Selected Publications of the Last 5 Years
Amman, F., Markt, R., Endler, L. et al. Viral variant-resolved wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at national scale. Nature Biotechnology 2022 Jul 18. doi: 10.1038/s41587-022-01387-y. Online ahead of print. PMID: 35851376
Baazim H, Antonio-Herrera L, Bergthaler A. The interplay of immunology and
cachexia in infection and cancer. Nature Reviews Immunology. 2021 Oct 4:1–13. doi:
10.1038/s41577-021-00624-w. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34608281; PMCID:
PMC8489366.
Agerer B, Koblischke M, Gudipati V, Montaño-Gutierrez LF, Smyth M, Popa A,
Genger JW, Endler L, Florian DM, Mühlgrabner V, Graninger M, Aberle SW, Husa AM,
Shaw LE, Lercher A, Gattinger P, Torralba-Gombau R, Trapin D, Penz T, Barreca D,
Fae I, Wenda S, Traugott M, Walder G, Pickl WF, Thiel V, Allerberger F,
Stockinger H, Puchhammer-Stöckl E, Weninger W, Fischer G, Hoepler W, Pawelka E,
Zoufaly A, Valenta R, Bock C, Paster W, Geyeregger R, Farlik M, Halbritter F,
Huppa JB, Aberle JH, Bergthaler A. SARS-CoV-2 mutations in MHC-I-restricted
epitopes evade CD8<sup>+</sup> T cell responses. Science Immunology. 2021 Mar
4;6(57):eabg6461. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.abg6461. PMID: 33664060; PMCID:
PMC8224398.
Lercher A, Baazim H, Bergthaler A. Systemic Immunometabolism: Challenges and
Opportunities. Immunity. 2020 Sep 15;53(3):496-509. doi:
10.1016/j.immuni.2020.08.012. PMID: 32937151; PMCID: PMC7491485.
Popa A, Genger JW, Nicholson MD, Penz T, Schmid D, Aberle SW, Agerer B,
Lercher A, Endler L, Colaço H, Smyth M, Schuster M, Grau ML, Martínez-Jiménez F,
Pich O, Borena W, Pawelka E, Keszei Z, Senekowitsch M, Laine J, Aberle JH,
Redlberger-Fritz M, Karolyi M, Zoufaly A, Maritschnik S, Borkovec M, Hufnagl P,
Nairz M, Weiss G, Wolfinger MT, von Laer D, Superti-Furga G, Lopez-Bigas N,
Puchhammer-Stöckl E, Allerberger F, Michor F, Bock C, Bergthaler A. Genomic
epidemiology of superspreading events in Austria reveals mutational dynamics and
transmission properties of SARS-CoV-2. Science Translational Medicine. 2020 Dec
9;12(573):eabe2555. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abe2555. Epub 2020 Nov 23. PMID:
33229462; PMCID: PMC7857414.
Lercher A, Bhattacharya A, Popa AM, Caldera M, Schlapansky MF, Baazim H, Agerer B, Gürtl B, Kosack L, Májek P, Brunner JS, Vitko D, Pinter T, Genger JW, Orlova A, Pikor N, Reil D, Ozsvár-Kozma M, Kalinke U, Ludewig B, Moriggl R, Bennett KL, Menche J, Cheng PN, Schabbauer G, Trauner T, Klavins K, Bergthaler A. Type I interferon signaling disrupts the hepatic urea cycle and alters systemic metabolism to suppress T cell function. Immunity. 2019 Nov 26. pii: S1074-7613(19)30458-3. PMID: 31784108.
Baazim H, Schweiger M, Moschinger M, Xu H, Scherer T, Popa A, Gallage S, Ali A, Khamina K, Kosack L, Vilagos B, Smyth M, Lercher A, Friske J, Merkler D, Aderem A, Helbich TH, Heikenwälder M, Lang PA, Zechner R and Bergthaler A. CD8(+) T cells induce cachexia during chronic viral infection. Nature Immunology. 2019 Jun;20(6):701-710. PMID: 31110314.
Lercher A, Baazim A, Bergthaler A. Systemic immunometabolism: challenges and opportunities. Immunity. 2020 Sept 15. https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.immuni.2020.08.012.
Krausgruber T, Fortelny N, Fife-Gernedl V, Senekowitsch M, Schuster LC, Lercher A, Nemc A, Schmidt C, Rendeiro F, Bergthaler A, Bock C. Structural cells are key regulators of organ-specific immune responses. Nature 2020 Jul;583(7815):296-302. PMID: 32612232.
Bhattacharya A, Hegazy AN, Deigendesch N, Kosack L, Cupovic J, Kandasamy RK, Hildebrandt A, Merkler D, Kühl AA, Schliehe C, Panse I, Vilagos B, Khamina K, Arnold I, Flatz L, Xu HC, Lang PA, Aderem A, Superti-Furga G, Colinge J, Ludewig B, Löhning M*, Bergthaler A*. Superoxide dismutase 1 protects hepatocytes from type I interferon-driven oxidative damage. Immunity. 2015 Nov 17;43(5):974-86. PMID: 26588782.
Schliehe C, Flynn EK, Vilagos B, Richson U, Swaminathan S, Bosnjak B, Bauer L, Kandasamy RK, Griesshammer IM, Kosack L, Schmitz F, Litvak V, Sissons J, Lercher A, Bhattacharya A, Khamina K, Trivett AL, Tessarollo L, Mesteri I, Hladik A, Merkler D, Kubicek S, Knapp S, Epstein MM, Symer DE, Aderem A, Bergthaler A. The methyltransferase Setdb2 mediates virus-induced susceptibility to bacterial superinfection. Nature Immunology. 2015 Jan;16(1):67-74. PMID: 25419628.
Lercher A, Popa AM, Viczenczova C, Kosack LJ, Klavins K, Agerer B, Opitz CA, Lanz TV, Platten M, Bergthaler A. Type I interferon reprograms hepatocyte metabolism and reveals novel compensatory mechanism of the tryptophan-kynurenine pathway in viral hepatitis. PLoS Pathogens. 2020 Oct 12;16(10):e1008973. PMID: 33045014
Kosack L, Wingelhofer B, Popa A, Orlova A, Agerer B, Vilagos B, Majek P, Parapatics K, Lercher A, Ringler A, Klughammer J, Smyth M, Khamina K, Baazim H, de Araujo ED, Rosa DA, Park J, Tin G, Ahmar S, Gunning PT, Bock C, Siddle HV,Woods GM, Kubicek S, Murchison EP, Bennett KL, Moriggl R*, Bergthaler A*. ERBB-STAT3 axis drives Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease. Cancer Cell. 2019 Jan 14;35(1):125-139.e9. PMID: 30645971.
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