Structural and Functional Diversity of alpha-Proteobacterial Acidocalcisomes/polyphosphate

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Dieter Jendrossek
• Subject Area: Metabolism, Biochemistry and Genetics of Microorganisms ; Cell Biology
• Term: from 2016 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 327837089

• Final Report Year: 2022

Final Report Abstract

The project was very successful: new knowledge about bacterial acidocalcisomes and the metabolism of polyphosphate in Agrobacterium tumefaciens was obtained, that has been meanwhile published in three peer-reviewed international publications.

Publications

• (2020) Acidocalcisomes and Polyphosphate Granules Are Different Subcellular Structures in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Appl Environ Microbiol 86:e02759–19
  Frank C, Jendrossek D
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.02759-19)
• (2020) Characterization of Agrobacterium tumefaciens PPKs reveals the formation of oligophosphorylated products up to nucleoside nona-phosphates. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 265:11734–10
  Frank C, Teleki A, Jendrossek D
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-020-10891-7)
• (2022) Migration of Polyphosphate Granules in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Microb Physiol 1–12
  Frank C, Pfeiffer D, Aktas M, Jendrossek D
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1159/000521970)