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The bacterial cytoskeleton: more than twisted filamentsMartin Pilhofer
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E California Blvd, M C 114 96, Pasadena, CA, USA
Curr Opin Cell Biol 25:125-33. 2013..As a result, while homologous proteins with different functions have evolved to form surprisingly divergent superstructures, those of unrelated proteins with similar functions have converged...- Characterization and evolution of cell division and cell wall synthesis genes in the bacterial phyla Verrucomicrobia, Lentisphaerae, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes and phylogenetic comparison with rRNA genesMartin Pilhofer
Lehrstuhl fur Mikrobiologie, Technical University Munich, Am Hochanger 4, D 85354 Freising, Germany
J Bacteriol 190:3192-202. 2008..This implies that Planctomycetes and Chlamydiae may have shifted independently to a non-FtsZ-based cell division mechanism after their separate branchings from their last common ancestor with Verrucomicrobia... 
Fluorescence in situ hybridization for intracellular localization of nifH mRNAMartin Pilhofer
Technische Universitat Munchen, Lehrstuhl fur Mikrobiologie, Am Hochanger 4, 85350 Freising, Germany
Syst Appl Microbiol 32:186-92. 2009....- Microtubules in bacteria: Ancient tubulins build a five-protofilament homolog of the eukaryotic cytoskeletonMartin Pilhofer
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
PLoS Biol 9:e1001213. 2011..Since we show that bacterial microtubules can be produced in abundance in vitro without chaperones, they should be useful tools for tubulin research and drug screening... - Characterization of bacterial operons consisting of two tubulins and a kinesin-like gene by the novel Two-Step Gene Walking methodMartin Pilhofer
Lehrstuhl fur Mikrobiologie, Technical University Munich, Am Hochanger 4, D 85354 Freising, Germany
Nucleic Acids Res 35:e135. 2007..Two-Step Gene Walking proved to be highly efficient and was successfully used to characterize over 20 kb of sequence not only in pure culture but even in complex non-pure culture samples... - Bacterial TEM: new insights from cryo-microscopyMartin Pilhofer
Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Methods Cell Biol 96:21-45. 2010..Efforts to identify structures and localize specific proteins in cryo-EM images are summarized... - The diversity of fungi in aerobic sewage granules assessed by 18S rRNA gene and ITS sequence analysesSilvia D Weber
Lehrstuhl fur Mikrobiologie, Technische Universitat Munchen, Freising, Germany
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 68:246-54. 2009..It turned out that the fungal community composition in granules depended on the wastewater type and the phase of granule development... - Long helical filaments are not seen encircling cells in electron cryotomograms of rod-shaped bacteriaMatthew T Swulius
Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125, United States
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 407:650-5. 2011.... - Optimization of three FISH procedures for in situ detection of anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria in biological wastewater treatmentMarko Pavlekovic
Department of Microbiology, Technische Universitat Munchen, D 85354 Freising, Germany
J Microbiol Methods 78:119-26. 2009..However, for optimal inactivation, different H(2)O(2) concentrations and incubation time may be needed, depending on nature of sample and should therefore always be individually determined for each study... 
Coexistence of tubulins and ftsZ in different Prosthecobacter speciesMartin Pilhofer
Mol Biol Evol 24:1439-42. 2007..Therefore, it can be assumed that Prosthecobacter acquired tubulins through horizontal gene transfer. The functional role of tubulins in Prosthecobacter remains enigmatic...