MOI V Papers

Arthur JF, Ahor HS, Vivekanandan MM, Minadzi D, Yeboah A, Lamptey M, Ofori VA, Kegya AD, Arthur R, Amoakoa LA, Adankwah E, Owusu DO, Abass MK, Apraku FG, Ayisi-Boateng NK, Adane S, Zakaria S, Mayatepek E, Seyfarth J, Phillips RO, Jacobsen M. Blood Immunopathology of Tuberculosis Patients Disrupts Monocyte-Dependent T-Cell Activation and Cytokine Expression. Immunology. 2026 Mar 8. doi: 10.1111/imm.70131. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41795482.

Arthur RA, Owusu DO, Minadzi D, Appau MN, Arthur B, Amoakoa LA, Ofori VA, Yeboah A, Vivekanandan MM, Ahor HS, Lamptey M, Arthur JF, Kegya AD, Abass M, Gyamfi FA, Ayisi-Boateng NK, Adane S, Zakaria S, Akenten CW, Dekker D, Seyfarth J, Adankwah E, Sylverken AA, Obiri-Danso K, Jacobsen M, Phillips RO. "Bacterial aetiology in the lower respiratory tract of TB-negative patients with respiratory symptoms: implications for tuberculosis control in Ghana". BMC Microbiol. 2026 Feb 5;26(1):354. doi: 10.1186/s12866-026-04777-3. PMID: 41645067; PMCID: PMC13081571.

Badia Roigé B, Pfeifer E, Frunzke J. Control of foreign DNA: emerging roles of xenogeneic silencers. Curr Opin Microbiol. 2026 Aug 6;93:102800. doi: 10.1016/j.mib.2026.102800. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42561635.

Wiechert J, Badia Roigé B, Dohmen-Olma D, Hindra, Zhang X, Stella RG, Elliot MA, Frunzke J. CRISPR/dCas-mediated counter-silencing: reprogramming dCas proteins into antagonists of xenogeneic silencers. mBio. 2025 Jul 9;16(7):e0038225. doi: 10.1128/mbio.00382-25. Epub 2025 May 28. PMID: 40434115; PMCID: PMC12239563.

Erdrich SH, Luthe T, Kever L, Badia Roigé B, Arsova B, Davoudi E, Frunzke J. Expanding the Phage Galaxy: Isolation and Characterization of Five Novel Streptomyces Siphoviruses Ankus, Byblos, DekoNeimoidia, Mandalore, and Naboo. Phage (New Rochelle). 2024 Sep 16;5(3):153-161. doi: 10.1089/phage.2024.0012. PMID: 39372360; PMCID: PMC11447395.

Hammond M, Chmelová Ľ, van Geelen-Kuenzel NA, Maurya AK, Ferreira ER, Puente V, Cadena LR, Záhonová K, Dowle A, Mottram JC, Nowack ECM, Lukeš J, Yurchenko V. Subcellular proteomics reveals a blueprint for endosymbiont integration in trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei. Nat Commun. 2026 Mar 3;17(1):2241. doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-70084-0. PMID: 41776170; PMCID: PMC12963391.

Maurya AK, Cadena LR, Ehret G, Nowack ECM.0. Host-encoded ETP2 is involved in recruiting the dynamin-like protein ETP9 to the endosymbiont division site in trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei. mBio 0:e02247-25. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.02247-25

Cadena LR, Lenz T, Stiebeling C, Stühler K, Poschmann G, Nowack ECM. Spatial proteomics reveals carboxysome adaptation and mitochondrial proteome in Paulinella chromatophora. Curr Biol. 2026 Sep 22:S0960-9822(26)01113-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2026.08.063. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42772290.

Nouioui I, Derr E, Zimmermann A, Jando M, Pötter G, Kirstein S, Neumann-Schaal M, Spröer C, Bunk B, Mast Y. Polyphasic taxonomic description of Streptomyces okerensis sp. nov. and Streptomyces stoeckheimensis sp. nov. and their biotechnological potential. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2025 Mar;75(3):006716. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.006716. PMID: 40085491; PMCID: PMC11936341.

