Selected publications of the first funding period at a glance

de Maissin H, Groß PR, Mohiuddin O, Weigt M, Nagel L, Herzog M, Wang Z, Willing R, Reichardt W, Pichotka M, Heß L, Reinheckel T, Jessen HJ, Zeiser R, Bock M, von Elverfeldt D, Zaitsev M, Korchak S, Glöggler S, Hövener JB, Chekmenev EY, Schilling F, Knecht S, Schmidt AB. In Vivo Metabolic Imaging of [1-13C]Pyruvate-d3 Hyperpolarized By Reversible Exchange With Parahydrogen. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2023 Jul 13:e202306654. doi: 10.1002/anie.202306654. Epub ahead of print.

Heinrich K, Fischer LE, De Toni EN, Markwardt D, Roessler D, Beyer G, Günther M, Ormanns S, Klauschen F, Kunz WG, Fröhling S, Brummer T, Heinemann V, Westphalen CB. Case of a Patient With Pancreatic Cancer With Sporadic Microsatellite Instability Associated With a BRAF Fusion Achieving Excellent Response to Immunotherapy. JCO Precis Oncol. 2023 Jun;7:e2200650. doi: 10.1200/PO.22.00650.

Rohrer L, Spohr C, Beha C, Griffin R, Braun S, Halbach S, Brummer T. Analysis of RAS and drug induced homo- and heterodimerization of RAF and KSR1 proteins in living cells using split Nanoluc luciferase. Cell Commun Signal. 2023 Jun 14;21(1):136. doi: 10.1186/s12964-023-01146-9.

Kotsiliti E, Leone V, Schuehle S, Govaere O, Li H, Wolf MJ, Horvatic H, Bierwirth S, Hundertmark J, Inverso D, Zizmare L, Sarusi-Portuguez A, Gupta R, O’Connor T, Giannou AD, Shiri AM, Schlesinger Y, Beccaria MG, Rennert C, Pfister D, Öllinger R, Gadjalova I, Ramadori P, Rahbari M, Rahbari N, Healy ME, Fernández-Vaquero M, Yahoo N, Janzen J, Singh I, Fan C, Liu X, Rau M, Feuchtenberger M, Schwaneck E, Wallace SJ, Cockell S, Wilson-Kanamori J, Ramachandran P, Kho C, Kendall TJ, Leblond AL, Keppler SJ, Bielecki P, Steiger K, Hofmann M, Rippe K, Zitzelsberger H, Weber A, Malek N, Luedde T, Vucur M, Augustin HG, Flavell R, Parnas O, Rad R, Pabst O, Henderson NC, Huber S, Macpherson A, Knolle P, Claassen M, Geier A, Trautwein C, Unger K, Elinav E, Waisman A, Abdullah Z, Haller D, Tacke F, Anstee QM, Heikenwalder M. Intestinal B cells license metabolic T-cell activation in NASH microbiota/antigen-independently and contribute to fibrosis by IgA-FcR signalling. J Hepatol. 2023 Aug;79(2):296-313. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2023.04.037. Epub 2023 May 22.

Langhammer M, Schöpf J, Jaquet T, Horn K, Angel M, Spohr C, Christen D, Uhl FM, Maié T, Jacobi H, Feyerabend TB, Huber J, Panning M, Sitaru C, Costa I, Zeiser R, Aumann K, Becker H, Braunschweig T, Koschmieder S, Shoumariyeh K, Huber M, Schemionek-Reinders M, Brummer T, Halbach S. Mast cell deficiency prevents BCR::ABL1 induced splenomegaly and cytokine elevation in a CML mouse model. Leukemia. 2023 May 9. doi: 10.1038/s41375-023-01916-x. Online ahead of print.

Raute K, Strietz J, Parigiani MA, Andrieux G, Thomas OS, Kistner KM, Zintchenko M, Aichele P, Hofmann M, Zhou H, Weber W, Boerries M, Swamy M, Maurer J, Minguet S. Breast Cancer Stem Cell-Derived Tumors Escape from γδ T-cell Immunosurveillance In Vivo by Modulating γδ T-cell Ligands. Cancer Immunol Res. 2023 May 4:OF1-OF20. doi: 10.1158/2326-6066. CIR-22-0296. Epub ahead of print.

Langenbach M, Giesler S, Richtsfeld S, da Costa-Pereira S, Rindlisbacher L, Wertheimer T, Braun LM, Andrieux G, Duquesne S, Pfeifer D, Woessner NM, Menssen HD, Taromi S, Duyster J, Boerries M, Brummer T, Blazar BR, Minguet S, Turko P, Levesque MP, Becher B, Zeiser R. MDM2 inhibition enhances immune checkpoint inhibitor efficacy by increasing IL-15 and MHC class II production. Mol Cancer Res. 2023 Apr 18:MCR-22-0898. doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-22-0898. Epub ahead of print.

Petry P, Oschwald A, Kierdorf K. Microglial tissue surveillance: The never-resting gardener in the developing and adult CNS. Eur J Immunol. 2023 Jul;53(7):e2250232. doi: 10.1002/eji.202250232. Epub 2023 May 5.

Mass E, Nimmerjahn F, Kierdorf K, Schlitzer A. Tissue-specific macrophages: how they develop and choreograph tissue biology. Nat Rev Immunol. 2023 Mar 15:1–17. doi: 10.1038/s41577-023-00848-y. Epub ahead of print.

