Publications

Holger Bierhoff*, Amelia E. Barber, Matthew G. Blango* (2024). RNA:DNA triplexes: a mechanism for epigenetic communication between hosts and microbes?. mBio.

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Alexander Bruch*, Matthew G. Blango* (2024). RNA as a mediator of host-fungal pathogenesis. Springer (In Press).

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Abdulrahman A. Kelani*, Xiaoqing Pan, Matthew G. Blango* (2024). Elucidation of the Aspergillus fumigatus tRNA-derived RNA repertoire from conidia and mycelium. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.24.595671.

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Rita Müller, Annika König, Sabrina Groth, Robert Zarnowski, Corissa Visser, Tom Handrianz, Corinne Maufrais, Thomas Kruger, Maximilian Himmel, Sejeong Lee, Emily L. Priest, Deniz Yildirim, Jonathan P. Richardson, Matthew G. Blango*, Marie-Elisabeth Bougnoux, Olaf Kniemeyer, Christophe d’Enfert, Axel A. Brakhage, David R. Andes, Verena Trümper, Christian Nehls, Lydia Kasper, Selene Mogavero, Thomas Gutsmann, Bernhard Hube (2024). Secretion of the fungal toxin candidalysin is dependent on conserved precursor peptide sequences. Nature Microbiology, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-024-01606-z.

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Alexander Bruch*, Valentina Lazarova*, Thomas Krueger, Sascha Schaeuble, Abdulrahman A. Kelani*, Pamela Lehengerber, Olaf Kniemeyer, Gianni Panagiotou, Matthew G. Blango* (2024). Mod5 mediates a molecular trade-off between optimal gene expression and antifungal resistance.. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.19.578369.

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Julia Micheel, Franziska Aron, Abdulrahman A. Kelani*, Christian Girbardt, Grit Walther, Matthew G. Blango*, Damian Wollny (2023). RNA-based sensitive fungal pathogen detection. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.26.559494.

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Abdulrahman A. Kelani*, Alexander Bruch*, Flora Rivieccio, Corissa Visser, Thomas Kruger, Danielle Weaver, Xiaoqing Pan, Sascha Schäuble, Gianni Panagiotou, Olaf Kniemeyer, Michael J. Bromley, Paul Bowyer, Amelia E. Barber, Axel A. Brakhage, Matthew G. Blango* (2023). Disruption of the Aspergillus fumigatus RNA inteference machinery alters the conidial transcriptome.. RNA, https://doi.org/10.1261/rna.079350.122.

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Carsten Schwarz, Patience Eschenhagen, Henrijette Schmidt, Thordis Hohnstein, Christina Iwert, Claudia Grehn, Jobst Roehmel, Eva Steinke, Mirjam Stahl, Laura Lozza, Ekaterina Tikhonova, Elisa Rosati, Ulrik Stervbo, Nina Babel, Jochen G. Mainz, Hilmar Wisplinghoff, Frank Ebel, Lei-Jie Jia, Matthew G. Blango*, Peter Hortschansky, Sascha Brunke, Bernhard Hube, Axel A. Brakhage, Olaf Kniemeyer, Alexander Scheffold, Petra Bacher (2023). Antigen specificity and cross-reactivity drive functionally diverse anti-Aspergillus fumigatus T cell responses in cystic fibrosis. Journal of Clinical Investigation, https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI161593.

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Brittany A. Fleming*, Matthew G. Blango*, Alexis A. Rousek*, William M. Kincannon, Alexander Tran, Adam J. Lewis, Colin W. Russell, Qin Zhou, Lisa M. Baird, Amelia E. Barber, John R. Brannon, Connor J. Beebout, Vahe Bandarian, Maria Hadjifrangiskou, Michael T. Howard, Matthew A. Mulvey (2022). A tRNA modifying enzyme as a tunable regulatory nexus for bacterial stress responses and virulence. Nucleic Acids Research, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac116.

