Publications


2024

Kramat J, Kraus L, Gunawan VJ, Smyej E, Froehlich P, Weber TE, Spiehl D, Koeppl H, Blaeser A, Suess B.
Sensing Levofloxacin with an RNA Aptamer as a Bioreceptor. Biosensors (Basel). 22;14(1):56. doi: 10.3390/bios14010056

Vockenhuber MP, Hoetzel J, Maurer LM, Fröhlich P, Weiler S, Muller YA, Koeppl H, Suess B.
A Novel RNA Aptamer as Synthetic Inducer of DasR Controlled Transcription. ACS Synth Bio. 19;13(1):319-327. doi: 10.1021/acssynbio.3c00553

Suess B
Synthetic RNA biology. RNA Biol. 21(1):1-2. doi: 10.1080/15476286.2024.2335746

2023

Hetzke T, Vogel M, Halbritter AJ, Saha S, Suess B, Sigurdsson ST, Prisner TF
Simultaneous Localization of Two High Affinity Divalent Metal Ion Binding Sites in the Tetracycline RNA Aptamer with Mg2+-Based Pulsed Dipolar EPR Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett. 14(50):11421-11428. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02566

Kraus L, Duchardt-Ferner E, Bräuchle E, Fürbacher S, Kelvin D, Marx Hans, Boussebayle A, Maurer L-M, Bofill-Bosch C, Wöhnert J, Suess B
Development of a novel tobramycin dependent riboswitch. Nucleic Acids Res. 10;51(20):11375-11385. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad767

Kaiser C, Vogel M, Appel B, Weigand J, Müller S, Suess B, Wachtveitl J
Magnesium Ion-Driven Folding and Conformational Switching Kinetics of Tetracycline Binding Aptamer: Implications for in vivo Riboswitch Engineering. J Mol Biol. 435(20):168253.doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2023.168253.

Klein T, Funke F, Rossbach O, Lehmann G, Vockenhuber M, Medenbach J, Suess B, Meister G, Babinger P
Investigating the Prevalence of RNA-Binding Metabolic Enzymes in E. coli. Int J Mol Sci. 24(14):11536.doi: 10.3390/ijms241411536.

Kelvin D, Suess B.
Tapping the potential of synthetic riboswitches: reviewing the versatility of the tetracycline aptamer. RNA Biol 20(1):457-468.doi: 10.1080/15476286.2023.2234732.

Kraus L, Suess B.
RNA Capture-SELEX on Streptavidin Magnetic Beads. Methods Mol Biol 2570:63-71.doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2695-5_5.

2022

Hoetzel J, Suess B.
Structural Changes in Aptamers are Essential for Synthetic Riboswitch Engineering. J Mol Biol 434(18):167631.doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2022.167631

Kramat J, Suess B.
Efficient Method to Identify Synthetic Riboswitches Using RNA-Based Capture-SELEX Combined with In Vivo Screening. Methods Mol Biol 2518:157-177.doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2421-0_10.

2021

Born J, Weitzel K, Suess B, Pfeifer F.
A synthetic riboswitch to regulate haloarchaeal gene expression. Front Microbiol 12:696181.doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.696181. eCollection 2021.

Kaiser C, Schneider J, Groher F, Suess B, Wachtveitl J.
What defines a synthetic riboswitch? - Differences in the conformational dynamics of various/non related ciprofloxacin aptamers. Nucleic Acids Res 49(7):3661-3671. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab166.

Kläsener K, Jellusova J, Andrieux G, Salzer U, Böhler C, Steiner SN, Albinus JB, Cavallari M, Suess B, Boerries M, Voll RE, Wollscheid B, Reth M.
CD20 as a gatekeeper of the resting stage 1 of human B cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 118(7):e2021342118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2021342118.

Uebbing S, Kreiß M, Scholl F, Häfner AK, Sürün D, Garscha U, Werz O, Basavarajappa D, Samuelsson B, Rådmark O, Suess B, Steinhilber D.
Modulation of microRNA processing by 5-lipoxygenase. FASEB J 35(2):e21193. doi: 10.1096/fj.202002108R.