Edwards-Hicks J, Apostolova P, Buescher JM, Maib H, Stanczak MA, Corrado M, Klein Geltink RI, Maccari ME, Villa M, Carrizo GE, Sanin DE, Baixauli F, Kelly B, Curtis JD, Haessler F, Patterson A, Field CS, Caputa G, Kyle RL, Soballa M, Cha M, Paul H, Martin J, Grzes KM, Flachsmann L, Mitterer M, Zhao L, Winkler F, Rafei-Shamsabadi DA, Meiss F, Bengsch B, Zeiser R, Puleston DJ, O’Sullivan D, Pearce EJ, Pearce EL. Phosphoinositide acyl chain saturation drives CD8⁺ effector T cell signaling and function. Nat Immunol. 2023 Mar;24(3):516-530. doi: 10.1038/s41590-023-01419-y. Epub 2023 Feb 2.

Socie G, Niederwieser D, von Bubnoff N, Mohty M, Szer J, Or R, Garrett J, Prahallad AC, Wilke C, Zeiser R. Prognostic Value of Blood Biomarkers in Steroid-Refractory/Dependent Acute Graft-vs-Host Disease: A REACH2 Analysis. Blood. 2023 Feb 24:blood.2022018579. doi: 10.1182/blood.2022018579.

Zeiser R. Novel Approaches to the Treatment of Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease.  J Clin Oncol. 2023 Feb 17:JCO2202256. doi: 10.1200/JCO.22.02256.

Amann L, Masuda T, Prinz M. Mechanisms of myeloid cell entry to the healthy and diseased central nervous system. Nat Immunol. 2023 Mar;24(3):393-407. doi: 10.1038/s41590-022-01415-8. Epub 2023 Feb 9.

Boonsanay V, Mosa MH, Looso M, Weichenhan D, Ceteci F, Pudelko L, Lechel A, Michel CS, Künne C, Farin HF, Plass C, Greten FR. Loss of SUV420H2-Dependent Chromatin Compaction Drives Right-Sided Colon Cancer Progression. Gastroenterology. 2023 Feb;164(2):214-227. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2022.10.036.

Conche C, Finkelmeier F, Pešić M, Nicolas AM, Böttger TW, Kennel KB, Denk D, Ceteci F, Mohs K, Engel E, Canli Ö, Dabiri Y, Peiffer KH, Zeuzem S, Salinas G, Longerich T, Yang H, Greten FR. Combining ferroptosis induction with MDSC blockade renders primary tumours and metastases in liver sensitive to immune checkpoint blockade. Gut. 2023 Jan 27:gutjnl-2022-327909. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2022-327909. Epub ahead of print.

Jaeger A, Gambheer SMM, Sun X, Chernyakov D, Skorobohatko O, Mack TM, Kissel S, Pfeifer D, Zeiser R, Fisch P, Andrieux G, Bräuer-Hartmann D, Bauer M, Schulze S, Follo M, Boerries M, von Bubnoff N, Miething C, Hidalgo JV, Klein C, Weber T, Wickenhauser C, Binder M, Dierks C. Activated granulocytes and inflammatory cytokine signaling drive T-cell lymphoma progression and disease symptoms. Blood. 2023 Jan 25:blood.2022015653. doi: 10.1182/blood.2022015653.

Neuwirt E, Magnani G, Ćiković T, Wöhrle S, Fischer L, Kostina A, Flemming S, Fischenich NJ, Saller BS, Gorka O, Renner S, Agarinis C, Parker CN, Boettcher A, Farady CJ, Kesselring R, Berlin C, Backofen R, Rodriguez-Franco M, Kreutz C, Prinz M, Tholen M, Reinheckel T, Ott T, Groß CJ, Jost PJ, Groß O. Tyrosine kinase inhibitors can activate the NLRP3 inflammasome in myeloid cells through lysosomal damage and cell lysis. Sci Signal. 2023 Jan 17;16(768):eabh1083. doi: 10.1126/scisignal. abh1083. Epub 2023 Jan 17.

Seidel P, Rubarth A, Zodel K, Peighambari A, Neumann F, Federkiel Y, Huang H, Hoefflin R, Adlesic M, Witt C, Hoffmann DJ, Metzger P, Lindemann RK, Zenke FT, Schell C, Boerries M, von Elverfeldt D, Reichardt W, Follo M, Albers J, Frew IJ. ATR represents a therapeutic vulnerability in clear cell renal cell carcinoma. JCI Insight. 2022 Dec 22;7(24):e156087. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.156087.

Rückert T, Andrieux G, Boerries M, Hanke-Müller K, Woessner NM, Doetsch S, Schell C, Aumann K, Kolter J, Schmitt-Graeff A, Schiff M, Braun LM, Haring E, Kissel S, Siranosian BA, Bhatt AS, Nordkild P, Wehkamp J, Jensen BAH, Minguet S, Duyster J, Zeiser R, Köhler N. Human β-defensin 2 ameliorates acute GVHD by limiting ileal neutrophil infiltration and restraining T cell receptor signaling. Sci Transl Med. 2022 Dec 21;14(676):eabp9675. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abp9675. Epub 2022 Dec 21. PMID: 36542690.

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Schmitt M, Ceteci F, Gupta J, Pesic M, Böttger TW, Nicolas AM, Kennel KB, Engel E, Schewe M, Callak Kirisözü A, Petrocelli V, Dabiri Y, Varga J, Ramakrishnan M, Karimova M, Ablasser A, Sato T, Arkan MC, de Sauvage FJ, Greten FR. Colon tumour cell death causes mTOR dependence by paracrine P2X4 stimulation. Nature. 2022 Dec;612(7939):347-353. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05426-1.