Our Papers

Computational pipeline for sustainable enzyme discovery through (re)use of metagenomic data

Karol Ciuchcinski, Anna-Karina Kaczorowska, Daria Biernacka, Sebastian Dorawa, Tadeusz Kaczorowski, Younginn Park, Karol Piekarski, Michal Stanowski, Takao Ishikawa, Runar Stokke, Ida Helene Steen, Lukasz Dziewit

Journal of Environmental Management, 382, 125381 (2025)

Genome-guided development of a bacterial two-strain system for low-temperature soil biocementation

Karol Ciuchcinski, Grzegorz Czerwonka, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Zofia Godlewska, Katarzyna Misiolek, Katarzyna Zegadlo, Michal Styczynski, Lukasz Dziewit

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 109, 66 (2025)

Engineered magnetic particles derived from steelmaking dust for phosphorus recovery and extracellular DNA removal from municipal wastewater

Mateusz Skalny, Jakub Czeremuga, Anna Rokowska, Marta Gajewska, Artur Blachowski, Mateusz Marzec, Krystian Sokolowski, Lukasz Dziewit, Tomasz Bajda

Journal of Environmental Management, 380, 124830 (2025)

The skin mycobiome of patients with atopic dermatitis and healthy volunteers: A case-control study

Magdalena Zychowska, Zofia Bakula, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Anita Hryncewicz-Gwozdz, Mariusz Dylag, Alina Jankowska-Konsur, Jan Gawor, Robert Gromadka, Anna Zaczek, Tomasz Jagielski

Experimental Dermatology, 34, e70085 (2025)

Comparative analysis of Legionella lytica genome identifies specific metabolic traits and virulence factors

Piotr Koper, Jakub Wysokinski, Kamil Zebracki, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Lukasz Dziewit, Michal Kalita, Marta Palusinska-Szysz, Andrzej Mazur

Scientific Reports, 15, 5554 (2025)

Genome-wide comparative analysis of clinical and environmental strains of the opportunistic pathogen Paracoccus yeei (Alphaproteobacteria)

Magdalena Szuplewska, Dorota Sentkowska, Robert Lasek, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Mateusz Halucha, Lukasz Funk, Cora Chmielowska, Dariusz Bartosik

Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, 1483110 (2024)

Landscape of the metaplasmidome of deep-sea hydrothermal vents located at Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridges in the Norwegian–Greenland Sea: ecological insights from comparative analysis of plasmid identification tools

Karol Ciuchcinski, Runar Stokke, Ida H. Steen, Lukasz Dziewit

FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 100, fiae124 (2024)

Nanoscale surface defects of goethite governing DNA adsorption process and formation of the Goethite-DNA conjugates

Mateusz Skalny, Anna Rokowska, Michal Szuwarzynski, Marta Gajewska, Lukasz Dziewit, Tomasz Bajda

Chemosphere, 362, 142602 (2024)

Effect of composting and storage on the microbiome and resistome of cattle manure from a commercial dairy farm in Poland

Magdalena Zalewska, Aleksandra Błażejewska, Mateusz Szadziul, Karol Ciuchcinski, Magdalena Popowska

Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 31, 30819-30835 (2024)

Diversity of antibiotic resistance gene variants at subsequent stages of the wastewater treatment process revealed by a metagenomic analysis of PCR amplicons

Adrian Gorecki, Piotr Ostapczuk, Lukasz Dziewit

Frontiers in Genetics, 14, 1334646 (2024)

The role of EGY2 protease in response to high light stress

Robert Lucinski, Jedrzej Dobrogojski, Takao Ishikawa, Malgorzata Adamiec

Functional Plant Biology, 51, FP23243 (2024)

Spoligotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis – Comparing in vitro and in silico approaches

Zofia Bakula, Mikolaj Dziurzynski, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Daiva Bakonyte, Laima Vasiliauskaite, Birute Nakceriene, Rafał Krenke, Petras Stakenas, Tomasz Jagielski

Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 115, 105508 (2023)

Structure and functions of a multireplicon genome of Antarctic Psychrobacter sp. ANT_H3: Characterization of the genetic modules suitable for the construction of the plasmid-vectors for cold-active bacteria

Przemyslaw Decewicz, Krzysztof Romaniuk, Adrian Gorecki, Monika Radlinska, Maria Dabrawska, Agnieszka Wyszynska, Lukasz Dziewit

Journal of Applied Genetics, 64, 545-557 (2023)

Biopriming of seed with plant growth promoting bacteria for improved germination and seedling growth

Angelika Fiodor, Nur Ajijah, Lukasz Dziewit, Kumar Pranaw

Frontiers in Microbiology, 14, 1142966 (2023)

Revealing the diversity of bacteria and fungi in the active layer of permafrost at Spitsbergen island (Arctic) – Combining classical microbiology and metabarcoding for ecological and bioprospecting exploration.

