Christian Berens

Publications

• Apoptotic Cell Clearance and Its Role in the Origin and Resolution of Chronic Inflammation
  Frontiers in Immunology. 2015  |   Pubmed ID: 25859248
• RNA Aptamers As Genetic Control Devices: the Potential of Riboswitches As Synthetic Elements for Regulating Gene Expression
  Biotechnology Journal. Feb, 2015  |   Pubmed ID: 25676052
• Riboswitch Engineering - Making the All-important Second and Third Steps
  Current Opinion in Biotechnology. Feb, 2015  |   Pubmed ID: 25137633
• The Progression of Cell Death Affects the Rejection of Allogeneic Tumors in Immune-competent Mice - Implications for Cancer Therapy
  Frontiers in Immunology. 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 25426116
• Tet-Trap, a Genetic Approach to the Identification of Bacterial RNA Thermometers: Application to Pseudomonas Aeruginosa
  RNA (New York, N.Y.). Dec, 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 25336583
• The Role of Dead Cell Clearance in the Etiology and Pathogenesis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Dendritic Cells As Potential Targets
  Expert Review of Clinical Immunology. Sep, 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 25081199
• TLivin Displays Flexibility by Promoting Alternative Cell Death Mechanisms
  PloS One. 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 24960127
• Tumor Immunotherapy: Lessons from Autoimmunity
  Frontiers in Immunology. 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 24860574
• A Novel TetR-regulating Peptide Turns off RtTA-mediated Activation of Gene Expression
  PloS One. 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 24810590
• An Outer Membrane Channel Protein of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis with Exotoxin Activity
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. May, 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 24753609
• Antiapoptotic Activity of Coxiella Burnetii Effector Protein AnkG is Controlled by P32-dependent Trafficking
  Infection and Immunity. Jul, 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 24733095
• AP4 is a Mediator of Epithelial-mesenchymal Transition and Metastasis in Colorectal Cancer
  The Journal of Experimental Medicine. Jul, 2013  |   Pubmed ID: 23752226
• Navigation to the Graveyard-induction of Various Pathways of Necrosis and Their Classification by Flow Cytometry
  Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2013  |   Pubmed ID: 23733565
• Autoimmunity Vs. Cancer: Predator Vs. Alien?
  Autoimmunity. Aug, 2013  |   Pubmed ID: 23706137
• Recognition of Operator DNA by Tet Repressor
  The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B. Feb, 2013  |   Pubmed ID: 23327298
• Colourful Death: Six-parameter Classification of Cell Death by Flow Cytometry--dead Cells Tell Tales
  Autoimmunity. Aug, 2013  |   Pubmed ID: 23231469
• UVB-irradiated Apoptotic Cells Induce Accelerated Growth of Co-implanted Viable Tumor Cells in Immune Competent Mice
  Autoimmunity. Aug, 2013  |   Pubmed ID: 23194071
• Model Systems for Rapid and Slow Induction of Apoptosis Obtained by Inducible Expression of Pro-apoptotic Proteins
  Autoimmunity. Aug, 2013  |   Pubmed ID: 23173725
• The Coxiella Burnetii Type IV Secretion System Substrate CaeB Inhibits Intrinsic Apoptosis at the Mitochondrial Level
  Cellular Microbiology. Apr, 2013  |   Pubmed ID: 23126667
• Promoter Strength Driving TetR Determines the Regulatory Properties of Tet-controlled Expression Systems
  PloS One. 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 22848546
• Guiding Differentiation of Stem Cells in Vivo by Tetracycline-controlled Expression of Key Transcription Factors
  Cell Transplantation. 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 22469517
• A Recombinant Triplebody with Specificity for CD19 and HLA-DR Mediates Preferential Binding to Antigen Double-positive Cells by Dual-targeting
  MAbs. Jan-Feb, 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 22327429
• Short Peptides Act As Inducers, Anti-inducers and Corepressors of Tet Repressor
  Journal of Molecular Biology. Feb, 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 22178480
• An Exclusive α/β Code Directs Allostery in TetR-peptide Complexes
  Journal of Molecular Biology. Feb, 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 22178479
• Apoptosis Induction and Tumor Cell Repopulation: the Yin and Yang of Radiotherapy
  Radiation Oncology (London, England). 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 22182804
• A Novel MCF-10A Line Allowing Conditional Oncogene Expression in 3D Culture
  Cell Communication and Signaling : CCS. 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 21752278
• Forced Runx1 Expression in Human Neural Stem/progenitor Cells Transplanted to the Rat Dorsal Root Ganglion Cavity Results in Extensive Axonal Growth Specifically from Spinal Cord-derived Neurospheres
  Stem Cells and Development. Nov, 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 21322790
