EXC 294:  Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (bioss) - From Analysis to Synthesis

• Subject Area: Basic Research in Biology and Medicine
• Term: from 2007 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 39236281

• Final Report Year: 2019

Final Report Abstract

We are living in the age of information, and information or signal processing are also of fundamental importance for the development and maintenance of cellular live on this planet. The Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS) in Freiburg was founded to reach a more comprehensive understanding of the composition and function of biological signalling systems by addressing the seven basic questions of signalling science: “Who is involved and interacts with whom and what is the result of signalling? How does this signalling work and where does it take place? When does the specific signalling event occur and how much signals are necessary for a defined response?” The BIOSS scientists addressing these questions by applying a new research strategy “from analysis to synthesis” combining biological signalling studies with synthetic biology. For this, BIOSS set up a highly interdisciplinary research program bridging 5 faculties of the University of Freiburg and 2 non-university institutions. BIOSS funded 130 research projects over the last 11 years. In its second funding period BIOSS also established two new focus areas on nanoscale membrane signalling and oncogenic signalling. The productivity of the BIOSS signalling research community is indicated by the ca. 200 BIOSS publications each year. With the Signalhaus Freiburg, BIOSS has established a new research building at the University of Freiburg that is by now fully equipped and harbours most of the BIOSS infrastructure such as the BIOSS office, the BIOSS toolbox and the BIOSS signalling factory. Furthermore, the laboratories of the iGEM student teams and the teaching rooms for the “biology meets engineering” program are part of this building. BIOSS has successfully implemented most of its planned measures. BIOSS supported the work of 4 independent postdocs, 8 Junior groups and established 9 new professorships at the University of Freiburg. Importantly, as promised in the initial application BIOSS reached gender equality in these recruitments. Project funding and new personnel have established BIOSS as a highly visible research centre combining signalling science with synthetic approaches. Four of the new professors are working in the field of synthetic and chemical biology at the Faculty of Biology and two at the Faculty of chemistry and two more at the Faculty of Medicine. With the help of BIOSS, the University of Freiburg is now one of the nationally and internationally recognized centres for biological signalling research.

Publications

• Autophagy influences glomerular disease susceptibility and maintains podocyte homeostasis in aging mice. J Clin Invest 2010
  Hartleben, Björn; Gödel, Markus; Meyer-Schwesinger, Catherine; Liu, Shuya; Ulrich, Theresa; Köbler, Sven; Wiech, Thorsten; Grahammer, Florian; Arnold, Sebastian J.; Lindenmeyer, Maja T.; Cohen, Clemens D.; Pavenstädt, Hermann; Kerjaschki, Dontscho; Mizushima, Noboru; Shaw, Andrey S.; Walz, Gerd & Huber, Tobias B.
  
• Covering a broad dynamic range: Information Processing at the Eurythropoietin Receptor. Science 2010
  Becker, Verena; Schilling, Marcel; Bachmann, Julie; Baumann, Ute; Raue, Andreas; Maiwald, Thomas; Timmer, Jens & Klingmüller, Ursula
  
• Functional Modules and Structural Basis of Conformational Coupling in Mitochondrial Complex I. Science 2010
  Hunte, Carola; Zickermann, Volker & Brandt, Ulrich
  
• Microscopy with self-reconstructing beams. Nat. Photonics 2010
  Fahrbach, Florian O.; Simon, Philipp & Rohrbach, Alexander
  
• Mitochondrial protein import: from proteomics to functional mechanisms. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2010
  Schmidt, Oliver; Pfanner, Nikolaus & Meisinger, Chris
  
• Native GABAB receptors are heteromultimers with a family of auxiliary subunits. Nature 2010
  Schwenk, Jochen; Metz, Michaela; Zolles, Gerd; Turecek, Rostislav; Fritzius, Thorsten; Bildl, Wolfgang; Tarusawa, Etsuko; Kulik, Akos; Unger, Andreas; Ivankova, Klara; Seddik, Riad; Tiao, Jim Y.; Rajalu, Mathieu; Trojanova, Johana; Rohde, Volker; Gassmann, Martin; Schulte, Uwe; Fakler, Bernd & Bettler, Bernhard
  
