Infection Biology

Battista M, Hoffmann B, Bachelot Y, Zimmermann L, Teuber L, Jost A, Linde S, Westermann M, Müller MM, Slevogt H, Hammerschmidt S, Figge MT, Vilhena C^*#, Zipfel PF^*# (2023) The role of pneumococcal extracellular vesicles on the pathophysiology of the kidney disease hemolytic uremic syndrome. mSphere 8(4), e0014223.

Busch C, Rau S, Sekulic A, Perie L, Huber C, Gehrke M, Joussen AM, Zipfel PF, Wildner G, Skerka C, Strauß O (2023) Increased plasma level of terminal complement complex in AMD patients: potential functional consequences for RPE cells. Front Immunol 14, 1200725..

Daud M, Dasari P, Adelfinger M, Langenhorst D, Lother J, Slavkovic-Lukic D, Berges C, Kruhm M, Galler A, Schleussner C, Luther CH, Alberter K, Althammer A, Shaikh H, Pallmann N, Bodem J, El-Mowafy M, Beilhack A, Dittrich M, Topp MS, Zipfel PF, Beyersdorf N (2023) Enolase 1 of Candida albicans binds human CD4+ T cells and modulates naïve and memory responses. Eur J Immunol [In press]

Götze S, Vij R, Burow K, Thome N, Urbat L, Schlosser N, Pflanze S, Müller R, Hänsch VG, Schlabach K, Fazlikhani L, Walther G, Dahse HM, Regestein L, Brunke S, Hube B, Hertweck C, Franken P, Stallforth P (2023) Ecological niche-inspired genome mining leads to the discovery of crop-protecting nonribosomal lipopeptides featuring a transient amino acid building block. J Am Chem Soc 145(4), 2342-2353.

Herisse M, Ishida K, Staiger-Creed J, Judd L, Williams SJ, Howden BP, Stinear TP, Dahse HM, Voigt K, Hertweck C, Pidot SJ (2023) Discovery and biosynthesis of the cytotoxic polyene terpenomycin in human pathogenic Nocardia. ACS Chem Biol 18(8), 1872-1879.

Langenhorst D, Fürst AL, Alberter K, Vilhena C, Dasari P, Daud M, Heilig L, Luther CH, Dittrich M, Reiher N, Wich M, Elmowafy M, Jacobsen ID, Jungnickel B, Zipfel PF^*, Beyersdorf N^*# (2023) Soluble enolase 1 of Candida albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus stimulates human and mouse B cells and monocytes. J Immunol 211(5), 804-815.

Lin L, Wang M, Zeng J, Mao Y, Qin R, Deng J, Ouyang X, Hou X, Sun C, Wang Y, Cai Y, Li M, Tian C, Zhou X, Zhang M, Fan H, Mei H, Sarapultsev A, Wang H, Zhang G, Zipfel PF, Hu Y, Hu D, Luo S (2023) Sequence variation of Candida albicans Sap2 enhances fungal pathogenicity via complement evasion and macrophage M2-like phenotype induction. Adv Sci (Weinh) 10(20), e2206713.

Noriega M, Husain-Syed F, Wulf S, Csala B, Krebs CF, Jabs W, Zipfel PF, Gröne HJ, Wiech T (2023) Kidney biopsy findings in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection or after COVID-19 vaccination. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 18(5), 613-625.

Seifert L, Zahner G, Meyer-Schwesinger C, Hickstein N, Dehde S, Wulf S, Köllner SMS, Lucas R, Kylies D, Froembling S, Zielinski S, Kretz O, Borodovsky A, Biniaminov S, Wang Y, Cheng H, Koch-Nolte F, Zipfel PF, Hopfer H, Puelles VG, Panzer U, Huber TB, Wiech T, Tomas NM (2023) The classical pathway triggers pathogenic complement activation in membranous nephropathy. Nat Commun 14(1), 473.

Vilhena C, Du S, Battista M, Westermann M, Kohler T, Hammerschmidt S, Zipfel PF (2023) The choline-binding proteins PspA, PspC, and LytA of Streptococcus pneumoniae and their interaction with human endothelial and red blood cells. Infect Immun , e0015423.