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Head of Department

Prof. Dr. Matthias Leippe

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Heidrun Wegner

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Zoologisches Institut,
Abteilung Zoophysiologie
Christian-Albrechts-Universität
Olshausenstraße 40
D-24098 Kiel, Germany


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Zoologisches Institut,
Abteilung Zoophysiologie
Christian-Albrechts-Universität
Am Botanischen Garten 3-9
D-24118 Kiel, Germany

 


 

                   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

page updated on 27/04/12

2012

Höckendorf, A., Stanisak, M., Leippe, M. (2012). The saposin-like protein SPP-12 is an antimicrobial polypeptide in pharyngeal neurons of Caenorhabditis elegans and participates in defence against a natural bacterial pathogen.
Biochem. J., in press [PubMed Abstract]

Sommer, F., Awazu, S., Anton-Erxleben, F., Jiang, D., Klimovich, A.V., Klimovich, B.V., Samoilovich, M.P., Satou, Y., Krüss, M., Gelhaus, C., Kürn, U., Bosch, T.C., Khalturin, K. (2012). Blood system formation in the urochordate Ciona intestinalis requires the variable receptor vCRL1.
Mol. Biol. Evol., in press [PubMed Abstract]

Jung, S., Sönnichsen, F.D., Hung, C.-W., Tholey, A., Boidin-Wichlacz, C., Haeusgen, W., Gelhaus, C., Desel, C., Podschun, R., Waetzig, V., Tasiemski, A., Leippe, M., Grötzinger, J. (2012). The macin family of antimicrobial proteins combines antimicrobial and nerve-repair activities.
J. Biol. Chem. 287, 14246-14258 [PubMed Abstract]

Schlusselhuber, M., Jung, S., Bruhn, O., Goux, D., Leippe, M., Leclercq, R., Laugier, C., Grötzinger, J., Cauchard, J. (2012). In vitro potential of equine DEFA1 and eCATH1 as alternative antimicrobial drugs in rhodococcosis treatment.
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 56, 1749-1755 [PubMed Abstract]

Philipp, S., Jakoby, T., Tholey, A., Janssen, O., Leippe, M., Gelhaus, C. (2012). Cationic detergents enable the separation of membrane proteins of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes by 2D gel electrophoresis.
Electrophoresis 33, 1120-1128 [PubMed Abstract]

 

2011

Di Bella, M.A., Fedders, H., De Leo G., Leippe, M. (2011). Localization of antimicrobial peptides in the tunic of Ciona intestinalis (Ascidiacea, Tunicata) and their involvement in local inflammatory-like reactions.
Res. Immunol.1, 70-75 [Journal abstract]

Langolf, S., Machon, U., Sicking, W., Schirmeister, T., Büchhold, C., Gelhaus, C., Rosenthal, P.J., Schmuck, C. (2011). Development of antitrypanosomal and antiplasmodial nonpeptidic cysteine protease inhibitors based on N-protected-guanidino-furan and -pyrrole building blocks.
ChemMedChem 6, 1581-1586 [Journal Abstract]

Jena, P., Mishra, B., Leippe, M., Hasilik, A., Griffiths, G., Sonawane, A. (2011). Membrane-active antimicrobial peptides and human placental lysosomal extracts are highly active against mycobacteria.
Peptides 32, 881-887. [PubMed Abstract]

Schmidt, H., Gelhaus, C., Nebendahl, M., Lettau, M., Lucius, R., Leippe, M., Kabelitz, D., Janssen, O. (2011).
Effector granules in human T lymphocytes: the luminal proteome of secretory lysosomes from human T cells.
Cell Commun. Signal. 9:4. [Journal Abstract]

Schmidt, H., Gelhaus, C., Nebendahl, M., Lettau, M., Lucius, R., Leippe, M., Kabelitz, D., Janssen, O. (2011). Effector granules in human T lymphocytes: Proteomic evidence for two distinct species of cytotoxic effector vesicles.
J. Proteome Res. 10, 1603–1620. [Journal Abstract]

Jung, S., Mysliwy, J., Spudy, B., Lorenzen, I., Reiss, K., Gelhaus, C., Podschun, R., Leippe, M., Grötzinger, J. (2011). Human ß-defensin 2 and ß-defensin 3 chimeric peptides reveal the structural basis of the pathogen specificity of their parent molecules.
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 55, 954-960. [PubMed Abstract]

 

2010

Fraune, S., Augustin, R., Anton-Erxleben, F., Wittlieb, J., Gelhaus, C., Klimovich, V.B., Samoilovich, M.P., Bosch, T.C.G. (2010). Embryo protection at the base of animal evolution: Bacterial colonization during embryogenesis is controlled by maternal AMPs.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107,18067-18072. [PubMed Abstract]