• Oligomeric organisation of the B-cell antigen receptor on resting cells. Nature 2010
  Yang, Jianying & Reth, Michael
  
• Transcriptional control of gene expression by micro-RNAs. Cell. 2010
  Khraiwesh, Basel; Arif, M. Asif; Seumel, Gotelinde I.; Ossowski, Stephan; Weigel, Detlef; Reski, Ralf & Frank, Wolfgang
  
• Voltage control for B cell activation. Nat. Immunol 2010
  Reth, Michael & Dick, Tobias P.
  
• BCL6 enables Ph+ acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells to survive BCR-ABL1 kinase inhibition. Nature. 2011
  Duy, Cihangir; Hurtz, Christian; Shojaee, Seyedmehdi; Cerchietti, Leandro; Geng, Huimin; Swaminathan, Srividya; Klemm, Lars; Kweon, Soo-mi; Nahar, Rahul; Braig, Melanie; Park, Eugene; Kim, Yong-mi; Hofmann, Wolf-Karsten; Herzog, Sebastian; Jumaa, Hassan; Koeffler, H. Phillip; Yu, J. Jessica; Heisterkamp, Nora; Graeber, Thomas G.; ... & Müschen, Markus
  
• Emerging biomedical applications of synthetic biology. Nat Rev Genet. 2011
  Weber, Wilfried & Fussenegger, Martin
  
• Evidence for interstitial carbon in nitrogenase FeMo cofactor. Science. 2011
  Spatzal, Thomas; Aksoyoglu, Müge; Zhang, Limei; Andrade, Susana L. A.; Schleicher, Erik; Weber, Stefan; Rees, Douglas C. & Einsle, Oliver
  
• Heterochromatin boundaries are hotspots for de novo kinetochore formation. Nat Cell Biol 2011
  Olszak, Agata M.; van Essen, Dominic; Pereira, António J.; Diehl, Sarah; Manke, Thomas; Maiato, Helder; Saccani, Simona & Heun, Patrick
  
• mTORC1 activation in podocytes is a critical step in the development of diabetic nephropathy in mice. J Clin Invest. 2011
  Inoki, Ken; Mori, Hiroyuki; Wang, Junying; Suzuki, Tsukasa; Hong, SungKi; Yoshida, Sei; Blattner, Simone M.; Ikenoue, Tsuneo; Rüegg, Markus A.; Hall, Michael N.; Kwiatkowski, David J.; Rastaldi, Maria P.; Huber, Tobias B.; Kretzler, Matthias; Holzman, Lawrence B.; Wiggins, Roger C. & Guan, Kun-Liang
  
• N2O binding at a [4Cu:2S] copper–sulphur cluster in nitrous oxide reductase. Nature 2011
  Pomowski, Anja; Zumft, Walter G.; Kroneck, Peter M. H. & Einsle, Oliver
  
• pH-dependent gating in a FocA formate channel. Science. 2011
  Lü, Wei; Du, Juan; Wacker, Tobias; Gerbig-Smentek, Elke; Andrade, Susana L. A. & Einsle, Oliver
  
• Photoconversion and Nuclear Trafficking Cycles Determine Phytochrome A's Response Profile to Far-Red Light. Cell. 2011
  Rausenberger, Julia; Tscheuschler, Anke; Nordmeier, Wiebke; Wüst, Florian; Timmer, Jens; Schäfer, Eberhard; Fleck, Christian & Hiltbrunner, Andreas
  
• Regulation of mitochondrial protein import by cytosolic kinases. Cell. 2011
  Schmidt, Oliver; Harbauer, Angelika B.; Rao, Sanjana; Eyrich, Beate; Zahedi, René P.; Stojanovski, Diana; Schönfisch, Birgit; Guiard, Bernard; Sickmann, Albert; Pfanner, Nikolaus & Meisinger, Chris
  
