Selected Publications

2028 2027 2026 2025
    • Ishikawa S, Schumacher B. The Somatic Impact on Inheritance and the Germline Control of the Soma. Annu Rev Genet. 2025 Jul 16. doi: 10.1146/annurev-genet-020325-040022. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40669498.
    • Bujarrabal-Dueso A, Garinis GA, Robbins PD, Vijg J, Schumacher B. Targeting DNA damage in ageing: towards supercharging DNA repair.  Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2025 Jun 12. doi: 10.1038/s41573-025-01212-6. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40506534 Review.
    • Braun F, Mandel AM, Blomberg L, Wong MN, Chatzinikolaou G, Meyer DH, Reinelt A, Nair V, Akbar-Haase R, McCown PJ, Haas F, Chen H, Rahmatollahi M, Fermin D, Ebbestad R, Slaats GG, Bork T, Schell C, Koehler S, Brinkkoetter PT, Lindenmeyer MT, Cohen CD, Kann M, Unnersjö-Jess D, Bloch W, Sampson MG, Dollé ME, Puelles VG, Kretzler M, Garinis GA, Huber TB, Schermer B, Benzing T, Schumacher B, Kurschat CE. Loss of genome maintenance is linked to mTORC1 signaling and accelerates podocyte damage. JCI Insight. 2025 May 20:e172370. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.172370. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40392611 Free article.
2024
    • Thapa P, Chikale RV, Szulc NA, Pandrea MT, Sztyler A, Jaggi K, Niklewicz M, Serwa RA, Hoppe T, Pokrzywa W. HSP70 inhibits CHIP E3 ligase activity to maintain germline function in Caenorhabditis elegans. J Biol Chem. 2024 Oct 7:107864. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2024.107864
    • Rieckher M, Gallrein C, Alquezar-Artieda N, Bourached-Silva N, Vaddavalli PL, Mares D, Backhaus M, Blindauer T, Greger K, Wiesner E, Pontel LB, Schumacher B. Distinct DNA repair mechanisms prevent formaldehyde toxicity during development, reproduction and aging. Nucleic Acids Res. 2024 Jun 19:gkae519. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkae519. Online ahead of print. PMID: 38894680
    • Charmpilas N, Sotiriou A, Axarlis K, Tavernarakis N, Hoppe T. Cell reproductive regulation of the mitochondrial stress response in Caenorhabditis elegans. Cell Rep. 2024 June 25; 43: 114336. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114336
    • Rieckher M, Gallrein C, Alquezar-Artieda N, Bourached-Silva N, Vaddavalli PL, Mares D, Backhaus M, Blindauer T, Greger K, Wiesner E, Pontel LB, Schumacher B. Distinct DNA repair mechanisms prevent formaldehyde toxicity during development, reproduction and aging. Nucleic Acids Res. 2024 Jun 19:gkae519. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkae519. Online ahead of print. PMID: 38894680
    • Siametis A, Stratigi K, Giamaki D, Chatzinikolaou G, Akalestou-Clocher A, Goulielmaki E, Luke B, Schumacher B, Garinis GA. Transcription stress at telomeres leads to cytosolic DNA release and paracrine senescence. Nat Commun. 2024 May 14; 15(1):4061. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-48443-6
    • Meyer DH, Schumacher B.Aging clocks based on accumulating stochastic variation. Nat Aging. 2024 May 9. doi: 10.1038/s43587-024-00619-x. Online ahead of print. PMID: 38724736
    • Arvanitaki ES, Goulielmaki E, Gkirtzimanaki K, Niotis G, Tsakani E, Nenedaki E, Rouska I, Kefalogianni M, Xydias D, Kalafatakis I, Psilodimitrakopoulos S, Karagogeos D, Schumacher B, Stratakis E, Garinis GA. Microglia-derived extracellular vesicles trigger age-related neurodegeneration upon DNA damage. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2024 Apr 23;121(17):e2317402121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2317402121. Epub 2024 Apr 18. PMID: 38635632
    • Ropert B, Gallrein C, Schumacher B. DNA repair deficiencies and neurodegeneration. DNA Repair (Amst). 2024 Apr 16;138:103679. doi: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2024.103679. Online ahead of print. PMID: 38640601
    • Panier S, Wang S, Schumacher B. Genome Instability and DNA Repair in Somatic and Reproductive Aging. Annu Rev Pathol. 2024 Jan 24;19:261-290. doi: 10.1146/annurev-pathmechdis-051122-093128. Epub 2023 Oct 13. PMID: 37832947 

