Clausen Lab
@clausenlab.bsky.social
Molecular machines, Proteostasis, Ubiquitin Signaling, Cell Autonomous Defense, Protein Disorders and Team Nematode
@IMP Vienna
www.imp.ac.at/groups/tim-clausen/
@IMP Vienna
www.imp.ac.at/groups/tim-clausen/
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🤯This is wow! Molecular mechanism of mRNA export. by @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social @plaschkalab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
🤯This is wow! Molecular mechanism of mRNA export. by @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social @plaschkalab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Very glad to see this work www.nature.com/articles/s41... by the @savitski-lab.bsky.social out @natsmb.nature.com High hopes that HT-PELSA will be a very useful tool to study protein-ligand interactions.
High-throughput peptide-centric local stability assay extends protein–ligand identification to membrane proteins, tissues and bacteria - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Li et al. further develop a high-throughput peptide-centric local stability assay that speeds up sample preparation 100-fold and extends protein–ligand identification to membrane proteins, tissues and...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Very glad to see this work www.nature.com/articles/s41... by the @savitski-lab.bsky.social out @natsmb.nature.com High hopes that HT-PELSA will be a very useful tool to study protein-ligand interactions.
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Postdoc position available in my lab in Jena (Germany.
jobs.leibniz-fli.de/jobposting/6...
If you're interested in protein biochemistry of amyloid proteins and chaperones, this job may be for you. B2 Level German is required as the candidate will be involved in teaching in German.
jobs.leibniz-fli.de/jobposting/6...
If you're interested in protein biochemistry of amyloid proteins and chaperones, this job may be for you. B2 Level German is required as the candidate will be involved in teaching in German.
Postdoc (m/f/x)
Our Research Group led by Janine Kirstein, Professorin at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, is looking for a highly motivated and talented Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x) to join a research project ...
jobs.leibniz-fli.de
November 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Postdoc position available in my lab in Jena (Germany.
jobs.leibniz-fli.de/jobposting/6...
If you're interested in protein biochemistry of amyloid proteins and chaperones, this job may be for you. B2 Level German is required as the candidate will be involved in teaching in German.
jobs.leibniz-fli.de/jobposting/6...
If you're interested in protein biochemistry of amyloid proteins and chaperones, this job may be for you. B2 Level German is required as the candidate will be involved in teaching in German.
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📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Full Professorship in Integrative Structure Biology with a focus on in situ structural biology using cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) and related methods. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/brswbymu
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Full Professorship in Integrative Structure Biology with a focus on in situ structural biology using cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) and related methods. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/brswbymu
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'In this manuscript, we show that tag fusions often change protein expression to a degree that is highly dependent on cell and tissue context. We characterise two underlying mechanisms, providing information that should help others to design more effective transgenic strategies'
Tissue-specific consequences of tag fusions on protein expression in transgenic mice
Author summary To better understand the function of specific proteins, researchers need ways to quantify their abundance, to visualise their movements, to understand what other molecules they interact...
journals.plos.org
October 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
'In this manuscript, we show that tag fusions often change protein expression to a degree that is highly dependent on cell and tissue context. We characterise two underlying mechanisms, providing information that should help others to design more effective transgenic strategies'
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October 24, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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On that note: hello world! My new lab on genetics of proteome remodeling is starting at the incredible MPI-CBG. We have big plans and open positions for PhD students and an RA. Apply now (!) at imprs.mpi-cbg.de and tinyurl.com/2vywj6f6 respectively.
October 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
On that note: hello world! My new lab on genetics of proteome remodeling is starting at the incredible MPI-CBG. We have big plans and open positions for PhD students and an RA. Apply now (!) at imprs.mpi-cbg.de and tinyurl.com/2vywj6f6 respectively.
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Just out in @science.org: Together with the lab of @wilhelmpalm.bsky.social, we used sequential in-vitro/in-vivo CRISPR screens to decipher metabolic adaptations in tumors. We find that acidosis is a dominant factor that shapes energy metabolism and stress resilience. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Just out in @science.org: Together with the lab of @wilhelmpalm.bsky.social, we used sequential in-vitro/in-vivo CRISPR screens to decipher metabolic adaptations in tumors. We find that acidosis is a dominant factor that shapes energy metabolism and stress resilience. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The proteasome-substrate-shuttle protein UBQLN2 contains—like other quality control system proteins—a long region devoid of lysine (a lysine desert)
Martin Grønbæk-Thygesen (from @rhp-lab.bsky.social) et al show that introducing K here causes ubiquitylation and degradation
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Martin Grønbæk-Thygesen (from @rhp-lab.bsky.social) et al show that introducing K here causes ubiquitylation and degradation
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
October 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The proteasome-substrate-shuttle protein UBQLN2 contains—like other quality control system proteins—a long region devoid of lysine (a lysine desert)
Martin Grønbæk-Thygesen (from @rhp-lab.bsky.social) et al show that introducing K here causes ubiquitylation and degradation
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Martin Grønbæk-Thygesen (from @rhp-lab.bsky.social) et al show that introducing K here causes ubiquitylation and degradation
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Science has lost a GIANT and the world has lost one of the kindest most inspiring people I had the pleasure of knowing. Just an extraordinary man whose curiosity was infectious and whose dry wit will always be memorable- RIP John
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92
It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.