Mol AA, Vogel M, Suess B
Inducible nuclear import by TetR aptamer-controlled 3' splice site selection. RNA 27(2):234-241. doi: 10.1261/rna.077453.120.

2020

Suess B, Hermann T
Editorial Overview: Nanobiotechnology. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2020 Jun;63:iii-v. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2020.05.007

Schwich OD, Blümel N, Keller M, Wegener M, Setty ST, Brunstein ME, Poser I, De Los Mozos IR, Ule J, Suess B, Münch C, McNicoll F, Zarnack K, Müller-McNicoll M
SRSF3 regulates alternative polyadenylation through CFIm-mediated suppression of proximal and activation of distal polyadenylation sites. Genome Biology accepted

Grau F, Jäger J, Groher F, Suess B, Muller Y
The complex formed between a synthetic RNA aptamer and the transcription repressor TetR is a structural and functional twin of the operator DNA-TetR regulator complex. Nucleic Acids Res 48(6):3366-3378. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa083.

Basavarajappaa D, Uebbing S, Kreiss M, Lukica A, Suess B, Steinhilber D, Samuelssona B, Rådmarka O
Dicer upregulation by inhibition of specific proteolysis in differentiating monocytic cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 117(15):8573-8583. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1916249117.

Engel F, Ossipova E, Jakobsson P-J, Vockenhuber MP, Suess B
sRNA scr5239 involved in feedback loop regulation of Streptomyces coelicolor central metabolism. Front Microbiol doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.03121.

2019

Mol AA, Groher F, Schreiber B, Suess B
Robust gene expression control in human cells with a novel universal TetR aptamer splicing module. Nucleic Acids Res 47(20):e132. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkz753.

Lehr F-X, Hanst M, Vogel M, Kremer J, Göringer HU, Suess B, Köppel H
Cell-free prototyping of AND-logic gates based on heterogeneous RNA activators. ACS SynBio 8(9):2163-2173. doi: 10.1021/acssynbio.9b00238. Epub 2019 Aug 27.

Saul MJ, Emmerich AC, Steinhilber D, Suess B.
Regulation of Eicosanoid Pathways by MicroRNAs. Front Pharmacol. 10:824. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2019.00824.

Schmidt M, Hamacher K, Reinhardt F, Lotz TS, Groher F, Suess B, Jager S
SICOR: Subgraph Isomorphism Comparison of RNA Secondary Structures. IEEE/ACM Trans Comput Biol Bioinform Epub ahead of print.

Daube D, Vogel M, Suess B, Corzilius B.
Dynamic nuclear polarization on a hybridized hammerhead ribozyme: An explorative study of RNA folding and direct DNP with a paramagnetic metal ion cofactor. Solid State Nucl Magn Reson 101:21-30. doi: 10.1016/j.ssnmr.2019.04.005.

Hetzke T, Alice M B, Vogel M, Gauger M, Suess B, Prisner T
Binding of tetracycline to its aptamer determined by 2D-correlated Mn2+ hyperfne spectroscopy. J Magn Reson 303:105-114. doi: 10.1016/j.jmr.2019.04.011.

Boussebayle A, Groher F, Suess B
RNA-based Capture-SELEX for the selection of small molecule-binding aptamers. Methods 161:10-15. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2019.04.004.

Boussebayle A, Torka D, Ollivaud S, Braun J, Groher F, Dombrowski M, Hamacher K, Suess B
Next-level riboswitch development - Implementation of Capture-SELEX allows fast and easy identification of a new paromomycin riboswitch. Nucleic Acids Res 47(9):4883-4895. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkz216.

Ohuchi S, Mascher T, Suess B
Promoter RNA sequencing (PRSeq) for the massive and quantitative promoter analysis in vitro. Sci Rep 9(1):3118. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-39892-x.

