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Konstantinos Anastassiadis

Konstantinos Anastassiadis

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
49
Citations
13947
World Ranking
2603
National Ranking
175

Overview

Konstantinos Anastassiadis is affiliated with TU Dresden in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work spans various subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Clinical Biochemistry, Immunology, and Rheumatology.

The main topics of their research cover:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Cancer-related gene regulation
  • Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting
  • Metabolism and Genetic Disorders
  • Biochemical and Molecular Research
  • RNA modifications and cancer

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Enhancers are activated by p300/CBP activity-dependent PIC assembly, RNAPII recruitment, and pause release, 2021, Molecular Cell
  • MLL4 is required after implantation whereas MLL3 becomes essential during late gestation, 2020, Development
  • The role of SETD1A and SETD1B in development and disease, 2020, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms
  • Reduced purine biosynthesis in humans after their divergence from Neandertals, 2021, eLife
  • N6-methyladenosine (m 6 A) depletion regulates pluripotency exit by activating signaling pathways in embryonic stem cells, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The frequent co-authors they have collaborated with include:

  • A. Francis Stewart
  • Andrea Kranz
  • Katrin Neumann
  • Ronald Naumann
  • Qinyu Zhang

Konstantinos Anastassiadis has published multiple articles in prominent venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Development
  • Molecular Cell
  • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms
  • eLife

Best Publications

  • Formation of Pluripotent Stem Cells in the Mammalian Embryo Depends on the POU Transcription Factor Oct4

    Jennifer Nichols;Branko Zevnik;Konstantinos Anastassiadis;Hitoshi Niwa

  • Expression Pattern of Oct-4 in Preimplantation Embryos of Different Species

    Kirchhof N;Carnwath Jw;Lemme E;Anastassiadis K

  • A mouse model for hereditary thyroid dysgenesis and cleft palate

    Mario De Felice;Catherine Ovitt;Elio Biffali;Alina Rodriguez-Mallon

  • A Localized Wnt Signal Orients Asymmetric Stem Cell Division in Vitro

    Shukry J. Habib;Shukry J. Habib;Bi-Chang Chen;Feng-Chiao Tsai;Konstantinos Anastassiadis

  • The mammalian gene function resource: the international knockout mouse consortium

    Allan Bradley;Konstantinos Anastassiadis;Abdelkader Ayadi;James F. Battey

  • Dre recombinase, like Cre, is a highly efficient site-specific recombinase in E. coli, mammalian cells and mice

    Konstantinos Anastassiadis;Jun Fu;Christoph Patsch;Shengbiao Hu

  • Multiple epigenetic maintenance factors implicated by the loss of Mll2 in mouse development

    Stefan Glaser;Julia Schaft;Sandra Lubitz;Kristina Vintersten

  • A Genome-Scale RNAi Screen for Oct4 Modulators Defines a Role of the Paf1 Complex for Embryonic Stem Cell Identity

    Li Ding;Maciej Paszkowski-Rogacz;Anja Nitzsche;Mikolaj Michal Slabicki

  • A short G1 phase is an intrinsic determinant of naïve embryonic stem cell pluripotency.

    Diana Coronado;Murielle Godet;Pierre-Yves Bourillot;Yann Tapponnier;Yann Tapponnier

  • Targeted Mutation Reveals Essential Functions of the Homeodomain Transcription Factor Shox2 in Sinoatrial and Pacemaking Development

    Rüdiger J. Blaschke;Nathan D. Hahurij;Sanne Kuijper;Steffen Just

  • Mll2 is required for h3k4 trimethylation on bivalent promoters in embryonic stem cells, whereas mll1 is redundant

    Sergei Denissov;Helmut Hofemeister;Hendrik Marks;Andrea Kranz

  • Retinal Organoids from Pluripotent Stem Cells Efficiently Recapitulate Retinogenesis

    Manuela Völkner;Marlen Zschätzsch;Mariya Rostovskaya;Rupert W Overall

  • MLL2 is required in oocytes for bulk histone 3 lysine 4 trimethylation and transcriptional silencing.

    Claudia V. Andreu-Vieyra;Ruihong Chen;Julio E. Agno;Stefan Glaser;Stefan Glaser

  • Tightly anchored tissue-mimetic matrices as instructive stem cell microenvironments.

    Marina C Prewitz;F Philipp Seib;Malte von Bonin;Jens Friedrichs

  • Meiotic homologue alignment and its quality surveillance are controlled by mouse HORMAD1

    Katrin Daniel;Julian Lange;Khaled Hached;Khaled Hached;Jun Fu

  • A reliable lacZ expression reporter cassette for multipurpose, knockout-first alleles.

    Giuseppe Testa;Julia Schaft;Frank van der Hoeven;Stefan Glaser

  • Current issues in mouse genome engineering.

    Stefan Glaser;Konstantinos Anastassiadis;A Francis Stewart

  • The H3K4 methyltransferase Setd1a is first required at the epiblast stage, whereas Setd1b becomes essential after gastrulation

    Anita S. Bledau;Kerstin Schmidt;Katrin Neumann;Undine Hill

  • The histone 3 lysine 4 methyltransferase, Mll2, is only required briefly in development and spermatogenesis

    Stefan P Glaser;Stefan P Glaser;Sandra Lubitz;Katherine Ann Lakoski Loveland;Kazu Ohbo

  • Meiotic DNA double-strand breaks and chromosome asynapsis in mice are monitored by distinct HORMAD2-independent and -dependent mechanisms

    Lukasz Wojtasz;Jeffrey M. Cloutier;Marek Baumann;Katrin Daniel

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans R. Schöler
Hans R. Schöler Max Planck Society
Frank Buchholz
Frank Buchholz TU Dresden
Kenneth L. Jones
Kenneth L. Jones University of California, San Diego
Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Yann Herault
Yann Herault Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology
Timm Schroeder
Timm Schroeder ETH Zurich
Carsten Werner
Carsten Werner Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V.

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