Selected publications of the first funding period at a glance

Denk D, Petrocelli V, Conche C, Drachsler M, Ziegler PK, Braun A, Kress A, Nicolas AM, Mohs K, Becker C, Neurath MF, Farin HF, Buchholz CJ, Andreux PA, Rinsch C, Greten FR. Expansion of T memory stem cells with superior anti-tumor immunity by Urolithin A-induced mitophagy. Immunity. 2022 Nov 8;55(11):2059-2073.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2022.09. 014.  Epub 2022 Oct 19.

Denk D, Greten FR. Inflammation: the incubator of the tumor microenvironment. Trends Cancer. 2022 Nov;8(11):901-914. doi: 10.1016/j.trecan.2022.07.002. Epub 2022 Jul 28.

Bauer J, Köhler N, Maringer Y, Bucher P, Bilich T, Zwick M, Dicks S, Nelde A, Dubbelaar M, Scheid J, Wacker M, Heitmann JS, Schroeder S, Rieth J, Denk M, Richter M, Klein R, Bonzheim I, Luibrand J, Holzer U, Ebinger M, Brecht IB, Bitzer M, Boerries M, Feucht J, Salih HR, Rammensee HG, Hailfinger S, Walz JS. The oncogenic fusion protein DNAJB1-PRKACA can be specifically targeted by peptide-based immunotherapy in fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma. Nat Commun. 2022 Oct 27;13(1):6401. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-33746-3.

Ho JNHG, Schmidt D, Lowinus T, Ryoo J, Dopfer EP, Gonzalo Núñez N, Costa-Pereira S, Toffalori C, Punta M, Fetsch V, Wertheimer T, Rittmann MC, Braun LM, Follo M, Briere C, Vinnakota JM, Langenbach M, Koppers F, Shoumariyeh K, Engel H, Rückert T, Märklin M, Holzmayer S, Illert AL, Magon F, Andrieux G, Duquesne S, Pfeifer D, Staniek J, Rizzi M, Miething C, Köhler N, Duyster J, Menssen HD, Boerries M, Buescher JM, Cabezas-Wallscheid N, Blazar BR, Apostolova P, Vago L, Pearce EL, Becher B, Zeiser R. Targeting MDM2 enhances antileukemia immunity after allogeneic transplantation via MHC-II and TRAIL-R1/2 upregulation. Blood. 2022 Sep 8;140(10):1167-1181. doi: 10.1182/blood.2022016082.

Highlighted by this Editorial: Bleakley M, Biernacki M. MDM2 inhibition augments GVL effect. Blood. 2022 Sep 8;140(10):1064-1065. doi: 10.1182/blood.2022017724. PMID: 36074535.

Aktories P, Petry P, Glatz P, Andrieux G, Oschwald A, Botterer H, Gorka O, Erny D, Boerries M, Henneke P, Groß O, Prinz M, Kierdorf K. An improved organotypic cell culture system to study tissue-resident macrophages ex vivo. Cell Rep Methods. 2022 Jul 26;2(8):100260. doi: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2022.100260.

Haring E, Andrieux G, Uhl FM, Krausz M, Proietti M, Sauer B, Esser PR, Martin SF, Pfeifer D, Schmitt-Graeff A, Duyster J, Köhler N, Grimbacher B, Boerries M, Aumann K, Zeiser R, Apostolova P. Therapeutic targeting of endoplasmic reticulum stress in acute graft-versus-host disease. Haematologica. 2022 Jul 1;107(7):1538-1554. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2021.278387.

Zhang YW, Mess J, Aizarani N, Mishra P, Johnson C, Romero-Mulero MC, Rettkowski J, Schönberger K, Obier N, Jäcklein K, Woessner NM, Lalioti ME, Velasco-Hernandez T, Sikora K, Wäsch R, Lehnertz B, Sauvageau G, Manke T, Menendez P, Walter SG, Minguet S, Laurenti E, Günther S, Grün D, Cabezas-Wallscheid N. Hyaluronic acid-GPRC5C signalling promotes dormancy in haematopoietic stem cells. Nat Cell Biol. 2022 Jul;24(7):1038-1048. doi: 10.1038/s41556-022-00931-x. Epub 2022 Jun 20. 

Köhler N, Zeiser R. Epigenetic Regulation to Enhance Graft-versus-Leukemia Activity. Cancer Discov. 2022 Jun 2;12(6):1410-1412.

Fröhlich K, Brombacher E, Fahrner M, Vogele D, Kook L, Pinter N, Bronsert P, Timme-Bronsert S, Schmidt A, Bärenfaller K, Kreutz C, Schilling O. Benchmarking of analysis strategies for data-independent acquisition proteomics using a large-scale dataset comprising inter-patient heterogeneity. Nat Commun. 2022 May 12;13(1):2622. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-30094-0.

Masuda T, Amann L, Monaco G, Sankowski R, Staszewski O, Krueger M, Del Gaudio F, He L, Paterson N, Nent E, Fernández-Klett F, Yamasaki A, Frosch M, Fliegauf M, Bosch LFP, Ulupinar H, Hagemeyer N, Schreiner D, Dorrier C, Tsuda M, Grothe C, Joutel A, Daneman R, Betsholtz C, Lendahl U, Knobeloch KP, Lämmermann T, Priller J, Kierdorf K, Prinz M. Specification of CNS macrophage subsets occurs postnatally in defined niches. Nature. 2022 Apr;604(7907):740-748. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04596-2. Epub 2022 Apr 20. Erratum in: Nature. 2022 Oct;610(7930):E1.

