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Overview

Frank Müller is affiliated with Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany and has contributed extensively to biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research spans several specialized subfields, notably molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, genetics, cancer research, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist has published significant work across multiple topics, including:

  • Retinal Development and Disorders
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Ion Channel Regulation and Function
  • RNA Modifications and Cancer

Several recent papers demonstrate the diversity and focus of their research. These include:

  • The blood-brain barrier is dysregulated in COVID-19 and serves as a CNS entry route for SARS-CoV-2, 2022, published in Stem Cell Reports
  • Dnmt1 has de novo activity targeted to transposable elements, 2021, published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
  • TETs compete with DNMT3 activity in pluripotent cells at thousands of methylated somatic enhancers, 2020, published in Nature Genetics
  • Enhanced cortical neural stem cell identity through short SMAD and WNT inhibition in human cerebral organoids facilitates emergence of outer radial glial cells, 2022, published in Nature Cell Biology
  • Classification of Brain Tumors by Nanopore Sequencing of Cell-Free DNA from Cerebrospinal Fluid, 2023, published in Clinical Chemistry

Human collaborations appear frequent and central to their work. The most common coauthors are:

  • Björn Brändl (24 collaborations)
  • Christian Rohrandt (10 collaborations)
  • Alexander Meissner (8 collaborations)
  • Gaojianyong Wang (7 collaborations)
  • Helene Kretzmer (6 collaborations)

Their work has been published in a range of journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 5 publications
  • Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience with 4 publications
  • Scientific Reports with 3 publications
  • Nature Cell Biology with 2 publications
  • Blood with 2 publications

Best Publications

  • Cone Contacts, Mosaics, and Territories of Bipolar Cells in the Mouse Retina

    Heinz Wässle;Christian Puller;Frank Müller;Silke Haverkamp

  • Cloning and functional expression of a cyclic-nucleotide-gated channel from mammalian sperm

    I Weyand;M Godde;S Frings;J Weiner

  • The Native Rat Olfactory Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Channel Is Composed of Three Distinct Subunits

    Wolfgang Bönigk;Jonathan Bradley;Frank Müller;Federico Sesti

  • Hyperpolarization-activated channels HCN1 and HCN4 mediate responses to sour stimuli

    David R. Stevens;Reinhard Seifert;Bernd Bufe;Frank Müller

  • A 240 kDa protein represents the complete β subunit of the cyclic nucleotide-gated channel from rod photoreceptor

    Heinz Gerd Ko¨rschen;Michelle Illing;Reinhard Seifer;Federico Sesti

  • Rod and cone photoreceptor cells express distinct genes for cGMP-gated channels

    Wolfgang Bönigk;Wolfram Altenhofen;Frank Müller;Andrea Dose

  • A single negative charge within the pore region of a cGMP-gated channel controls rectification, Ca2+ blockage, and ionic selectivity.

    E Eismann;F Müller;S H Heinemann;U B Kaupp

  • The rod bipolar cell of the mammalian retina.

    Heinz Wässle;Masayuki Yamashita;Ursula Greferath;Ulrike Grünert

  • Pharmacological modulation of the rod pathway in the cat retina.

    F. Muller;H. Wassle;T. Voigt

  • A cGMP-signaling pathway in a subset of olfactory sensory neurons.

    M R Meyer;A Angele;E Kremmer;U B Kaupp

  • Amacrine cells in the ganglion cell layer of the cat retina

    Heinz Wässle;Myung Hoon Chun;Frank Müller

  • HCN channels are expressed differentially in retinal bipolar cells and concentrated at synaptic terminals

    Frank Müller;Alexander Scholten;Elena Ivanova;Silke Haverkamp

  • Interaction of glutamic-acid-rich proteins with the cGMP signalling pathway in rod photoreceptors

    Heinz G. Körschen;Michael Beyermann;Frank Müller;Martin Heck

  • Functional Characterization of a Guanylyl Cyclase-activating Protein from Vertebrate Rods CLONING, HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION, AND LOCALIZATION

    Sandra Frins;Wolfgang Bönigk;Frank Müller;Roland Kellner

  • Type 3a and type 3b OFF cone bipolar cells provide for the alternative rod pathway in the mouse retina

    Anja Mataruga;Elisabeth Kremmer;Frank Müller

  • Calmodulin controls the rod photoreceptor CNG channel through an unconventional binding site in the N‐terminus of the β‐subunit

    Dietmar Weitz;Martin Zoche;Martin Zoche;Frank Müller;Michael Beyermann

  • Glutamate receptor expression in the rat retina.

    Frank Müller;Ursula Greferath;Heinz Wässle;William Wisden

  • Profiling of histone H3 lysine 9 trimethylation levels predicts transcription factor activity and survival in acute myeloid leukemia

    Carsten Müller-Tidow;Hans-Ulrich Klein;Antje Hascher;Fabienne Isken

  • Localization of GABAA receptors in the rat retina.

    Ursula Greferath;Frank Müller;Heinz Wässle;Brenda D. Shivers

  • Neural peptidase endothelin-converting enzyme 1 regulates endothelin 1–induced pruritus

    Makiko Kido-Nakahara;Makiko Kido-Nakahara;Makiko Kido-Nakahara;Jorg Buddenkotte;Jorg Buddenkotte;Cordula Kempkes;Cordula Kempkes;Akihiko Ikoma

  • A single negative charge within the pore region of a cGMP-gated channel controls rectification, Ca2+ blockage, and ionic selectivity (photoreceptors /ion channel/permeability)

    Elisabeth Eismann;Frank Muller;Stefan H. HEINEMANNt;U. Benjamin Kaupp

Frequent Co-Authors

Heinz Wässle
Heinz Wässle Max Planck Society
Andreas Offenhäusser
Andreas Offenhäusser Forschungszentrum Jülich
Zsuzsanna Izsvák
Zsuzsanna Izsvák Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Zoltán Ivics
Zoltán Ivics Paul Ehrlich Institut
Charles A. Greer
Charles A. Greer Yale University
Silke Haverkamp
Silke Haverkamp Max Planck Society
Anke Becker
Anke Becker Philipp University of Marburg
William Wisden
William Wisden Imperial College London
Bernhard H. F. Weber
Bernhard H. F. Weber University of Regensburg
Sven Ingebrandt
Sven Ingebrandt RWTH Aachen University

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