• Role of mTOR in podocyte function and diabetic nephropathy in humans and mice. J Clin Invest. 2011
  Gödel, Markus; Hartleben, Björn; Herbach, Nadja; Liu, Shuya; Zschiedrich, Stefan; Lu, Shun; Debreczeni-Mór, Andrea; Lindenmeyer, Maja T.; Rastaldi, Maria-Pia; Hartleben, Götz; Wiech, Thorsten; Fornoni, Alessia; Nelson, Robert G.; Kretzler, Matthias; Wanke, Rüdiger; Pavenstädt, Hermann; Kerjaschki, Dontscho; Cohen, Clemens D.; Hall, Michael N.; ... & Huber, Tobias B.
  
• The Selaginella Genome Identifies Genetic Changes Associated with the Evolution of Vascular Plants. Science. 2011
  Banks, Jo Ann; Nishiyama, Tomoaki; Hasebe, Mitsuyasu; Bowman, John L.; Gribskov, Michael; dePamphilis, Claude; Albert, Victor A.; Aono, Naoki; Aoyama, Tsuyoshi; Ambrose, Barbara A.; Ashton, Neil W.; Axtell, Michael J.; Barker, Elizabeth; Barker, Michael S.; Bennetzen, Jeffrey L.; Bonawitz, Nicholas D.; Chapple, Clint; Cheng, Chaoyang; Correa, Luiz Gustavo Guedes; ... & Grigoriev, Igor V.
  
• A lineage of myeloid cells independent of Myb and hematopoietic stem cells. Science. 2012
  Schulz, Christian; Perdiguero, Elisa Gomez; Chorro, Laurent; Szabo-Rogers, Heather; Cagnard, Nicolas; Kierdorf, Katrin; Prinz, Marco; Wu, Bishan; Jacobsen, Sten Eirik W.; Pollard, Jeffrey W.; Frampton, Jon; Liu, Karen J. & Geissmann, Frederic
  
• Algal genomes reveal evolutionary mosaicism and the fate of nucleomorphs. Nature. 2012
  Curtis, Bruce A.; Tanifuji, Goro; Burki, Fabien; Gruber, Ansgar; Irimia, Manuel; Maruyama, Shinichiro; Arias, Maria C.; Ball, Steven G.; Gile, Gillian H.; Hirakawa, Yoshihisa; Hopkins, Julia F.; Kuo, Alan; Rensing, Stefan A.; Schmutz, Jeremy; Symeonidi, Aikaterini; Elias, Marek; Eveleigh, Robert J. M.; Herman, Emily K.; Klute, Mary J.; ... & Archibald, John M.
  
• Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia is driven by antigen-independent cell-autonomous Signalling. Nature. 2012
  Minden, Marcus Dühren-von; Übelhart, Rudolf; Schneider, Dunja; Wossning, Thomas; Bach, Martina P.; Buchner, Maike; Hofmann, Daniel; Surova, Elena; Follo, Marie; Köhler, Fabian; Wardemann, Hedda; Zirlik, Katja; Veelken, Hendrik & Jumaa, Hassan
  
• Cyanophora paradoxa genome elucidates origin of photosynthesis in algae and plants. Science. 2012
  Price, Dana C.; Chan, Cheong Xin; Yoon, Hwan Su; Yang, Eun Chan; Qiu, Huan; Weber, Andreas P. M.; Schwacke, Rainer; Gross, Jeferson; Blouin, Nicolas A.; Lane, Chris; Reyes-Prieto, Adrián; Durnford, Dion G.; Neilson, Jonathan A. D.; Lang, B. Franz; Burger, Gertraud; Steiner, Jürgen M.; Löffelhardt, Wolfgang; Meuser, Jonathan E.; Posewitz, Matthew C.; ... & Bhattacharya, Debashish
  
• Object-adapted optical trapping and shapetracking of energyswitching helical bacteria. Nat Photonics 2012
  Koch, Matthias & Rohrbach, Alexander
  
