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Markus Landthaler is affiliated with the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine and molecular biology, focusing particularly on infectious diseases and immunology.

Their recent scientific contributions include studies on the pathophysiology of COVID-19 and cellular responses to viral infections. Notable publications are:

  • Severe COVID-19 Is Marked by a Dysregulated Myeloid Cell Compartment, 2020, Cell
  • SARS-CoV-2 infection triggers profibrotic macrophage responses and lung fibrosis, 2021, Cell
  • Virus-induced senescence is a driver and therapeutic target in COVID-19, 2021, Nature
  • Transcriptomic profiling of SARS-CoV-2 infected human cell lines identifies HSP90 as target for COVID-19 therapy, 2021, iScience
  • SARS-CoV-2-mediated dysregulation of metabolism and autophagy uncovers host-targeting antivirals, 2021, Nature Communications

Markus Landthaler's frequent co-authors include:

  • Emanuel Wyler
  • Luiz Gustavo Teixeira Alves
  • Jakob Trimpert
  • Christine Goffinet
  • Geraldine Nouailles

Their work has appeared predominantly in the following publication venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Cell Reports
  • Cell
  • mBio

Markus Landthaler's main fields of study comprise:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these broader areas, their research focuses on subfields such as:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Immunology
  • Epidemiology
  • Neurology

The central topics covered in their research include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
  • Interferon and immune responses

Best Publications

  • Circular RNAs are a large class of animal RNAs with regulatory potency

    Sebastian Memczak;Marvin Jens;Antigoni Elefsinioti;Francesca Torti

  • A mammalian microRNA expression atlas based on small RNA library sequencing.

    Pablo Landgraf;Mirabela Rusu;Robert Sheridan;Alain Sewer;Alain Sewer

  • Transcriptome-wide Identification of RNA-Binding Protein and MicroRNA Target Sites by PAR-CLIP

    Markus Hafner;Markus Landthaler;Lukas Burger;Mohsen Khorshid

  • Human argonaute2 mediates RNA cleavage targeted by miRNAs and siRNAs

    Gunter Meister;Markus Landthaler;Agnieszka Patkaniowska;Yair Dorsett

  • Translation of CircRNAs

    Nagarjuna Reddy Pamudurti;Osnat Bartok;Marvin Jens;Reut Ashwal-Fluss

  • Severe COVID-19 Is Marked by a Dysregulated Myeloid Cell Compartment.

    Jonas Schulte-Schrepping;Nico Reusch;Daniela Paclik;Kevin Baßler

  • The mRNA-Bound Proteome and Its Global Occupancy Profile on Protein-Coding Transcripts

    Alexander G. Baltz;Mathias Munschauer;Björn Schwanhäusser;Alexandra Vasile

  • The human DiGeorge syndrome critical region gene 8 and its D-melanogaster homolog are required for miRNA biogenesis

    Markus Landthaler;Abdullah Yalcin;Thomas Tuschl

  • Endogenous MHC Class II Processing of a Viral Nuclear Antigen After Autophagy

    Casper Paludan;Dorothee Schmid;Markus Landthaler;Martina Vockerodt

  • Analysis of Intron Sequences Reveals Hallmarks of Circular RNA Biogenesis in Animals

    Andranik Ivanov;Sebastian Memczak;Emanuel Wyler;Francesca Torti

  • Sequence-specific inhibition of microRNA- and siRNA-induced RNA silencing.

    Gunter Meister;Markus Landthaler;Yair Dorsett;Thomas Tuschl

  • Transcriptome-wide analysis of regulatory interactions of the RNA-binding protein HuR.

    Svetlana Lebedeva;Marvin Jens;Kathrin Theil;Björn Schwanhäusser

  • Cellular cofactors affecting hepatitis C virus infection and replication

    Glenn Randall;Maryline Panis;Jacob D. Cooper;Timothy L. Tellinghuisen

  • Identification of Novel Argonaute-Associated Proteins

    Gunter Meister;Markus Landthaler;Lasse Peters;Po Yu Chen

  • SARS-CoV-2 infection triggers profibrotic macrophage responses and lung fibrosis

    Daniel Wendisch;Oliver Dietrich;Tommaso Mari;Saskia von Stillfried

  • The Translational Landscape of the Human Heart

    Sebastiaan van Heesch;Franziska Witte;Valentin Schneider-Lunitz;Jana F. Schulz

  • Molecular characterization of human Argonaute-containing ribonucleoprotein complexes and their bound target mRNAs

    Markus Landthaler;Dimos Gaidatzis;Andrea Rothballer;Po Yu Chen

  • Detecting actively translated open reading frames in ribosome profiling data

    Lorenzo Calviello;Neelanjan Mukherjee;Emanuel Wyler;Henrik Zauber

  • Regnase-1 and Roquin Regulate a Common Element in Inflammatory mRNAs by Spatiotemporally Distinct Mechanisms

    Takashi Mino;Yasuhiro Murakawa;Akira Fukao;Alexis Vandenbon

  • PAR-CliP-a method to identify transcriptome-wide the binding sites of RNA binding proteins

    Markus Hafner;Markus Landthaler;Lukas Burger;Mohsen Khorshid

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Tuschl
Thomas Tuschl Rockefeller University
Nikolaus Rajewsky
Nikolaus Rajewsky Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Matthias Selbach
Matthias Selbach Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Uwe Ohler
Uwe Ohler Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Mihaela Zavolan
Mihaela Zavolan University of Basel
Gunter Meister
Gunter Meister University of Regensburg
Christoph Dieterich
Christoph Dieterich University Hospital Heidelberg
Markus Hafner
Markus Hafner National Institutes of Health
Norbert Hubner
Norbert Hubner Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Friedrich A. Grässer
Friedrich A. Grässer Saarland University

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