Grote, M., Polyhach, Y., Jeschke, G., Steinhoff, H.J., Schneider, E., and Bordignon, E. (2009) Transmembrane signaling in the maltose ABC transporter MalFGK2-E: The periplasmic MalF-P2 loop communicates substrate availability to the ATP-bound MalK dimer.
J. Biol. Chem. 284, 17521-17526  PubMed

Jacso, T., Grote, M., Daus, M., Schmieder, P., Keller, S., Schneider, E., and Reif, B. (2009) Periplasmic loop P2 of the MalF subunit of the maltose ATP binding cassette transporter is sufficient to bind the maltose binding protein MalE.
Biochemistry 48, 2216-2225  PubMed

Daus, M.L., Grote, M., and Schneider, E. (2009) The MalF P2 loop of the ATP-binding cassette transporter MalFGK2 from Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium interacts with maltose binding protein (MalE) throughout the catalytic cycle.
J. Bacteriol. 191, 754- 761  PubMed

Grote, M., Bordignon, E., Polyhach, Y., Jeschke, G., Steinhoff, H.J., and Schneider, E. (2008) A comparative electron paramagnetic resonance study of the nucleotide-binding domains' catalytic cycle in the assembled maltose ATP-binding cassette importer.
Biophys J. 95, 2924-2938  PubMed

Vahedi-Faridi, A., Eckey, V., Scheffel, F., Alings, C., Landmesser, H., Schneider, E., and Saenger, W. (2008) Crystal structures and mutational analysis of the arginine-, lysine-, histidine-binding protein ArtJ from Geobacillus stearothermophilus. Implications for interactions of ArtJ with its cognate ATP-binding-cassette transporter Art(MP)2.
J. Mol. Biol. 375, 448-459  PubMed

Daus, M.L., Berendt, S., Wuttge, S., and Schneider E. (2007) Maltose binding protein (MalE) interacts with periplasmic loops P2 and P1, respectively, of the MalFG subunits of the maltose ATP-binding cassette transporter (MalFGK2) from Escherichia coli / Salmonella during transport cycle.
Mol. Microbiol. 66, 1107-1122  PubMed

Daus, M.L., Grote, M., Müller, P., Doebber, M., Herrmann, S., Steinhoff, H.J., Dassa, E., and Schneider E. (2007) ATP-driven MalK dimer closure and reopening and conformational changes of the "EAA" motifs are crucial for function of the maltose ATP-binding cassette transporter (MalFGK2).
J. Biol. Chem. 282, 22387-22396  PubMed

Blüschke, B., Eckey, V., Kunert, B., Berendt, S., Landmesser, H., Portwich, M., Volkmer, R., and Schneider E. (2007) Mapping putative contact sites between subunits in a bacterial ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter by synthetic peptide libraries.
J. Mol. Biol. 369, 386-399  PubMed

Blüschke, B., Volkmer-Engert. R, and Schneider E. (2006) Topography of the surface of the signal transducing protein EIIA Glc that interacts with the MalK subunits of maltose ATP-binding cassette transporter (MalFGK2) of Salmonella typhimurium.
J. Biol. Chem. 281, 12833-12840  PubMed

Daus, M.L., Landmesser, H., Schlosser, A., Müller, P., Herrmann, A., and Schneider, E. (2006) ATP induces conformational changes of periplasmic loop regions of the maltose ATP-binding cassette transporter.
J. Biol. Chem. 281, 3856-3865  PubMed

Scheffel, F., Demmer, U., Warkentin, E., Hülsmann, A., Schneider, E., and Ermler, U. (2005) Structure of the ATPase subunit CysA of the putative sulfate ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius.
FEBS lett. 579, 2953-2958  PubMed

Fleischer, R., Wengner, A., Scheffel, F., Landmesser, H., and Schneider, E. (2005) Identification of a gene cluster encoding an arginine ATP-binding-cassette transporter in the genome of the thermophilic Gram-positive bacterium Geobacillus stearothermophilus strain DSMZ 13240.
Microbiology 151, 835-840  PubMed

Brunkhorst, C., and Schneider, E. (2005) Characterization of maltose and maltotriose transport in the acarbose-producing bacterium Actinoplanes sp..
Res. Microbiol. 156, 851-857  PubMed

Brunkhorst, C., Wehmeier, U.F., Piepersberg, W., and Schneider, E. (2005) The acbH gene of Actinoplanes sp. encodes a solute receptor with binding activities for acarbose and longer homologs.
Res. Microbiol. 156, 322-327  PubMed

Scheffel, F., Fleischer, R., and Schneider, E. (2004) Functional reconstitution of a maltose ATP-binding cassette transporter from the thermoacidophilic gram-positive bacterium Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius.
BBA 1656, 57-65  PubMed

Schäfer, K., Magnusson, U., Scheffel, F., Schiefner, A., Sandgren, M.O.J., Diederichs, K., Welte, W., Hülsmann, A., Schneider, E., Mowbray, S.L. (2004) X-ray Structures of the Maltose-Maltodextrin-binding Protein of the Thermoacidophilic Bacterium Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius Provide Insight into Acid Stability of Proteins.
J. Mol.Biol., 335, 261-274  PubMed

Schneider, E. (2003) Import of solutes by ABC transporters-the maltose and other systems
ABC proteins: From bacteria to man, (E.B. Holland, S. Cole, K. Kuchler, C. Higgins, eds), pp. 157-185, Academic Press.