• Synthetic mammalian gene networks as a blueprint for the design of interactive biohybrid materials. Chem Soc Rev 2012
  Jakobus, Kathrin; Wend, Sabrina & Weber, Wilfried
  
• Synthetic two-way communication between mammalian cells. Nat Biotechnol. 2012
  Bacchus, William; Lang, Moritz; El-Baba, Marie Daoud; Weber, Wilfried; Stelling, Jörg & Fussenegger, Martin
  
• Vertebrate kidney tubules elongate using a planar cell polarity-dependent, rosette-based mechanism of convergent extension. Nat Genet. 2012
  Lienkamp, Soeren S; Liu, Kun; Karner, Courtney M; Carroll, Thomas J; Ronneberger, Olaf; Wallingford, John B & Walz, Gerd
  
• ViBE-Z: a framework for 3D virtual colocalization analysis in zebrafish larval brains. Nat Methods. 2012
  Ronneberger, Olaf; Liu, Kun; Rath, Meta; Rueβ, Dominik; Mueller, Thomas; Skibbe, Henrik; Drayer, Benjamin; Schmidt, Thorsten; Filippi, Alida; Nitschke, Roland; Brox, Thomas; Burkhardt, Hans & Driever, Wolfgang
  
• Coupling of mitochondrial import and export translocases by receptor-mediated supercomplex formation. Cell. 2013
  Qiu, Jian; Wenz, Lena-Sophie; Zerbes, Ralf M.; Oeljeklaus, Silke; Bohnert, Maria; Stroud, David A.; Wirth, Christophe; Ellenrieder, Lars; Thornton, Nicolas; Kutik, Stephan; Wiese, Sebastian; Schulze-Specking, Agnes; Zufall, Nicole; Chacinska, Agnieszka; Guiard, Bernard; Hunte, Carola; Warscheid, Bettina; van der Laan, Martin; Pfanner, Nikolaus; ... & Becker, Thomas
  
• Gene transfer from bacteria and archaea facilitated evolution of an extremophilic eukaryote. Science. 2013
  Schönknecht, Gerald; Chen, Wei-Hua; Ternes, Chad M.; Barbier, Guillaume G.; Shrestha, Roshan P.; Stanke, Mario; Bräutigam, Andrea; Baker, Brett J.; Banfield, Jillian F.; Garavito, R. Michael; Carr, Kevin; Wilkerson, Curtis; Rensing, Stefan A.; Gagneul, David; Dickenson, Nicholas E.; Oesterhelt, Christine; Lercher, Martin J. & Weber, Andreas P. M.
  
• Inhibition of mTORC1 by astrin and stress granules prevents apoptosis in cancer cells. Cell. 2013
  Thedieck, Kathrin; Holzwarth, Birgit; Prentzell, Mirja Tamara; Boehlke, Christopher; Kläsener, Kathrin; Ruf, Stefanie; Sonntag, Annika Gwendolin; Maerz, Lars; Grellscheid, Sushma-Nagaraja; Kremmer, Elisabeth; Nitschke, Roland; Kuehn, E. Wolfgang; Jonker, Johan W.; Groen, Albert K.; Reth, Michael; Hall, Michael N. & Baumeister, Ralf
  
• Matching cellular dimensions with molecular sizes. Nat Immunol. 2013
  Reth, Michael
  
• Pan genome of the phytoplankton Emiliania underpins its global distribution. Nature. 2013
  Read, Betsy A.; Kegel, Jessica; Klute, Mary J.; Kuo, Alan; Lefebvre, Stephane C.; Maumus, Florian; Mayer, Christoph; Miller, John; Monier, Adam; Salamov, Asaf; Young, Jeremy; Aguilar, Maria; Claverie, Jean-Michel; Frickenhaus, Stephan; Gonzalez, Karina; Herman, Emily K.; Lin, Yao-Cheng; Napier, Johnathan; Ogata, Hiroyuki; ... & Grigoriev, Igor V.
  
