Maarten Fauvart
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Zahir T, Pesek J, Franke S, Pee J, Rathore A, Smeets B, et al.
Microorganisms
. 2020 Feb;
8(2).
PMID: 32013036
Nanostructured surfaces can be engineered to kill bacteria in a contact-dependent manner. The study of bacterial interactions with a nanoscale topology is thus crucial to developing antibacterial surfaces. Here, a...
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Dewachter L, Deckers B, Martin E, Herpels P, Gkekas S, Versees W, et al.
Int J Mol Sci
. 2019 Dec;
21(1).
PMID: 31861427
Even though the Obg protein is essential for bacterial viability, the cellular functions of this universally conserved GTPase remain enigmatic. Moreover, the influence of GTP and GDP binding on the...
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Dewachter L, Fauvart M, Michiels J
Mol Cell
. 2019 Oct;
76(2):255-267.
PMID: 31626749
For decades, mankind has dominated the battle against bacteria, yet the tide is slowly turning. Our antibacterial strategies are becoming less effective, allowing bacteria to get the upper hand. The...
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Windels E, Michiels J, Van den Bergh B, Fauvart M, Michiels J
mBio
. 2019 Sep;
10(5).
PMID: 31506315
Antibiotic resistance poses an alarming and ever-increasing threat to modern health care. Although the current antibiotic crisis is widely acknowledged, actions taken so far have proved insufficient to slow down...
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Verstraeten N, Gkekas S, Kint C, Deckers B, Van den Bergh B, Herpels P, et al.
Mol Microbiol
. 2019 Sep;
112(5):1593-1608.
PMID: 31498933
Obg is a versatile GTPase that plays a pivotal role in bacterial persistence. We previously showed that the Escherichia coli homolog ObgE exerts this activity through transcriptional activation of a...
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Zahir T, Camacho R, Vitale R, Ruckebusch C, Hofkens J, Fauvart M, et al.
Commun Biol
. 2019 Jul;
2:269.
PMID: 31341968
Image-based high-throughput screening strategies for quantifying morphological phenotypes have proven widely successful. Here we describe a combined experimental and multivariate image analysis approach for systematic large-scale phenotyping of morphological dynamics...
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Cornelis S, Tytgat O, Fauvart M, Gansemans Y, Vander Plaetsen A, Wiederkehr R, et al.
Sci Rep
. 2019 May;
9(1):7341.
PMID: 31089203
The demand to perform forensic DNA profiling outside of centralized laboratories and on the crime scene is increasing. Several criminal investigations would benefit tremendously from having DNA based information available...
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Windels E, Michiels J, Fauvart M, Wenseleers T, Van den Bergh B, Michiels J
ISME J
. 2019 Jan;
13(5):1239-1251.
PMID: 30647458
Persisters are transiently antibiotic-tolerant cells that complicate the treatment of bacterial infections. Both theory and experiments have suggested that persisters facilitate genetic resistance by constituting an evolutionary reservoir of viable...
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Vervoort Y, Wiederkehr R, Smets M, Fauvart M, Stakenborg T, Woronoff G, et al.
Anal Bioanal Chem
. 2019 Jan;
411(6):1127-1134.
PMID: 30637438
Sulfite is often added to beverages as an antioxidant and antimicrobial agent. In fermented beverages, sulfite is also naturally produced by yeast cells. However, sulfite causes adverse health effects in...
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Ultra-fast, sensitive and quantitative on-chip detection of group B streptococci in clinical samples
Cai Q, Fauvart M, Wiederkehr R, Jones B, Cools P, Goos P, et al.
Talanta
. 2018 Oct;
192:220-225.
PMID: 30348381
PCR enables sensitive and specific detection of infectious disease agents, but application in point-of-care diagnostic testing remains scarce. A compact tool that runs PCR assays in less than a few...