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Helmut Plattner is affiliated with the University of Konstanz in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Environmental Science. Within these broader areas, they focus on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Ecology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Endocrinology, and Surgery.

Their work addresses multiple scientific topics, including:

  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Vibrio bacteria research studies
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

Publications by Helmut Plattner have appeared predominantly in the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, with four papers published there, as well as contributions to the International Journal of Molecular Sciences and the Journal of Structural Biology.

Their recent papers include:

  • "Ciliate research: From myth to trendsetting science," 2022, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
  • "Membrane traffic and Ca2+ signals in ciliates," 2022, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
  • "In Memoriam: Janine Beisson," 2020, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Helmut Plattner has collaborated frequently with co-authors including Emilia Kawecka, Lena Ederer, Kilian Niemann, Sarah Pasche, and Milan Zimmermann.

Best Publications

  • Global trends of whole-genome duplications revealed by the ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia

    Jean-Marc Aury;Olivier Jaillon;Laurent Duret;Benjamin Noel

  • Identification of reggie-1 and reggie-2 as plasmamembrane-associated proteins which cocluster with activated GPI-anchored cell adhesion molecules in non-caveolar micropatches in neurons.

    Dirk M. Lang;Silvia Lommel;Marion Jung;Richard Ankerhold

  • Glycosylphosphatidyl Inositol-anchored Proteins and fyn Kinase Assemble in Noncaveolar Plasma Membrane Microdomains Defined by Reggie-1 and -2

    Claudia A.O. Stuermer;Dirk M. Lang;Friederike Kirsch;Marianne Wiechers

  • Cryofixation : A Tool In Biological Ultrastructural Research

    Helmut Plattner;Luis Bachmann

  • Autophagic tubes: vacuolar invaginations involved in lateral membrane sorting and inverse vesicle budding.

    Oliver Müller;Tanja Sattler;Matthias Flötenmeyer;Heinz Schwarz

  • Ultrastructural Organization of Bovine Chromaffin Cell Cortex—Analysis by Cryofixation and Morphometry of Aspects Pertinent to Exocytosis

    Helmut Plattner;Antonio R. Artalejo;Erwin Neher

  • PrPc capping in T cells promotes its association with the lipid raft proteins reggie-1 and reggie-2 and leads to signal transduction

    Claudia A. O. Stuermer;Matthias F. Langhorst;Marianne F. Wiechers;Daniel F. Legler

  • Membrane specializations in the form of regular membrane-to membrane attachment sites in Paramecium : a correlated freeze-etching and ultrathin-sectioning analysis

    Helmut Plattner;F. Miller;Luis Bachmann

  • Quenched flow analysis of exocytosis in Paramecium cells: time course, changes in membrane structure, and calcium requirements revealed after rapid mixing and rapid freezing of intact cells.

    Gerd Knoll;Claudia Braun;Helmut Plattner

  • Asymmetric localization of flotillins/reggies in preassembled platforms confers inherent polarity to hematopoietic cells

    Lawrence Rajendran;Madhan Masilamani;Samuel Solomon;Ritva Tikkanen

  • Lung surfactant protein A (SP-A) enhances serum-independent phagocytosis of bacteria by alveolar macrophages.

    Manz-Keinke H;Plattner H;Schlepper-Schäfer J

  • Calcium in ciliated protozoa: Sources, regulation, and calcium-regulated cell functions

    Helmut Plattner;Norbert Klauke

  • Linking membrane microdomains to the cytoskeleton: regulation of the lateral mobility of reggie-1/flotillin-2 by interaction with actin.

    Matthias F. Langhorst;Gonzalo P. Solis;Sylvia Hannbeck;Helmut Plattner

  • Synchronous exocytosis in Paramecium cells. IV. Polyamino compounds as potent trigger agents for repeatable trigger-redocking cycles.

    Plattner H;Stürzl R;Matt H

  • Immunolocalisation of PrPSc in scrapie-infected N2a mouse neuroblastoma cells by light and electron microscopy.

    Nathalie M. Veith;Helmut Plattner;Claudia A.O. Stuermer;Walter J. Schulz-Schaeffer

  • Exocytosis induction in Paramecium tetraurelia cells by exogenous phosphoprotein phosphatase in vivo and in vitro: possible involvement of calcineurin in exocytotic membrane fusion.

    Massoud Momayezi;Christine J. Lumpert;Helmut Kersken;Ute Gras

  • Trafficking of the microdomain scaffolding protein reggie-1/flotillin-2.

    Matthias F. Langhorst;Alexander Reuter;Friederike A. Jaeger;Frank M. Wippich

  • Promitochondria of anaerobically grown yeast. III. Morphology

    Helmut Plattner;Gottfried Schatz

  • Guanylyl cyclases with the topology of mammalian adenylyl cyclases and an N-terminal P-type ATPase-like domain in Paramecium, Tetrahymena and Plasmodium.

    Jürgen U. Linder;Peter Engel;Andreas Reimer;Thomas Krüger

  • Quantitative Calcium Measurements in Subcellular Compartments of Plasmodium falciparum-infected Erythrocytes

    Petra Rohrbach;Oliver Friedrich;Oliver Friedrich;Joachim Hentschel;Helmut Plattner

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudia A. O. Stuermer
Claudia A. O. Stuermer University of Konstanz
Alexei Verkhratsky
Alexei Verkhratsky University of Manchester
Wanderley de Souza
Wanderley de Souza Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Roberto Docampo
Roberto Docampo University of Georgia
Joachim E. Schultz
Joachim E. Schultz University of Tübingen
Silvia N. J. Moreno
Silvia N. J. Moreno University of Georgia
Janine Beisson
Janine Beisson University of Paris-Saclay
Roderic Guigó
Roderic Guigó Pompeu Fabra University
Jean Weissenbach
Jean Weissenbach Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Olivier Jaillon
Olivier Jaillon University of Paris-Saclay

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