Eckert, K. and Schneider, E. (2003) A thermoacidophilic endoglucanase (CelB) from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius display high sequence similarity to arabinofuranosidases belonging to family 51 of glycoside hydrolases.
Eur. J. Biochem. 3593-3602  PubMed

Eckert, K., Ernst, H.A., Schneider, E., Larsen, S., and LoLeggio L. (2003) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius endoglucanase CelA.
Acta Crystallogr. D-Biol. Cryst., 59, 139-141  PubMed

Eckert, K., Zielinski, F., LoLeggio, L., and Schneider, E. (2002) Gene cloning, sequencing and characterization of a family 9 endoglucanase (CelA) with an unusual pattern of activity from the thermoacidophile Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius.
Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 60, 428-436  PubMed

Landmesser, H., Stein, A., Blüschke, B., Brinkmann, M., Hunke, S., and Schneider, E. (2002) Large-scale purification, dissociation and functional reassembly of the maltose ATP-binding cassette transporter (MalFGK2) of Salmonella typhimurium. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1565, 64-72  PubMed

Stein, A., Seifert, M., Volkmer-Engert, R., Siepelmeyer, J., Jahreis, K. and Schneider, E. (2002) Functional characterization of the maltose ATP-binding-cassette transporter of Salmonella typhimurium by means of monoclonal antibodies directed against the MalK subunit.
Eur. J. Biochem. 269, 4074-4085  PubMed

Schneider, E. (2001) ABC transporters catalyzing carbohydrate uptake.
Res. Microbiol. 152, 303-310  PubMed

Hunke, S., Mourez, M., Jéhanno, M., Dassa, E., and Schneider, E. (2000) ATP modulates subunit-subunit interactions in an ATP-binding-cassette transporter (MalFGK2) determined by site-directed chemical cross-linking.
J. Biol. Chem. 275, 15526-15534  PubMed

Hülsmann, A., Lurz, R., Scheffel, F. and Schneider, E. (2000) Maltose and maltodextrin transport in the thermoacidophilic Gram-positive bacterium Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius is mediated by a high-affinity transport system that includes a maltose binding protein tolerant to low pH.
J. Bacteriol. 182, 6292-6301  PubMed

Matzke, J., Herrmann, A., Schneider, E., and Bakker, E.P. (2000) Gene cloning, nucleotide sequence and biochemical properties of a cytoplasmic cyclomaltodextrinase (neopullulanase) from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius; reclassification of a group of enzymes.
J. Bacteriol. 182, 6292-6301  PubMed

Hunke, S., Landmesser, H., and Schneider, E. (2000) Novel missense mutations that affect the transport function of MalK, the ATP-binding-cassette subunit of the Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium maltose transport system.
J. Bacteriol., 182, 1432-1436  PubMed

Schneider, E. (2000) "ABC"-Transporter - Eine Proteinfamilie für den Transport chemischer Verbindungen über biologische Membranen von Mikroorganismen bis zum Menschen.
Chemie unserer Zeit 34 (2), 90-98

Hunke, S., and Schneider, E. (1999) A cys-less variant of the bacterial ATP-binding-cassette protein MalK is functional in maltose transport and regulation.
FEBS-Lett. 448, 131-134  PubMed

Schmees, G., Höner zu Bentrup, K., Schneider, E., Vinzenz, D., and Ermler, U. (1999) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of the bacterial ATP-binding-cassette (ABC)-protein MalK.
Acta Crystallogr. D-Biol. Cryst., 55, 285-286  PubMed

Schmees, G., Stein, A., Hunke, S., Landmesser, H., and Schneider, E. (1999) Functional consequences of mutations in the conserved 'signature sequence' of the ATP-binding-cassette protein MalK.
Eur. J. Biochem. 266, 420-430  PubMed

Brunkhorst, C., Andersen, C., and Schneider, E. (1999) Acarbose, a pseudooligosaccharide, is transported but not metabolized by the maltose/maltodextrin system of Escherichia coli.
J. Bacteriol. 181, 2612-2619  PubMed

Mourez, M., Jehanno, M., Schneider, E. and Dassa, E. (1998) In vitro interaction between components of the inner membrane complex of the maltose ABC transporter of Escherichia coli: modulation by ATP.
Mol. Microbiol. 30, 353-363  PubMed

Schneider, E. and Hunke, S. (1998) ATP-binding-cassette (ABC) transport systems: Functional and structural aspects of the ATP-hydrolyzing subunits/domains.
FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 22, 1-20  PubMed

Schmees, G. and Schneider, E. (1998) Domain structure of the ATP-Binding-Cassette protein MalK of Salmonella typhimurium as assessed by coexpressed half molecules and LacK'-'MalK chimeras.
J. Bacteriol. 180, 5299-5305  PubMed