Schmidt, H., Gelhaus, C., Nebendahl, M., Janssen, O., Petersen, A. (2010). Characterization of Phleum pratense pollen extracts by 2D-DIGE and allergen immunoreactivity.
Proteomics 10, 4352-4362. [Journal Abstract]

Waag, T., Gelhaus, C., Rath, J., Stich, A., Leippe, M., Schirmeister, T. (2010). Allicin and derivates are cysteine protease inhibitors with antiparasitic activity.
Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 20, 5541-5543. [PubMed Abstract]

Bova, F., Ettari, R., Micale, N., Carnovale, C., Schirmeister, T., Gelhaus, C., Leippe, M., Grasso, S., Zappalà, M. (2010). Constrained peptidomimetics as antiplasmodial falcipain-2 inhibitors.
Bioorg. Med. Chem. 18, 4928-4938. [PubMed Abstract]

Schmidt, H., Krause, S., Gelhaus, C., Petersen, A., Janssen, O., Becker, W.-M. (2010). Detection and structural characterization of natural Ara h 7, the third peanut allergen of the 2S albumin family.
J. Proteome Res. 9, 3701-3709. [PubMed Abstract]

Fedders, H., Podschun, R., Leippe, M. (2010). The antimicrobial peptide Ci-MAM-A24 is highly active against multidrug-resistant and anaerobic bacteria pathogenic for humans.
Int. J. Antimicrob. Agents 36, 264-266. [PubMed Abstract]

Ettari, R., Zappalà, M., Micale, N., Schirmeister, T., Gelhaus, C., Leippe, M., Evers, A., Grasso, S. (2010). Synthesis of novel peptidomimetics as inhibitors of protozoan cysteine proteases falcipain-2 and rhodesain.
Eur. J. Med. Chem. 45, 3228-3233.[PubMed Abstract]

Breuning, A., Degel, B., Schulz, F., Büchold, C., Stempka, M., Machon, U., Heppner, S., Gelhaus, C., Leippe, M., Leyh, M., Kisker, C., Rath, J., Stich, A., Gut, J., Rosenthal, P.J., Schmuck, C., Schirmeister, T. (2010). Michael acceptor based antiplasmodial and antitrypanosomal cysteine protease inhibitors with unusual amino acids.
J. Med. Chem. 53, 1951-1963. [PubMed Abstract]

Lettau, M., Pieper, J., Gerneth, A., Lengl-Janßen, B., Voss, M., Linkermann, A., Schmidt, H., Gelhaus, C., Leippe, M., Kabelitz, D., Janssen, O. (2010). The adapter protein Nck: Role of individual SH3 and SH2 binding modules for protein interactions in T lymphocytes.
Protein Sci. 19, 658-669.[PubMed Abstract]

Mysliwy, J., Dingley, A.J., Stanisak, M., Jung, S., Lorenzen, I., Roeder, T., Leippe, M., Grötzinger, J. (2010). The solution structure of caenopore-5: an antimicrobial protein from Caenorhabditis elegans.
Dev. Comp. Immunol. 34, 323-330. [PubMed Abstract]

Roeder, T., Stanisak, M., Gelhaus, C., Bruchhaus, I., Grötzinger, J., Leippe, M. (2010). Caenopores are antimicrobial peptides in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans instrumental in nutrition and immunity.
Dev. Comp. Immunol. 34, 203-209. [PubMed Abstract]

2009

Machon, U., Büchold, C., Stempka, M., Schirmeister, T., Gelhaus, C., Leippe, M., Gut, J., Rosenthal, P.J., Kisker, C., Leyh, M., Schmuck, C. (2009). On-bead screening of a combinatorial fumaric acid derived peptide library yields antiplasmodial cysteine protease inhibitors with unusual peptide sequences.
J. Med. Chem. 52, 5662-5672. [PubMed Abstract]

Micale, N., Ettari, R., Schirmeister, T., Evers, A., Gelhaus, C., Leippe, M., Zappalà, M., Grasso, S. (2009). Novel 2H-isoquinolin-3-ones as antiplasmodial falcipain-2 inhibitors.
Bioorg. Med. Chem. 17, 6505-6511. [PubMed Abstract]

Schmidt, H., Gelhaus, C., Lucius, R., Nebendahl, M., Leippe, M., Janssen, O. (2009). Enrichment and analysis of secretory lysosomes from lymphocyte populations.
BMC Immunology 10:41 [PubMed Abstract]

Xun, Y., Tremouilhac, P., Carraher, C., Gelhaus, C., Ozawa, K., Otting, G., Dixon, N.E., Leippe, M., Grötzinger, J., Dingley, A.J., Kralicek, A.V. (2009). Cell-free synthesis and combinatorial selective 15N-labeling of the cytotoxic protein amoebapore A from Entamoeba histolytica.
Prot. Expr. Purif. 68, 22-27. [PubMed Abstract]

