Publications

2026

Becker F, Miosga MB, Mannan M, Bettenworth V, Steinchen W, Sträßer K, Friedhoff P. Tho1 and MOS11 promote nucleic acid double-strand unwinding by facilitating DEAD-box helicase oligomerization. Nucleic Acids Res. 54(2):gkaf1512, 14 Jan 2026, doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaf1512

Droß F, Gödert T, Fuchshuber SA, Nachev DV, Andreev DE, Fricke M, Ritsch M, Gerresheim GK, Repp S, Noe Y, Rossbach O, Marz M, Barth P, Goesmann A, Linne U, Weber A, Kracht M, Shatsky IN, Niepmann M. Binding of Glycyl-tRNA synthetase to Mengovirus RNA stimulates translation. Nucleic Acids Res. 54(1):gkaf1451, 5 Jan 2026, doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaf1451

2025

Barth P, Förster F, Jaenicke S, Thelen F, Rossbach O, Weber F, Shalamova L, Goesmann A. PARANOiD: Pipeline for Automated read ANalysis of iCLIP Data. Bioinformatics, 23 Dec 2025, doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf673

Keuthen H, Pozhydaieva N, Höfer K. Precise Phage Mutagenesis with NgTET-Assisted CRISPR-Cas Systems. J Vis Exp. (224), 14 Oct 2025, doi: 10.3791/69022

Lin S, Dieterich C, Britto-Borges T, Günther S, Kreher S, Eibach Y, Kuenne C, Schneider A, Braun T. Rbpms2 prevents major cardiac defects in cardiomyocyte-specific Rbpms-deficient mice. Dev. Cell, Jul 2025, doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2025.06.013

Kothe JAF, Sauerwein T, Dietz T, Scheuer R, Elhossary M, Barth-Weber S, Wähling J, Förstner KU, Evguenieva-Hackenberg E. Early posttranscriptional response to tetracycline exposure in a gram-negative soil bacterium reveals unexpected attenuation mechanism of a DUF1127 gene. RNA Biol. 22(1):1-16, doi: 10.1080/15476286.2025.2521887

Thelen F, Hochmuth J, Griep J, Schwab B, Goesmann A, Förster F. Crypt4GH-JS: securely storing sensitive data online with client-side encryption. Bioinformatics, 6 January 2025, doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btae763

Kuś K, Carrique L, Kecman T, Fournier M, Hassanein SS, Aydin E, Kilchert C, Grimes JM, Vasiljeva L. DSIF factor Spt5 coordinates transcription, maturation and exoribonucleolysis of RNA polymerase II transcripts. Nat Commun. 16(1):10, 2 Jan 2025, doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-55063-7

2024

Waber NB, Seidler J, Thelen F, Timm T, Lochnit G, Strasser K, Kilchert C. A census of RNA-dependent proteins in yeast. bioRxiv 2024.12.06.627129, doi: 10.1101/2024.12.06.627129

Shalamova L, Barth P, Picking MJ, Kouti K, Ott B, Humpert K, Janssen S, Loreno G, Brun A, Goesmann A, Hain T, Hartmann R, Rossbach O, Weber F. Nucleocapsids of the Rift Valley fever virus ambisense S segment contain an exposed RNA element in the center that overlaps with the intergenic region. Nat. Commun., 9 August 2024, doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52058-2

Henke-Schulz L, Minocha R, Maier NH, Sträßer K. The Prp19C/NTC subunit Syf2 and the Prp19C/NTC-associated protein Cwc15 function in TREX occupancy and transcription elongation. RNA, 17 June 2024, doi: 10.1261/rna.079944.124

Verheyden NA, Klostermann M, Brüggemann M, Steede HM, Scholz A, Amr S, Lichtenthaeler C, Münch C, Schmid T, Zarnack K, Krueger A. A high-resolution map of functional miR-181 response elements in the thymus reveals the role of coding sequence targeting and an alternative seed match. Nucleic Acids Research, 23 May 2024, doi: 10.1093/nar/gkae416

Kretz J, Börner J, Friedrich T, McIntosh M, Procida-Kowalski T, Gerken F, Wilhelm J and Klug G. Function of the RNA-targeting class 2 type VI CRISPR Cas system of Rhodobacter capsulatus. Front. Microbiol., 29 April 2024, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1384543

Weiss M, Hettrich S, Hofmann T, Hachim S, Günther S, Braun T*, Boettger T*. Mitolnc controls cardiac BCAA metabolism and heart hypertrophy by allosteric activation of BCKDH. Nucleic Acids Res., 3 April 2024, doi: 10.1093/nar/gkae226

Pozhydaieva N, Wolfram-Schauerte M, Keuthen H, Höfer K. The enigmatic epitranscriptome of bacteriophages: putative RNA modifications in viral infections. Curr. Opin. Microbiol., 12 Jan 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.mib.2023.102417

Scheuer R, Kothe J, Wähling J, Evguenieva-Hackenberg E. Analysis of sRNAs and Their mRNA Targets in Sinorhizobium meliloti: Focus on Half-Life Determination. In: Arluison, V., Valverde, C. (eds) Bacterial Regulatory RNA. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2741. Humana, New York, NY. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3565-0_13

2023

Schoen A, Hölzer M, Müller MA, Wallerang KB, Drosten C, Marz M, Lamp B, Weber F. Functional comparisons of the virus sensor RIG-I from humans, the microbat Myotis daubentonii, and the megabat Rousettus aegyptiacus, and their response to SARS-CoV-2 infection. J Virol, 31 Oct 2023, doi: 10.1128/jvi.00205-23

Wiegard JC, Damm K, Lechner M, Thölken C, Ngo S, Putzer H, Hartmann RK. Processing and decay of 6S-1 and 6S-2 RNAs in Bacillus subtilis. RNA, Oct 2023, doi: 10.1261/rna.079666.123

Hadjeras L, Heiniger B, Maaß S, Scheuer R, Gelhausen R, Azarderakhsh S, Barth-Weber S, Backofen R, Becher D, Ahrens C, Sharma C, Evguenieva-Hackenberg E. Unraveling the small proteome of the plant symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti by ribosome profiling and proteogenomics. microLife, 10 Mar 2023, doi:10.1093/femsml/uqad012