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Michael Thumm is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on medicine. Their research is principally situated within molecular biology, epidemiology, and cell biology, with additional interests in physiology and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist's work primarily addresses topics such as autophagy in disease and therapy, cellular transport and secretion, and endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease. Other areas covered in their research include RNA modifications and cancer, RNA interference and gene delivery, lysosomal storage disorders research, and ferroptosis and cancer prognosis.

Michael Thumm has published widely in the following venues:

  • Autophagy
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Biological Chemistry
  • FEBS Letters
  • Cells

Selected recent papers include:

  • International consensus guidelines for the definition, detection, and interpretation of autophagy-dependent ferroptosis, 2024, Autophagy
  • Mechanistic dissection of macro- and micronucleophagy, 2020, Autophagy
  • Atg21 organizes Atg8 lipidation at the contact of the vacuole with the phagophore, 2020, Autophagy
  • Vacuole fragmentation depends on a novel Atg18-containing retromer-complex, 2022, Autophagy
  • Nucleophagy-Implications for Microautophagy and Health, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Frequent co-authors in their research include Florian B. Otto, Lisa Marquardt, Han-Ming Shen, Xin Chen, and Andrey S. Tsvetkov.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy in higher eukaryotes

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Hagai Abeliovich;Patrizia Agostinis;Devendra K. Agrawal

  • A Unified Nomenclature for Yeast Autophagy-Related Genes

    Daniel J. Klionsky;James M. Cregg;William A Dunn;Scott D. Emr

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Isolation of autophagocytosis mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    M. Thumm;R. Egner;B. Koch;M. Schlumpberger

  • A comprehensive glossary of autophagy-related molecules and processes (2nd edition)

    Daniel J Klionsky;Eric H. Baehrecke;John H. Brumell;Charleen T. Chu

  • Aut2p and Aut7p, two novel microtubule-associated proteins are essential for delivery of autophagic vesicles to the vacuole

    Thomas Lang;Elke Schaeffeler;Daniela Bernreuther;Monika Bredschneider

  • Genetic and Phenotypic Overlap between Autophagy and the Cytoplasm to Vacuole Protein Targeting Pathway

    Tanya M. Harding;Ann Hefner-Gravink;Michael Thumm;Daniel J. Klionsky

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Aut5/Cvt17p, a Putative Lipase Essential for Disintegration of Autophagic Bodies inside the Vacuole

    Ulrike D. Epple;Ivet Suriapranata;Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen;Michael Thumm

  • A comprehensive glossary of autophagy-related molecules and processes.

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Patrice Codogno;Ana Maria Cuervo;Vojo Deretic

  • Piecemeal Microautophagy of the Nucleus Requires the Core Macroautophagy Genes

    R Krick;Y Muehe;T Prick;S Bremer

  • Catabolite Degradation of Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae: A Genome-wide Screen Identifies Eight Novel GID Genes and Indicates the Existence of Two Degradation Pathways

    Jochen Regelmann;Thomas Schüle;Frank S. Josupeit;Jaroslav Horak

  • Cdc48/p97 and Shp1/p47 regulate autophagosome biogenesis in concert with ubiquitin-like Atg8

    Roswitha Krick;Sebastian Bremer;Evelyn Welter;Petra Schlotterhose

  • Structural and functional characterization of the two phosphoinositide binding sites of PROPPINs, a β-propeller protein family

    Roswitha Krick;Ricarda A. Busse;Andreea Scacioc;Milena Stephan

  • The yeast GID complex, a novel ubiquitin ligase (E3) involved in the regulation of carbohydrate metabolism.

    Olivier Santt;Thorsten Pfirrmann;Bernhard Braun;Jeannette Juretschke

  • Catabolite inactivation of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Degradation occurs via the ubiquitin pathway.

    Stefan M. Schork;Michael Thumm;Dieter H. Wolf

  • Turnover of organelles by autophagy in yeast

    Jean Claude Farré;Roswitha Krick;Suresh Subramani;Michael Thumm

Frequent Co-Authors

Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen
Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen University of Turku
Daniel J. Klionsky
Daniel J. Klionsky University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Dieter H. Wolf
Dieter H. Wolf University of Stuttgart
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Sergio Lavandero
Sergio Lavandero University of Chile
Guido Kroemer
Guido Kroemer Université Paris Cité
Noboru Mizushima
Noboru Mizushima University of Tokyo
David A. Gewirtz
David A. Gewirtz Virginia Commonwealth University
Vojo Deretic
Vojo Deretic University of New Mexico
Sharon A. Tooze
Sharon A. Tooze The Francis Crick Institute

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