Steering committee
PUBLICATIONS
2025
Aghapour, M., & Herhaus, L. (2025). Extract to lyse bacterial pathogens. Nature microbiology, 10(5), 1036–1037. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-025-01995-9
Babic, R., Brenneisen, J., Wilfling, F., & Kraft, C. (2025). Autophagy regulation by phase separation, avidity, and wetting. Trends in biochemical sciences, S0968-0004(25)00244-0. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibs.2025.10.003
Baeken, M. W., Christ, M., Schmitt, D., Trein, W., Nagel, H., Clement, A. M., Körschgen, H., & Behl, C. (2025). Conserved LIR-specific interaction of Sigma-1 receptor and GABARAP. iScience, 28(9), 113287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113287
Baeken, M. W., Borlepawar, A., Kötzner, P., Richly, H., Behl, C., Moosmann, B., & Hajieva, P. (2025). Epigenetic regulation of the respiratory chain by a mitochondrial distress-related redox signal. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 13, 1608400. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2025.1608400
Bailey, H. J., Eisert, J., Kazi, R., Gerhartz, J., Pieńkowska, D. E., Dressel, I., Vollrath, J., Kondratov, I., Matviyuk, T., Tolmachova, N., Shah, V. J., Giuliani, G., Mosler, T., Geiger, T. M., Esteves, A. M., Santos, S. P., Sousa, R. L., Bandeiras, T. M., Leibrock, E. M., Bauer, U., … Dikic, I. (2025). An engineered cereblon optimized for high-throughput screening and molecular glue discovery. Cell chemical biology, 32(2), 363–376.e10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2024.11.002
Bhattacharya, D., da Silva-Buttkus, P., Nalbach, K., Cheng, L., Garrett, L., Irmler, M., Kislinger, G., Werner, G., Rodde, R., Lengger, C., Beckers, J., Zimprich, A., Hölter, S. M., Gailus-Durner, V., Fuchs, H., Hrabe de Angelis, M., Wefers, B., Wurst, W., Brill, M. S., Schifferer, M., … Behrends, C. (2025). Neuropathy-associated Tecpr2 mutation knock-in mice reveal endolysosomal loss of function phenotypes in neurons and microglia. Cell death & disease, 16(1), 775. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-025-08168-w
Bock, A., Schurig, M., Willoughby, M., Mirecki, A., Seemann, E., Lohachova, K., Katona, I., Mittag, S., Liebmann, L., Franzka, P., Heidari Horestani, M., Khundadze, M., Mosler, T., Louie, T., de Visser, M., Weterman, M. A. J., Kiehntopf, M., Beetz, C., Nietzsche, S., Huber, O., … Hübner, C. A. (2025). REEP1 Accumulation Disrupts ER Integrity and Drives Spinal Motoneuron Degeneration in Distal Hereditary Motor Neuropathy. Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), e11483. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202511483
Buonomo, V., Lohachova, K., Reggio, A., Cano-Franco, S., Cillo, M., Santorelli, L., Venditti, R., Polishchuk, E., Peluso, I., Brunello, L., Cirillo, C., Petrosino, S., Silva, M., De Cegli, R., Di Bartolomeo, S., Gargioli, C., Swuec, P., Cortese, M., Stolz, A., Bhaskara, R. M., … Grumati, P. (2025). Two FAM134B isoforms differentially regulate ER dynamics during myogenesis. The EMBO journal, 44(4), 1039–1073. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44318-024-00356-2
Fitzgerald, J. C., & Bremm, A. (2025). A structural switch reveals how to disarm USP30 and unlock mitophagy. Nature structural & molecular biology, 32(9), 1586–1588. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41594-025-01640-3
Haydo, A., Schmidt, J., Crider, A., Kögler, T., Ertl, J., Hehlgans, S., Hoffmann, M. E., Rathore, R., Güllülü, Ö., Wang, Y., Zhang, X., Herold-Mende, C., Pampaloni, F., Tegeder, I., Dikic, I., Dai, M., Rödel, F., Kögel, D., & Linder, B. (2025). BRAT1 - a new therapeutic target for glioblastoma. Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, 82(1), 52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00018-024-05553-0
