Hofmann_Lab @LabHofmann
Research group at the University of Cologne Joined July 2020-
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New Parkinson’s disease paper: Chimeric deubiquitinase engineering reveals structural basis for specific inhibition of USP30 and a framework for DUB ligandability - published by @MalteGersch group @maxplanckpress in @Nature Struct. & Mol. Biol. nature.com/articles/s4159…
Excited to share that our work on Parkinson's target USP30 has been published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology! By combining DUB-domains onto USP30, we for the first time achieved crystallization with a small molecule (NK036) without Nanobodies! nature.com/articles/s4159…
Congratulations, great paper! But what makes you think that this is a CARD and not just any death-fold domain? pyrin and DEDs can also activate caspases and invertebrates use all kinds of death-fold domains for that purpose! I don't think this one really should be called CARD.
Congratulations, great paper! But what makes you think that this is a CARD and not just any death-fold domain? pyrin and DEDs can also activate caspases and invertebrates use all kinds of death-fold domains for that purpose! I don't think this one really should be called CARD.
Great paper, but sorry, this is *not* a CARD domain! It is a 6-helix death fold domain for sure, but there in no evidence provided that it belongs to the CARD subfamily. It might have (convergently?) acquired a similar function as mammalian caspase-associated CARDs. Just saying.
Great paper, but sorry, this is *not* a CARD domain! It is a 6-helix death fold domain for sure, but there in no evidence provided that it belongs to the CARD subfamily. It might have (convergently?) acquired a similar function as mammalian caspase-associated CARDs. Just saying.
Very excited to share that our manuscript on the "Discovery and mechanism of K63-linkage-directed deubiquitinase activity in USP53" was published today at Nature Chemical Biology @nchembio. Congratulations Kim, Kai, and all authors! nature.com/articles/s4158…
Very excited to share that our manuscript on the "Discovery and mechanism of K63-linkage-directed deubiquitinase activity in USP53" was published today at Nature Chemical Biology @nchembio. Congratulations Kim, Kai, and all authors! nature.com/articles/s4158… https://t.co/2aYW6MW7C5
New Lammers Lab paper out now in @NatureComms!🥳 We reveal high functional diversity within bacterial deac(et)ylases by systematic functional/structural characterization. This is Leonies PhD project and I’m grateful to have contributed to this great work. nature.com/articles/s4146…
Endlessly fascinating and exciting conference with great discussions #EMBOubiquitin24 ! Can’t wait to get back to the lab with some new ideas…
After a long time in the making, our study on bacterial clippases is finally available as a preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110… These are really fascinating enzymes, for which there will be a ton of applications in studying the #ubiquitin system
Recent reports implicated USP53 mutations in a hereditary liver disorder in children. We got interested in USP53 and its homologue USP54 as phylogenetically they are the most diverse USP DUB family members but according to uniprot are supposed to be catalytically inactive.(2/10)
N4BP1 functions as a dimerization-dependent linear #ubiquitin reader which regulates TNF signalling nature.com/articles/s4142…
Two PhD positions in our research group! If you are interested to study the molecular mechanisms of necroptotic and pyroptotic cell death - and their relationship to plant cell death, do apply!
Two PhD positions in our research group! If you are interested to study the molecular mechanisms of necroptotic and pyroptotic cell death - and their relationship to plant cell death, do apply!
By the way: this project was the brainchild of excellent postdoc Thomas Hermanns, who was also corresponding author! We also acknowlegde support from @C2fBiochemistry and @UniCologne
By the way: this project was the brainchild of excellent postdoc Thomas Hermanns, who was also corresponding author! We also acknowlegde support from @C2fBiochemistry and @UniCologne
Now published: We analyzed the structure of the Burkholderia effector TssM with and without ubiquitin. TssM is a divergent member of the USP-type deubiquinases and can recognize #ubiquitin despite the lack of the 'fingers' domain. life-science-alliance.org/content/7/2/e2…
Congratulations, Tyler & Jonathan, great work!
Congratulations, Tyler & Jonathan, great work!
Out now in NatComms: A Chlamydia-like bacterium with a deubiquitinase repertoire similar to Legionella, but using new DUB classes for the same linkage specificities (e.g. M1, K6). #ubiquitin @UniCologne @C2fBiochemistry doi.org/10.1038/s41467…
Our new manuscript on Burkholderia TssM is on bioRxiv. TssM is an interesting bacterial USP-type dubiquitinase effector, which lacks the so-called 'Fingers' Region used by other USPs for #ubiquitin recognition. Our structures show how TssM does the trick biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Nice poster!
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