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3518
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Overview

Otto Kandler was affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their academic career was connected primarily to this institution, where they contributed to scientific research and scholarship.

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Best Publications

  • Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya.

    Carl R. Woese;Otto Kandler;Mark L. Wheelis

  • Peptidoglycan types of bacterial cell walls and their taxonomic implications.

    K H Schleifer;O Kandler

  • Carbohydrate metabolism in lactic acid bacteria.

    Otto Kandler

  • Mode of Action of Glycine on the Biosynthesis of Peptidoglycan

    W. Hammes;K. H. Schleifer;O. Kandler

  • Chemical composition of the peptidoglycan-free cell walls of methanogenic bacteria

    Otto Kandler;Helmut König

  • Cell wall polymers in Archaea (Archaebacteria).

    O. Kandler;H. König

  • Zur chemischen Zusammensetzung der Zellwand der Streptokokken

    Karl-Heinz Schleifer;Otto Kandler

  • Streptococcus garvieae sp. nov. and Streptococcus plantarum sp. nov.

    M. D. Collins;J. A. E. Farrow;B. A. Phillips;O. Kandler

  • Lack of peptidoglycan in the cell walls of Methanosarcina barkeri

    Otto Kandler;Hans Hippe

  • The sensitivity of archaebacteria to antibiotics

    R. Hilpert;J. Winter;W. Hammes;O. Kandler

  • Chemotaxonomic and Molecular-Genetic Studies of the Genus Thermus: Evidence for a Phylogenetic Relationship of Thermus aquaticus and Thermus ruber to the Genus Deinococcus

    Reinhard Hensel;Wilhelm Demharter;Otto Kandler;Reiner M. Kroppenstedt

  • CHAPTER 9 – Cell Envelopes of Archaebacteria

    Otto Kandler;Helmut König

  • On the nature of global classification

    Mark L. Wheelis;Otto Kandler;Carl R. Woese

  • Taxonomy of the Genus Cellulomonas, Based on Phenotypic Characters and Deoxyribonucleic Acid-Deoxyribonucleic Acid Homology, and Proposal of Seven Neotype Strains

    Erko Stackebrandt;Otto Kandler

  • Heterogeneity of the species Lactobacillus acidophilus (Moro) Hansen and Moquot as revealed by biochemical characteristics and DNA-DNA hybridisation.

    Eckhard Lauer;Christine Helming;Otto Kandler

  • Lactobacillus reuteri sp. nov., a New Species of Heterofermentative Lactobacilli

    Otto Kandler;Karl-Otto Stetter;Ruth Köhl

  • Lactobacillus lactis, Lactobacillus leichmannii and Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Subjective Synonyms of Lactobacillus delbrueckii, and Description of Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis comb. nov. and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus comb. nov.

    Norbert Weiss;Ulrich Schillinger;Otto Kandler

  • Zellwandstrukturen bei Methan-Bakterien

    O. Kandler

  • Lactobacillus kefir sp.nov., a component of the microflora of Kefir.

    Otto Kandler;Petra Kunath

  • Comparative studies of lactic acid dehydrogenases in lactic acid bacteria. I. Purification and kinetics of the allosteric L-lactic acid dehydrogenase from Lactobacillus casei ssp. casei and Lactobacillus curvatus.

    R. Hensel;U. Mayr;K. O. Stetter;O. Kandler

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl-Heinz Schleifer
Karl-Heinz Schleifer Technical University of Munich
Erwin Beck
Erwin Beck University of Bayreuth
Helmut König
Helmut König Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Ulrich Schillinger
Ulrich Schillinger Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jean-Marie Ghuysen
Jean-Marie Ghuysen University of Liège
Karl O. Stetter
Karl O. Stetter University of Regensburg
Erko Stackebrandt
Erko Stackebrandt Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures
Walter P. Hammes
Walter P. Hammes University of Hohenheim
Carl R. Woese
Carl R. Woese University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Matthew D. Collins
Matthew D. Collins University of Reading

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