P10 Prof. Dr. Kurts
Dendritic cells, inflammasome activation and regulatory T cells in kidney fibrosis

Renal dendritic cells producing inflammasomes promote inflammatory kidney disease, whereas regulatory T cells attenuate this process. Within this project we aim to block kidney fibrosis progression by modulation of these cells and/or the inflammasome. Chronic tubulointerstitial inflammation frequently leads to renal fibrosis and terminal kidney failure. Based on the important roles of dendritic cells (DC) in inflammation and immunology, we are studying their involvement in renal fibrosis in this project. We discovered that DCs colonize the kidney in a CX3CR1-dependent manner and aggravate an experimental glomerulonephritis model, by augmenting nephritogenic T cell responses. Our current aim is to employ a variety of genetic tools to better understand how kidney DCs regulate renal inflammation and fibrosis. We will study the role of the inflammasome, an important fibrosis promoter in other organs, which is produced by renal DCs. We wish to clarify the role of inflammasome components like NLRP3 and ASC and identify the cell(s) in which inflammasome activation takes place. Furthermore, we wish to understand the role of regulatory T cells (Tregs), which others and we recently showed to suppress experimental glomerulonephritis. Our work is aimed at a better understanding of intrarenal anti-inflammatory processes relevant during renal fibrogenesis, which may be exploited for therapeutic purposes. [...]

Publications

• Kurts C. , Ginhoux F., Panzer U. (2020): Kidney dendritic cells: Basic biology and role in health and disease. Nat Rev Nephrol, 16(7), 391-407, [19.684]
• Krebs C. , Schlitzer A., Kurts C. (2020): Drawing a single cell landscape of the human kidney in (pseudo)space and time. Kidney Int, 97(5), 842-844, [8.429]
• Boehner A. , Viehmann S., Kurts C. (2020): Unraveling the complexity of the renal mononuclear phagocytic system by cell lineage tracing. J Am Soc Nephrol, Epub 2020, [8.547]
• Jobin K. , Stumpf N. E., Schwab S., Eichler M., Neubert P., Rauh M., Adamowski M., Babyak O., Hinze D., Sivalingam S., Weisheit C., Hochheiser K., Schmidt S., Meissner M., Garbi N., Abdullah Z., Wenzel U., Hölzel M., Jantsch J., Kurts C. (2020): A high-salt diet compromises antibacterial neutrophil responses through hormonal perturbation. Science Translat Med, 12(536), eaay3850, [17.161]
• Rigau M. , Ostrouska S., Fulford T. S., Johnson D. N., Woods K., Ruan Z., McWilliam H. E., Hudson C., Tutuka C., Wheatley A. K., Kent S. J., Villadangos J. A., Pal B., Kurts C., Simmonds J., Pelzing M., Hammet A., Verhagen A. M., Vairo G., Maraskovsky E., Panousis C., Gherardin N. A., Cebon J., Godfrey D. I., Behren A., Uldrich A. P. (2020): Butyrophilin 2A1 mediates phosphoantigen reactivity by γδ T cells. Science 2020, in press,
• Rosenbaum M. , Gewies A., Pechloff K., Heuser C., Engleitner T., Gehring T., Krappmann D., Krebs S., Kriegsmann M., Weichert W., Rad R., Kurts C., Ruland J. (2019): Bcl10-controlled Malt1 paracaspase activity is key for the immune suppressive function of regulatory T cells. Nat Commun, Epub May 28; 10(1), 2352, [11.878]
