Publications

Peer reviewed publications

Dede, B., Priest, T., Bach, W., Walter, M., Amann, R., Meyerdierks, A. (2023) High abundance of hydrocarbon-degrading Alcanivorax in plumes of hydrothermally active volcanoes in the South Pacific Ocean. ISME Journal. 17(4), 600–10, DOI: 10.1038/s41396-023-01366-4.

Dede, B., Hansen, C.T., Neuholz, R., Schnetger, B., Kleint, C., Walker, S., Bach, W., Amann, R., Meyerdierks, A. (2022) Niche differentiation of sulfur-oxidizing bacteria (SUP05) in submarine hydrothermal plumes. ISME Journal, 1–12, DOI: 10.1038/s41396-022-01195-x.

Miksch, S., Meiners, M., Meyerdierks, A., Probandt, D., Wegener, G., Titschack, J., Jensen, M.A., Ellrott, A., Amann, R., Knittel, K. (2021) Bacterial communities in temperate and polar coastal sands are seasonally stable. ISME Communications 1:1–11. DOI: 10.1038/s43705-021-00028-w

Wiegand, S., Jogler, M., Boedeker, C., Pinto, D., Vollmers, J., Rivas-Marín, E., Kohn, T., Peeters, S.H., Heuer, A., Rast, P., Oberbeckmann, S., Bunk, B., Jeske, O., Meyerdierks, A., Storesund, J.E., Kallscheuer, N., Lücker, S., Lage, O.M., Pohl, T., Merkel, B.J., Hornburger, P., Müller, R.-W., Brümmer, F., Labrenz, M., Spormann, A.M., Op den Camp, H., Overmann, J., Amann, R., Jetten, M.S.M., Mascher, T., Medema, M.H., Devos, D.P., Kasten, A.-K., Øvreås, L., Rohde, M., Galperin, M.Y., Jogler, C. (2020). Cultivation and functional characterization of 79 planctomycetes uncovers their unique biology. Nature Microbiology 5:126-140. DOI:10.1038/s41564-019-0588-1

Assie, A., Leisch, N., Meier, D. V., Gruber-Vodicka, H., Tegetmeyer, H. E., Meyerdierks, A., Kleiner, M., Hinzke, T., Joye, S., Saxton, M., Dubilier, N., Petersen, J. M. (2020). Horizontal acquisition of a patchwork Calvin cycle by symbiotic and free-living Campylobacterota (formerly Epsilonproteobacteria) ISME Journal, 14(1): 104-122. DOI: 10.1038/s41396-019-0508-7

Meier, D.V., Pjevac, P., Bach, W., Markert, S., Schweder, T., Jamieson, J., Petersen, S., Amann, R., Meyerdierks, A. (2019). Microbial metal-sulfide oxidation in inactive hydrothermal vent chimneys suggested by metagenomic and metaproteomic analyses. Environmental Microbiololgy 21, 682-701. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14514

Pjevac, P., Meier, D.V., Markert, S., Hentschker, C., Schweder, T., Becher, D., Gruber-Vodicka, H.R., Richter, M., Bach, W., Amann, R., Meyerdierks, A. (2018). Metaproteogenomic profiling of microbial communities colonizing actively venting hydrothermal chimneys. Frontiers in Microbiology 9. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00680

Meier, D.V., Pjevac, P., Bach, W., Hourdez, S., Girguis, P. R., Vidoudez, C., Amann, R., Meyerdierks, A. (2017). Niche partitioning of diverse sulfur-oxidizing bacteria at hydrothermal vents. ISME Journal 11(7):1545-1558. DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2017.37

Meier, D., Bach, W., Girguis, P.R., Gruber-Vodicka, H., Reeves, E.P., Richter, M., Vidoudez, C., Amann, R., Meyerdierks, A. (2016). Heterotrophic Proteobacteria in the vicinity of diffuse hydrothermal venting. Environmental Microbiology 18: 4348–4368. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13304.

Dyksma, S., Bischof, K., Fuchs, B.M., Hoffmann, K., Meier, D., Meyerdierks, A., Pjevac, P., Probandt, D., Richter, M., Stepanauskas, R., Mußmann, M. (2016). Ubiquitous Gammaproteobacteria dominate dark carbon fixation in coastal sediments. ISME Journal 10(8): 1939–1953. DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2015.257.

