Publications by Christopher F. Schuster

Publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals ordered from most recent to oldest. Please note that due to copyright restrictions from the publishers, in most cases I cannot provide the formatted PDF directly on this page. Instead links are supplied to the journal webpages where the articles can be downloaded from.

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Last updated on Feb 02 2022.

1. Schuster CF, Sommer F, Strommenger B, Werner G, Layer F., Complete Genome Sequences of Two Nosocomiicoccus ampullae Strains and a Growth-Adapted Mutant. Microbiol Resource Announcements 2021 Dec 16;10(50):e0074721. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00747-21. Free Open Access Download.
2. Schuster CF, Weber RE, Weig M, Werner G, Pfeifer Y., Ultra-deep long-read sequencing detects IS-mediated gene duplications as a potential trigger to generate arrays of resistance genes and a mechanism to induce novel gene variants such as blaCTX-M-243. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2022 Feb 2;77(2):381-390. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkab407. Download Article - Subscription required.
3. Bertram R, Neumann B, Schuster CF. Status quo of tet regulation in bacteria. Microbial Biotechnolology 2021 Oct 29. doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.13926. Free Open Access Download.
4. Sommer A, Fuchs S, Layer F, Schaudinn C, Weber RE, Richard H, Erdmann MB, Laue M, Schuster CF, Werner G, Strommenger B., Mutations in the gdpP gene are a clinically relevant mechanism for β-lactam resistance in meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus lacking mec determinants. Microbial Genomics 2021 Sep;7(9):000623. doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000623 Free Open Access Download.
5. Merve S. Zeden, Igor Kviatkovski, Christopher F. Schuster, Vinai C. Thomas, Paul D. Fey, and Angelika Gründling, Identification of the main glutamine and glutamate transporters in Staphylococcus aureus and their impact on c-di-AMP production., Molecular Microbiology, 2020 Jun;113(6):1085-1100, doi: 10.1111/mmi.14479. Free Open Access Download.
6. Christopher F. Schuster, David M. Wiedemann, Freja C. M. Kirsebom, Marina Santiago, Suzanne Walker, and Angelika Gründling, High‐throughput transposon sequencing highlights the cell wall as an important barrier for osmotic stress in methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus and underlines a tailored response to different osmotic stressors, Molecular Microbiology, 2020 Apr;113(4):699-717, doi: 10.1111/mmi.14433. Free Open Access Download.
7. Christopher F. Schuster, Sophie A Howard, Angelika Gründling, Use of the counter selectable marker PheS* for genome engineering in Staphylococcus aureus, Microbiology (Reading), 2019 May;165(5):572-584, doi: 10.1099/mic.0.000791. Free Open Access Download.
8. Eleni Karinou, Christopher F. Schuster*, Manuel Pazos*, Waldemar Vollmer, Angelika Gr;uuml;ndling, Inactivation of the Monofunctional Peptidoglycan Glycosyltransferase SgtB Allows Staphylococcus aureus To Survive in the Absence of Lipoteichoic Acid. J Bacteriology 2018 Dec 7;201(1):e00574-18., doi: 10.1128/JB.00574-18 Free Open Access Download.
9. Zeden MS, Schuster CF, Bowman L, Zhong Q, Williams HD, Gründling A, Cyclic di-adenosine monophosphate (c-di-AMP) is required for osmotic regulation in Staphylococcus aureus but dispensable for viability in anaerobic conditions. J Biol Chem. 2018 Mar 2;293(9):3180-3200. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M117.818716. Epub 2018 Jan 11. Free Open Access Download.
10. Lisa Bowman, Merve S. Zeden, Schuster CF, Volkhard Kaever, Aneglika Gründling, New Insights into the Cyclic di-Adenosine Monophosphate (c-di-AMP) Degradation Pathway and the Requirement of the Cyclic-Dinucleotide for Acid Stress Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus. J Biol Chem. 2016 Nov 10. pii: jbc.M116.747709. Free Open Access Download.
11. Christopher F. Schuster*, Lauren E. Bellows*, Tommaso Tosi, Ivan Campeotto, Rebecca M. Corrigan, Paul Freemont, Angelika Gründling, The second messenger c-di-AMP inhibits the osmolyte uptake system OpuC in Staphylococcus aureus., Science Signaling. 2016 Aug 16;9(441):ra81. Original Article - Subscription required Free Author Manuscript - Accepted Version.
12. Christopher F. Schuster*, Ralph Bertram*, Toxin-antitoxin systems of Staphylococcus aureus. Toxins (Basel) 2016, 8(5), doi: 10.3390/toxins8050140. Free Open Access Download.
13. Christopher F. Schuster, Lukas Mechler, Nicoletta Nolle, Bernhard Krismer, Mark-Erik Zelder, Friedrich Götz, Ralph Bertram The MazEF Toxin-Antitoxin System Alters the β-Lactam Susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus. PLoS One. 2015 May 12;10(5):e0126118. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126118. eCollection 2015. Free Download
14. Christopher F. Schuster, Ralph Bertram Fluorescence based primer extension technique to determine transcriptional starting points and cleavage sites of RNases in vivo. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2014 Oct 31;(92):e52134. doi: 10.3791/52134. Watch video (Subscription required).
15. Ralph Bertram, Christopher F. Schuster. Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in bacterial pathogens by toxin-antitoxin systems. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 2014 Jan 29;4:6. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00006. eCollection 2014. Review. Free Open Access Download.
16. Nicoletta Nolle*, Christopher F. Schuster*, Ralph Bertram. Two paralogous yefM-yoeB loci from Staphylococcus equorum encode functional toxin-antitoxin systems. Microbiology. 2013 Aug;159(Pt 8):1575-85. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.068049-0. Epub 2013 Jul 7. *contributed equally Free Download.
17. Christopher F. Schuster, Ralph Bertram, Toxin-antitoxin systems are ubiquitous and versatile modulators of prokaryotic cell fate. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 2013 Mar;340(2):73-85. doi: 10.1111/1574-6968.12074. Epub 2013 Jan 24. Review. Free Download.
18. Christopher F. Schuster, Jung-Ho Park, Marcel Prax, Alexnder Herbig, Kay Nieselt, Ralf Rosenstein, Masayori Inouye, Ralph Bertram. Characterization of a mazEF toxin-antitoxin homologue from Staphylococcus equorum. Journal of Bacteriology. 2013 Jan;195(1):115-25. doi: 10.1128/JB.00400-12. Epub 2012 Oct 26. Free Download.

* contributed equally.