Aladin V, Vogel M, Binder R, Burghardt I, Suess B, Corzilius B
Complex formation of the tetracycline-binding aptamer investigated by specific cross-relaxation under DNP. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl doi: 10.1002/anie.201811941

Saul M, Baumann I, Bruno A, Contursi A, Dovizio M, Donnini S, Tacconelli S, Raouf J, Idborg H, Stein S, Korotkova M, Savai R, Terzuoli E, Sala G, Jakobsson P-J, Patrignani P, Suess B, Steinhilber D
miR-574-5p stimulates human lung cancer cell growth by inducing mPGES-1-dependent prostaglandin E2 biosynthesis. FASEB J Epub ahead of print

Jaeger J, Groher F, Stamm J, Spiehl D, Braun J, Dörsam E, Suess B
Characterization and inkjet printing of an RNA aptamer for paper based biosensing ciprofloxacin. Biosensors (Basel) 9(1). pii: E7. doi: 10.3390/bios9010007.

Gustmann H, Segler AJ, Gophane DB, Reuss AJ, Grünewald C, Braun M, Weigand JE, Sigurdsson ST, Wachtveitl J.
Structure guided fluorescence labeling reveals a two-step binding mechanism of neomycin to its RNA aptamer. Nucleic Acids Res 47(1):15-28. doi: 10.1093/nar/gky1110.


2018

Groher A-C, Jager S, Schneider C, Groher F, Hamacher K, Suess B
Tuning the Performance of Synthetic Riboswitches using Machine Learning. ACS SynBio doi: 10.1021/acssynbio.8b00207.

Lotz TS, Halbritter T, Kaiser C, Rudolph MM, Kraus L, Groher F, Steinwand S, Wachtveitl J, Heckel A, Suess B
A light-responsive aptamer for an azobenzene derivative. Nucleic Acids Res doi: 10.1093/nar/gky1225

Hetzke T, Vogel M, Gophane DB, Weigand JE, Suess B, Sigurdsson ST, Prisner TF
Influence of Mg2+ on the conformational flexibility of a tetracycline aptamer. RNA 25(1):158-167. doi: 10.1261/rna.068684.118.

Lotz TS, Suess B
Small-Molecule-Binding Riboswitches. Microbiol Spectr 6(4). doi: 10.1128/microbiolspec.RWR-0025-2018.

Vogel M, Weigand JE, Kluge B, Grez M, Suess B
A small, portable RNA device for the control of exon skipping in mammalian cells. Nucleic Acids Res 46(8):e48. doi: 10.1093/nar/gky062.

Groher F, Bofill-Bosch C, Schneider C, Braun J, Jager S, Geißler K, Hamacher K, Suess B
Riboswitching with ciprofloxacin-development and characterization of a novel RNA regulator. Nucleic Acids Res 46(4):2121-2132. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx1319.

Ohuchi S, Suess B
Altered stoichiometry of an evolved RNA aptamer. RNA 24(4):480-485. doi: 10.1261/rna.063610.117. Epub 2017 Dec 28.

Suess B, Kemmerer K, Weigand JE
Splicing and Alternative Splicing Impact on Gene Design. Synthetic Biology: Parts, Devices and Applications


2017

Atanasov J, Weigand JE, Suess B
Design and implementation of a synthetic pre-miR switch for controlling miRNA biogenesis in mammals. Nucleic Acids Res 45(22):e181. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx858

Schneider C, Bronstein L, Diemer J, Koeppl H, Suess B
ROC'n'Ribo: Characterizing a riboswitching expression system by modeling single-cell data. ACS Synth Biol 6(7):1211-1224. doi: 10.1021/acssynbio.6b00322. Epub 2017 Jun 30.

Ohuchi S, Suess B
An inhibitory RNA aptamer against the lambda cI repressor shows transcriptional activator activity in vivo. FEBS Lett 591(10):1429-1436. doi: 10.1002/1873-3468.12653. Epub 2017 May 2.