• Enders M. , Franken L., Philipp M. S., Kessler N., Baumgart A. K., Eichler M., Wirtz E., Garbi N., Kurts C. (2019): Splenic red pulp macrophages cross-prime early effector CTL that provide rapid defense against viral infections. J Immunol, 204(1), 87-100, [4.718]
• Cossarizza A. , Chang H. D., Radbruch A., Acs A., Adam D., Adam-Klages S., Agace W. W., Aghaeepour N., Akdis M., Allez M., Almeida L. N., Alvisi G., Anderson G., Andrä I., Annunziato F., Anselmo A., Bacher P., Baldari C. T., Bari S., Barnaba V., Barros-Martins J., Battistini L., Bauer W., Baumgart S., Baumgarth N., Baumjohann D., Baying B., Bebawy M., Becher B., Beisker W., Benes V., Beyaert R., Blanco A., Boardman D. A., Bogdan C., Borger J. G., Borsellino G., Boulais P. E., Bradford J. A., Brenner D., Brinkman R. R., Brooks A. E. S., Busch D. H., Büscher M., Bushnell T. P., Calzetti F., Cameron G., Cammarata I., Cao X., Cardell S. L., Casola S., Cassatella M. A., Cavani A., Celada A., Chatenoud L., Chattopadhyay P. K., Chow S., Christakou E., Čičin-Šain L., Clerici M., Colombo F. S., Cook L., Cooke A., Cooper A. M., Corbett A. J., Cosma A., Cosmi L., Coulie P. G., Cumano A., Cvetkovic L., Dang V. D., Dang-Heine C., Davey M. S., Davies D., De Biasi S., Del Zotto G., Dela Cruz G. V., Delacher M., Della Bella S., Dellabona P., Deniz G., Dessing M., Di Santo J. P., Diefenbach A., Dieli F., Dolf A., Dörner T., Dress R. J., Dudziak D., Dustin M., Dutertre C. A., Ebner F., Eckle S. B. G., Edinger M., Eede P., Ehrhardt G. R. A., Eich M., Engel P., Engelhardt B., Erdei A., Esser C., Everts B., Evrard M., Falk C. S., Fehniger T. A., Felipo-Benavent M., Ferry H., Feuerer M., Filby A., Filkor K., Fillatreau S., Follo M., Förster I., Foster J., Foulds G. A., Frehse B., Frenette P. S., Frischbutter S., Fritzsche W., Galbraith D. W., Gangaev A., Garbi N., Gaudilliere B., Gazzinelli R. T., Geginat J., Gerner W., Gherardin N. A., Ghoreschi K., Gibellini L., Ginhoux F., Goda K., Godfrey D. I., Goettlinger C., González-Navajas J. M., Goodyear C. S., Gori A., Grogan J. L., Grummitt D., Grützkau A., Haftmann C., Hahn J., Hammad H., Hämmerling G., Hansmann L., Hansson G., Harpur C. M., Hartmann S., Hauser A., Hauser A. E., Haviland D. L., Hedley D., Hernández D. C., Herrera G., Herrmann M., Hess C., Höfer T., Hoffmann P., Hogquist K., Holland T., Höllt T., Holmdahl R., Hombrink P., Houston J. P., Hoyer B. F., Huang B., Huang F. P., Huber J. E., Huehn J., Hundemer M., Hunter C. A., Hwang W. Y. K., Iannone A., Ingelfinger F., Ivison S. M., Jäck H. M., Jani P. K., Jávega B., Jonjic S., Kaiser T., Kalina T., Kamradt T., Kaufmann S. H. E., Keller B., Ketelaars S. L. C., Khalilnezhad A., Khan S., Kisielow J., Klenerman P., Knopf J., Koay H. F., Kobow K., Kolls J. K., Kong W. T., Kopf M., Korn T., Kriegsmann K., Kristyanto H., Kroneis T., Krueger A., Kühne J., Kukat C., Kunkel D., Kunze-Schumacher H., Kurosaki T., Kurts C., Kvistborg P., Kwok I., Landry J., Lantz O., Lanuti P., LaRosa F., Lehuen A., LeibundGut-Landmann S., Leipold M. D., Leung L. T., Levings M. K., Lino A. C., Liotta F., Litwin V., Liu Y., Ljunggren H. G., Lohoff M., Lombardi G., Lopez L., López-Botet M., Lovett-Racke A. E., Lubberts E., Luche H., Ludewig B., Lugli E., Lunemann S., Maecker H. T., Maggi L., Maguire O., Mair