Ho-Xuan, H., Bruckmann, A., Natali, L., Prieto-Garcia, C., Stuke, J. F. M., Brunello, L., Vicente, A., Pfab, A., Wesseling, H., Cano-Franco, S., Khatri, A., Larivera, S., Sanz-Martinez, P., de la Cruz-Thea, B., Jacomin, A. C., Prochazka, J., Feederle, R., Dötsch, V., Sedlacek, R., Hummer, G., … Stolz, A. (2025). YTHDF proteins and m6A-RNA clients undergo autophagic turnover during contact inhibition. Cell reports, 44(9), 116188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116188
Huber, L. S., Merline, R., Zeng-Brouwers, J., Vutukuri, R., Kraus, N., Ortiz, C., Guenther, S., Buhl, E. M., Hahnefeld, L., Gurke, R., Bein, J., Karimova, M., Wurzel, P., Boor, P., Welsch, C., Wild, P., Pfeilschifter, J., Kögel, D., Wygrecka, M., Trebicka, J., … Schaefer, L. (2025). Deletion of ABIN1-LIR motifs impairs hepatic lipid homeostasis and mitophagy via AMPK-TFEB axis in mice. American journal of physiology. Cell physiology, 329(5), C1360–C1379. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.00544.2025
Kumari, R., Nath, T., Pflaum, J., R, I., Vinay, S., Wilfling, F., & Manjithaya, R. (2025). The autophagy-specific exocyst subcomplex contributes to phagophore assembly site integrity by promoting phagophore expansion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(41), e2426476122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2426476122
Licheva, M., Babic, R., Pflaum, J., Mancilla, H., Wilfling, F., & Kraft, C. (2025). To degrade or not to degrade: how phase separation modulates selective autophagy. Autophagy, 21(11), 2518–2520. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548627.2025.2476025
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., … Kraft, C. (2025). Phase separation of initiation hubs on cargo is a trigger switch for selective autophagy. Nature cell biology, 27(2), 283–297. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-024-01572-y
Mukherjee, R., Bhattacharya, A., Tomaskovic, I., Mello-Vieira, J., Brunstein, M. E., Başoğlu, M., Veenendaal, T., Bailey, H., Colby, T., Misra, M., Eimer, S., Klumperman, J., Münch, C., Matic, I., & Dikic, I. (2025). Phosphoribosyl ubiquitination of SNARE proteins regulates autophagy during Legionella infection. The EMBO journal, 44(15), 4252–4279. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44318-025-00483-4
Mukherjee, R., Bhattacharya, A., Mello-Vieira, J., Kuncha, S. K., Hoffmann, M., Gonzalez, A., Rathore, R., Chadha, A., Shin, D., Colby, T., Matic, I., Mukherjee, S., Misra, M., & Dikic, I. (2025). Serine ubiquitination of SQSTM1 regulates NFE2L2-dependent redox homeostasis. Autophagy, 21(2), 407–423. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548627.2024.2404375
Mukhopadhyay, U., Levantovsky, S., Behrends, C., & Bhogaraju, S. (2025). Ub-POD: A Ubiquitin-Specific Proximity-Dependent Labeling Technique to Identify E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Substrates in Human Cells. Bio-protocol, 15(12), e5351. https://doi.org/10.21769/BioProtoc.5351
Orth, B., Pohl, P., Aust, F., Ji, Y., Seenivasan, A., Dybkov, O., Liang, X. J., Bock, L., Leidner, F., Levantovsky, S., Schardey, P., Sander, P., Disch, N. J., Trautz, M. L., Mizi, A., Papantonis, A., Lenz, C., Grubmüller, H., Steinchen, W., Behrends, C., … Lorenz, S. (2025). Selective ubiquitination of drug-like small molecules by the ubiquitin ligase HUWE1. Nature communications, 16(1), 8182. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63442-x
