Publications

Gorzkiewicz, M., Noseir, S., Vengurlekar, M., Ghosh, M., Katahira, I., Abromavičiūtė, D., Gerling-Driessen, U., Bonda, L., Rähse, N., Lapsien, M., Bockholt, S., Bergmann, A. K., Kostadinovska, K., Fraii, H., Lang, K. S., Oestereich, L., Gohlke, H., Hartmann, L., & Lang, P. A. (2026). Sulfated glycosaminoglycans inhibit LCMV entry and modulate antiviral immunity and pathology. EMBO molecular medicine, 10.1038/s44321-026-00387-8. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44321-026-00387-8

Zwick, J., Skowron, M. A., Poschmann, G., Petzsch, P., Bergmann, A. K., Stühler, K., Hecht, J., & Nettersheim, D. (2026). The Functional Role and Molecular Characterization of the Therapeutic Target CLDN6 in Germ Cell Tumors. Andrology, 10.1111/andr.70217. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1111/andr.70217

Wiebe-Ben Zakour, K. E., Kaya, S., Leo, L., Bergmann, A. K., Groeber-Becker, F. K., Geerling, G., & Witt, J. (2026). Lacrimal gland spheroids in tissue specific hydrogel for dry eye modelling. The ocular surface, 40, 195–205. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1016/j.jtos.2026.02.007

Euan Martínez, A. A., Bergmann, A. K., Tellkamp, F., Schott-Verdugo, S., Bouvain, P., Steinhausen, J., Bahr, J., Kmietczyk, V., Bencun, M., Flögel, U., Distler, J. H. W., Krueger, M., Völkers, M., Czekelius, C., Gohlke, H., Temme, S., Hesse, J., & Schrader, J. (2025). CD63 as novel target for nanoemulsion-based ¹⁹F MRI imaging and drug delivery to activated cardiac fibroblasts. Theranostics, 15(1), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.7150/thno.96990

Korkmaz H, Anstötz M, Wellinghof T, Fazari B, Hallenberger A, Bergmann AK, Niggetiedt E, Güven FD, Tundo-Lavalle F, Purath FFA, Bochinsky K, Gremer L, Willbold D, von Gall C, Ali AAH. Loss of Bmal1 impairs the glutamatergic light input to the SCN in mice. Front Cell Neurosci. 2025 Feb 27;19:1538985. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2025.1538985. PMID: 40083633; PMCID: PMC11903712.

Chen, I.-P.; Henning, S.; Bender, M.; Degenhardt, S.; Mhamdi Ghodbani, M.; Bergmann, A.K.; Volkmer, B.; Brockhoff, G.; Wege, A.K.; Greinert, R. Detection of Human Circulating and Extracellular Vesicle-Derived miRNAs in Serum of Humanized Mice Transplanted with Human Breast Cancer (HER2+ and TNBC) Cells—A Proof of Principle Investigation. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2025, 26, 3629. doi.org/10.3390/ijms26083629 

Katahira, S., Liebrand, N. A., Gorzkiewicz, M., Klahm, N. P., Abromavičiūtė, D., Werner, J., Krings, K. S., Orywol, S., Lautwein, T., Köhrer, K., Herebian, D., Mayatepek, E., Anstötz, M., Bergmann, A. K., Kondadi, A. K., Xu, H. C., Pandyra, A. A., Kobayashi, T., Brenner, D., Floss T., Kalinke U., Reichert AS., Lang, P. A. (2025). Controlling mitochondrial membrane architecture via MIC60 determines viral replication to promote anti-viral immunity. Cell Reports, 44(7), Article 115922. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115922

Werner, J., Xu, H. C., Theodorakis, G., Katahira, I., Ghosh, M., Gorzkiewicz, M., de Sousa Santos, L., Bergmann, A. K., Anstötz, M., Busch, A., Herebian, D., Dietrich, S., Berndt, C., Mayatepek, E., Pandyra, A. A., Brenner, D., & Lang, P. A. (2025). Myoglobin expression improves T-cell metabolism and antitumor effector function. Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 13(6), e011503. https://doi.org/10.1136/jitc-2025-011503

Tscheu K, Bergmann AK, Suschek CV, Maus U. Enhanced Osseointegration, Osteogenic Differentiation and Adherence Behaviour of Healthy Human Osteoblasts on a Roughened Titanium Surface by Vitamin K2 and Vitamin D3. Materials (Basel). 2025;18(21):5012. Published 2025 Nov 3. doi:10.3390/ma18215012