Biller, L., Schmidt, H., Krause, E., Gelhaus, C., Handal, G., Lotter, H., Janssen, O., Tannich, E., Bruchhaus, I. (2009). Comparison of two genetically related Entamoeba histolytica cell lines derived from the same isolate with different pathogenic properties.
Proteomics 9, 4107-4120. [PubMed Abstract]

Schmidt, H., Gelhaus, C., Latendorf, T., Nebendahl, M., Petersen, A., Krause, S., Leippe, M., Becker, W.-M., Janssen, O. (2009). 2D-DIGE analysis of the proteome of extracts from peanut variants reveals striking differences in major allergen contents.
Proteomics 9, 3507-3521. [PubMed Abstract]

Irmer, H., Tillack, M., Biller, L., Handal, G., Leippe, M., Roeder, T., Tannich, E., Bruchhaus, I. (2009). Major cysteine peptidases of Entamoeba histolytica are required for aggregation and digestion of erythrocytes but are dispensable for phagocytosis and cytopathogenicity.
Mol. Microbiol. 72, 658-667. [PubMed Abstract]

Harrington, J.M., Chou, H.-T., Gutsmann, T., Gelhaus, C., Stahlberg, H., Leippe, M., Armstrong, P.B. (2009). Membrane activity of a C-reactive protein.
FEBS Lett. 583, 1001-1005. [PubMed Abstract]

Ettari, R., Micale, N., Schirmeister, T., Gelhaus, C., Leippe, M., Nizi, E., Di Francesco, E.M., Grasso, S., Zappalà, M. (2009). Novel peptidomimetics containing a vinyl ester moiety as highly potent and selective falcipain-2 Inhibitors.
J. Med. Chem. 52, 2157-2160.[PubMed Abstract]

Andrä, J., Hammer, M.U., Grötzinger, J., Jakovkin, I., Lindner, B., Vollmer, E., Fedders, H., Leippe, M., Gutsmann, T. (2009). Significance of the cyclic structure and of arginine residues for the antibacterial activity of arenicin-1 and its interaction with phospholipid and lipopolysaccharide model membranes.
Biol. Chem. 390, 337-349.[PubMed Abstract]

Bruhn, O., Cauchard, J., Schlusselhuber, M., Gelhaus, C., Podschun, R., Thaller, G., Laugier, C., Leippe, M., Grötzinger, J. (2009). Antimicrobial properties of the equine alpha-defensin DEFA1 against bacterial horse pathogens.
Vet. Immunol. Immunopathol. 130, 102-106.[PubMed Abstract]

Michalek, M., Gelhaus, C., Hecht, O., Podschun, R., Schröder, J.M., Leippe, M., Grötzinger, J. (2009). The human antimicrobial protein psoriasin acts by permeabilization of bacterial membranes.
Dev. Comp. Immunol. 33, 740-746. [PubMed Abstract]

Regenhard, P., Leippe, M., Schubert, S., Podschun, R., Kalm, E., Grötzinger, J., Looft, C. (2009). Antimicrobial activity of bovine psoriasin.
Vet. Microbiol. 136, 335-340. [PubMed Abstract]

Jung, S., Dingley, A.J., Augustin, R., Anton-Erxleben, F., Stanisak, M., Gelhaus, C., Gutsmann, T., Hammer, M.U., Podschun, R., Bonvin, A.M.J.J., Leippe, M., Bosch, T.C.G., Grötzinger, J. (2009). Hydramacin-1: Structure and antibacterial activity of a protein from the basal metazoan Hydra.
J. Biol. Chem. 284, 1896-1905. [PubMed Abstract]

Bosch, T.C.G., Augustin, R., Anton-Erxleben, F., Fraune, S., Hemmrich, G., Zill, H., Rosenstiel, P., Jacobs, G., Schreiber, S., Leippe, M., Stanisak, M., Grötzinger, J., Jung, S., Podschun, R., Bartels, J., Harder, J., Schröder, J.M. (2009). Uncovering the evolutionary history of innate immunity: the simple metazoan Hydra uses epithelial cells for host defense.
Dev. Comp. Immunol. 33, 559-569. [PubMed Abstract]

Linkermann, A., Gelhaus, C., Lettau, M., Qian, J., Kabelitz, D., Janssen, O. (2009). Identification of interaction partners for individual SH3 domains of Fas ligand associated members of the PCH protein family in T lymphocytes.
Biochim. Biophys. Acta - Proteins and Proteomics 1794, 168-176. [PubMed Abstract]

