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Overview

Peter Sander is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on infectious diseases and epidemiology.

Their recent publications include studies on tuberculosis, bacterial resistance, and microbial natural products. Notable papers include:

  • Mortality from drug-resistant tuberculosis in high-burden countries comparing routine drug susceptibility testing with whole-genome sequencing: a multicentre cohort study, 2021, The Lancet Microbe
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis Phosphoribosyltransferase Promotes Bacterial Survival in Macrophages by Inducing Histone Hypermethylation in Autophagy-Related Genes, 2021, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • Aquimarins, Peptide Antibiotics with Amino-Modified C-Termini from a Sponge-Derived Aquimarina sp. Bacterium, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Natural Polymorphisms in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Conferring Resistance to Delamanid in Drug-Naive Patients, 2020, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  • Semisynthetic Analogs of the Antibiotic Fidaxomicin-Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation, 2020, ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters

The scientist frequently collaborates with several colleagues, including:

  • Daniel Schäfle (11 co-authored works)
  • Bettina Schulthess (9 co-authored works)
  • Karl Gademann (9 co-authored works)
  • Erik C. Böttger (8 co-authored works)
  • Tizian Griesser (7 co-authored works)

Peter Sander has a consistent publication record in key scientific journals and venues such as:

  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (7 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4 publications)
  • Journal of Hospital Infection (3 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2 publications)
  • ChemBioChem (2 publications)

Their research fields predominantly cover:

  • Medicine (58 publications)
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (20 publications)

Within these disciplines, subfields of study include:

  • Epidemiology (20 publications)
  • Infectious Diseases (19 publications)
  • Pharmacology (15 publications)
  • Molecular Biology (14 publications)
  • Surgery (4 publications)

The main research topics engaged by Peter Sander center on:

  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (32 publications)
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (32 publications)
  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (20 publications)
  • Cancer therapeutics and mechanisms (12 publications)
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (8 publications)
  • Biochemical and Molecular Research (6 publications)
  • Quinazolinone synthesis and applications (6 publications)

Best Publications

  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis Prevents Inflammasome Activation

    Sharon S. Master;Silvana K. Rampini;Alexander S. Davis;Christine Keller

  • Genetic basis for clarithromycin resistance among isolates of Mycobacterium chelonae and Mycobacterium abscessus

    Richard J. Wallace;Albrecht Meier;Barbara A. Brown;Yansheng Zhang

  • Parallel T-cell cloning and deep sequencing of human MAIT cells reveal stable oligoclonal TCRβ repertoire

    Marco Lepore;Artem Kalinicenko;Alessia Colone;Bhairav Paleja

  • A Single 16S Ribosomal RNA Substitution Is Responsible for Resistance to Amikacin and Other 2-Deoxystreptamine Aminoglycosides in Mycobacterium abscessus and Mycobacterium chelonae

    Therdsak Prammananan;Peter Sander;Barbara A. Brown;Klaus Frischkorn

  • Fitness Cost of Chromosomal Drug Resistance-Conferring Mutations

    Peter Sander;Burkhard Springer;Therdsak Prammananan;Antje Sturmfels

  • Degradation of 1,2,4-trichloro- and 1,2,4,5-tetrachlorobenzene by pseudomonas strains.

    Peter Sander;Rolf-Michael Wittich;Peter Fortnagel;Heinz Wilkes

  • Mechanisms of Streptomycin Resistance: Selection of Mutations in the 16S rRNA Gene Conferring Resistance

    Burkhard Springer;Yishak G. Kidan;Therdsak Prammananan;Kerstin Ellrott

  • The Role of Antibiotic-Target-Modifying and Antibiotic-Modifying Enzymes in Mycobacterium abscessus Drug Resistance.

    Sakshi Luthra;Anna Rominski;Peter Sander

  • rpsL+: a dominant selectable marker for gene replacement in mycobacteria

    Peter Sander;Albrecht Meier;Erik C. Böttger

  • The majority of inducible DNA repair genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis are induced independently of RecA

    Lucinda Rand;Jason Hinds;Burkhard Springer;Peter Sander

  • A synthetic mammalian gene circuit reveals antituberculosis compounds

    Wilfried Weber;Ronald Schoenmakers;Bettina Keller;Marc Gitzinger

  • Fitness of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms and compensatory mutations

    Erik C. Böttger;Burkhard Springer;Michel Pletschette;Peter Sander

  • Lipoprotein processing is required for virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    P. Sander;M. Rezwan;B. Walker;S. K. Rampini

  • Structural basis for selectivity and toxicity of ribosomal antibiotics

    Erik C Böttger;Erik C Böttger;Burkhard Springer;Therdsak Prammananan;Yishak Kidan

  • Correlation of molecular resistance mechanisms and phenotypic resistance levels in streptomycin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

    A Meier;P Sander;K J Schaper;M Scholz

  • Oxidative stress response genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: role of ahpC in resistance to peroxynitrite and stage-specific survival in macrophages.

    S. S. Master;B. Springer;P. Sander;E. C. Boettger

  • Molecular mechanisms of clarithromycin resistance in Mycobacterium avium: observation of multiple 23S rDNA mutations in a clonal population.

    Albrecht Meier;Leonid Heifets;Richard J. Wallace;Yansheng Zhang

  • The functions of OmpATb, a pore‐forming protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Catherine Raynaud;K. G. Papavinasasundaram;Richard A. Speight;Burkhard Springer

  • Lipoprotein synthesis in mycobacteria

    Mandana Rezwan;Thomas Grau;Andreas Tschumi;Peter Sander

  • Corrigendum: Parallel T-cell cloning and deep sequencing of human MAIT cells reveal stable oligoclonal TCRβ repertoire

    Marco Lepore;Artem Kalinichenko;Alessia Colone;Bhairav Paleja

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik C. Böttger
Erik C. Böttger University of Zurich
Sonia Borrell
Sonia Borrell Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Sebastien Gagneux
Sebastien Gagneux University of Basel
Matthias Egger
Matthias Egger University of Bern
Robert J. Wilkinson
Robert J. Wilkinson The Francis Crick Institute
Stefan Ehlers
Stefan Ehlers Kiel University
Vojo Deretic
Vojo Deretic University of New Mexico
Richard J. Wallace
Richard J. Wallace The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler
Lucia Mori
Lucia Mori University of Basel
Joachim E. Schultz
Joachim E. Schultz University of Tübingen

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