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Overview

Roland Foisner is affiliated with the Medical University of Vienna in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with notable contributions to molecular biology and cell biology. Other areas of work include surgery, immunology, and physiology.

The main topics addressed in Roland Foisner's research include:

  • Nuclear Structure and Function
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Skin and Cellular Biology Research
  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease

Roland Foisner has published extensively across several venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Aging
  • Aging Cell
  • Molecular Biology of the Cell

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Foisner include:

  • "LAP2alpha maintains a mobile and low assembly state of A-type lamins in the nuclear interior," 2021, eLife
  • "Endothelial and systemic upregulation of miR-34a-5p fine-tunes senescence in progeria," 2022, Aging
  • "Comparative Interactome Analysis of Emerin, MAN1 and LEM2 Reveals a Unique Role for LEM2 in Nucleotide Excision Repair," 2020, Cells
  • "Aged-vascular niche hinders osteogenesis of mesenchymal stem cells through paracrine repression of Wnt-axis," 2024, Aging Cell
  • "Cytoplasmic keratins couple with and maintain nuclear envelope integrity in colonic epithelial cells," 2022, Molecular Biology of the Cell

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Roland Foisner include:

  • Nana Naetar
  • Konstantina Georgiou
  • Christian Knapp
  • Petra Fichtinger
  • Fatih Sarigol

Best Publications

  • DeltaEF1 is a transcriptional repressor of E-cadherin and regulates epithelial plasticity in breast cancer cells.

    Andreas Eger;Kirsten Aigner;Stefan Eugen Sonderegger;Brigitta Dampier

  • LBR and Lamin A/C Sequentially Tether Peripheral Heterochromatin and Inversely Regulate Differentiation

    Irina Solovei;Audrey S. Wang;Katharina Thanisch;Christine S. Schmidt

  • Transferrin-polycation-DNA complexes: the effect of polycations on the structure of the complex and DNA delivery to cells.

    Ernst Wagner;Matt Cotten;Roland Foisner;Max L. Birnstiel

  • The transcription factor ZEB1 (δEF1) promotes tumour cell dedifferentiation by repressing master regulators of epithelial polarity

    K Aigner;B Dampier;L Descovich;M Mikula

  • Integral membrane proteins of the nuclear envelope interact with lamins and chromosomes, and binding is modulated by mitotic phosphorylation

    Roland Foisner;Larry Gerace

  • Lamins: Nuclear Intermediate Filament Proteins with Fundamental Functions in Nuclear Mechanics and Genome Regulation

    Yosef Gruenbaum;Roland Foisner

  • The inner nuclear membrane protein Sun1 mediates the anchorage of Nesprin-2 to the nuclear envelope

    V.C. Padmakumar;Thorsten Libotte;Wenshu Lu;Hafida Zaim

  • E-cadherin regulates cell growth by modulating proliferation-dependent β-catenin transcriptional activity

    Andreas Stockinger;Andreas Eger;Julia Wolf;Hartmut Beug

  • Molecular aspects of epithelial cell plasticity: implications for local tumor invasion and metastasis.

    Josef Gotzmann;Mario Mikula;Andreas Eger;Rolf Schulte-Hermann

  • Lamin-binding Proteins

    Katherine L. Wilson;Roland Foisner

  • Lamin A/C Binding Protein LAP2α Is Required for Nuclear Anchorage of Retinoblastoma Protein

    Ewa Markiewicz;Thomas Dechat;Roland Foisner;Roy. A Quinlan

  • Lamina-associated polypeptide 2alpha binds intranuclear A-type lamins

    T. Dechat;B. Korbei;O.A. Vaughan;S. Vlcek

  • Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition by c-Fos Estrogen Receptor Activation Involves Nuclear Translocation of β-Catenin and Upregulation of β-Catenin/Lymphoid Enhancer Binding Factor-1 Transcriptional Activity

    Andreas Eger;Andreas Stockinger;Birgit Schaffhauser;Hartmut Beug

  • Loss of lamin A function increases chromatin dynamics in the nuclear interior

    I. Bronshtein;E. Kepten;I. Kanter;S. Berezin

  • Lamins at the crossroads of mechanosignaling

    Selma Osmanagic-Myers;Thomas Dechat;Roland Foisner

  • Review: lamina-associated polypeptide 2 isoforms and related proteins in cell cycle-dependent nuclear structure dynamics.

    Thomas Dechat;Sylvia Vlcek;Roland Foisner

  • Barrier-to-autointegration factor--a BAFfling little protein.

    Ayelet Margalit;Andreas Brachner;Josef Gotzmann;Roland Foisner

  • Lamina-associated polypeptide 2α regulates cell cycle progression and differentiation via the retinoblastoma–E2F pathway

    Daniela Dorner;Sylvia Vlcek;Nicole Foeger;Andreas Gajewski

  • LAP2α and BAF transiently localize to telomeres and specific regions on chromatin during nuclear assembly

    Thomas Dechat;Andreas Gajewski;Barbara Korbei;Daniel Gerlich

  • Detergent–salt resistance of LAP2α in interphase nuclei and phosphorylation‐dependent association with chromosomes early in nuclear assembly implies functions in nuclear structure dynamics

    Thomas Dechat;Josef Gotzmann;Andreas Stockinger;Crafford A. Harris

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerhard Wiche
Gerhard Wiche Max F. Perutz Laboratories
Hartmut Beug
Hartmut Beug Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Colin L. Stewart
Colin L. Stewart Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Yosef Gruenbaum
Yosef Gruenbaum Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Wolfgang Mikulits
Wolfgang Mikulits Medical University of Vienna
Larry Gerace
Larry Gerace Scripps Research Institute
Katherine L. Wilson
Katherine L. Wilson Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Robert D. Goldman
Robert D. Goldman Northwestern University
Howard J. Worman
Howard J. Worman Columbia University
Wolfgang J. Schneider
Wolfgang J. Schneider Medical University of Vienna

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