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2008

Dude, M.-A., Kaeppler, U., Herb, M., Schiller, M., Schulz, F., Vedder, B., Heppner, S., Pradel, G., Gut, J., Rosenthal, P.J., Schirmeister, T., Leippe, M., Gelhaus, C. (2008). Synthesis and evaluation of non-peptidic cysteine protease inhibitors of P. falciparum derived from etacrynic acid.
Molecules 14, 19-35. [PubMed Abstract]

Evers, A., Heppner, S., Leippe, M., Gelhaus, C. (2008). An efficient fluorimetric method to measure the viability of intraerythrocytic Plasmodium falciparum.
Biol. Chem. 389, 1523-1525. [PubMed Abstract]

Schikorski, D., Cuvillier-Hot, V., Leippe, M., Boidin-Wichlacz, C., Slomianny, C., Macagno, E., Salzet, M., Tasiemski, A. (2008). Microbial challenge promotes the regenerative process of the injured central nervous system of the medicinal leech by inducing the synthesis of antimicrobial peptides in neurons and microglia.
J. Immunol. 181, 1083-1095. [PubMed Abstract]

Fedders, H., Michalek, M., Grötzinger, J., Leippe, M. (2008). An exceptional salt tolerant antimicrobial peptide derived from a novel gene family of haemocytes of the marine invertebrate Ciona intestinalis.
Biochem. J. 416, 65-75. [PubMed Abstract]

Schmidt, H., Gelhaus, C., Nebendahl, M., Lettau, M., Watzl, C., Kabelitz, D., Leippe, M., Janssen, O. (2008). 2D-DIGE analyses of enriched secretory lysosomes reveal heterogeneous profiles of functionally relevant proteins in leukemic and activated human NK cells.
Proteomics 8, 2911-2925.[Proteomics Abstract]

Harrington, J.M., Chou, H.T., Gutsmann, T., Gelhaus, C., Stahlberg, H., Leippe, M., Armstrong, P.B. (2008). Membrane pore formation by pentraxin proteins from Limulus, the American horseshoe crab.
Biochem. J. 413, 305-313. [PubMed Abstract]

Gelhaus, C., Jacobs, T., Andrä, J., Leippe, M. (2008). The antimicrobial peptide NK-2, the core region of mammalian NK-lysin, kills intraerythrocytic Plasmodium falciparum.
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 52, 1713-1720. [AAC Abstract]

Harrington, J.M., Leippe, M., Armstrong, P.B. (2008). Epithelial immunity in a marine invertebrate: a cytolytic activity from a cuticular secretion of the American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus.
Mar. Biol. 153, 1165-1171. [Mar. Biol. Abstract]

Fedders, H., Leippe, M. (2008). A reverse search for antimicrobial peptides in Ciona intestinalis: Identification of a gene family expressed in hemocytes and evaluation of activity.
Dev. Comp. Immunol. 32, 286-298. [PubMed Abstract]

Andrä, J., Jakovkin, I., Grötzinger, J., Hecht, O., Krasnosdembskaya, A.D., Goldmann, T., Gutsmann, T., Leippe, M. (2008). Structure and mode of action of the antimicrobial peptide arenicin.
Biochem. J. 410, 113-122. [PubMed Abstract]

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2007

 

Bringmann, G., Gampe, C., Reichert, Y., Bruhn, T., Faber, J., Mikyna, M., Reichert, M., Leippe, M., Brun, R., Gelhaus, C. (2007). Synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of fluorescent and photoactivateable analogs of antiplasmodial naphthylisoquinolines.
J. Med. Chem. 50, 6104-6115. [PubMed Abstract]

Bruhn, O., Regenhard, P., Michalek, M., Paul, S., Gelhaus, C., Jung, S., Thaller, G., Podschun, R., Leippe, M., Grötzinger, J., Kalm, E. (2007). A novel alpha-defensin of the horse: gene transcription, recombinant expression and characterisation of the structure and function.
Biochem. J. 407, 267-276. [PubMed Abstract]

Clark, C.G., Alsmark, U.C.M., Tazreiter, M., Saito-Nakano, Y, Ali, V., Marion, S., Weber, C., Mukherjee, C., Bruchhaus, I., Tannich, E., Leippe, M., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Foster, P.G., Samuelson, J., Noël, C.J., Hirt, R.P., Embley, T.M., Gilchrist, C.A., Mann, B.J., Singh, U., Ackers, J.P., Bhattacharya, S., Bhattacharya, A., Lohia, A., Guillén, N., Duchêne, M., Nozaki, T., and Hall, N. (2007). Structure and content of the Entamoeba histolytica genome.
Advances in Parasitology 65, 51-190. (review) [PubMed Abstract]

Schulz, F., Gelhaus, C., Degel, B., Vicik, R., Heppner, S., Breuning, A., Leippe, M., Gut, J., Rosenthal, P.J., Schirmeister, T. (2007). Screening of protease inhibitors as antiplasmodial agents. Part I: aziridines and epoxides.
ChemMedChem 2, 1214-1224. [PubMed Abstract]

Wehling, C., Beimgraben, C., Gelhaus, C., Friedrich, T., Saftig, P., Grötzinger, J., Schwake, M. (2007). Self-assembly of the isolated KCNQ2 subunit interaction domain.
FEBS Lett. 581, 1594-1598. [PubMed Abstract].

