Gerhard H. Braus

PUBLICATIONS (2025)

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[311] Bastakis E, Gerke J, Özkan S, Harting R, Lienard T, Sasse C, Xylakis ES, Merle A, Strohdiek S, Heinrich G, Grosse V, Gerhard H. Braus GH (2025) Molecular circuit between Aspergillus nidulans transcription factors MsnA and VelB to coordinate fungal stress and developmental responses bioRxiv preprint DOI: org/10.1101/2025.01.16.633343

[312] Strohdiek A, Köhler AM, Harting R, Stupperich H, Gerke J, Bastakis E, Neumann P, Ahmed YL, Ficner R, Braus GH (2025). The Aspergillus nidulans velvet domain containing transcription factor VeA is shuttled from cytoplasm into nucleus during vegetative growth and stays there for sexual development, but has to return into cytoplasm for asexual development. bioRxiv preprint DOI: org/10.1101/2025.01.29.635404.

[313]* Scholz P, Doner NM Gutbrod K, Herrfurth C, Niemeyer P, Lim MSS, Blersch K, Schmitt K, Valerius O, Shanklin J, Feussner I, Dörmann P, Braus GH, Mullen RT, Ischebeck T (2025) Plasticity of the Arabidopsis leaf lipidome and proteome in response to pathogen infection and heat stress. Plant Physiol. 197:kiae274.

[313] Köhler AM, Thieme S, Gerke J, Thieme KG, Harting R, Valerius O, Chen WC, Höfer A, Bastakis E, Heinrich AK, Neumann P, Ficner R, Bode HB, Braus GH (2025) The VelB intrinsically disordered domain promotes selective heterodimer formation of fungal developmental velvet domain regulatory proteins for fungal development. bioRxiv preprint DOI: org/2025.02.27.640524.

[314]* Ali TT, Merghani M, Al-Azzani M, Gatzemeier LM, Hoppert M, Kaloyanova D, Outeiro TF, Neumann P, Blagovesta Popova B, Braus GH (2025) Rationally designed peptides inhibit the formation of α-synuclein fibrils and oligomers. J. Med. Chem. 289:117452.

[315]* Thurow C, Pelizaeus A, Mrozek P, Hossbach B, Budimir J, Schmitt K, Valerius O, Braus G, Gatz C (2025) Redox-inactive CC-type glutaredoxins interfere with TGA transcription factor-dependent repression of target promoters in roots. Plant Cell 37:koaf038.

[316]* Strohdiek A, Köhler AM, Harting R, Stupperich H, Gerke J, Bastakis E, Neumann P, Ahmed YL, Ficner R, Braus GH (2025). The Aspergillus nidulans velvet domain containing transcription factor VeA is shuttled from cytoplasm into nucleus during vegetative growth and stays there for sexual development, but has to return into cytoplasm for asexual development. PLoS Genet. 21:e1011687.

[317]* Chen W, Sasse C, Köhler AM, Wang D, Popova B, Schmitt K, Valerius O, Strodiek A, Braus GH (2025) Resolving the fungal velvet domain architecture by Aspergillus nidulans VelB. mBio 14:e0026125.

[318] Bastakis E, Harting R, Nagel A, Lienard T, Heinrich G, Grosse V, Scheiter N, Braus GH (2025) The Aspergillus nidulans transcription factor SclB governs the transition from vegetative to asexual development. bioRxiv preprint DOI: org/10.1101/2025.07.23.666256.

[319]* Rostam SRK, Sasse C, Shekany KAM, Köhler AM, Harting R, Braus GH (2025) Adaptations in development and secondary metabolism of Aspergillus nidulans isolates from the Erbil province in Iraq. FEMS Microbiology Letters 372:fnaf043.

[320]* Doner NM, Clews AC, Esnay N , Whitehead PS, Wang Y, Romsdahl TB, Seay D, Niemeyer PW, Bonin M, Xu Y, Valerius O, Braus GH, Ischebeck T, Chapman KD, Dyer JM, Mullen RT (2025). Lipid droplet protein of seeds is involved in the control of lipid droplet size in Arabidopsis seeds and seedlings in. Plant Cell 37:koaf121.

[321]* Bastakis E, Jennifer Gerke J, Özkan S, Harting R, Lienard T, Sasse C, Xylakis ES, Aden M1, Strohdiek A, Heinrich G, Grosse V1, Braus GH (2025) Molecular circuit between Aspergillus nidulans transcription factors MsnA and VelB to coordinate fungal stress and developmental responses. PLoS Genet. 21:e1011578.

[322]* Subieta K, Weber L, Lübbers JN, Wiesotzki L, Thurow C, Schmitz J, Lipka U, Heimel K, Schmitt K, Thürmer A, Poehlein A, Daniel R, de Vries J, Valerius O, Braus GH, Polle A, Gatz C, Teichmann T, Lipka V (2025) A single pathogen-secreted protein reprograms plants for drought resilience. bioRxiv preprint DOI: org/10.1101/2025.01.09.632073.

[323] Bastakis E, Harting R, Lienard T, Aden M, Grosse V, Popova B, Braus GH (2025) The homeobox transcription factor HbxB coordinates distinct gene regulatory networks for asexual development and secondary metabolism in Aspergillus nidulans. bioRxiv preprint DOI:https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.26.678847.

[324]* Rudolph AY, Schunke C,Sasse C, Antelo L, Gerke J, Braus GH, Pöggeler S., Nordzieke DE (2025) Microbial two front attack: elaborate root infections by Colletotrichum graminicola oval conidia during maize anthracnose. Maize Diterpenoid Sensing via the Ste3 A-Pheromone Receptor Guide Oval Conidia of Colletotrichum graminicola to Host Roots. Mol. Plant Pathol. 26:e70155.

[325]* Alder-Rangel A, Rangel AEA, Casadevall A, Gusa A, Xue C, Boone CM, Hittinger CT, Masuda CA, Olivares-Yañez C, Bell-Pedersen D, Washington EJ, Braus G, Janbon G, Pócsi I, Stajich JE, Dunlap JC, Bennett JW, Heitman J, Lu L, Landi L, Shinohara ML, Del Poeta M, Acheampong MA, Maltz MR, Lorenz MC, Nowrousian M, Glass NL, Broderick NA, Pedrini N, Osherov N, Billmyre RB, Sarrocco S, LeibundGut-Landmann S, Vicente VA, Lin X, Zhao XQ, Bahn YS, Lewis ZA, Rangel DEN (2025) Celebrating the fifth edition oft he International Symposium on Funga Stress – ISFUS, a decade after its 2014 debut. Fungal Biol. 29:101590.

[326]* Chen YY, Harting R, Braus GH (2025). How transcriptional networks control Verticillium plants infection. PLoS Pathog. 21:e1013673.

[327] Zegers JMS, Pfeifer L, Darienko T, Schmitt K, Dorsch CA, Kunz CF, Braus GH, Abreu I, Feussner I, Classen B, Valerius O, de Vries J (2025) Systems acclimation to osmotic stress in zygnematophyte cells. bioRxiv preprint DOI: org/10.1101/2025.02.06.636795.

[328] Chen YY, Steglich LS, Spasovski N, Franzius MHW, Aden M, Maurus I, Harting R, Braus GH (2025) The adapt-to-nutrient NRPS-like secondary metabolite gene cluster facilitates Verticillium dahliae adaptation to different nutrient environments. bioRxiv preprint DOI:org/10.1101/2025.10.20.683378.