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Hasan, S. S., John, D., Rudnicki, M., AlZaim, I., Eberhard, D., Moll, I., Taylor, J., Klein, C., von Heesen, M., Conradi, L. C., Adams, R. H., Lammert, E., Kalucka, J., Ruhrberg, C., Dimmeler, S., & Fischer, A. (2025). Obesity drives depot-specific vascular remodeling in male white adipose tissue. Nature communications, 16(1), 5392. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60910-2

Lang, P. A., Holnsteiner, L., Machlah, Y. M., Friedrich-Becker, S. K., Bergerhausen, M., Schmitz, R., Schiller, M., Brandenburg, T., Zöller, J., Werner, J., Keizers, M., Gorzkiewicz, M., Berry, A., Jelic, L., Pandey, P., Wang, R., Müller, D., Kostka, M., Hardt, C., Vollmer, J., … Lang, K. S. (2025). Optimized arenaviruses with tumor-tropic mutations promote safe anti-tumor efficacy via sustainable immune modulatory properties. Cell reports. Medicine, 6(10), 102411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2025.102411

Kaul, M., Vanselow, R. L., Sanin, A. Y., Kahlert, U. D., & Janiak, C. (2025). Solvent-Dependent Stabilization of Gold Nanoparticles: A Comparative Study on Polymers and the Influence of Their Molecular Weight in Water and Ethanol. Chemistry, 7(5), 159. https://doi.org/10.3390/chemistry7050159

Sarah Salloum , Juliana Rüther , Zübeyde Celik and Christoph Janiak. (2025). Comparative analysis of synthesis techniques for citrate-capped gold nanoparticles: insights into optimized wet-chemical approaches for controlled morphology and stability. Nanoscale, 2025, 17, 23373-23386. DOI: 10.1039/D5NR02727F

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Kaul, M., Sanin, A.Y., Shi, W. et al. Nanoformulation of dasatinib cannot overcome therapy resistance of pancreatic cancer cells with low LYN kinase expression. Pharmacol. Rep (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43440-024-00600-w

Wiebe-Ben Zakour KE, Kaya S, Matros JC, et al. Enhancement of lacrimal gland cell function by decellularized lacrimal gland derived hydrogel. Biofabrication. 2024;16(2):10.1088/1758-5090/ad2082. Published 2024 Feb 1. doi:10.1088/1758-5090/ad2082

Eberhard D, Balkenhol S, Köster A, et al. Semaphorin-3A regulates liver sinusoidal endothelial cell porosity and promotes hepatic steatosis. Nat Cardiovasc Res. 2024;3(6):734-753. doi:10.1038/s44161-024-00487-z

Brunello, G., Becker, K., Rauch, N., Schwarz, F. and Becker, J. (2025), The Effect of NiTi Brush, Polishing Brush, and Chemical Agent on the Dental Implant Surface Morphology and Cytocompatibility. Clin Implant Dent Relat Res. https://doi.org/10.1111/cid.13417

Quast C, Bönner F, Polzin A, et al. Aortic Valve Stenosis Causes Accumulation of Extracellular Hemoglobin and Systemic Endothelial Dysfunction. Circulation. 2024;150(12):952-965. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.123.064747

Naha R, Strohm R, Schaumkessel Y, et al. SLP2 and MIC13 synergistically coordinate MICOS assembly and crista junction formation. iScience. 2024;27(12):111467. Published 2024 Nov 23. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2024.111467

Lisowski P, Lickfett S, Rybak-Wolf A, et al. Mutant huntingtin impairs neurodevelopment in human brain organoids through CHCHD2-mediated neurometabolic failure. Nat Commun. 2024;15(1):7027. Published 2024 Aug 22. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-51216-w

Petersilie, L., Heiduschka, S., Nelson, J. S. E., Neu, L. A., Le, S., Anand, R., Kafitz, K. W., Prigione, A., & Rose, C. R. (2024). Cortical brain organoid slices (cBOS) for the study of human neural cells in minimal networks. iScience, 27(4), 109415. doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109415

Holtmann C, Roth M, Filler T, Bergmann AK, Hänggi D, Muhammad S, Borrelli M, Geerling G. Microvascular anastomosis of the human lacrimal gland: a concept study towards transplantation of the human lacrimal gland. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2023 May;261(5):1443-1450. doi: 10.1007/s00417-022-05933-x. Epub 2022 Dec 7. PMID: 36477647; PMCID: PMC10148775.

