@article{HandtkeVollandMethlingetal.2014,
  author    = {Handtke, Stefan and Volland, Sonja and Methling, Karen and Albrecht, Dirk and Becher, D{\"o}rte and Nehls, Jenny and Bongaerts, Johannes and Maurer, Karl-Heinz and Lalk, Michael and Liesegang, Heiko and Voigt, Birgit and Daniel, Rolf and Hecker, Michael},
  title     = {Cell physiology of the biotechnological relevant bacterium Bacillus pumilus - An omics-based approach},
  series = {Journal of Biotechnology},
  journal   = {Journal of Biotechnology},
  number    = {192(A)},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Amsterdam},
  issn      = {1873-4863 (E-Journal); 0168-1656 (Print)},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.jbiotec.2014.08.028},
  pages     = {204 -- 214},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Members of the species Bacillus pumilus get more and more in focus of the biotechnological industry as potential new production strains. Based on exoproteome analysis, B. pumilus strain Jo2, possessing a high secretion capability, was chosen for an omics-based investigation. The proteome and metabolome of B. pumilus cells growing either in minimal or complex medium was analyzed. In total, 1542 proteins were identified in growing B. pumilus cells, among them 1182 cytosolic proteins, 297 membrane and lipoproteins and 63 secreted proteins. This accounts for about 43\% of the 3616 proteins encoded in the B. pumilus Jo2 genome sequence. By using GC-MS, IP-LC/MS and H NMR methods numerous metabolites were analyzed and assigned to reconstructed metabolic pathways. In the genome sequence a functional secretion system including the components of the Sec- and Tat-secretion machinery was found. Analysis of the exoproteome revealed secretion of about 70 proteins with predicted secretion signals. In addition, selected production-relevant genome features such as restriction modification systems and NRPS clusters of B. pumilus Jo2 are discussed.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{VoigtAlbrechtSieversetal.2015,
  author    = {Voigt, Birgit and Albrecht, Dirk and Sievers, Susanne and Becher, D{\"o}rte and Bongaerts, Johannes and Evers, Stefan and Schweder, Thomas and Maurer, Karl-Heinz and Hecker, Michael},
  title     = {High-resolution proteome maps of Bacillus licheniformis cells growing in minimal medium},
  series = {Proteomics},
  volume    = {15},
  journal   = {Proteomics},
  number    = {15},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  address   = {Weinheim},
  issn      = {1615-9861},
  doi       = {10.1002/pmic.201400504},
  pages     = {2629 -- 2633},
  year      = {2015},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SchroeterHoffmannVoigtetal.2014,
  author    = {Schroeter, Rebecca and Hoffmann, Tamara and Voigt, Birgit and Meyer, Hanna and Bleisteiner, Monika and Muntel, Jan and J{\"u}rgen, Britta and Albrecht, Dirk and Becher, D{\"o}rte and Lalk, Michael and Evers, Stefan and Bongaerts, Johannes and Maurer, Karl-Heinz and Putzer, Harald and Hecker, Michael and Schweder, Thomas and Bremer, Erhard},
  title     = {Stress responses of the industrial workhorse Bacillus licheniformis to osmotic challenges},
  series = {PLoS ONE},
  volume    = {8},
  journal   = {PLoS ONE},
  number    = {11},
  publisher = {PLOS},
  address   = {San Francisco},
  issn      = {1932-6203},
  doi       = {10.1371/journal.pone.0080956},
  pages     = {e80956},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {The Gram-positive endospore-forming bacterium Bacillus licheniformis can be found widely in nature and it is exploited in industrial processes for the manufacturing of antibiotics, specialty chemicals, and enzymes. Both in its varied natural habitats and in industrial settings, B. licheniformis cells will be exposed to increases in the external osmolarity, conditions that trigger water efflux, impair turgor, cause the cessation of growth, and negatively affect the productivity of cell factories in biotechnological processes. We have taken here both systems-wide and targeted physiological approaches to unravel the core of the osmostress responses of B. licheniformis. Cells were suddenly subjected to an osmotic upshift of considerable magnitude (with 1 M NaCl), and their transcriptional profile was then recorded in a time-resolved fashion on a genome-wide scale. A bioinformatics cluster analysis was used to group the osmotically up-regulated genes into categories that are functionally associated with the synthesis and import of osmostress-relieving compounds (compatible solutes), the SigB-controlled general stress response, and genes whose functional annotation suggests that salt stress triggers secondary oxidative stress responses in B. licheniformis. The data set focusing on the transcriptional profile of B. licheniformis was enriched by proteomics aimed at identifying those proteins that were accumulated by the cells through increased biosynthesis in response to osmotic stress. Furthermore, these global approaches were augmented by a set of experiments that addressed the synthesis of the compatible solutes proline and glycine betaine and assessed the growth-enhancing effects of various osmoprotectants. Combined, our data provide a blueprint of the cellular adjustment processes of B. licheniformis to both sudden and sustained osmotic stress.},
  language  = {en}
}