Saul MJ, Groher F, Hegewald AB, Müller-McNicoll M, Marschalek R, Suess B, Steinhilber D
TGFβ/Smad signalling modulates MLL and MLL-AF4 mediated 5-lipoxygenase promoter activation. Prostaglandins Other Lipid Mediat 133:60-67. doi: 10.1016/j.prostaglandins.2017.07.006. Epub 2017 Aug 11

Steinert H, Sochor F, ..., Rudolph MM, ..., Suess B, Fürtig B, Wöhnert J, Schwalbe H,
Pausing guides RNA folding to populate transiently stable RNA structures for riboswitch-based transcription regulation. Elife 6. pii: e21297. doi: 10.7554/eLife.21297.

Kim YB, Wacker A, von Laer K, Rogov V, Suess B, Schwalbe H
Ligand binding to 2'-deoxyguanosine sensing riboswitch in metabolic context. Nucleic Acids Res 45(9):5375-5386. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx016.

Toulmé J-J, Giangrande PH, Mayer G, Suess B, Ducongé F, Sullenger B, De Franciscis V, Darfeuille F and Peyrin E
Aptamers in Bordeaux, 24-25 June 2016. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 10(1). pii: E14. doi: 10.3390/ph10010014.


2016

Saul MJ, Stein S, Grez M, Jakobsson PJ, Steinhilber D, Suess B.
UPF1 regulates myeloid cell functions and S100A9 expression by the hnRNP E2/miRNA-328 balance. Sci Rep 2016 Aug 30;6:31995. doi: 10.1038/srep31995

Groher F, Suess B
In vitro selection of antibiotic-binding aptamers. Methods 106:42-50. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2016.05.008. Epub 2016 May 17

Sommer MO, Suess B
RIBOSWITCHES. (Meta-)genome mining for new ribo-regulators. Science 352(6282):144-5. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf6189.

Schneider C, Suess B
Identification of RNA aptamers with riboswitching properties. Methods 97:44-50. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2015.12.001. Epub 2015 Dec 7.

Duchardt-Ferner E, Gottstein-Schmidt SR, Weigand JE, Ohlenschläger O, Wurm J-P, Hammann C, Suess B and Wöhnert J
What a Difference an OH Makes: Conformational Dynamics as the Basis for Ligand Specificity of the Neomycin Sensing Riboswitch. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 55(4):1527-30. doi: 10.1002/anie.201507365. Epub 2015 Dec 11

Vogel M, Suess B
Label-Free Determination of the Dissociation Constant of Small Molecule-Aptamer Interaction by Isothermal Titration Calorimetry. Methods Mol Biol 1380:113-25. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3197-2_9.


2015

Pedrolli DB, Kühm C, Sévin DC, Vockenhuber MP, Sauer U, Suess B and Mack M
A dual control mechanism synchronizes riboflavin and sulphur metabolism in Bacillus subtilis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 112(45):14054-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1515024112. Epub 2015 Oct 22.

Wenk P, Kaushik M, Richter D, Vogel M, Suess B and Corzilius B
Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of Nucleic Acid with Endogenously Bound Manganese JNMR 63(1):97-109. doi: 10.1007/s10858-015-9972-1. Epub 2015 Jul 29

Rohde J-H, Weigand JE, Suess B and Dimmeler S
A universal aptamer chimera for the delivery of functional microRNA-126. Nucleic Acid Ther 25(3):141-51. doi: 10.1089/nat.2014.0501

Vockenhuber MP, Heueis N and Suess B
Identification of metE as a second target 1 of the sRNA scr5239 in Streptomyces coelicolor. PlosOne 10(3):e0120147. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120147

Berens C, Groher F and Suess B
RNA aptamers as genetic control devices. Biotechnology Journal 10(2):246-57. doi: 10.1002/biot.201300498

Özçoban C, Halbritter T, Steinwand S, Herzig LM, Kohl-Landgraf J, Askari N, Groher F, Fürtig B, Richter C, Schwalbe H, Suess B, Wachtveitl J and Heckel A
Water-Soluble Py-BIPS Spiropyrans as Photoswitches for Biological Applications. Org Lett 17(6):1517-20. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5b00397

Rudolph MM, Vockenhuber MP and Suess B Access the recommendation on F1000Prime
Conditional Control of Gene Expression by Synthetic Riboswitches in Streptomyces coelicolor Methods Enzymol, 550:283-99. doi: 10.1016/bs.mie.2014.10.036.