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Luke D. Halder, Svitlana Babych, Diana I. Palme, Elham Mansouri-Ghahnavieh, Lia Ivanov, Victory Ashonibare, Daniela Langenhorst, Bhupesh Prusty, Günter Rambach, Melissa Wich, Nora Trinks, Matthew G. Blango*, Daniel Kornitzer, Ulrich Terpitz, Cornelia Speth, Berit Jungnickel, Niklas Beyersdorf, Peter F. Zipfel, Axel A. Brakhage, Christine Skerka (2022). Candida albicans Induces Cross-Kingdom miRNA Trafficking in Human Monocytes To Promote Fungal Growth. mBio, https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.03563-21.

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Muhammad Rafiq, Flora Rivieccio, Ann-Kathrin Zimmermann, Corissa Visser, Alexander Bruch*, Thomas Kruger, Katherine González, Olaf Kniemeyer, Matthew G. Blango*, Axel A. Brakhage (2022). PLB-985 Neutrophil-Like Cells as a Model To Study Aspergillus fumigatus Pathogenesis. mSphere, https://doi/10.1128/msphere.00940-21.

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Alexander Bruch*, Abdulrahman A. Kelani*, Matthew G. Blango* (2021). RNA-based therapeutics to treat human fungal infections. Trends Microbiol, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2021.09.007.

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Axel A. Brakhage, Ann-Kathrin Zimmermann, Flora Rivieccio, Corissa Visser, Matthew G. Blango* (2021). Host-derived extracellular vesicles for antimicrobial defense. microLife, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsml/uqab003.

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Lei-Jie Jia, Thomas Krueger, Matthew Blango, Ferdinand von Eggeling, Olaf Kniemeyer, Axel A. Brakhage (2020). Biotinylated surfome profiling identifies potential biomarkers for diagnosis and therapy of Aspergillus fumigatus infection. mSphere, https://msphere.asm.org/content/5/4/e00535-20.

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Mohamed I. Abdelwahab Hassan, Janis M. Kruse, Thomas Kruger, Hans‐Martin Dahse, Zoltan Cseresnyes, Matthew Blango, Hortense Slevogt, Franziska Hörhold, Volker Ast, Rainer König, Marc Thilo Figge, Olaf Kniemeyer, Axel A. Brakhage, Kerstin Voigt (2020). Functional surface proteomic profiling reveals the host heat‐shock protein A8 as a mediator of Lichtheimia corymbifera recognition by murine alveolar macrophages. Environmental Microbiology, (22), 9, pp. 3722-3740, https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15140.

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Iordana A. Shopova, Ivan Belyaev, Prasad Dasari, Susanne Jahreis, Maria C. Stroe, Zoltan Cseresnyes, Ann-Kathrin Zimmermann, Anna Medyukhina, Carl-Magnus Svensson, Thomas Krueger, Viktoria Szeifert, Sandor Nietzsche, Theresia Conrad, Matthew Blango, Olaf Kniemeyer, Marie von Lilienfeld-Toal, Peter Zipfel, Erzsebet Ligeti, Marc Thilo Figge, Axel A. Brakhage (2020). Human neutrophils produce antifungal extracellular vesicles against Aspergillus fumigatus. mBio, https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00596-20.

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Matthew Blango, Annica Pschibul, Flora Rivieccio, Thomas Krueger, Muhammad Rafiq, Lei-Jie Jia, Tingting Zheng, Marie Goldmann, Vera Voltersen, Jun Li, Gianni Panagiotou, Olaf Kniemeyer, Axel A. Brakhage (2020). Dynamic Surface Proteomes of Allergenic Fungal Conidia. Journal of Proteome Research, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00013.

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Matthew Blango, Olaf Kniemeyer, Axel A. Brakhage (2019). Conidial surface proteins at the interface of fungal infection. PLOS Pathogens, (15), 9, pp. e1007939, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1007939.

