List of Publications

Reviewed Journals 

2012

• Yazmid Reyes-Dominguez, Stefan Boedi, Michael Sulyok, Gerlinde Wiesenberger, Norbert Stoppacher Rudolf Krska and Joseph Strauss (2012). Heterochromatin influences the secondary metabolite profile in the plant pathogen Fusarium graminearum. Fungal Genet. Biol. 49: 39-47.

2010-2011

• Hans-Wilhelm Nützmann, Yazmid Reyes-Dominguez, Volker Schroeckh, Kirstin Scherlach, Christian Hertweck, Joseph Strauss and Axel A. Brakhage (2011). Bacteria induced natural product formation in the fungus Aspergillus nidulans requires Saga/Ada mediated histone acetylation. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci, 108: 14282-14287 
• Markus Gorfer, Marzena Blumhoff, Sylvia Klaubauf, Alexander Urban, Erich Inselsbacher, Dragana Bandian, Birgit Mitter, Angela Sessitsch, Wolfgang Wanek, Joseph Strauss (2011). Community profiling and gene expression of fungal assimilatory nitrate reductases in agricultural soil ISME-J. 5: 1771-1783. 
  doi: 10.1038/ismej.2011.53. Epub 2011 May 12 
• Susanna De Maria, Anna R. Rivelli, Melanie Kuffner, Angela Sessitsch, Walter W. Wenzel, Markus Gorfer, Joseph Strauss, Markus Puschenreiter (2011). Interactions between accumulation of trace elements and macronutrients in Salix caprea after inoculation with rhizosphere microorganisms. Chemosphere May doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2011.05.002 
• Katrin Glaser, Evelyn Hackl, Erich Inselsbacher, Joseph Strauss,Wolfgang Wanek, Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern and Angela Sessitsch (2010). Dynamics ofammonia-oxidizing communities in barley-planted bulk soiland rhizospherefollowing nitrateandammoniumfertilizer amendment. FEMS Microbial Ecology 74: 575-591 (published online Aug. 2010. DOI:10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.00970.x) 
• Erich Inselsbacher, Wolfgang Wanek, Katrin Ripka, Evelyn Hackl, Angela Sessitsch, Joseph Strauss, Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern (2010). Greenhouse gas fluxes respond to different N fertilizer types due to altered plant-soil-microbe interactions. (Plant and Soil, Oct. DOI 10.1007/s11104-010-0597-6) 
• Christina Kaiser, Lucia Fuchslueger, Marianne Koranda, Markus Gorfer, Claus F.Stange,  Barbara Kitzler, Frank Rasche, Joseph Strauss, Angela Sessitsch, Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern, and Andreas Richter (2011) Plants control the seasonal dynamic of microbial nitrogen cycling in a beech forest soil by belowground carbon allocation. Ecology 92: 1036-1051 
• Thorsten Schinko, Harald Berger, Wanseon Lee, Andreas Gallmetzer, Katharina Pirker, Robert Pachlinger, Ingrid Buchner, Thomas Reichenauer, Ulrich Güldner and Joseph Strauss (2010) The Aspergillus nidulans nitrate transcriptome reveals connections to nitric oxide metabolism. Mol.Mircobiol. 78: 720-738. 
• Klaubauf, S., Inselsbacher, E., Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S., Wanek, W., Gottsberger, R., Strauss, J., and Gorfer, M. 2010. Molecular diversity of fungal communities in agricultural and grassland soils from Lower Austria. Fungal Diversity 44: 65-75 
• Joseph Strauss and Yazmid Reyes-Dominguez (2011). Regulation of secondary metabolism by chromatin structure and epigenetic codes (review article). Fungal Genet. Biol. 48: 62-68 (online July 2010 doi:10.1016/j.fgb.2010.07.009; 
• Katharina M. Keiblinger, Edward K. Hall, Ute Szukics, Ieda Hämmerle, Günther Ellersdorfer, Wolfgang Wanek, Katja Sterflinger, Sandra Böck, Joseph Strauss, Andreas Richter and Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern. (2010) The Effect of Resource Quantity and Resource Stoichiometry on Microbial Carbon Use Efficiency. FEMS Microbial Ecology 73: 430-440 
• Yazmid Reyes-Dominguez, JinWoo Bok, Harald Berger, Keats Shwab, Andreas Gallmetzer, Claudio Scazzocchio, Nancy Keller and Joseph Strauss (2010). Heterochromatic marks are associated with the repression of secondary metabolism clusters in Aspergillus nidulans. Mol. Microbiol. 76: 1376-1386 
• Igor Y. Morozov, Meriel G. Jones, Dave G. Spiller, Daniel J. Rigden, Christoph Dattenböck, Rene Novotny, Joseph Strauss and Mark X. Caddick (2010) Distinct roles for Caf1, Ccr4, Edc3 and CutA in the coordination of transcript deadenylation, decapping and P-body formation in Aspergillus nidulans. Mol. Microbiol. 76: 503-516 
• Kuffner, M., De Maria, S., Puschenreiter, M., Fallmann, K., Wieshammer, G., Gorfer, M., Strauss, J., Rivelli, A.R., and Sessitsch, A. (2010). Culturable bacteria from Zn and Cd-accumulating Salix caprea with differential effects on plant growth and heavy metal availability. J. Appl. Microbiol.. 108:1471-1484)
• Erich Inselsbacher, Nina Hinko-Najera Umana, Florian C. Stange, Markus Gorfer, Elisabeth Schüller, Katrin Ripka, Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern, Rebecca Hood-Novotny, Joseph Strauss, and Wolfgang Wanek (2010). Short-term competition between crop plants and soil microbes for inorganic N fertilizer. Soil Biol. & Biochem. 42: 360-372 