Pham, T. N. M., & Behl, C. (2025). Cellular models of stress resistance may pave ways to fight neurodegenerative diseases. Neural regeneration research, 20(9), 2579–2580. https://doi.org/10.4103/NRR.NRR-D-24-00476
Poveda-Cuevas, S. A., Lohachova, K., Markusic, B., Dikic, I., Hummer, G., & M Bhaskara, R. (2025). Janus-like behavior of intrinsically disordered regions in reticulophagy. Autophagy, 21(3), 681–683. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548627.2024.2437652
Reinders, M., Kravic, B., Gahlot, P., Koska, S., van den Boom, J., Schulze, N., Levantovsky, S., Kleine, S., Kaiser, M., Kulathu, Y., Behrends, C., & Meyer, H. (2025). ATXN3 regulates lysosome regeneration after damage by targeting K48-K63-branched ubiquitin chains. The EMBO journal, 44(18), 5086–5111. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44318-025-00517-x
Sanz-Martinez, P., Berkane, R., & Stolz, A. (2025). Function of CSNK2/CK2 selectively affects the endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi apparatus in mtor-mediated autophagy induction. Autophagy, 21(2), 480–486. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548627.2024.2395725
Stein, A., Vo, S., Freese, C., Kluge, J., Maus, J., Koziollek-Drechsler, I., Silva, B., Behl, C., & Clement, A. M. (2025). The Parkinson Disease-Associated Mutant DNAJC13(N855S) Leads to Its Accelerated Degradation and Negatively Affects Macroautophagy and Retromer Complex-Mediated Dynamics. Journal of cellular physiology, 240(7), e70074. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcp.70074
Vicente, A. M., Hencel, K., Schicktanz, J., Hammann, C., Akay, A., & Kaiser, S. (2025). NAIL-MS Elucidates Crucial tRNA U34 Modifications in Response to Heat Stress across Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes. Journal of molecular biology, 437(16), 169228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2025.169228
Zein, L., Dietrich, M., Balta, D., Bader, V., Scheuer, C., Zellner, S., Weinelt, N., Vandrey, J., Mari, M. C., Behrends, C., Zunke, F., Winklhofer, K. F., & Van Wijk, S. J. L. (2025). Linear ubiquitination at damaged lysosomes induces local NFKB activation and controls cell survival. Autophagy, 21(5), 1075–1095. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548627.2024.2443945
2024
Balakrishnan, A., Glogger, M., & Heilemann, M. (2024). Quantitative Super-Resolution Imaging of ER-Phagy Initiation in Cells. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2845, 127–140. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-4067-8_10
Bajdzienko, J., & Bremm, A. (2024). Mammalian pexophagy at a glance. Journal of cell science, 137(9), jcs259775. https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.259775
Bhattacharya, A., Torggler, R., Reiter, W., Romanov, N., Licheva, M., Ciftci, A., Mari, M., Kolb, L., Kaiser, D., Reggiori, F., Ammerer, G., Hollenstein, D. M., & Kraft, C. (2024). Decoding the function of Atg13 phosphorylation reveals a role of Atg11 in bulk autophagy initiation. EMBO reports, 25(2), 813–831. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44319-023-00055-9
Bozkurt, S., Parmar, B. S., & Münch, C. (2024). Quantifying mitochondrial protein import by mePRODmt proteomics. Methods in enzymology, 706, 449–474. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mie.2024.07.017
Cristiani, A., Dutta, A., Poveda-Cuevas, S. A., Kern, A., & Bhaskara, R. M. (2024). Identification of potential selective autophagy receptors from protein-content profiling of autophagosomes. Journal of cellular biochemistry, 125(11), e30405. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcb.30405
