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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · 22h

Sneak preview of the next upcoming #SubtiWiki feature: All proteins are assigned to clusters sharing similar structures!
Brought to you by Oskar Geissel and @c-elfmann.bsky.social .
@imprsgs.bsky.social

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · 7d

Identification of genetic interactions in Bacillus subtilis cell division. Congratulations, Byoung-Mo Koo, Carol Gross, and all involved!
@cp-cellsystems.bsky.social #subtiwiki

www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Comprehensive genetic interaction analysis of the Bacillus subtilis envelope using double-CRISPRi

Koo et al. apply genome-scale double-CRISPRi to map cell envelope gene interactions in Bacillus subtilis, revealing >1,000 genetic interactions and uncovering gene networks in envelope biogenesis and ...

www.cell.com

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · 12d

Bye bye Binz! It’s really hard to leave Rügen on such a fantastic morning

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · 12d

Impressions from a weekend at the Baltic Sea coast: Stralsund, Binz, Sellin, Cap Arkona

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · 17d

Very much looking fo to the PhD defense of the brain behind #SubtiWiki, @c-elfmann.bsky.social . It will take place on October 17 at 2 pm.
@imprsgs.bsky.social

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · 23d

Congratulations, Sonja @archaellum.bsky.social !

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · 28d

Read a Limerick on B. subtilis on the #SubtiWiki homepage!
Source: The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form (oedilf.com)!

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Reposted by Jörg Stülke

Michael Galperin @mygalperin.bsky.social · Sep 2

Some thoughts on metabolism and metabolic pathway holes (PMID: 40892933)
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/....

Using bioinformatics for identifying and plugging metabolic pathway holes | PNAS

Using bioinformatics for identifying and plugging metabolic pathway holes

pnas.org

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · Aug 28

The #SubtiWiki Paper of the month for August 2025 has been selected. Congratulations, Marianne Broc, @axelmagalon.bsky.social and all involved!

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40855134/

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · Aug 28

Discovery of a novel membrane plugin that links formate and NAHD dehydrogenases to the quinone pool for respiration!
Work by Marianne Brock et al., @axelmagalon.bsky.social and Anne Walburger lab @ @univ-amu.fr

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SubtiWiki

A scaffold for quinone channeling between membrane and soluble bacterial oxidoreductases - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Here, the authors describe a tubular module connecting oxidoreductases to the membrane. This system, found in many microorganisms, reveals a distinct mode of membrane anchoring and an electron transfe...

www.nature.com

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · Aug 14

Congratulations, @johnhelmann.bsky.social and Anita! You know, the PTS was my first scientific love!

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · Aug 14

Professorship in Microbial Genetics @ University of Göttingen. Don't miss this chance to become my colleague!
uni-goettingen.de/en/699057.html
#SubtiWiki

W1-TT-W2 Microbial Genetics - Georg-August-University Göttingen

Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen

uni-goettingen.de

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · Aug 14

New cool work from French friends and colleagues: identification of Rho termination sites in B. subtilis! academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

#SubtiWiki @narjournal.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social

Comprehensive mapping of transcription terminator Rho utilization (Rut) sites across the Bacillus subtilis genome

Abstract. Recent evidence indicates that the bacterial Rho helicase regulates Bacillus subtilis gene expression in a growth-dependent manner. This regulati

academic.oup.com

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · Aug 1

The #SubtiWiki paper of the month for July has been chosen! Cool work from Paris!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · Jul 25

Metals are essential for life, but they can also be toxic. Here, @johnhelmann.bsky.social gives an excellent overview on bacterial metal physiology!
@natrevmicro.nature.com #SubtiWiki

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Microbial metal physiology: ions to ecosystems - Nature Reviews Microbiology

Metal ions are required for all cells, and their homeostasis relies on ancient mechanisms that facilitate their import, distribution and storage. In this Review, Helmann discusses the key chemical con...

www.nature.com

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · Jul 23

Hello from the impressive Grundtvig’s church in Copenhagen!

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · Jul 22

News on the mechanisms of lateral peptidoglycan growth in Bacillus subtilis!
@natcomms.nature.com #SubtiWiki

Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · Jul 13

Good evening from Göttingen! This car, a more than 35 year old Trabant made of plastic material, was next to mine at the petrol station this afternoon. I earned my driver‘s licence on a Trabant back in 1982!

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · Jul 9

Really terrific! Congratulations to all involved! Greetings from Göttingen

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · Jul 9

Gratulacje!

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · Jul 5

Absolutely amazing paper from the lab of Carol Gross! So inspiring!
@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social
#mycoplasma #subtiwiki

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Predicting the protein interaction landscape of a free-living bacterium with pooled-AlphaFold3

Accurate prediction of protein complex structures by AlphaFold3 and similar programs has been successfully used to predict the presence of protein-protein interactions (PPIs), but this technique has n...

www.biorxiv.org

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · Jul 4

Great paper on the function of SpoIIIL!
Congrats to @crodrigueslab.bsky.social
@plos.org
#SubtiWiki

journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

SpoIIIL is a forespore factor required for efficient cell-cell signalling during Bacillus subtilis sporulation

Author summary Bacterial endospores allow bacteria to survive stress, persist in the environment and seed new and recurring infections. Cell-cell signalling is a cornerstone of how bacteria develop in...

journals.plos.org

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · Jul 4

Hey Chris, congrats to you and your team on the paper!
One remark: if you add hashtag SubtiWiki, your Bluesy posts will be displayed on all SubtiWiki in the bluesy feed!
Best regards,

Jörg

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · Jun 30

The #SubtiWiki Paper of the month for June 2025 has been selected.
Congratulations, @apbrogan.bsky.social @ @harvardmed.bsky.social
@natmicrobiol.nature.com

subtiwiki.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.p...

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Jörg Stülke @joergstuelke.bsky.social · Jun 26

Congratulations, @cyanolab.bsky.social and team

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