Serial innovations by Asgard archaea shaped the DNA replication machinery of the early eukaryotic ancestor.
Feng Y, Ding J, Lin Y, Cui D, Li K, Zheng D, Cai Z, Bell SD, Wu F#.
Nature Ecology & Evolution (2025)
Viperin immunity evolved across the tree of life through serial innovations on a conserved scaffold.
Shomar H*, Georjon H*, Feng Y, Olympio B, Tesson F, Cury J, Wu F# & Bernheim A#.
Nature Ecology & Evolution (2024)
RNA-guided RNA silencing by an Asgard archaeal Argonaute.
Bastiaanssen C*, Bobadilla Ugarte P*, Kim K*, Finocchio G*, Feng Y*, Anzelon TA, Kostlbacher S, Tamarit D, Ettma TJG, Jinek M, MacRae IJ, Joo C#, Swarts DC# & Wu F#.
Nature Communications (2024).
Evolutionary diversification of methanotrophic ANME-1 archaea and their expansive virome.
Laso-Perez R*,#, Wu F*,#, Crémière A, Speth DS, Zhao K, Magyar JS, Krupovic M# & Orphan VJ#.
Nature Microbiology 8, 231-245. (2023)
Unique mobile elements and scalable gene flow at the prokaryote-eukaryote boundary revealed by circularized Asgard archaea genomes.
Wu F#, Speth DR, Philosof A, Crémière A, Narayanan A, Barco RA, Connon SA, Amend JP, Antonshechkin IA, Orphan VJ#.
Nature Microbiology 7, 200-212. (2022) [ON THE COVER]
Cell boundary confinement sets the size and position of the E. coli chromosome.
Wu F, Swain P, Kuijpers L, Zheng X, Felters K, Guurink M, Solari J, Jun S, Shimizu T, Chaudhuri D, Mulder B & Dekker C.
Current Biology 29, 2131-2144. (2019)
Direct imaging of the circular chromosome in a live bacterium.
Wu F*, Japaridze A*, Zheng X, Wiktor J, Kerssemakers J, & Dekker C.
Nature Communications 10, 2194. (2019) [Faculty 1000 recommendation] [Editor’s highlight in ‘Genomes and Epigenomes’] [Highlighted in Nature Reviews Microbiology August 2019 issue]
Multistability and dynamic transitions of intracellular Min protein patterns.
Wu F*, Halatek J*, Reiter M, Kingma E, Frey E & Dekker C.
Molecular Systems Biology 12, 873. (2016) [ON THE COVER]
Nanofabricated structures and microfluidic devices for bacteria: from techniques to biology.
Wu F & Dekker C.
Chemical Society Reviews 45, 268-280. (2016)
Symmetry and scale orient Min protein patterns in shaped bacterial sculptures.
Wu F, van Schie BGC, Keymer JE & Dekker C.
Nature Nanotechnology 10, 719-726. (2015) [ON THE COVER]