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Marina Kreutz is affiliated with the University of Regensburg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Immunology and Microbiology.

Their subfields of study include Immunology, Oncology, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, and Genetics. The main topics of their scientific work include:

  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Vitamin D Research Studies
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Marina Kreutz has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Laryngo-Rhino-Otologie
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Blood

Recent published papers by Marina Kreutz include:

  • Metabolic reprogramming of donor T cells enhances graft-versus-leukemia effects in mice and humans, 2020, Science Translational Medicine
  • The immunological Warburg effect: Can a metabolic-tumor-stroma score (MeTS) guide cancer immunotherapy?, 2020, Immunological Reviews
  • Targeting lactate metabolism for cancer immunotherapy - a matter of precision, 2022, Seminars in Cancer Biology
  • MCT4 blockade increases the efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade, 2023, Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
  • Kynurenine induces T cell fat catabolism and has limited suppressive effects in vivo, 2021, EBioMedicine

Among their frequent co-authors are:

  • Kathrin Renner
  • Wolfgang Herr
  • Peter J. Oefner
  • Peter J. Siska
  • Carina Matos

Best Publications

  • Inhibitory effect of tumor cell–derived lactic acid on human T cells

    Karin Fischer;Petra Hoffmann;Simon Voelkl;Norbert Meidenbauer

  • LDHA-Associated Lactic Acid Production Blunts Tumor Immunosurveillance by T and NK Cells.

    Almut Brand;Katrin Singer;Gudrun E. Koehl;Marlene Kolitzus

  • Tumor-derived lactic acid modulates dendritic cell activation and antigen expression

    Eva Gottfried;Leoni A. Kunz-Schughart;Leoni A. Kunz-Schughart;Stephanie Ebner;Stephanie Ebner;Wolfgang Mueller-Klieser;Wolfgang Mueller-Klieser

  • Metagenomic Analysis of the Stool Microbiome in Patients Receiving Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation: Loss of Diversity Is Associated with Use of Systemic Antibiotics and More Pronounced in Gastrointestinal Graft-versus-Host Disease

    Ernst Holler;Peter Butzhammer;Karin Schmid;Christian Hundsrucker

  • Lactic Acid and Acidification Inhibit TNF Secretion and Glycolysis of Human Monocytes

    Katrin Dietl;Kathrin Renner;Katja Dettmer;Birgit Timischl

  • Multicellular spheroids: a three-dimensional in vitro culture system to study tumour biology.

    Leoni A. Kunz-Schughart;Marina Kreutz;Ruth Knuechel

  • Serum dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and DHEA sulfate are negatively correlated with serum interleukin-6 (IL-6), and DHEA inhibits IL-6 secretion from mononuclear cells in man in vitro: possible link between endocrinosenescence and immunosenescence.

    R. H. Straub;L. Konecna;S. Hrach;G. Rothe

  • Metabolic Hallmarks of Tumor and Immune Cells in the Tumor Microenvironment.

    Kathrin Renner;Katrin Singer;Gudrun E. Koehl;Edward K. Geissler

  • Tumor immunoevasion via acidosis-dependent induction of regulatory tumor-associated macrophages.

    Toszka Bohn;Steffen Rapp;Natascha Luther;Matthias Klein

  • GLUT1 Expression Is Increased in Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Promotes Tumorigenesis

    Thomas Amann;Ulrike Maegdefrau;Arndt Hartmann;Abbas Agaimy

  • Regulation of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3-1α-hydroxylase and production of 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 by human dendritic cells

    Jana Fritsche;Krishna Mondal;Achim Ehrnsperger;Reinhard Andreesen

  • Tumor lactic acidosis suppresses CTL function by inhibition of p38 and JNK/c-Jun activation

    Anna N. Mendler;Bin Hu;Petra U. Prinz;Marina Kreutz

  • 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 production and vitamin D3 receptor expression are developmentally regulated during differentiation of human monocytes into macrophages.

    Marina Kreutz;Reinhard Andreesen;Stefan W. Krause;Andras Szabo

  • Expression of CD68 in Non-Myeloid Cell Types

    E. Gottfried;L. A. Kunz-Schughart;A. Weber;M. Rehli

  • Surface phenotype analysis of human monocyte to macrophage maturation.

    Reinhard Andreesen;Wolfram Brugger;Carmen Scheibenbogen;Marina Kreutz

  • Restricting Glycolysis Preserves T Cell Effector Functions and Augments Checkpoint Therapy.

    Kathrin Renner;Christina Bruss;Annette Schnell;Gudrun Koehl

  • Lactate promotes glioma migration by TGF-beta2-dependent regulation of matrix metalloproteinase-2.

    Fusun Baumann;Petra Leukel;Anett Doerfelt;Christoph P. Beier

  • The fibroblast: sentinel cell and local immune modulator in tumor tissue.

    Tobias Silzle;Gwendalyn J. Randolph;Marina Kreutz;Leoni A. Kunz-Schughart

  • DIFFERENTIAL SCREENING IDENTIFIES GENETIC MARKERS OF MONOCYTE TO MACROPHAGE MATURATION

    Stefan W. Krause;Michael Rehli;Marina Kreutz;Lucia Schwarzfischer

  • Double genetic disruption of lactate dehydrogenases A and B is required to ablate the "Warburg effect" restricting tumor growth to oxidative metabolism.

    Maša Ždralević;Almut Brand;Lorenza Di Ianni;Katja Dettmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Reinhard Andreesen
Reinhard Andreesen University of Regensburg
Peter J. Oefner
Peter J. Oefner University of Regensburg
Andreas Mackensen
Andreas Mackensen University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Ernst Holler
Ernst Holler University of Regensburg
Michael Rehli
Michael Rehli University of Regensburg
Ulrich Bogdahn
Ulrich Bogdahn University of Regensburg
Gerhard Rogler
Gerhard Rogler University of Zurich
Matthias Edinger
Matthias Edinger University of Regensburg
Anja-Katrin Bosserhoff
Anja-Katrin Bosserhoff University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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