Winkel, M., Pjevac, P., Kleiner, M., Littmann, S., Meyerdierks, A., Amann, R., Mussmann, M. (2014). Identification and activity of acetate-assimilating bacteria in diffuse fluids venting from two deep-sea hydrothermal systems. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 90: 731-746. DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12429.

Reeves, E.P., Yoshinaga, M.Y., Pjevac, P., Goldenstein, N.I., Peplies J., Meyerdierks, A., Amann, R., Bach, W.,  Hinrichs, K.-U. (2014). Microbial lipids reveal carbon assimilation patterns on hydrothermal sulfide chimneys. Environmental Microbiology 16: 3515-3532. DOI:    10.1111/1462-2920.12525.

Price, R.E., Lesniewski, R., Nitzsche, K., Meyerdierks, A., Saltikov, C., Pichler, T., Amend, J.P. (2013). Archaeal and bacterial diversity in an arsenic-rich shallow-sea hydrothermal system undergoing phase separation. Frontiers in Extreme Microbiology 4.

Lüddeke, F., Wülfing, A., Timke, M., Germer, F., Weber, J., Dikfidan, A., Rahnfeld, T., Linder, D., Meyerdierks, A., and Harder, J. (2012). Geraniol and geranial dehydrogenases induced in anaerobic monoterpene degradation by Castellaniella defragrans. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 78: 2128-2136.

Schauer, R., H. Roy, N. Augustin, H.-H. Gennerich, M. Peters, F. Wenzhoefer, R. Amann, and Meyerdierks, A. (2011). Bacterial sulfur cycling shapes microbial communities in surface sediments of an ultramafic hydrothermal vent field. Environmental Microbiology. 13 (10): 2633–2648.

Basen, M., Krüger, M., Milucka, J., Kuever, J., Kahnt, J., Grundmann, O., Meyerdierks, A., Widdel, F., and Shima, S. (2011) Bacterial enzymes for dissimilatory sulfate reduction in a marine microbial mat (Black Sea) mediating anaerobic oxidation of methane. Environmental Microbiology 13: 1370-1379.

Meyerdierks, A., Kube, M., Kostadinov, I., Teeling, H., Glockner, F.O., Reinhardt, R., and Amann, R. (2010) Metagenome and mRNA expression analyses of anaerobic methanotrophic archaea of the ANME-1 group. Environmental Microbiology 12: 422-439.

Schreiber, L., Holler, T., Knittel, K., Meyerdierks, A., and Amann, R. (2010) Identification of the dominant sulfate-reducing bacterial partner of anaerobic methanotrophs of the ANME-2 clade. Environmental Microbiology 12: 2327-2340.

Meyerdierks, A., and Gloeckner, F.O. (2010) Metagenome Analysis. In Introduction to Marine Genomics. Cock, J.M., Tessmar-Raible, K., Boyen, C., and Viard, F. (eds), Springer-Verlag: Heidelberg, pp. 33-71.

Jogler, C., Lin, W., Meyerdierks, A., Kube, M., Katzmann, E., Flies, C., Pan, Y.X., Amann, R., Reinhardt, R., and Schuler, D. (2009) Toward Cloning of the Magnetotactic Metagenome: Identification of Magnetosome Island Gene Clusters in Uncultivated Magnetotactic Bacteria from Different Aquatic Sediments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 75: 3972-3979.

Strittmatter, A.W., Liesegang, H., Rabus, R., Decker, I., Amann, J., Andres, S., Henne, A., Fricke, W.F., Martinez-Arias, R., Bartels, D., Goesmann, A., Krause, L., Puhler, A., Klenk, H.P., Richter, M., Schuler, M., Glockner, F.O., Meyerdierks, A., Gottschalk, G., and Amann, R. (2009) Genome sequence of Desulfobacterium autotrophicum HRM2, a marine sulfate reducer oxidizing organic carbon completely to carbon dioxide. Environmental Microbiology 11: 1038-1055.

Santos, F., Meyerdierks, A., Pena, A., Rossello-Mora, R., Amann, R., and Anton, J. (2007) Metagenomic approach to the study of halophages: the environmental halophage 1. Environmental Microbiology 9: 1711-1723.

