Publications of Tugce Aktas

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

Ilik, I. A.; Yang, X.; Zhang, Z. Z.; Aktas, T.: Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of transposable elements and their roles in development and disease. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (2025)

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