Here you’ll find a selection all of publications

Publications

Dormann D, Fröhlich R, Dias T, Belo do Couto N, Heinss N, Hutten S, Küssner K, Ceron-Noriega A, Chargui L, Gelléri M, Gopalan A, Hertäg K, Piccinno R, Rickert C, Schaaf A, Schumbera E, Shoup S, Stiehler F, Turunen P, Andrade-Navarro MA, Beli P, Besenius P, Bonn M, Dahm R, Dhiman S, Gerber S, Girard M, Hülsmann B, Ketting R, Kim E, König J, Kremer K, Kukharenko O, Landfester K, Luck K, Methner A, Michels J, Möckel MM, Morsbach S, Ritz S, Schick-Nickolaus S, Schmid F, Schmidt C, Schneider D, Schweiger S, Speck T, Stelzl L, te Vrugt M, Ulrich HD, Virnau P, Wachter A, Walther A, Weil T, Wittmann S and Lemke EA (2025) Polymers: The hidden heroes of life. in: Science for a Better Tomorrow (ed. Betz UAK), Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 143–157 Link

Ruan H, Dillenburg R, Wittmann S, Girard M and Lemke EA (2025) Differential conformational expansion of Nup98-HOXA9 oncoprotein in micro- and macrophases. bioRxiv, doi: 2025.05.21.655138.

Ausserwöger H, Scrutton R, Sneideris T, Fischer CM, Qian D, de Csilléry E, Saar KL, Bialek AZ, Oeller M, Krainer G, Franzmann TM, Wittmann S, Iglesias-Artola JM, Invernizzi G, Hyman AA, Alberti S, Lorenzen N and Knowles TPJ (2024) Biomolecular condensates sustain pH gradients at equilibrium driven by charge neutralisation. bioRxiv, doi: 2024.05.23.595321.

El Omari K, Duman R, Mykhaylyk V, Orr CM, Latimer-Smith M, Winter G, Grama V, Qu F, Bountra K, Kwong HS, Romano M, Reis RI, Vogeley L, Vecchia L, Owen CD, Wittmann S, Renner M, Senda M, Matsugaki N, Kawano Y, Bowden TA, Moraes I, Grimes JM, Mancini EJ, Walsh MA, Guzzo CR, Owens RJ, Jones EY, Brown DG, Stuart DI, Beis K and Wagner A (2023) Experimental phasing opportunities for macromolecular crystallography at very long wavelengths.Commun Chem , 6:219 Link

Morin JA*, Wittmann S*, Choubey S*, Klosin A, Golfier S, Hyman AA, Jülicher F and Grill SW (2022) Sequence-dependent surface condensation of a pioneer transcription factor on DNA. Nat Physics, 18:271–276 (*indicates joint contribution) Link

Krainer G, Welsh TJ, Joseph JA, Espinosa JR, Wittmann S, Csilléry E, Sridhar A, Toprakcioglu Z, Gudiskyte G, Czekalska MA, Arter WE, George-Hyslop PS, Hyman AA, Collepardo-Guevara R, Alberti S and Knowles TPJ (2021) Reentrant liquid condensate phase of proteins is stabilized by hydrophobic and non-ionic interactions. Nat Commun, 12:1085 Link

Guillén-Boixet J, Kopach A, Holehouse AS, Wittmann S, Jahnel M, Schlüßler R, Kim K, Trussina IREA, Wang J, Mateju D, Poser I, Maharana S, Ruer-Gruß M, Richter D, Chang YT, Guck J, Honigmann A, Hyman AA, Pappu RV, Alberti S and Franzmann T (2020) RNA induced conformational switching and clustering of G3BP drive stress granule assembly by condensation. Cell, 181:346-361.e17 Link

Wittmann S and Alberti S (2019) ERα condensates: chronic stimulation is hard to ignore. Nat Struct Mol Biol, 26:153-154 Link

Watts BR, Wittmann S, Wery M, Gautier C, Kus K, Birot A, Heo DH, Kilchert C, Morillon A and Vasiljeva L (2018) Histone deacetylation promotes transcriptional silencing at facultative heterochromatin. Nucleic Acids Res, 46:5426-5440 Link

Wittmann S, Renner M, Watts BR, Adams O, Huseyin M, Baejen C, El Omari K, Kilchert C, Heo DH, Kecman T, Cramer P, Grimes JM and Vasiljeva L (2017) The conserved protein Seb1 drives transcription termination by binding RNA polymerase II and nascent RNA. Nat Commun, 8:14861 Link

Kilchert C, Wittmann S and Vasiljeva L (2016) The regulation and functions of the nuclear RNA exosome complex. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol, 17:227–239 Link

Kilchert C, Wittmann S, Passoni M, Shah S, Granneman S and Vasiljeva L (2015) Regulation of mRNA levels by decay-promoting introns that recruit the exosome specificity factor Mmi1. Cell Rep, 13:2504–2515 Link

Shah S, Wittmann S, Kilchert C and Vasiljeva L (2014) lncRNA recruits RNAi and the exosome to dynamically regulate pho1 expression in response to phosphate levels in fission yeast. Genes Dev, 28:231–244 Link