• Pou5f1 transcription factor controls zygotic gene activation in vertebrates. Science. 2013
  Leichsenring, Manuel; Maes, Julia; Mössner, Rebecca; Driever, Wolfgang & Onichtchouk, Daria
  
• The nucleoplasmin homolog NLP mediates centromere clustering and anchoring to the nucleolus. Mol Cell. 2013
  Padeken, Jan; Mendiburo, María José; Chlamydas, Sarantis; Schwarz, Hans-Jürgen; Kremmer, Elisabeth & Heun, Patrick
  
• Amyloid-beta peptide induces mitochondrial dysfunction by inhibition of preprotein maturation. Cell Metab. 2014
  Mossmann, Dirk; Vögtle, F.-Nora; Taskin, Asli Aras; Teixeira, Pedro Filipe; Ring, Julia; Burkhart, Julia M.; Burger, Nils; Pinho, Catarina Moreira; Tadic, Jelena; Loreth, Desiree; Graff, Caroline; Metzger, Friedrich; Sickmann, Albert; Kretz, Oliver; Wiedemann, Nils; Zahedi, René P.; Madeo, Frank; Glaser, Elzbieta & Meisinger, Chris
  
• Cell cycle-dependent regulation of mitochondrial preprotein translocase. Science. 2014
  Harbauer, Angelika B.; Opalińska, Magdalena; Gerbeth, Carolin; Herman, Josip S.; Rao, Sanjana; Schönfisch, Birgit; Guiard, Bernard; Schmidt, Oliver; Pfanner, Nikolaus & Meisinger, Chris
  
• Designer amphiphilic proteins as building blocks for the intracellular formation of organelle-like compartments. Nat Mater. 2015
  Huber, Matthias C.; Schreiber, Andreas; von Olshausen, Philipp; Varga, Balázs R.; Kretz, Oliver; Joch, Barbara; Barnert, Sabine; Schubert, Rolf; Eimer, Stefan; Kele, Péter & Schiller, Stefan M.
  
• Differentiation of type 1 ILCs from a common progenitor to all helper-like innate lymphoid cell lineages. Cell. 2014
  Klose, Christoph S.N.; Flach, Melanie; Möhle, Luisa; Rogell, Leif; Hoyler, Thomas; Ebert, Karolina; Fabiunke, Carola; Pfeifer, Dietmar; Sexl, Veronika; Fonseca-Pereira, Diogo; Domingues, Rita G.; Veiga-Fernandes, Henrique; Arnold, Sebastian J.; Busslinger, Meinrad; Dunay, Ildiko R.; Tanriver, Yakup & Diefenbach, Andreas
  
• Functional architecture of an optic flow-responsive area that drives horizontal eye movements in Zebrafish. Neuron 2014
  Kubo, Fumi; Hablitzel, Bastian; Dal Maschio, Marco; Driever, Wolfgang; Baier, Herwig & Arrenberg, Aristides B.
  
• Inefficient SRP interaction with a nascent chain triggers a mRNA quality control pathway. Cell. 2014
  Karamyshev, Andrey L.; Patrick, Anna E.; Karamysheva, Zemfira N.; Griesemer, Dustin S.; Hudson, Henry; Tjon-Kon-Sang, Sandra; Nilsson, IngMarie; Otto, Hendrik; Liu, Qinghua; Rospert, Sabine; von Heijne, Gunnar; Johnson, Arthur E. & Thomas, Philip J.
  
• Ligand binding to the FeMo-cofactor: structures of CO-bound and reactivated nitrogenase. Science. 2014
  Spatzal, Thomas; Perez, Kathryn A.; Einsle, Oliver; Howard, James B. & Rees, Douglas C.
  