F., Mair K. H., Mantovani A., Manz R. A., Marshall A. J., Martínez-Romero A., Martrus G., Marventano I., Maslinski W., Matarese G., Mattioli A. V., Maueröder C., Mazzoni A., McCluskey J., McGrath M., McGuire H. M., McInnes I. B., Mei H. E., Melchers F., Melzer S., Mielenz D., Miller S. D., Mills K. H. G., Minderman H., Mjösberg J., Moore J., Moran B., Moretta L., Mosmann T. R., Müller S., Multhoff G., Muñoz L. E., Münz C., Nakayama T., Nasi M., Neumann K., Ng L. G., Niedobitek A., Nourshargh S., Núñez G., O'Connor J. E., Ochel A., Oja A., Ordonez D., Orfao A., Orlowski-Oliver E., Ouyang W., Oxenius A., Palankar R., Panse I., Pattanapanyasat K., Paulsen M., Pavlinic D., Penter L., Peterson P., Peth C., Petriz J., Piancone F., Pickl W. F., Piconese S., Pinti M., Pockley A. G., Podolska M. J., Poon Z., Pracht K., Prinz I., Pucillo C. E. M., Quataert S. A., Quatrini L., Quinn K. M., Radbruch H., Radstake T. R. J., Rahmig S., Rahn H. P., Rajwa B., Ravichandran G., Raz Y., Rebhahn J. A., Recktenwald D., Reimer D., Reis E., Sousa C., Remmerswaal E. B. M., Richter L., Rico L. G., Riddell A., Rieger A. M., Robinson J. P., Romagnani C., Rubartelli A., Ruland J., Saalmüller A., Saeys Y., Saito T., Sakaguchi S., Sala-de-Oyanguren F., Samstag Y., Sanderson S., Sandrock I., Santoni A., Sanz R. B., Saresella M., Sautes-Fridman C., Sawitzki B., Schadt L., Scheffold A., Scherer H. U., Schiemann M., Schildberg F. A., Schimisky E., Schlitzer A., Schlosser J., Schmid S., Schmitt S., Schober K., Schraivogel D., Schuh W., Schüler T., Schulte R., Schulz A. R., Schulz S. R., Scottá C., Scott-Algara D., Sester D. P., Shankey T. V., Silva-Santos B., Simon A. K., Sitnik K. M., Sozzani S., Speiser D. E., Spidlen J., Stahlberg A., Stall A. M., Stanley N., Stark R., Stehle C., Steinmetz T., Stockinger H., Takahama Y., Takeda K., Tan L., Tárnok A., Tiegs G., Toldi G., Tornack J., Traggiai E., Trebak M., Tree T. I. M., Trotter J., Trowsdale J., Tsoumakidou M., Ulrich H., Urbanczyk S., van de Veen W., van den Broek M., van der Pol E., van Gassen S., van Isterdael G., van Lier R. A. W., Veldhoen M., Vento-Asturias S., Vieira P., Voehringer D., Volk H. D., von Borstel A., von Volkmann K., Waisman A., Walker R. V., Wallace P. K., Wang S. A., Wang X. M., Ward M. D., Ward-Hartstonge K. A., Warnatz K., Warnes G., Warth S., Waskow C., Watson J. V., Watzl C., Wegener L., Weisenburger T., Wiedemann A., Wienands J., Wilharm A., Wilkinson R. J., Willimsky G., Wing J. B., Winkelmann R., Winkler T. H., Wirz O. F., Wong A., Wurst P., Yang J. H. M., Yang J., Yazdanbakhsh M., Yu L., Yue A., Zhang H., Zhao Y., Ziegler S. M., Zielinski C., Zimmermann J., Zychlinsky A. (2019): Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies (second edition). Eur J Immunol, Oct;49(10), 1457-1973, [4.695]
• Graefe C. , Eichhorn L., Wurst P., Kleiner J., Heine A., Panetas I., Abdulla Z., Hoeft A., Frede S., Kurts C., Endl E., Weisheit C. K. (2019): Optimized Ki-67 staining in murine cells: a tool to determine cell proliferation. Mol Biol Rep, 2019 46(4), 4631-4643, [2.107]
• Kurts C. , Meyer-Schwesinger C. (2019): Protecting the kidney against autoimmunity and inflammation. Nat Rev Nephrol, Feb;15(2), 66-68, [19.684]