Mikolaj Dziurzynski, Adrian Gorecki, Julia Pawlowska, Lukasz Istel, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Piotr Golec, Michal Styczynski, Krzysztof Poszytek, Anna Rokowska, Dorota Gorniak, Lukasz Dziewit

Science of the Total Environment, 856, 159072 (2023)

Heterologous production and characterization of a pyomelanin of Antarctic Pseudomonas sp. ANT_H4: A metabolite protecting against UV and free radicals, interacting with iron from minerals and exhibiting priming properties toward plant hairy roots

Michal Styczynski, Agata Rogowska, Christine Nyabayo, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Filip Romaniuk, Cezary Pączkowski, Anna Szakiel, Roderich Suessmuth, Lukasz Dziewit

Microbial Cell Factories, 21, 261 (2022)

Characteristics and comparative genomic analysis of a novel virus, VarioGold, the first bacteriophage of Variovorax

Przemyslaw Decewicz, Michal Kitowicz, Monika Radlinska

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23, 13539 (2022)

Development and validation of novel PCR primers for identification of plasmid-mediated colistin resistance (mcr) genes in various environmental settings

Adrian Gorecki, Marcin Musialowski, Mikolaj Wolacewicz, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Catarina Ferreira, Dana Vejmelkova, Malgorzata Grzesiuk, Celia M. Manaia, Jan Bartacek, Lukasz Dziewit

Journal of Hazardous Materials, 425, 127936 (2022)

Application of psychrotolerant Antarctic bacteria and their metabolites as efficient plant growth promoting agents

Michal Styczynski, Gabriel Biegniewski, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Bartosz Rewerski, Klaudia Debiec-Andrzejewska, Lukasz Dziewit

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 10, 772891 (2022)

Monitoring antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater environments: The challenges of filling a gap in the One-Health cycle

Aleksandra Milobedzka, Catarina Ferreira, Ivone Vaz-Moreira, David Calderon-Franco, Adrian Gorecki, Sabina Purkrtova, Jan Bartacek, Lukasz Dziewit, Caitlin M. Singleton, Per Halkjaer Nielsen, David Gregory Weissbrodt, Celia M. Manaia

Journal of Hazardous Materials, 424, 127407 (2022)

Metaplasmidome-encoded functions of Siberian low-centered polygonal tundra soils

Adrian Gorecki, Stine Holm, Mikolaj Dziurzynski, Matthias Winkel, Sizhong Yang, Susanne Liebner, Dirk Wagner, Lukasz Dziewit, Fabian Horn

The ISME Journal, 15, 3258-3270 (2021)

Effect of clinoptilolite and halloysite addition on biogas production and microbial community structure during anaerobic digestion

Martyna Ciezkowska, Tomasz Bajda, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Lukasz Dziewit, Lukasz Drewniak

Materials, 13, 4127 (2020)

Literature-based, manually-curated database of PCR primers for the detection of antibiotic resistance genes in various environments

Adrian Gorecki, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Mikolaj Dziurzynski, Anna Janeczko, Lukasz Drewniak, Lukasz Dziewit

Water Research, 161, 211-221 (2019)

Global phylogeography and ancient evolution of the widespread human gut virus crAssphage

