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Deciphering the molecular mechanisms that control T cell-driven immune responses will create critical knowledge for future therapies against autoimmune diseases or immune cell therapies against cancer

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The Research Unit Molecular Immune Regulation (AMIR) investigates the differentiation of T helper cells with a focus on post-transcriptional gene regulation. T helper cell differentiation enables specific immune responses, however, hyper- or hypofunctional T helper cells critically contribute to inflammatory and autoimmune diseases or to the lack of immune responses during chronic infections and tumor formation, respectively. We analyze molecular interactions and search for diagnostic markers to develop new therapeutic approaches.

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New Research Findings, Molecular Targets and Therapeutics, AMIR, July 25, 2022

Researchers gain a fundamental insight for epitranscriptomics and immune response. The research group around Vigo Heissmeyer and Taku Ito-Kureha of Helmholtz Munich and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München has revealed the essential function of m6A…

Prof. Vigo Heissmeyer

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Dr. Kai Höfig

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Dr. Stephanie Edelmann

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Sabine Hartig

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Latest Publications of Our Institute

Crosstalk between Regnase-1 and -3 shapes mast cell survival and cytokine expression.

2024 Scientific Article in Nature Communications

Xu, M. ; Ito-Kureha, T. ; Kang, H.-S. ; Chernev, A. ; Raj, T. ; Hoefig, K.P. ; Hohn, C. ; Giesert, F. ; Wang, Y. ; Pan, W. ; Ziętara, N. ; Straub, T. ; Feederle, R. ; Daniel, C. ; Adler, B. ; König, J. ; Feske, S. ; Tsokos, G.C. ; Wurst, W. ; Urlaub, H. ; Sattler, M. ; Kisielow, J. ; Wulczyn, F.G. ; Łyszkiewicz, M. ; Heissmeyer, V.

The thymocyte-specific RNA-binding protein Arpp21 provides TCR repertoire diversity by binding to the 3'-UTR and promoting Rag1 mRNA expression.

2024 Scientific Article in Science immunology

Chang, Y. ; Bach, L. ; Hasiuk, M. ; Wen, L. ; Elmzzahi, T. ; Tsui, C. ; Gutiérrez-Melo, N. ; Steffen, T. ; Utzschneider, D.T. ; Raj, T. ; Jost, P.J. ; Heink, S. ; Cheng, J. ; Burton, O.T. ; Zeiträg, J. ; Alterauge, D. ; Dahlström, F. ; Becker, J.C. ; Kastl, M. ; Symeonidis, K. ; van Uelft, M. ; Becker, M. ; Reschke, S. ; Krebs, S. ; Blum, H. ; Abdullah, Z. ; Paeschke, K. ; Ohnmacht, C. ; Neumann, C. ; Liston, A. ; Meissner, F. ; Korn, T. ; Hasenauer, J. ; Heissmeyer, V. ; Beyer, M. ; Kallies, A. ; Jeker, L.T. ; Baumjohann, D.

TGF-β specifies TFH versus TH17 cell fates in murine CD4+ T cells through c-Maf.

2023 Scientific Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Schmidt, H. ; Raj, T. ; O´Neill, T.J. ; Muschaweckh, A. ; Giesert, F. ; Negraschus, A. ; Hoefig, K.P. ; Behrens, G. ; Esser, L. ; Baumann, Christina ; Feederle, R. ; Plaza-Sirvent, C. ; Geerlof, A. ; Gewies, A. ; Isay, S.E. ; Ruland, J. ; Schmitz, I. ; Wurst, W. ; Korn, T. ; Krappmann, D. ; Heissmeyer, V.

Unrestrained cleavage of Roquin-1 by MALT1 induces spontaneous T cell activation and the development of autoimmunity.

2023 Scientific Article in American Journal of Human Genetics, The

Guo, L. ; Salian, S. ; Xue, J.y. ; Rath, N. ; Rousseau, J. ; Kim, H. ; Ehresmann, S. ; Moosa, S. ; Nakagawa, N. ; Kuroda, H. ; Clayton-Smith, J. ; Wang, J. ; Wang, Z. ; Banka, S. ; Jackson, A. ; Zhang, Y.m. ; Wei, Z.j. ; Hüning, I. ; Brunet, T. ; Ohashi, H. ; Thomas, M.F. ; Bupp, C. ; Miyake, N. ; Matsumoto, N. ; Mendoza-Londono, R. ; Costain, G. ; Hahn, G. ; di Donato, N. ; Yigit, G. ; Yamada, T. ; Nishimura, G. ; Ansel, K.M. ; Wollnik, B. ; Hrabě de Angelis, M. ; Megarbane, A. ; Rosenfeld, J.A. ; Heissmeyer, V. ; Ikegawa, S. ; Campeau, P.M.

Molecular Targets and Therapeutics Center Research Unit Molecular Immune Regulation (AMIR)

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