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Waldemar Vollmer is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly focuses on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a body of work comprising 186 publications in this broad area.

The main subfields of study in their research include Molecular Biology, Genetics, Endocrinology, Molecular Medicine, and Ecology. These subfields reflect a diverse interest in cellular and molecular mechanisms as well as interactions within biological systems.

The scientist's work covers several specific topics, featuring prominently in areas such as:

  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Escherichia coli research studies
  • Vibrio bacteria research studies
  • Enzyme Structure and Function

Vollmer's publication record includes research articles in frequent venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • mBio
  • eLife
  • PLoS Genetics
  • Molecular Microbiology

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Waldemar Vollmer are:

  • "Regulation of peptidoglycan synthesis and remodelling," 2020, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • "Outer membrane lipoprotein NlpI scaffolds peptidoglycan hydrolases within multi-enzyme complexes in Escherichia coli," 2020, The EMBO Journal
  • "Peptidoglycan maturation controls outer membrane protein assembly," 2022, Nature
  • "Staphylococcus aureus cell wall structure and dynamics during host-pathogen interaction," 2021, PLoS Pathogens
  • "Slippery Liquid-Like Solid Surfaces with Promising Antibiofilm Performance under Both Static and Flow Conditions," 2022, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Frequent collaborators appear to include:

  • Jacob Biboy
  • Joe Gray
  • Víctor M. Hernández-Rocamora
  • Manuel Banzhaf
  • Manuel Pazos

Best Publications

  • Peptidoglycan structure and architecture

    Waldemar Vollmer;Didier Blanot;Miguel A. De Pedro

  • From the regulation of peptidoglycan synthesis to bacterial growth and morphology

    Athanasios Typas;Manuel Banzhaf;Carol A. Gross;Waldemar Vollmer

  • Bacterial peptidoglycan (murein) hydrolases.

    Waldemar Vollmer;Bernard Joris;Paulette Charlier;Simon Foster

  • Type VI secretion delivers bacteriolytic effectors to target cells

    Alistair B. Russell;Rachel D. Hood;Nhat Khai Bui;Michele LeRoux

  • Why are pathogenic staphylococci so lysozyme resistant? The peptidoglycan O-acetyltransferase OatA is the major determinant for lysozyme resistance of Staphylococcus aureus.

    Agnieszka Bera;Silvia Herbert;Andreas Jakob;Waldemar Vollmer

  • Regulation of peptidoglycan synthesis and remodelling.

    Alexander J F Egan;Jeff Errington;Waldemar Vollmer

  • Murein (peptidoglycan) structure, architecture and biosynthesis in Escherichia coli.

    Waldemar Vollmer;Ute Bertsche

  • Structural variation in the glycan strands of bacterial peptidoglycan.

    Waldemar Vollmer

  • Regulation of Peptidoglycan Synthesis by Outer-Membrane Proteins

    Athanasios Typas;Manuel Banzhaf;Bart van den Berg van Saparoea;Jolanda Verheul

  • Architecture of peptidoglycan: more data and more models.

    Waldemar Vollmer;Stephen J. Seligman

  • The physiology of bacterial cell division

    Alexander J. F. Egan;Waldemar Vollmer

  • The pgdA Gene Encodes for a PeptidoglycanN-Acetylglucosamine Deacetylase in Streptococcus pneumoniae

    Waldemar Vollmer;Alexander Tomasz

  • The Architecture of the Murein (Peptidoglycan) in Gram-Negative Bacteria: Vertical Scaffold or Horizontal Layer(s)?

    Waldemar Vollmer;Joachim-Volker Höltje

  • A Functional dlt Operon, Encoding Proteins Required for Incorporation of d-Alanine in Teichoic Acids in Gram-Positive Bacteria, Confers Resistance to Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides in Streptococcus pneumoniae

    Márta Kovács;Alexander Halfmann;Iris Fedtke;Manuel Heintz

  • A Widespread Bacterial Type VI Secretion Effector Superfamily Identified Using a Heuristic Approach

    Alistair B. Russell;Pragya Singh;Mitchell Brittnacher;Nhat Khai Bui

  • Peptidoglycan Crosslinking Relaxation Promotes Helicobacter pylori's Helical Shape and Stomach Colonization

    Laura K. Sycuro;Zachary Pincus;Kimberley D. Gutierrez;Jacob Biboy

  • A widespread family of bacterial cell wall assembly proteins.

    Yoshikazu Kawai;Jon Marles-Wright;Robert M Cleverley;Robyn Emmins

  • The tubulin homologue FtsZ contributes to cell elongation by guiding cell wall precursor synthesis in Caulobacter crescentus

    Michelle Aaron;Godefroid Charbon;Hubert Lam;Heinz Schwarz

  • Demonstration of molecular interactions between the murein polymerase PBP1B, the lytic transglycosylase MltA, and the scaffolding protein MipA of Escherichia coli.

    Waldemar Vollmer;Moritz von Rechenberg;Joachim-Volker Höltje

  • Interaction between two murein (peptidoglycan) synthases, PBP3 and PBP1B, in Escherichia coli

    Ute Bertsche;Thomas Kast;Benoît Wolf;Claudine Fraipont

Frequent Co-Authors

Eefjan Breukink
Eefjan Breukink Utrecht University
Christine Jacobs-Wagner
Christine Jacobs-Wagner Stanford University
Nina R. Salama
Nina R. Salama Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Athanasios Typas
Athanasios Typas Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit
Richard J. Lewis
Richard J. Lewis University of Queensland
Joseph D. Mougous
Joseph D. Mougous University of Washington
Alexander Tomasz
Alexander Tomasz Rockefeller University
Regine Hakenbeck
Regine Hakenbeck Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Yves V. Brun
Yves V. Brun University of Montreal
Victor J. DiRita
Victor J. DiRita Michigan State University

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