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Ulrike Mayer is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several areas within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a notable focus on autophagy and its role in disease and therapy.

Their primary fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Subfields of study they have contributed to encompass:

  • Epidemiology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Surgery
  • Physiology
  • Cell Biology

The main topics of Ulrike Mayer's work cover:

  • Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • HIV-related health complications and treatments
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Influenza Virus Research Studies
  • Vibrio bacteria research studies
  • Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment

Ulrike Mayer has published papers in a variety of scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • "The Uptake, Trafficking, and Biodistribution of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron Generated Outer Membrane Vesicles," 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • "Noncanonical function of an autophagy protein prevents spontaneous Alzheimer's disease," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Non-canonical autophagy functions of ATG16L1 in epithelial cells limit lethal infection by influenza A virus," 2021, The EMBO Journal
  • "Control of infection by LC3-associated phagocytosis, CASM, and detection of raised vacuolar pH by the V-ATPase-ATG16L1 axis," 2022, Science Advances
  • "Autophagy, Acute Pancreatitis and the Metamorphoses of a Trypsinogen-Activating Organelle," 2022, Cells

Frequently publishing in peer-reviewed journals, Ulrike Mayer has contributed multiple articles to venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science Advances
  • JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • The EMBO Journal

The scientist has collaborated with a number of researchers, most notably:

  • Thomas Wileman
  • Simon R. Carding
  • Matthew Jefferson
  • Arianne Albert
  • Penny P. Powell

Best Publications

  • A simplified laminin nomenclature

    Monique Aumailley;Leena Bruckner-Tuderman;William G. Carter;Rainer Deutzmann

  • Collagen IV is essential for basement membrane stability but dispensable for initiation of its assembly during early development

    Ernst Pöschl;Ursula Schlötzer-Schrehardt;Bent Brachvogel;Kenji Saito

  • Absence of integrin alpha 7 causes a novel form of muscular dystrophy.

    Mayer U;Saher G;Fässler R;Bornemann A

  • The Arabidopsis KNOLLE Protein Is a Cytokinesis-specific Syntaxin

    Martina H. Lauber;Irene Waizenegger;Thomas Steinmann;Heinz Schwarz

  • Apical-basal pattern formation in the Arabidopsis embryo: studies on the role of the gnom gene

    Ulrike Mayer;Gabriele Büttner;Gerd Jürgens

  • Recombinant nidogen consists of three globular domains and mediates binding of laminin to collagen type IV.

    J W Fox;U Mayer;R Nischt;M Aumailley

  • A single EGF-like motif of laminin is responsible for high affinity nidogen binding.

    U Mayer;R Nischt;E Pöschl;K Mann

  • A group of genes required for pattern formation in the ventral ectoderm of the Drosophila embryo.

    U Mayer;C Nüsslein-Volhard

  • A Critical Function of the Pial Basement Membrane in Cortical Histogenesis

    Willi Halfter;Sucai Dong;Yi-Ping Yip;Michael Willem

  • Role of mesenchymal nidogen for epithelial morphogenesis in vitro

    P. Ekblom;M. Ekblom;L. Fecker;G. Klein

  • Basement-membrane heparan sulfate proteoglycan binds to laminin by its heparan sulfate chains and to nidogen by sites in the protein core.

    Cristina Battaglia;Ulrike Mayer;Monique Aumailley;Rupert Timpl

  • Syndecan-4-dependent Rac1 regulation determines directional migration in response to the extracellular matrix.

    Mark D. Bass;Kirsty A. Roach;Mark R. Morgan;Zohreh Mostafavi-Pour

  • Integrins: redundant or important players in skeletal muscle?

    Ulrike Mayer

  • Biomechanical properties of native basement membranes.

    Joseph Candiello;Manimalha Balasubramani;Emmanuel M. Schreiber;Gregory J. Cole

  • The WD40 domain of ATG16L1 is required for its non‐canonical role in lipidation of LC3 at single membranes

    Katherine Fletcher;Rachel Ulferts;Elise Jacquin;Talitha Veith

  • The Arabidopsis PILZ group genes encode tubulin-folding cofactor orthologs required for cell division but not cell growth.

    Katharina Steinborn;Christoph Maulbetsch;Bianca Priester;Susanne Trautmann

  • Structure of recombinant N-terminal globule of type VI collagen alpha 3 chain and its binding to heparin and hyaluronan.

    U. Specks;U. Mayer;R. Nischt;T. Spissinger

  • Specific ablation of the nidogen-binding site in the laminin γ1 chain interferes with kidney and lung development

    Michael Willem;Nicolai Miosge;Willi Halfter;Neil Smyth

  • Nidogen mediates the formation of ternary complexes of basement membrane components

    Monique Aumailley;Cristina Battaglia;Ulrike Mayer;Dieter Reinhardt

  • Basement membrane attachment is dispensable for radial glial cell fate and for proliferation, but affects positioning of neuronal subtypes

    Nicole Haubst;Elisabeth Georges-Labouesse;Adele De Arcangelis;Ulrike Mayer

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Wileman
Thomas Wileman University of East Anglia
Simon R. Carding
Simon R. Carding University of East Anglia
Rupert Timpl
Rupert Timpl Max Planck Society
Karlheinz Mann
Karlheinz Mann Max Planck Society
Jürgen Engel
Jürgen Engel University of Basel
Anja Kipar
Anja Kipar University of Zurich
James P. Stewart
James P. Stewart University of Liverpool
Gerd Jürgens
Gerd Jürgens University of Tübingen
Tad A. Holak
Tad A. Holak Jagiellonian University
Robert Huber
Robert Huber Agricultural & Applied Economics Association

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