Robert A. Edwards, Alejandro A. Vega, Holly M. Norman, Maria Ohaeri, Kyle Levi, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, Ondrej Cinek, Ramy K. Aziz, Katelyn McNair, Jeremy J. Barr, Kyle Bibby, Stan J. J. Brouns, Adrian Cazares, Patrick A. de Jonge, Christelle Desnues, Samuel L. Díaz Muñoz, Peter C. Fineran, Alexander Kurilshikov, Rob Lavigne, Karla Mazankova, David T. McCarthy, Franklin L. Nobrega, Alejandro Reyes Muñoz, German Tapia, Nicole Trefault, Alexander V. Tyakht, Pablo Vinuesa, Jeroen Wagemans, Alexandra Zhernakova, Frank M. Aarestrup, Gunduz Ahmadov, Abeer Alassaf, Josefa Anton, Abigail Asangba, Emma K. Billings, Vito Adrian Cantu, Jane M. Carlton, Daniel Cazares, Gyu-Sung Cho, Tess Condeff, Pilar Cortés, Mike Cranfield, Daniel A. Cuevas, Rodrigo De la Iglesia, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Michael P. Doane, Nathaniel J. Dominy, Lukasz Dziewit, Bashir Mukhtar Elwasila, A. Murat Eren, Charles Franz, Jingyuan Fu, Cristina Garcia-Aljaro, Elodie Ghedin, Kristen M. Gulino, John M. Haggerty, Steven R. Head, Rene S. Hendriksen, Colin Hill, Heikki Hyöty, Elena N. Ilina, Mitchell T. Irwin, Thomas C. Jeffries, Juan Jofre, Randall E. Junge, Scott T. Kelley, Mohammadali Khan Mirzaei, Martin Kowalewski, Deepak Kumaresan, Steven R. Leigh, David Lipson, Eugenia S. Lisitsyna, Montserrat Llagostera, Julia M. Maritz, Linsey C. Marr, Angela McCann, Shahar Molshanski-Mor, Silvia Monteiro, Benjamin Moreira-Grez, Megan Morris, Lawrence Mugisha, Maite Muniesa, Horst Neve, Nam-phuong Nguyen, Olivia D. Nigro, Anders S. Nilsson, Taylor O’Connell, Rasha Odeh, Andrew Oliver, Mariana Piuri, Aaron J. Prussin II, Udi Qimron, Zhe-Xue Quan, Petra Rainetova, Adán Ramírez-Rojas, Raul Raya, Kim Reasor, Gillian A. O. Rice, Alessandro Rossi, Ricardo Santos, John Shimashita, Elyse N. Stachler, Lars C. Stene, Ronan Strain, Rebecca Stumpf, Pedro J. Torres, Alan Twaddle, MaryAnn Ugochi Ibekwe, Nicolás Villagra, Stephen Wandro, Bryan White, Andy Whiteley, Katrine L. Whiteson, Cisca Wijmenga, Maria M. Zambrano, Henrike Zschach, Bas E. Dutilh

Nature Microbiology, 4, 1727-1736 (2019)

Exploring the genome of Arctic Psychrobacter sp. DAB_AL32B and construction of novel Psychrobacter-specific cloning vectors of an increased carrying capacity

Anna Ciok, Lukasz Dziewit

Archives of Microbiology, 201, 559-569 (2019)

Is bacterial microbiome from the Polemonium caeruleum L. (Polemoniaceae) nectar geographically variable?

Justyna Ryniewicz, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Lukasz Dziewit, Marcin Zych

Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 88, 3626 (2019)

Characterization of the virome of Paracoccus spp. (Alphaproteobacteria) by combined in silico and in vivo approaches

Przemyslaw Decewicz, Lukasz Dziewit, Piotr Golec, Patrycja Kozlowska, Dariusz Bartosik, Monika Radlinska

Scientific Reports, 9, 7899 (2019)

Insight into the diversity and possible role of plasmids in the adaptation of psychrotolerant and metalotolerant Arthrobacter spp. to extreme Antarctic environments

Krzysztof Romaniuk, Piotr Golec, Lukasz Dziewit

Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, 3144 (2018)

Molecular characterization of the pA3J1 plasmid from the psychrotolerant Antarctic bacterium Pseudomonas sp. ANT_J3

Krzysztof Romaniuk, Tomasz Krucon, Przemyslaw Decewicz, Adrian Gorecki, Lukasz Dziewit

Plasmid, 92, 49-56 (2017)

Characterization of Sinorhizobium sp. LM21 prophages and virus-encoded DNA methyltransferases in the light of comparative genomic analyses of the sinorhizobial virome

Przemyslaw Decewicz, Monika Radlinska, Lukasz Dziewit

Viruses, 9, 161 (2017)