2023
  • Gallrein C, Williams AB, Meyer DH, Messling JE, Garcia A, Schumacher B. baz-2 enhances systemic proteostasis in vivo by regulating acetylcholine metabolism. Cell Rep. 2023 Dec 26;42(12):113577. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113577. Epub 2023 Dec 14. PMID: 38100354

  • Panier S, Wang S, Schumacher B. Genome Instability and DNA Repair in Somatic and Reproductive Aging. Annu Rev Pathol. 2023 Oct 13. doi: 10.1146/annurev-pathmechdis-051122-093128. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37832947.
  • Gyenis A, Chang J, Demmers JJPG, Bruens ST, Barnhoorn S, Brandt R, Baar MP, Raseta M, Derks KWJ, Hoeijmakers JHJ, Pothof J. Genome-wide transcription stalling by DNA damage shapes the transcriptome in aging. Nature Genetics 2023 Feb;55(2):268-279, doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01279-6 2023. Epub 2023 Jan 19.

  • Hunold P*, Hoehne MN*, Kiljan M, van Ray O, Herter J, Herter-Sprie GS, Hänsel-Hertsch R. G-quadruplex DNA structures mediate non-autonomous instruction of breast tumour microenvironments. bioRxiv 2023 doi: 10.1101/2023.01.16.524243. *contributed equally

  • Martine de Boer; Maaike te Lintel Hekkert; Jiang Chang; Bibi S. van Thiel; Leonie Martens; Maxime M. Bos; Marion G.J. de Kleijnen; Yanto Ridwan; Yanti Octavia; Elza D. van Deel; Lau A. Blonden; Renata M.C. Brandt; Sander Barnhoorn; Paula K. Bautista-Niño; Ilona Krabbendam-Peters; Rianne Wolswinkel; Banafsheh Arshi; Mohsen Ghanbari; Christian Kupatt; Leon J. de Windt; A. H. Jan Danser; Ingrid van der Pluijm; Carol Ann Remme; Monika Stoll; Joris Pothof; Anton J.M. Roks; Maryam Kavousi; Jeroen Essers; Jolanda van der Velden; Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers; Dirk J. Duncker. DNA repair in cardiomyocytes is critical for maintaining cardiac function in mice. Aging Cell. 2023;00:e13768. doi: 10.1111/acel.13768 PMID: 36756698

2022 und früher
  • Bertillot F, Miroshnikova YA, Wickström SA. (2022) SnapShot: Mechanotransduction in the nucleus. Cell 185, 3638-3638. Dupont S, Wickström SA. (2022) Mechanical regulation of chromatin and transcription. Nat Rev Genet. May 23. doi: 10.1038/s41576-022-00493-6

  • Soltanmohammadi, N., Wang, S., & Schumacher, B. (2022). Somatic PMK-1/p38 signaling links environmental stress to germ cell apoptosis and heritable euploidy. Nature communications, 13(1), 1-13.

  • Wang, S., Meyer, D.H. and Schumacher, B., (2022). Inheritance of paternal DNA damage by histone-mediated repair restriction. Nature, pp.1-10.

  • Vougioukalaki M, Demmers J, Vermeij WP, Baar M, Bruens S, Magaraki A, Kuijk E, Jager M, Merzouk S, Brandt RMC, Kouwenberg J, Van Boxtel R, Cuppen E, Pothof J, Hoeijmakers JHJ. Different responses to DNA damage determine ageing differences between organs. Aging Cell. 2022 Apr;21(4):e13562. doi: 10.1111/acel.13562. Epub 2022 Mar 4. PMID: 35246937

  • Koehler, F.C., Fu, C.Y., Spath, M.R., Hoyer-Allo, K.J.R., Bohl, K., Gobel, H., Lackmann, J.W., Grundmann, F., Osterholt, T., Gloistein, C., Steiner, J.D., Antebi, A., Benzing, T., Schermer, B., Schwarz, G., Burst, V., and Muller, R.U. (2022). A systematic analysis of diet-induced nephroprotection reveals overlapping changes in cysteine catabolismTransl Res. 2022 Feb 18 (in press; PMID: 35189406; DOI: 10.1016/j.trsl.2022.02.003)

  • Koester J, Miroshnikova YA, Ghatak S, Chacón-Martínez CA, Morgner J, Li X, Atanassov I, Koch M, Bloch W, Bartusel M, Niessen CM, Rada-Iglesias A, Wickström SA.  (2021) Niche stiffening compromises stem cell potential during aging by reducing chromatin accessibility at bivalent promoters. Nat Cell Biol 7:771-781.