Berning L, Lenz T, Bergmann AK, Poschmann G, Brass HUC, Schlütermann D, Friedrich A, Mendiburo MJ, David C, Akgün S, Pietruszka J, Stühler K, Stork B. The Golgi stacking protein GRASP55 is targeted by the natural compound prodigiosin. Cell Commun Signal. 2023 Oct 5;21(1):275. doi: 10.1186/s12964-023-01275-1. PMID: 37798768; PMCID: PMC10552397.

Ostermann PN, Ramani A, Bergmann AK, Adams O, Gopalakrishnan J, Schaal H. Infection of 3D brain organoids with human pathogenic viruses under biosafety level-3 conditions with subsequent inactivation to study viral replication, pathomechanisms, and other viral infection-mediated effects. In: J Gopalakrishnan, ed. Brain Organoid Research. Springer US; 2023: 191-220.

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Nakhaei-Rad S, Haghighi F, Bazgir F, Dahlmann J, Busley AV, Buchholzer M, Kleemann K, Schänzer A, Borchardt A, Hahn A, Kötter S, Schanze D, Anand R, Funk F, Kronenbitter AV, Scheller J, Piekorz RP, Reichert AS, Volleth M, Wolf MJ, Cirstea IC, Gelb BD, Tartaglia M, Schmitt JP, Krüger M, Kutschka I, Cyganek L, Zenker M, Kensah G, Ahmadian MR. Molecular and cellular evidence for the impact of a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy-associated RAF1 variant on the structure and function of contractile machinery in bioartificial cardiac tissues. Commun Biol. 2023 Jun 21;6(1):657. doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-05013-8. PMID: 37344639; PMCID: PMC10284840.

Skornia A, Geerling G, Spaniol K, Witt J. Influence of Storage Conditions on Decellularized Porcine Conjunctiva. Bioengineering. 2023; 10(3):350. doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering10030350

Peifer-Weiß L, Kurban M, David C, Lubeck M, Kondadi AK, Nemer G, Reichert AS, Anand R. A X-linked nonsense APOO/MIC26 variant causes a lethal mitochondrial disease with progeria-like phenotypes. Clin Genet. 2023 Dec;104(6):659-668. doi: 10.1111/cge.14420. Epub 2023 Aug 30. PMID: 37649161.

Bueno D, Narayan Dey P, Schacht T, et al. NECAB2 is an endosomal protein important for striatal function. Free Radic Biol Med. 2023; 208:643-656. doi:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2023.09.003

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Quast C, Kober F, Becker K, Zweck E, Hoffe J, Jacoby C, Flocke V, Gyamfi-Poku I, Keyser F, Piayda K, Erkens R, Niepmann S, Adam M, Baldus S, Zimmer S, Nickenig G, Grandoch M, Bönner F, Kelm M, Flögel U. Multiparametric MRI identifies subtle adaptations for demarcation of disease transition in murine aortic valve stenosis. Basic Res Cardiol. 2022 May 29;117(1):29. doi: 10.1007/s00395-022-00936-5. PMID: 35643805; PMCID: PMC9148878.

Bottermann K, Kalfhues L, Nederlof R, Hemmers A, Leitner LM, Oenarto V, Nemmer J, Pfeffer M, Raje V, Deenen R, Petzsch P, Zabri H, Köhrer K, Reichert AS, Grandoch M, Fischer JW, Herebian D, Stegbauer J, Harris TE, Gödecke A. Cardiomyocyte p38 MAPKα suppresses a heart-adipose tissue-neutrophil crosstalk in heart failure development. Basic Res Cardiol. 2022 Oct 7;117(1):48. doi: 10.1007/s00395-022-00955-2. PMID: 36205817 Free PMC article.

Wu W, Wang X, Sun Y, Berleth N, Deitersen J, Schlütermann D, Stuhldreier F, Wallot-Hieke N, José Mendiburo M, Cox J, Peter C, Bergmann AK, Stork B. TNF-induced necroptosis initiates early autophagy events via RIPK3-dependent AMPK activation, but inhibits late autophagy. Autophagy. 2021 Dec;17(12):3992-4009. doi: 10.1080/15548627.2021.1899667. Epub 2021 Mar 28. PMID: 33779513; PMCID: PMC8726653.

Jenke A, Kistner J, Saradar S, Chekhoeva A, Yazdanyar M, Bergmann AK, Rötepohl MV, Lichtenberg A, Akhyari P. Transforming growth factor-β1 promotes fibrosis but attenuates calcification of valvular tissue applied as a three-dimensional calcific aortic valve disease model. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2020 Nov 1;319(5):H1123-H1141. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00651.2019. Epub 2020 Sep 28. PMID: 32986963.