Miernikiewicz P., Barylski J. , Wilczak A. Dragoš A., Rybicka I., Bałdysz S., Szymczak A., Dogsa I., Rokush K., Harhala MA. , Ciekot J., Ferenc S., Gnus J., Witkiewicz W., Dąbrowska K. 2023. New Phage-Derived Antibacterial Enzyme PolaR Targeting Rothia spp. MDPI cells.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/cells12151997 link
Floccari V., Dragoš A. 2022. Host control by SPβ phage regulatory switch as potential manipulation strategy. Current Opinion in Microbiology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2022.102260 link
Dragoš A., Butala M. 2022. Unique relationships between phages and endospore-forming hosts. Trends in Microbiology doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2022.11.009 link
Kohm K.,Floccari V.A., Lutz V.T., Nordmann B., Mittelstädt C., Poehlein A., Dragoš A., Commichau F.M., Hertel R. 2022. The Bacillus phage SPβ and its relatives: a temperate phage model system reveals new strains, species, prophage integration loci, conserved proteins and lysogeny management components. Environmental Microbiology link
Dragoš A., Andersen AJC., Lozano-Andrade CN., Kempen PJ., Kovács ÁT., Strube ML. 2021. Phages carry interbacterial weapons encoded by biosynthetic gene clusters. Current Biology 31, 3479-3489 link
Sun X, Xu Z, Xie J, Hesselber-Thomsen V, Tan T, Zheng R, Strube ML, Dragoš A, Shen Q, Zhang R, Kovács ÁT. 2021. Bacillus velenzensis stimulates resident rhizosphere Pseudomonas stutzeri for plant health through metabolic interactions. ISME J. doi.org/10.1038/s41396-021-01125-3 link
Danevcic T, Dragoš A, Spacapan M, Stefanic P, Dogsa I, Mandic-Mulec I. 2021. Surfactin facilitates horizontal gene transfer in Bacillus subtilis. Frontiers in Microbiology 12: 657407 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.657407 link
Hartmann R, Jeckel H, Jelli E, Singh PK, Vaidya S, Bayer M, Rode DKH, Vidakovic L, Díaz-Pascual F, Fong JCN, Dragoš A, Lamprecht O, Thöming JG, Netter N, Häussler S, Nadell CD, Sourjik V, Kovács ÁT, Yildiz FH, Drescher K. 2021. Quantitative image analysis of microbial communities with BiofilmQ. Nature Microbiology 6, 151–156 doi:org/10.1038/s41564-020-00817-4 link
Dogsa I, Spacapan M, Dragoš A, Danevcic T, Pandur Z, Mandic-Mulec I. 2021. Peptide signaling without feedback in signal production operates as a true quorum sensing communication system in Bacillus subtilis. Communications biology 4, 58 doi: org/10.1038/s42003-020-01553-5 link
Gallegos-Monterrosa R, Nordgaard Christensen M, Barchewitz T, Koppenhöfer S, Priyadarshini B, Bálint B, Maróti G, Kempen PJ, Dragoš A, Kovács ÁT. 2021. Impact of Rap-Phr system abundance on adaptation of Bacillus subtilis. Communications biology 13;4(1):468 doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-01983-9 link
Dragoš A., Priyadarshini B., Hasan Z., Lenz-Strube M., Kempen PJ., Maróti G., Kaspar C., Bose B., Burton BM., Bischofs IB., Kovács AT. 2020. Pervasive prophage recombination occurs during evolution of spore-forming Bacilli. ISME J, doi: 10.1038/s41396-020-00854-1 link
Martin M, Dragoš A, Otto SB, Schäfer D, Brix S, Maróti G, Kovács ÁT. 2020. Cheaters shape the evolution of phenotypic heterogeneity in Bacillus subtilis biofilms. The ISME journal 14 (9), 2302-2312 link
Otto SB., Martin M., Schäfer D., Hartmann R., Drescher K., Brix S., Dragoš A.#, Kovács ÁT#. 2020. Privatization of biofilm matrix in structurally heterogenous biofilms. mSystems, doi: 10.1128/mSystems.00425-20 link
Falcón García C, Kretschmer M, Lozano-Andrade C, Schönleitner M, Dragoš A, ÁT Kovács, Lieleg O. 2020. Metal ions weaken the hydrophobicity and antibiotic resistance of Bacillus subtilis NCIB 3610 biofilms. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes 6 1 doi:org/10.1038/s41522-019-0111-8 link