2009 - 2006

• Harald Berger, Thorsten Schinko,  Wanseon Lee, David Canovas, Ulrich Güldner and Joseph Strauss (2009) The Aspergillus nidulans nitrate transcriptome reveals intimate connection to secondary and nitric oxide metabolism. (submitted)
• M. Gorfer, H. Persak, H, Berger, S. Brynda, D. Bandian, and  J. Strauss (2009). Identification of heavy metal regulated genes from the  root associated ascomycete Cadophora finlandica using a genomic microarray. (in press Mycological Research)
• Erich Inselsbacher, Nina Hinko-Najera Umana, Florian C. Stange, Markus Gorfer, Elisabeth Schüller, Katrin Ripka, Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern, Rebecca Hood-Novotny, Joseph Strauss, and Wolfgang Wanek (2009). Short-term competition between crop plants and soil microbes for inorganic N fertilizer. (submitted)
• Yazmid Reyes-Dominguez, JinWoo Bok, Harald Berger, Keats Shwab, Andreas Gallmetzer, Claudio Scazzocchio, Nancy Keller and Joseph Strauss (2009). Epigenetic mechanisms regulate secondary metabolism in Aspergillus nidulans. (in press, Molecular Microbiology)
• Jin Woo Bok, , Yi-Ming Chiang, Edyta Szewczyk, Yazmid Reyes-Dominguez, Ashley D. Davidson, James F. Sanchez, Hsien-Chun Lo, Kenji Watanabe, Joseph Strauss, Berl R. Oakley, Clay C. C. Wang, and Nancy P. Keller (2009). Chromatin-level regulation of cryptic biosynthetic gene clusters in Aspergillus nidulans. Nature Chem. Biol. 5: 462-464
• Frederico Marianetti Soriani, Marcia Regina Kress, Paula Fagundes de Gouvêa, Iran Malavazi, Marcela Savoldi, Andreas Gallmetzer, Joseph Strauss, Maria Helena de Souza Goldman and Gustavo Henrique Goldman (2009).  Functional characterization of the Aspergillus nidulans methionine sulfoxide reductases (msrA and msrB). Fungal Genetics and Biology 46:410-417
• Inselsbacher E, Ripka K, Klaubauf S, Fedosoyenko D, Hackl E, Gorfer M, Hood-Novotny R, Von Wirén N, Sessitsch A, Zechmeister-Boltenstern S, Wanek W and  Strauss J (2009). A cost-effective high-throughput microcosm system for studying nitrogen dynamics at the plant-microbe-soil interface. Plant and Soil  317: 293-307
• Asjad Basheer, Harald Berger, Yazmid Reyes-Dominguez and Joseph Strauss (2009). A library-based method to rapidly analyze chromatin accessibility at multiple genomic regions.
  Nucleic Acid Research 37:e42 7,0
• Alexander Urban, Markus Puschenreiter, Joseph Strauss and Markus Gorfer (2008). Diversity and structure of ectomycorrhizal and co-associated fungal communities in a serpentine soil. Mycorrhiza 18: 339-345 2,8
• Harald Berger, Asjad Basheer, Sandra Böck, Thomas Dalik, Friedrich Altmann, and Joseph Strauss (2008).
  Dissecting individual steps of nitrogen transcription factor cooperation in the Aspergillus nidulans nitrate cluster.
  Mol. Microbiol 69: 1385 -1398
• Reyes-Dominguez, Y., Narendja, F., Berger, H., Gallmetzer, A., Fernandez, R., Garcia, I., Scazzocchio, C. and Strauss, J. (2008) Nucleosome positioning and histone H3 acetylation are independent processes in the Aspergillus nidulans prnD-prnB bidirectional promoter. Euk. Cell 7:656-63.
