Research

Publications

Sivabalasarma, S., Taib, N., Mollat, C. L., Joest, M., Steimle, S., Gribaldo, S. and Albers, S. V. (2025) Structure of a functional archaellum in Bacteria of the Chloroflexota phylum. Nat. Microbiol. 10, 2412-2424

Scheinost, L., Ludwig, C., Höfflin, N., Taskin, A. A., Marada, A., Vögtle, F. N., Meisinger, C. and Köhn, M. (2025) Synthetic trap-peptides identify a TOM complex phosphatase – PP2A dephosphorylates Tom6. FEBS J. online ahead of print

Samir, S., Doello, S., Enkerlin, A. M., Zimmer, E., Haffner, M., Muller, T., Dengler, L., Lambidis, S. P., Sivabalasarma, S., Albers, S. V. and Selim, K. A. (2025) The second messenger c-di-AMP controls natural competence via ComFB signaling protein. Cell Discov. 11, 65

Yang, W., Cong, S., Li, R., Schwarz, J., Schulze, T., Gevelhoff, R. A., Chen, X., Ullrich, S., Falkenstein, K., Ott, D., Eixmann, P., Trentino, A., Thien, A., Heidmann, T., Schulze, E., Warscheid, B., Baumeister, R. and Qi, W. (2025) Opposing roles of pseudokinases NRBP1 and NRBP2 in regulating L1 retrotransposition. Nat. Commun. 16, 6327

Sindram, E., Deau, M.-C., Ligeon, L.-A., Sanchez-Martin, P., Nestel, S., Jung, S., Ruf, S., Mishra, P., Proietti, M., Günther, S., Thedieck, K., Roussa, E., Rambold, A., Münz, C., Kraft, C., Grimbacher, B. and Gámez-Díaz, L. (2025) LRBA deficiency impairs autophagy and contributes to enhanced antigen presentation and T-cell dysregulation. EMBO Rep. 1-32-32

Alfonso-Gonzalez, C., Shi, M., Gorey, S., Holec, S., Carrasco, J., Rauer, M., Tsagkris, S., Mateos, F. and Hilgers, V. (2025) ELAV mediates circular RNA biogenesis in neurons. Genes Dev. 39, 1064-1080

Scheinost, L. and Köhn, M. (2025) The Fascinating Intricacy of pSer/Thr-Specific Phosphatases and Their Higher-Order Complexes: Emerging Concepts. Biochemistry 64, 2506-2515

Sivabalasarma, S., van Wolferen, M., Albers, S. V. and Charles-Orszag, A. (2025) Biogenesis, function and evolution of the archaeal S-layer. Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 95, 102534

Bhuiyan, T., Arecco, N., Mendoza Sanchez, P. K., Kim, J., Schwan, C., Weyrauch, S., Nizamuddin, S., Prunotto, A., Tekman, M., Biniossek, M. L., Knapp, B., Koidl, S., Drepper, F., Huesgen, P. F., Grosse, R., Hugel, T. and Arnold, S. J. (2025) TAF2 condensation in nuclear speckles links basal transcription factor TFIID to RNA splicing factors. Cell Rep. 44, 115616

Grzejda, D., Hess, A., Rezansoff, A., Gorey, S., Carrasco, J., Alfonso-Gonzalez, C., Tsagkris, S., Neuhaus, L., Shi, M., Ozbulut, H. C., Vögtle, F.-N., Vlachos, A. and Hilgers, V. (2025) Pumilio differentially binds to mRNA 3′ UTR isoforms to regulate localization of synaptic proteins. EMBO Rep. 1-24-24

Saller, B. S., Wohrle, S., Fischer, L., Dufossez, C., Ingerl, I. L., Kessler, S., Mateo-Tortola, M., Gorka, O., Lange, F., Cheng, Y., Neuwirt, E., Marada, A., Koentges, C., Urban, C., Aktories, P., Reuther, P., Giese, S., Kirschnek, S., Mayer, C., Pilic, J., Falquez-Medina, H., Oelgeklaus, A., Deepagan, V. G., Shojaee, F., Zimmermann, J. A., Weber, D., Tai, Y. H., Crois, A., Ciminski, K., Peyronnet, R., Brandenburg, K. S., Wu, G., Baumeister, R., Heimbucher, T., Rizzi, M., Riedel, D., Helmstadter, M., Buescher, J., Neumann, K., Misgeld, T., Kerschensteiner, M., Walentek, P., Kreutz, C., Maurer, U., Rambold, A. S., Vince, J. E., Edlich, F., Malli, R., Hacker, G., Kierdorf, K., Meisinger, C., Kottgen, A., Jakobs, S., Weber, A. N. R., Schwemmle, M., Gross, C. J. and Gross, O. (2025) Acute suppression of mitochondrial ATP production prevents apoptosis and provides an essential signal for NLRP3 inflammasome activation. Immunity 58, 90-107 e111

Franke, P., Freiberger, S., Zhang, L. and Einsle, O. (2025) Conformational protection of molybdenum nitrogenase by Shethna protein II. Nature 637, 998-1004

Licheva, M., Pflaum, J., Babic, R., Mancilla, H., Elsässer, J., Boyle, E., Hollenstein, D. M., Jimenez-Niebla, J., Pleyer, J., Heinrich, M., Wieland, F.-G., Brenneisen, J., Eickhorst, C., Brenner, J., Jiang, S., Hartl, M., Welsch, S., Hunte, C., Timmer, J., Wilfling, F. and Kraft, C. (2025) Phase separation of initiation hubs on cargo is a trigger switch for selective autophagy. Nat. Cell Biol. 27, 283-297