  • Miroshnikova YA, Wickström SA (2021) Mechanical forces in nuclear organization. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol.  Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. June 29. pii: a039685

  • Maki K, Nava MM, Villeneuve C, Chang M, Furukawa KS, Ushida T, Wickström SA. (2021) Hydrostatic pressure promotes chondrocyte quiescence and progenitor state through heterochromatin remodeling and suppression of replicative stress. J Cell Sci 134(2):jcs247643

  • Franz A, Valledor P, Ubieto-Capella P, Pilger D, Galarreta A, Lafarga V, Fernández-Llorente A, de la Vega-Barranco G, den Brave F, Hoppe T*, Fernandez-Capetillo O*, Lecona E* (2021) USP7 and VCPFAF1 define the SUMO/Ubiquitin landscape at the DNA replication fork. Cell Rep. 37:109819

  • Jachimowicz RD, Goergens J, Reinhardt HC. DNA double-strand break repair pathway choice - from basic biology to clinical exploitation.Cell Cycle 2019; 18(13): 1423-34.

  • B. Schumacher, J. Pothof, J. Vijg, J.H.J. Hoeijmakers. The central role of DNA damage in the ageing process. Nature. 2021 Apr;592(7856):695-703. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03307-7. Epub 2021 Apr 28. PMID: 33911272. (This review certifies our primary claim, initially met with strong resistance from the aging research field, that DNA damage is at the basis of systemic aging).

  • Hänsel-Hertsch R, Simeone A, Shea A, Hui WWI, Zyner KG, Marsico G, Rueda OM, Bruna A, Martin A, Zhang X, Adhikari S, Tannahill D, Caldas C, Balasubramanian S. Landscape of G-quadruplex DNA structural regions in breast cancer. Nat Genet. 2020 Sep;52(9):878-883. doi: 10.1038/s41588-020-0672-8. Epub 2020 Aug 3. PMID: 32747825

  • Nava MM, Miroshnikova YA, Biggs LC, Whitefield DB, Metge F, Boucas J, Vihinen H, Jokitalo E, Li X, García Arcos JM, Hoffmann B, Merkel R, Niessen CM, Dahl KN, Wickström SA. (2020) Heterochromatin-driven nuclear softening protects the genome against mechanical stress-induced damage Cell 181, 800-817 Highlighted by Cell Preview, Faculty of 1000

  • Wang, S., Meyer, D. H., & Schumacher, B. (2020). H3K4me2 regulates the recovery of protein biosynthesis and homeostasis following DNA damage. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 27(12), 1165-1177.

  • Albert MC, Brinkmann K, Pokrzywa W, Günther SD, Krönke M, Hoppe T*, Kashkar H* (2020) CHIP ubiquitylates NOXA and induces its lysosomal degradation in response to DNA damage. Cell Death Dis: 11: 740

  • Ou HL, Kim CS, Uszkoreit S, Wickström SA, Schumacher B (2019) Somatic Niche Cells Regulate the CEP-1/p53-Mediated DNA Damage Response in Primordial Germ Cells Dev Cell 50, 167-183

  • Jachimowicz RD, Beleggia F, Isensee J, et al. UBQLN4 Represses Homologous Recombination and Is Overexpressed in Aggressive Tumors. Cell 2019; 176(3): 505-19 e22.

  • Panier, S., Maric, M., Hewitt, G., Mason-Osann, E., Gali, H., Dai, A., ... & Boulton, S. J. (2019). SLX4IP antagonizes promiscuous BLM activity during ALT maintenance. Molecular cell76(1), 27-43.

  • Lans H, Hoeijmakers JHJ, Vermeulen W, Marteijn JA. The DNA damage response to transcription stress. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2019 Sep 26. doi: 10.1038/s41580-019-0169-4. PMID: 31558824.

