Tobias Komar
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PhD candidate exploring Innate Immunity and TLRs | Hornung lab @ Gene Center Munich LMU
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One week ago, I finally defended my PhD ✨ I am deeply grateful to my supervisor
@v-hornung.bsky.social
, as well as to all collaborators and present and past lab members who made these past years fly by. Looking forward to everything that comes next.
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Excited to share the first paper of my PhD, published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Huge thanks to all authors, especially to co-first author Stefan Bauernfried, Alex Horswill‘s lab and
@mannlab.bsky.social
, and my supervisor
@v-hornung.bsky.social
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www.jbc.org/article/S002...
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Inflammasome-independent IL-1β activation via staphopain A protease of Staphylococcus aureus
Interleukin-1β (IL-1β) is a pivotal mediator of innate immunity, essential for orchestrating the acute inflammatory response. While the canonical activation of IL-1β involves cleavage of its inactive ...
https://www.jbc.org/article/S0021-9258%2825%2902425-1/fulltext
5 months ago
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Cell - a Cell Press journal
7 months ago
Now online! Pseudouridine RNA avoids immune detection through impaired endolysosomal processing and TLR engagement
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Pseudouridine RNA avoids immune detection through impaired endolysosomal processing and TLR engagement
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) 7 and 8 detect RNA degradation products to sense infection. However, modified nucleosides common in self-RNA—most notably pseudouridine—evade recognition. This study finds that poor nuclease processing and selective TLR avoidance drive this evasion, offering insight into the molecular basis of immune tolerance to pseudouridine-containing RNA.
http://dlvr.it/TLbY2b
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Indra_Beķere
8 months ago
Our manuscript on dsRNA sensor OAS2 from the lab of
@oliveiramann.bsky.social
is now out in
@cp-molcell.bsky.social
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich
8 months ago
Wow, so cool!🌟 Excellence in Nucleic Acid Sciences and Technologies: NUCLEATE Cluster selected for national recognition Led by spokesperson Veit Hornung, the NUCLEATE Cluster secures funding in Germany’s Excellence Strategy 🥂🥳🤩
www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
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NUCLEATE Cluster of Excellence: beacon of nucleic acid research
The new NUCLEATE Cluster of Excellence is all about nucleic acids. The research alliance seeks to better understand their various functions and open up new areas of application.
https://www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/news-overview/news/nucleate-cluster-of-excellence-beacon-of-nucleic-acid-research.html
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Louis-Jeantet Foundation
9 months ago
The full videos are available! Check them out: VEIT HORNUNG
@v-hornung.bsky.social
@genecenter-lmu.bsky.social
youtu.be/YBVArSDgFMA
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Veit Hornung, winner of the 2025 Collen Jeantet Prize for Translational Medicine
YouTube video by Fondation Louis-Jeantet
https://youtu.be/YBVArSDgFMA
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Gene Center Munich @LMU Munich
9 months ago
🥂🤩first snapshot of yesterday's award ceremony👇
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Indra_Beķere
12 months ago
I’m very excited to share our first preprint “Structural Basis for OAS2 Regulation and its Antiviral Function” from my postdoc together with Veronika Merold (Vroni) from NTase lab with
@oliveiramann.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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bioRxiv Biochemistry
12 months ago
Structural Basis for OAS2 Regulation and its Antiviral Function
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.28.635220v1
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Journal of Experimental Medicine
12 months ago
Gomez-Diaz,
@v-hornung.bsky.social
et al. show that mice lacking RNase T2 display an inflammatory phenotype in a TLR13-dependent manner, even under germ-free conditions, suggesting that RNase T2 plays an important role in limiting self-RNA recognition
https://buff.ly/4jG49Gy
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Louis-Jeantet Foundation
12 months ago
VEIT HORNUNG
@v-hornung.bsky.social
@genecenter-lmu.bsky.social
is awarded the 2025 Collen-Jeantet Prize for Translational Medicine for his important contributions to our understanding of how foreign nucleic acids and other non-self signals trigger the innate immune system.
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