Genome-based insights into the resistome and mobilome of multidrug-resistant Aeromonas sp. ARM81 isolated from wastewater

Marcin Adamczuk, Lukasz Dziewit

Archives of Microbiology, 199, 177-183 (2017)

Two novel temperate bacteriophages co-existing in Aeromonas sp. ARM81 – characterization of their genomes, proteomes and DNA methyltransferases

Lukasz Dziewit, Monika Radlinska

Journal of General Virology, 97, 2008-2022 (2016)

Metabolic modelling reveals the specialization of secondary replicons for niche adaptation in Sinorhizobium meliloti

George C. diCenzo, Alice Checcucci, Marco Bazzicalupo, Alessio Mengoni, Carlo Viti, Lukasz Dziewit, Turlough M. Finan, Marco Galardini, Marco Fondi

Nature Communications, 7, 12219 (2016)

Two inducible prophages of an Antarctic Pseudomonas sp. ANT_H14 use the same capsid for packaging their genomes – characterization of a novel phage helper-satellite system

Lukasz Dziewit, Monika Radlinska

PLOS One, 11, e0158889 (2016)

Identification and characterization of putative integron-like elements of the heavy metal-hypertolerant strains of Pseudomonas spp.

Anna Ciok, Marcin Adamczuk, Dariusz Bartosik, Lukasz Dziewit

Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 26, 1993–2002 (2016)

Identification of miniature plasmids in psychrophilic Arctic bacteria of the genus Variovorax

Anna Ciok, Lukasz Dziewit, Jakub Grzesiak, Karol Budzik, Dorota Gorniak, Marek K. Zdanowski, Dariusz Bartosik

FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 92, fiw043 (2016)

Genome-guided insight into the methylotrophy of Paracoccus aminophilus JCM 7686

Lukasz Dziewit, Jakub Czarnecki, Emilia Prochwicz, Daniel Wibberg, Andreas Schluter, Alfred Puhler, Dariusz Bartosik

Frontiers in Microbiology, 6, 852 (2015)

Diversity and global distribution of IncL/M plasmids enabling horizontal dissemination of ß-lactam resistance genes among the Enterobacteriaceae

Marcin Adamczuk, Piotr Zaleski, Lukasz Dziewit, Renata Wolinowska, Marta Nieckarz, Pawel Wawrzyniak, Piotr Kieryl, Andrzej Plucienniczak, Dariusz Bartosik

Biomed Research International, 2015, 414681 (2015)

Novel molecular markers for the detection of methanogens and phylogenetic analyses of methanogenic communities

Lukasz Dziewit, Adam Pyzik, Krzysztof Romaniuk, Adam Sobczak, Pawel Szczesny, Leszek Lipinski, Dariusz Bartosik, Lukasz Drewniak

Frontiers in Microbiology, 6, 694 (2015)

Maintenance and genetic load of plasmid pKON1 of Paracoccus kondratievae, containing a highly efficient toxin–antitoxin module of the hipAB family

Jakub Czarnecki, Lukasz Dziewit, Lukasz Kowalski, Magdalena Ochnio, Dariusz Bartosik

Plasmid, 80, 45-53 (2015)

Diversity of the Epsilonproteobacteria Dsb (disulfide bond) systems

Katarzyna M. Bocian-Ostrzycka, Magdalena J. Grzeszczuk, Lukasz Dziewit, Elzbieta K. Jagusztyn-Krynicka

Frontiers in Microbiology, 6, 570 (2015)

Diversity and role of plasmids in adaptation of bacteria inhabiting the Lubin copper mine in Poland, an environment rich in heavy metals

Lukasz Dziewit, Adam Pyzik, Magdalena Szuplewska, Renata Matlakowska, Sebastian Mielnicki, Daniel Wibberg, Andreas Schluter, Alfred Puhler, Dariusz Bartosik

Frontiers in Microbiology, 6, 152 (2015)

Differentiation of spa types and staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) in clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated in medical sites of Gdańsk region

Joanna Kasprzyk, Lidia Piechowicz, Katarzyna Wisniewska, Lukasz Dziewit, Marek Bronk, Krystyna Swiec

Medycyna Doswiadczalna i Mikrobiologia, 67, 79-88 (2015)