Dragoš A., Kovács ÁT. 2019. Evolved biofilm: review on the experimental evolution studies of Bacillus subtilis pellicles. Journal of Molecular Biology, doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2019.02.005 link
Hölscher T., Schiklang T., Dragoš A., Dietel AK., Kost C., Kovács ÁT. 2018. Impaired competence in flagellar mutants of Bacillus subtilis is connected to the regulatory network governed by DegU. Environmental microbiology reports 10: 23-32 link
Dragoš A., Martin M., Falcón García C.,Kricks L., Pausch P., Heimerl T., Bálint B., Maróti G., Bange G., López D., Lieleg O., Kovács ÁT. 2018. Collapse of genetic division of labor and evolution of autonomy in pellicle biofilms. Nature Microbiology 3: 1451–1460 link
Dragoš A., Kiesewalter H., Martin M., Hsu C-Y., Hartmann R., Wechsler T., Drescher K., Stanley-Wall N., Kümmerli R., Kovács ÁT. 2018. Division of labor during biofilm matrix production. Current Biology 28, 1903-1913 link
Dragoš A., Lakshmanan N., Martin M., Bálint B., Maróti G., Falcon Garcia C., Lieleg O., Kovács ÁT. 2018. Evolution of exploitative interactions during diversification in Bacillus subtilis biofilms. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fix155 link
Martin M.*, Dragoš A.*, Hölscher T.*, Maróti G., Bálint B., Westermann M., Kovács ÁT. 2017. De novo evolved interference competition promotes the spread of biofilm defectors. Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/ncomms15127 link
Dragoš A., Kovács ÁT., Claessen D. 2017. The role of functional amyloid in multicellular growth and development of Gram-positive bacteria. Biomolecules 7(3) E60. doi: 10.3390/biom7030060. link
Dragoš A., Kovács ÁT. 2016. Peculiar functions of bacterial extracellular matrix. Trends in Microbiology doi:org/10.1016/j.tim.2016.12.010 link
Hölscher T., Dragoš A., Gallegos-Monterrosa R., Martin M., Mhatre E., Richter A., Kovács ÁT. 2016. Monitoring spatial segragation in surface colonizing populations. Journal of Visualized Experiments e54752, doi:10.3791/54752 link
Martin M.*, Hölscher T.*, Dragoš A.*, Cooper V., Kovács ÁT. 2016. Laboratory evolution of microbial interactions in bacterial biofilms. Journal of Bacteriology 198: 2564-2571 link
Oslizlo A., Štefanic P., Vatovec S., Beigot Glaser S., Rupnik M., Mandic-Mulec I. 2015. Exploring ComQXPA quorum sensing diversity and biocontrol potential of Bacillus spp. isolates from tomato rhizoplane. Microbial Biotechnology 8: 527-540 link
Dogša I. *, Oslizlo A. *, Štefanic P., Mandic-Mulec I. 2014. Social interactions and biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis. Food Technology and Biotechnology 52: 149-157 link
Oslizlo A., Štefanic P., Dogša I., Mandic-Mulec I. 2014. Private link between signal and response in Bacillus subtilis quorum sensing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111: 1586-1591 link
Miernikiewicz P., Owczarek B., Piotrowicz A.,Boczkowska B., Rzewucka K., Figura G., Letarov A., Kulikov E., Kopciuch A., Switala-Jelen K., Oslizlo A., Hodyra K., Gubernator J., Dabrowska K. 2012. Recombinant expression and purification of T4 phage Hoc, Soc, gp23, gp24 proteins in native conformations with stability studies. Plos One doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038902 link
Oslizlo A., Miernikiewicz P., Piotrowicz A., Owczarek B., Kopciuch A., Figura G., Dabrowska K. 2011. Purification of phage display-modified bacteriophage T4 by affinity chromatography. BMC Biotechnology doi: 10.1186/1472-6750-11-59 link