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Overview

Martin Zenke is affiliated with RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Their research encompasses several interconnected fields including Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Immunology and Microbiology.

The scientist's work extends into key subfields of study such as Molecular Biology, Immunology, Genetics, Hematology, and Biomedical Engineering. These areas inform the focus on topics including Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: Diagnosis and Treatment, Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, Pluripotent Stem Cells Research, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research, and T-cell and B-cell Immunology.

Among recent publications, notable works include:

  • PLA/Hydroxyapatite scaffolds exhibit in vitro immunological inertness and promote robust osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells without osteogenic stimuli (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • Chromatin-accessibility estimation from single-cell ATAC-seq data with scOpen (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Human sensory neurons derived from pluripotent stem cells for disease modelling and personalized medicine (2020, Neurobiology of Pain)
  • Guidelines for mouse and human DC generation (2022, European Journal of Immunology)
  • Curauá-derived carbon dots: Fluorescent probes for effective Fe(III) ion detection, cellular labeling and bioimaging (2021, Materials Science and Engineering C)

The scientist frequently publishes in a range of venues, among which the most common are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Journal of Immunology
  • Stem Cell Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

They collaborate frequently with a core group of co-authors, including Marcelo A. S. Toledo, Steffen Koschmieder, Ivan G. Costa, Tim H. Brümmendorf, and Nicolas Chatain. These collaborations appear repeatedly across multiple publications, indicating established research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Pluripotent stem cells induced from adult neural stem cells by reprogramming with two factors

    Jeong Beom Kim;Holm Zaehres;Guangming Wu;Luca Gentile

  • Oct4-induced pluripotency in adult neural stem cells

    Jeong Beom Kim;Vittorio Sebastiano;Guangming Wu;Marcos J. Araúzo-Bravo

  • Transferrin-polycation conjugates as carriers for DNA uptake into cells

    Ernst Wagner;Martin Zenke;Matt Cotten;Hartmut Beug

  • Aging of blood can be tracked by DNA methylation changes at just three CpG sites.

    Carola Ingrid Weidner;Qiong Lin;Carmen Maike Koch;Lewin Eisele

  • Transcriptional profiling identifies Id2 function in dendritic cell development

    Christine Hacker;Ralf D Kirsch;Xin-Sheng Ju;Thomas Hieronymus

  • Multiple sequence motifs are involved in SV40 enhancer function.

    M Zenke;T Grundström;H Matthes;M Wintzerith

  • Transferrin-polycation-mediated introduction of DNA into human leukemic cells: stimulation by agents that affect the survival of transfected DNA or modulate transferrin receptor levels.

    Matt Cotten;Francoise Längle-Rouault;Helen Kirlappos;Ernst Wagner

  • Auto-Antigenic Protein-DNA Complexes Stimulate Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells to Promote Atherosclerosis

    Yvonne Döring;Helga D. Manthey;Maik Drechsler;Dirk Lievens

  • Receptor-mediated endocytosis of transferrin-polycation conjugates: an efficient way to introduce DNA into hematopoietic cells.

    Martin Zenke;Peter Steinlein;Ernst Wagner;Matthew Cotten

  • Automated DNA sequencing: ultrasensitive detection of fluorescent bands during electrophoresis.

    Wilhelm Ansorge;Brian Sproat;Josef Stegemann;Christian Schwager

  • Identification of transcription factor binding sites using ATAC-seq

    Zhijian Li;Marcel Holger Schulz;Thomas Look;Matthias Begemann

  • Mesenchymal stem cells induce mature dendritic cells into a novel Jagged-2-dependent regulatory dendritic cell population.

    Bin Zhang;Rui Liu;Dan Shi;Xingxia Liu

  • Nuclear Factor κB–dependent Gene Expression Profiling of Hodgkin's Disease Tumor Cells, Pathogenetic Significance, and Link to Constitutive Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 5a Activity

    Michael Hinz;Petra Lemke;Ioannis Anagnostopoulos;Christine Hacker

  • Requirement of stereospecific alignments for initiation from the simian virus 40 early promoter.

    Keikichi Takahashi;Keikichi Takahashi;Marc Vigneron;Marc Vigneron;Hans Matthes;Alan Wildeman;Alan Wildeman

  • Immunosuppressive treatment protects against angiotensin II-induced renal damage.

    Dominik N. Muller;Dominik N. Muller;Erdenechimeg Shagdarsuren;Joon-Keun Park;Ralf Dechend

  • Mannose polyethylenimine conjugates for targeted DNA delivery into dendritic cells

    Sandra S. Diebold;Margaretha Kursa;Ernst Wagner;Matt Cotten

  • CCL17-expressing dendritic cells drive atherosclerosis by restraining regulatory T cell homeostasis in mice

    Christian Weber;Svenja Meiler;Yvonne Döring;Miriam Koch

  • Induction of pluripotency in adult unipotent germline stem cells.

    Kinarm Ko;Natalia Tapia;Guangming Wu;Jeong Beom Kim

  • Ectopic expression of a conditional GATA-2/estrogen receptor chimera arrests erythroid differentiation in a hormone-dependent manner

    Karoline Briegel;Kim Chew Lim;Christian Plank;Hartmut Beug

  • Different facets of aging in human mesenchymal stem cells.

    Wolfgang Wagner;Anthony D. Ho;Martin Zenke

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans R. Schöler
Hans R. Schöler Max Planck Society
Hartmut Beug
Hartmut Beug Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Matthew Cotten
Matthew Cotten Wellcome Sanger Institute
Tim H. Brümmendorf
Tim H. Brümmendorf RWTH Aachen University
Stefan Rose-John
Stefan Rose-John Kiel University
Alberto Muñoz
Alberto Muñoz Spanish National Research Council
Willi Jahnen-Dechent
Willi Jahnen-Dechent RWTH Aachen University
Ernst Wagner
Ernst Wagner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Robert Chunhua Zhao
Robert Chunhua Zhao Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Tomo Saric
Tomo Saric University of Cologne

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