Busch S, Auth W, Scholl F, Huenecke S, Koehl U, Suess B and Steinhilber D
5-Lipoxygenase is a direct target of miR-19a-3p and miR-125b-5p. Journal of Immunology 94(4):1646-53. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1402163. Epub 2015 Jan 14


2014

Beilstein K, Wittmann A, Grez M and Suess B
Conditional control of mammalian gene expression by tetracycline-dependent hammerhead ribozymes. ACS Synth Biol 4(5):526-34. doi: 10.1021/sb500270h

Reuss AJ, Vogel M, Weigand JE, Suess B and Wachtveitl J.
Tetracycline Determines the Conformation of its Aptamer at Physiological Magnesium Concentrations. Biophysical Journal 107(12):2953-2962. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.11.001

Berens C, Suess B
Riboswitch engineering - making the all-important second and third steps. Curr Opin Biotechnol 31C:10-15. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2014.07.014.

Weigand JE, Gottstein-Schmidtke SR, Demolli S, Groher F, Duchardt-Ferner E, Wöhnert J and Suess B
Sequence elements distal to the ligand binding pocket tune the efficiency of a synthetic riboswitch. ChemBioChem 15(11):1627-37. doi: 10.1002/cbic.201402067.

Gottstein-Schmidtke SR, Duchardt-Ferner E, Groher F, Weigand JE, Gottstein D, Suess B and Wöhnert J
Building a stable U-turn with a protonated cytidine. RNA 20(8):1163-72. doi: 10.1261/rna.043083.113.

Groher F, Suess B.
Synthetic riboswitches - A tool comes of age. Biochim Biophys Acta pii: S1874-9399(14)00111-4. doi: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2014.05.005.

Heueis N, Vockenhuber MP, Suess B.
Small non-coding RNAs in streptomycetes. RNA Biol 11(5).

Demolli S, Geist MM, Weigand JE, Matschiavelli N, Suess B, Rother M.
Development of β-Lactamase as a Tool for Monitoring Conditional Gene Expression by a Tetracycline-Riboswitch in Methanosarcina acetivorans.Archaea 2014:725610. doi: 10.1155/2014/725610.

Ochs MJ, Suess B and Steinhilber D
5-Lipoxygenase mRNA and protein isoforms. Basic Clin Pharmacol Toxicol 114(1):78-82. doi: 10.1111/bcpt.12115.

Ochs MJ, Steinhilber D, Suess B
MicroRNAs-novel therapeutic targets of eicosanoid signalling. Basic Clin Pharmacol Toxicol 114(1):92-6. doi: 10.1111/bcpt.12116.


2013

Meitert J, Aram R, Wiesemann K, Weigand JE and Suess B
Monitoring the expression level of coding and non-coding RNAs using a TetR inducing aptamer tag. Bioorganic & Medical Chemistry 21(20):6233-8. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2013.07.035.

Heinrich EM, Wagner J, Krüger M, John D, Uchida S, Weigand JE, Suess B and Dimmeler S.
Regulation of miR-17-92a cluster processing by microRNA binding protein SND1. FEBS letters 587(15):2405-11. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.06.008

Rudolph MM, Vockenhuber MP and Suess B.
Synthetic riboswitches for the conditional control of gene expression in
Streptomyces coelicolor. Microbiology 159(Pt 7):1416-22. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.067322-0.

Dovizio M, Maier T, Alberti S, Di Francesco L, Marcantoni E, Münch G, John C, Suess B, Sgambato A, Steinhilber D and Patrignani P.
Pharmacological inhibition of platelet-tumor cell cross-talk prevents platelet-induced overexpression of cyclooxygenase-2 in HT29 human colon carcinoma cells. Molecular Pharmacology 84(1):25-40. doi: 10.1124/mol.113.084988.

