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Dipl.Ing. Dr Christina Schäffer

Prof. Anton Kurir-Preis zur Unterstützung wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchskräfte (2004)
Kulturpreis des Landes Niederösterreich für Wissenschaft (1996)

Kählig, H., D. Kolarich, S. Zayni, A. Scheberl, P. Kosma, C. Schäffer, and P. Messner. N-acetylmuramic acid as capping element of alpha-D-fucose-containing S-layer glycoprotein glycans from Geobacillus tepidamans GS5 97T. J. Biol. Chem., in press.
Novotny, R., A. Scheberl, M. Giry-Laterriere, P. Messner, and C. Schäffer. 2005. Gene cloning, functional expression and secretion of the S-layer protein SgsE from Geobacillus stearothermophilus NRS 2004/3a in Lactococcus lactis. FEMS Microbiology Lett. 242, 27-35.
Schäffer, C., and P. Messner. 2005. The structure of secondary cell wall polymers: how Gram-positive bacteria stick their cell walls together. Microbiology 151, 643-651.
Novotny, R., A. Pföstl, P. Messner, and C. Schäffer. 2004. Genetic organization of chromosomal S layer glycan biosynthesis loci of Bacillaceae. Glycoconjugate J. 20, 435-447.
Schäffer, C., and P. Messner. 2004. Surface-layer glycoproteins: an example for the diversity of bacterial glycosylation with promising impacts on nanobiotechnology. Glycobiology 14, 31R-42R.
Novotny, R., C. Schäffer, J. Strauss, and P. Messner. 2004. S layer glycan-specific loci on the chromosome of Geobacillus stearothermophilus NRS 2004/3a and dTDP-L rhamnose biosynthesis potential of Geobacillus stearothermophilus strains. Microbiology, 150, 953-965.
Steindl, C., C. Schäffer, T. Wugeditsch, M. Graninger, R. Christian, N. Müller, and P. Messner. 2002. The first biantennary bacterial secondary cell wall polymer and its influence on S layer glycoprotein assembly. Biochem. J, 368, 483-94.
Schäffer, C., T. Wugeditsch, P. Messner and C. Whitfield. 2002. Functional expression of enterobacterial O polysaccharide biosynthesis enzymes in Bacillus subtilis. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68, 4722-4730.
Schäffer, C., T. Wugeditsch, H. Kählig, A. Scheberl, S. Zayni, and P. Messner. 2002. The surface layer (S layer) glycoprotein of Geobacillus stearothermophilus NRS 2004/3a. Analysis of its glycosylation. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 6230-6239.
Schäffer, C., T. Scherf, R. Christian, P. Kosma, S. Zayni, P. Messner, and N. Sharon. 2001. Purification and structure elucidation of the N acetylbacillosamine-containing polysaccharide from Bacillus licheniformis ATCC 9945. Eur. J. Biochem. 268, 857-864.