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Christian Ungermann

Christian Ungermann

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
71
Citations
35162
World Ranking
6498
National Ranking
460

Overview

Christian Ungermann is affiliated with Osnabrück University in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, alongside Medicine. Subfields of particular interest include Cell Biology, Physiology, Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, and Biophysics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, such as:

  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism
  • Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research
  • Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology

Christian Ungermann has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • Who's in control? Principles of Rab GTPase activation in endolysosomal membrane trafficking and beyond, 2021, The Journal of Cell Biology
  • A conserved and regulated mechanism drives endosomal Rab transition, 2020, eLife
  • Structure of the HOPS tethering complex, a lysosomal membrane fusion machinery, 2022, eLife
  • TORC1 Determines Fab1 Lipid Kinase Function at Signaling Endosomes and Vacuoles, 2020, Current Biology
  • TSC1 binding to lysosomal PIPs is required for TSC complex translocation and mTORC1 regulation, 2021, Molecular Cell

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Ungermann include:

  • Lars Langemeyer
  • Florian Fröhlich
  • Daniel Kümmel
  • Arne Moeller
  • Stefan Walter

Publication venues where Christian Ungermann has frequently contributed are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Journal of Cell Science
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • eLife

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • 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

  • Coming together to define membrane contact sites.

    Luca Scorrano;Maria Antonietta De Matteis;Scott Emr;Francesca Giordano

  • Homotypic vacuolar fusion mediated by t- and v-SNAREs

    Benjamin J. Nichols;Christian Ungermann;Hugh R. B. Pelham;William T. Wickner

  • CORVET and HOPS tethering complexes - coordinators of endosome and lysosome fusion.

    Henning J. kleine Balderhaar;Christian Ungermann

  • The Mon1-Ccz1 Complex Is the GEF of the Late Endosomal Rab7 Homolog Ypt7

    Mirjana Nordmann;Margarita Cabrera;Angela Perz;Cornelia Bröcker

  • Defining the functions of trans -SNARE pairs

    Christian Ungermann;Ken Sato;Ken Sato;William Wickner

  • Leucyl-tRNA Synthetase Controls TORC1 via the EGO Complex

    Grégory Bonfils;Malika Jaquenoud;Séverine Bontron;Clemens Ostrowicz

  • Cellular Metabolism Regulates Contact Sites between Vacuoles and Mitochondria

    Carina Hönscher;Muriel Mari;Kathrin Auffarth;Maria Bohnert

  • The CORVET Tethering Complex Interacts with the Yeast Rab5 Homolog Vps21 and Is Involved in Endo-Lysosomal Biogenesis

    Karolina Peplowska;Daniel F. Markgraf;Clemens W. Ostrowicz;Gert Bange

  • The role of Hsp70 in conferring unidirectionality on protein translocation into mitochondria.

    Christian Ungermann;Walter Neupert;Douglas M. Cyr

  • Rab GTPase Function in Endosome and Lysosome Biogenesis.

    Lars Langemeyer;Florian Fröhlich;Christian Ungermann

  • A Vacuolar v–t-SNARE Complex, the Predominant Form In Vivo and on Isolated Vacuoles, Is Disassembled and Activated for Docking and Fusion

    Christian Ungermann;Benjamin J. Nichols;Hugh R.B. Pelham;William Wickner

  • 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

  • Molecular architecture of the multisubunit homotypic fusion and vacuole protein sorting (HOPS) tethering complex

    Cornelia Bröcker;Anne Kuhlee;Christos Gatsogiannis;Henning J. kleine Balderhaar

  • The docking stage of yeast vacuole fusion requires the transfer of proteins from a cis-SNARE complex to a Rab/Ypt protein.

    Albert Price;Darren Seals;William Wickner;Christian Ungermann

  • Multisubunit Tethering Complexes and Their Role in Membrane Fusion

    Cornelia Bröcker;Siegfried Engelbrecht-Vandré;Christian Ungermann

  • Autophagosome Maturation and Fusion.

    Fulvio Reggiori;Christian Ungermann

  • Atg9 establishes Atg2-dependent contact sites between the endoplasmic reticulum and phagophores.

    Rubén Gómez-Sánchez;Jaqueline Rose;Rodrigo Guimarães;Rodrigo Guimarães;Muriel Mari

Frequent Co-Authors

Fulvio Reggiori
Fulvio Reggiori University of Groningen
Lars E. P. Dietrich
Lars E. P. Dietrich Columbia University
William Wickner
William Wickner Dartmouth College
Sergio Lavandero
Sergio Lavandero University of Chile
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Maurizio Molinari
Maurizio Molinari Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Dieter Langosch
Dieter Langosch Technical University of Munich
Jacob Piehler
Jacob Piehler Osnabrück University
Steven Finkbeiner
Steven Finkbeiner University of California, San Francisco
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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