• A Suicide Gene Approach Using the Human Pro-apoptotic Protein TBid Inhibits HIV-1 Replication
  BMC Biotechnology. 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 21223573
• Anhydrotetracycline-peptide Conjugates As Representatives for Ligand-based Transactivating Systems
  Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. Aug, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20638851
• Adjusting Transgene Expression Levels in Lymphocytes with a Set of Inducible Promoters
  The Journal of Gene Medicine. Jun, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20527043
• Regulation of Boundary Cap Neural Crest Stem Cell Differentiation After Transplantation
  Stem Cells (Dayton, Ohio). Jul, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19544468
• An RNA Aptamer That Induces Transcription
  Chemistry & Biology. Feb, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19246008
• Functionally Important Residues of the Tet Repressor Inducing Peptide TIP Determined by a Complete Mutational Analysis
  Gene. Nov, 2008  |   Pubmed ID: 18672042
• Interaction Between HMGA1a and the Origin Recognition Complex Creates Site-specific Replication Origins
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Feb, 2008  |   Pubmed ID: 18234858
• Efficient and Exclusive Induction of Tet Repressor by the Oligopeptide Tip Results from Co-variation of Their Interaction Site
  Nucleic Acids Research. 2007  |   Pubmed ID: 17545198
• How an Agonist Peptide Mimics the Antibiotic Tetracycline to Induce Tet-repressor
  Journal of Molecular Biology. May, 2007  |   Pubmed ID: 17374541
• Improved Single-chain Transactivators of the Tet-On Gene Expression System
  BMC Biotechnology. 2007  |   Pubmed ID: 17239234
• Random Insertion of a TetR-inducing Peptide Tag into Escherichia Coli Proteins Allows Analysis of Protein Levels by Induction of Reporter Gene Expression
  Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Aug, 2006  |   Pubmed ID: 16885321
• Subtype Selective Tetracycline Agonists and Their Application for a Two-stage Regulatory System
  Chembiochem : a European Journal of Chemical Biology. Sep, 2006  |   Pubmed ID: 16871602
• A Gene Regulation System with Four Distinct Expression Levels
  The Journal of Gene Medicine. Aug, 2006  |   Pubmed ID: 16779863
• Development of a Transactivator in Hepatoma Cells That Allows Expression of Phase I, Phase II, and Chemical Defense Genes
  American Journal of Physiology. Cell Physiology. Jan, 2006  |   Pubmed ID: 16135546
• Reproducible Doxycycline-inducible Transgene Expression at Specific Loci Generated by Cre-recombinase Mediated Cassette Exchange
  Nucleic Acids Research. 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 16204450
• Stringent Doxycycline-dependent Control of Gene Activities Using an Episomal One-vector System
  Nucleic Acids Research. 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 16147984
• A Peptide Triggers Allostery in Tet Repressor by Binding to a Unique Site
  The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Jul, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 15870072
• An Optimized Conditional Suicide Switch Using Doxycycline-dependent Expression of Human TBid
  Cancer Biology & Therapy. May, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 15846082
• Inducible DNA-loop Formation Blocks Transcriptional Activation by an SV40 Enhancer
  The EMBO Journal. Jan, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 15650749
• Tetracycline Derivatives: Alternative Effectors for Tet Transregulators
  BioTechniques. Oct, 2004  |   Pubmed ID: 15517964
• Gene Regulation by Tetracyclines
  Genetic Engineering. 2004  |   Pubmed ID: 15387301
• A Short Autonomous Repression Motif is Located Within the N-terminal Domain of CTCF
  FEBS Letters. Aug, 2004  |   Pubmed ID: 15304340
• Transactivator Mutants with Altered Effector Specificity Allow Selective Regulation of Two Genes by Tetracycline Variants
  Gene. Apr, 2004  |   Pubmed ID: 15094198
• A Theophylline Responsive Riboswitch Based on Helix Slipping Controls Gene Expression in Vivo
  Nucleic Acids Research. 2004  |   Pubmed ID: 15004248
• Comparison of Tetracycline and Tigecycline Binding to Ribosomes Mapped by Dimethylsulphate and Drug-directed Fe2+ Cleavage of 16S RRNA
  The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Apr, 2004  |   Pubmed ID: 14985271
• Gene Regulation by Tetracyclines. Constraints of Resistance Regulation in Bacteria Shape TetR for Application in Eukaryotes
  European Journal of Biochemistry / FEBS. Aug, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 12869186
• Single-chain Tet Transregulators
  Nucleic Acids Research. Jun, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 12799431
• Conditional Cell Suicide Using Dox-dependent Caspase-2 Expression
  The Journal of Gene Medicine. Apr, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 12692868
• Conditional Gene Expression by Controlling Translation with Tetracycline-binding Aptamers
  Nucleic Acids Research. Apr, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 12655001