Falk Butter
Contributing Principal Investigator

- Address: IMB, Ackermannweg 4, 55128 Mainz
- Phone: +49 (0) 6131-39-21570
- Since 2013: Group Leader, Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Mainz
- 2010-2013: Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried
Education:
- 2010: PhD in Biochemistry, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
- 2006: Diploma in Biochemistry, University of Leipzig
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Greither T, Dejung M, Behre H, Butter F, Herlyn H (2023)
The human sperm proteome—Toward a panel for male fertility testing Andrology, 1-19 -
Ceron-Noriega A, Almeida MV, Levin M, Butter F (2023)
Nematode gene annotation by machine-learning-assisted proteotranscriptomics enables proteome-wide evolutionary analysis Genome Research, 33(1):112-128 -
Pires V, Lohner N, Wagner T, Paeschke K, Butter F, Luke B (2022)
RNA-DNA hybrids prevent resection at dysfunctional telomeres CellReports, (42):1120077 -
Schreier J, Dietz S, Boermel M, Oorschot V, Seistrup AS, de Jesus Domingues AM, Bronkhorst AW, Nguyen DAH, Phillis S, Gleason EJ, L’Hernault SH, Phillips CM, Butter F & Ketting RF (2022)
Membrane-associated cytoplasmic granules carrying the Argonaute protein WAGO-3 enable paternal epigenetic inheritance in Caenorhabditis elegans Nature Cell Biology, 24:217–229 -
Levin M & Butter F (2022)
Proteotranscriptomics – A facilitator in omics research Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 20:3667-3675 -
Dallaire A, Manley BF, Wilkens M, Bista I, Quan C, Evangelisti E, Bradshaw CR, Ramakrishna NB, Schornack S, Butter F, Paszkowski U and Miska EA (2021)
Transcriptional activity and epigenetic regulation of transposable elements in the symbiotic fungus Rhizophagus irregularis Genome Research, 31(12):2290-2302 -
Eisenhuth N, Vellmer T, Rauh ET, Butter F and Janzen CJ (2021)
A DOT1B/ribonuclease H2 protein complex is involved in R-loop processing, genomic integrity, and antigenic variation in Trypanosoma brucei mBio, 0:e01352-21 -
Bakari-Soale M, Ikenga NJ, Scheibe M, Butter F, Jones NG, Kramer S and Engstler M (2021)
The nucleolar DExD/H protein Hel66 is involved in ribosome biogenesis in Trypanosoma brucei Scientific Reports, 11(1):18325 -
Deen D, Butter F, Daniels DE, Ferrer-Vicens I, Ferguson DCJ, Holland ML, Samara V, Sloane-Stanley JA, Ayyub H, Mann M, Frayne J, Garrick D and Vernimmen D (2021)
Identification of the transcription factor MAZ as a regulator of erythropoiesis Blood Advances, 5(15):3002–3015 -
Dietz S, Almeida MV, Nischwitz E, Schreier J, Viceconte N, Fradera-Sola A, Renz C, Ceron-Noriega A, Ulrich H, Kappei D, Ketting RF and Butter F (2021)
The double-stranded DNA-binding proteins TEBP-1 and TEBP-2 form a telomeric complex with POT-1 Nature Communication, 12:2668 -
Maynard D, Viehhauser A, Knieper M, Dreyer A, Manea G, Telman W, Butter F, Chibani K, Scheibe R and Dietz KJ (2021)
The in vitro interaction of 12-oxophytodienoic acid and related conjugated carbonyl compounds with thiol antioxidants Biomolecules, 11(3):457 -
Amodeo S, Kalichava A, Fradera-Sola A, Bertiaux-Lequoy E, Guichard P, Butter F and Ochsenreiter T (2021)
Characterization of the novel mitochondrial genome segregation factor TAP110 in Trypanosoma brucei Journal of Cell Science, 134(5) -
Davies C, Ooi CP, Sioutas G, Hall BS, Sidhu H, Butter F, Alsford S, Wickstead B and Rudenko G (2021)
TbSAP is a novel chromatin protein repressing metacyclic variant surface glycoprotein expression sites in bloodstream form Trypanosoma brucei Nucleic Acids Research, 49(6):3242–3262 -
Berkyurek AC, Furlan G, Lampersberger L, Beltran T, Weick EM, Nischwitz E, Cunha Navarro I, Braukmann F, Akay A, Price J, Butter F, Sarkies P and Miska EA (2021)
The RNA polymerase II subunit RPB‐9 recruits the integrator complex to terminate Caenorhabditis elegans piRNA transcription EMBO Journal, 40:e105565 -
Stoldt M, Klein L, Beros S, Butter F, Jongepier E, Feldmeyer B and Foitzik S (2021)
