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Prof. Dr. Eicke Latz

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Institute of Innate Immunity

Medical Faculty, University of Bonn University Hospital of Bonn Biomedical Center, 1G007 Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25 53127 Bonn

eicke.latz@uni-bonn.de

+49 1515 8233370

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The Latz Lab has a longstanding interest in deciphering the molecular
mechanisms of innate immune receptor activation. In particular, the lab
is interested in understanding how innate receptors interact with their
ligands and how this molecular interaction leads to receptor activation.
Recently, we have also focused on the molecular details of the
mechanisms that lead to the activation of the NLRP3 and AIM2
inflammasome. The NLRP3 inflammasome can respond to a broad range of
cellular stressors and to substances that indicate metabolic
derangements such as aggregated peptides, crystals of monosodium urate
(forming in gout) or crystals of cholesterol that are found in
atherosclerotic plaques. One goal of the research is to translate the
molecular understanding of innate immune receptor activation into the
generation of molecular tools that could lead to the development of
specific diagnostics for inflammatory materials. Another goal is to
devise means to pharmacologically interfere with the activation of
innate immune receptors in order to develop novel approaches to treat
inflammatory diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease or atherosclerosis.

Eicke Latz

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Recent publications

  • Neuroinflammation and immunometabolism in neurodegenerative diseases.

    Current opinion in neurology

    Authors: Neha Lonkar, Eicke Latz, Róisín M McManus

  • NLRP3-mediated glutaminolysis controls microglial phagocytosis to promote Alzheimer's disease progression.

    Immunity

    Authors: Róisín M McManus, Max P Komes, Angelika Griep, Francesco Santarelli, Stephanie Schwartz, Juan Ramón Perea, Johannes C M Schlachetzki, David S Bouvier, Michelle-Amirah Khalil, Mario A Lauterbach, Lea Heinemann, Titus Schlüter, Mehran Shaban Pour, Marta Lovotti, Rainer Stahl, Fraser Duthie, Juan F Rodríguez-Alcázar, Susanne V Schmidt, Jasper Spitzer, Peri Noori, Alberto Maillo, Andreas Boettcher, Brian Herron, John McConville, David Gomez-Cabrero, Jesper Tegnér, Christopher K Glass, Karsten Hiller, Eicke Latz, Michael T Heneka

  • RNase T2 deficiency promotes TLR13-dependent replenishment of tissue-protective Kupffer cells.

    The Journal of experimental medicine

    Authors: Ryota Sato, Kaiwen Liu, Takuma Shibata, Katsuaki Hoshino, Kiyoshi Yamaguchi, Toru Miyazaki, Ryosuke Hiranuma, Ryutaro Fukui, Yuji Motoi, Yuri Fukuda-Ohta, Yun Zhang, Tatjana Reuter, Yuko Ishida, Toshikazu Kondo, Tomoki Chiba, Hiroshi Asahara, Masato Taoka, Yoshio Yamauchi, Toshiaki Isobe, Tsuneyasu Kaisho, Yoichi Furukawa, Eicke Latz, Kohta Nakatani, Yoshihiro Izumi, Yunzhong Nie, Hideki Taniguchi, Kensuke Miyake

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