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List of all Publications of our Staff

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

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  1. A comparative cell wall analysis of Trichoderma spp. confirms a conserved polysaccharide scaffold and suggests an important role for chitosan in mycoparasitismAuthors: Lisa Kappel*, Long Yu*, Carolina Escobar, Demetrio Marcianò, Vaibhav Srivastava https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1877-4154, Vincent Bulone, Sabine Gruber*equal contribution. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.03495-23

  2. Conference: EUCHIS – ICELAND – September 2023 "Chitosan from BSF larval skins expands the value chain and is effective  as biocontrol agent to combat plant pathogens" Carolina Escobar Rodríguez, Valeriia Zaremska, Ioannis Kampatsikas1, Emina Mustedanagic, Sabine Gruber

  3. Kappel, Lisa, Nicole Kosa, and Sabine Gruber. 2022. "The Multilateral Efficacy of Chitosan and Trichoderma on Sugar Beet" Journal of Fungi 8, no. 2: 137. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof8020137.

  4. Kappel L, Münsterkötter M, Sipos G, Escobar Rodriguez C, Gruber S. Chitin and chitosan remodeling defines vegetative development and Trichoderma biocontrol. PLoS Pathog. 2020 Feb 20;16(2):e1008320. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008320.PMID: 32078661; PMCID: PMC7053769.

  5. Lea Atanasova, Sabine Gruber, Alexander Lichius, Theresa Radebner, Leoni Abendstein, Martin Münsterkötter, Nancy Stralis-Pavese, Paweł P. Łabaj, David P. Kreil, Susanne Zeilinger: The Gpr1-regulated Sur7 family protein Sfp2 is required for hyphal growth and cell wall stability in the mycoparasite Trichoderma atroviride. Scientific Reports 12/2018; 8(1)., DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-30500-y
     

  6. Sabine Gruber, Susanne Zeilinger: The Transcription Factor Ste12 Mediates the Regulatory Role of the Tmk1 MAP Kinase in Mycoparasitism and Vegetative Hyphal Fusion in the Filamentous Fungus Trichoderma atroviride. PLoS ONE 10/2014; 9(10):e111636.., DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0111636
     

  7. P.M. Vieira, S. Zeilinger, R.S. Brandão, G.R. Vianna, R.C. Georg, S. Gruber, F.J.L. Aragão, C.J. Ulhoa: Overexpression of an aquaglyceroporin gene in the fungal biocontrol agent Trichoderma harzianum affects stress tolerance, pathogen antagonism and Phaseolus vulgaris development. Biological Control 08/2018; 126., DOI:10.1016/j.biocontrol.2018.08.012
     

  8. Matthias Holzlechner, Sonja Reitschmidt, Sabine Gruber, Susanne Zeilinger, Martina Marchetti-Deschmann: Visualizing fungal metabolites during mycoparasitic interaction by MALDI mass spectrometry imaging. Proteomics 03/2016; 16(11-12):n/a-n/a., DOI:10.1002/pmic.201500510
     

  9. S. Zeilinger, S. Gruber, T. Radebner, A. Lichius: The Trichoderma atroviride 7-transmembrane receptor Gpr1 is essential for fungal mycoparasitism and interacts with a Sur7 family membrane protein. Mycoses 09/2015; 58:21-22.
     

  10. Sabine Gruber, Markus Omann, Susanne Zeilinger: Comparative analysis of the repertoire of G protein-coupled receptors of three species of the fungal genus Trichoderma. BMC Microbiology 05/2013; 13(1):108., DOI:10.1186/1471-2180-13-108
     

  11. Lea Atanasova, Stephane Le Crom, Sabine Gruber, Fanny Coulpier, Verena Seidl-Seiboth, Christian P Kubicek, Irina S Druzhinina: Comparative transcriptomics reveals different strategies of Trichoderma mycoparasitism. BMC Genomics 02/2013; 14(1):121., DOI:10.1186/1471-2164-14-121
     