www.cam.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Science has lost a GIANT and the world has lost one of the kindest most inspiring people I had the pleasure of knowing. Just an extraordinary man whose curiosity was infectious and whose dry wit will always be memorable- RIP John
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
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Allosteric control of the bacterial ClpC/ClpP protease and its hijacking by antibacterial peptides
Axel Mogk, Marta Carroni et al
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Axel Mogk, Marta Carroni et al
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
September 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Allosteric control of the bacterial ClpC/ClpP protease and its hijacking by antibacterial peptides
Axel Mogk, Marta Carroni et al
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Axel Mogk, Marta Carroni et al
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Allosteric activation of a ubiquitin ligase by an internal kinase domain! Congratulations to our team member Thornton Fokkens for this fascinating discovery in a neglected disease area with strong therapeutic need. Many thanks to all our great collaborators!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A Leishmania virulence factor harnesses an allosteric kinase switch to regulate its ubiquitin ligase activity
Stringent control of ubiquitylation is a central requirement of signaling specificity in eukaryotes. Here, we discover a domain module integrating pro…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Allosteric activation of a ubiquitin ligase by an internal kinase domain! Congratulations to our team member Thornton Fokkens for this fascinating discovery in a neglected disease area with strong therapeutic need. Many thanks to all our great collaborators!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Spectacular work. Absolutely spectacular. Go check out the paper. It truly is #lipidtime now
Very excited to share new work out today in @natchembio.nature.com on a new approach - FACES - for selectively imaging of phospholipids and other biomolecules at spatial resolutions down to individual membrane leaflets (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Leaflet-specific phospholipid imaging using genetically encoded proximity sensors - Nature Chemical Biology
An approach combining bioorthogonal chemistry with genetically encoded fluorogen-activating proteins enables subcellular imaging of phospholipids and glycans, as well as the visualization of lipid tra...
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September 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Spectacular work. Absolutely spectacular. Go check out the paper. It truly is #lipidtime now
so well deserved
Congratulations to Dirk Görlich and Steven L. McKnight, 2025 #LaskerAward winners! - “for discoveries that exposed the structures and functions of low-complexity domains within protein sequences” 🧪
@mpi-nat.bsky.social
#Lasker2025 #LaskerLaureate #structuralbiology #phaseseparation
@mpi-nat.bsky.social
#Lasker2025 #LaskerLaureate #structuralbiology #phaseseparation
September 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
so well deserved
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Dear scientific community,
I am looking for two postdoctoral structural biologists to join my group at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.
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I am looking for two postdoctoral structural biologists to join my group at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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September 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Dear scientific community,
I am looking for two postdoctoral structural biologists to join my group at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
I am looking for two postdoctoral structural biologists to join my group at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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The Vienna BioCenter PhD program in Molecular BioSciences will offer 20+ fully-funded positions in the Autumn Call which is now open. Please share. Further details: www.vbcphd.at
September 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The Vienna BioCenter PhD program in Molecular BioSciences will offer 20+ fully-funded positions in the Autumn Call which is now open. Please share. Further details: www.vbcphd.at
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Our Wadjet-II paper by @roisnehamelinf.bsky.social is out in polished form: www.cell.com/structure/fu...
With a great preview by @kevincorbett.bsky.social & @amardeeep.bsky.social highlighting the potential of Wadjets:
Wadjet—Keeping a watchful eye on circular DNA.
www.cell.com/structure/fu...
With a great preview by @kevincorbett.bsky.social & @amardeeep.bsky.social highlighting the potential of Wadjets:
Wadjet—Keeping a watchful eye on circular DNA.
www.cell.com/structure/fu...
September 5, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Our Wadjet-II paper by @roisnehamelinf.bsky.social is out in polished form: www.cell.com/structure/fu...
With a great preview by @kevincorbett.bsky.social & @amardeeep.bsky.social highlighting the potential of Wadjets:
Wadjet—Keeping a watchful eye on circular DNA.
www.cell.com/structure/fu...
With a great preview by @kevincorbett.bsky.social & @amardeeep.bsky.social highlighting the potential of Wadjets:
Wadjet—Keeping a watchful eye on circular DNA.
www.cell.com/structure/fu...
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WARM congratulations to: Tom DENDOOVEN, @martinpacesa.bsky.social, @mschuhmacher.bsky.social , @lfmilles.bsky.social, @preinerin.bsky.social,Markus Hopfler, @charleneboumendil.bsky.social, Gergo Gogl, @shifralansky.bsky.social, @alexanderbelyy.bsky.social,Erik Benson, @dbojar.bsky.social! 🤩 #ERCStG
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
WARM congratulations to: Tom DENDOOVEN, @martinpacesa.bsky.social, @mschuhmacher.bsky.social , @lfmilles.bsky.social, @preinerin.bsky.social,Markus Hopfler, @charleneboumendil.bsky.social, Gergo Gogl, @shifralansky.bsky.social, @alexanderbelyy.bsky.social,Erik Benson, @dbojar.bsky.social! 🤩 #ERCStG
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Job opportunity: come join the excellent and friendly #ProteostasisUK community!
