Axel A. Brakhage

Research interests

Publications

• Recognition of DHN-melanin by a C-type lectin receptor is required for immunity to Aspergillus

  Nature · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25974

• Regulatory T Cell Specificity Directs Tolerance versus Allergy against Aeroantigens in Humans

  Cell · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.09.050

• Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster

  Nature Chemical Biology · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.1890

• Aspergillus Cell Wall Melanin Blocks LC3-Associated Phagocytosis to Promote Pathogenicity

  Cell Host & Microbe · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2015.12.002

• Regulation of fungal secondary metabolism

  Nature Reviews Microbiology · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro2916

• Comparative and functional genomics provide insights into the pathogenicity of dermatophytic fungi

  Genome biology · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2011-12-1-r7

• Production of Extracellular Traps against Aspergillus fumigatus In Vitro and in Infected Lung Tissue Is Dependent on Invading Neutrophils and Influenced by Hydrophobin RodA

  PLoS Pathogens · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000873

• Fungal secondary metabolites – Strategies to activate silent gene clusters

  Fungal Genetics and Biology · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fgb.2010.04.004

• Surface hydrophobin prevents immune recognition of airborne fungal spores

  Nature · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08264

• Intimate bacterial–fungal interaction triggers biosynthesis of archetypal polyketides in Aspergillus nidulans

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0901870106

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