Mohamed, Sherihan Samir Hassan
(2028-04-08); Dissertation; Parts of this thesis have been published in peer-reviewed journals and as preprints in bioRxiv as: 1- Samir, S., Doello, S., Enkerlin, A. M., Zimmer, E., Haffner, M., Müller, T., ... & Selim, K. A. (2025). The second messenger c-di-AMP controls natural competence via ComFB signaling protein. Cell Discovery, 11(1), 65. 2- Samir, S., Elshereef, A. A., Alva, V., Hahn, J., Eck, F., Celma, L., ... & Selim, K. A. (2025). ComFB, a widespread family of c-di-NMP receptor proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(38), e2513041122. 3- Hahn, J., Celma, L., Elshereef, A. A., Samir, S., Dubnau, E., Selim, K. A., & Dubnau, D. (2025). c-di-GMP-Dependent Regulation of Motility by comFB and comFC. bioRxiv. 4- Wallner, T., He, C., Samir, S., Lopes, E. S., Zeng, X., Zhang, C. C., ... & Wilde, A. (2026). Regulation of cyanobacterial type IV pilus-dependent functions by interaction between a c-di-GMP receptor and two transcription factors. bioRxiv, 2026-03. 5- Müller, T., Kleusberg, F. M., Roganowicz, K., Weis