@phdthesis{Keller2002,
  author    = {Keller, Andreas},
  title     = {Genetic Intervention in Sensory Systems of a Fly},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-680},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2002},
  abstract  = {Die vorliegende Arbeit vergleicht Transgene, die in Drosophila Neuronen exprimiert wurden, um diese abzut{\"o}ten oder zu blockieren. Tetanus Neurotoxin erwies sich als sehr effizient, um chemische Synapsen zu blockieren. Synapsen, die aus einer chemischen und einer elektrischen Komponente bestehen, ließen sich dagegen mit einem ektopisch exprimierten humanen Kalium-Kanal zuverl{\"a}ssiger ausschalten. Es wurden drei M{\"o}glichkeiten verglichen, eine zeitliche Kontrolle {\"u}ber die Funktion von Neuronen zu erlangen. Keines der getesteten Systeme erwies sich als universell anwendbar, aber die durch Rekombination induzierte Tetanus Neurotoxin Expression ist ein vielversprechender Ansatz. Die aus dieser vergleichenden methodischen Studie gewonnenen Ergebnisse wurden angewendet, um die Rolle von Neuronen in sensorischen Systemen bei der Verarbeitung verschiedener sensorischer Informationen zu untersuchen. Chemische und mechanische Rezeptorneuronen konnten den olfaktorisch gesteuerten Verhaltensweisen beziehungsweise den lokomotorischen Leistungen, denen sie zu Grunde liegen, zugeordnet werden. Hauptthema der Arbeit ist die Suche nach Neuronen, die an der Bewegungsdetektion im visuellen System beteiligt sind. Dabei zeigte sich, daß weder L2 noch L4 Neuronen im ersten visuellen Neuropil essentiell f{\"u}r die Detektion von Bewegung sind. Vielmehr deuten die Ergebnisse darauf hin, daß die Bewegungsdetektion {\"u}ber das Netzwerk der amacrinen Zellen (a) erfolgt. Die f{\"u}r vertikale Bewegung sensitiven VS Zellen in der Lobula Platte erwiesen sich als nicht notwendig f{\"u}r die Verhaltensreaktionen auf vertikale Bewegungsreize. Daraus folgt auch, daß in der Strukturmutante optomotor blind das Fehlen der VS Zellen nicht urs{\"a}chlich f{\"u}r die stark eingeschr{\"a}nkten Reaktionen auf vertikale Bewegung ist. Ein anderer Defekt in optomotor blind muß daf{\"u}r verantwortlich sein. Die Arbeit zeigt das große Potential der beschriebenen Methoden zur Untersuchung der Informationsverarbeitung im Nervensystem von Drosophila. Einzelne Neuronengruppen konnten komplexen Verhaltensweisen zugeordnet werden und Theorien {\"u}ber die Informationsverarbeitung konnten in Verhaltensexperimenten mit transgenen Fliegen getestet werden. Eine weitere Verfeinerung der Methodik zur genetischen Intervention wird das Drosophila Gehirn zu einem noch besseren Modell f{\"u}r die Informationsverarbeitung in Nervensystemen machen.},
  subject      = {Taufliege},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SchmittKellerNourkamiTutdibietal.2011,
  author    = {Schmitt, Jana and Keller, Andreas and Nourkami-Tutdibi, Nasenien and Heisel, Sabrina and Habel, Nunja and Leidinger, Petra and Ludwig, Nicole and Gessler, Manfred and Graf, Norbert and Berthold, Frank and Lenhof, Hans-Peter and Meese, Eckart},
  title     = {Autoantibody Signature Differentiates Wilms Tumor Patients from Neuroblastoma Patients},
  series = {PLoS ONE},
  volume    = {6},
  journal   = {PLoS ONE},
  number    = {12},
  doi       = {10.1371/journal.pone.0028951},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-133794},
  pages     = {e28951},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {Several studies report autoantibody signatures in cancer. The majority of these studies analyzed adult tumors and compared the seroreactivity pattern of tumor patients with the pattern in healthy controls. Here, we compared the autoimmune response in patients with neuroblastoma and patients with Wilms tumor representing two different childhood tumors. We were able to differentiate untreated neuroblastoma patients from untreated Wilms tumor patients with an accuracy of 86.8\%, a sensitivity of 87.0\% and a specificity of 86.7\%. The separation of treated neuroblastoma patients from treated Wilms tumor patients' yielded comparable results with an accuracy of 83.8\%. We furthermore identified the antigens that contribute most to the differentiation between both tumor types. The analysis of these antigens revealed that neuroblastoma was considerably more immunogenic than Wilms tumor. The reported antigens have not been found to be relevant for comparative analyses between other tumors and controls. In summary, neuroblastoma appears as a highly immunogenic tumor as demonstrated by the extended number of antigens that separate this tumor from Wilms tumor.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SchmittBackesNourkamiTutdibietal.2012,
