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Lange T, Sprague JL, Vij R, Alonso-Roman R, Jablonowski N, Radosa S, Krüger T, Kniemeyer O, Hillmann F, Brakhage AA, Allert S, Brunke S, Hube B (2025) "Pour some sugar on me"-Environmental Candida albicans isolates and the evolution of increased pathogenicity and antifungal resistance through sugar adaptation. PLoS Pathog 21(10), e1013542.
Machata S, Bertsche U, Hoffmann F, Fattal ZM, Kage F, Flak M, Iliou ANJ, Hillmann F, von Eggeling F, Slevogt H, Brakhage AA, Jacobsen ID (2025) Identification of a fungal antibacterial endopeptidase that cleaves peptidoglycan. EMBO Rep 26(1), 3889-3916.
Richter I, Wein P, Uzum Z, Stanley CE, Krabbe J, Molloy EM, Moebius N, Ferling I, Hillmann F, Hertweck C (2023) Transcription activator-like effector protects bacterial endosymbionts from entrapment within fungal hyphae. Curr Biol 33(13), 2646-2656.e4..
Bissell AU, Rautschek J, Hoefgen S, Raguž L, Mattern DJ, Saeed N, Janevska S, Jojić K, Huang Y, Kufs JE, Herboeck B, Guo H, Hillmann F, Beemelmanns C, Valiante V (2022) Biosynthesis of the sphingolipid inhibitors sphingofungins in filamentous fungi requires aminomalonate as a metabolic precursor. ACS Chem Biol 17(2), 386-394.
Günther M*, Reimer C*, Herbst R*, Kufs JE, Rautschek J, Ueberschaar N, Zhang S, Peschel G, Reimer L, Regestein L, Valiante V, Hillmann F#, Stallforth P# (2022) Yellow polyketide pigment suppresses premature hatching in social amoeba. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 119(43), e2116122119.
Kufs JE, Reimer C, Stallforth P, Hillmann F, Regestein L* (2022) The potential of amoeba-based processes for natural product syntheses. Curr Opin Biotechnol 77, 102766. (Review)
Kufs JE, Reimer C, Steyer E, Valiante V, Hillmann F, Regestein L (2022) Scale-up of an amoeba-based process for the production of the cannabinoid precursor olivetolic acid. Microb Cell Fact 21(1), 217.
Reimer C*, Kufs JE*, Rautschek J, Regestein L, Valiante V#, Hillmann F# (2022) Engineering the amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum for biosynthesis of a cannabinoid precursor and other polyketides. Nat Biotechnol 40(5), 751-758.
Richter I, Radosa S, Cseresnyés Z, Ferling I, Büttner H, Niehs SP, Gerst R, Scherlach K, Figge MT, Hillmann F, Hertweck C (2022) Toxin-producing endosymbionts shield pathogenic fungus against micropredators. mBio 13(5), e0144022.
Boysen JM, Saeed N, Hillmann F (2021) Natural products in the predatory defence of the filamentous fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. Beilstein J Org Chem 17, 1814-1827. (Review)

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