Publications

2025

Tingley JP, Andersen TO, Mihalynuk LG, Xing X, Low KE, Whiteside DP, Altshuler I, Jujihara N, Shearer AY, Klassen L, Serin S, Smith E, Reintjes G, Patel TR, Boraston AB, Hagen LH, Pope PB, Wade Abbott D. 2025. Global distribution of microbial carrageenan foraging pathways reveals widespread latent traits within the genetic “dark matter” of ruminant intestinal microbiomes. bioRxiv doi:10.1101/2025.03.04.641501:2025.03.04.641501. http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2025/03/04/2025.03.04.641501.abstract

2024

Ferrillo A, Tingley JP, King ML, Kidane A, Bajwa B, Xing X, Johannessen T, Lysberg A, Mydland LT, Øverland M, Reintjes G, Shearer AY, Klassen L, Low KE, Patel TR, Terry SA, Pope PB, Abbott DW, Hagen LH. 2024. Microbial alginate foraging is conserved in geographically and taxonomically distinct ruminant microbiomes. bioRxiv doi:10.1101/2024.12.17.628917:2024.12.17.628917. http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2024/12/18/2024.12.17.628917.abstract

King ML, Xing X, Reintjes G, Klassen L, Low KE, Alexander TW, Waldner M, Patel TR, Wade Abbott D. 2024. In vitro and ex vivo metabolism of chemically diverse fructans by bovine rumen Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus species. Animal Microbiome 6:50. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42523-024-00328-1

Kalenborn S, Zühlke D, Reintjes G, Riedel K, Amann RI, Harder J. 2024. Genes for laminarin degradation are dispersed in the genomes of particle-associated Maribacter species. Front Microbiol 15:1393588. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/39188312

Fraser ASC, Low KE, Tingley JP, Reintjes G, Thomas D, Brumer H, Abbott DW. 2024. SACCHARIS v2: Streamlining Prediction of Carbohydrate-Active Enzyme Specificities Within Large Datasets, p 299-330. In Lisacek F (ed), Protein Bioinformatics doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-4007-4_16. Springer US, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-4007-4_16

Xu Y, Schultz-Johansen M, Yao H, Wilkie I, Klau LJ, Chen Y, Orellana LH, Aachmann FL, Farhan M, Gu B, Reintjes G, Vidal-Melgosa S, Qiao D, Cao Y, Hehemann J-H. 2024. Phosphate starvation stops bacteria digesting algal fucan that sequesters carbon. bioRxiv doi:10.1101/2024.04.07.588495:2024.04.07.588495. http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2024/04/08/2024.04.07.588495.abstract

2023

Reintjes G, Klassen L, Abbott DW. 2023. Visualization of Carbohydrate Uptake Using Fluorescent Polysaccharides, p 241-249. In Abbott DW, Zandberg WF (ed), Carbohydrate-Protein Interactions: Methods and Protocols doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-3151-5_18. Springer US, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3151-5_18

Reintjes G, Heins A, Wang C, Amann R. 2023. Abundance and composition of particles and their attached microbiomes along an Atlantic Meridional Transect. Frontiers in Marine Science 10. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2023.1051510

Reintjes G, Giljan G, Fuchs BM, Arnosti C, Amann R. 2023. Visualizing and identifying selfish bacteria: a hunting guide. bioRxiv doi:10.1101/2023.05.10.540300:2023.05.10.540300. http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2023/05/11/2023.05.10.540300.abstract

2022

Klassen L, Reintjes G, Li M, Jin L, Amundsen C, Xing X, Dridi L, Castagner B, Alexander TW, Abbott DW. 2022. Fluorescence activated cell sorting and fermentation analysis to study rumen microbiome responses to administered live microbials and yeast cell wall derived prebiotics. Front Microbiol 13:1020250. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36938132

Robb, C.S., Hobbs, J.K., Pluvinage, B. et al. Metabolism of a hybrid algal galactan by members of the human gut microbiome. Nat Chem Biol 18, 501–510 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-022-00983-y

2021

*Klassen, L., *Reintjes, G., Tingley, J. P., Jones, D. R., Hehemann, J-H., Smith, A. D., Schwinghamer, T. D., Arnosti, C., Jin, L., Alexander ,T. W., Thomas, D., Amann, R., McAllister, T. A., and Abbott, D. A. (2021). Quantifying fluorescent glycan uptake to elucidate strain-level variability in foraging behaviors of rumen bacteria Microbiome 9, 23 (2021). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33482928

Klassen, L., Xing, X., Tingley, P.J., Low, K.E., King, M.L., Reintjes, G., Abbott, D.W. (2021) Approaches to investigate selective dietary polysaccharide utilization by human gut microbiota at a functional level. Frontiers in Microbiology 12, 308 https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2021.632684

