Publications

Johnstone, Megan E., Ashley L. Leck, Taylor E. Lange, Katherine E. Wilcher, Miranda S. Shephard, Aditi Paranjpe, Sophia Schutte, et al. “DEK promotes mammary hyperplasia and is associated with H3K27me3 epigenetic modifications.” Life Science Alliance 8, no. 9 (September 2025): e202503230. https://doi.org/10.26508/lsa.202503230.

Xu, Nengwei, Kunqi Chen, Malte Prell, Pengtao Liang, Shuhuai Yang, Shengjie Guo, Yuli Lu, Soham Dorle, Samia Idaghdour, and Ferdinand Kappes. “DEK-rRNA interactions regulate ribosome biogenesis and stress response.” Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, August 23, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.23.609341.

Janiak, Amelia, PengCheng Tan, Ferdinand Kappes, Felice Petraglia, Chiara Donati, Xinyue Liu, Renata Koviazina, Fangrong Shen, and Anastasia Tsigkou. “Upregulation of DEK Expression in Uterine Myomas and Cervical Cancer as a Potential Prognostic Factor.” Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, August 13, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.12.607532.

Gu, Helene, Zhenyu Xu, Renata Koviazina, Pengcheng Tan, Changcheng Zheng, Ferdinand Kappes, Domna Kotsifaki, Fangrong Shen, and Anastasia Tsigkou. “Detection of Nontoxic BoNT/A Levels in Post-Facial Botox Injection Breastmilk using a Multi-technique Approach.” BioRxiv, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.22.595434.

Johnstone, Megan, Ashley Leck, Taylor Lange, Katherine Wilcher, Miranda Shephard, Aditi Paranjpe, Sophia Schutte, et al. “The chromatin remodeler DEK promotes proliferation of mammary epithelium and is associated with H3K27me3 epigenetic modifications.” BioRxiv, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.09.612116.

Gu, H., Z. Xu, R. Koviazina, P. Tan, C. Zheng, F. Kappes, D. G. Kotsifaki, F. Shen, and A. Tsigkou. “Detection of nontoxic BoNT/A levels in post-facial Botox injection breastmilk.” Frontiers in Drug Safety and Regulation 4 (January 1, 2024). https://doi.org/10.3389/fdsfr.2024.1480515.

Pierzynska-Mach, Agnieszka, Christina Czada, Christopher Vogel, Eva Gwosch, Xenia Osswald, Denis Bartoschek, Alberto Diaspro, Ferdinand Kappes, and Elisa Ferrando-May. “DEK oncoprotein participates in heterochromatin replication via SUMO-dependent nuclear bodies.” Journal of Cell Science 136, no. 23 (December 2023): jcs261329. https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.261329.

Pierzynska-Mach, Agnieszka, Christina Czada, Christopher Vogel, Eva Gwosch, Xenia Osswald, Denis Bartoschek, Alberto Diaspro, Ferdinand Kappes, and Elisa Ferrando-May. “DEK oncoprotein participates in heterochromatin replication via SUMO-dependent nuclear bodies.” BioRxiv, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.09.529154.

Guo, Haihong, Nengwei Xu, Malte Prell, Hiltrud Königs, Benita Hermanns-Sachweh, Bernhard Lüscher, and Ferdinand Kappes. “Bacterial Growth Inhibition Screen (BGIS): harnessing recombinant protein toxicity for rapid and unbiased interrogation of protein function.” FEBS Letters 595, no. 10 (May 2021): 1422–37. https://doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.14072.

Guo, Haihong, Malte Prell, Hiltrud Königs, Nengwei Xu, Tanja Waldmann, Benita Hermans-Sachweh, Elisa Ferrando-May, Bernhard Lüscher, and Ferdinand Kappes. “Bacterial Growth Inhibition Screen (BGIS) identifies a loss-of-function mutant of the DEK oncogene, indicating DNA modulating activities of DEK in chromatin.” FEBS Letters 595, no. 10 (May 2021): 1438–53. https://doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.14070.

Capitano, Maegan L., Nirit Mor-Vaknin, Anjan K. Saha, Scott Cooper, Maureen Legendre, Haihong Guo, Rafael Contreras-Galindo, et al. “Secreted nuclear protein DEK regulates hematopoiesis through CXCR2 signaling.” The Journal of Clinical Investigation 129, no. 6 (May 2019): 2555–70. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci127460.

Ganz, Magdalena, Christopher Vogel, Christina Czada, Vera Jörke, Eva Christina Gwosch, Rebecca Kleiner, Agnieszka Pierzynska-Mach, et al. “The oncoprotein DEK affects the outcome of PARP1/2 inhibition during mild replication stress.” PloS One 14, no. 8 (January 2019): e0213130. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213130.

Ganz, Magdalena, Christopher Vogel, Christina Czada, Vera Jörke, Rebecca Kleiner, Agnieszka Pierzynska-Mach, Francesca Cella Zanacchi, et al. “The oncoprotein DEK affects the outcome of PARP1/2 inhibition during replication stress.” BioRxiv, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1101/555003.

For more publications, please visit Dr. Kappes’ faculty page.