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Chris Meisinger is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research encompasses a broad spectrum of subfields, including molecular biology, genetics, clinical biochemistry, cell biology, and physiology.

Meisinger's work frequently addresses key topics such as mitochondrial function and pathology, ATP synthase and ATPases research, metabolism and genetic disorders, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease, and photosynthetic processes and mechanisms.

The scientist has published in a variety of respected journals, with frequent appearances in Nature Communications, Immunity, Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, EMBO Molecular Medicine, and the Journal of Molecular Biology.

  • Improving Identification of In-organello Protein-Protein Interactions Using an Affinity-enrichable, Isotopically Coded, and Mass Spectrometry-cleavable Chemical Crosslinker, 2020, Molecular & Cellular Proteomics
  • Acute suppression of mitochondrial ATP production prevents apoptosis and provides an essential signal for NLRP3 inflammasome activation, 2024, Immunity
  • Global kinome profiling reveals DYRK1A as critical activator of the human mitochondrial import machinery, 2021, Nature Communications
  • The HSP40 chaperone Ydj1 drives amyloid beta 42 toxicity, 2022, EMBO Molecular Medicine
  • A common evolutionary origin reveals fundamental principles of protein insertases, 2022, PLoS Biology

Collaborations are a characteristic aspect of Meisinger's research. Frequent coauthors include F.-Nora Vögtle, Adinarayana Marada, Aslı Aras Taşkin, Corvin Walter, and Albert Sickmann.

Best Publications

  • The proteome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondria

    Albert Sickmann;Jörg Reinders;Yvonne Wagner;Cornelia Joppich

  • Mitochondrial protein import: from proteomics to functional mechanisms

    Oliver Schmidt;Nikolaus Pfanner;Chris Meisinger

  • Apoptosis in yeast: triggers, pathways, subroutines

    D Carmona-Gutierrez;T Eisenberg;S Büttner;C Meisinger

  • Global Analysis of the Mitochondrial N-Proteome Identifies a Processing Peptidase Critical for Protein Stability

    F-Nora Vögtle;Stefanie Wortelkamp;René P Zahedi;Dorothea Becker;Dorothea Becker

  • Essential role of Mia40 in import and assembly of mitochondrial intermembrane space proteins.

    Agnieszka Chacinska;Sylvia Pfannschmidt;Nils Wiedemann;Vera Kozjak

  • Machinery for protein sorting and assembly in the mitochondrial outer membrane

    Nils Wiedemann;Vera Kozjak;Agnieszka Chacinska;Birgit Schönfisch

  • Toward the complete yeast mitochondrial proteome: multidimensional separation techniques for mitochondrial proteomics.

    Joerg Reinders;René P. Zahedi;Nikolaus Pfanner;Chris Meisinger

  • Dual Role of Mitofilin in Mitochondrial Membrane Organization and Protein Biogenesis

    Karina von der Malsburg;Judith M. Müller;Maria Bohnert;Silke Oeljeklaus

  • Mitochondrial presequence translocase: switching between TOM tethering and motor recruitment involves Tim21 and Tim17.

    Agnieszka Chacinska;Maria Lind;Maria Lind;Ann E. Frazier;Jan Dudek

  • An essential role of Sam50 in the protein sorting and assembly machinery of the mitochondrial outer membrane.

    Vera Kozjak;Nils Wiedemann;Dusanka Milenkovic;Christiane Lohaus

  • The Protein Import Machinery of Mitochondria—A Regulatory Hub in Metabolism, Stress, and Disease

    Angelika B. Harbauer;René P. Zahedi;Albert Sickmann;Albert Sickmann;Nikolaus Pfanner

  • Multiple pathways for sorting mitochondrial precursor proteins

    Natalia Bolender;Albert Sickmann;Richard Wagner;Chris Meisinger

  • Dissecting Membrane Insertion of Mitochondrial β-Barrel Proteins

    Stephan Kutik;Diana Stojanovski;Lars Becker;Thomas Becker

  • Tom22 is a multifunctional organizer of the mitochondrial preprotein translocase

    Sandra van Wilpe;Michael T. Ryan;Kerstin Hill;Ammy C. Maarse

  • ZEB1 turns into a transcriptional activator by interacting with YAP1 in aggressive cancer types

    Waltraut Lehmann;Dirk Mossmann;Julia Kleemann;Kerstin Mock

  • The Mitochondrial Presequence Translocase: An Essential Role of Tim50 in Directing Preproteins to the Import Channel

    Andreas Geissler;Agnieszka Chacinska;Kaye N. Truscott;Nils Wiedemann

  • The Mitochondrial Morphology Protein Mdm10 Functions in Assembly of the Preprotein Translocase of the Outer Membrane

    Chris Meisinger;Michael Rissler;Agnieszka Chacinska;Luiza K.Sanjuán Szklarz

  • Isolation of yeast mitochondria.

    Chris Meisinger;Nikolaus Pfanner;Kaye N. Truscott

  • Regulation of mitochondrial protein import by cytosolic kinases.

    Oliver Schmidt;Angelika B. Harbauer;Sanjana Rao;Beate Eyrich

  • Mitochondrial Cardiolipin Involved in Outer-Membrane Protein Biogenesis: Implications for Barth Syndrome

    Natalia Gebert;Amit S. Joshi;Stephan Kutik;Thomas Becker

Frequent Co-Authors

Nikolaus Pfanner
Nikolaus Pfanner University of Freiburg
Albert Sickmann
Albert Sickmann Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Nils Wiedemann
Nils Wiedemann University of Freiburg
Bernard Guiard
Bernard Guiard Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Agnieszka Chacinska
Agnieszka Chacinska IMol Polish Academy of Sciences
Peter Rehling
Peter Rehling University of Göttingen
Bettina Warscheid
Bettina Warscheid University of Freiburg
André Schneider
André Schneider University of Bern
Helmut E. Meyer
Helmut E. Meyer Ruhr University Bochum
Thomas Becker
Thomas Becker Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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