• Mechanism of Tc toxin action revealed in molecular detail. Nature. 2014
  Meusch, Dominic; Gatsogiannis, Christos; Efremov, Rouslan G.; Lang, Alexander E.; Hofnagel, Oliver; Vetter, Ingrid R.; Aktories, Klaus & Raunser, Stefan
  
• Mgr2 functions as lateral gatekeeper for preprotein sorting in the mitochondrial inner membrane. Mol Cell. 2014
  Ieva, Raffaele; Schrempp, Sandra G.; Opaliński, Łukasz; Wollweber, Florian; Höß, Philipp; Heißwolf, Anna K.; Gebert, Michael; Zhang, Ying; Guiard, Bernard; Rospert, Sabine; Becker, Thomas; Chacinska, Agnieszka; Pfanner, Nikolaus & van der Laan, Martin
  
• Microglia and brain macrophages in the molecular age: from origin to neuropsychiatric disease. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2014
  Prinz, Marco & Priller, Josef
  
• Optogenetic control of Signalling in mammalian cells. Biotechnol J. 2015
  Beyer, Hannes M.; Naumann, Sebastian; Weber, Wilfried & Radziwill, Gerald
  
• The protein import machinery of mitochondria-a regulatory hub in metabolism, stress, and disease. Cell Metab. 2014
  Harbauer, Angelika B.; Zahedi, René P.; Sickmann, Albert; Pfanner, Nikolaus & Meisinger, Chris
  
• Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases (TIMP)-1 creates a premetastatic niche in the liver through SDF-1/CXCR4-dependent neutrophil recruitment in mice. Hepatology. 2015
  Seubert, Bastian; Grünwald, Barbara; Kobuch, Julia; Cui, Haissi; Schelter, Florian; Schaten, Susanne; Siveke, Jens T.; Lim, Ngee H.; Nagase, Hideaki; Simonavicius, Nicole; Heikenwalder, Mathias; Reinheckel, Thomas; Sleeman, Jonathan P.; Janssen, Klaus‐Peter; Knolle, Percy A. & Krüger, Achim
  
• A first step toward liposome-mediated intracellular bacteriophage therapy. Expert Opin Drug Deliv. 2015
  Nieth, Anita; Verseux, Cyprien; Barnert, Sabine; Süss, Regine & Römer, Winfried
  
• An optogenetic upgrade for the Tet-OFF system. Biotechnol Bioeng. 2015
  Müller, Konrad; Zurbriggen, Matias D. & Weber, Wilfried
  
• antaRNA - Ant Colony Based RNA Sequence Design. Bioinformatics. 2015
  Kleinkauf, Robert; Mann, Martin & Backofen, Rolf
  
• B cell antigen receptors of the IgM and IgD classes are clustered in different protein islands that are altered during B cell activation. Sci Signal. 2015
  Maity, Palash Chandra; Blount, Amy; Jumaa, Hassan; Ronneberger, Olaf; Lillemeier, Björn F. & Reth, Michael
  
• B-Raf iInhibitors induce epithelial differentiation in BRAF-mutant colorectal cancer cells. Cancer Res. 2015
  Herr, Ricarda; Köhler, Martin; Andrlová, Hana; Weinberg, Florian; Möller, Yvonne; Halbach, Sebastian; Lutz, Lisa; Mastroianni, Justin; Klose, Martin; Bittermann, Nicola; Kowar, Silke; Zeiser, Robert; Olayioye, Monilola A.; Lassmann, Silke; Busch, Hauke; Boerries, Melanie & Brummer, Tilman
  
• Central nervous system myeloid cells as drug targets: current status and translational challenges. Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2016
  Biber, Knut; Möller, Thomas; Boddeke, Erik & Prinz, Marco
  
• Centrifugal microfluidic platforms: advanced unit operations and applications. Chem Soc Rev. 2015
  Strohmeier, O.; Keller, M.; Schwemmer, F.; Zehnle, S.; Mark, D.; von Stetten, F.; Zengerle, R. & Paust, N.
  