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Petra Bacher, Thordis Hohnstein, Eva Beerbaum, Marie Rocker, Matthew Blango, Svenja Kaufmann, Jobst Rohmel, Patience Eschenhagen, Claudia Grehn, Kathrin Seidel, Volker Rickerts, Laura Lozza, Ulrik Stervbo, Mikalai Nienen, Nina Babel, Julia Milleck, Mario Assenmacher, Oliver A. Cornely, Maren Ziegler, Hilmar Wisplinghoff, Guido Heine, Margitta Worm, Britta Siegmund, Jochen Maul, Petra Creutz, Christoph Tabeling, Christoph Ruwwe-Glosenkamp, Leif E. Sander, Christoph Knosalla, Sascha Brunke, Bernhard Hube, Olaf Kniemeyer, Axel A. Brakhage, Carsten Schwarz, Alexander Scheffold (2019). Human Anti-fungal Th17 Immunity and Pathology Rely on Cross-Reactivity against Candida albicans. Cell, (176), 6, pp. 1340–1355.e15, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2019.01.041.

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Vera Voltersen, Matthew Blango, Sahra Herrmann, Franziska Schmidt, Thorsten Heinekamp, Maria Strassburger, Thomas Kruger, Petra Bacher, Jasmin Lother, Esther Weiss, Kerstin Hunniger, Hong Liu, Peter Hortschansky, Alexander Scheffold, Jurgen Loffler, Sven Krappmann, Sandor Nietzsche, Oliver Kurzai, Hermann Einsele, Olaf Kniemeyer, Scott G. Filler, Utz Reichard, Axel A. Brakhage (2018). Proteome Analysis Reveals the Conidial Surface Protein CcpA Essential for Virulence of the Pathogenic Fungus Aspergillus. mBio, (9), 5, pp. 1–18, https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01557-18.

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Olga Zukovskaja, Sandra Kloss, Matthew Blango, Oleg Ryabchykov, Olaf Kniemeyer, Axel A. Brakhage, Thomas W. Bocklitz, Dana Cialla-May, Karina Weber, Jurgen Popp (2018). UV-Raman Spectroscopic Identification of Fungal Spores Important for Respiratory Diseases. Analytical Chemistry, (90), 15, pp. 8912–8918, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.8b01038.

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Andreja Erman, Veronika Krizan-Hergouth, Matthew Blango, Mojca Kerec Kos, Matthew A. Mulvey, Peter Veranic (2017). Repeated treatments with Chitosan in combination with antibiotics completely eradicate uropathogenic Escherichia coli from infected mouse urinary bladders. Journal of Infectious Diseases, (216), 3, pp. 375–381, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jix023.

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Matthew Blango, Brenda L. Bass (2016). Identification of the long, edited dsRNAome of LPS-stimulated immune cells. Genome Research, (26), 6, pp. 852–862, https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.203992.116.

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Matthew Blango, Elizabeth M. Ott, Andreja Erman, Peter Veranic, Matthew A. Mulvey (2014). Forced resurgence and targeting of intracellular uropathogenic Escherichia coli reservoirs. PLoS ONE, (9), 3, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093327.

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Andreja Erman, Katja Lakota, Katjusa Mrak-Poljsak, Matthew Blango, Veronika Krizan-Hergouth, Matthew A. Mulvey, Snezna Sodin-Semrl, Peter Veranic (2012). Uropathogenic Escherichia coli induces serum amyloid a in mice following urinary tract and systemic inoculation. PLoS ONE, (7), 3, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032933.

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Matthew Blango, Matthew A. Mulvey (2010). Persistence of uropathogenic Escherichia coli in the face of multiple antibiotics. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, (54), 5, pp. 1855–1863, https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.00014-10.

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Matthew Blango, Matthew A. Mulvey (2009). Bacterial landlines: contact-dependent signaling in bacterial populations. Current Opinion in Microbiology, (12), 2, pp. 177–181, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2009.01.011.

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