Akos T Kovacs

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Akos T Kovacs

• Current institution: Terrestrial Biofilms Research Group, Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• Faculty member of Jena School for Microbial Communication, JSMC[2]
• Contact: akos-tibor.kovacs@uni-jena.de send mail

Research Interests

• bacterial biofilm development
• phenotypic heterogeneity
• transcription profiling of Bacilli
• Bacillus subtilis
• interaction of Bacilli and fungi
• evolution in biofilms

Publications

Pubmed

Recent publications

Ákos T Kovács, Tom H Eckhardt, Mariska van Hartskamp, Richard van Kranenburg, Oscar P Kuipers
Functional analysis of the ComK protein of Bacillus coagulans.
PLoS One: 2013, 8(1);e53471
[PubMed:23301076] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Guntur Fibriansah, Ákos T Kovács, Trijntje J Pool, Mirjam Boonstra, Oscar P Kuipers, Andy-Mark W H Thunnissen
Crystal structures of two transcriptional regulators from Bacillus cereus define the conserved structural features of a PadR subfamily.
PLoS One: 2012, 7(11);e48015
[PubMed:23189126] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Martin Lehnik-Habrink, Leonie Rempeters, Ákos T Kovács, Christoph Wrede, Claudia Baierlein, Heike Krebber, Oscar P Kuipers, Jörg Stülke
DEAD-Box RNA helicases in Bacillus subtilis have multiple functions and act independently from each other.
J Bacteriol: 2013, 195(3);534-44
[PubMed:23175651] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Akos T Kovács, Jordi van Gestel, Oscar P Kuipers
The protective layer of biofilm: a repellent function for a new class of amphiphilic proteins.
Mol Microbiol: 2012, 85(1);8-11
[PubMed:22607588] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

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