
Prof. Dr. Axel A. Brakhage
Phone: +49 3641 532-1000 Email: axel.brakhage@leibniz-hki.de Website: www.leibniz-hki.de/en/molekulare-und-angewandte-mikrobiol
Projects
Current Projects
Discovery of new antifungal compounds from the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum
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New antifungal compounds
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The impact of redox regulation on the stress response of Aspergillus fumigatus and its role in host-pathogen interaction
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Mechanisms of microbial communication leading to activation of silent gene clusters
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Molecular Mechanisms of lipid raft formation
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Communication between bacteria and fungi by secondary metabolites
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Former Projects
Acute and chronic Aspergillus infection in mice studied by PET-CT and comparative gene expression
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Lysine biosynthesis in Aspergillus fumigatus
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Post-translational modifications and pathogenicity of the human pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus
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Cryo-stress of filamentous fungi
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Secretome analysis/pathogenicity mechanisms of Arthroderma benhamiae
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Prediction of gene regulatory networks involved in the differentiation, secondary metabolism and cross talk of Aspergillus nidulans
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Regulation of cell wall integrity signalling by mitogen-activated protein kinase MpkA in Aspergillus fumigatus
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The hypoxic (low-oxygen) response of the pathogenic mould Aspergillus fumigatus and its relevance to pathogenicity
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The genome of the endofungal bacterium Burkholderia rhizoxinica
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Bioinformatic investigation and prediction of gene regulatory elements in pathogenic fungi
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Integrated genome-wide data analysis by ensemble learning methods to understand infection processes
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Identification of immunogenic components of Aspergillus fumigatus for vaccine development
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Identifying the pulmonary phagocytic network of mice infected with Aspergillus fumigatus
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A surface hydrophobin in ectomycorrhiza interaction
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Molecular mechanisms of the interaction between Aspergillus fumigatus and alveolar macrophages
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Novel molecular mechanisms of iron sensing and homeostasis in Aspergillus fumigatus
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Functionality and plasticity of bacterial polyketide synthases
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The role of virulence determinants of the human pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus in the defense against fungivorous amoeba
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Heterologous expression of silent gene clusters in fungi
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Oxidative inactivation of primary metabolism pathways in the human pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus
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Developing molecular tools for the de novo assembling of biosynthetic routes
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Development of a user-friendly heterologous expression system and its applications for natural product biosynthesis
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N.N. 2
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Communication via extracellular vesicles between immune cells and the human-pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus
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Adhäsionsmechanismen von Escherichia coli auf Titanoberflächen
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Publications
(2015) Draft Genome Sequence and Gene Annotation of the Entomopathogenic Fungus Verticillium hemipterigenum. Genome Announc 3(1), Details PubMed
(2015) Draft Genome Sequence of the Fungus Penicillium brasilianum MG11. Genome Announc 3(5), Details PubMed
(2015) Transcriptome analysis of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase A-regulated genes reveals the production of the novel natural compound fumipyrrole by Aspergillus fumigatus. Mol Microbiol 96(1), 148-162. Details PubMed