  author    = {Schmitt, Jana and Backes, Christina and Nourkami-Tutdibi, Nasenien and Leidinger, Petra and Deutscher, Stephanie and Beier, Markus and Gessler, Manfred and Graf, Norbert and Lenhof, Hans-Peter and Keller, Andreas and Meese, Eckart},
  title     = {Treatment-independent miRNA signature in blood of wilms tumor patients},
  series = {BMC Genomics},
  volume    = {13},
  journal   = {BMC Genomics},
  number    = {379},
  doi       = {10.1186/1471-2164-13-379},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-124034},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Background Blood-born miRNA signatures have recently been reported for various tumor diseases. Here, we compared the miRNA signature in Wilms tumor patients prior and after preoperative chemotherapy according to SIOP protocol 2001. Results We did not find a significant difference between miRNA signature of both groups. However both, Wilms tumor patients prior and after chemotherapy showed a miRNA signature different from healthy controls. The signature of Wilms tumor patients prior to chemotherapy showed an accuracy of 97.5\% and of patients after chemotherapy an accuracy of 97.0\%, each as compared to healthy controls. Conclusion Our results provide evidence for a blood-born Wilms tumor miRNA signature largely independent of four weeks preoperative chemotherapy treatment.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{KellerLeidingerVogeletal.2014,
  author    = {Keller, Andreas and Leidinger, Petra and Vogel, Britta and Backes, Christina and ElSharawy, Abdou and Galata, Valentina and Mueller, Sabine C. and Marquart, Sabine and Schrauder, Michael G. and Strick, Reiner and Bauer, Andrea and Wischhusen, J{\"o}rg and Beier, Markus and Kohlhaas, Jochen and Katus, Hugo A. and Hoheisel, J{\"o}rg and Franke, Andre and Meder, Benjamin and Meese, Eckart},
  title     = {miRNAs can be generally associated with human pathologies as exemplified for miR-144*},
  series = {BMC MEDICINE},
  volume    = {12},
  journal   = {BMC MEDICINE},
  issn      = {1741-7015},
  doi       = {10.1186/s12916-014-0224-0},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-114349},
  pages     = {224},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Background: miRNA profiles are promising biomarker candidates for a manifold of human pathologies, opening new avenues for diagnosis and prognosis. Beyond studies that describe miRNAs frequently as markers for specific traits, we asked whether a general pattern for miRNAs across many diseases exists. Methods: We evaluated genome-wide circulating profiles of 1,049 patients suffering from 19 different cancer and non-cancer diseases as well as unaffected controls. The results were validated on 319 individuals using qRT-PCR. Results: We discovered 34 miRNAs with strong disease association. Among those, we found substantially decreased levels of hsa-miR-144* and hsa-miR-20b with AUC of 0.751 ( 95\% CI: 0.703-0.799), respectively. We also discovered a set of miRNAs, including hsa-miR-155*, as rather stable markers, offering reasonable control miRNAs for future studies. The strong downregulation of hsa-miR-144* and the less variable pattern of hsa-miR-155* has been validated in a cohort of 319 samples in three different centers. Here, breast cancer as an additional disease phenotype not included in the screening phase has been included as the 20th trait. Conclusions: Our study on 1,368 patients including 1,049 genome-wide miRNA profiles and 319 qRT-PCR validations further underscores the high potential of specific blood-borne miRNA patterns as molecular biomarkers. Importantly, we highlight 34 miRNAs that are generally dysregulated in human pathologies. Although these markers are not specific to certain diseases they may add to the diagnosis in combination with other markers, building a specific signature. Besides these dysregulated miRNAs, we propose a set of constant miRNAs that may be used as control markers.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{LudwigWernerBackesetal.2016,