  12. Alexander W.A.F. Reismann, Lea Atanasova, Alexander Lichius, Sabine G. Gruber, Susanne Zeilinger, Gerhard J. Schuetz: Visualizing Signaling Complexes in Filamentous Fungi. Biophysical Journal 02/2017; 112(3):146a., DOI:10.1016/j.bpj.2016.11.801
     

  13. Alexa Frischmann, Susanna Neudl, Romana Gaderer, Klaus Bonazza, Simone Zach, Sabine Gruber, Oliver Spadiut, Gernot Friedbacher, Hinrich Grothe, Verena Seidl-Seiboth: Self-assembly at Air/Water Interfaces and Carbohydrate Binding Properties of the Small Secreted Protein EPL1 from the fungus Trichoderma atroviride. Journal of Biological Chemistry 12/2012; 288(6)., DOI:10.1074/jbc.M112.427633
     

  14. Sabine Gruber, Markus Omann, Carolina Escobar Rodrìguez, Theresa Radebner, Susanne Zeilinger: Generation of Trichoderma atroviride mutants with constitutively activated G protein signaling by using geneticin resistance as selection marker. BMC Research Notes 11/2012; 5(1):641., DOI:10.1186/1756-0500-5-641
     

  15. F Matarese, S Sarrocco, S Gruber, V Seidl-Seiboth, G Vannacci: Biocontrol of Fusarium head blight: Interactions between Trichoderma and mycotoxigenic Fusarium. Microbiology 01/2012; 158(Pt 1):98-106., DOI:10.1099/mic.0.052639-0
     

  16. Differential regulation of orthologous chitinase genes in mycoparasitic Trichoderma species. Gruber S, Kubicek CP, Seidl-Seiboth V. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2011 Oct;77(20):7217-26. doi: 10.1128/AEM.06027-11. Epub 2011 Aug 19. PMID: 21856825
     

  17. Christian P Kubicek, Alfredo Herrera-Estrella, Verena Seidl-Seiboth, Diego A Martinez, Irina S Druzhinina, Michael Thon, Susanne Zeilinger, Sergio Casas-Flores, Benjamin A Horwitz, Prasun K Mukherjee, Mala Mukherjee, László Kredics, Luis D Alcaraz, Andrea Aerts, Zsuzsanna Antal, Lea Atanasova, Mayte G Cervantes-Badillo, Jean Challacombe, Olga Chertkov, Kevin McCluskey, Fanny Coulpier, Nandan Deshpande, Hans von Döhren, Daniel J Ebbole, Edgardo U Esquivel-Naranjo, Erzsébet Fekete, Michel Flipphi, Fabian Glaser, Elida Y Gómez-Rodríguez, Sabine Gruber, Cliff Han, Bernard Henrissat, Rosa Hermosa, Miguel Hernández-Oñate, Levente Karaffa, Idit Kosti, Stéphane Le Crom, Erika Lindquist, Susan Lucas, Mette Lübeck, Peter S Lübeck, Antoine Margeot, Benjamin Metz, Monica Misra, Helena Nevalainen, Markus Omann, Nicolle Packer, Giancarlo Perrone, Edith E Uresti-Rivera, Asaf Salamov, Monika Schmoll, Bernhard Seiboth, Harris Shapiro, Serenella Sukno, Juan Antonio Tamayo-Ramos, Doris Tisch, Aric Wiest, Heather H Wilkinson, Michael Zhang, Pedro M Coutinho, Charles M Kenerley, Enrique Monte, Scott E Baker, Igor V Grigoriev: Comparative genome sequence analysis underscores mycoparasitism as the ancestral life style of Trichoderma. Genome biology 04/2011; 12(4):R40., DOI:10.1186/gb-2011-12-4-r40
     

  18. Verena Seidl-Seiboth, Sabine Gruber, Ugur Sezerman, Torsten Schwecke, Aydin Albayrak, Torsten Neuhof, Hans von Döhren, Scott E Baker, Christian P Kubicek: Novel Hydrophobins from Trichoderma Define a New Hydrophobin Subclass: Protein Properties, Evolution, Regulation and Processing. Journal of Molecular Evolution 03/2011; 72(4):339-51., DOI:10.1007/s00239-011-9438-3
     