(2015) Microbial communication leading to the activation of silent fungal secondary metabolite gene clusters. Front Microbiol 6, 299. Details PubMed
(2014) Draft Genome Sequence of Streptomyces iranensis. Genome Announc 2(4), Details PubMed
(2014) Characterization of the Aspergillus fumigatus detoxification systems for reactive nitrogen intermediates and their impact on virulence. Front Microbiol 5, 469. Details PubMed
(2013) Bacterium induces cryptic meroterpenoid pathway in the pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus. Chembiochem 14(8), 938-942. Details PubMed
(2013) Distinct amino acids of histone H3 control secondary metabolism in Aspergillus nidulans. Appl Environ Microbiol 79(19), 6102-6109. Details PubMed
(2013) Extrinsic extracellular DNA leads to biofilm formation and colocalizes with matrix polysaccharides in the human pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus. Front Microbiol 4, 141. Details PubMed
(2012) The Arthroderma benhamiae hydrophobin HypA mediates hydrophobicity and influences recognition by human immune effector cells. Eukaryot Cell 11(5), 673-682. Details PubMed
(2012) Aspergillus fumigatus melanins: interference with the host endocytosis pathway and impact on virulence. Front Microbiol 3, 440. Details PubMed
(2012) Systems biology of fungal infection. Front Microbiol 3, 108. Details PubMed
(2012) Comparison of transcriptome technologies in the pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus reveals novel insights into the genome and MpkA dependent gene expression. BMC Genomics 13, 519. Details PubMed
(2012) Differential expression of silent polyketide biosynthesis gene clusters in chemostat cultures of Aspergillus nidulans. J Biotechnol 160(1-2), 64-71. Details PubMed
(2012) Genome mining reveals the presence of a conserved gene cluster for the biosynthesis of ergot alkaloid precursors in the fungal family Arthrodermataceae. Microbiology 158(Pt 6), 1634-1644. Details PubMed
(2011) On the way toward systems biology of Aspergillus fumigatus infection. Int J Med Microbiol 301(5), 453-459. Details PubMed
(2011) Comparative and functional genomics provide insights into the pathogenicity of dermatophytic fungi. Genome Biol 12(1), R7. Details PubMed
(2011) The MAP kinase MpkA controls cell wall integrity, oxidative stress response, gliotoxin production and iron adaptation in Aspergillus fumigatus. Mol Microbiol 82(1), 39-53. Details PubMed
(2011) Automated image analysis of the host-pathogen interaction between phagocytes and Aspergillus fumigatus. PLoS One 6(5), e19591. Details PubMed
(2011) Bacteria-induced natural product formation in the fungus Aspergillus nidulans requires Saga/Ada-mediated histone acetylation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108(34), 14282-14287. Details PubMed
(2011) FungiFun: a web-based application for functional categorization of fungal genes and proteins. Fungal Genet Biol 48(4), 353-358. Details PubMed
(2011) Conidial Dihydroxynaphthalene Melanin of the Human Pathogenic Fungus Aspergillus fumigatus Interferes with the Host Endocytosis Pathway. Front Microbiol 2, 96. Details PubMed
(2011) Phagocytosis of melanized Aspergillus conidia by macrophages exerts cytoprotective effects by sustained PI3K/Akt signalling. Cell Microbiol 13(8), 1130-1148. Details PubMed
(2010) Production of extracellular traps against Aspergillus fumigatus in vitro and in infected lung tissue is dependent on invading neutrophils and influenced by hydrophobin RodA. PLoS Pathog 6(4), e1000873. Details PubMed
(2010) Functional genomic profiling of Aspergillus fumigatus biofilm reveals enhanced production of the mycotoxin gliotoxin. Proteomics 10(17), 3097-3107. Details PubMed
(2010) Proteome profiling and functional classification of intracellular proteins from conidia of the human-pathogenic mold Aspergillus fumigatus. J Proteome Res 9(7), 3427-3442. Details PubMed
(2009) The MpkA MAP kinase module regulates cell wall integrity signaling and pyomelanin formation in Aspergillus fumigatus. Fungal Genet Biol 46(12), 909-918. Details PubMed
(2009) Two-dimensional proteome reference maps for the human pathogenic filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus. Proteomics 9(5), 1407-1415. Details PubMed
(2008) Normalisation of 2D DIGE data - on the way to a standard operating procedure. BIRD08 Schriftenreihe Informatik 26, 55-64. Details
(2008) The mitogen-activated protein kinase MpkA of Aspergillus fumigatus regulates cell wall signaling and oxidative stress response. Fungal Genet Biol 45(5), 618-627. Details PubMed
(2007) Discovery of gene regulatory networks in Aspergillus fumigatus. Lect Notes Bioinf 4366, 22-41. Details
(2007) Aspergillus fumigatus does not require fatty acid metabolism via isocitrate lyase for development of invasive aspergillosis. Infect Immun 75(3), 1237-1244. Details PubMed
(2007) Apoptosis inhibition of alveolar macrophages upon interaction with conidia of Aspergillus fumigatus. FEMS Microbiol Lett 275(2), 250-254. Details PubMed