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List of works by Kenneth Nigel Timmis

'Candidatus Lumbricincola', a novel lineage of uncultured Mollicutes from earthworms of family Lumbricidae

scientific article published in April 2009

7-O-malonyl macrolactin A, a new macrolactin antibiotic from Bacillus subtilis active against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin-resistant enterococci, and a small-colony variant of Burkholderia cepacia

scientific article

A Periplasmic Complex of the Nitrite Reductase NirS, the Chaperone DnaK, and the Flagellum Protein FliC Is Essential for Flagellum Assembly and Motility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

scientific article published on 13 July 2015

A dual lethal system to enhance containment of recombinant micro-organisms

scientific article

A novel alpha-glucosidase from the acidophilic archaeon Ferroplasma acidiphilum strain Y with high transglycosylation activity and an unusual catalytic nucleophile

scientific article

A purple acidophilic di-ferric DNA ligase from Ferroplasma

scholarly article

A routine check-up at the digital medical centre

scientific article published on December 2016

Acidiplasma aeolicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a euryarchaeon of the family Ferroplasmaceae isolated from a hydrothermal pool, and transfer of Ferroplasma cupricumulans to Acidiplasma cupricumulans comb. nov.

scientific article published on 23 July 2009

Adaptation of the hydrocarbonoclastic bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis SK2 to alkanes and toxic organic compounds: a physiological and transcriptomic approach

scientific article

Alcanivoraceae fam. nov.

scientific article published in 2015

Alcanivorax

scientific article published in 2015

Alcanivorax borkumensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new, hydrocarbon-degrading and surfactant-producing marine bacterium.

scientific article

An evaluation of terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis for the study of microbial community structure and dynamics

article by A. Mark Osborn et al published February 2000 in Environmental Microbiology

Analysis of storage lipid accumulation in Alcanivorax borkumensis: Evidence for alternative triacylglycerol biosynthesis routes in bacteria

scientific article published on 22 November 2006

Bacterial consortium proteomics under 4-chlorosalicylate carbon-limiting conditions.

scientific article

Behavior of Pollutant-Degrading Microorganisms in Aquifers: Predictions for Genetically Engineered Organisms

scientific article published on June 1, 1994

Biochemical and structural features of a novel cyclodextrinase from cow rumen metagenome.

scientific article published on February 2007

Broad host range vectors for expression of proteins with (Twin-) Strep-tag, His-tag and engineered, export optimized yellow fluorescent protein

scientific article published on May 20, 2013

COVID-19 transmission: economy-boosting investment should target innovation in pandemic containment strategies to minimize restrictions of civil liberties

scientific article published on 30 September 2020

Central role of dynamic tidal biofilms dominated by aerobic hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria and diatoms in the biodegradation of hydrocarbons in coastal mudflats

scientific article

Chaotropic solutes cause water stress in Pseudomonas putida

scientific article published on 01 December 2003

Chaperonins govern growth of Escherichia coli at low temperatures.

scientific article

Characterization and role of a metalloprotease induced by chitin in Serratia sp. KCK

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

Characterization of a chitinolytic enzyme from Serratia sp. KCK isolated from kimchi juice.

scientific article published on 3 April 2007

Characterization of marine isoprene-degrading communities.

scientific article published on 5 October 2009

Compatible solutes protect against chaotrope (ethanol)-induced, nonosmotic water stress

scientific article published on December 2003

Complete genome sequence and comparative analysis of the metabolically versatile Pseudomonas putida KT2440

scientific article

Concomitant osmotic and chaotropicity-induced stresses in Aspergillus wentii: compatible solutes determine the biotic window.

scientific article published on 9 June 2015

Conversion of a carboxylesterase into a triacylglycerol lipase by a random mutation

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Detection and diversity of expressed denitrification genes in estuarine sediments after reverse transcription-PCR amplification from mRNA

scientific article published on October 2002

Determining the identity and roles of oil-metabolizing marine bacteria from the Thames estuary, UK.

scientific article

Diversity of Bacillus-like organisms isolated from deep-sea hypersaline anoxic sediments

scientific article

Dynamics of reductive genome evolution in mitochondria and obligate intracellular microbes

scientific article

Effect of the earthworms Lumbricus terrestris and Aporrectodea caliginosa on bacterial diversity in soil

scientific article

Effects of long-term benzene pollution on bacterial diversity and community structure in groundwater

scientific article published in August 2005

Effects of temperature and biostimulation on oil-degrading microbial communities in temperate estuarine waters

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Efficacy of intervention strategies for bioremediation of crude oil in marine systems and effects on indigenous hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria

scientific article published on 01 June 2007

Efficient production of soluble recombinant single chain Fv fragments by a Pseudomonas putida strain KT2440 cell factory

scientific article (publication date: 21 February 2011)

Environmental Microbiology Reports is 10!

scientific article published in February 2018

Environmental Microbiology is 20!