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2006

 

Vicik, R., Busemann, M., Gelhaus, C., Stiefl, N., Scheiber, J., Schmitz, W., Schulz, F., Mladenovic, M., Engels, B., Leippe, M., Baumann, K., Schirmeister, T. (2006). Aziridine based inhibitors of cathepsin L - synthesis, inhibition activity and docking studies.
ChemMedChem 1, 1126-1141. [PubMed Abstract]

Winkelmann, J., Leippe, M. and Bruhn, H. (2006). A novel saposin-like protein of Entamoeba histolytica with membrane-fusogenic activity.
Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 147, 85-94. [PubMed Abstract]

Bruhn, H., Winkelmann, J., Andersen, C., Andrä, J. and Leippe, M. (2006). Dissection of the mechanisms of cytolytic and antibacterial activity of lysenin, a defence protein of the annelid Eisenia fetida.
Dev. Comp. Immunol. 30, 597-606. [PubMed Abstract]

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2005

 

Kolter, T., Winau, F., Schaible, U.E., Leippe, M., Sandhoff, K. (2005). Lipid-binding proteins in membrane digestion, antigen presentation, and antimicrobial defense.
J. Biol. Chem. 280, 41125-41128. [PDF]

Gelhaus, C., Vicik, R., Schirmeister, T., Leippe, M. (2005). Blocking effect of a biotinylated protease inhibitor on the egress of Plasmodium falciparum merozoites from infected red blood cells.
Biol. Chem. 386, 499-502. [PubMed Abstract]

Gelhaus, C., Fritsch, J., Krause, E., Leippe, M. (2005). Fractionation and identification of proteins by two-dimensional electrophoresis and mass spectrometry: towards proteome analysis of Plasmodium falciparum.
Proteomics 5, 4213-4222. [PubMed Abstract]

Bruhn, H., Jacobs, T., Urban, B., Leippe, M. (2005). An exceptionally short alpha-actinin-like protein from the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica.
J. Biol. Sci. 5, 76-81.

Loftus, B., Anderson, I., Davies, R., Alsmark, U.C., Samuelson, J., Amedeo, P., Roncaglia, P., Berriman, M., Hirt, R.P., Mann, B.J., Nozaki, T., Suh, B., Pop, M., Duchene, M., Ackers, J., Tannich, E., Leippe, M., Hofer, M., Bruchhaus, I., Willhoeft, U., Bhattacharya, A., Chillingworth, T., Churcher, C., Hance, Z., Harris, B., Harris, D., Jagels, K., Moule, S., Mungall, K., Ormond, D., Squares, R., Whitehead, S., Quail, M.A., Rabbinowitsch, E., Norbertczak, H., Price, C., Wang, Z., Guillen, N., Gilchrist, C., Stroup, S.E., Bhattacharya, S., Lohia, A., Foster, P.G., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Weber, C., Singh, U., Mukherjee, C., El-Sayed, N.M., Petri, W.A. Jr, Clark, C.G., Embley, T.M., Barrell, B., Fraser, C.M., Hall, N. (2005). The genome of the protist parasite Entamoeba histolytica.
Nature 433, 865-868. [PubMed Abstract]

Müller, I., Subert, N., Otto, H., Herbst, R., Rühling, H., Maniak, M., Leippe, M. (2005). A Dictyostelium mutant with reduced lysozyme levels compensates by increased phagocytic activity.
J. Biol. Chem. 280, 10435-10443. [PDF]

Leippe, M., Bruhn, H., Hecht, O., Grötzinger, J. (2005). Ancient weapons: the three-dimensional structure of amoebapore A.
Trends Parasitol. 21, 5-7. [PubMed Abstract]

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2004

 

Riekenberg, S., Flockenhaus, B., Vahrmann, A., Müller M.C.M., Leippe, M., Kieß, M., Scholze, H. (2004). The beta-N-acetylhexosaminidase of Entamoeba histolytica is composed of two homologous chains and has been localized to cytoplasmic granules.
Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 138, 217-225. [PubMed Abstract]

Saito-Nakano, Y., Yasuda, T., Nakada-Tsukui, K., Leippe, M., Nozaki, T. (2004). Rab5-associated vacuoles play a unique role in phagocytosis of the enteric protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica.
J. Biol. Chem. 279, 49497-49507. [PDF]