Eickhorst, C., Babic, R., Rush-Kittle, J., Lucya, L., Imam, F. L., Sánchez-Martín, P., Hollenstein, D. M., Michaelis, J., Münch, C., Meisinger, C., Slade, D., Gámez-Díaz, L., & Kraft, C. (2024). FIP200 Phosphorylation Regulates Late Steps in Mitophagy. Journal of molecular biology, 436(15), 168631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2024.168631
Herhaus, L., Gestal-Mato, U., Eapen, V. V., Mačinković, I., Bailey, H. J., Prieto-Garcia, C., Misra, M., Jacomin, A. C., Ammanath, A. V., Bagarić, I., Michaelis, J., Vollrath, J., Bhaskara, R. M., Bündgen, G., Covarrubias-Pinto, A., Husnjak, K., Zöller, J., Gikandi, A., Ribičić, S., Bopp, T., … Dikic, I. (2024). IRGQ-mediated autophagy in MHC class I quality control promotes tumor immune evasion. Cell, 187(25), 7285–7302.e29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.09.048
Hoffmann, M. E., Jacomin, A. C., Popovic, D., Kalina, D., Covarrubias-Pinto, A., & Dikic, I. (2024). TBC1D2B undergoes phase separation and mediates autophagy initiation. Journal of cellular biochemistry, 125(8), e30481. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcb.30481
Isigkeit, L., Schallmayer, E., Busch, R., Brunello, L., Menge, A., Elson, L., Müller, S., Knapp, S., Stolz, A., Marschner, J. A., & Merk, D. (2024). Chemogenomics for NR1 nuclear hormone receptors. Nature communications, 15(1), 5201. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49493-6
Kessler, L. F., Balakrishnan, A., Menche, T., Wang, D., Li, Y., Mantel, M., Glogger, M., Dietz, M. S., & Heilemann, M. (2024). Self-Quenched Fluorophore-DNA Labels for Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy. The journal of physical chemistry. B, 128(28), 6751–6759. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c02065
Kew, C., Prieto-Garcia, C., Bhattacharya, A., Tietgen, M., MacNair, C. R., Carfrae, L. A., Mello-Vieira, J., Klatt, S., Cheng, Y. L., Rathore, R., Gradhand, E., Fleming, I., Tan, M. W., Göttig, S., Kempf, V. A. J., & Dikic, I. (2024). The aryl hydrocarbon receptor and FOS mediate cytotoxicity induced by Acinetobacter baumannii. Nature communications, 15(1), 7939. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52118-7
Gestal-Mato, U., & Herhaus, L. (2024). Autophagy-dependent regulation of MHC-I molecule presentation. Journal of cellular biochemistry, 125(11), e30416. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcb.30416
Krämer, N., Mato, U. G., Krauter, S., Büscher, N., Afifi, A., Herhaus, L., Florin, L., Plachter, B., & Zimmermann, C. (2024). The Autophagy Receptor SQSTM1/p62 Is a Restriction Factor of HCMV Infection. Viruses, 16(9), 1440. https://doi.org/10.3390/v16091440
Körschgen, H., & Behl, C. (2024). Aggresome-aggrephagy transition process: getting closer to the functional roles of HDAC6 and BAG3. Neural regeneration research, 19(6), 1181–1182. https://doi.org/10.4103/1673-5374.386407
Lizarrondo, J., & Wilfling, F. (2024). Selective Autophagy of Macromolecular Complexes: What Does It Take to be Taken?. Journal of molecular biology, 436(15), 168574. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2024.168574
Mukhopadhyay, U., Levantovsky, S., Carusone, T. M., Gharbi, S., Stein, F., Behrends, C., & Bhogaraju, S. (2024). A ubiquitin-specific, proximity-based labeling approach for the identification of ubiquitin ligase substrates. Science advances, 10(32), eadp3000. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp3000
Pastor-Maldonado, C. J., & Proikas-Cezanne, T. (2024). Ferritinophagy: Assessing the Selective Degradation of Iron by Autophagy in Human Fibroblasts. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, (204), 10.3791/65110. https://doi.org/10.3791/65110