Barsch M, Salié H, Schlaak AE, Zhang Z, Hess M, Mayer LS, Tauber C, Otto-Mora P, Ohtani T, Nilsson T, Wischer L, Winkler F, Manne S, Rech A, Schmitt-Graeff A, Bronsert P, Hofmann M, Neumann-Haefelin C, Boettler T, Fichtner-Feigl S, van Boemmel F, Berg T, Rimassa L, Di Tommaso L, Saeed A, D’Alessio A, Pinato DJ, Bettinger D, Binder H, John Wherry E, Schultheiss M, Thimme R, Bengsch B. T-cell exhaustion and residency dynamics inform clinical outcomes in hepatocellular carcinoma. J Hepatol. 2022 Aug;77(2):397-409. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2022.02.032. Epub 2022 Apr 1. 

Flum M, Dicks S, Teng YH, Schrempp M, Nyström A, Boerries M, Hecht A. Canonical TGFβ signaling induces collective invasion in colorectal carcinogenesis through a Snail1- and Zeb1-independent partial EMT. Oncogene. 2022 Mar;41(10):1492-1506. doi: 10.1038/s41388-022-02190-4.

Nicolas AM, Pesic M, Engel E, Ziegler PK, Diefenhardt M, Kennel KB, Buettner F, Conche C, Petrocelli V, Elwakeel E, Weigert A, Zinoveva A, Fleischmann M, Häupl B, Karakütük C, Bohnenberger H, Mosa MH, Kaderali L, Gaedcke J, Ghadimi M, Rödel F, Arkan MC, Oellerich T, Rödel C, Fokas E, Greten FR. Inflammatory fibroblasts mediate resistance to neoadjuvant therapy in rectal cancer. Cancer Cell. 2022 Feb 14;40(2):168-184.e13. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2022.01.004.

Zeiser R, Socié G, Schroeder MA, Abhyankar S, Vaz CP, Kwon M, Clausen J, Volodin L, Giebel S, Chacon MJ, Meyers G, Ghosh M, Deeren D, Sanz J, Morariu-Zamfir R, Arbushites M, Lakshminarayanan M, Barbour AM, Chen YB. Efficacy and safety of itacitinib versus placebo in combination with corticosteroids for initial treatment of acute graft-versus-host disease (GRAVITAS-301): a randomised, multicentre, double-blind, phase 3 trial. Lancet Haematol. 2022 Jan;9(1):e14-e25.doi: 10.1016/S2352-3026(21)00367-7.

highlighted by this Editorial: Paczesny S. Graft-versus-host disease treatment beyond corticosteroids in newly diagnosed patients? Lancet Haematol. 2022 Jan;9(1):e2-e3. doi: 10.1016/S2352-3026(21)00376-8. PMID: 34971578.

Corrales E, Levit-Zerdoun E, Metzger P, Kowar S, Ku M, Brummer T, Boerries M. Dynamic transcriptome analysis reveals signatures of paradoxical effect of vemurafenib on human dermal fibroblasts. Cell Commun Signal. 2021 Dec 20;19(1):123. doi: 10.1186/s12964-021-00801-3.

Spohr C, Poggio T, Andrieux G, Schönberger K, Cabezas-Wallscheid N, Boerries M, Halbach S, Illert AL, Brummer T. Gab2 deficiency prevents Flt3-ITD driven acute myeloid leukemia in vivo. Leukemia. 2022 Apr;36(4):970-982. doi: 10.1038/s41375-021-01490-0. Epub 2021 Dec 13.2021

El Khawanky N, Hughes A, Yu W, Myburgh R, Matschulla T, Taromi S, Aumann K, Clarson J, Vinnakota JM, Shoumariyeh K, Miething C, Lopez AF, Brown MP, Duyster J, Hein L, Manz MG, Hughes TP, White DL, Yong ASM, Zeiser R. Demethylating therapy increases anti-CD123 CAR T cell cytotoxicity against acute myeloid leukemia. Nat Commun. 2021 Nov 8;12(1):6436. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26683-0.

Grünwald BT, Devisme A, Andrieux G, Vyas F, Aliar K, McCloskey CW, Macklin A, Jang GH, Denroche R, Romero JM, Bavi P, Bronsert P, Notta F, O’Kane G, Wilson J, Knox J, Tamblyn L, Udaskin M, Radulovich N, Fischer SE, Boerries M, Gallinger S, Kislinger T, Khokha R. Spatially confined sub-tumor microenvironments in pancreatic cancer. Cell. 2021 Oct 28;184(22):5577-5592.e18. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.09.022. Epub 2021 Oct 12.2021.

Bernasconi R, Thriene K, Romero-Fernández E, Gretzmeier C, Kühl T, Maler M, Nauroy P, Kleiser S, Rühl-Muth AC, Stumpe M, Kiritsi D, Martin SF, Hinz B, Bruckner-Tuderman L, Dengjel J, Nyström A. 2021. Pro-inflammatory immunity supports fibrosis advancement in epidermolysis bullosa: intervention with Ang-(1-7). EMBO Mol Med. 2021 e14392. doi: 10.15252/emmm.202114392.

Li X, Ramadori P, Pfister D, Seehawer M, Zender L, Heikenwalder M. The immunological and metabolic landscape in primary and metastatic liver cancer.
Nat Rev Cancer. 2021 Sep;21(9):541-557. doi: 10.1038/s41568-021-00383-9.