Ochs MJ, Ossipova E, Oliynyk G, Steinhilber D, Suess B and Jakobsson PJ
Mass spectrometry based proteomics identifies UPF1 as a critical gene expression regulator in Mono Mac 6 cells. J Proteomics Res 12(6):2622-9. doi: 10.1021/pr301193f.


2012

Langner JS, Fuchs NV, Hoffmann J, Wittmann A, Brutschy B, Löwer R and Suess B.
Biochemical analysis of the complex between the tetrameric export adapter protein Rec of HERV-K/HML-2 and the responsive RNA element RcRE pck30. J Virol 2012 Sep;86(17):9079-87. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00121-12.

Wittmann A, Suess B.
Engineered riboswitches: Expanding researchers' toolbox with synthetic RNA regulators. FEBS letters 2012 Jul 16;586(15):2076-83. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2012.02.038.

Ochs MJ, Pufahl L, Sorg B, Grez M, Suess B and Steinhilber D
Post-transcriptional regulation of 5-lipoxygenase mRNA expression via alternative splicing and nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. PLoS One 2012;7(2):e31363. Epub 2012 Feb 21.

Suess B, Entian KD, Kötter P, Weigand J.
Aptamer-regulated expression of essential genes in yeast. Methods Mol Biol 2012;824:381-91. doi: 10.1007/978-1-61779-433-9_20.

Weigand JE, Wittmann A, Suess B.
RNA-based networks: Using RNA aptamers and ribozymes as synthetic genetic devices. Methods Mol Biol 2012;813:157-68. doi: 10.1007/978-1-61779-412-4_9.

Vockenhuber MP, Suess B.
Streptomyces coelicolor sRNA scr5239 inhibits agarase expression by direct base pairing to dagA coding region. Microbiology 2012 Feb;158(Pt 2):424-35. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.054205-0.

Förster U, Weigand JE, Trojanowski P, Suess B, Wachtveitl J.
Conformational dynamics of the tetracycline-binding aptamer. Nucleic Acid Research 2012 Feb;40(4):1807-17. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkr835.


2011

Steber M, Arora A, Hofmann J, Brutschy B, Suess B.
Mechanistic basis for aptamer-based induction of TetR. Chem Bio Chem 2011 Nov 25;12(17):2608-14. doi: 10.1002/cbic.201100503. Epub 2011 Oct 21.

Ochs MJ, Steinhilber D, Suess B.
MicroRNA involved in inflammation: Control of eicosanoid pathway. Front Pharmacol 2011;2:39. Epub 2011 Jul 21.

Hammann C, Hartmann RK, Helm M, Klostermeier D, Marchfelder A, Suess B, Vörtler S.
Regulatory RNAs and beyond. EMBO reports 2011 Jul 15;12(8):751-3. doi: 10.1038/embor.2011.150.

Wittmann A, Suess B.
Selection of tetracycline inducible self-cleaving ribozymes as synthetic devices for gene regulation in yeast. Molecular Biosystems 2011 May 20, 7 (8), 2419 - 2427

Arora A, Suess B.
An RNA G-quadruplex in the 3' UTR of the proto-oncogene PIM1 represses translation. RNA Biology 2011 Sep 1;8(5).

Vockenhuber MP, Sharma C, Statt MG, Schmidt D, Xu Z, Dietrich S, Liesegang H, Mathews D, Suess B.
Deep sequencing-based identification of small non-coding RNAs in Streptomyces coelicolor. RNA Biology 2011 May 1;8(3).

Weigand JE, Schmidtke SR, Will T, Duchardt-Ferner E, Wöhnert J, Suess B.
Mechanistic insights into an engineered riboswitch: a switching element which confers riboswitch activity. Nucleic Acid Research 2011 Apr 1;39(8):3363-72. Epub 2010 Dec 11.

Wunnicke D, Strohbach D, Weigand JE, Appel B, Feresin E, Suess B, Müller S, Steinhoff HJ.
Ligand-induced conformational capture of a synthetic tetracycline riboswitch revealed by pulse EPR. RNA 2011 Jan;17(1):182-8. Epub 2010 Nov 19.


