Publications

(# = Corresponding Author; * = Contributed Equally)

Lien, Y.-W., Amendola, D., Xu, J., Lee, K. S., Bartlau, N., Furusawa, G., Polz, M.F., Stocker, R., #Weiss, G. L., #Pilhofer, M.
Mechanism of bacterial predation via ixotrophy.
Science, 386, eadp0614 (2024)

Feldmüller, M., *Ericson, C., *Afanasyev, P., *Lien, Y.-W., Weiss, G. L., Wollweber, F., Hurst, M., #Pilhofer, M.
Assembly and release of a Tc toxin.
Nature Microbiology 9, 405-420 (2024)

*Kieninger, A., *Tokarz, P., Janovic, A., Pilhofer, M., #Weiss, G. L., #Maldener, I.
The septal junction subunit SepN is required for gated cell-cell communication.
Nature Communications 13, 1-15 (2022)

*Weiss, G. L., *Eisenstein F., Kieninger, A., Xu, J., Minas, H., Gerber, M., Feldmüller, M., Maldener, I., Forchhammer, K., #Pilhofer M.
Structure of a thylakoid-anchored Contractile Injection System in multicellular Cyanobacteria.
Nature Microbiology 7, 386-396 (2022)

#Springstein, B.L., Nürnberg, D.J., Weiss, G. L., Pilhofer, M., #Stucken, K.
Structural determinants and their role in cyanobacterial morphogenesis.
Life 10, 355 (2020)

*Weiss, G. L., *Stanisich, J. J., *Sauer, M. M., Lin, C.-W., Eras, J., Zyla, D., Trück, J., Devuyst, O., Aebi, M., #Pilhofer, M., Glockshuber, R.
Architecture and function of human Uromodulin filaments in urinary tract infections.
Science 369, 1005-1010 (2020)

Zachs, T., Medeiros, J. M., Schertel, A., Weiss, G. L., Hugener, J., Matos, J., #Pilhofer, M.
Fully automated sequential focused ion beam milling for cryo-electron tomography.
eLife 9, p. 13726 (2020)

*Weiss, G. L., *Kieninger, A., #Maldener, I., Forchhammer, K., #Pilhofer M.
Structure and Function of a Bacterial Gap Junction Analog.
Cell 178, 374-384.e15 (2019)

*Medeiros, J. M., *Böck, D., Weiss, G. L., Kooger, R., Wepf, R., #Pilhofer, M.
Robust workflow and instrumentation for cryo-focused ion beam milling of samples for electron cryotomography.
Ultramicroscopy 190, 1–11 (2018)

*Böck, D., *Medeiros, J. M., Tsao, H.-F., Penz, T., Weiss, G. L., Aistleitner, K., #Horn, M., #Pilhofer, M.
In situ architecture, function, and evolution of a contractile injection system.
Science 357, 713–717 (2017)

Weiss, G. L., Medeiros, J. M., & #Pilhofer, M.
In Situ Imaging of Bacterial Secretion Systems by Electron Cryotomography.
Methods in Molecular Biology, 1615(Chapter 27), 353–375 (2017)

*Shikuma N. J., *Pilhofer M., Weiss G. L., Hadfield M. G., #Jensen G. J. & #Newman D. K.
Marine tubeworm metamorphosis induced by arrays of bacterial phage tail-like structures.
Science 343, 529-533 (2014)