Prieto-Garcia, C., Matkovic, V., Mosler, T., Li, C., Liang, J., Oo, J. A., Haidle, F., Mačinković, I., Cabrera-Orefice, A., Berkane, R., Giuliani, G., Xu, F., Jacomin, A. C., Tomaskovic, I., Basoglu, M., Hoffmann, M. E., Rathore, R., Cetin, R., Boutguetait, D., Bozkurt, S., … Dikic, I. (2024). Pathogenic proteotoxicity of cryptic splicing is alleviated by ubiquitination and ER-phagy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 386(6723), 768–776. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adi5295
Poveda-Cuevas, S. A., Lohachova, K., Markusic, B., Dikic, I., Hummer, G., & Bhaskara, R. M. (2024). Intrinsically disordered region amplifies membrane remodeling to augment selective ER-phagy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(44), e2408071121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2408071121
Rahm, J. V., Balakrishnan, A., Wehrheim, M., Kaminer, A., Glogger, M., Kessler, L. F., Kaschube, M., Barth, H. D., & Heilemann, M. (2024). Fast and Long-Term Super-Resolution Imaging of Endoplasmic Reticulum Nano-structural Dynamics in Living Cells Using a Neural Network. Small science, 5(1), 2400385. https://doi.org/10.1002/smsc.202400385
Roth, C., Paulini, L., Hoffmann, M. E., Mosler, T., Dikic, I., Brunschweiger, A., Körschgen, H., Behl, C., Linder, B., & Kögel, D. (2024). BAG3 regulates cilia homeostasis of glioblastoma via its WW domain. BioFactors (Oxford, England), 50(6), 1113–1133. https://doi.org/10.1002/biof.2060
Sanz-Martinez, P., Tascher, G., Cano-Franco, S., Cabrerizo-Poveda, P., Münch, C., Homan, E. J., & Stolz, A. (2024). GPCR Function in Autophagy Control: A Systematic Approach of Chemical Intervention. Journal of molecular biology, 436(15), 168643. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2024.168643
Stolz A. (2024). CSNK2/CK2 regulates selective autophagy of the endoplasmic reticulum. Autophagy, 20(7), 1694–1695. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548627.2024.2330037
Weigert, A., & Herhaus, L. (2024). Immune modulation through secretory autophagy. Journal of cellular biochemistry, 125(11), e30427. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcb.30427
2023
Berkane, R., Ho-Xuan, H., Glogger, M., Sanz-Martinez, P., Brunello, L., Glaesner, T., Kuncha, S. K., Holzhüter, K., Cano-Franco, S., Buonomo, V., Cabrerizo-Poveda, P., Balakrishnan, A., Tascher, G., Husnjak, K., Juretschke, T., Misra, M., González, A., Dötsch, V., Grumati, P., Heilemann, M., … Stolz, A. (2023). The function of ER-phagy receptors is regulated through phosphorylation-dependent ubiquitination pathways. Nature communications, 14(1), 8364. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44101-5
Cano-Franco, S., Ho-Xuan, H., Brunello, L., & Stolz, A. (2023). Live-Cell High-Throughput Screen for Monitoring Autophagy Flux. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2706, 215–224. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3397-7_16
Dönig, J., Mende, H., Davila Gallesio, J., Wagner, K., Hotz, P., Schunck, K., Piller, T., Hölper, S., Uhan, S., Kaulich, M., Wirth, M., Keller, U., Tascher, G., Bohnsack, K. E., & Müller, S. (2023). Characterization of nucleolar SUMO isopeptidases unveils a general p53-independent checkpoint of impaired ribosome biogenesis. Nature communications, 14(1), 8121. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43751-9
