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Mailing address:
Institut für Allgemeine Mikrobiologie
Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel,
Am Botanischen Garten 1-9,
D-24118 Kiel, Germany
Tel. (++49)-431-880-4334
Fax. (++49)-431-880-2194
Email. rschmitz@ifam.uni-kiel.de
Selected Publications
2011
- Schmitz, RA, Jäger D, Jellen-Ritter, A, Babski, J, Soppa, J, Marchfelder, A
Archaea employ small RNA as regulators.
In Regulatory RNAs in Prokaryotes (Hess, W.R. and Marchfelder, A. eds.), Springer, Vienna. No abstract available.
- Ilmberger N, Meske D, Juergensen J, Schulte M, Barthen P, Rabausch U, Angelov A, Mientus M, Liebl W, Schmitz RA, Streit WR
Metagenomic cellulases highly tolerant in the presence of ionic liquids - linking thermostability and halotolerance.
Applied microbiology and biotechnology; 2011 Dec 6. [Epub ahead of print]
- Thomas F, Diaz-Bone R, Würfel O, Huber B, Weidenbach K, Schmitz RA, Hensel R
Connection between multimetal(loid) methylation in methanoarchaea and central intermediates of methanogenesis.
Appl. Environ Microbiol. 77, 8669-8675, 2011 Oct 14. [Epub ahead of print]
- Ehlers C, Jäger D, Schmitz, RA
Establishing a markerless genetic exchange system for Methanosarcina mazei strain Gö1 for constructing chromosomal mutants of small RNA genes
Archaea 2011:439608. Epub 2011 Sep 20
- Egert M, Schmidt I, Höhne H-M, Lachnit T, Schmitz RA, Breves R
Ribosomal RNA-based profiling of bacteria in the axilla of healthy males suggests right-left asymmetry in bacterial activity
FEMS Microbiology Ecology 77: 146-53.
- Lachnit T, Meske D, Wahl M, Harder T, Schmitz RA.
Epibacterial community patterns on marine macroalgae are host-specific but temporally variable
Environmental Microbiology13(3): 655-65.
- Milenkov M, Thummer R, Glöer J, Grötzinger J, Jung S, Schmitz RA
Insights into membrane association of Klebsiella pneumoniae NifL under N2 - fixing conditions by mutational analysis
J Bacteriology 193(3): 695-705.
2010
- Barz M, Beimgraben C, Staller T, Germer F, Opitz F, Marquardt C, Schwarz C, Gutekunst C, Vanselow KH, Schmitz RA, LaRoche J, Schulz R, Appel J.
Distribution analysis of hydrogenases in surface waters of marine and freshwater environments
PLos ONE 5(11): e13846
- Weidenbach K, Ehlers C, Kock J, Schmitz RA.
NrpRII mediates contacts between NrpRI and general transcription factors in the archaeon Methanosarcina mazei Gö1
FEBS J. 277: 4398-4411
- Weiland N, Löscher C, Metzger R, Schmitz RA.
Construction and screening marine metagenomic libraries.
Methods Mol Biol. 668: 51-65
2009
- Jäger D, Sharma CM, Thomsen J, Ehlers C, Vogel J, Schmitz RA.
Deep sequencing analysis of the Methanosarcina mazei Gö1 transcriptome in response to nitrogen availability
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.106(51): 21878-82
- Schmeisser C, Liesegang H, Krysciak D, Bakkou N, Le Quéré A, Wollherr A, Heinemeyer I, Morgenstern B, Pommerening-Röser A, Flores M, Palacios R, Brenner S, Gottschalk G, Schmitz RA, Broughton WJ, Perret X, Strittmatter AW, Streit WR.
Rhizobium sp. NGR234 possesses a remarkable number of secretion systems
Appl Environ Microbiol. 75(12): 4035-45
2008
- Glöer J, Thummer R, Ullrich H, Schmitz RA.
Towards understanding the nitrogen signal transduction for nif gene expression in Klebsiella pneumoniae
FEBS J. 275(24): 6281-94
- Weidenbach K, Ehlers C, Kock J, Ehrenreich A, Schmitz RA.
Insights into the NrpR regulon in Methanosarcina mazei Gö1
Archives of Microbiology 190(3): 319-32
- Weidenbach K, Glöer J, Ehlers C, Sandman K, Reeve JN, Schmitz RA.
Deletion of the archaeal histone in Methanosarcina mazei Gö1 results in reduced growth and genomic transcription.
Mol Microbiol. 67(3): 662-71
2007
2006
2005
- Reeve JN, Schmitz RA
Biology, biochemistry and the molecular machinery of Archaea.