Molecular characterization of a novel temperate Sinorhizobium bacteriophage ФLM21, encoding DNA methyltransferase with CcrM-like specificity

Lukasz Dziewit, Karolina Oscik, Dariusz Bartosik, Monika Radlinska

Journal of Virology, 88, 13111-13124 (2014)

Plasmids of psychrophilic and psychrotolerant bacteria and their role in adaptation to cold environments

Lukasz Dziewit, Dariusz Bartosik

Frontiers in Microbiology, 5, 596 (2014)

Screening for streptomycin resistance-conferring mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates from Poland

Tomasz Jagielski, Helena Ignatowska, Zofia Bakula, Lukasz Dziewit, Agnieszka Napiorkowska, Ewa Augustynowicz-Kopec, Zofia Zwolska, Jacek Bielecki

PLOS One, 9, e100078 (2014)

Architecture and functions of a multipartite genome of the methylotrophic bacterium Paracoccus aminophilus JCM 7686, containing primary and secondary chromids

Lukasz Dziewit, Jakub Czarnecki, Daniel Wibberg, Monika Radlinska, Paulina Mrozek, Michal Szymczak, Andreas Schluter, Alfred Puhler, Dariusz Bartosik

BMC Genomics, 15,124 (2014)

Nanostructured silver-gold bimetallic SERS substrate for selective identification of bacteria in human blood

Arumugam Sivanesan, Evelin Witkowska, Witold Adamkiewicz, Lukasz Dziewit, Agnieszka Kaminska, Jacek Waluk

Analyst, 139, 1037-1043 (2014)

Plasmids of carotenoid-producing Paracoccus spp. (Alphaproteobacteria) – structure, diversity and evolution

Anna Maj, Lukasz Dziewit, Jakub Czarnecki, Miroslawa Wlodarczyk, Jadwiga Baj, Grazyna Skrzypczyk, Dorota Giersz, Dariusz Bartosik

PLOS One, 8, e80258 (2013)

Sequence determination and analysis of three plasmids of Pseudomonas sp. GLE121, a psychrophile isolated from surface ice of Ecology Glacier (Antarctica)

Lukasz Dziewit, Jakub Grzesiak, Anna Ciok, Marta Nieckarz, Marek K. Zdanowski, Dariusz Bartosik

Plasmid, 70, 254-262 (2013)

Structural and functional genomics of plasmid pSinA of Sinorhizobium sp. M14 encoding genes for the arsenite oxidation and arsenic resistance

Lukasz Drewniak, Lukasz Dziewit, Martyna Ciezkowska, Jan Gawor, Robert Gromadka, Aleksandra Sklodowska

Journal of Biotechnology, 164, 479-488 (2013)

Characterization of Halomonas sp. ZM3 isolated from the Zelazny Most post-flotation waste reservoir, with a special focus on its mobile DNA

Lukasz Dziewit, Adam Pyzik, Renata Matlakowska, Jadwiga Baj, Magdalena Szuplewska, Dariusz Bartosik

BMC Microbiology, 13, 59 (2013)

Plasmid diversity in Arctic strains of Psychrobacter spp.

Lukasz Dziewit, Adrian Cegielski, Krzysztof Romaniuk, Witold Uhrynowski, Antoni Szych, Pawel Niesiobedzki, Magdalena J. Zmuda-Baranowska, Marek K. Zdanowski, Dariusz Bartosik

Extremophiles, 17, 433-444 (2013)

Plasmid pP62BP1 of an Arctic strain of Psychrobacter sp. carries two highly homologous type II restriction-modification systems and a putative operon for the organic sulfates metabolism

Robert Lasek, Lukasz Dziewit, Dariusz Bartosik

Extremophiles, 16, 363-376 (2012)

Insights into the transposable mobilome of Paracoccus spp. (Alphaproteobacteria)

Lukasz Dziewit, Jadwiga Baj, Magdalena Szuplewska, Anna Maj, Mateusz Tabin, Anna Czyzkowska, Grazyna Skrzypczyk, Marcin Adamczuk, Tomasz Sitarek, Piotr Stawinski, Agnieszka Tudek, Katarzyna Wanasz, Ewa Wardal, Ewa Piechucka, Dariusz Bartosik

PLOS One, 7, e32277 (2012)