Parasite presence induces gene expression changes in an ant host related to immunity and longevity Genes, 12(1):95 -
Worpenberg L, Paolantoni C, Longhi S, Mulorz MM, Lence T, Wessels HH, Dassi E, Aiello G, Sutandy FXR, Scheibe M, Edupuganti RR, Busch A, Möckel MM, Vermeulen M, Butter F, König J, Notarangelo M, Ohler U, Dieterich C, Quattrone A, Soldano A and Roignant JY (2021)
Ythdf is a N6‐methyladenosine reader that modulates Fmr1 target mRNA selection and restricts axonal growth in Drosophila EMBO Journal, 40:e104975 -
Wagner T, Pérez-Martínez L, Schellhaas R, Barrientos-Moreno M, Öztürk M, Prado F, Butter F and Luke B (2020)
Chromatin modifiers and recombination factors promote a telomere fold-back structure, that is lost during replicative senescence. PLOS Genet, 16:e1008603 -
Placentino M, Jesus Domingues AM, Schreier J, Dietz S, Hellmann S, Albuquerque BF, Butter F and Ketting RF (2020)
Intrinsically disordered protein PID-2 modulates Z granules and is required for heritable piRNA-induced silencing in the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo EMBO J, 40:e105280 -
Greither T, Schumacher J, Dejung M, Behre HM, Zischler H, Butter F and Herlyn H (2020)
Fertility Relevance Probability Analysis Shortlists Genetic Markers for Male Fertility Impairment. Cytogenet Genome Res, 160:506–522 -
Viceconte N, Loriot A, Lona Abreu P, Scheibe M, Fradera Sola A, Butter F, De Smet C, Azzalin CM, Arnoult N and Decottignies A (2020)
PAR-TERRA is the main contributor to telomeric repeat-containing RNA transcripts in normal and cancer mouse cells RNA -
Levin M, Scheibe M and Butter F (2020)
Proteotranscriptomics assisted gene annotation and spatial proteomics of Bombyx mori BmN4 cell line BMC Genomics, 1:690 -
Leal AZ, Schwebs M, Briggs E, Weisert N, Reis H, Lemgruber L, Luko K, Wilkes J, Butter F, McCulloch R and Janzen CJ (2020)
Genome maintenance functions of a putative Trypanosoma brucei translesion DNA polymerase include telomere association and a role in antigenic variation Nucleic Acids Res, 17:9660-9680 -
Doleželová E, Kunzová M, Dejung M, Levin M, Panicucci B, Regnault C, Janzen CJ, Barrett MP, Butter F and Zíková A (2020)
Cell-based and multi-omics profiling reveals dynamic metabolic repurposing of mitochondria to drive developmental progression of Trypanosoma brucei PLOS Biol, 6:e3000741 -
Casas-Vila N, Sayols S, Pérez-Martínez L, Scheibe M and Butter F (2020)
The RNA fold interactome of evolutionary conserved RNA structures in S. cerevisiae Nat Commun, 1:2789 -
Bruch A, Laguna T, Butter F, Schaffrath R and Klassen R (2020)
Misactivation of multiple starvation responses in yeast by loss of tRNA modifications Nucleic Acids Res -
Zimmermann C, Krämer N, Krauter S, Strand D, Sehn E, Wolfrum U, Freiwald A, Butter F and Plachter B (2020)
Autophagy interferes with human cytomegalovirus genome replication, morphogenesis, and progeny release Autophagy, 1-17 -
Scherer M, Levin M, Butter F and Scheibe M (2020)
Quantitative Proteomics to Identify Nuclear RNA-Binding Proteins of Malat1 Int J Mol Sci, 3:1166 -
Pérez‐Martínez L, Öztürk M, Butter F and Luke B (2020)
Npl3 stabilizes R‐loops at telomeres to prevent accelerated replicative senescence EMBO Rep, 3 -
Kiweler N, Wünsch D, Wirth M, Mahendrarajah N, Schneider G, Stauber RH, Brenner W, Butter F and Krämer OH (2020)
Histone deacetylase inhibitors dysregulate DNA repair proteins and antagonize metastasis-associated processes J Cancer Res Clin Oncol, 2:343-356 -
Warncke JD, Passecker A, Kipfer E, Brand F, Pérez‐Martínez L, Proellochs NI, Kooij TWA, Butter F, Voss TS and Beck H (2019)
The PHIST protein GEXP02 targets the host cytoskeleton during sexual development of Plasmodium falciparum Cellular Microbiology, 2 -
Cordeiro Rodrigues RJ, de Jesus Domingues AM, Hellmann S, Dietz S, de Albuquerque BFM, Renz C, Ulrich HD, Sarkies P, Butter F and Ketting RF (2019)
PETISCO is a novel protein complex required for 21U RNA biogenesis and embryonic viability Genes Dev, 13-14:857-870