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Georg Häcker is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany and has a significant body of research in the fields of Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Immunology and Microbiology. Their research spans over 70 publications in Medicine, nearly 60 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and 35 in Immunology and Microbiology.

The scientist's work focuses on several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Clinical Biochemistry. Their main topics of research include:

  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
  • Cell death mechanisms and regulation
  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Interferon and immune responses
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
  • Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies

Frequent co-authors of Georg Häcker include:

  • Mohamed Tarek Badr (15 joint publications)
  • Can Imirzalioglu (9 joint publications)
  • Alexander Mischnik (9 joint publications)
  • Jan Rupp (9 joint publications)
  • Michael Behnke (9 joint publications)

Most contributions appear in the following publication venues:

  • Cell Death and Differentiation (6 publications)
  • Cell Death and Disease (6 publications)
  • Infection (4 publications)
  • Frontiers in Immunology (4 publications)
  • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology (3 publications)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Georg Häcker include:

  • Apoptotic cell death in disease-Current understanding of the NCCD 2023, published in 2023 in Cell Death and Differentiation
  • Resolving colistin resistance and heteroresistance in Enterobacter species, published in 2023 in Nature Communications
  • Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium colonizing patients on hospital admission in Germany: prevalence and molecular epidemiology, published in 2020 in Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • Spontaneous activity of the mitochondrial apoptosis pathway drives chromosomal defects, the appearance of micronuclei and cancer metastasis through the Caspase-Activated DNAse, published in 2022 in Cell Death and Disease
  • Acute suppression of mitochondrial ATP production prevents apoptosis and provides an essential signal for NLRP3 inflammasome activation, published in 2024 in Immunity

Best Publications

  • Specificity in Toll-like receptor signalling through distinct effector functions of TRAF3 and TRAF6

    Hans Häcker;Vanessa Redecke;Blagoy Blagoev;Irina Kratchmarova

  • cIAPs Block Ripoptosome Formation, a RIP1/Caspase-8 Containing Intracellular Cell Death Complex Differentially Regulated by cFLIP Isoforms

    Maria Feoktistova;Maria Feoktistova;Peter Geserick;Peter Geserick;Beate Kellert;Diana Panayotova Dimitrova

  • The morphology of apoptosis.

    Georg Häcker

  • Inhibitor of apoptosis proteins limit RIP3 kinase-dependent interleukin-1 activation.

    James E. Vince;W. Wei Lynn Wong;W. Wei Lynn Wong;Ian Gentle;Kate E. Lawlor;Kate E. Lawlor

  • FOXO3a-dependent regulation of Puma in response to cytokine/growth factor withdrawal

    Han You;Marc Pellegrini;Marc Pellegrini;Katsuya Tsuchihara;Katsuya Tsuchihara;Kazuo Yamamoto;Kazuo Yamamoto

  • Proapoptotic signaling induced by RIG-I and MDA-5 results in type I interferon–independent apoptosis in human melanoma cells

    Robert Besch;Hendrik Poeck;Tobias Hohenauer;Daniela Senft

  • 5′-triphosphate-siRNA: turning gene silencing and Rig-I activation against melanoma

    Poeck H;Besch R;Maihoefer C;Maihoefer C;Renn M

  • NFκB activation by Fas is mediated through FADD, caspase-8, and RIP and is inhibited by FLIP

    Sebastian Kreuz;Daniela Siegmund;Jost-Julian Rumpf;Dierk Samel

  • Neutrophil granulocytes recruited upon translocation of intestinal bacteria enhance graft-versus-host disease via tissue damage

    Lukas Schwab;Luise Goroncy;Senthilnathan Palaniyandi;Sanjivan Gautam

  • Sorafenib promotes graft-versus-leukemia activity in mice and humans through IL-15 production in FLT3-ITD-mutant leukemia cells.

    Nimitha R Mathew;Nimitha R Mathew;Francis Baumgartner;Lukas Braun;David O'Sullivan

  • Puma cooperates with Bim, the rate-limiting BH3-only protein in cell death during lymphocyte development, in apoptosis induction

    Miriam Erlacher;Verena Labi;Claudia Manzl;Günther Böck

  • Chlamydia inhibit host cell apoptosis by degradation of proapoptotic BH3-only proteins.

    Silke F. Fischer;Juliane Vier;Susanne Kirschnek;Andreas Klos

  • Signaling of Apoptosis through TLRs Critically Involves Toll/IL-1 Receptor Domain-Containing Adapter Inducing IFN-β, but Not MyD88, in Bacteria-Infected Murine Macrophages

    Klaus Ruckdeschel;Gudrun Pfaffinger;Rudolf Haase;Andreas Sing

  • Tryptophan deprivation induces inhibitory receptors ILT3 and ILT4 on dendritic cells favoring the induction of human CD4+CD25+ Foxp3+ T regulatory cells.

    Manuela Brenk;Marina Scheler;Susanne Koch;Jürgen Neumann

  • Caspase-2 is not required for thymocyte or neuronal apoptosis even though cleavage of caspase-2 is dependent on both Apaf-1 and caspase-9.

    L A O'Reilly;P Ekert;N Harvey;V Marsden

  • Apoptosis is essential for neutrophil functional shutdown and determines tissue damage in experimental pneumococcal meningitis.

    Uwe Koedel;Tobias Frankenberg;Susanne Kirschnek;Bianca Obermaier

  • Activation of the immune system by bacterial CpG-DNA.

    Georg Häcker;Vanessa Redecke;Hans Häcker

  • Cell type-specific activation of mitogen-activated protein kinases by CpG-DNA controls interleukin-12 release from antigen-presenting cells.

    Hans Häcker;Harald Mischak;Georg Häcker;Sema Eser

  • Proapoptotic signalling through Toll-like receptor-3 involves TRIF-dependent activation of caspase-8 and is under the control of inhibitor of apoptosis proteins in melanoma cells.

    A Weber;Z Kirejczyk;R Besch;S Potthoff

  • Characterization of Antiapoptotic Activities of Chlamydia pneumoniae in Human Cells

    Silke F. Fischer;Claudia Schwarz;Juliane Vier;Georg Häcker

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Villunger
Andreas Villunger Innsbruck Medical University
Hermann Wagner
Hermann Wagner Technical University of Munich
Robert Zeiser
Robert Zeiser University of Freiburg
David M. Ojcius
David M. Ojcius University of the Pacific
Oliver Kretz
Oliver Kretz Universität Hamburg
Klaus Pfeffer
Klaus Pfeffer Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Marco Prinz
Marco Prinz University of Freiburg
Gerd Sutter
Gerd Sutter Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Andreas Strasser
Andreas Strasser Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Martin Leverkus
Martin Leverkus RWTH Aachen University

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