Bollé S, Koc E, Saiardi A, Juhran L, Walla E, Fleig U, Alcázar-Román A. Inorganic Polyphosphate Modulates Chromosome Transmission Fidelity in the Fission Yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Biomolecules. 2025; 15(9):1331. doi.org/10.3390/biom15091331 

Elisa Koc, Lisa Juhran, Visnja Emmerich, Abel Alcázar-Román, Simon M. Bartsch, Adolfo Saiardi, Lasse van Wijlick, Johannes Postma, Thomas Lenz, Dorothea Fiedler, Michael Feldbrügge, Kai Stühler, Ingrid Span, Ursula Fleig. Species Context Reverses PPIP5K Control of Fungal Morphogenesis and Actin Organization. bioRxiv 2026.08.19.745713; doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.19.745713 PREPRINT

Xu HC, Pandey P, Ward H, Gorzkiewicz M, Abromavičiūtė D, Tinz C, Müller L, Meyer C, Pandyra AA, Yavas A, Borkhardt A, Esposito I, Lang KS, Lang PA. High-Affinity-Mediated Viral Entry Triggers Innate Affinity Escape Resulting in Type I IFN Resistance and Impaired T Cell Immunity. J Immunol. 2024 May 1;212(9):1457-1466. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.2300637. PMID: 38497668; PMCID: PMC11016594.

Peter L, Walotka L, Ptok J, Meyer C, Schüller D, Schaal H, Müller L. Bioinformatics-driven refinement of the commonly used TPI nonsense-mediated decay reporter system. RNA. 2024 Dec 16;31(1):32-42. doi: 10.1261/rna.080134.124. PMID: 39414360; PMCID: PMC11648928.

Gohar Y, Neumann M, Hülse L, Wind D, Mock J, Buchholz K, Helle M, Sorg UR, Degrandi D, Pfeffer K, Dilthey A. Intra-strain genetic heterogeneity in Toxoplasma gondii ME49: Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing reveals copy number variation in the ROP8-ROP2A locus. BMC Genomics. 2025 Dec 3;26(1):1094. doi: 10.1186/s12864-025-12372-5. PMID: 41339799; PMCID: PMC12690857.

Mendoza-Rojas G, Nakonz P, Lu M, Postma J, Shtakser N, Heinen M, Patel M, Arguello-Miranda O, Billerbeck S, Altegoer F. A co-evolved peptide-GPCR system senses host entry to drive fungal infection. bioRxiv 2025.09.26.678928; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.26.678928.

Polifke A, von Schwedler A, Gulba R, Bensmann R, Dilthey A, Nassar NNR, Finzer P. Differential characteristics of vaginal versus endometrial microbiota in IVF patients. Sci Rep. 2024 Dec 16;14(1):30508. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-82466-9. PMID: 39681607; PMCID: PMC11649765.

Devan SK, Shanmugasundaram S, Müntjes K, Postma J, Smits SHJ, Altegoer F, Feldbrügge M. Deciphering the RNA-binding protein network during endosomal mRNA transport. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 121 (46) e2404091121 (2024)., doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2404091121.

Ruf A, Thieron H, Nasfi S, Lederer B, Fricke S, Adeshara T, Postma J, Blumenkamp P, Kwon S, Brinkrolf K, Feldbrügge M, Goesmann A, Kehr J, Steinbrenner J, Šečić E, Göhre V, Weiberg A, Kogel K-H, Panstruga R, Robatzek S, & on behalf of the exRNA consortium. Broad-scale phenotyping in Arabidopsis reveals varied involvement of RNA interference across diverse plant-microbe interactions. Plant Direct, 8(11), e70017 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.70017.

Höhler M, Alcázar-Román AR, Schenk K, Aguirre-Huamani MP, Braun C, Zrieq R, Mölleken K, Hegemann JH, Fleig U. Direct targeting of host microtubule and actin cytoskeletons by a chlamydial pathogenic effector protein. J Cell Sci. 2024 Sep 1;137(17):jcs263450. doi: 10.1242/jcs.263450. Epub 2024 Sep 6. PMID: 39099397; PMCID: PMC11444262.

Gorzkiewicz M, Noseir S, Vengurlekar M, Ghosh M, Katahira I, Abromavičiūtė D, Gerling-Driessen U, Bonda L, Rähse N, Lapsien M, Bockholt S, Bergmann AK, Kostadinovska K, Fraii H, Lang KS, Oestereich L, Gohlke H, Hartmann L, Lang PA. Sulfated glycosaminoglycans inhibit LCMV entry and modulate antiviral immunity and pathology. EMBO Mol Med. 2026 Apr;18(4):1235-1264. doi: 10.1038/s44321-026-00387-8. Epub 2026 Feb 23. PMID: 41731078; PMCID: PMC13083911.