Exciting news📣: #ProteostasisUK is hiring a network manager to help drive an ambitious, #BBSRC funded initiative connecting and expanding #Proteostasis research across the UK. Position initially for 3 years. Deadline September 28th. More info: tinyurl.com/f83rp673 & proteostasisuk.co.uk Please RT
hireful.
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September 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Job opportunity: come join the excellent and friendly #ProteostasisUK community!
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I’ve already highlighted this landmark #lipidtime paper by @nadlerlab.bsky.social & colleagues, but ICYMI, do read André’s thread — this study is a huge leap forward in understanding the logic of intracellular lipid flux & is a phenomenal example of #chembio probes 🤝 quantitative imaging 🤝 modeling!
Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I’ve already highlighted this landmark #lipidtime paper by @nadlerlab.bsky.social & colleagues, but ICYMI, do read André’s thread — this study is a huge leap forward in understanding the logic of intracellular lipid flux & is a phenomenal example of #chembio probes 🤝 quantitative imaging 🤝 modeling!
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Happy to share our work on the structure and function of the unusual E3 ligase ZNFX1 @cp-cell.bsky.social. It uses a nucleic acid-activated transthiolation mechanism, ubiquitinating and clustering RNA to protect cells in an immune response. @clausenlab.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
A split-site E3 ligase mechanism enables ZNFX1 to ubiquitinate and cluster single-stranded RNA into ubiquitin-coated nucleoprotein particles
Grabarczyk et al. show the structure and mechanism of a non-canonical ubiquitin ligase,
which is activated through nucleic-acid-induced oligomerization and is critical for
cell survival during immune ...
www.cell.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Happy to share our work on the structure and function of the unusual E3 ligase ZNFX1 @cp-cell.bsky.social. It uses a nucleic acid-activated transthiolation mechanism, ubiquitinating and clustering RNA to protect cells in an immune response. @clausenlab.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Want to know how lipidation of some nascent chains takes place by NMT2-- Check our latest work on how NAC couples Protein Synthesis with Nascent Polypeptide Myristoylation on the Ribosome out today @embojournal.org: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
August 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Want to know how lipidation of some nascent chains takes place by NMT2-- Check our latest work on how NAC couples Protein Synthesis with Nascent Polypeptide Myristoylation on the Ribosome out today @embojournal.org: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Co-translational ribosome pairing enables native assembly of misfolding-prone subunits. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Co-translational ribosome pairing enables native assembly of misfolding-prone subunits - Nature Communications
Protein complexes are essential for cell function. Here, authors show that paired ribosomes can help each other’s nascent chains fold correctly, enabling proper dimer assembly and preventing misfoldin...
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August 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Co-translational ribosome pairing enables native assembly of misfolding-prone subunits. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The beautiful, ever-expanding universe of viral proteins targeting nucleotide immune signals!
Paper by @reneechang.bsky.social in @cp-molcell.bsky.social on a nucleotide sponge www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
and preprint by @doudna-lab.bsky.social on viral nucleases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Paper by @reneechang.bsky.social in @cp-molcell.bsky.social on a nucleotide sponge www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
and preprint by @doudna-lab.bsky.social on viral nucleases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A widespread family of viral sponge proteins reveals specific inhibition of nucleotide signals in anti-phage defense
Chang et al. discover anti-CBASS 4 (Acb4), a family of viral sponges that inhibits
bacterial immunity by sequestering nucleotide immune signals. Acb4 homologs in phages
that infect hosts across all ma...
www.cell.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The beautiful, ever-expanding universe of viral proteins targeting nucleotide immune signals!
Paper by @reneechang.bsky.social in @cp-molcell.bsky.social on a nucleotide sponge www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
and preprint by @doudna-lab.bsky.social on viral nucleases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Paper by @reneechang.bsky.social in @cp-molcell.bsky.social on a nucleotide sponge www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
and preprint by @doudna-lab.bsky.social on viral nucleases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
big one! a decade in the making. nadler & team develop tools to track lipid transport in living cells at single-species resolution. turns out non-vesicular, asymmetry-driven transport is the main architect of organelle identity. feels like the dawn of a golden era for lipid biology. rdcu.be/eBGJv
Quantitative imaging of lipid transport in mammalian cells
Nature - Directional, non-vesicular lipid transport is responsible for fast, species-selective lipid sorting into organelle membranes.
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August 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
big one! a decade in the making. nadler & team develop tools to track lipid transport in living cells at single-species resolution. turns out non-vesicular, asymmetry-driven transport is the main architect of organelle identity. feels like the dawn of a golden era for lipid biology. rdcu.be/eBGJv