• Martin-Higueras C. , Ludwig-Portugall I., Hoppe B., Kurts C. (2019): Targeting kidney inflammation as a new therapy for Primary Hyperoxaluria?. Nephrol Dial Transpl, 34(6), 908-914, [4.198]
• Reinicke A. T. , Raczkowski F., Mühlig M., Schmucker P., Lischke T., Reichelt J., Schneider E., Zielinski S., Sachs M., Jurack E., Tolosa E., Kurts C., Mittrücker H. W., Meyer-Schwesinger C. (2019): Deubiquitinating Enzyme UCH-L1 Promotes Dendritic Cell Antigen Cross-Presentation by Favoring Recycling of MHC Class I Molecules. J Immunol., 2019 Oct 1;203(7), 1730-1742, [4.718]
• Kelly J. , Minoda Y., Meredith T., Cameron G., Philipp M. S., Pellicci D. G., Corbett A. J., Kurts C., Gray D. H., Godfrey D. I., Kannourakis G., Berzins S. P. (2019): Chronically stimulated human MAIT cells are unexpectedly potent IL-13 producers. Immunol Cell Biol., 97(8), 689-699, [3.947]
• Neubert P. , Weichselbaum A., Reitinger C., Schatz V., Schröder A., Ferdinand J. R., Simon M., Bär A. L., Brochhausen C., Gerlach R. G., Tomiuk S., Hammer K., Wagner S., van Zandbergen G., Binger K. J., Müller D. N., Kitada K., Clatworthy M. R., Kurts C., Titze J., Abdullah Z., Jantsch J. (2019): HIF1A and NFAT5 coordinate Na+-boosted antibacterial defense via enhanced autophagy and autolysosomal targeting. Autophagy, 15(11), 1899-1916, [11.059]
• Puelles V. G. , Fleck D., Ortz L., Papadouri S., Strieder T., Boehner A., van der Wolde J. W., Vogt M., Saritas T., Kuppe C., Fuss A., Menzel S., Klinkhammer B. M., Müller-Newen G., Heymann F., Decker L., Braun F., Kretz O., Huber T. B., Susaki E. A., Ueda H. R., Boor P., Floege J., Kramann R., Kurts C., Bertram J. F., Spehr M., Nikolic-Paterson D. J., Moeller M. J. (2019): 3D analysis of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis using optical tissue clearing. Kidney Int, 96, 505-516, [8.306]
• Meissner M. , Viehmann S. F., Kurts C. (2018): DAMPening sterile inflammation of the kidney. Kidney Int, 95(3), 489-491, [8.429]
• Wenzel U. O. , Bode M., Kurts C., Ehmke H. (2018): Salt, inflammation, IL-17 and hypertension. Br. J Pharmacol, 176(2), 1853-1863, [6.810]
• Ahadzadeh E. , Rosendahl A., Czesla D., Steffens P., Prüßner L., Meyer-Schwesinger C., Wanner N., Paust H. J., Huber T. B., Stahl R. A., Wiech T., Kurts C., Seniuk A., Ehmke H., Wenzel U. O. (2018): The chemokine receptor CX3CR1 reduces renal injury in mice with angiotensin II induced hypertension. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol, Sep, [3.611]
• Gotot J. , Dhana E., Yagita H., Kaiser R., Ludwig-Portugall I., Kurts C. (2018): Antigen-specific Helios–, Neuropilin-1– Tregs induce apoptosis of autoreactive B cells via PD-L1. Immunol Cell Biol, 96(8), 852-862, [3.947]
• Breitbach M. , Kimura K., Luis T. C., Fuegemann C. J.; Woll P. S., Hesse M.; Facchini R., Rieck S., Jobin K., Reinhardt J., Ohneda O., Wenzel D., Geisen C., Kurts C., Kastenmuller W., Holzel M., Jacobsen S. E. W., Sten E. W., Fleischmann B. K. (2018): In Vivo Labeling by CD73 Marks Multipotent Stromal Cells and Highlights Endothelial Heterogeneity in the Bone Marrow Niche. Cell Stem Cell, 22(2), 262-7, [21.464]
