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Abdulrahman Kelani, Alexander Bruch, FLora Rivieccio, Corissa Visser, Thomas Krüger, Olaf Kniemeyer, Michael J. Bromley, Paul Bowyer, Amelia E. Barber, Axel A. Brakhage, Matthew G. Blango (2022). Functional characterization of the RNA interference pathway in A. fumigatus reveals its potential for antifungal therapy. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.28.501871.

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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 Krüger, 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 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 G. 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 Krüger, Hans‐Martin Dahse, Zoltán Cseresnyés, Matthew G. 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 G. 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 G. 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 G. 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 G. 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 G. 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 G. 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 G. 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 G. 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 G. 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 G. 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 G. 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 G. 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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