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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

  • ADA2 is a lysosomal deoxyadenosine deaminase acting on DNA involved in regulating TLR9-mediated immune sensing of DNA.

    Cell reports

    Authors: Ole Kristian Greiner-Tollersrud, Máté Krausz, Vincent Boehler, Aikaterini Polyzou, Maximilian Seidl, Ambra Spahiu, Zeinab Abdullah, Katarzyna Andryka-Cegielski, Felix Immunuel Dominick, Katrin Huebscher, Andreas Goschin, Cristian R Smulski, Eirini Trompouki, Regina Link, Hilmar Ebersbach, Honnappa Srinivas, Martine Marchant, Georgios Sogkas, Dieter Staab, Cathrine Vågbø, Danilo Guerini, Sebastian Baasch, Eicke Latz, Gunther Hartmann, Philippe Henneke, Roger Geiger, Xiao P Peng, Bodo Grimbacher, Eva Bartok, Ingrun Alseth, Max Warncke, Michele Proietti

  • Retention of ES cell-derived 129S genome drives NLRP1 hypersensitivity and transcriptional deregulation in Nlrp3 mice.

    Cell death and differentiation

    Authors: Felix D Weiss, Yubell Alvarez, Farhad Shakeri, Anshupa Sahu, Petro Leka, Alesja Dernst, Jessika Rollheiser, Matilde Vasconcelos, Adriana Geraci, Fraser Duthie, Rainer Stahl, Hye Eun Lee, Anne-Kathrin Gellner, Andreas Buness, Eicke Latz, Felix Meissner

  • Butyrate and propionate are microbial danger signals that activate the NLRP3 inflammasome in human macrophages upon TLR stimulation.

    Cell reports

    Authors: Wei Wang, Alesja Dernst, Bianca Martin, Lucia Lorenzi, Maria Cadefau-Fabregat, Kshiti Phulphagar, Antonia Wagener, Christina Budden, Neil Stair, Theresa Wagner, Harald Färber, Andreas Jaensch, Rainer Stahl, Fraser Duthie, Susanne V Schmidt, Rebecca C Coll, Felix Meissner, Sergi Cuartero, Eicke Latz, Matthew S J Mangan

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