• Welz M. , Eickhoff S., Abdullah Z., Trebicka J., Gartlan K. H., Spicer J. A., Demetris A. J., Akhlaghi H., Anton M., Manske K., Zehn D., Nieswandt B., Kurts C., Trapani J. A., Knolle P., Wohlleber D., Kastenmüller W. (2018): Perforin inhibition protects from lethal endothelial damage during fulminant viral hepatitis. Nat Commun, 9(1), 4805, [11.878]
• Viehmann S. , Böhner A. S., Kurts C., Brähler S. (2017): The multifaceted role of the renal mononuclear phagocyte system. Cell Immunol, 330, 97-104, [8.213]
• Reich B. , Viehmann S., Kurts C. (2017): Plasmacytoid dendritic cells: important players in human kidney allograft rejection. Kidney Int, 93(2), 301-303, [8.306]
• Dhana E. , Ludwig-Portugall I., Kurts C. (2017): Role of immune cells in crystal-induced kidney fibrosis.. Mat Biol, 68-69, 280-292, [6.986]
• Jantsch J. , Schultze J. L., Kurts C. (2017): Immunophysiology: Macrophages as key regulators of homeostasis in various organs. Pflugers Arch - Eur J Physiol, 469, 363-364, [2.208]
• Schwab S. , Jobin K., Kurts C. (2017): Urinary tract infection: Recent insight into the evolutionary arms race between uropathogenic E.coli and our immune system. Nephrol Dial Transplant 1, 32(12), 1977-1983, [4.198]
• Heuser C., Gotot J. , Piotrowski E. C., Philipp M. S., Courrèges J. F., Otte M. S., Guo L., Schmid-Burgk J. L., Hornung V., Heine A. K., Knolle P. A., Garbi N., Serfling E., Evaristo C., Thaiss F., Kurts C. (2017): Prolonged IKKβ inhibition improves ongoing CTL antitumor responses by incapacitating regulatory T cells. Cell Rep, 21(3), 578–586, [7.815]
• Brähler S. , Zinselmeyer B. H., Raju S., Nitschke M., Suleiman H., Saunders B. T., Johnson M. W., Boehner A., Viehmann S., Theisen D. J., Kretzer N. M., Briseno C. G., Zaitsev K., Ornatsky O., Chang Q., Carrero J., Kopp J. B., Artyomov M. N., Kurts C., Murphy K. M., Miner J. H., Shaw A. S. (2017): Opposing roles of dendritic cell subsets in experimental glomerulonephritis. J Am Soc Nephrol, 29(1), 138-154, [8.547]
• Holland T. , Wohlleber D., Marx S., Kreutzberg T., Vento-Asturias S., Schmitt-Mbamunyo S., Welz M., Janas M., Komander K., Eickhoff S., Brewitz A., Hasenberg M., Männ L., Gunzer M., Wilhelm C., Kastenmüller W., Knolle P., Abdullah Z., Kurts C., Garbi N. (2017): Rescue of T-cell function during persistent pulmonary adenoviral infection by TLR9 activation. J Allergy Clin Immun, 141(1), 416-419, [3.557]
• Heine A. , Flores C., Gevensleben H., Diehl L., Heikenwälder M., Ringelhan M., Janssen K. P., Nitsche U., Garbi N., Brossart P., Knolle P. A., Kurts C., Höchst B. (2017): Targeting myeloid derived suppressor cells with all-trans retinoic acid is highly time-dependent in therapeutic tumor vaccination. Onkoimmunol, 6(8), e1338995, [5.333]
• Pohl J. M. , Gutweiler S., Thiebes S., Woeste M., Job A., Gunzer M., Jung S., Agace W., Kurts C., Engel D. R. (2017): Irf4-dependent CD103+ CD11b+ dendritic cells and the microbiome regulate monocyte and macrophage activation and intestinal peristalsis in postoperative Ileus. Gut, 12, 2110-20, [17.160]
• Rieck M. , Kremser C., Jobin K., Mettke E., Kurts C., Gräler M., Willecke K., Kolanus W. (2017): Ceramide synthase 2 facilitates S1P-dependent egress of thymocytes into the circulation in mice. Eur J Immunol, 47(4), 677-684, [4.695]