Leippe, M., Herbst, R (2004). Ancient weapons for attack and defense: The pore-forming polypeptides of pathogenic enteric and free-living amoeboid protozoa.
J. Euk. Microbiol. (Review) 51, 516-521 [PubMed Abstract]

Herbst, R., Marciano-Cabral, F., Leippe, M. (2004). Antimicrobial and pore-forming peptides of free-living and potentially highly pathogenic Naegleria fowleri are released from the same precursor molecule.
J. Biol. Chem. 279, 25955- 25958. [PubMed Abstract]

Dominguez-Bello, M.G., Pacheco, A., Ruiz, M.C., Michelangeli, F., Leippe, M., De Pedro, M. A. (2004). Resistance of rumen bacteria murein to bovine gastric lysozyme.
BMC Ecol. 4, 1-6. [PDF]

Gelhaus, C., Vicik, R., Hilgenfeld,R., Schmidt, C.L., Leippe, M., Schirmeister, T. (2004). Synthesis and antiplasmodial activity of a cysteine-protease inhibiting biotinylated aziridine-2,3-dicarboxylate.
Biol. Chem. 385, 435-438. [PubMed Abstract]

Andrä, J., Berninghausen, O., Leippe, M. (2004). Membrane lipid composition protects Entamoeba histolytica from self-destruction by its pore-forming toxins.
FEBS Lett. 564, 109-115. [PubMed Abstract]

Hecht, O., van Nuland, N., Schleinkofer, K., Dingley, A.J., Bruhn, H., Leippe, M., Grötzinger, J. (2004). Solution structure of the pore-forming protein of Entamoeba histolytica.
J. Biol. Chem. 279, 17834-17841. [PubMed Abstract]

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2003

 

Bruhn, H., Riekens, B., Berninghausen, O., Leippe, M. (2003). Amoebapores and NK-lysin, members of a class of structurally distinct antimicrobial and cytolytic peptides from protozoa and mammals - a comparative functional analysis.
Biochem. J. 375, 737-744. [PubMed Abstract]

Gutsmann, T., Riekens, B., Bruhn, H., Wiese, A., Seydel, U., Leippe, M. (2003). Interaction of amoebapores and NK-lysin with symmetric phospholipid and asymmetric lipopolysaccharide/phospholipid bilayers.
Biochemistry 42, 9804-9812. [PubMed Abstract]

Bente, M., Harder, S., Wiesgigl, M., Heukeshoven, J., Gelhaus, C., Krause, E., Clos, J., Bruchhaus, I. (2003). Developmentally induced changes of the proteome in the protozoan parasite Leishmania donovani.
Proteomics 3, 1811-1829 [PubMed Abstract]

Jacobs, T., Bruhn, H., Gaworski, I., Fleischer, B., Leippe, M. (2003) NK-lysin and its shortened analog NK-2 exhibit potent activity against Trypanosoma cruzi.
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother., 47, 607-613. [PubMed Abstract]

Andrä, J., Herbst, R., Leippe, M. (2003). Amoebapores, archaic effector peptides of protozoan origin, are discharged into phagosomes and kill bacteria by permeabilizing their membranes.
Dev. Comp. Immunol. 27, 291-304. [PubMed Abstract]

Steinert, M., Leippe, M., Röder, T. (2003). Surrogate hosts: protozoa and invertebrates as models for studying pathogen-host interactions.
Int. J. Med. Microbiol. 293, 321-332. (Review) [PubMed Abstract]

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before 2003

 

Gao, T., Ehrenman, K., Tang, L., Leippe, M., Brock, D. A., Gomer, R.H. (2002). Cells respond to and bind countin, a component of a multisubunit cell-number counting factor.
J. Biol. Chem. 277, 32596-32605. [PDF]

Herbst, R., Ott, C., Jacobs, T., Marti, T., Marciano-Cabral, F., Leippe, M. (2002). Pore-forming polypeptides of the pathogenic protozoon Naegleria fowleri.
J. Biol. Chem. 277, 22353-22360. [PDF]

Hellberg, A., Nowak, N., Leippe, M., Tannich, E., Bruchhaus, I. (2002). Recombinant expression and purification of an enzymatically active cysteine proteinase of the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica.
Protein Expres. Purif. 24, 131-137. [PubMed Abstract]

Bruhn, H., Leippe, M. (2001). Novel putative saposin-like proteins of Entamoeba histolytica different from amoebapores.
Biochim. Biophys. Acta (Biomembranes) 1514, 14-20. [PubMed Abstract]

Bruhn, H., Leippe, M. (2001). Membrane-permeabilizing polypeptides of amoebae – constituents of an archaic antimicrobial system.
Zoology 104, 3-11 (Review) [PubMed Abstract]