Glöckner FO, Meyerdierks A (2006): Metagenome analyses. In Stackebrandt E (ed): "Molecular Identification, Systematics, and Population Structure of Prokaryotes." : Springer-Verlag: Heidelberg, pp 261-286.

Knittel, K., Kuever, J., Meyerdierks, A., Meinke, R., Amann, R., and Brinkhoff, T. (2005) Thiomicrospira arctica sp. nov. and Thiomicrospira psychrophila sp. nov., psychrophilic obligately chemolithoautotrophic sulfuroxidizing bacteria isolated from marine Arctic sediments. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 55: 781-786.

Kube, M., Beck, A., Meyerdierks, A., Amann, R., Reinhardt, R., and Rabus, R. (2005) A catabolic gene cluster for anaerobic benzoate degradation in methanotrophic microbial Black Sea mats. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 28: 287-294.

Meyerdierks, A., Kube, M., Lombardot, T., Knittel, K., Bauer, M., Glöckner, F.O., Reinhardt, R., and Amann, R. (2005) Insights into the genomes of archaea mediating the anaerobic oxidation of methane. Environmental Microbiology 7: 1937-1951.

Mußmann, M., Richter, M., Lombardot, T., Meyerdierks, A., Kuever, J., Kube, M., Glöckner, F.O., and Amann, R. (2005) Clustered genes related to sulfate respiration in uncultured prokaryotes support the theory of their concomitant horizontal transfer. Journal of Bacteriology 187: 7126-7137.

Teeling, H., Meyerdierks, A., Bauer, M., Amann, R., and Glockner, F.O. (2004) Application of tetranucleotide frequencies for the assignment of genomic fragments. Environmental Microbiology 6: 938-947.

Krüger, M., Meyerdierks, A., Glockner, F.O., Amann, R., Widdel, F., Kube, M., Reinhardt, R., Kahnt, R., Bocher, R., Thauer, R.K., and Shima, S. (2003) A conspicuous nickel protein in microbial mats that oxidize methane anaerobically. Nature 426: 878-881.

Schübbe, S., Kube, M., Scheffel, A., Wawer, C., Heyen, U., Meyerdierks, A., Madkour, M.H., Mayer, F., Reinhardt, R., and Schüler, D. (2003) Characterization of a spontaneous nonmagnetic mutant of Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense reveals a large deletion comprising a putative magnetosome island. Journal of Bacteriology 185: 5779-5790.

Chen, J., Shpall, R.L., Meyerdierks, A., Hagemeier, M., Bottger, E.C., and Naumovski, L. (2000) Interferon-inducible Myc/STAT-interacting protein Nmi associates with IFP 35 into a high molecular mass complex and inhibits proteasome-mediated degradation of IFP 35. Journal of Biological Chemistry 275: 36278-36284.

Zhou, X.J., Liao, J., Meyerdierks, A., Feng, L., Naumovski, L., Bottger, E.C., and Omary, M.B. (2000) Interferon-alpha induces Nmi-IFP35 heterodimeric complex formation that is affected by the phosphorylation of IFP35. Journal of Biological Chemistry 275: 21364-21371.

Denecke, B., Meyerdierks, A., and Bottger, E.C. (1999) RGS1 is expressed in monocytes and acts as a GTPase-activating protein for G-protein-coupled chemoattractant receptors. Journal of Biological Chemistry 274: 26860-26868.

Meyerdierks, A., Denecke, B., Rohde, M., Taparowsky, E.J., and Bottger, E.C. (1999) A cytoplasmic structure resembling large protein aggregates induced by interferons. Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry 47: 169-182.

 

Book Chapters

Meyerdierks, A., and Gloeckner, F.O. (2010) Metagenome Analysis. In Introduction to Marine Genomics. Cock, J.M., Tessmar-Raible, K., Boyen, C., and Viard, F. (eds), Springer-Verlag: Heidelberg, pp. 33-71.

Glöckner FO, Meyerdierks A (2006): Metagenome analyses. In Stackebrandt E (ed): "Molecular Identification, Systematics, and Population Structure of Prokaryotes." : Springer-Verlag: Heidelberg, pp 261-286.

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