SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
SARS-CoV-2 tropism to intestinal but not gastric epithelial cells is defined by limited ACE2 expression.
Paužuolis, M., Fatykhova, D., Zühlke, B., Schwecke, T., Neyazi, M., Samperio-Ventayol, P., Aguilar, C., Schlegel, N., Dökel, S., Ralser, M., Hocke, A., Krempl, C., & Bartfeld, S. Stem cell reports 2024.
Organoids as a tool to study the impact of heterogeneity in gastrointestinal epithelium on host-pathogen interactions
Paužuolis, M., Samperio Ventayol, P., Neyazi, M., & Bartfeld, S. Clinical and experimental immunology 2024, uxae002. https://doi.org/10.1093/cei/uxae002
Helicobacter pylori shows tropism to gastric differentiated pit cells dependent on urea chemotaxis
Aguilar C, Pauzuolis M, Pompaiah M, Vafadarnejad E, Arampatzi P, Fischer M, Narres D, Neyazi M, Kayisoglu Ö, Sell T, Blüthgen N, Morkel M, Wiegering A, Germer CT, Kircher S, Rosenwald A, Saliba AE & Bartfeld S, Nature Communications 2022
Immune cell-stem cell interactions in regeneration and repair: who's calling the shots?
Samperio-Ventayol P, Bartfeld S. Development 2022Â 149 (8): dev200228.
Location-specific cell identity rather than exposure to GI microbiota defines many innate immune signalling cascades in the gut epithelium
Kayisoglu O, Weiss F, Niklas C, Pierotti I, Pompaiah M, Wallaschek N, Germer CT, Wiegering A, Bartfeld S. Gut. 2021 Apr;70(4):687-697. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2019-319919.
Ephrin receptor A2, the epithelial receptor for Epstein-Barr virus entry, is not available for efficient infection in human gastric organoids
Wallaschek N, Reuter S, Silkenat S, Wolf K, Niklas C, Kayisoglu Ö, Aguilar C, Wiegering A, Germer CT, Kircher S, Rosenwald A, Shannon-Lowe C, Bartfeld S. PLoS Pathog. 2021 Feb 17;17(2):e1009210.
doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009210.
Organoids as host models for infection biology - a review of methods
Aguilar C, Alves da Silva M, Saraiva M, Neyazi M, Olsson IAS, Bartfeld S. Exp Mol Med. 2021 Oct;53(10):1471-1482.
doi: 10.1038/s12276-021-00629-4
Realizing the potential of organoids-an interview with Hans Clevers
Bartfeld S. J Mol Med (Berl). 2021 Apr;99(4):443-447.
doi: 10.1007/s00109-020-02025-3.
The ALPK1/TIFA/NF-κB axis links a bacterial carcinogen to R-loop-induced replication stress
Bauer M, Nascakova Z, Mihai AI, Cheng PF, Levesque MP, Lampart S, Hurwitz R, Pfannkuch L, Dobrovolna J, Jacobs M, Bartfeld S, Dohlman A, Shen X, Gall AA, Salama NR, Töpfer A, Weber A, Meyer TF, Janscak P, Müller A.  Nat Commun. 2020 Oct 9;11(1):5117.
doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18857-z.
Asymmetric distribution of TLR3 leads to a polarized immune response in human intestinal epithelial cells
Stanifer ML, Mukenhirn M, Muenchau S, Pervolaraki K, Kanaya T, Albrecht D, Odendall C, Hielscher T, Haucke V, Kagan JC, Bartfeld S, Ohno H, Boulant S. Nat Microbiol. 2020 Jan;5(1):181-191. doi: 10.1038/s41564-019-0594-3.
In vitro expansion of human gastric epithelial stem cells and their responses to bacterial infection.
Bartfeld S, Bayram T, van de Wetering M, Huch M, Begthel H, Kujala P, Vries R, Peters PJ, Clevers H. Gastroenterology. 2015 Jan;148(1):126-136.e6. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2014.09.042. Epub 2014 Oct 13.