CAZypedia celebrates the life of Senior Curator Emeritus Harry Gilbert, a true giant in the field, who passed away in September 2025.


CAZypedia needs your help!

We have many unassigned pages in need of Authors and Responsible Curators. See a page that's out-of-date and just needs a touch-up? - You are also welcome to become a CAZypedian. Here's how.
Scientists at all career stages, including students, are welcome to contribute.
Learn more about CAZypedia's misson here and in this article. Totally new to the CAZy classification? Read this first.

Difference between revisions of "User:Christoph Mayer"

From CAZypedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Line 1: Line 1:
[[Image:Cazy_Mayer.png|200px|right]]
+
[[[File:Cazy Mayer.png|thumb|200px|right]]
  
 
Christoph Mayer obtained his diploma in chemistry from the University of Freiburg i. Br., Germany and he achieved his PhD in Microbiology under supervision  
 
Christoph Mayer obtained his diploma in chemistry from the University of Freiburg i. Br., Germany and he achieved his PhD in Microbiology under supervision  

Revision as of 05:07, 17 January 2024

[[[File:Cazy Mayer.png|thumb|200px|right]]

Christoph Mayer obtained his diploma in chemistry from the University of Freiburg i. Br., Germany and he achieved his PhD in Microbiology under supervision of Dora M. Rast from the University of Zürich, Switzerland. With a postdoc fellowship awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) he moved to Vancouver, BC, Canada to work in the laboratories of Stephen G. Withers and R. Anthony J. Warren in the Chemistry Department and the Michael Smith Laboratoriesat the University of British Columbia (UBC). There he worked on the mechanism and function of bacterial GH3 and GH20 N-acetylglucosaminidases [1, 2] and on the conversion of GH1 glycosidases into glycosynthases [3]. For his habilitation he moved to the University of Konstanz, Germany, where he discovered the MurNAc 6-phosphate lactyl ether hydrolase (MurQ enzymes), a group of enzymes related to the polysaccharide lyases but not part of the CAZy world [4, 5]. In 2006 he was awarded an Heisenberg fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG). Since 2011 he is assistant professor at the University of Tübingen, Germany, where he discovered the GH170 and GH171 exo-lytic (phospho-)N-acetylmuramidases [6, 7, 8].

Christoph Mayer and his group contributed to the following CAZy families:

  • GH1 Agrobacterium sp b-glucosidase (Abg) [3]
  • GH3 Vibrio furnisii and Cellulomonas fimi b-N-acetylglucosaminidase [1, 2]
  • GH20 Cellulomonas fimi b-N-acetylglucosaminidase [2]
  • GH170 Staphylococcus aureus phospho-b-N-acetylmuramidase [6]
  • GH171 Bacillus subtilis and Tannerella forsythia exo-b-N-acetylmuramidase [7, 8]



Error fetching PMID 10625486:
Error fetching PMID 16762038:
Error fetching PMID 10648808:
Error fetching PMID 15983044:
Error fetching PMID 18837509:
Error fetching PMID 30524387:
Error fetching PMID 33684445:
Error fetching PMID 35129368:
  1. Error fetching PMID 10625486: [Vocadlo2000]
  2. Error fetching PMID 16762038: [Mayer2006]
  3. Error fetching PMID 10648808: [Mayer2000]
  4. Error fetching PMID 15983044: [Jaeger2005]
  5. Error fetching PMID 18837509: [Hadi2008]
  6. Error fetching PMID 30524387: [Kluj2018]
  7. Error fetching PMID 33684445: [Muller2021]
  8. Error fetching PMID 35129368: [Borisova2022]

All Medline abstracts: PubMed