Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics

Max Planck Publications of Hnisz 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.

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Rossi, F.; Magalhães, A. P.; Buschow, R.; Schubert , T.; Glaser, L. V.; Fontana, A.; Mai , J.; Staege, H.; Grimme, A.; Will, H. et al.; Schriener, .; Hnisz, D.; Vingron, M.; Chiariello, A. M.; Kinkley, S.: Differential oligomerization regulates PHF13 chromatin affinity and function. Nucleic Acids Research 53 (12) (2025)

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Zhang, Y.; Stöppelkamp, I.; Fernandez-Pernas, P.; Allram, M.; Charman, M.; Magalhães, A. P.; Piedavent-Salomon, M.; Sommer, G.; Sung, Y.-C.; Meyer, K. et al.; Grams, N.; Halko, E.; Dongre, S.; Meierhofer, D.; Malszycki, M.; Ilik, I. A.; Aktas, T.; Kraushar, M. L.; Vastenhouw, N.; Weitzman, M. D.; Grebien, F.; Niskanen, H.; Hnisz, D.: Probing condensate microenvironments with a micropeptide killswitch. Nature (2025)

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Magalhães, A. P.; Hnisz, D.: Transcription factor condensates: Preventing aggregation by DNA binding. Cell (188), pp. 2831 - 2833 (2025)

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Naderi, J.; Magalhães, A. P.; Kibar, G.; Stik, G.; Zhang, Y.; Mackowiak, S.; Wieler, H. M.; Rossi, F.; Buschow, R.; Christou-Kent, M. et al.; Alcoverro-Bertran, M.; Graf, T.; Vingron, M.; Hnisz, D.: An activity-specificity trade-off encoded in human transcription factors. Nature Cell Biology 26 (8), pp. 1309 - 1321 (2024)

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Basu, S.; Martínez-Cristóbal, P.; Frigolé-Vivas, M.; Pesarrodona, M.; Lewis, M.; Szulc, E.; Bañuelos, C. A.; Sánchez-Zarzalejo, C.; Bielskutė, S.; Zhu, J. et al.; Pombo-García, K.; Garcia-Cabau, C.; Zodi, L.; Dockx, H.; Smak, J.; Kaur, H.; Batlle, C.; Mateos, B.; Biesaga, M.; Escobedo, A.; Bardia, L.; Verdaguer, X.; Ruffoni, A.; Mawji, N. R.; Wang, J.; Obst, J. K.; Tam, T.; Brun-Heath, I.; Ventura, S.; Meierhofer, D.; García, J.; Robustelli, P.; Stracker, T. H.; Sadar, M. D.; Riera, A.; Hnisz, D.; Salvatella, X.: Rational optimization of a transcription factor activation domain inhibitor. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 30 (12), pp. 1958 - 1969 (2023)

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Bressin, A.; Jasnovidova, O.; Arnold, M.; Altendorfer, E.; Trajkovski , F.; Kratz, T. A.; Handzlik, J. E.; Hnisz, D.; Mayer, A.: High-sensitive nascent transcript sequencing reveals BRD4-specific control of widespread enhancer and target gene transcription. Nature Communications 14 (1), Article 4971 (2023)

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Christou-Kent, M.; Cuartero, S.; Garcia-Cabau, C.; Ruehle, J.; Naderi, J.; Erber, J.; Neguembor, M. V.; Plana-Carmona, M.; Alcoverro-Bertran, M.; De Andres-Aguayo, L. et al.; Klonizakis, A.; Julià-Vilella, E.; Lynch, C.; Serrano, M.; Hnisz, D.; Salvatella, X.; Graf, T.; Stik, G.: CEBPA phase separation links transcriptional activity and 3D chromatin hubs. Cell Reports 42 (8), 112897 (2023)

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Dejosez, M.; Dall’Agnese, A.; Ramamoorthy, M.; Platt, J.; Yin, X.; Hogan, M.; Brosh, R.; Weintraub, A. S.; Hnisz, D.; Abraham, B. J. et al.; Young, R. A.; Zwaka, T. P.: Regulatory architecture of housekeeping genes is driven by promoter assemblies. Cell Reports 42 (5), 112505 (2023)

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Mensah, M. A.; Niskanen, H.; Magalhães, A. P.; Basu, S.; Kircher, M.; Sczakiel, H. L.; Reiter, A. M. V.; Elsner, J.; Meinecke, P.; Biskup, S. et al.; Chung, B. H. Y.; Dombrowsky, G.; Eckmann-Scholz, C.; Hitz, M. P.; Hoischen, A.; Holterhus, P.-M.; Hülsemann, W.; Kahrizi, K.; Kalscheuer, V. M.; Kan, A.; Krumbiegel, M.; Kurth, I.; Leubner, J.; Longardt, A. C.; Moritz, J. D.; Najmabadi, H.; Skipalova, K.; Snijders Blok, L.; Tzschach, A.; Wiedersberg, E.; Zenker, M.; Garcia-Cabau, C.; Buschow, R.; Salvatella, X.; Kraushar, M. L.; Mundlos, S.; Caliebe, A.; Spielmann, M.; Horn, D.; Hnisz, D.: Aberrant phase separation and nucleolar dysfunction in rare genetic diseases. Nature 614 (7948), pp. 564 - 571 (2023)

