Publications

2007

• The ancestor of the Paulinella chromatophore obtained a carboxysomal operon by horizontal gene transfer from a Nitrococcus-like gamma-proteobacterium.
  Marin B, Nowack ECM, Glöckner G, Melkonian M
  BMC Evol Biol 2007, 7, 85
  
• No evidence for an involvement of variants in the cannabinoid receptor gene (CNR1) in obesity in German children and adolescents.
  Müller TD, Reichwald K, Wermter AK, Brönner G, Nguyen TT, Friedel S, Koberwitz K, Engeli S, Lichtner P, Meitinger T, Schäfer H, Hebebrand J, Hinney A
  Mol Genet Metab 2007, 90(4), 429-34
  
• BioBayesNet: a web server for feature extraction and Bayesian network modeling of biological sequence data.
  Nikolajewa S, Pudimat R, Hiller M, Platzer M, Backofen R
  Nucleic Acids Res 2007, 35, W688-93
  
• GenColors: annotation and comparative genomics of prokaryotes made easy.
  Romualdi A, Felder M, Rose D, Gausmann U, Schilhabel M, Glöckner G, Platzer M, Sühnel J
  Methods Mol Biol 2007, 395, 75-96
  
• Functional characterization of two novel 5' untranslated exons reveals a complex regulation of NOD2 protein expression.
  Rosenstiel* P, Huse* K, Franke A, Hampe J, Reichwald K, Platzer C, Roberts RG, Mathew CG, Platzer M, Schreiber S
  BMC Genomics 2007, 8, 472 * equal contribution
  
• Legionella pathogenicity: genome structure, regulatory networks and the host cell response.
  Steinert M, Heuner K, Buchrieser C, Albert-Weissenberger C, Glöckner G
  Int J Med Microbiol 2007, 297(7-8), 577-87
  
• Violating the splicing rules: TG dinucleotides function as alternative 3' splice sites in U2-dependent introns.
  Szafranski* K, Schindler* S, Taudien S, Hiller M, Huse K, Jahn N, Schreiber S, Backofen R, Platzer M
  Genome Biol 2007, 8(8), R154 * equal contribution
  
• Ist das Schimpansen-Genom sequenziert?
  Taudien S, Ebersberger I, Jahn N, Platzer M
  BIOspektrum 2007, 13, 386-8
  
• No association of sequence variants in the neuropeptide Y2 receptor (NPY2R) gene with early onset obesity in Germans.
  Wang HJ, Wermter AK, Nguyen TT, Scherag A, Reichwald K, Waldenmaier B, Lichtner P, Bettecken T, Hebebrand J, Hinney A
  Horm Metab Res 2007, 39(11), 840-4
  
• Gain and loss of polyadenylation signals during evolution of green algae.
  Wodniok S, Simon A, Glöckner G, Becker B
  BMC Evol Biol 2007, 7, 65
  

2006

• Polymyxin B-conjugated alpha 2-macroglobulin as an adjunctive therapy to sepsis: Modes of action and impact on lethality.
  Birkenmeier G, Nicklisch S, Pockelt C, Mossie A, Steger V, Gläser C, Hauschildt S, Usbeck E, Huse K, Sack U, Bauer M, Schäfer A
  J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2006, 318(2), 762-71
  
• SNPSplicer: systematic analysis of SNP-dependent splicing in genotyped cDNAs.
  ElSharawy A, Manaster C, Teuber M, Rosenstiel P, Kwiatkowski R, Huse K, Platzer M, Becker A, Nürnberg P, Schreiber S, Hampe J
  Hum Mutat 2006, 27(11), 1129-34
  
• Lipoprotein Receptor-related Protein 1 (LRP1) - one of the Hallmarks of Alzheimer's Disease and other Complex Degenerative Processes.
  Gläser C, Birkenmeier G, Schulz S, Huse K
  In: New Research on Alzheimer's Disease 2006, 99-123, Nova Sciences Inc., Haup
  
• Comparative genome analysis: selection pressure on the Borrelia vls cassettes is essential for infectivity.
  Glöckner G, Schulte-Spechtel U, Schilhabel M, Felder M, Sühnel J, Wilske B, Platzer M
  BMC Genomics 2006, 7, 211
  
• Method for preparing single-stranded DNA templates for Pyrosequencing using vector ligation and universal biotinylated primers.
  Groth* M, Huse* K, Reichwald K, Taudien S, Hampe J, Rosenstiel P, Birkenmeier G, Schreiber S, Platzer M
  Anal Biochem 2006, 356(2), 194-201 * equal contribution
  
• Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in NAGNAG acceptors are highly predictive for variations of alternative splicing.
  Hiller M, Huse K, Szafranski K, Jahn N, Hampe J, Schreiber S, Backofen R, Platzer M
  Am J Hum Genet 2006, 78(2), 291-302
  
• Phylogenetically widespread alternative splicing at unusual GYNGYN donors.
  Hiller M, Huse K, Szafranski K, Rosenstiel P, Schreiber S, Backofen R, Platzer M
  Genome Biol 2006, 7(7), R65
  
• Alternative splicing at NAGNAG acceptors: simply noise or noise and more?
  Hiller M, Szafranski K, Backofen R, Platzer M
  PLoS Genet 2006, 2(11), e207
  
• Prevalence, spectrum, and functional characterization of melanocortin-4 receptor gene mutations in a representative population-based sample and obese adults from Germany.
  Hinney A, Bettecken T, Tarnow P, Brumm H, Reichwald K, Lichtner P, Scherag A, Nguyen TT, Schlumberger P, Rief W, Vollmert C, Illig T, Wichmann HE, Schäfer H, Platzer M, Biebermann H, Meitinger T, Hebebrand J
  J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2006, 91(5), 1761-9
  
• German human methylome project started.
  Jeltsch A, Walter J, Reinhardt R, Platzer M
  Cancer Res 2006, 66(14), 7378