• Brewitz A. , Eickhoff S., Dähling S., Quast T., Bedoui S., Kroczek R. A., Kurts C., Garbi N., Barchet W., Iannacone M., Klauschen F., Kolanus W., Kaisho T., Colonna M., Germain R. N., Kastenmüller W. (2017): CD8+ T Cells Orchestrate pDC-XCR1+ Dendritic Cell Spatial and Functional Cooperativity to Optimize Priming. Immunity, 46(2), 205-219, [21.522]
• Klingberg A. , Hasenberg A., Ludwig-Portugall I., Medyukhina A., Männ L., Brenzel A., Engel D. R., Figge M. T., Kurts C., Gunzer M. (2017): Fully automated evaluation of total glomerular number and capillary tuft size in murine nephritic kidneys using lightsheet microscopy. J Am Soc Nephrol, 28(2), 452-459, [8.547]
• Wittlich M. , Dudek M., Böttcher J. P., Schanz O., Hegenbarth S., Bopp T., Schmitt E., Kurts C., Garbers C., Rose John S., Knolle P. A., Wohlleber D. (2017): Liver sinusoidal endothelial cell cross-priming is supported by CD4 T cell-derived IL-2. J Hepatol, 66(5), 978-986, [18.946]
• Beyer, M. , Abdullah Z., Chemnitz J.M., Maisel D., Sander J., Lehmann C., Thabet Y., Shinde P.V., Schmidleithner L., Köhne M., Trebicka J., Schierwagen R., Hofmann A., Popov A., Lang K.S., Oxenius A., Buch T., Kurts C., Heikenwalder M., Fätkenheuer G., Lang P.A., Hartmann P., Knolle P.A., Schultze J.L. (2016): Tumor necrosis factor impairs CD4+ T Cell-mediated immune control in chronic viral infection. Nature Immunology, , accepted, [19.381]
• Ludwig-Portugall I., , Bartok E., Dhana E., Evers B.D.G., Primiano M.J., Hall J.P., Franklin B.S., Knolle P.A., Hornung V., Hartmann G., Boor P, Latz E., Kurts C. (2016): An NLRP3-specific inflammasome inhibitor attenuates crystal-induced kidney fibrosis in mice. Kidney International, 90(3), 525–539, [7.683]
• Jobin K. , Heuser C., Kurts C. (2016): A grain of salt on kidney dendritic cell function in allograft rejection. Kidney International, 89(1), 14–16 ], [7.683]
• Hackstein CP , Assmus LM, Welz M, Klein S, Schwandt T, Schultze J, Förster I, Gondorf F, Beyer M, Kroy D, Kurts C, Trebicka J, Kastenmüller W, Knolle PA, Abdullah Z. (2016): Gut microbial translocation corrupts myeloid cell function to control bacterial infection during liver cirrhosis. Gut,, , 1-12, [14.921]
• Gotot J. , Piotrowski E., Otte M.S., Tittel A.P., Linlin G., Yao C., Ziegelbauer K., Panzer U., Garbi N., Kurts C., Thaiss F (2016): Inhibitor of NFkB Kinase Subunit 2 Blockade Hinders the Initiation but Aggravates the Progression of Crescentic GN. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 27(7), 1917-1924, [8.491]
• Evers B.D.G. , Engel D.R., Böhner A.M.C., Tittel A.P., Krause T.A., Heuser C., Garbi N., Kastenmüller W., Mack M., Tiegs G., Panzer U., Boor P., Ludwig-Portugall I., Kurts C. (2016): CD103+ Kidney Dendritic Cells Protect against Crescentic GN by Maintaining IL-10–Producing Regulatory T Cells. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 27(11), 3368-3382, [8.491]
• Djudjaj, S. , Lue, H. J., Rong, S., Papasotiriou, M., Klinkhammer, B. M., Zok, S., Klaener, O., Braun, G. S., Lindenmeyer, M. T., Cohen, C. D., Bucala, R., Tittel, A. P., Kurts, C., Moeller, M. J., Floege, J., Boor, P. (2016): Macrophage migration inhibitory factor mediates proliferative glomerulonephritis via CD74. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 27 (6), 1650-1664, [8.491]
