Publications

Niehs SP, Dose B, Richter S, Pidot SJ, Dahse HM, Stinear TP, Hertweck C (2020) Mining symbionts of spider-transmitted fungus illuminates uncharted biosynthetic pathways to cytotoxic benzolactones. Angew Chem Int Ed 59(20), 7766-7771.
Niehs SP, Kumpfmüller J, Dose B, Little RF, Ishida K, Florez LV, Kaltenpoth M, Hertweck C (2020) Insect-associated bacteria assemble the antifungal butenolide gladiofungin by non-canonical polyketide chain termination. Angew Chem Int Ed 59(51), 23122-23126.
Scherlach K, Hertweck C (2020) Chemical mediators at the bacterial-fungal interface. Annu Rev Microbiol 74, 267-290. (Review)
Seibold PS, Lenz C, Gressler M, Hoffmeister D (2020) The Laetiporus polyketide synthase LpaA produces a series of antifungal polyenes. J Antibiot 73(10), 711-720.
Stroe MC, Netzker T, Scherlach K, Krüger T, Hertweck C, Valiante V, Brakhage AA (2020) Targeted induction of a silent fungal gene cluster encoding the bacteria-specific germination inhibitor fumigermin. eLife 9, e52541.
Trottmann F, Ishida K, Franke J, Stanišić A, Ishida-Ito M, Kries H, Pohnert G, Hertweck C (2020) Sulfonium acids loaded onto an unusual thiotemplate assembly line construct the cyclopropanol warhead of a Burkholderia virulence factor. Angew Chem Int Ed 59(32), 13511-13515.
Waterworth SC, Flórez LV, Rees ER, Hertweck C, Kaltenpoth M, Kwan JC (2020) Horizontal gene transfer to a defensive symbiont with a reduced genome in a multipartite beetle microbiome. mBio 11(1), e02430-19.
Braga D, Last D, Hasan M, Guo H, Leichnitz D, Uzum Z, Richter I, Schalk F, Beemelmanns C, Hertweck C, Lackner G (2019) Metabolic pathway rerouting in Paraburkholderia rhizoxinica evolved long-overlooked derivatives of coenzyme F420. ACS Chem Biol 14(9), 2088-2094.
Bratovanov EV, Ishida K, Heinze B, Pidot SJ, Stinear TP, Hegemann JD, Marahiel MA, Hertweck C (2019) Genome mining and heterologous expression reveal two distinct families of lasso peptides highly conserved in endofungal bacteria. ACS Chem Biol 15(5), 1169-1176.
Costa JH, Wassano CI, Angolini CFF, Scherlach K, Hertweck C, Fill TP (2019) Antifungal potential of secondary metabolites involved in the interaction between citrus pathogens. Sci Rep 9(1), 18647.