Publications - Dr. Peter Franz
- Franz, P., Seidensticker, F. V., Freier, S. K., Kyriazi, D., Genuit, S., Tapken, I., Detering, N. T., Leifheit-Nestler, M., Claus, P., & Tsiavaliaris, G. (2025). Nanoengineered Calcium Receptors Coupled with Microscale Thermophoresis Enable Sensitive, Low-Volume Quantification of Calcium Ions in Complex Biological Fluids. ACS Sensors, https://doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.5c02607
- Melcher, C., Schramm, C. A., Kampe, L., Zhang, Y., Westphal, K., Krautkrämer, M., Shen, X., Brand, K., Franz, P., Vital, M., Douek, D. C., Föger, N., & Lee, K. H. (2025). Inflammatory modalities shape the IgA repertoire via stochastic processes. Cell Reports, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116307
- Küçükdogru, R., Robaszkiewicz, K., Siatkowska, M., Franz, P., Tsiavaliaris, G., & Moraczewska, J. (2025). Myopathy-linked mutations in TPM2 and their impact on troponin-mediated regulation of actomyosin contractility. The FEBS Journal, doi.org/10.1111/febs.70180
- Kyriazi, D., Voth, L., Bader, A., Ewert, W., Gerlach, J., Elfrink, K., Franz, P., Tsap, M. I., Schirmer, B., Damiano-Guercio, J., Hartmann, F. K., Plenge, M., Salari, A., Schöttelndreier, D., Strienke, K., Bresch, N., Salinas, C., Gutzeit, H. O., Schaumann, N., Hussein, K., … Tsiavaliaris, G. (2024). An allosteric inhibitor of RhoGAP class-IX myosins suppresses the metastatic features of cancer cells. Nature Communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54181-6
- Schüning, T., Zeug, A., Strienke, K., Franz, P., Tsiavaliaris, G., Hensel, N., Viero, G., Ponimaskin, E., & Claus, P. (2024). The spinal muscular atrophy gene product regulates actin dynamics. FASEB Journal, https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.202300183R
- Diensthuber, R. P., Hartmann, F. K., Kathmann, D., Franz, P., & Tsiavaliaris, G. (2024). Switch-2 determines Mg2+-ADP-release kinetics and fine-tunes the duty ratio of Dictyostelium class-1 myosins. Frontiers in Physiology, https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2024.1393952
- Küçükdogru, R., Franz, P., Worch, R., Robaszkiewicz, K., Siatkowska, M., Tsiavaliaris, G., & Moraczewska, J. (2024). Mechanochemical consequences of myopathy-linked mutations in Tpm2.2 on striated muscle contractility. FASEB Journal, https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.202301604R
- Figueroa, N. E., Franz, P., Luzarowski, M., Martinez-Seidel, F., Moreno, J. C., Childs, D., Ziemblicka, A., Sampathkumar, A., Andersen, T. G., Tsiavaliaris, G., Chodasiewicz, M., & Skirycz, A. (2023). Protein interactome of 3',5'-cAMP reveals its role in regulating the actin cytoskeleton. The Plant Journal, https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16313
- Franz, P., Ewert, W., Preller, M., & Tsiavaliaris, G. (2020). Unraveling a Force-Generating Allosteric Pathway of Actomyosin Communication Associated with ADP and Pi Release. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22010104
- Franz, P., Gassl, V., Topf, A., Eckelmann, L., Iorga, B., & Tsiavaliaris, G. (2020). A thermophoresis-based biosensor for real-time detection of inorganic phosphate during enzymatic reactions. Biosensors & Bioelectronics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2020.112616
- Ewert, W., Franz, P., Tsiavaliaris, G., & Preller, M. (2020). Structural and Computational Insights into a Blebbistatin-Bound Myosin•ADP Complex with Characteristics of an ADP-Release Conformation along the Two-Step Myosin Power Stoke. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21197417
- Viswanathan, M. C.*, Schmidt, W.*, Franz, P.*, Rynkiewicz, M. J., Newhard, C. S., Madan, A., Lehman, W., Swank, D. M., Preller, M., & Cammarato, A. (2020). A role for actin flexibility in thin filament-mediated contractile regulation and myopathy. Nature Communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15922-5 *equally contributed
- Nayak, A., Wang, T., Franz, P., Steffen, W., Chizhov, I., Tsiavaliaris, G., & Amrute-Nayak, M. (2020). Single-molecule analysis reveals that regulatory light chains fine-tune skeletal myosin II function. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.RA120.012774
- Walter, L. M., Franz, P., Lindner, R., Tsiavaliaris, G., Hensel, N., & Claus, P. (2020). Profilin2a-phosphorylation as a regulatory mechanism for actin dynamics. FASEB Journal, https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.201901883R
- Topf, A., Franz, P., & Tsiavaliaris, G. (2017). MicroScale Thermophoresis (MST) for studying actin polymerization kinetics. BioTechniques, https://doi.org/10.2144/000114599