Max Planck Publications of Aktaş Lab

The following publications were published exclusively under the affiliation of the Max Planck Society. For publications by the principal investigator outside of the Max Planck Society, see the links on the lower left.

Journal Article (11)

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Martina, L.; Malszycki, M.; Aktas, T.: Distinct states of Nuclear Speckles emerge as new predictors of cancer prognosis. Cancer Research 85 (8), pp. 1352 - 1353 (2025)
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Stötzel, M.; Cheng, C.-Y.; Ilik, I. A.; Sampath Kumar, A.; Akbari-Omgba, P.; van der Weijden, V. A.; Zhang, Y.; Vingron, M.; Meissner, A.; Aktas, T. et al.; Kretzmer, H.; Bulut-Karslioglu, A.: TET activity safeguards pluripotency throughout embryonic dormancy. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 31 (10), pp. 1625 - 1639 (2024)
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Kellner, M.; Hörmann, J.; Fackler, S.; Yuanyu, H.; Tielin, Z.; Lin, L.; Ilik, I.; Aktas, T.; Feederle, R.; Hauck, S. M. et al.; Gires, O.; Gärtner, K.; Lietao, L.; Zeidler, R.: The Nuclear Speckles Protein SRRM2 Is Exposed on the Surface of Cancer Cells. Cells 13 (18), Article 1563 (2024)
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Lisowski, P.; Lickfett, S.; Rybak-Wolf, A.; Menacho, C.; Le, S.; Pentimalli, T. M.; Notopoulou, S.; Dykstra, W.; Oehler, D.; López-Calcerrada, S. et al.; Mlody, B.; Otto, M.; Wu, H.; Richter, Y.; Roth, P.; Anand, R.; Kulka, L. A. M.; Meierhofer, D.; Glazar, P.; Legnini, I.; Telugu, N. S.; Hahn, T.; Neuendorf, N.; Miller, D. C.; Böddrich, A.; Polzin, A.; Mayatepek, E.; Diecke, S.; Olzscha, H.; Kirstein, J.; Ugalde, C.; Petrakis, S.; Cambridge, S.; Rajewsky, N.; Kühn, R.; Wanker, E. E.; Priller, J.; Metzger, J. J.; Prigione, A.: Mutant huntingtin impairs neurodevelopment in human brain organoids through CHCHD2-mediated neurometabolic failure. Nature Communications 15 (1), Article 7027 (2024)
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Ilik, I. A.; Glažar, P.; Tse, K.; Brändl, B.; Meierhofer, D.; Müller, F.-J.; Smith, Z. D.; Aktas, T.: Autonomous transposons tune their sequences to ensure somatic suppression. Nature 626 (8001), pp. 1116 - 1124 (2024)
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Weigert, R.; Hetzel, S.; Bailly, N.; Haggerty, C.; Ilik, I. A.; Kwong Yung, P. Y.; Navarro, C.; Bolondi, A.; Sampath Kumar, A.; Anania, C. et al.; Brändl, B.; Meierhofer, D.; Lupiáñez, D. G.; Müller, F.-J.; Aktas, T.; Elsässer, S. J.; Kretzmer, H.; Smith, Z. D.; Meissner, A.: Dynamic antagonism between key repressive pathways maintains the placental epigenome. Nature Cell Biology 25 (4), pp. 579 - 591 (2023)
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Bergfort, A.; Hilal, T.; Kuropka, B.; Ilik, I. A.; Weber, G.; Aktas, T.; Freund, C.; Wahl, M. C.: The intrinsically disordered TSSC4 protein acts as a helicase inhibitor, placeholder and multi-interaction coordinator during snRNP assembly and recycling. Nucleic Acids Research (London) 50 (5), pp. 2938 - 2958 (2022)
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Aktas, T.: Transposons: catch them if you can. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 23 (5), 306 (2022)
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Bergfort, A.; Preußner, M.; Kuropka, B.; Ilik, I. A.; Hilal, T.; Weber, G.; Freund, C.; Aktas, T.; Heyd, F.; Wahl, M. C.: A multi-factor trafficking site on the spliceosome remodeling enzyme BRR2 recruits C9ORF78 to regulate alternative splicing. Nature Communications 13 (1), Article 1132 (2022)
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Ilik, I. A.; Malszycki, M.; Lübke, A. K.; Schade, C.; Meierhofer, D.; Aktas, T.: SON and SRRM2 are essential for nuclear speckle formation. eLife 9, Article e60579 (2020)
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Ilik, I. A.; Aktas, T.; Maticzka, D.; Backofen, R.; Akhtar, A.: FLASH: ultra-fast protocol to identify RNA-protein interactions in cells. Nucelic Acids Research 48 (3), Article e15 (2020)

Review Article (1)

Review Article
Ilik, I. A.; Aktas, T.: Nuclear speckles: dynamic hubs of gene expression regulation. The FEBS Journal 289 (22), pp. 7234 - 7245 (2022)
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