Andrä J., Berninghausen, O., Leippe, M. (2001). Cecropins, antibacterial peptides from insects and mammals, are potently fungicidal against Candida albicans.
Med. Microbiol. Immunol. 189, 169-173. [Pubmed Abstract]

Ebert, F., Guillén, N., Leippe, M., Tannich, E. (2000). Molecular cloning and cellular localization of an unusual bipartite Entamoeba histolytica polypeptide with similarity to actin binding proteins.
Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 111, 459-464. [PubMed Abstract]

Ernst, W.A., Thoma-Uszynski, S., Teitelbaum, R., Ko, C., Hanson, D.A., Clayberger, C., Krensky, A.M., Leippe, M., Bloom, B.R., Ganz, T., Modlin, R.L. (2000). Granulysin, a T cell product, kills bacteria by altering membrane permeability.
J. Immunol. 165, 7102-7108. [PDF]

Nickel, R., Jacobs, T., Urban, B., Scholze, H., Bruhn, H., Leippe, M. (2000). Two novel calcium-binding proteins from cytoplasmic granules of the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica.
FEBS Lett. 486, 112-116. [PubMed Abstract]

Nickel, R., Stern, R., Leippe, M. (2000). Evidence that hyaluronidase is not involved in tissue invasion of the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica.
Infect. Immun. 68, 3053-3055. [PDF]

Hellberg, A., Leippe, M., Bruchhaus, I. (2000). Two major `higher molecular mass proteinases´of Entamoeba histolytica are identified as cysteine proteinases 1 and 2.
Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 105, 305-309. [PubMed Abstract]

Andrä, J., Leippe, M. (1999). Candidacidal activity of shortened synthetic analogs of amoebapores and NK-lysin.
Med. Microbiol. Immunol. 188, 117-124. [PubMed Abstract]

Bracha, R., Nuchamowitz, Y., Leippe, M., Mirelman, D. (1999). Antisense inhibition of amoebapore expression in Entamoeba histolytica causes decrease in amoebic virulence.
Mol. Microbiol. 34, 463-472. [PubMed Abstract]

Leippe, M. (1999). Amöben durchlöchern Zellmembranen.
BIOspectrum 5, 383-385 (Review).

Leippe, M. (1999). Antimicrobial and cytolytic polypeptides of amoeboid protozoa--effector molecules of primitive phagocytes.
Dev. Comp. Immunol. 23(4-5), 267-279 (Review) [PubMed Abstract]

Nickel, R., Ott, C., Dandekar, T., Leippe, M. (1999). Pore-forming peptides of Entamoeba dispar: similarity and divergence to amoebapores in structure, expression and activity.
Eur. J. Biochem. 265, 1002-1007. [PubMed Abstract]

Bruhn, H., Leippe, M. (1999). Comparative modeling of amoebapores and granulysin based on the NK-lysin structure – structural and functional implications.
Biol. Chem. 380, 1001-1007. [PubMed Abstract]

Nickel, R., Jacobs, T., Leippe, M. (1998). Molecular characterization of an exceptionally acidic lysozyme-like protein from the protozoon Entamoeba histolytica.
FEBS Lett. 437, 153-157. [PubMed Abstract]

Jacobs, T., Bruchhaus, I., Dandekar, T., Tannich, E., Leippe, M. (1998). Isolation and molecular characterization of a surface-bound proteinase of Entamoeba histolytica.
Mol. Microbiol. 27, 269-276. [PubMed Abstract]

Berninghausen, O., Leippe, M. (1997). Necrosis versus apoptosis as the mechanism of target cell death induced by Entamoeba histolytica.
Infect. Immun. 65, 3615-3621. [PDF]

Dandekar, T., Leippe, M. (1997). Molecular modeling of amoebapore and NK-lysin: A four-a-helix bundle motif of cytolytic effector molecules from distantly related organisms.
Folding and Design 2, 47-52. [PubMed Abstract]

Berninghausen, O., Leippe, M. (1997). Calcium-independent cytolysis of target cells induced by Entamoeba histolytica.
Arch. Med. Res. 28, 158-160. [PubMed Abstract]

Benkert, C., Jacobs, T., Berninghausen, O., Andrä, J., Leippe, M. (1997). Molecular basis of aggressive and defensive functions of Entamoeba histolytica.
Arch. Med. Res. 28, 152-153 (Review) [PubMed Abstract]

Leippe, M. (1997). Amoebapores.
Trends Parasitol. (formerly Parasitol. Today) 13, 178-183 (Review). [PubMed Abstract]

Bruchhaus, I., Jacobs, T., Leippe, M., Tannich, E. (1996). Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar: differences in numbers and expression of cysteine proteinase genes.
Mol. Microbiol. 22, 255-263. [PubMed Abstract]

