RNF25 confers mRNA damage tolerance by curbing activation of the integrated stress response Excessive RNA damage activates cellular stress responses, triggering cell death. However, pathways that negatively regulate RNA damage responses are l…

📣Publication alert: Julian Stingele and his team show that the chemotherapeutic drug azacitidine damages RNA and reveal a possible approach to improve therapies🤩👏
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@jstingele.bsky.social @lmu.de @shubozhao.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to the first authors, Priyanka Aggarwal and Manmohan Sharma!
Their study in the laboratory of Prof. Karl-Peter Hopfner provides important #mechanistic insight into #chromatin #remodeling across diverse #nucleosomalstates. 🧬🔬 #NARbreakthrough #Chromatin #Epigenetics #INO80

We are excited to share our latest cryo-EM study of the human INO80 remodeler, now featured as a Breakthrough article in NAR @narjournal.bsky.social Check it out here and a big shoutout to @priyanka-pdm.bsky.social and Manmohan et al. for their contributions! 🧬

When art meets science! 🤩
Check out Drew's stunning animation of the cellular machinery behind homologous recombination — featuring our favorite DNA repair complex MRN, and other DNA repair heroes! 🧬🔧 @drewberry.bsky.social

🧐Curious about what has happened at the Gene Center over the past 5 years? Take a look at our hot-off-the-press report.🤩
www.genzentrum.uni-muenchen.de/institute/ab...

Colliding ribosomes signal cellular stress LMU researchers uncover the mechanism by which ribosomes raise alarms in the cell.

📣Publication alert!
A team led by Roland Beckmann shows: Ribosome collisions activate the kinase ZAK and thus trigger the ribotoxic stress response — a key mechanism of the cellular stress defense. More about it here👇
www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

Check out our paper on nucleosome positioning by our favorite remodeler INO80 in a collaboration with the Bartholomew Lab, finally out in MolCell 🧬

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Excited to share our latest contribution in a collab with Helle Ulrich's Lab. Great work by Ronald and Mariia! Thanks to @sfb1361.bsky.social and @imbmainz.bsky.social 🧬🔨

Thrilled that our work is now finally out in Nature Comms!
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We reveal cryo-EM structures of the MRN complex bound to DNA & TRF2 - showing how DNA breaks are sensed and regulated at telomeres.
Fantastic work by first authors @yilanfan.bsky.social @filizkuybu.bsky.social & Hengjun!

Feeling recharged after our lab retreat in Obergurgl 🌞⛰️
Great hikes, perfect weather, motivating talks from @oliveiramann.bsky.social, Liudmila Andreeva and lots of inspiring discussions. Big thanks for the warm hospitality!

We‘re proud to share that our #SFB1361 PhD student, Yilan Fan from the @hopfnerlab.bsky.social, has been awarded a poster prize at the CNIO-CaixaResearch Frontiers Meeting “Machines on DNA and RNA: A Molecular Mechanistic Perspective“ held on 28-30 May 2025 in Madrid, Spain.
Congrats! 🎉

Recognition and remodelling of nucleosomes and hexasomes by the human INO80 complex The ATP-dependent INO80 chromatin remodeller slides and repositions nucleosomes to shape and maintain chromatin around gene regulatory elements and replication origins. Recent work uncovered capabilit...

Check out our pre-print on how the human INO80 complex acts on nucleosomes and hexasomes: PostDocs Priyanka & Manmohan et al. solved structures of INO80 bound to several substrates and completed missing questions about similarities of modes of actions across species🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Now peer reviewed and in its final form @natcomms.nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Structural basis for DNA double-strand break sensing by human MRE11-RAD50-NBS1 and its TRF2 complex The MRE11-RAD50-NBS1 (MRN) complex is a central, multifunctional factor in the detection, signaling and nucleolytic processing of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). To clarify how human MRN binds generi...

Happy to share our latest pre-print!
We solved the cryoEM structures of human DNA repair factor MRN bound to DNA and to TRF2. Main work of Yilan, Filiz @filizkuybu.bsky.social and Hengjun. Great collab within the @sfb1361.bsky.social and @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social 🧬🔨
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congratulations to our SLFN team - @michaelkugler.bsky.social, Felix Metzner and Katja Lammens for uncovering yet another intricate mechanism! Special thanks to Gregor Witte for his contribution! #innateimmunity #cryoEM #structuralbiology

Hello, Bluesky!
To kick things off here, we’re excited to share: The SLFN11 story continues! We combined cryo-EM and biochemical assays to explain how phosphorylation regulates SLFN11´s tRNA cleavage and ssDNA binding activities.

Check out our new paper here www.nature.com/articles/s41... + movie