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Ulrich Kück is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with additional work in medicine. The scientist's focus extends into several subfields including molecular biology, cell biology, pharmacology, epidemiology, and plant science.

The main topics in which Ulrich Kück conducts research encompass:

  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Fungal biology and applications
  • Fungal infections and studies
  • Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ
  • Microbial natural products and biosynthesis
  • Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • Plant reproductive biology

Ulrich Kück has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed papers with significant topics in fungal biology and molecular regulation. Some of their recent publications include:

  • "Cephalosporins as key lead generation beta-lactam antibiotics," 2022, published in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • "Uncontrolled transposition following RNAi loss causes hypermutation and antifungal drug resistance in clinical isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans," 2022, published in Nature Microbiology
  • "Phosphoproteomic analysis of STRIPAK mutants identifies a conserved serine phosphorylation site in PAK kinase CLA4 to be important in fungal sexual development and polarized growth," 2020, published in Molecular Microbiology
  • "STRIPAK, a Key Regulator of Fungal Development, Operates as a Multifunctional Signaling Hub," 2021, published in Journal of Fungi
  • "The STRIPAK signaling complex regulates dephosphorylation of GUL1, an RNA-binding protein that shuttles on endosomes," 2020, published in PLoS Genetics

The scientist frequently publishes in several specific journals, with notable numbers of publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Fungi
  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • mBio
  • Nature Microbiology

Among their frequent co-authors are:

  • Tim A. Dahlmann
  • Valentina Stein
  • Ramona Märker
  • Bernhard Blank-Landeshammer
  • Albert Sickmann

Best Publications

  • Two partially homologous adjacent light-inducible maize chloroplast genes encoding polypeptides of the P700 chlorophyll a-protein complex of photosystem I.

    L E Fish;U Kück;L Bogorad

  • Fungal Morphogenesis, from the Polarized Growth of Hyphae to Complex Reproduction and Infection Structures

    Meritxell Riquelme;Jesús Aguirre;Salomon Bartnicki-García;Gerhard H. Braus

  • Structural and transcription analysis of two homologous genes for the P700 chlorophyll a-apoproteins in Chlamydomonas reinhardii: evidence for in vivo trans-splicing

    Ulrich Kück;Yves Choquet;Michel Schneider;Michel Dron

  • New tools for the genetic manipulation of filamentous fungi

    Ulrich Kück;Birgit Hoff

  • Mutant phenotypes support a trans-splicing mechanism for the expression of the tripartite psaA gene in the C. reinhardtii chloroplast

    Yves Marcel Choquet;Michel P. Goldschmidt-Clermont;Jacqueline Girard-Bascou;Ulrich Kück

  • De novo assembly of a 40 Mb eukaryotic genome from short sequence reads: Sordaria macrospora, a model organism for fungal morphogenesis.

    Minou Nowrousian;Jason E Stajich;Meiling Chu;Ines Engh

  • Complete sequence of the mitochondrial DNA of the chlorophyte alga Prototheca wickerhamii. Gene content and genome organization.

    Wolff G;Plante I;Lang Bf;Kück U

  • Evidence for plasmid like DNA in a filamentous fungus, the ascomycete Podospora anserina.

    Ulf Stahl;Paul A. Lemke;Paul Tudzynski;Ulrich Kück

  • Two components of a velvet-like complex control hyphal morphogenesis, conidiophore development, and penicillin biosynthesis in Penicillium chrysogenum.

    Birgit Hoff;Jens Kamerewerd;Claudia Sigl;Rudolf Mitterbauer

  • Highly efficient generation of signal transduction knockout mutants using a fungal strain deficient in the mammalian ku70 ortholog

    Stefanie Pöggeler;Ulrich Kück

  • A Homologue of the Aspergillus velvet Gene Regulates both Cephalosporin C Biosynthesis and Hyphal Fragmentation in Acremonium chrysogenum

    Jacqueline Dreyer;Heiko Eichhorn;Ernst Friedlin;Hubert Kürnsteiner

  • Fruiting-Body Development in Ascomycetes

    S. Pöggeler;M. Nowrousian;U. Kück

  • Mating-type genes from the homothallic fungus Sordaria macrospora are functionally expressed in a heterothallic ascomycete

    Stefanie Pöggeler;Siegfried Risch;Ulrich Kück;Heinz D. Osiewacz

  • The pro1+ Gene From Sordaria macrospora Encodes a C6 Zinc Finger Transcription Factor Required for Fruiting Body Development

    Sandra Masloff;Stefanie Pöggeler;Ulrich Kück

  • Plasmid-like DNA is part of mitochondrial DNA in Podospora anserina.

    Ulrich Kück;Ulf Stahl;Karl Esser

  • Transposons in filamentous fungi--facts and perspectives.

    Frank Kempken;Ulrich Kück

  • The onset of senescence is affected by DNA rearrangements of a discontinuous mitochondrial gene in Podospora anserina.

    Ulrich Kück;Heinz D. Osiewacz;Udo Schmidt;Birgit Kappelhoff

  • Versatile EGFP reporter plasmids for cellular localization of recombinant gene products in filamentous fungi

    Stefanie Pöggeler;Sandra Masloff;Birgit Hoff;Severine Mayrhofer

  • A WD40 repeat protein regulates fungal cell differentiation and can be replaced functionally by the mammalian homologue striatin.

    Stefanie Pöggeler;Ulrich Kück

  • A homologue of the human STRIPAK complex controls sexual development in fungi

    Sandra Bloemendal;Yasmine Bernhards;Kathrin Bartho;Anne Dettmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefanie Pöggeler
Stefanie Pöggeler University of Göttingen
Karl Esser
Karl Esser Ruhr University Bochum
Paul Tudzynski
Paul Tudzynski University of Münster
Albert Sickmann
Albert Sickmann Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Ulf Stahl
Ulf Stahl Technical University of Berlin
Michael Freitag
Michael Freitag Oregon State University
Jörg Nickelsen
Jörg Nickelsen Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Heinz D. Osiewacz
Heinz D. Osiewacz Goethe University Frankfurt
Joseph Heitman
Joseph Heitman Duke University
Guilhem Janbon
Guilhem Janbon Institut Pasteur

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