Andrä, J., Berninghausen, O., Wülfken, J., Leippe, M. (1996). Shortened amoebapore analogs with enhanced antibacterial and cytolytic activity.
FEBS Lett. 385, 96-100. [PubMed Abstract]

Leippe, M. (1995). Ancient weapons: NK-lysin is a mammalian homolog to pore-forming peptides of a protozoan parasite.
Cell 83, 17-18. [PubMed Abstract]

Jacobs, T., Leippe, M. (1995). Purification and molecular cloning of a major antibacterial protein of the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica with lysozyme-like properties.
Eur. J. Biochem. 231, 831-838. [PubMed Abstract]

Leippe, M., Sievertsen, H. J., Tannich, E., Horstmann, R.D. (1995). Spontaneous release of cysteine proteinases but not of pore-forming peptides by viable Entamoeba histolytica.
Parasitology 111, 569-574. [PubMed Abstract]

Andrä, J., Leippe, M. (1994) Pore-forming peptide of Entamoeba histolytica: Significance of positively charged amino acid residues for its mode of action.
FEBS Lett. 354, 97-102. [PubMed Abstract]

Leippe, M., Andrä, J., Nickel, R., Tannich, E., Müller-Eberhard, H.J. (1994) Amoebapores, a family of membranolytic peptides from cytoplasmic granules of Entamoeba histolytica: isolation, primary structure, and pore formation in bacterial cytoplasmic membranes.
Mol. Microbiol. 14, 895-904. [PubMed Abstract]

Leippe, M., Andrä, J., Müller-Eberhard, H.J. (1994) Cytolytic and antibacterial activity of synthetic peptides derived from amoebapore, the pore-forming peptide of Entamoeba histolytica.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91, 2602-2606. [PDF]

Leippe, M., Müller-Eberhard, H.J. (1994) The pore-forming peptide of Entamoeba histolytica, the protozoan parasite causing human amoebiasis.
Toxicology 87 (Special Issue: "Pore-forming toxins"), 5-18 (Review). [PubMed Abstract]

Bruchhaus, I., Leippe, M., Lioutas, C., Tannich, E. (1993) Unusual gene organization of Entamoeba histolytica.
DNA Cell Biol. 12, 925-933. [PubMed Abstract]

Leippe, M., Bahr, E., Tannich, E., Horstmann, R.D. (1993) Comparison of pore-forming peptides from pathogenic and nonpathogenic Entamoeba histolytica.
Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 59, 101-110. [PubMed Abstract]

Leippe, M. (1992) Membrane perforation by Entamoeba histolytica: Structural implications derived from the sequence of the pore-forming peptide.
Arch. Med. Res. 23, 35-37. [PubMed Abstract]

Leippe, M., Tannich, E., Nickel, R., van der Goot, G., Pattus, F., Horstmann, R.D., Müller-Eberhard, H.J. (1992) Primary and secondary structure of the pore-forming peptide of pathogenic Entamoeba histolytica.
EMBO J. 11, 3501-3506. [PubMed Abstract]

Horstmann, R.D., Sievertsen, H.J., Leippe, M., Fichetti, V.A. (1992) Role of fibrinogen in complement inhibition by streptococcal M protein.
Infect. Immun. 60, 5036-5041. [PDF]

Horstmann, R.D., Leippe, M., Tannich, E. (1992) Recent progress in the molecular biology of Entamoeba histolytica.
Trop. Med. Parasitol. 43, 213-218 (Review) [Pubmed Abstract]

Tannich, E., Leippe, M., Horstmann, R.D. (1992) Aktuelle Befunde zur Pathogenität von Entamoeba histolytica.
Immunität und Infektion 5, 146-150 (Review).

Horstmann, R.D., Leippe, M., Tannich, E. (1992) Host tissue destruction by Entamoeba histolytica: Molecules mediating adhesion, cytolysis, and proteolysis.
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 87, Suppl. V, 57-60 (Review). [PubMed Abstract]

Leippe, M., Ebel, S., Schoenberger, O.L., Horstmann, R.D., Müller-Eberhard, H.J. (1991) Pore-forming peptide of pathogenic Entamoeba histolytica.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88, 7659-7663. [PDF]

Timmann, C., Leippe, M., and Horstmann, R.D. (1991) Two major serum components antigenically related to complement factor H are different glycosylation forms of a single protein with no factor H-like complement regulatory functions.
J. Immunol. 146, 1265-1270. [PubMed Abstract]

Leippe, M., Renwrantz, L. (1988) Release of cytotoxic and agglutinating molecules by Mytilus hemocytes. Dev. Comp. Immunol. 12, 297-308. [PubMed Abstract]

Leippe, M., Renwrantz, L. (1985) On the capability of bivalve and gastropod hemocytes to secrete cytotoxic molecules.
J. Invertebr. Pathol. 46, 209-210.

 





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