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Environmental microbiology - the next 20 years: bioconnectivity and meta'omics 2.0.

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Expression of a temperature-sensitive esterase in a novel chaperone-based Escherichia coli strain

scientific article

Farewell to Bernard Witholt, A pioneering microbial biotechnologist

scientific article published on July 2015

Ferroplasma and relatives, recently discovered cell wall-lacking archaea making a living in extremely acid, heavy metal-rich environments.

scientific article

Functional consequences of single:double ring transitions in chaperonins: life in the cold

scientific article published in July 2004

Fungi and inflammatory bowel diseases: Alterations of composition and diversity

scientific article

Generalist hydrocarbon-degrading bacterial communities in the oil-polluted water column of the North Sea.

scientific article

Genome sequence completed of Alcanivorax borkumensis, a hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium that plays a global role in oil removal from marine systems.

scientific article published on December 2003

Genome sequence of the ubiquitous hydrocarbon-degrading marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis

scientific article

Genome-scale reconstruction and analysis of the Pseudomonas putida KT2440 metabolic network facilitates applications in biotechnology

scientific article

Golden age of drug discovery or dark age of missed chances?

scientific article published on December 2005

Gordonibacter pamelaeae gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the Coriobacteriaceae isolated from a patient with Crohn's disease, and reclassification of Eggerthella hongkongensis Lau et al. 2006 as Paraeggerthella hongkongensis gen. nov., comb. nov.

scientific article

Halophilic archaea in the human intestinal mucosa

scientific article published on 23 April 2010

Heterogeneous aerobic benzene-degrading communities in oxygen-depleted groundwaters

scientific article published on November 2006

High benzene concentrations can favour Gram-positive bacteria in groundwaters from a contaminated aquifer.

scientific article published on 6 June 2008

Human biome biotechnology and the personalization of odour profiles*

scientific article published on March 1, 2009

Identification of a cis-acting Sequence within the Pm Promoter of the TOL Plasmid which Confers XylS-mediated Responsiveness to Substituted Benzoates

Impact of a simulated oil spill on benthic phototrophs and nitrogen-fixing bacteria in mudflat mesocosms.

scientific article

In vitro alterations of intestinal bacterial microbiota in fecal samples during storage.

scientific article published in December 2004

Leitbakteria of microbial biofilm communities causing occlusion of biliary stents

scientific article published in October 2003

Limits of life in MgCl2-containing environments: chaotropicity defines the window.

scientific article published in March 2007

Low temperature-induced systems failure in Escherichia coli: insights from rescue by cold-adapted chaperones

scientific article published in January 2006

Metagenomics for mining new genetic resources of microbial communities

scientific article

Microbial Biotechnology is 10!

scientific article published on 24 October 2017

Microbial Biotechnology-2020.

scientific article published on 11 August 2016

Microbial biotechnology to assure national security of supplies of essential resources: energy, food and water, medical reagents, waste disposal and a circular economy

scientific article published in 2022

Microbial community of a saline mud volcano at San Biagio-Belpasso, Mt. Etna (Italy).

scientific article published on May 2002

Microbial consortia in mesocosm bioremediation trial using oil sorbents, slow-release fertilizer and bioaugmentation

scientific article published in August 2009

Microbial enzymes mined from the Urania deep-sea hypersaline anoxic basin

scientific article published in August 2005

Microbiome Yarns: bacterial predators, tissue tropism and molecular decoys

scientific article published on 26 December 2020

Microbiome Yarns: human biome reproduction, evolution and visual acuity,,.

scientific article published in January 2018

Microbiome Yarns: human milk oligosaccharides, Bifidobacterium and immunopowergames1,2,3,4.

scientific article

Microbiome Yarns: microbiome of the built environment, paranormal microbiology, and the power of single cell genomics1,2,3,4.

scientific article

Microbiome transplants to save the planetary surface biosphere

scientific article published on 16 November 2020

Microbiome yarns: The Global Phenotype-Genotype Survey. Episode III: importance of microbiota diversification for microbiome function and biome health

article

Microbiome yarns: The Global Phenotype-Genotype Survey: Episode I: all my worldly goods, including my microbiome, I thee endow

Microbiome yarns: microbial forensics for auditing provenance in global food chains,,

scientific article published on July 2017

Microbiome yarns: microbiome basis of memory,,.

scientific article published on 2 October 2017

Microbiome yarns: microbiomology of curly and straight hair

scientific article published on March 2017

Microbiome yarns: microbiomology of winter rosy face,,.

scientific article published on 12 April 2017

Microbiome yarns: the Global Phenotype-Genotype Survey: Episode II: laryngeal microbiota and vocal phenotypes (or diction and addiction)

Multiplication of microbes below 0.690 water activity: implications for terrestrial and extraterrestrial life

scientific article

Mutation in a "tesB-like" hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A-specific thioesterase gene causes hyperproduction of extracellular polyhydroxyalkanoates by Alcanivorax borkumensis SK2

scientific article

Natural microbial diversity in superficial sediments of Milazzo Harbor (Sicily) and community successions during microcosm enrichment with various hydrocarbons.