Curr Opin Microbiol. 8(6): 627-9.
- Veit K, Ehlers C, Schmitz RA
Effects of nitrogen and carbon sources on transcription of soluble methyltransferases in Methanosarcina mazei strain Gö1.
J. Bacteriology 187, 6147-6154.
- Ehlers C, Weidenbach K, Veit K, Deppenmeier U, Metcalf W, Schmitz RA
Development of genetic methods and construction of chromosomal glnK1 mutant in Methanosarcina mazei strain Gö1.
Molecular Genetics and Genomics 273, 290-298.
- Ehlers C, Weidenbach K, Veit K, Forchhammer K, Schmitz RA
Unique mechanistic features of post translational regulation of glutamin synthetase activity in Methanosarcina mazei in response to nitrogen availability.
Molecular Microbiology 55, 1841-1854.
2004
- Streit WR, Schmitz RA
Metagenomics - the key to the uncultured microbes.
Current Opinion in Microbiology 7, 492 - 498.
- Stips J, Thummer R, Neumann M, Schmitz RA
GlnK effects complex formation between NifA and NifL in Klebsiella pneumoniae.
European Journal of Biochemistry. 271, 3379-3388.
- Schmitz RA, Achebach S, Unden G
Analysis of Fumarate nitrate reductase regulator as oxygen sensor in Escherichia coli. In 'Methods in Enzymology, Volume 381, Oxygen sensing'.
Sen CK & Semenza GL (eds.), Academic press Inc., New York. pp 628. No abstract available.
- Streit WR, Schmitz RA, Perret X, Staehelin C, Deakin WJ, Raasch C, Liesegang H, Broughton WJ
An Evolutionary Hot Spot: the pNGR234b Replicon of Rhizobium sp. Strain NGR234.
J. Bacteriology 186, 535 - 542.
2003
- Schmeisser C, Stöckigt C, Raasch C, Wingender J, Timmis KN, Wenderoth DF, Flemming H-C, Liesegang H, Schmitz RA, Jaeger K-E, Streit WR
Metagenome Survey of Biofilms in Drinking Water Networks.
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 69, 7298-7309.
- Grabbe R, Schmitz RA.
Oxygen control of nif gene expression in Klebsiella pneumoniae depends on NifL reduction at the cytoplasmic membrane by electrons derived from the reduced quinone pool.
Eur J Biochem. 270(7): 1555-66.
2002
- Deppenmeier U, Schmitz RA, Gunsalus RP, Fritz HJ, Gottschalk G.
The genome of Methanosarcina mazei: evidence for lateral gene transfer between bacteria and archaea.
J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol 4(4): 453-61
- Schmitz RA, Klopprogge K, Grabbe R, Stips J
Regulation of nitrogen fixation in Klebsiella pneumoniae and Azotobacter vinelandii: NifL, transducing two environmental signals to the nif transcriptional activator NifA .
In 'Regulatory networks in Prokaryotes' Dürre P & Friedrich B (eds.), p. 65-72, Horizon Scientific press, Norfolk. No abstract available.
- Schmitz RA, Klopprogge K, Grabbe R
Regulation of nitrogen fixation in Klebsiella pneumoniae and Azotobacter vinelandii: NifL, transducing two environmental signals to the nif transcriptional activator NifA (Minireview). J. Mol. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 4, 235-242.
- Klopprogge K, Grabbe R, Hoppert M, Schmitz RA
Membrane association of Klebsiella pneumoniae NifL is affected by molecular oxygen and combined nitrogen. Archives of Microbiology, 117, 223-234.
- Klopprogge K, Stips J, Schmitz RA
The inhibitory form of NifL from Klebsiella pneumoniae exhibits ATPase activity only when synthesized under nitrogen sufficiency. Biochem. Biophys. Acta 1594, 243-54.
- Ehlers C, Grabbe R, Veit K, Schmitz RA
Characterization of GlnK1 from Methanosarcina mazei strain Gö1: Complementation of an Escherichia coli glnK mutant strain by M. mazei GlnK1.
J. Bacteriol. 184: 1028-1040.
2001
2000
1999
- Henne A, Daniel R, Schmitz RA, Gottschalk, G
Construction of environmental DNA libraries in Escherichia coli and screening for the presence of genes conferring utilization of 4-hydroxybutyrate. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65, 3901-3907.
Articles in German
Daniel R, Schmitz RA, Streit W (2002) aus Wattenmeer und Wüstensand. Georgia Augusta. 1: 111-115
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