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Overview

Anne Spang is affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland and specializes in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research output primarily focuses on molecular biology, cell biology, physiology, aging, and immunology.

The scientist has contributed to multiple topics, including:

  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Lipid membrane structure and behavior
  • Mitochondrial function and pathology
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • RNA research and splicing
  • Genetics, aging, and longevity in model organisms
  • Retinal development and disorders

The following are some recent papers authored or co-authored by Anne Spang:

  • FERARI is required for Rab11-dependent endocytic recycling, 2020, Nature Cell Biology
  • Arf1 coordinates fatty acid metabolism and mitochondrial homeostasis, 2023, Nature Cell Biology
  • Protein sorting from endosomes to the TGN, 2023, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Functional interplay of lipid droplets and mitochondria, 2024, FEBS Letters
  • The ER-SURF pathway uses ER-mitochondria contact sites for protein targeting to mitochondria, 2024, EMBO Reports

Anne Spang frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Jachen A. Solinger
  • Cristina Prescianotto-Baschong
  • Ludovic Enkler
  • Alexander Schmidt
  • Viktória Szentgyörgyi

Their publications have appeared in a variety of venues with notable frequency in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Cell Biology
  • Journal of Cell Science
  • Communications Biology

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Identification of the switch in early-to-late endosome transition.

    Dmitry Poteryaev;Sunando Datta;Karin Ackema;Marino Zerial

  • A primer on vesicle budding.

    Sebastian Springer;Anne Spang;Randy Schekman

  • Auxin transport inhibitors impair vesicle motility and actin cytoskeleton dynamics in diverse eukaryotes

    Pankaj Dhonukshe;Pankaj Dhonukshe;Pankaj Dhonukshe;Ilya Grigoriev;Rainer Fischer;Motoki Tominaga

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • YfiBNR Mediates Cyclic di-GMP Dependent Small Colony Variant Formation and Persistence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Jacob G. Malone;Tina Jaeger;Christian Spangler;Daniel Ritz

  • The spindle pole body component Spc98p interacts with the gamma-tubulin-like Tub4p of Saccharomyces cerevisiae at the sites of microtubule attachment

    Silke Geissler;Gislene Pereira;Anne Spang;Michael Knop

  • Coatomer, Arf1p, and nucleotide are required to bud coat protein complex I-coated vesicles from large synthetic liposomes

    Anne Spang;Ken Matsuoka;Susan Hamamoto;Randy Schekman

  • The calcium-binding protein cell division cycle 31 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a component of the half bridge of the spindle pole body.

    Anne Spang;Iain Courtney;Ursel Fackler;Monika Matzner

  • gamma-Tubulin-like Tub4p of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is associated with the spindle pole body substructures that organize microtubules and is required for mitotic spindle formation.

    Anne Spang;Silke Geissler;Katrin Grein;Elmar Schiebel

  • Retrograde transport from the yeast Golgi is mediated by two ARF GAP proteins with overlapping function.

    Pak Phi Poon;Dan Cassel;Anne Spang;Miriam Rotman

  • Tethering complexes in the endocytic pathway: CORVET and HOPS.

    Jachen A. Solinger;Anne Spang

  • Septin-dependent compartmentalization of the endoplasmic reticulum during yeast polarized growth

    Cosima Luedeke;Stéphanie Buvelot Frei;Ivo Sbalzarini;Heinz Schwarz

  • NDC1: a crucial membrane-integral nucleoporin of metazoan nuclear pore complexes.

    Fabrizia Stavru;Bastian B. Hülsmann;Anne Spang;Enno Hartmann

  • The Cdc31p-binding protein Kar1p is a component of the half bridge of the yeast spindle pole body.

    A Spang;I Courtney;K Grein;M Matzner

  • Reconstitution of Retrograde Transport from the Golgi to the ER In Vitro

    Anne Spang;Randy Schekman

  • ARF-GAP–mediated interaction between the ER-Golgi v-SNAREs and the COPI coat

    Ulrike Rein;Uwe Andag;Rainer Duden;Hans Dieter Schmitt

  • Involvement of the actin cytoskeleton and homotypic membrane fusion in ER dynamics in Caenorhabditis elegans.

    Dmitry Poteryaev;Jayne M. Squirrell;Jay M. Campbell;John G. White

  • Membrane Tethering Complexes in the Endosomal System.

    Anne Spang

Frequent Co-Authors

Johannes M. Herrmann
Johannes M. Herrmann Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Randy Schekman
Randy Schekman University of California, Berkeley
Elmar Schiebel
Elmar Schiebel Heidelberg University
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Shazib Pervaiz
Shazib Pervaiz National University of Singapore
Maurizio Molinari
Maurizio Molinari Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Hsing Jien Kung
Hsing Jien Kung Taipei Medical University
Yee-Joo Tan
Yee-Joo Tan National University of Singapore
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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