scientific article published in September 2005

Niche-specificity factors of a marine oil-degrading bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis SK2

scientific article published on 28 June 2008

Novel hybrid esterase-haloacid dehalogenase enzyme

scientific article published on 01 September 2010

Novel hydrolase diversity retrieved from a metagenome library of bovine rumen microflora.

scientific article published in December 2005

Novel polyphenol oxidase mined from a metagenome expression library of bovine rumen: biochemical properties, structural analysis, and phylogenetic relationships.

scientific article

Obligate oil-degrading marine bacteria

scientific article

Oceanicaulis alexandrii gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel stalked bacterium isolated from a culture of the dinoflagellate Alexandrium tamarense (Lebour) Balech

scientific article (publication date: November 2003)

Oleiphilaceae fam. nov., to include Oleiphilus messinensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium that obligately utilizes hydrocarbons

scientific article

Oleispira antarctica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel hydrocarbonoclastic marine bacterium isolated from Antarctic coastal sea water

scientific article

Pipelines for New Chemicals: a strategy to create new value chains and stimulate innovation-based economic revival in Southern European countries

scientific article published in January 2014

Polychlorinated biphenyl-degrading microbial communities in soils and sediments

scientific article

Primary producing prokaryotic communities of brine, interface and seawater above the halocline of deep anoxic lake L'Atalante, Eastern Mediterranean Sea.

scientific article

Pristine but metal-rich Río Sucio (Dirty River) is dominated by Gallionella and other iron-sulfur oxidizing microbes

scientific article

Protein Network of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Denitrification Apparatus.

scientific article published on 22 February 2016

Protein complex formation during denitrification by Pseudomonas aeruginosa

scientific article published on 31 August 2017

Proteomic insights into metabolic adaptations in Alcanivorax borkumensis induced by alkane utilization

scientific article published on June 2006

Pseudomonas putida: a cosmopolitan opportunist par excellence

scientific article published on 01 December 2002

Reactome array: forging a link between metabolome and genome

scientific article published on October 2009

Retraction

scientific article published on 01 November 2010

Scientists' warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change

scientific article published on 18 June 2019

Singh Chhatwal: A magical scholar and exceptional Streptococcus researcher

scientific article published on 01 October 2016

Stable isotope probing reveals the dominant role of Burkholderia species in aerobic degradation of PCBs

scientific article published on 29 December 2004

Strategies to minimize preventable morbidity and mortality resulting from pandemics like COVID-19

scientific article published on 31 August 2020

Stratified prokaryote network in the oxic-anoxic transition of a deep-sea halocline.

scientific article published in March 2006

Substrate specificity and expression of three 2,3-dihydroxybiphenyl 1,2-dioxygenases from Rhodococcus globerulus strain P6.

scientific article

Synthetic consortia of nanobody-coupled and formatted bacteria for prophylaxis and therapy interventions targeting microbiome dysbiosis-associated diseases and co-morbidities

Thalassolituus oleivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium that obligately utilizes hydrocarbons.

scientific article

The 'pH optimum anomaly' of intracellular enzymes of Ferroplasma acidiphilum.

scientific article

The COVID-19 pandemic: some lessons learned about crisis preparedness and management, and the need for international benchmarking to reduce deficits

scientific article published on 21 April 2020

The DIY Digital Medical Centre

scientific article

The Determination and Comparison of the 16S rRNA Gene Sequences of Species of the Genus Pseudomonas (sensu stricto and Estimation of the Natural Intrageneric Relationships

article

The Home Clinic or All in a Day's Work of Dr. Fics

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

The cellular machinery of Ferroplasma acidiphilum is iron-protein-dominated.

scientific article

The contribution of microbial biotechnology to economic growth and employment creation

scientific article published on 4 September 2017

The contribution of microbial biotechnology to sustainable development goals

scientific article published on 25 August 2017

The enigma of prokaryotic life in deep hypersaline anoxic basins

scientific article

The urgent need for microbiology literacy in society

scientific article published on 11 April 2019

Three stages of a biofilm community developing at the liquid-liquid interface between polychlorinated biphenyls and water

scientific article published in November 2005

Tight coupling of polymerization and depolymerization of polyhydroxyalkanoates ensures efficient management of carbon resources in Pseudomonas putida.

scientific article published on 28 February 2013

Transcriptional profiling of the marine oil-degrading bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis during growth on n-alkanes

scientific article

Uracil content of 16S rRNA of thermophilic and psychrophilic prokaryotes correlates inversely with their optimal growth temperatures

scientific article

Viable cyanobacteria in the deep continental subsurface

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Widespread capacity to metabolize polychlorinated biphenyls by diverse microbial communities in soils with no significant exposure to PCB contamination

scientific article published on 01 August 2007