Selected Publications

*Wollweber F, *Xu J, Ponce-Toledo RI, Marxner F, Rodrigues-Oliveira T, Pössnecker A, Luo Z-H, Malit JJL, Kokhanovska A, Wieczorek M, Schleper C, ✉Pilhofer M
Microtubules in Asgard archaea
external page Cell 2025

Lien YW, Amendola D, Lee KS, Bartlau N, Xu J, Furusawa G, Polz MF, Stocker R, ✉Weiss GL, ✉Pilhofer M
Mechanism of bacterial predation via ixotrophy
external page Science 2024

Zachs T, Malit JJL, Xu J, Schürch A, Sivabalasarma S, Nußbaum P, Albers SV, ✉Pilhofer M
Archaeal type six secretion system mediates contact-dependent antagonism
external page Science Advances 2024

*Hugener J, *Xu J, Wettstein R, Ioannidi L, Velikov D, Wollweber F, Henggeler A, ✉Matos J, ✉Pilhofer M
FilamentID reveals the composition and function of metabolic enzyme polymers during gametogenesis
external page Cell 2024

Feldmüller M, *Ericson CF, *Afanasyev P, *Lien YW, Weiss GL, Wollweber F, Schoof M, Hurst M, ✉Pilhofer M
Stepwise assembly and release of Tc toxins from Yersinia entomophaga
external page Nature Microbiology 2024

Casu B, Sallmen JW, ✉Schlimpert S, ✉Pilhofer M
Cytoplasmic contractile injection systems mediate cell death in Streptomyces
external page Nature Microbiology 2023

*Rodrigues-Oliveira T, *Wollweber F, *Ponce-Toledo RI, Xu J, Rittmann SKMR, Klingl A, ✉Pilhofer M, ✉Schleper C
Actin cytoskeleton and complex cell architecture in an Asgard archaeon
external page Nature 2022

*Weiss GL, *Eisenstein F, Kieninger AK, Xu J, Minas HA, Gerber M, Feldmüller M, Maldener I, Forchhammer K, ✉Pilhofer M
Structure of a thylakoid-anchored contractile injection system in multicellular cyanobacteria
external page Nature Microbiology 2022

*Xu J, *Ericson CF, Feldmüller M, Rutaganira FUN, Eisenstein F, Lien YW, King N, ✉Pilhofer M
Identification and structure of an extracellular contractile injection system from the marine bacterium Algoriphagus machipongonensis
external page Nature Microbiology 2022

*Weiss GL, *Stanisich JJ, *Sauer MM, Lin CW, Eras J, Zyla DS, Trück J, Devuyst O, Aebi M, 
✉Pilhofer M, Glockshuber R
Architecture and function of human uromodulin filaments in urinary tract infections
external page Science 2020

Zachs T, Schertel A, Medeiros JM, Weiss GL, Hugener J, Matos J, ✉Pilhofer M
Fully automated, sequential focused ion beam milling for cryo-electron tomography
external page Elife 2020

*Weiss GL, *Kieninger AK, ✉Maldener I, Forchhammer K, ✉Pilhofer M
Structure and function of a bacterial gap junction analog
external page Cell 2019

*Böck D, *Medeiros JM, Tsao HF, Penz T, Weiss GL, Aistleitner K, ✉Horn M, ✉Pilhofer M
In situ architecture, function, and evolution of a contractile injection system
external page Science 2017

*Shikuma NJ,*Pilhofer M, Weiss GL, ✉Hadfield MG, ✉Jensen GJ, ✉Newman DK
Marine tubeworm metamorphosis induced by arrays of bacterial phage tail-like structures
external page Science 2014

*Basler M, *Pilhofer M, Henderson GP, ✉Jensen GJ, ✉Mekalanos JJ
Type VI secretion requires a dynamic contractile phage tail-like structure
external page Nature 2012

✉Pilhofer M, Ladinsky MS, McDowall AW, Petroni G, ✉Jensen GJ
Microtubules in Bacteria: ancient tubulins build a five-protofilament homolog of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton
external page PLoS Biology 2011