• Elke Kainz, Andreas Gallmetzer, Christian Hatzl, Juergen H. Nett, Huijuan Li, Thorsten Schinko, Robert Pachlinger , Harald Berger,  Tillmann Gerngross, Stefan Wildt and Joseph Strauss (2008). N-glycan modification in Aspergillus species. Appl. Environ. Microbiol 74:1076-86.
• Rene Novotny, Harald Berger, Thorsten Schinko,  Paul Messner, Christina Schäffer and Joseph Strauss
   (2008). A temperature-sensitive expression system based on the Geobacillus stearothermophilus NRS 2004/3a sgsE S-layer gene promoter. Biotechnol Appl Biochem. 49: 35-40
• Markus Gorfer, Sylvia Klaubauf, Dragana Bandian, and Joseph Strauss (2007). Cadophora finlandia and Phialocephala fortinii: Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and functional GFP-expression. Mycological Res. 111:850-855
• M.N. Dos Santos Utmazian, P. Schweiger, P. Sommer, M. Gorfer, J. Strauss, and W.W. Wenzel  (2007). Influence of Cadophora finlandica and other microbial treatments on cadmium and zinc uptake in willowsgrown on polluted soil. Plant Soil Environ. 53: 158- 166
• Andreas Bernreiter, Ana Ramon, Javier Fernández-Martínez, Harald Berger, Lidia Araújo-Bazan, Eduardo A. Espeso, Robert Pachlinger, Ingund Anderl , Claudio Scazzocchio and Joseph Strauss (2007).  Nuclear export of the transcription factor NirA is a regulatory checkpoint for nitrate induction in Aspergillus nidulans. Mol.Cell.Biol. 27: 791-802
• Harald Berger, Robert Pachlinger, Igor Morozov, Mark Caddick, Sabine Goller, Frank Narendja and Joseph Strauss (2006). The GATA factor AreA regulates localization and in vivo binding site occupancy of the nitrate specific transcriptional activator NirA.  Mol. Microbiol. 59: 433-446
• Mark X Caddick, Meriel G Jones, J. Martin van Tonder1, Hélène Le Cordier1,Frank Narendja, Joseph Strauss, and Igor Y Morozov (2006) Opposing signals differentially regulate transcript stability in Aspergillus nidulans. Mol.Microbiol. 62: 509–519

2005 - 2000

• Robert Pachlinger, Rudolf Mitterbauer, Gerhard Adam and Joseph Strauss (2005). Metabolically independent and accurately adjustable Aspergillus sp. expression system. Appl. Environ. Microbiol 71: 672-678
• M.Isabel Muro Pastor, Joseph Strauss, Ana Ramón and Claudio Scazzocchio (2004). A paradoxical mutant GATA factor. Eukaryot Cell 3:393-405
• René Novotny, Christina Schäffer, Joseph Strauss, and Paul 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: 953-65
• F. Narendja, S. P. Goller, M. Wolschek and J. Strauss. 2002. Nitrate and the GATA factor AreA are necessary for in vivo binding of NirA, the pathway-specific transcriptional activator of Aspergillus nidulans Mol. Microbiol. 44: 573-83
• C. Galhaup, S. Goller, C. K. Peterbauer, J. Strauss, and D. Haltrich. (2002). Characterization of the major laccase isoenzyme from Trametes pubescens and regulation of its synthesis by metal. Microbiology 148: 2159-2169
• J. Hicks, R. A Lockington, J. Strauss, D. Dieringer, C. P. Kubicek, J. Kelly, and N. Keller. 2001. RcoA has 
  pleiotropic effects on Aspergillus nidulans cellular development. Mol.Microbiol 39:1482-93
• B. M Abdallah, T. Simões, A. R. Fernandes, J. Strauss, B. Seiboth, I. Sá-Correia, and C. P. Kubicek. 2000. Glucose does not activate the plasma-membrane-bound H+-ATPase but affects pmaA transcript abundance in Aspergillus nidulans. Arch Microbiol 174: 340-345

