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11986
National Ranking
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Overview

Petra Knaus is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with significant emphasis on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Rheumatology, and Nephrology.

Their work covers several key topics, including:

  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • TGF-β signaling in diseases
  • Heterotopic Ossification and Related Conditions
  • Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies
  • Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ
  • Parathyroid Disorders and Treatments
  • Muscle Physiology and Disorders

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Communications Biology
  • npj Regenerative Medicine
  • Cells
  • Nature Communications

They have collaborated most often with the following researchers:

  • Jerome Jatzlau
  • Paul-Lennard Mendez
  • Sigmar Stricker
  • Stefan Mundlos
  • Maria Reichenbach

Some of their recent publications are:

  • BMP signalling in a mechanical context - Implications for bone biology, 2020, Bone
  • It Takes Two to Tango: Endothelial TGFβ/BMP Signaling Crosstalk with Mechanobiology, 2020, Cells
  • Antagonistic Activities of Vegfr3/Flt4 and Notch1b Fine-tune Mechanosensitive Signaling during Zebrafish Cardiac Valvulogenesis, 2020, Cell Reports
  • Picomolar FKBP inhibitors enabled by a single water-displacing methyl group in bicyclic [4.3.1] aza-amides, 2021, Chemical Science
  • Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva: What Have We Achieved and Where Are We Now? Follow-up to the 2015 Lorentz Workshop, 2021, Frontiers in Endocrinology

Best Publications

  • The Mode of Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) Receptor Oligomerization Determines Different BMP-2 Signaling Pathways

    Anja Nohe;Sylke Hassel;Marcelo Ehrlich;Florian Neubauer

  • Signal transduction of bone morphogenetic protein receptors

    Anja Nohe;Eleonora Keating;Petra Knaus;Nils O Petersen

  • Recent advances in BMP receptor signaling

    Christina Sieber;Jessica Kopf;Christian Hiepen;Petra Knaus

  • Bone morphogenetic protein receptor complexes on the surface of live cells: a new oligomerization mode for serine/threonine kinase receptors.

    Lilach Gilboa;Anja Nohe;Tanja Geissendörfer;Walter Sebald

  • Different routes of bone morphogenic protein (BMP) receptor endocytosis influence BMP signaling.

    Anke Hartung;Keren Bitton-Worms;Maya Mouler Rechtman;Valeska Wenzel

  • A portrait of Transforming Growth Factor β superfamily signalling: Background matters.

    Daniel Horbelt;Agnieszka Denkis;Petra Knaus

  • BMPs: From Bone to Body Morphogenetic Proteins

    Darja Obradovic Wagner;Christina Sieber;Raghu Bhushan;Jan H. Börgermann

  • Activating and deactivating mutations in the receptor interaction site of GDF5 cause symphalangism or brachydactyly type A2

    Petra Seemann;Raphaela Schwappacher;Klaus W. Kjaer;Deborah Krakow

  • Synaptophysin: molecular organization and mRNA expression as determined from cloned cDNA.

    R. E. Leube;P. Kaiser;A. Seiter;R. Zimbelmann

  • Integration of the TGF-β pathway into the cellular signalling network

    Marion Lutz;Petra Knaus

  • Bone morphogenetic protein signaling in bone homeostasis

    Gonzalo Sánchez-Duffhues;Christian Hiepen;Christian Hiepen;Petra Knaus;Petra Knaus;Peter ten Dijke

  • The Mr 93,000 polypeptide of the postsynaptic glycine receptor complex is a peripheral membrane protein.

    Bertram Schmitt;Petra Knaus;Cord Michael Becker;Heinrich Betz

  • Structural insights into BMP receptors: Specificity, activation and inhibition.

    David Yadin;David Yadin;Petra Knaus;Petra Knaus;Thomas D. Mueller

  • Expression of synaptophysin during postnatal development of the mouse brain

    Petra Knaus;Heinrich Betz;Hubert Rehm

  • Structure of the Bone Morphogenetic Protein Receptor ALK2 and Implications for Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva

    A. Chaikuad;I. Alfano;G. Kerr;C.E. Sanvitale

  • Mutations in bone morphogenetic protein receptor 1B cause brachydactyly type A2.

    Katarina Lehmann;Petra Seemann;Sigmar Stricker;Marai Sammar

  • Dorsomorphin and LDN-193189 inhibit BMP-mediated Smad, p38 and Akt signalling in C2C12 cells.

    J.H. Boergermann;J. Kopf;P.B. Yu;P. Knaus

  • A dominant inhibitory mutant of the type II transforming growth factor beta receptor in the malignant progression of a cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.

    P I Knaus;D Lindemann;J F DeCoteau;R Perlman

  • p38 inhibitors prevent TGF-beta-induced myofibroblast transdifferentiation in human tenon fibroblasts.

    Tobias Meyer-ter-Vehn;Susanne Gebhardt;Walter Sebald;Mathias Buttmann

  • Synaptoporin, a Novel Putative Channel Protein of Synaptic Vesicles

    Petra Knaus;Béatrice Marquèze-Pouey;Herta Scherer;Heinrich Betzt

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter Sebald
Walter Sebald University of Würzburg
Yoav I. Henis
Yoav I. Henis Tel Aviv University
Stefan Mundlos
Stefan Mundlos Max Planck Society
Sigmar Stricker
Sigmar Stricker Freie Universität Berlin
Peter Fratzl
Peter Fratzl Max Planck Society
Peter N. Robinson
Peter N. Robinson The Jackson Laboratory
Heinrich Betz
Heinrich Betz Max Planck Society
Alex N. Bullock
Alex N. Bullock University of Oxford
Otmar Huber
Otmar Huber Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Christof Schütte
Christof Schütte Freie Universität Berlin

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