Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics

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Balaskas, A.; Kraus, I.; Özgüldez, H. Ö.; Akbari-Omgba, P.; Buschow, R.; Berlad, I.; Hanna, J. H.; Kretzmer, H.; Bulut-Karslioglu, A.; Bolondi, A.: An advanced head-to-tail mouse embryo model with hypoxia-mediated neural patterning. bioRxiv (2025)

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Villaronga-Luque, A.; Savill, R. G.; López-Anguita, N.; Bolondi, A.; Garai, S.; Gassaloglu, S. I.; Rouatbi, R.; Schmeisser, K.; Poddar, A.; Bauer, L. et al.; Alves, T.; Traikov, S.; Rodenfels, J.; Chavakis, T.; Bulut-Karslioglu, A.; Veenvliet, J. V.: Integrated molecular-phenotypic profiling reveals metabolic control of morphological variation in a stem-cell-based embryo model. Cell Stem Cell 32 (5), pp. 759 - 777 (2025)

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Iyer, D. P.; Khoei , H. H.; van der Weijden, V. A.; Kagawa, H.; Pradhan, S. J.; Novatchkova, M.; McCarthy, A.; Rayon, T.; Simon, C. S.; Dunkel, I. et al.; Wamaitha, S. E.; Elder, K.; Snell , P.; Christie, L.; Schulz, E. G.; Niakan, K. K.; Rivron, N.; Bulut-Karslioglu, A.: mTOR activity paces human blastocyst stage developmental progression. Cell 187 (23), pp. 6566 - 6583 (2024)

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Iyer, D. P.; Khoei , H. H.; van der Weijden, V. A.; Kagawa, H.; Pradhan, S. J.; Novatchkova, M.; McCarthy, A.; Rayon, T.; Simon, C. S.; Dunkel, I. et al.; Wamaitha, S. E.; Elder, K.; Snell , P.; Christie, L.; Schulz, E. G.; Niakan, K. K.; Rivron, N.; Bulut-Karslioglu, A.: mTOR activity paces human blastocyst stage developmental progression. Cell 187 (23), pp. 6566 - 6583 (2024)

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van der Weijden, V. A.; Bulut-Karslioglu, A.: Embryos burn fat in standby. Trends in Cell Biology 34 (9), pp. 700 - 702 (2024)

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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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Özgüldez, H. Ö.; Bulut-Karslioglu, A.: Dormancy, Quiescence, and Diapause: Savings Accounts for Life. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology 40, pp. 25 - 49 (2024)

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van der Weijden, V. A.; Stötzel, M.; Iyer, D. P.; Fauler, B.; Gralinska, E.; Shahraz, M.; Meierhofer, D.; Vingron, M.; Rulands, S.; Alexandrov, T. et al.; Mielke, T.; Bulut-Karslioglu, A.: FOXO1-mediated lipid metabolism maintains mammalian embryos in dormancy. Nature Cell Biology 26 (2), pp. 181 - 193 (2024)

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Bulut-Karslioglu, A.: The double-edged sword of bivalency. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 25 (1), Article 6 (2024)

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Iyer, D. P.; Moyon, L.; Ringeling, F. R.; Cheng, C.-Y.; Wittler, L.; Canzar, S.; Marsico, A.; Bulut-Karslioglu, A.: Combinatorial microRNA activity is essential for the transition of pluripotent cells from proliferation into dormancy. Genome Research 34 (4), p. 589 - 589 (2024)

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Garcia-Ojalvo, J.; Bulut-Karslioglu, A.: On time: developmental timing within and across species. Development 150 (14), dev201045 (2023)

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López-Anguita, N.; Gassaloglu, S. I.; Stötzel, M.; Bolondi, A.; Conkar , D.; Typou, M.; Buschow, R.; Veenvliet, J. V.; Bulut-Karslioglu, A.: Hypoxia induces an early primitive streak signature, enhancing spontaneous elongation and lineage representation in gastruloids. Development 149 (20), dev200679 (2022)

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van der Weijden, V.; Bulut-Karslioglu, A.: Molecular Regulation of Paused Pluripotency in Early Mammalian Embryos and Stem Cells. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 9, 708318 (2021)

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Bulut-Karslioglu, A.; Jin, H.; Kim, Y.-K.; Cho, B.; Guzman-Ayala, M.; Williamson, A. J. K.; Hejna, M.; Stötzel, M.; Whetton, A. D.; Song, J. S. et al.; Ramalho-Santos, M.: Chd1 protects genome integrity at promoters to sustain hypertranscription in embryonic stem cells. Nature Communications 12 (1), 4859 (2021)

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Bulut-Karslioglu, A.; Macrae, T. A.; Oses-Prieto, J. A.; Covarrubias, S.; Percharde, M.; Ku, G.; Diaz, A.; McManus, M. T.; Burlingame, A. L.; Ramalho-Santos, M.: The Transcriptionally Permissive Chromatin State of Embryonic Stem Cells Is Acutely Tuned to Translational Output. Cell Stem Cell 22 (3), pp. 369 - 383 (2018)

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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu, Steffen Biechele, Hu Jin, Trisha A. Macrae, Miroslav Hejna, Marina Gertsenstein, Jun S. Song, Miguel Ramalho-Santos.

Inhibition of mTOR induces a paused pluripotent state.

Nature 2016 Dec 1;540(7631):119-123

Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu, Inti A. De La Rosa-Velázquez, Fidel Ramirez, Maxim Barenboim,
Megumi Onishi-Seebacher, Julia Arand, Carmen Galán, Georg E. Winter, Bettina Engist, Borbala Gerle, Roderick J. O’Sullivan, Joost H.A. Martens, Jörn Walter, Thomas Manke, Monika Lachner, Thomas Jenuwein.

Suv39h-Dependent H3K9me3 Marks Intact Retrotransposons and Silences LINE Elements in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells.

Molecular Cell 2014 Jul 17;55(2):277-90

Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu, Valentina Perrera, Manuela Scaranaro, Inti Alberto de la Rosa-Velazquez, Suzanne van de Nobelen, Nicholas Shukeir, Johannes Popow, Borbala Gerle, Susanne Opravil, Michaela Pagani, Simone Meidhof, Thomas Brabletz, Thomas Manke, Monika Lachner, Thomas Jenuwein.

A transcription factor–based mechanism for mouse heterochromatin formation.

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 2012 Oct;19(10):1023-30