González, A., Covarrubias-Pinto, A., Bhaskara, R. M., Glogger, M., Kuncha, S. K., Xavier, A., Seemann, E., Misra, M., Hoffmann, M. E., Bräuning, B., Balakrishnan, A., Qualmann, B., Dötsch, V., Schulman, B. A., Kessels, M. M., Hübner, C. A., Heilemann, M., Hummer, G., & Dikić, I. (2023). Ubiquitination regulates ER-phagy and remodelling of endoplasmic reticulum. Nature, 618(7964), 394–401. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06089-2
Haydo, A., Wehle, A., Herold-Mende, C., Kögel, D., Pampaloni, F., & Linder, B. (2023). Combining organotypic tissue culture with light-sheet microscopy (OTCxLSFM) to study glioma invasion. EMBO reports, 24(12), e56964. https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.202356964
Hertel, A., Eimer, S., & Bremm, A. (2023). LAMTOR1 ubiquitination restricts its interaction with the vacuolar-type H+-ATPase, promotes autophagy and is controlled by USP32. Autophagy, 19(8), 2406–2407. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548627.2023.2184958
Kessler, L. F., Balakrishnan, A., Deußner-Helfmann, N. S., Li, Y., Mantel, M., Glogger, M., Barth, H. D., Dietz, M. S., & Heilemann, M. (2023). Self-quenched Fluorophore Dimers for DNA-PAINT and STED Microscopy. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 62(39), e202307538. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202307538
Körschgen, H., Baeken, M., Schmitt, D., Nagel, H., & Behl, C. (2023). Co-chaperone BAG3 enters autophagic pathway via its interaction with microtubule associated protein 1 light chain 3 beta. Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark), 24(12), 564–575. https://doi.org/10.1111/tra.12916
Körschgen H, Behl C. Aggresome-aggrephagy transition process: getting closer to the functional roles of HDAC6 and BAG3. Neural Regeneration Research. 2024 June; 19(6):p 1181-1182. doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.386407
Mende, H., Khatri, A., Lange, C., Poveda-Cuevas, S. A., Tascher, G., Covarrubias-Pinto, A., Löhr, F., Koschade, S. E., Dikic, I., Münch, C., Bremm, A., Brunetti, L., Brandts, C. H., Uckelmann, H., Dötsch, V., Rogov, V. V., Bhaskara, R. M., & Müller, S. (2023). An atypical GABARAP binding module drives the pro-autophagic potential of the AML-associated NPM1c variant. Cell reports, 42(12), 113484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113484
Meyer, L. M., Koschade, S. E., Vischedyk, J. B., Thoelken, M., Gubas, A., Wegner, M., Basoglu, M., Knapp, S., Kaulich, M., Eimer, S., Shaid, S., & Brandts, C. H. (2023). Deciphering the mitophagy receptor network identifies a crucial role for OPTN (optineurin) in acute myeloid leukemia. Autophagy, 19(11), 2982–2996. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548627.2023.2230839
Nalbach, K., Schifferer, M., Bhattacharya, D., Ho-Xuan, H., Tseng, W., Williams, L. A., Stolz, A., Lichtenthaler, S. F., Elazar, Z., & Behrends, C. (2023). Spatial proteomics reveals secretory pathway disturbances caused by neuropathy-associated TECPR2. Nature communications, 14(1), 870. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36553-6
Pham, T. N. M., Perumal, N., Manicam, C., Basoglu, M., Eimer, S., Fuhrmann, D. C., Pietrzik, C. U., Clement, A. M., Körschgen, H., Schepers, J., & Behl, C. (2023). Adaptive responses of neuronal cells to chronic endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. Redox biology, 67, 102943. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.redox.2023.102943
Proikas-Cezanne, T., Haas, M. L., Pastor-Maldonado, C. J., & Schüssele, D. S. (2024). Human WIPI β-propeller function in autophagy and neurodegeneration. FEBS letters, 598(1), 127–139. https://doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.14782
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