1999-1996

• M. Muro, R. Gonzalez*, J. Strauss, F. Narendja and C. Scazzocchio. 1999. The GATA factor AreA is essential for chromatin remodelling in an eucaryotic bidirectional promoter. EMBO J. 18: 1584-1597 (*authors contributed equally to the work)
• J. Strauss, H. Horvath, B. M. Abdallah, J. Kindermann, R.L. Mach and C. P. Kubicek. 1999. The function of CreA, the carbon catabolite repressor of Aspergillus nidulans, is regulated at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional level.  Mol. Microbiol 32: 169-178
• M. Wolschek, F. Narendja, J. Karlseder, C.P. Kubicek, C. Scazzocchio, and J. Strauss. 1998. In situ detection of protein-DNA interactions in filamentous fungi by in vivo footprinting. Nucleic Acid Res. 26: 3862-3864
• J. Strauss, M. Muro-Pastor and C. Scazzocchio. 1998. The regulator of nitrate assimilation in ascomycetes is a dimer which binds a non-repeated, asymmetrical sequence. Mol.Cell.Biol. 18: 1339-1348
• D. Turner, W. Kovacs, K. Kuhls, E. Lieckfeld, J. Strauss, G. J. Samuels and C.P. Kubicek. 1997. Biogeography and phenotypic variation in Trichoderma sect. Longibrachiatum  and associated Hypocrea species. Mycol. Res. 101: 449 – 459
• R.L. Mach, J. Strauss, S. Zeilinger, M. Schindler and C.P. Kubicek. 1996. Carbon catabolite repression of xyn1 (xylanase I - encoding)  gene expression in Trichoderma reesei. Mol. Microbiol 21: 1273-1281
• M. Lorito, R.L. Mach, P. Sposato, J. Strauss, C.K. Peterbauer and C.P. Kubicek. (1996). Mycoparastic interaction relieves binding of the Cre1 carbon catabolite repressor protein to promotor sequences of the ech-42 (endochitinase encoding) gene in Trichoderma harzianum. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA 93: 14868-14872

1995 and before

• P.J. Punt, J. Strauss, R. Smit, J.R. Kinghorn, C.A.M.J.J. van den Hondel and C. Scazzocchio. 1995. The intergenic region between the divergently transcribed niiA and niaD genes of Aspergillus nidulans contains multiple NirA binding sites which act bidirectionally. Mol.Cell.Biol 15: 5688-5699
• R.L. Mach, B. Seiboth, A. Myasnikov., R. Gonzalez, J. Strauss, A.M. Harkki and C.P. Kubicek. 1995. The bgl1 gene of Trichoderma reesei  QM 9414  encodes an extracellular, cellulose-inducible ß-glucosidase involved in cellulase induction by sophorose. Mol. Microbiol. 16. 687-679
• J. Strauss, R.L. Mach, S. Zeilinger, G. Hartler, G. Stoeffler, M. Wolschek, and C.P. Kubicek. 1995. Cre1, the carbon catabolite repressor protein from Trichoderma reesei. FEBS Letters 376, 103-107
• G. Burger, J. Strauss, C. Scazzocchio and F.B. Lang. 1991. nirA, the pathway specific regulatory gene of nitrate assimilation in Aspergillus nidulans encodes a putative GAL 4-type zinc-finger protein and contains 4 introns in highly conserved regions. Mol.Cell.Biol. 12: 5746-5755
• J. Strauss and C. P. Kubicek. 1990. ß-glucosidase and cellulase formation by Trichoderma reesei mutant defective in constitutive ß-glucosidase formation. J.Gen.Microbiology 136: 1321-1326