  • Milanese C, Bombardieri CR, Sepe S, Barnhoorn S, Payán-Goméz C, Caruso D, Audano M, Pedretti S, Vermeij WP, Brandt RMC, Gyenis A, Wamelink MM, de Wit AS, Janssens RC, Leen R, van Kuilenburg ABP, Mitro N, Hoeijmakers JHJ, Mastroberardino PG. DNA damage and transcription stress cause ATP-mediated redesign of metabolism and potentiation of anti-oxidant buffering. Nat Commun. 2019 Oct 25;10(1):4887. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12640-5. PMID: 31653834

  • Jain, M., Kaiser, R.W.J., Bohl, K., Hoehne, M., Gobel, H., Bartram, M.P., Habbig, S., Muller, R.U., Fogo, A.B., Benzing, T., Schermer, B., Hopker, K., and Slaats, G.G. (2019). Inactivation of Apoptosis Antagonizing Transcription Factor in tubular epithelial cells induces DNA damage and nephronophthisis accumulation. Kidney Int 95, 846-858.

  • Kaiser, RWJ., Ignarski, M., Van Nostrand, EL., Frese, CK., Jain, M., Cukoski, S., Heinen, H., Schaechter, M., Seufert, L., Bunte, K., Frommolt, P., Keller, P., Helm, M., Bohl, K., Höhne, M., Schermer, B., Benzing, T., Höpker, K., Dieterich, C., Yeo, GW., Müller, RU., Fabretti, F. (2019). A protein-RNA interaction atlas of the ribosome biogenesis factor AATF. Sci Rep 9, 1171.

  • Hänsel-Hertsch R, Spiegel J, Marsico G, Tannahill D, Balasubramanian S. Genome-wide mapping of endogenous G-quadruplex DNA structures by chromatin immunoprecipitation and high-throughput sequencing. Nat Protoc. 2018 Mar;13(3):551-564. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2017.150. Epub 2018 Feb 22. PMID: 29470465

  • Welcker, D., Jain, M., Khurshid, S., Jokic, M., Hohne, M., Schmitt, A., Frommolt, P., Niessen, C.M., Spiro, J., Persigehl, T., Wittersheim, M., Buttner, R., Fanciulli, M., Schermer, B., Reinhardt, H.C., Benzing, T., and Hopker, K. (2018). AATF suppresses apoptosis, promotes proliferation and is critical for Kras-driven lung cancer. Oncogene 37, 1503-1518.

  • Hänsel-Hertsch R, Di Antonio M, Balasubramanian S. DNA G-quadruplexes in the human genome: detection, functions and therapeutic potential. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2017 May;18(5):279-284.doi: 10.1038/nrm.2017.3. Epub 2017 Feb 22. PMID: 28225080

  • Hänsel-Hertsch R, Beraldi D, Lensing SV, Marsico G, Zyner K, Parry A, Di Antonio M, Pike J, Kimura H, Narita M, Tannahill D, Balasubramanian S. G-quadruplex structures mark human regulatory chromatin. Nat Genet. 2016 Oct;48(10):1267-72. doi: 10.1038/ng.3662. Epub 2016 Sep 12. PMID: 27618450  

  • Le HQ, Ghatak S, Yeung CY, Tellkamp F, Günschmann C, Dieterich C, Yeroslaviz A, Habermann B, Pombo A, Niessen CM, Wickström SA. (2016). Mechanical regulation of transcription controls Polycomb-mediated gene silencing during lineage commitment. Nat Cell Biol. 18, 864-875. Highlighted by Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Faculty of 1000

  • Ackermann L, Schell M, Pokrzywa W, Kevei E, Gartner A, Schumacher B*, Hoppe T* (2016) E4 ligase specific ubiquitylation hubs coordinate DNA double strand break repair and apoptosis. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 23: 995-1002

  • Franz A, Pirson PA, Pilger D, Halder S, Achuthankutty D, Kashkar H, Ramadan K, Hoppe T (2016) Chromatin-associated degradation is defined by UBXN-3/FAF1 to safeguard DNA replication fork progression. Nat Commun. 7: 10612

  • Braun, F., Rinschen, M.M., Bartels, V., Frommolt, P., Habermann, B., Hoeijmakers, J.H., Schumacher, B., Dolle, M.E., Muller, R.U., Benzing, T., Schermer, B., and Kurschat, C.E. (2016). Altered lipid metabolism in the aging kidney identified by three layered omic analysis. Aging (Albany NY) 8, 441-457.

  • Brinkmann K, Schell M, and Hoppe T*, Kashkar H (2015) Regulation of the DNA damage response by ubiquitin conjugation. Front. Genet. 6: 98