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Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics: Freiburg, DE

2009-10-01 to present | Director (Department of Chromatin Regulation)
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Asifa Akhtar

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MOF-mediated PRDX1 acetylation regulates inflammatory macrophage activation

Cell Reports
2024-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114682
Contributors: Hui-Ru Chen; Yidan Sun; Gerhard Mittler; Tobias Rumpf; Maria Shvedunova; Rudolf Grosschedl; Asifa Akhtar
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Nuclei facing the tissue surface get fuel for development

Nature
2024-06-13 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-01503-9
Contributors: Tanvi Kulkarni; Asifa Akhtar
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Transcriptional regulation by the NSL complex enables diversification of IFT functions in ciliated versus nonciliated cells

Science Advances
2023-08-25 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adh5598
Contributors: Tsz Hong Tsang; Meike Wiese; Martin Helmstädter; Thomas Stehle; Janine Seyfferth; Maria Shvedunova; Herbert Holz; Gerd Walz; Asifa Akhtar
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Modulation of cellular processes by histone and non-histone protein acetylation

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
2022-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41580-021-00441-y
Contributors: Maria Shvedunova; Asifa Akhtar
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Histone H4 lysine 16 acetylation controls central carbon metabolism and diet-induced obesity in mice

Nature Communications
2021-10-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26277-w
Contributors: Cecilia Pessoa Rodrigues; Aindrila Chatterjee; Meike Wiese; Thomas Stehle; Witold Szymanski; Maria Shvedunova; Asifa Akhtar
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Distinct mechanisms mediate X chromosome dosage compensation in Anopheles and Drosophila

Life Science Alliance
2021-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202000996
Contributors: Claudia Isabelle Keller Valsecchi; Eric Marois; M Felicia Basilicata; Plamen Georgiev; Asifa Akhtar
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Differential H4K16ac levels ensure a balance between quiescence and activation in hematopoietic stem cells

Science Advances
2021-08-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abi5987
Contributors: Cecilia Pessoa Rodrigues; Asifa Akhtar
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Functional mechanisms and abnormalities of the nuclear lamina

Nature Cell Biology
2021-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41556-020-00630-5
Contributors: Adam Karoutas; Asifa Akhtar
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Temporal expression of MOF acetyltransferase primes transcription factor networks for erythroid fate

Science Advances
2020-05-22 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz4815
Contributors: Cecilia Pessoa Rodrigues; Josip Stefan Herman; Benjamin Herquel; Claudia Isabelle Keller Valsecchi; Thomas Stehle; Dominic Grün; Asifa Akhtar
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FLASH: ultra-fast protocol to identify RNA–protein interactions in cells

Nucleic Acids Research
2020-02-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz1141
Contributors: Ibrahim Avsar Ilik; Tugce Aktas; Daniel Maticzka; Rolf Backofen; Asifa Akhtar
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Hi-C guided assemblies reveal conserved regulatory topologies on X and autosomes despite extensive genome shuffling

Genes & Development
2019-11-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1101/gad.328971.119
Contributors: Gina Renschler; Gautier Richard; Claudia Isabelle Keller Valsecchi; Sarah Toscano; Laura Arrigoni; Fidel Ramírez; Asifa Akhtar
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The non‐specific lethal ( NSL ) complex at the crossroads of transcriptional control and cellular homeostasis

EMBO reports
2019-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.15252/embr.201847630
Contributors: Bilal N Sheikh; Sukanya Guhathakurta; Asifa Akhtar
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MAPCap allows high-resolution detection and differential expression analysis of transcription start sites

Nature Communications
2019-07-30 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11115-x
Contributors: Vivek Bhardwaj; Giuseppe Semplicio; Niyazi Umut Erdogdu; Thomas Manke; Asifa Akhtar
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CAPRI enables comparison of evolutionarily conserved RNA interacting regions

Nature Communications
2019-06-18 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10585-3
Contributors: Amol Panhale; Florian M. Richter; Fidel Ramírez; Maria Shvedunova; Thomas Manke; Gerhard Mittler; Asifa Akhtar
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Hi-C guided assemblies reveal conserved regulatory topologies on X and autosomes despite extensive genome shuffling

2019-03-18 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/580969
Contributors: Gina Renschler; Gautier Richard; Claudia Isabelle Keller Valsecchi; Sarah Toscano; Laura Arrigoni; Fidel Ramirez; Asifa Akhtar
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The many lives of KATs — detectors, integrators and modulators of the cellular environment

Nature Reviews Genetics
2019-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41576-018-0072-4
Contributors: Bilal N. Sheikh; Asifa Akhtar
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Facultative dosage compensation of developmental genes on autosomes in Drosophila and mouse embryonic stem cells

Nature Communications
2018-09-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05642-2
Contributors: Claudia Isabelle Keller Valsecchi; M. Felicia Basilicata; Giuseppe Semplicio; Plamen Georgiev; Noel Marie Gutierrez; Asifa Akhtar
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uvCLAP is a fast and non-radioactive method to identify in vivo targets of RNA-binding proteins

Nature Communications
2018-03-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03575-4
Contributors: Daniel Maticzka; Ibrahim Avsar Ilik; Tugce Aktas; Rolf Backofen; Asifa Akhtar
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