    Luciano A. Marraffini;Andrea C. DeDent;Olaf Schneewind

  • Allelic replacement in Staphylococcus aureus with inducible counter-selection.

    Taeok Bae;Olaf Schneewind

  • Passage of Heme-Iron Across the Envelope of Staphylococcus aureus

    Sarkis K. Mazmanian;Eric P. Skaar;Andrew H. Gaspar;Munir Humayun

  • Purification and characterization of sortase, the transpeptidase that cleaves surface proteins of Staphylococcus aureus at the LPXTG motif

    Hung Ton-That;Gwen Liu;Sarkis K. Mazmanian;Kym F. Faull

  • Structure of the cell wall anchor of surface proteins in Staphylococcus aureus.

    Olaf Schneewind;Audree Fowler;Kym F. Faull

  • Sorting of protein a to the staphylococcal cell wall

    Olaf Schneewind;Peter Model;Vincent A. Fischetti

  • Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus aureus Strain Newman and Comparative Analysis of Staphylococcal Genomes: Polymorphism and Evolution of Two Major Pathogenicity Islands

    Tadashi Baba;Taeok Bae;Olaf Schneewind;Fumihiko Takeuchi

  • Vaccine protection against Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia

    Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg;Olaf Schneewind

  • Cell wall sorting signals in surface proteins of gram-positive bacteria.

    O Schneewind;D Mihaylova-Petkov;P Model

  • Staphylococcal manipulation of host immune responses.

    Vilasack Thammavongsa;Hwan Keun Kim;Dominique Missiakas;Olaf Schneewind

  • Poring over pores: alpha-hemolysin and Panton-Valentine leukocidin in Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia.

    Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg;Taeok Bae;Michael Otto;Frank R DeLeo

  • Staphylococcus aureus sortase mutants defective in the display of surface proteins and in the pathogenesis of animal infections.

    Sarkis K. Mazmanian;Gwen Liu;Eric R. Jensen;Eileen Lenoy

  • Iron-Source Preference of Staphylococcus aureus Infections

    Eric P. Skaar;Munir Humayun;Taeok Bae;Kristin L. DeBord

  • Genetic requirements for Staphylococcus aureus abscess formation and persistence in host tissues

    Alice G. Cheng;Hwan Keun Kim;Monica L. Burts;Thomas Krausz

  • Conservation of a hexapeptide sequence in the anchor region of surface proteins from gram-positive cocci.

    V.A Fischetti;V. Pancholi;O. Schneewind

  • An iron-regulated sortase anchors a class of surface protein during Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis

    Sarkis K. Mazmanian;Hung Ton-That;Kenneth Su;Olaf Schneewind

  • Anchoring of surface proteins to the cell wall of Staphylococcus aureus. Sortase catalyzed in vitro transpeptidation reaction using LPXTG peptide and NH(2)-Gly(3) substrates.

    Hung Ton-That;Sarkis K. Mazmanian;Kym F. Faull;Olaf Schneewind

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominique Missiakas
Dominique Missiakas University of Chicago
Hung Ton-That
Hung Ton-That University of California, Los Angeles
Sarkis K. Mazmanian
Sarkis K. Mazmanian California Institute of Technology
Kym F. Faull
Kym F. Faull University of California, Los Angeles
Vincent A. Fischetti
Vincent A. Fischetti Rockefeller University
Luciano A. Marraffini
Luciano A. Marraffini Rockefeller University
Gianni Pozzi
Gianni Pozzi University of Siena
Frank R. DeLeo
Frank R. DeLeo National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Eric P. Skaar
Eric P. Skaar Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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