  19. Sabine Gruber, Gustav Vaaje-Kolstad, Fabiola Matarese, Rubén López-Mondéjar, Christian P Kubicek, Verena Seidl-Seiboth: Analysis of subgroup C of fungal chitinases containing chitin-binding and LysM modules in the mycoparasite Trichoderma atroviride. Glycobiology 01/2011; 21(1):122-33., DOI:10.1093/glycob/cwq142
     

  20. Verena Seidl, Lifu Song, Erika Lindquist, Sabine Gruber, Alexeji Koptchinskiy, Susanne Zeilinger, Monika Schmoll, Pedro Martínez, Jibin Sun, Igor Grigoriev, Alfredo Herrera-Estrella, Scott E Baker, Christian P Kubicek: Transcriptomic response of the mycoparasitic fungus Trichoderma atroviride to the presence of a fungal prey. BMC Genomics 11/2009; 10(1):567., DOI:10.1186/1471-2164-10-567
     

  21. Movadat, S Gruber, CA Agu, F Wrba, B Marian, C Gasche: Differentielle Expression von STAT3 und IL10R2 bei Kolorektalkarzinomen. Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie 05/2009; 47(05)., DOI:10.1055/s-0029-1223944
     

  22. Sabine G Gruber, Maria Gloria Luciani, Paul Grundtner, Alexander Zdanov, Christoph Gasche: Differential signaling of cmvIL‐10 through common variants of the IL‐10 receptor 1. European Journal of Immunology 12/2008; 38(12):3365-75., DOI:10.1002/eji.200837718
     

  23. P Grundtner, S Gruber, S S Murray, S Vermeire, P Rutgeerts, T Decker, P L Lakatos, C Gasche: The IL-10R1 S138G loss-of-function allele and ulcerative colitis. Genes and immunity 10/2008; 10(1):84-92., DOI:10.1038/gene.2008.72
     

  24. Oliver Movadat, Sabine G. Gruber, Chukwuma A. Agu, Brigitte Marian, Friedrich Wrba, Christoph Gasche: M1623 Differential Expression of iL10r2, STAT1 and STAT3 in Colorectal Cancer. Gastroenterology 04/2008; 134(4)., DOI:10.1016/S0016-5085(08)61793-X
     

  25. Walter M Jaklitsch, Sabine Gruber, Hermann Voglmayr: Hypocrea seppoi, a new stipitate species from Finland. Karstenia 01/2008; 48(1):1-11., DOI:10.29203/ka.2008.423
     

  26. J Hermann, S Gruber, J B Neufeld, P Grundtner, M Graninger, W B Graninger, A Berghold, C Gasche: IL10R1 loss-of-function alleles in rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. Clinical and experimental rheumatology 07/2009; 27(4):603-8. Click here 
     

  27. Thomas C Zechmeister, Alexander K T Kirschner, Martina Fuchsberger, Sabine G Gruber, Beate Suess, Renate Rosengarten, Fritz Pittner, Robert L Mach, Alois Herzig, Andreas H Farnleitner: Prevalence of Botulinum neurotoxin C1 and its corresponding gene in environmental samples from low and high risk avian botulism areas. 01/2005; 22(3):185-95. Click here
     

  28. Gaderer R, Seidl-Seiboth V, de Vries RP, Seiboth B, Kappel L. N-acetylglucosamine, the building block of chitin, inhibits growth of Neurospora crassa. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 2017 Oct 1;107:1-1. DOI:10.1016/j.fgb.2017.07.005
     

  29. Prattes M, Loibl M, Zisser G, Luschnig D, Kappel L, Rössler I, Grassegger M, Hromic A, Krieger E, Gruber K, Pertschy B. A conserved inter-domain communication mechanism regulates the ATPase activity of the AAA-protein Drg1. Scientific reports. 2017 Mar 17;7:44751. DOI:10.1038/srep44751
     

  30. Ma S, Preims M, Piumi F, Kappel L, Seiboth B, Record E, Kracher D, Ludwig R. Molecular and catalytic properties of fungal extracellular cellobiose dehydrogenase produced in prokaryotic and eukaryotic expression systems. Microbial cell factories. 2017 Dec;16(1):1-4.DOI:10.1186/s12934-017-0653-5
     

