Publikationen von Tugce Aktas

Lisa Martina, Michal Malszycki, and Tugce Aktas, "Distinct states of Nuclear Speckles emerge as new predictors of cancer prognosis," Cancer Research (2025).

Maximilian Stötzel, Chieh-Yu Cheng, Ibrahim A. Ilik, Abhishek Sampath Kumar, Persia Akbari-Omgba, Vera A. van der Weijden, Yufei Zhang, Martin Vingron, Alexander Meissner, Tugce Aktas, Helene Kretzmer, and Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu, "TET activity safeguards pluripotency throughout embryonic dormancy," Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 31 (10), 1625-1639 (2024).

Markus Kellner, Julia Hörmann, Susanne Fackler, Hu Yuanyu, Zhou Tielin, Lu Lin, Ibrahim Ilik, Tugce Aktas, Regina Feederle, Stefanie M. Hauck, Olivier Gires, Kathrin Gärtner, Li Lietao, and Reinhard Zeidler, "The Nuclear Speckles Protein SRRM2 Is Exposed on the Surface of Cancer Cells," Cells 13 (18), Article 1563 (2024).

Ibrahim Avsar Ilik, Petar Glažar, Kevin Tse, Björn Brändl, David Meierhofer, Franz-Josef Müller, Zachary D. Smith, and Tugce Aktas, "Autonomous transposons tune their sequences to ensure somatic suppression," Nature 626 (8001), 1116-1124 (2024).

Raha Weigert, Sara Hetzel, Nina Bailly, Chuck Haggerty, Ibrahim A. Ilik, Philip Yuk Kwong Yung, Carmen Navarro, Adriano Bolondi, Abhishek Sampath Kumar, Chiara Anania, Björn Brändl, David Meierhofer, Darío G. Lupiáñez, Franz-Josef Müller, Tugce Aktas, Simon J. Elsässer, Helene Kretzmer, Zachary D. Smith, and Alexander Meissner, "Dynamic antagonism between key repressive pathways maintains the placental epigenome," Nature Cell Biology 25 (4), 579-591 (2023).

Alexandra Bergfort, Tarek Hilal, Benno Kuropka, Ibrahim Avsar Ilik, Gert Weber, Tugce Aktas, Christian Freund, and Markus C. Wahl, "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), 2938-2958 (2022).

Tugce Aktas, "Transposons: catch them if you can," Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 23 (5), 306 (2022).

Alexandra Bergfort, Marco Preußner, Benno Kuropka, Ibrahim Avsar Ilik, Tarek Hilal, Gert Weber, Christian Freund, Tugce Aktas, Florian Heyd, and Markus C. Wahl, "A multi-factor trafficking site on the spliceosome remodeling enzyme BRR2 recruits C9ORF78 to regulate alternative splicing," Nature Communications 13, 1132 (2022).

Ibrahim Avsar Ilik, Michal Malszycki, Anna Katharina Lübke, Claudia Schade, David Meierhofer, and Tugce Aktas, "SON and SRRM2 are essential for nuclear speckle formation," eLife 2020 (9), e60579 (2020).

Ibrahim Avsar Ilik, Tugce Aktas, Daniel Maticzka, Rolf Backofen, and Asifa Akhtar, "FLASH: ultra-fast protocol to identify RNA-protein interactions in cells," Nucelic Acids Research 48 (3), e15 (2020).

Ibrahim Avsar Ilik and Tugce Aktas, "Nuclear speckles: dynamic hubs of gene expression regulation", in The FEBS Journal, (Wiley-Blackwell, 2022), Vol. 289, pp. 7234-7245.