2010

Duchardt-Ferner E, Weigand JE, Ohlenschläger O, Schmidtke SR, Suess B, Wöhnert J.
Highly modular structure and ligand binding by conformational capture in a minimalistic riboswitch. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2010 Aug 16;49(35):6216-9

Schmidtke SR, Duchardt-Ferner E, Weigand JE, Suess B, Wöhnert J.
NMR resonance assignments of an engineered neomycin-sensing riboswitch RNA bound to ribostamycin and tobramycin. Biomol NMR Assign 2010 Mar 21. [Epub ahead of print]

Krstic I, Frolow O, Sezer D, Endeward B, Weigand JE, Suess B, Engels JW, Prisner FT.
PELDOR spectroscopy reveals preorganization of the neomycin-responsive riboswitch tertiary structure. J Am Chem Soc 2010 Feb 10;132(5):1454-5.

Suess B.
Riboswitches: New aspects of an old story. Guest editor: RNA Biology Special focus Riboswitches. RNA Biology 7(1), 64-65.


2009

Weigand JE, Suess B.
Aptamers and Riboswitches: Perspectives in Biotechnology. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 2009 Nov;85(2):229-36. Epub 2009 Sep 16.

Kötter P, Weigand JE, Meier B, Entian KD, Suess B.
A fast and efficient translational control system for conditional expression of yeast genes. Nucleic Acids Research 2009 Jul 10. Epub ahead of print

Weigand JE, Suess B.
Aptamers as artificial gene regulation elements. Methods Mol Biol 2009;535:201-8.

Hunsicker A, Steber M, Mayer G, Klotzsche M, Hillen W, Berens C, Suess B.
An aptamer that induces transcription. Chem Biol 2009 Feb 27;16(2):173-80.

Hering O, Brenneis M, Beer J, Suess B, Soppa J.
A novel mechanism for translation initiation operates in haloarchaea. Mol Microbiol 2009 Mar;71(6):1451-63.


2008

Weigand JE, Sanchez M, Gunnesch EB, Zeiher S, Schroeder R, Suess B.
Screening for engineered neomycin riboswitches that control translation initiation. RNA 14, 89-97.

Suess B, Weigand JE.
Engineered riboswitches: Overview, problems and trends. RNA Biology 5, 24-29.

Suess B.
Nucleic Acids from A to Z. S. Müller, ed. Wiley-VCH 2008 , in press.


2007

Weigand JE, Suess B.
Tetracycline aptamer-controlled regulation of pre-mRNA splicing in yeast. Nucleic Acid Research 35, 4179-4185.

Weigand JE, Suess B.
A designed RNA shuts down transcription. Chem Biol 14, 9-11.


2006

Muller M, Weigand JE, Weichenrieder O, Suess B.
Thermodynamic characterization of an engineered tetracycline-binding riboswitch.Nucleic Acids Research 34, 2607-2617.

Suess B.
Trendbericht: RNA-Schalter. Nachrichten aus der Chemie 54, 273-275.

Suess B.
RNA-Schalter - neuartige Regulatoren der Genexpression.Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau 698, 423-428.

Bauer G, Suess B.
Engineered riboswitches as novel tools in molecular biology. J Biotechnol 124, 4-11.


2005

Hanson S, Bauer G, Fink B, Suess B
Molecular analysis of a synthetic tetracycline-binding riboswitch. RNA 11,503-511.

Suess B.
Engineered riboswitches control gene expression by small molecules. Biochem Soc Trans 33, 474-476.

Berens C, Suess B.
Synthetic riboregulators - an alternative means to control gene expression. Gene Ther Mol Biol 9, 417-422.


2004-1998

Suess B, Fink B, Berens C, Stentz R and Hillen W (2004)
A theophylline responsive riboswitch based on helix slipping controls gene expression in vivo. Nucleic Acid Research 32(4),1610-1614.

Hanson S, Berthelot K, Fink B, McCarthy JE, Suess B. (2003).
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