• Fundamental properties of unperturbed haematopoiesis from stem cells in vivo. Nature. 2015
  Busch, Katrin; Klapproth, Kay; Barile, Melania; Flossdorf, Michael; Holland-Letz, Tim; Schlenner, Susan M.; Reth, Michael; Höfer, Thomas & Rodewald, Hans-Reimer
  
• Lack of neuronal IFN-alpha-IFNAR causes lewy body- and parkinson's disease-like dementia. Cell. 2015
  Ejlerskov, Patrick; Hultberg, Jeanette Göransdotter; Wang, JunYang; Carlsson, Robert; Ambjørn, Malene; Kuss, Martin; Liu, Yawei; Porcu, Giovanna; Kolkova, Kateryna; Friis Rundsten, Carsten; Ruscher, Karsten; Pakkenberg, Bente; Goldmann, Tobias; Loreth, Desiree; Prinz, Marco; Rubinsztein, David C. & Issazadeh-Navikas, Shohreh
  
• Mistargeted mitochondrial proteins activate a proteostatic response in the cytosol. Nature. 2015
  Wrobel, Lidia; Topf, Ulrike; Bragoszewski, Piotr; Wiese, Sebastian; Sztolsztener, Malgorzata E.; Oeljeklaus, Silke; Varabyova, Aksana; Lirski, Maciej; Chroscicki, Piotr; Mroczek, Seweryn; Januszewicz, Elzbieta; Dziembowski, Andrzej; Koblowska, Marta; Warscheid, Bettina & Chacinska, Agnieszka
  
• Molecular architecture of the active mitochondrial protein gate. Science. 2015
  Shiota, Takuya; Imai, Kenichiro; Qiu, Jian; Hewitt, Victoria L.; Tan, Khershing; Shen, Hsin-Hui; Sakiyama, Noriyuki; Fukasawa, Yoshinori; Hayat, Sikander; Kamiya, Megumi; Elofsson, Arne; Tomii, Kentaro; Horton, Paul; Wiedemann, Nils; Pfanner, Nikolaus; Lithgow, Trevor & Endo, Toshiya
  
• Nanoclusters of the resting T cell antigen receptor (TCR) localize to non-raft domains. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2015
  Beck-García, Katharina; Beck-García, Esmeralda; Bohler, Sheila; Zorzin, Carina; Sezgin, Erdinc; Levental, Ilya; Alarcón, Balbino & Schamel, Wolfgang W.A.
  
• Responsiveness of B cells is regulated by the hinge region of IgD. Nat Immunol. 2015
  Übelhart, Rudolf; Hug, Eva; Bach, Martina P; Wossning, Thomas; Dühren-von Minden, Marcus; Horn, Anselm H C; Tsiantoulas, Dimitrios; Kometani, Kohei; Kurosaki, Tomohiro; Binder, Christoph J; Sticht, Heinrich; Nitschke, Lars; Reth, Michael & Jumaa, Hassan
  
• Signalling thresholds and negative B-cell selection in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Nature. 2015
  Chen, Zhengshan; Shojaee, Seyedmehdi; Buchner, Maike; Geng, Huimin; Lee, Jae Woong; Klemm, Lars; Titz, Björn; Graeber, Thomas G.; Park, Eugene; Tan, Ying Xim; Satterthwaite, Anne; Paietta, Elisabeth; Hunger, Stephen P.; Willman, Cheryl L.; Melnick, Ari; Loh, Mignon L.; Jung, Jae U.; Coligan, John E.; Bolland, Silvia; ... & Müschen, Markus
  
• Structural biology. Mechanistic insight from the crystal structure of mitochondrial complex I. Science. 2015
  Zickermann, Volker; Wirth, Christophe; Nasiri, Hamid; Siegmund, Karin; Schwalbe, Harald; Hunte, Carola & Brandt, Ulrich
  
• Surface imaging beyond the diffraction limit with optically trapped spheres. Nat Nanotechnol. 2015
  Friedrich, Lars & Rohrbach, Alexander
  
• The fusogenic lipid phosphatidic acid promotes the biogenesis of mitochondrial outer membrane protein Ugo1. J Cell Biol. 2015; 210(6):951-60
  Vögtle, F.-Nora; Keller, Michael; Taskin, Asli A.; Horvath, Susanne E.; Guan, Xue Li; Prinz, Claudia; Opalińska, Magdalena; Zorzin, Carina; van der Laan, Martin; Wenk, Markus R.; Schubert, Rolf; Wiedemann, Nils; Holzer, Martin & Meisinger, Chris
  
