publications

2025

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    ERK activation waves coordinate mechanical cell competition leading to collective elimination via extrusion of bacterially infected cells
    Lara Hundsdorfer, Marie Muenkel, Raul Aparicio-Yuste, and 8 more authors
    Cell reports, 2025
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2024

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    High-content high-resolution microscopy and deep learning assisted analysis reveals host and bacterial heterogeneity during Shigella infection
    Ana T López-Jiménez, Dominik Brokatzky, Kamla Pillay, and 3 more authors
    bioRxiv, 2024
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    The great escape: a Shigella effector unlocks the septin cage
    Ana T López-Jiménez, Gizem Özbaykal Güler, and Serge Mostowy
    Nature Communications, 2024
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2023

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    The septin cytoskeleton: Heteromer composition defines filament function
    Gizem Özbaykal Güler and Serge Mostowy
    The Journal of cell biology, 2023
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    Cell envelope growth of Gram-negative bacteria proceeds independently of cell wall synthesis
    Enno R Oldewurtel, Yuki Kitahara, Baptiste Cordier, and 6 more authors
    The EMBO Journal, 2023
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2021

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    Mechanistic insight into bacterial entrapment by septin cage reconstitution
    Damián Lobato-Márquez, Jingwei Xu, Gizem Özbaykal Güler, and 3 more authors
    Nature Communications, 2021
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2020

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    Class-A penicillin binding proteins do not contribute to cell shape but repair cell-wall defects
    Antoine Vigouroux, Baptiste Cordier, Andrey Aristov, and 8 more authors
    eLife, 2020
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    The transpeptidase PBP2 governs initial localization and activity of the major cell-wall synthesis machinery in E. coli
    Gizem Özbaykal, Eva Wollrab, Francois Simon, and 6 more authors
    eLife, 2020
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2019

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    Bacteria control cell volume by coupling cell-surface expansion to dry-mass growth
    Enno R Oldewurtel, Yuki Kitahara, Baptiste Cordier, and 2 more authors
    BioRxiv, 2019
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2017

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    Mechanical strain sensing implicated in cell shape recovery in Escherichia coli
    Felix Wong, Lars D Renner, Gizem Özbaykal, and 4 more authors
    Nature microbiology, 2017
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2015

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    In silico mutational studies of Hsp70 disclose sites with distinct functional attributes
    Gizem Ozbaykal, Ali Rana Atilgan, and Canan Atilgan
    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 2015
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