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Rudi Lurz is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields including Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The scientist's work also covers several subfields such as Ecology, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, and Infectious Diseases.

Their research topics focus primarily on bacteriophages and microbial interactions, with additional interests in microbial infections and disease research, genomics and phylogenetic studies, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, as well as RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

Rudi Lurz has published research in notable scientific venues including the Journal of Molecular Biology and the Journal of General Virology. Two recent papers feature prominently in their publication record:

  • Biogenesis of a Bacteriophage Long Non-Contractile Tail, 2021, Journal of Molecular Biology
  • Summary of taxonomy changes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) from the Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee, 2025, Journal of General Virology

Collaboration has been an important aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Paulo Tavares
  • Dann Turner
  • Evelien M. Adriaenssens
  • Rudolf Amann
  • Pavol Bárdy

Best Publications

  • Huntingtin-Encoded Polyglutamine Expansions Form Amyloid-like Protein Aggregates In Vitro and In Vivo

    Eberhard Scherzinger;Rudi Lurz;Mark Turmaine;Laura Mangiarini

  • EGCG redirects amyloidogenic polypeptides into unstructured, off-pathway oligomers.

    Dagmar E Ehrnhoefer;Jan Bieschke;Annett Boeddrich;Martin Herbst

  • Self-assembly of polyglutamine-containing huntingtin fragments into amyloid-like fibrils: Implications for Huntington’s disease pathology

    Eberhard Scherzinger;Annie Sittler;Katja Schweiger;Volker Heiser

  • Accumulation of Mutant Huntingtin Fragments in Aggresome-like Inclusion Bodies as a Result of Insufficient Protein Degradation

    Stephanie Waelter;Annett Boeddrich;Rudi Lurz;Eberhard Scherzinger

  • The senescence-related mitochondrial/oxidative stress pathway is repressed in human induced pluripotent stem cells.

    Alessandro Prigione;Beatrix Fauler;Rudi Lurz;Hans Lehrach

  • A double-hexameric MCM2-7 complex is loaded onto origin DNA during licensing of eukaryotic DNA replication

    Cecile Evrin;Pippa Clarke;Juergen Zech;Rudi Lurz

  • Geldanamycin activates a heat shock response and inhibits huntingtin aggregation in a cell culture model of Huntington’s disease

    Annie Sittler;Rudi Lurz;Gerhild Lueder;Josef Priller

  • Small-molecule conversion of toxic oligomers to nontoxic β-sheet–rich amyloid fibrils

    Jan Bieschke;Martin Herbst;Martin Herbst;Thomas Wiglenda;Ralf P Friedrich

  • Inhibition of huntingtin fibrillogenesis by specific antibodies and small molecules: implications for Huntington's disease therapy.

    Volker Heiser;Eberhard Scherzinger;Annett Boeddrich;Eckhard Nordhoff

  • Identification of benzothiazoles as potential polyglutamine aggregation inhibitors of Huntington's disease by using an automated filter retardation assay.

    Volker Heiser;Sabine Engemann;Wolfgang Bröcker;Ilona Dunkel

  • Regulation of muscle development by DPF3, a novel histone acetylation and methylation reader of the BAF chromatin remodeling complex

    Martin Lange;Bogac Kaynak;Ulrike B. Forster;Martje Tönjes

  • VirB11 ATPases are dynamic hexameric assemblies: new insights into bacterial type IV secretion.

    Savvas N. Savvides;Hye‐Jeong Yeo;Hye‐Jeong Yeo;Moriah R Beck;Franca Blaesing

  • The huntingtin interacting protein HIP1 is a clathrin and alpha-adaptin-binding protein involved in receptor-mediated endocytosis.

    Stephanie Waelter;Eberhard Scherzinger;Renate Hasenbank;Eckhard Nordhoff

  • Dissection of IncP conjugative plasmid transfer: definition of the transfer region Tra2 by mobilization of the Tra1 region in trans.

    M Lessl;D Balzer;R Lurz;V L Waters

  • Conjugative pili of IncP plasmids, and the Ti plasmid T pilus are composed of cyclic subunits.

    Ralf Eisenbrandt;Markus Kalkum;Erh-Min Lai;Rudi Lurz

  • Archaeal nucleosomes

    Suzette L. Pereira;Rowan A. Grayling;Rudi Lurz;John N. Reeve

  • An arginine/lysine-rich motif is crucial for VCP/p97-mediated modulation of ataxin-3 fibrillogenesis

    Annett Boeddrich;Sébastien Gaumer;Annette Haacke;Nikolay Tzvetkov

  • TraG-Like Proteins of DNA Transfer Systems and of the Helicobacter pylori Type IV Secretion System: Inner Membrane Gate for Exported Substrates?

    Gunnar Schröder;Sabine Krause;Ellen L. Zechner;Beth Traxler

  • In vitro assembly of relaxosomes at the transfer origin of plasmid RP4.

    Werner Pansegrau;Dietmar Balzer;Volker Kruft;Rudi Lurz

  • A molecular pathogenesis for transcription factor associated poly-alanine tract expansions.

    Andrea N. Albrecht;Uwe Kornak;Annett Böddrich;Kathrin Süring

Frequent Co-Authors

Erich Lanka
Erich Lanka Max Planck Society
Erich E. Wanker
Erich E. Wanker Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Hans Lehrach
Hans Lehrach Max Planck Society
Juan C. Alonso
Juan C. Alonso Spanish National Research Council
Elena V. Orlova
Elena V. Orlova Birkbeck, University of London
Walter Messer
Walter Messer Max Planck Society
Dietmar Schmitz
Dietmar Schmitz Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Alfred Pingoud
Alfred Pingoud University of Giessen
Gillian P. Bates
Gillian P. Bates University College London

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