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Defects of the innate immune system in autoinflammation and autoimmunity

Defects of the innate immune system in autoinflammation and autoimmunity

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Group members

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Min Ae Lee-Kirsch, Prof. Dr. med.

Group leader


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Bianca Weissbach

Administrative assistant


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Swagato Bhattacharjee, M.Sc.

Doctoral student


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Leonie Gloger, M.Sc.

Doctoral student


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Julius Jakobeit, cand. med.

Doctoral student


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Sarah Koss, Dipl.-Biol.

Technician


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Stefanie Kretschmer, Dr. rer. medic.

Postdoctoral scientist


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Rou Liu, M.D.

Doctoral student


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Nadja Lucas, Dr. rer. medic.

Postdoctoral scientist


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Laura Malz, cand. med.

Clinician scientist


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Katharina Menzel, cand. med.

Doctoral student


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Katarzyna Michalik, M.Sc.

Doctoral student


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Kateryna Novotna, cand. med.

Doctoral student


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Jennifer Pacheco, M.Sc.

Doctoral student


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Paulina Switala, M.Sc.

Technician


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Susan Wagner

Technician


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Sophia Weidler, Dr. med.

Clinican scientist


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Selected publications

Merold, V., Bekere, I., Kretschmer, S., Schnell, A.F., Kmiec, D., Sivarajan, R., Lammens, K., Liu, R., Mergner, J., Teppert, J., Hirschenberger, M., Henrici, A., Hammes, S., Buder, K., Weitz, M., Hackmann, K., Koenig, L.M., Pichlmair, A., Schwierz, N., Sparrer, K.M.J., Lee-Kirsch, M.A., de Oliveira Mann, C.C., 2025. Structural basis for OAS2 regulation and its antiviral function. Mol Cell. 85, 2176-2193.e13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2025.05.001, open access

Wolf, C., Lim, E.L., Mokhtari, M., Kind, B., Odainic, A., Lara-Villacanas, E., Koss, S., Mages, S., Menzel, K., Engel, K., Dückers, G., Bernbeck, B., Schneider, D.T., Siepermann, K., Niehues, T., Goetzke, C.C., Durek, P., Minden, K., Dörner, T., Stittrich, A., Szelinski, F., Guerra, G.M., Massoud, M., Bieringer, M., de Oliveira Mann, C.C., Beltrán, E., Kallinich, T., Mashreghi, M.-F., Schmidt, S.V., Latz, E., Klughammer, J., Majer, O., Lee-Kirsch, M.A., 2024. UNC93B1 variants underlie TLR7-dependent autoimmunity. Sci Immunol. eadi9769. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciimmunol.adi9769

Luca, D., Lee, S., Hirota, K., Okabe, Y., Uehori, J., Izawa, K., Lanz, A.-L., Schütte, V., Sivri, B., Tsukamoto, Y., Hauck, F., Behrendt, R., Roers, A., Fujita, T., Nishikomori, R., Lee-Kirsch, M.A., Kato, H., 2024. Aberrant RNA sensing in regulatory T cells causes systemic autoimmunity. Sci Adv. 10, eadk0820. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk0820, open access

Manoharan, J., Rana, R., Kuenze, G., Gupta, D., Elwakiel, A., Ambreen, S., Wang, H., Banerjee, K., Zimmermann, S., Singh, K., Gupta, A., Fatima, S., Kretschmer, S., Schaefer, L., Zeng-Brouwers, J., Schwab, C., Al-Dabet, M.M., Gadi, I., Altmann, H., Koch, T., Poitz, D.M., Baber, R., Kohli, S., Shahzad, K., Geffers, R., Lee-Kirsch, M.A., Kalinke, U., Meiler, J., Mackman, N., Isermann, B., 2024. Tissue factor binds to and inhibits interferon-α receptor 1 signaling. Immunity. 57, 68-85.e11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2023.11.017, open access

Wolf, C., Fischer, H., Kühl, J.-S., Koss, S., Jamra, R.A., Starke, S., Schultz, J., Ehl, S., Neumann, K., Schuetz, C., Huber, R., Hornung, V., Lee-Kirsch, M.A., 2023. Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis-like hyperinflammation due to a de novo mutation in DPP9. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 152, 1336-1344.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2023.07.013, open access

König, N., Fiehn, C., Wolf, C., Schuster, M., Cura Costa, E., Tüngler, V., Alvarez, H.A., Chara, O., Engel, K., Goldbach-Mansky, R., Günther, C., Lee-Kirsch, M.A., 2017. Familial chilblain lupus due to a gain-of-function mutation in STING. Ann Rheum Dis. 76, 468–472. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2016-209841

Wolf, C., Rapp, A., Berndt, N., Staroske, W., Schuster, M., Dobrick-Mattheuer, M., Kretschmer, S., König, N., Kurth, T., Wieczorek, D., Kast, K., Cardoso, M.C., Günther, C., Lee-Kirsch, M.A., 2016. RPA and Rad51 constitute a cell intrinsic mechanism to protect the cytosol from self DNA. Nat Commun. 7, 11752. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11752, open access

Gunther, C., Kind, B., Reijns, M.A., Berndt, N., Martinez-Bueno, M., Wolf, C., Tungler, V., Chara, O., Lee, Y.A., Hubner, N., Bicknell, L., Blum, S., Krug, C., Schmidt, F., Kretschmer, S., Koss, S., Astell, K.R., Ramantani, G., Bauerfeind, A., Morris, D.L., Cunninghame Graham, D.S., Bubeck, D., Leitch, A., Ralston, S.H., Blackburn, E.A., Gahr, M., Witte, T., Vyse, T.J., Melchers, I., Mangold, E., Nothen, M.M., Aringer, M., Kuhn, A., Luthke, K., Unger, L., Bley, A., Lorenzi, A., Isaacs, J.D., Alexopoulou, D., Conrad, K., Dahl, A., Roers, A., Alarcon-Riquelme, M.E., Jackson, A.P., Lee-Kirsch, M.A., 2015. Defective removal of ribonucleotides from DNA promotes systemic autoimmunity. J Clin Invest. 125, 413–424. doi: 10.1172/JCI78001, open access

Yan, N., Regalado-Magdos, A.D., Stiggelbout, B., Lee-Kirsch, M.A., Lieberman, J., 2010. The cytosolic exonuclease TREX1 inhibits the innate immune response to human immunodeficiency virus type 1. Nat Immunol. 11, 1005–1013. doi: 10.1038/ni.1941., open access

Lee-Kirsch, M.A., Gong, M., Chowdhury, D., Senenko, L., Engel, K., Lee, Y.A., de, S.U., Bailey, S.L., Witte, T., Vyse, T.J., Kere, J., Pfeiffer, C., Harvey, S., Wong, A., Koskenmies, S., Hummel, O., Rohde, K., Schmidt, R.E., Dominiczak, A.F., Gahr, M., Hollis, T., Perrino, F.W., Lieberman, J., Hubner, N., 2007. Mutations in the gene encoding the 3’-5’ DNA exonuclease TREX1 are associated with systemic lupus erythematosus. Nat Genet. 39, 1065–1067. doi: 10.1038/ng2091