Heins, A., Reintjes, G., Amann, R., Harder, J. (2021) Particle collection in Imhoff sedimentation cones enriches both motile chemotactic and particle-attached bacteria. Accepted Frontiers in Microbiology https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33868201

2020

Reintjes, G., Fuchs, B. M., Scharfe, M., Wiltshire, K. H., Amann, R., & Arnosti, C. (2020). Short-term changes in polysaccharide utilization mechanisms of marine bacterioplankton during a spring phytoplankton bloom. Environmental Microbiology, 22(5), 1884-1900. https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1462-2920.14971

Reintjes, G., Fuchs, B., Amann, R., and Arnosti, C. (2020). Extensive microbial processing of polysaccharides in the South Pacific Gyre via selfish uptake and extracellular hydrolysis  Frontiers in Microbiology 11:583158. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33391202

2019

*Hehemann, J. H., *Reintjes, G., Klassen, L., Smith, A. D., Ndeh, D., Arnosti, C., Amann, R., Abbott, W., (2019) Single cell fluorescence imaging of glycan uptake by intestinal bacteria. (*contributed equally) ISME J, 13, 1883-1889. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30936421

Reintjes, G., Tegetmeyer, H. E., Bürgisser, M., Orlic, S., Tews, I., Zubkov, M., Voss, D., Zielinski, O., Quast, C., Glöckner, F-O., Amann, R., Ferdelman, T. G., Fuchs, B. M., (2019). On-site analysis of bacterial communities of the ultra-oligotrophic South Pacific Gyre. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 85(14), e00184-00119. doi:10.1128/aem.00184-19. https://aem.asm.org/content/aem/85/14/e00184-19.full.pdf

Reintjes, G., Arnosti, C., Fuchs, B.M., Amann, R. (2019) Selfish, sharing and scavenging bacteria in the Atlantic Ocean: A biogeographical study of microbial substrate utilization. ISME J 13, 1119-1132 . doi:10.1038/s41396-018-0326-3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30531893

Fischer, T., Schrob, M., Mellwig, R., Reintjes, G., Markert, S., Rhiel, R., Littmann, S., Schweder, T., Harder, J., (2019) Biopearling of outer membrane vesicle chains by a marine flavobacterium. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 85(19), e00829-00819. doi:10.1128/AEM.00829-19 http://aem.asm.org/content/85/19/e00829-19.abstract

2018

Arnosti, C., Reintjes, G., & Amann, R. (2018). A mechanistic microbial underpinning for the size-reactivity continuum of dissolved organic carbon degradation. Marine Chemistry, 206, 93-99. doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2018.09.008. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304420318301324

Unfried F., Becker S., Robb C.S., Hehemann J.H., Markert S., Heiden S.E., Hinzke T., Becher D., Reintjes G., Kruger K., Avci B., Kappelmann L., Hahnke R.L., Fischer T., Harder J., Teeling H., Fuchs B., Barbeyron T., Amann R.I., Schweder T., (2018). Adaptive mechanisms that provide competitive advantages to marine bacteroidetes during microalgal blooms. ISME J, 12, 2894-2906. doi:10.1038/s41396-018-0243-5. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30061707

2017

Reintjes, G., Arnosti, C., Fuchs, B. M., & Amann, R. (2017). An alternative polysaccharide uptake mechanism of marine bacteria. ISME J, 11(7), 1640-1650. doi:10.1038/ismej.2017.26. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28323277

Boedeker, C., Schüler, M., Reintjes, G., Jeske, O., van Teeseling, M.C.F., Jogler, M. et al. (2017) Determining the bacterial cell biology of Planctomycetes. Nature Communications 8: 14853.doi:10.1038/ncomms14853 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14853#supplementary-information

Reintjes, G. (2017). Taxonomic and Functional Analyses of Marine Microbial Polysaccharide Utilisation. (PhD ). University of Bremen, Staats und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen

2016

Bennke, C. M., Reintjes, G., Schattenhofer, M., Ellrott, A., Wulf, J., Zeder, M., & Fuchs, B. M. (2016). Modification of a High-Throughput Automatic Microbial Cell Enumeration System for Shipboard Analyses. Applied and Environmental Microbiology , 82(11), 3289-3296. doi:10.1128/AEM.03931-15. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27016562

Teeling, H., Fuchs, B.M., Bennke, C.M., Krüger, K., Chafee, M., Kappelmann, L., Reintjes, G., et al.  (2016). Recurring patterns in bacterioplankton dynamics during coastal spring algae blooms. eLife, 5, e11888. doi:10.7554/eLife.11888 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27054497