• Abdullah Z. , Kurts C. (2016): More trouble with FGF23: a novel role in systemic immunosuppression. Kidney International, 89(6), 1176–1177, [7.683]
• Heymann, F. , Peusquens, J., Ludwig-Portugall, I., Kohlhepp, M., Ergen, C., Niemietz, P., Martin, C., van Rooijen, N., Ochando, J.C., Randolph, G.J., Luedde, T., Ginhoux, F., Kurts, C., Trautwein, C., Tacke, F (2015): Liver inflammation abrogates immunological tolerance induced by Kupffer cells.. Hepatology, 62 (1), 279-91, [11.711]
• Hoechst, B. , Mikulec ,J., Baccega, T., Metzger, C., Welz, M., Peusquens, J., Tacke, F., Knolle, P., Kurts, C., Diehl, L., Ludwig-Portugall, I. (2015): Differential induction of Ly6G and Ly6C positive myeloid derived suppressor cells in chronic kidney and liver inflammation and fibrosis.. PLoS One, 10 (3) e0119662, [3.057]
• Gottschalk C (2015): The debate about dendritic cells and macrophages in the kidney.. Front Immunol,
• Franken L (2015): Splenic red pulp macrophages are intrinsically superparamagnetic and contaminate magnetic cell isolates.. Sci Rep, [5.580]
• Böttcher JP , Beyer M., Meissner F., Abdullah Z., Sander J., Höchst B., Eickhoff S., Rieckmann J.C., Russo C., Bauer T., Flecken T., Giesen D., Engel D., Jung S., Busch D.H., Protzer U., Thimme R., Mann M., Kurts C., Schultze J.L., Kastenmüller W., Knolle P.A. (2015): Functional classification of memory CD8(+) T cells by CX3CR1 expression.. Nature Communications, [11.470]
• Engel, D. R. , Krause, T., Snelgrove, S., Thiebes, S., Boor, P., Kitching, R., Kurts, C. (2015): (2015): CX3CR1 reduces kidney fibrosis by inhibiting local proliferation of profibrotic macrophages.. J Immunol, 194, 1628-1638, [4.920]
• Dickerhof, N. (2015): Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is rendered enzymatically inactive by myeloperoxidase-derived oxidants but retains its immunomodulatory function.. Free Radical Biol Med, [5.740]
• Weisheit C (2014): Dendritic Cells and Macrophages: Sentinels in the Kidney. Clinical Jpurnal of the American Society of Nephrology, 10 (10), 1841-1851, [4.657]
• Schölzel K (2014): Transfer of MHC-class-I molecules among liver sinusoidal cells facilitates hepatic immune surveillance.. Journal of Hepatology, 61 (3), 600-608, [10.590]
• Krause, T. A. , Alex, A.F., Engel, D.R., Kurts, C., Eter, N. (2014): VEGF-production by CCR2-dependent macrophages contributes to laser-induced choroidal neovascularization. PLos One, 9 (4), [3.057]
• Böttcher J.P. , Schanz, O., Garbers, C., Zaremba, A., Hegenbarth, S., Kurts, C., Beyer, M., Schultze, J.L., Kastenmüller, W., Rose-John, S., Knolle, P.A. (2014): IL-6 trans-signaling dependent rapid development of cytotoxic CD8+ T cell function.. Cell Reports, 8 (5), 1318-1327, [7.870]
• Schiwon M. , Weisheit, C., Franken, L., Gutweiler, S., Dixit, A., Meyer-Schwesinger, C., Pohl, J. M., Maurice, N. J., Thiebes, S., Lorenz, K., Quast, T., Fuhrmann, M., Baumgarten, G., Lohse, M. J., Opdenakker, G., Bernhagen, J., Bucala, R., Panzer, U., Kolanus, W., Gröne, H. J., Garbi, N., Kastenmüller, W., Knolle, PA., Kurts, C., Engel, D. R. (2014): Crosstalk between sentinel and helper macrophages permits neutrophil migration into infected uroepithelium.. Cell, 156(3), 456-468, [28.710]
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