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Landshammer, A.; Bolondi, A.; Kretzmer, H.; Much, C.; Buschow, R.; Rose, A.; Wu, H.-J.; Mackowiak, S. D.; Braendl, B.; Gießelmann, P. et al.; Tornisiello, R.; Mohan Parsi, K.; Huey, J.; Mielke, T.; Meierhofer, D.; Maehr, R.; Hnisz, D.; Michor, F.; Rinn, J. L.; Meissner, A.: T-REX17 is a transiently expressed non-coding RNA essential for human endoderm formation. eLife 12, Article e83077 (2023)

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Asimi, V.; Sampath Kumar, A.; Niskanen, H.; Riemenschneider, C.; Hetzel, S.; Naderi, J.; Fasching, N.; Popitsch, N.; Du, M.; Kretzmer, H. et al.; Smith, Z. D.; Weigert, R.; Walther, M.; Mamde, S.; Meierhofer, D.; Wittler, L.; Buschow, R.; Timmermann, B.; Cisse, I. I.; Ameres, S. L.; Meissner, A.; Hnisz, D.: Hijacking of transcriptional condensates by endogenous retroviruses. Nature Genetics 54 (8), pp. 1238 - 1247 (2022)

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Adane, B.; Alexe, G.; Seong, B. K. A.; Lu, D.; Hwang, E. E.; Hnisz, D.; Lareau, C. A.; Ross, L.; Lin, S.; Dela Cruz, F. S. et al.; Richardson, M.; Weintraub, A. S.; Wang, S.; Balboni Iniguez, A.; Dharia, N. V.; Saur Conway, A.; Robichaud, A. L.; Tanenbaum, B.; Krill-Burger, J. M.; Vazquez, F.; Schenone, M.; Berman, J. N.; Kung, A. L.; Carr, S. A.; Aryee, M. J.; Young, R. A.; Crompton, B. D.; Stegmaier, K.: STAG2 loss rewires oncogenic and developmental programs to promote metastasis in Ewing sarcoma. Cancer Cell 39 (6), pp. 827 - 844 (2021)

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Jaeger, M. G.; Schwalb, B.; Mackowiak, S. D.; Velychko, T.; Hanzl, A.; Imrichova, H.; Brand, M.; Agerer, B.; Chorn, S.; Nabet, B. et al.; Ferguson, F. M.; Müller, A. C.; Bergthaler, A.; Gray, N. S.; Bradner, J. E.; Bock, C.; Hnisz, D.; Cramer, P.; Winter, G. E.: Selective Mediator dependence of cell-type-specifying transcription. Nature Genetics 52 (7), pp. 719 - 727 (2020)

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Basu, S.; Mackowiak, S.; Niskanen, H.; Knezevic, D.; Asimi, V.; Grosswendt, S.; Geertsema, H.; Ali, S.; Jerković, I.; Ewers, H. et al.; Mundlos, S.; Meissner, A.; Ibrahim, D. M.; Hnisz, D.: Unblending of Transcriptional Condensates in Human Repeat Expansion Disease. Cell 181 (5), pp. 1062 - 1079 (2020)

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Sabari, B. R.; Dall’Agnese, A.; Boija, A.; Klein, I. A.; Coffey, E. L.; Shrinivas, K.; Abraham, B. J.; Hannett, N. M.; Zamudio, A. V.; Manteiga, J. C. et al.; Li, C. H.; Guo, Y. E.; Day, D. S.; Schuijers, J.; Vasile, E.; Malik, S.; Hnisz, D.; Lee, T. I.; Cisse, I. I.; Roeder, R. G.; Sharp, P. A.; Chakraborty, A. K.; Young, R. A.: Coactivator condensation at super-enhancers links phase separation and gene control. Science (6400), eaar3958 (2018)

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Schuijers, J.; Manteiga, J. C.; Weintraub, A. S.; Day, D. S.; Zamudio, A. V.; Hnisz, D.; Lee, T. I.; Young, R. A.: Transcriptional Dysregulation of MYC Reveals Common Enhancer-Docking Mechanism. Cell Reports 23 (2), pp. 349 - 360 (2018)

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Thesis - PhD (3)

Thesis - PhD

Naderi, J.: The dispersion of aromatic residues in TF IDRs controls a molecular trade-off between activity and specificity. Dissertation, 158 pp pp. (2024)

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Basu, S.: Genetic and chemical hydrophobic modification of transcription factor condensates in human disease. Dissertation (2023)

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Asimi, V.: Roles of endogenous retroviruses in transcriptional condensates. Dissertation, 132 Seiten pp. (2023)

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Review Article (1)

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Sabari, B. R.; Hyman, A. A.; Hnisz, D.: Functional specificity in biomolecular condensates revealed by genetic complementation. Nature Reviews Genetics 26 (4), pp. 279 - 290 (2025)

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