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Akos T Kovacs

Leiden University, Institute of Biology
Verified email at biology.leidenuniv.nl
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Bacillus subtilis biofilm formation and social interactions

…, NC Bamford, NR Stanley-Wall, ÁT Kovács - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
… subtilis typically forms in vitro: a pellicle biofilm that develops at an air–liquid interface, a
colony biofilm that develops at an air–solid interface and a submerged surface-attached biofilm 4…

Biofilm formation and dispersal in Gram-positive bacteria

T Abee, ÁT Kovács, OP Kuipers… - Current opinion in …, 2011 - Elsevier
… Since biofilms are very resistant to antimicrobial agents, they are at the basis of a range of
problems, including quality and safety issues in food industry. Recently, major advances have …

Molecular Aspects of Plant Growth Promotion and Protection by Bacillus subtilis

…, MN Christensen, ÁT Kovács - Molecular Plant-Microbe …, 2021 - Am Phytopath Society
… Interestingly, when both mutants were inoculated at the roots in a mixture, the ability to form
a stable … All three master regulators play a role in root colonization, at least to some extent. …

Bacillus velezensis stimulates resident rhizosphere Pseudomonas stutzeri for plant health through metabolic interactions

…, A Dragoš, Q Shen, R Zhang, ÁT Kovács - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… ABI Real-Time PCR Instrument was operated under the following conditions: cDNA was
denatured for 10 s at 95 C, followed by 40 cycles consisting of 5 s at 95 C and 34 s …

Density of founder cells affects spatial pattern formation and cooperation in Bacillus subtilis biofilms

…, FJ Weissing, OP Kuipers, AT Kovács - The ISME …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
… , that the density of cells at the onset of biofilm growth affects … the frequency of the labeled
strain at the onset and end of … :frequency at the end of competition over the frequency at the …

[PDF][PDF] Division of labor during biofilm matrix production

…, K Drescher, N Stanley-Wall, R Kümmerli, ÁT Kovács - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
… The allocation of tasks can be achieved either at the phenotypic or at the genotypic level.
In the phenotypic specialization scenario, each individual carries genetic machineries for all …

The peculiar functions of the bacterial extracellular matrix

A Dragoš, ÁT Kovács - Trends in microbiology, 2017 - cell.com
… Through interaction with membrane component EpsA, EPS prevents autophosphorylation
of EpsA/EpsB tyrosine kinases, while at the same time it promotes phosphorylation of other …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative image analysis of microbial communities with BiofilmQ

…, S Häussler, CD Nadell, V Sourjik, ÁT Kovács… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
… Convolutional neural networks are rapidly improving in segmentation accuracy at present,
and it is probable that they will result in highly accurate 3D single-cell segmentation for …

Bacillus subtilis attachment to Aspergillus niger hyphae results in mutually altered metabolism

…, OP Kuipers, RP de Vries, ÁT Kovács - Environmental …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… Aspergillus niger mycelium was incubated at 95C for 10 min to kill the cells. When the …
subtilis was observed at the interface between the air–liquid medium (ie pellicle formation) …

Benchmarking various green fluorescent protein variants in Bacillus subtilis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Lactococcus lactis for live cell imaging

…, A Solopova, H Karsens, ÁT Kovács… - Applied and …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
… for the particular research question at hand. The suitability of a … , significantly different from
genes expressed at low levels (23). … GFP for studying gene expression at the single-cell level. …