• The octahaem MccA is a haem c–copper sulfite reductase. Nature. 2015
  Hermann, Bianca; Kern, Melanie; La Pietra, Luigi; Simon, Jörg & Einsle, Oliver
  
• Caveolin-1 regulates TCR signal strength and regulatory T-cell differentiation into alloreactive T cells. Blood. 2016
  Schönle, Anne; Hartl, Frederike A.; Mentzel, Jan; Nöltner, Theresa; Rauch, Katharina S.; Prestipino, Alessandro; Wohlfeil, Sebastian A.; Apostolova, Petya; Hechinger, Anne-Kathrin; Melchinger, Wolfgang; Fehrenbach, Kerstin; Guadamillas, Marta C.; Follo, Marie; Prinz, Gabriele; Ruess, Ann-Katrin; Pfeifer, Dietmar; Angel del Pozo, Miguel; Schmitt-Graeff, Annette; Duyster, Justus; ... & Zeiser, Robert
  
• Engineering and characterization of fluorogenic glycine riboswitches. Nucleic Acids Res. 2016
  Ketterer, Simon; Gladis, Lukas; Kozica, Adnan & Meier, Matthias
  
• Gab2 is essential for Bcr-Abl mediated leukemic transformation and hydronephrosis in a chronic myeloid leukemia mouse model. Leukemia 2016
  Halbach, S.; Köhler, M.; Uhl, F. M.; Huber, J.; Zeiser, R.; Koschmieder, S.; Aumann, K. & Brummer, T.
  
• Inhibition of T cell receptor Signalling by cholesterol sulfate, a naturally occurring derivative of membrane cholesterol. Nat Immunol. 2016
  Wang, Feng; Beck-García, Katharina; Zorzin, Carina; Schamel, Wolfgang W. A. & Davis, Mark M.
  
• Mitochondrial protein synthesis adapts to Influx of nuclear-encoded protein. Cell. 2016
  Richter-Dennerlein, Ricarda; Oeljeklaus, Silke; Lorenzi, Isotta; Ronsör, Christin; Bareth, Bettina; Schendzielorz, Alexander Benjamin; Wang, Cong; Warscheid, Bettina; Rehling, Peter & Dennerlein, Sven
  
• MOF acetyl transferase regulates transcription and respiration in mitochondria. Cell. 2016
  Chatterjee, Aindrila; Seyfferth, Janine; Lucci, Jacopo; Gilsbach, Ralf; Preissl, Sebastian; Böttinger, Lena; Mårtensson, Christoph U.; Panhale, Amol; Stehle, Thomas; Kretz, Oliver; Sahyoun, Abdullah H.; Avilov, Sergiy; Eimer, Stefan; Hein, Lutz; Pfanner, Nikolaus; Becker, Thomas & Akhtar, Asifa
  
• On-demand erythrocyte disposal and iron recycling requires transient macrophages in the liver. Nat Med. 2016
  Theurl, Igor; Hilgendorf, Ingo; Nairz, Manfred; Tymoszuk, Piotr; Haschka, David; Asshoff, Malte; He, Shun; Gerhardt, Louisa M. S.; Holderried, Tobias A. W.; Seifert, Markus; Sopper, Sieghart; Fenn, Ashley M.; Anzai, Atsushi; Rattik, Sara; Mcalpine, Camero
  
• One library to make them all: streamlining the creation of yeast libraries via a SWAp-Tag strategy. Nat Methods. 2016
  Yofe, Ido; Weill, Uri; Meurer, Matthias; Chuartzman, Silvia; Zalckvar, Einat; Goldman, Omer; Ben-Dor, Shifra; Schütze, Conny; Wiedemann, Nils; Knop, Michael; Khmelinskii, Anton & Schuldiner, Maya
  
• Type I interferons and microbial metabolites of tryptophan modulate astrocyte activity and central nervous system inflammation via the aryl hydrocarbon receptor. Nat Med. 2016
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