| Bacteria have numerous distinctive groups of phage–plasmids with conserved phage and variable plasmid gene repertoires E Pfeifer, JA Moura de Sousa, M Touchon, EPC Rocha Nucleic acids research 49 (5), 2655-2673, 2021 | 184 | 2021 |
| Phage-plasmids spread antibiotic resistance genes through infection and lysogenic conversion E Pfeifer, RA Bonnin, EPC Rocha MBio 13 (5), e01851-22, 2022 | 150 | 2022 |
| Causes and consequences of bacteriophage diversification via genetic exchanges across lifestyles and bacterial taxa JA Moura de Sousa, E Pfeifer, M Touchon, EPC Rocha Molecular biology and evolution 38 (6), 2497-2512, 2021 | 122 | 2021 |
| Phage-plasmids promote recombination and emergence of phages and plasmids E Pfeifer, EPC Rocha Nature communications 15 (1), 1545, 2024 | 92 | 2024 |
| Adaptive laboratory evolution of Corynebacterium glutamicum towards higher growth rates on glucose minimal medium E Pfeifer, C Gätgens, T Polen, J Frunzke Scientific reports 7 (1), 16780, 2017 | 74 | 2017 |
| Generation of a prophage-free variant of the fast-growing bacterium Vibrio natriegens E Pfeifer, S Michniewski, C Gätgens, E Münch, F Müller, T Polen, A Millard, ... Applied and environmental microbiology 85 (17), e00853-19, 2019 | 62 | 2019 |
| Impact of xenogeneic silencing on phage–host interactions E Pfeifer, M Hünnefeld, O Popa, J Frunzke Journal of molecular biology 431 (23), 4670-4683, 2019 | 50 | 2019 |
| Silencing of cryptic prophages in Corynebacterium glutamicum E Pfeifer, M Hünnefeld, O Popa, T Polen, D Kohlheyer, M Baumgart, ... Nucleic acids research 44 (21), 10117-10131, 2016 | 48 | 2016 |
| Live cell imaging of SOS and prophage dynamics in isogenic bacterial populations S Helfrich, E Pfeifer, C Krämer, CC Sachs, W Wiechert, D Kohlheyer, ... Molecular microbiology 98 (4), 636-650, 2015 | 48 | 2015 |
| When bacteria are phage playgrounds: interactions between viruses, cells, and mobile genetic elements E Pfeifer, JM Sousa, M Touchon, EPC Rocha Current Opinion in Microbiology 70, 102230, 2022 | 32 | 2022 |
| Phage-plasmids spread antibiotic resistance genes through infection and lysogenic conversion. mBio 13: e0185122 E Pfeifer, RA Bonnin, EPC Rocha | 28 | 2022 |
| Cytometry meets next-generation sequencing–RNA-Seq of sorted subpopulations reveals regional replication and iron-triggered prophage induction in Corynebacterium glutamicum R Freiherr von Boeselager, E Pfeifer, J Frunzke Scientific Reports 8 (1), 14856, 2018 | 28 | 2018 |
| HrrSA orchestrates a systemic response to heme and determines prioritization of terminal cytochrome oxidase expression M Keppel, M Hünnefeld, A Filipchyk, U Viets, CF Davoudi, A Krüger, ... Nucleic acids research 48 (12), 6547-6562, 2020 | 22 | 2020 |
| A prophage-encoded actin-like protein required for efficient viral DNA replication in bacteria C Donovan, A Heyer, E Pfeifer, T Polen, A Wittmann, R Krämer, J Frunzke, ... Nucleic acids research 43 (10), 5002-5016, 2015 | 19 | 2015 |
| Genome diversification via genetic exchanges between temperate and virulent bacteriophages JAM Sousa, E Pfeifer, M Touchon, EPC Rocha bioRxiv, 2020.04. 14.041137, 2020 | 8 | 2020 |
| A manually curated compendium of expression profiles for the microbial cell factory Corynebacterium glutamicum A Kranz, T Polen, C Kotulla, A Arndt, G Bosco, M Bussmann, ... Scientific Data 9 (1), 594, 2022 | 6 | 2022 |
| Adaptive laboratory evolution of Corynebacterium glutamicum towards higher growth rates on glucose minimal medium. Sci Rep 7: 16780 E Pfeifer, C Gätgens, T Polen, J Frunzke | 6 | 2017 |
| Dom34 Links Translation to Protein O-mannosylation L van Wijlick, R Geissen, JS Hilbig, Q Lagadec, PD Cantero, E Pfeifer, ... PLoS Genetics 12 (10), e1006395, 2016 | 6 | 2016 |
| Antibiotic perturbation of the human gut phageome preserves its individuality and promotes blooms of virulent phages E Pfeifer, C d’Humières, Q Lamy-Besnier, FP Oñate, R Denise, S Dion, ... Cell Reports 44 (8), 2025 | 3 | 2025 |
| Bacteria have numerous phage-plasmid families with conserved phage and variable plasmid gene repertoires E Pfeifer, JAM de Sousa, M Touchon, EPC Rocha Biorxiv, 2020.11. 09.375378, 2020 | 3 | 2020 |