  author    = {Ludwig, Nicole and Werner, Tamara V. and Backes, Christina and Trampert, Patrick and Gessler, Manfred and Keller, Andreas and Lenhof, Hans-Peter and Graf, Norbert and Meese, Eckart},
  title     = {Combining miRNA and mRNA Expression Profiles in Wilms Tumor Subtypes},
  series = {International Journal of Mokecular Sciences},
  volume    = {17},
  journal   = {International Journal of Mokecular Sciences},
  number    = {4},
  doi       = {10.3390/ijms17040475},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-165430},
  pages     = {475},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Wilms tumor (WT) is the most common childhood renal cancer. Recent findings of mutations in microRNA (miRNA) processing proteins suggest a pivotal role of miRNAs in WT genesis. We performed miRNA expression profiling of 36 WTs of different subtypes and four normal kidney tissues using microarrays. Additionally, we determined the gene expression profile of 28 of these tumors to identify potentially correlated target genes and affected pathways. We identified 85 miRNAs and 2107 messenger RNAs (mRNA) differentially expressed in blastemal WT, and 266 miRNAs and 1267 mRNAs differentially expressed in regressive subtype. The hierarchical clustering of the samples, using either the miRNA or mRNA profile, showed the clear separation of WT from normal kidney samples, but the miRNA pattern yielded better separation of WT subtypes. A correlation analysis of the deregulated miRNA and mRNAs identified 13,026 miRNA/mRNA pairs with inversely correlated expression, of which 2844 are potential interactions of miRNA and their predicted mRNA targets. We found significant upregulation of miRNAs-183, -301a/b and -335 for the blastemal subtype, and miRNAs-181b, -223 and -630 for the regressive subtype. We found marked deregulation of miRNAs regulating epithelial to mesenchymal transition, especially in the blastemal subtype, and miRNAs influencing chemosensitivity, especially in regressive subtypes. Further research is needed to assess the influence of preoperative chemotherapy and tumor infiltrating lymphocytes on the miRNA and mRNA patterns in WT},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AbuHalimaHaeuslerBackesetal.2017,
  author    = {Abu-Halima, Masood and H{\"a}usler, Sebastian and Backes, Christina and Fehlmann, Tobias and Staib, Claudia and Nestel, Sigrun and Nazarenko, Irina and Meese, Eckart and Keller, Andreas},
  title     = {Micro-ribonucleic acids and extracellular vesicles repertoire in the spent culture media is altered in women undergoing \(In\) \(Vitro\) Fertilization},
  series = {Scientific Reports},
  volume    = {7},
  journal   = {Scientific Reports},
  doi       = {10.1038/s41598-017-13683-8},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-173632},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are class of small RNA molecules with major impact on gene regulation. We analyzed the potential of miRNAs secreted from pre-implantation embryos into the embryonic culture media as biomarkers to predict successful pregnancy. Using microarray analysis, we profiled the miRNome of the 56 spent culture media (SCM) after embryos transfer and found a total of 621 miRNAs in the SCM. On average, we detected 163 miRNAs in SCM of samples with failed pregnancies, but only 149 SCM miRNAs of embryos leading to pregnancies. MiR-634 predicted an embryo transfer leading to a positive pregnancy with an accuracy of 71\% and a sensitivity of 85\%. Among the 621 miRNAs, 102 (16.4\%) showed a differential expression between positive and negative outcome of pregnancy with miR-29c-3p as the most significantly differentially expressed miRNA. The number of extracellular vehicles was lower in SCM with positive outcomes (3.8 × 10\(^9\)/mL EVs), as compared to a negative outcome (7.35 × 10\(^9\)/mL EVs) possibly explaining the reduced number of miRNAs in the SCM associated with failed pregnancies. The analysis of the miRNome in the SCM of couples undergoing fertility treatment lays the ground towards development of biomarkers to predict successful pregnancy and towards understanding the role of embryonic miRNAs found in the SCM.},
  language  = {en}
}