  31. Gaderer R, Seidl-Seiboth V, Kappel L. Chitin and N-acetylglucosamine metabolism in fungi-a complex machinery harnessed for the design of chitin-based high value products. Current Biotechnology. 2017 Aug 1;6(3):178-93. DOI:10.2174/2211550105666160330205801
     

  32. Kappel L, Gaderer R, Flipphi M, Seidl‐Seiboth V. The N‐acetylglucosamine catabolic gene cluster in Trichoderma reesei is controlled by the Ndt80‐like transcription factor RON1. Molecular microbiology. 2016 Feb;99(4):640-57. DOI:10.1111/mmi.13256
     

  33. Akcapinar GB, Kappel L, Sezerman OU, Seidl-Seiboth V. Molecular diversity of LysM carbohydrate-binding motifs in fungi. Current genetics. 2015 May 1;61(2):103-13. DOI:10.1007/s00294-014-0471-9
     

  34. Loibl M, Klein I, Prattes M, Schmidt C, Kappel L, Zisser G, Gungl A, Krieger E, Pertschy B, Bergler H. The drug diazaborine blocks ribosome biogenesis by inhibiting the AAA-ATPase Drg1. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2014 Feb 14;289(7):3913-22. DOI:10.1128/MCB.00668-07
     

  35. Metzger KF, Voloshin A, Schillinger H, Kühnel H, Maurer M. Adsorptive filtration: A case study for early impurity reduction in an Escherichia coli production process. Biotechnology progress. 2020 May;36(3):e2948. DOI:10.1002/btpr.2948
     

  36. Metzger KF, Padutsch W, Pekarsky A, Kopp J, Voloshin AM, Kühnel H, Maurer M. IGF1 inclusion bodies: A QbD based process approach for efficient USP as well as early DSP unit operations. Journal of Biotechnology. 2020 Feb 27. DOI:10.1016/j.jbiotec.2020.02.014
     

  37. Rajamanickam V, Metzger K, Schmid C, Spadiut O. A novel bi-directional promoter system allows tunable recombinant protein production in Pichia pastoris. Microbial Cell Factories. 2017 Dec 1;16(1):152. DOI:10.1186/s12934-017-0768-8
     

  38. Capone S, Pletzenauer R, Maresch D, Metzger K, Altmann F, Herwig C, Spadiut O. Glyco-variant library of the versatile enzyme horseradish peroxidase. Glycobiology. 2014 Sep 1;24(9):852-63. DOI:10.1093/glycob/cwu047​

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Reviews

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  1. Susanne Zeilinger, Sabine Gruber, Ravindra Bansal, Prasun K Mukherjee: Secondary metabolism in Trichoderma – Chemistry meets genomics. Fungal Biology Reviews 05/2016; 30(2)., DOI:10.1016/j.fbr.2016.05.001
     

  2. Sabine Gruber, Verena Seidl-Seiboth: Self versus non-self: Fungal cell wall degradation in Trichoderma. Microbiology 08/2011; 158(Pt 1):26-34., DOI:10.1099/mic.0.052613-0

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Book chapters

 

  1. Kappel L, Gruber S. Chapter 12 - Chitin and chitosan—important structural components in Trichoderma cell wall remodeling. In: Gupta VK, Zeilinger S, Singh HB, Druzhinina I, editors. New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Elsevier; 2020. p. 243-280.
     

  2. Susanne Zeilinger, Sabine Gruber: Insights into Signaling Pathways of Antagonistic Trichoderma Species. Biotechnology and Biology of Trichoderma, Edited by Gupta et al, 02/2014: chapter Insights into Signaling Pathways of Antagonistic Trichoderma Species: pages 465-476; Elsevier., ISBN: 9780444595768

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Patents

 

Novel Plant Growth Regulators and Their Use in Modulating Organ Number. Sieberer T, Zwerger K, Kappel L, Huang W, Winter N and Ecker G, Applicant: Universität Wien, European Patent Application No. 14159940.7

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