AG Wolf
Contact
Prof. Dr. Elmar Wolf
Lehrstuhl für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie
Biozentrum
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
Raum B 353
Tel: 0931 31-83259
Fax: 0931 31-84113
elmar.wolf@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de
Emmy Noether group - Cancer Systems Biology
Lab News
March 2021
Excited to be part of a research project about drugging MYC funded by the Alex´s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer
https://www.alexslemonade.org/project/drugging-mycn
December 2020
Great digital lab retreat together with the Dölken lab - thanks to Lars and his team! here
September 2020
Our paper on PROTACs for Aurora-A is online at Nature Chemical Biology. Well done, Bikash! See our paper and press release
Archive
Research
In ageing Western societies tumors are becoming the most relevant medical problem. A key characteristic of tumors is deregulated signaling pathways that significantly alter the transcriptional profile of tumor cells. Proteins of the MYC family play a prominent role in this oncogenic reprogramming as transcription factors.
Our vision is to understand the transcriptional changes during carcinogenesis and, in particular, the oncogenic function of Myc to the extent that new pharmaceutical strategies for the fight against cancer can be developed on this basis. To this end, my research group uses genome- and proteome-wide methods to better understand the biology of tumors as well as genetic screens to find potential therapeutic targets of tumor cells. Together with our partners, we have recently developed substances that inhibit the function of Myc. In the next few years, we want to improve these molecules, of the PROTAC substance class, to such an extent that they can be clinically tested and applied.
Research topic 1: The oncogenic function of MYC
Research topic 2: Investigation of transcriptional elongation
Publications
2020:
Adhikari B, Bozilovic J, Diebold M,Schwarz JD, Hofstetter J, Schröder M, Wanior M, Narain A, Vogt M, DudvarskiStankovic N, Baluapuri A, Schönemann L, Eing L, Bhandare P, Kuster B, SchlosserA, Heinzlmeir S, Sotriffer C, Knapp S* WolfE*, PROTAC-mediated degradation reveals a non-catalytic function ofAURORA-A kinase, Nature Chemical Biology, 2020,
Wolpaw AJ, Bayliss R, Büchel G, Dang CV, Eilers M, Gustafson WC, Hansen GM, Jura N, Knapp S, Lemmon MA, Levens D, Maris JM, Marmorstein R, Metallo SJ, Park JR, Penn LZ, Rape M, Roussel MF, Shokat KM, Tansey WP, Verba KA, Vos SM, Weiss WA, Wolf E, Mossé YP (2021) Drugging the 'undruggable' MYCN oncogenic transcription factor: Overcoming previous obstacles to impact childhood cancers, Cancer Research, doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-20-3108
Endres T, Solvie D, Heidelberger J ,Andrioletti V ,Baluapuri A ,Ade CP, Muhar M, Eilers U, Vos SM, Cramer P, Zuber J, Beli P, Popov N, Wolf E, Gallant P, Eilers M: Ubiquitylation of MYC couples transcription elongation with double-strand break repair at active promoters, Molecular Cell, in press
Fröschel C, Komorek J, Attard A, Marsell A, Lopez-Arboleda WA, Le Berre J, Wolf E, Geldner N, Waller F, Korte A, Dröge-Laser W. Plant roots employ cell-layer-specific programs to respond to pathogenic and beneficial microbes, Cell Host Microbe, in press
Jessen C, Kreß JKC, Baluapuri A, Hufnagel A, Schmitz W,Kneitz S, Roth S, Marquardt A, Appenzeller S, Ade CP, Glutsch V, Wobser M,Friedmann-Angeli JP, Mosteo L, Goding CR, Schilling B, Geissinger E, Wolf E, Meierjohann S, The transcriptionfactor NRF2 enhances melanoma malignancy by blocking differentiation andinducing COX2 expression, Oncogene, 2020, doi:10.1038/s41388-020-01477-8
Rajeeve K, Vollmuth N, Janaki-Raman S, Wulff TF, Baluapuri A, Dejure FR, Huber C, Fink J, Schmalhofer M, Schmitz W, Sivadasan R, Wolf E, Eisenreich W, Schulze A, Seibel J, Rudel T: Reprogramming of host glutamine metabolism during Chlamydia trachomatis infection and its key role in peptidoglycan synthesis. Nature Microbiology, 2020, doi: 10.1038/s41564-020-0762-5
Wolf E and Eilers M: Targeting MYC Proteins for Tumor Therapy, Annual Review of Cancer Biology, 2020, 4
Baluapuri, A., Wolf, E., Eilers, M. (2020) Target gene-independent functions of Myc oncoproteins. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2020
Cossa, G., Roeschert, I., Prinz, F., Baluapuri, A., R.S., V., Schülein-Völk, C., Chang, Y.-C., Ade, C. P., Mastrobuoni, G., Girard, C., Wortmann, L., Walz, S., Lührmann, R., Kempa, S., Kuster, B., Wolf, E., Mumberg, D., Eilers, M. (2020) Localized inhibition of protein phosphatase 1 by NUAK1 promotes spliceosome activity and reveals a MYC-sensitive feedback control of transcription. Molecular Cell, 2020
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