AG Eilers
Prof. Dr. Martin Eilers
Lehrstuhl für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie
Biozentrum
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
Tel: 0931 31-84111
Fax: 0931 31-84113
martin.eilers@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de
Many cancers are life-threatening diseases and there is an urgent need for novel therapeutic strategies. Our group works on the human MYC protein family, which is involved in the development of the majority of all human cancers. Our aim is both to understand the function of MYC proteins and explore new strategies to inhibit their function.
Publications
Latest:
Baluapuri, A., Wolf, E., Eilers, M. (2020) Target gene-independent functions of Myc oncoproteins. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology in press
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 in press.
Schmidt, S., Gay, D., Uthe, F. W., Denk, S., Paauwe, M., Matthes, N., Diefenbacher, M. E., Bryson, S., Warrander, F. C., Erhard, F., Ade, C. P., Baluapuri, A., Walz, S., Jackstadt, R. F., Vlachogiannis, G., Valeri, N., Otto, C., Schülein-Völk, C., Maurus, K., Schmitz, W., Knight, J. R. P., Wolf, E., Strathdee, D., Schulze, A., Germer, C-T., Rosenwald, A., Sansom, O. J., Eilers, M., Wiegering, A. (2019) A MYC/GCN2/eIF2a negative feedback loop limits protein synthesis to prevent MYC-dependent apoptosis in colorectal cancer. Nat Cell Biol 2019 doi:10.1038/s41556-019-0408-0
Herold, S., Kalb, J., Buchel, G., Ade, C. P., Baluapuri, A., Xu, J., Koster, J., Solvie, D., Carstensen, A., Klotz, C., Rodewald, S., Schulein-Volk, C., Dobbelstein, M., Wolf, E., Molenaar, J., Versteeg, R., Walz, S., Eilers, M. (2019). Recruitment of BRCA1 limits MYCN-driven accumulation of stalled RNA Polymerase. Nature. 2019 Mar;567(7749):545-549. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1030-9
Baluapuri, A., Hofstetter, J., Dudvarski Stankovic, N., Endres, T., Bhandare, P., Vos, S.M., Adhikari, B., Schwarz, J.D., Narain, A., Vogt, M., Wang, S.Y., Düster, R., Jung, L.A., Vanselow, J.T., Wiegering, A., Geyer, M., Maric, H.M., Gallant, P., Walz, S., Schlosser, A., Cramer, P., Eilers, M., Wolf, E. (2019) MYC recruits SPT5 to RNA polymerase II to promote processive transcription elongation. Mol Cell. 2019 May 16;74(4):674-687.e11.doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2019.02.031.
Haikala,H., Anttila, J., Marques, E., Raatikainen, T., Ilander, M., Hakanen, H., Ala-Hongisto, H., Savelius, M., Balboa, D., von Eyss, B., Eskelinen, V., Munne, P., Nieminen, A., Otonkoski, T., Schüler, J., Laajala, T., Aittokallio, T., Sihto, H., Mattson, J., Heikkilä, P., Leidenius, M., Joensuu, H., Mustjoki, S., Kovanen, P., Eilers, M., Leverson, J., and Klefström, J. (2019) Pharmacological reactivation of MYC-dependent apoptosis induces susceptibility to anti-PD-1 immunotherapy Nat Commun 10: 620
Löffler, MC, Mayer, AE, Trujillo Viera, J, Loza Valdes, A, El-Merahbi, E, Ade, CP, Karwen, T, Schmitz, W, Slotta, A, Erk, M, Janaki-Raman, S, Matesanz, N, Torres, JL, Marcos, M, Sabio, G, Eilers, M, Schulze, A & Sumara G (2018) Protein kinase D1 deletion in adipocytes enhances energy dissipation and protects against adiposity. EMBO Journal, DOI 10.15252/embj.201899182
Yanku, Y., Bitman-Lotan, E., Zohar, Y., Kurant, E., Zilke, N., Eilers, M. and Orian, A. (2018) Drosophila HUWE1 ubiquitin ligase regulates endoreplication and antagonizes JNK signaling during salivary gland development. Cells 2018,7 151 doi:10.3390/cells7100151
Büchel, G., Carstensen, A., Mak, K.Y., Roeschert, I., Leen, E., Sumara, O., Hofstetter, J., Herold, S., Kalb, J., Baluapuri, A., Poon, E., Kwok, C., Chesler, L., Maric H. M., Rickman, D. S., Wolf, E., Bayliss, R., Walz, S., Eilers, M. (2017) Association with Aurora-A controls N-MYC-dependent promoter escape and pause release of RNA polymerase II during cell cycle. Cell Reports Dec 19;21(12):3483-3497. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2017.11.090.
Rickman,D. S., Schulte, J. H., Eilers,M. (2017) The expanding world of N-Myc driven tumors. Cancer Discovery, Feb;8(2):150-163. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-17-0273. Epub 2018 Jan 22.
