2012

Li Z., Ender C., Meister G., Moore P.S., Chang Y. & John B. (2012) Extensive terminal and asymmetric processing of small RNAs from rRNAs, snoRNAs, snRNAs, and tRNAs. Nucleic Acids Res., Epub 2012 Apr 09 [ahead of print] - PMID: 22492706.

Treiber T., Treiber N. & Meister G. (2012) Regulation of microRNA biogenesis and function. Thromb Haemost., 107(4): 605-610. Epub 2012 Feb 08.
 

2011

Meister G. (2011) RNA Biology - An Introduction. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co., Weinheim, Germany

Schraivogel D., Weinmann L., Beier D., Tabatabai G., Eichner A., Zhu J.Y., Anton M., Sixt M., Weller M., Beier C.P. & Meister G. (2011) CAMTA1 is a novel tumour suppressor regulated by miR-9/9* in glioblastoma stem cells. EMBO J., 30(20): 4309-4322.

Röther S. & Meister G. (2011) Small RNAs derived from longer non-coding RNAs. Biochimie, 93(11): 1905-1915.

Valen E., Preker P., Andersen P.R., Zhao X., Chen Y., Ender C., Dueck A., Meister G., Sandelin A. & Jensen T.H. (2011) Biogenic mechanisms and utilization of small RNAs from human protein-coding genes. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol., 18(9): 1075-1082. Epub 2011 Aug 09.

Barth S., Meister G. & Grässer F.A. (2011) EBV-encoded miRNAs. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1809: 631-640. Epub 2011 May 24.

Beitzinger M. & Meister G. (2011) Experimental Identification of MicroRNA Targets by Immunoprecipitation of Argonaute Protein Complexes. Methods Mol Biol, 732: 153-167.

Stoehr J. & Meister G. (2011) In Vitro RISC Cleavage Assay. Methods Mol Biol, 725: 77-90.

Meister G. (2011) Vision: Dicer leaps into view. Nature, 471: 308–309.

2010

Rüdel S., Wang Y., Lenobel R., Körner R., Hsiao H.H., Urlaub H., Patel D. & Meister G. (2011) Phosphorylation of human Argonaute proteins affects small RNA binding. Nucleic Acids Res., 39(6): 2330-2343. Epub 2010 Nov 10.

Imig J., Motsch N., Zhu J.Y., Barth S., Okoniewski M., Reineke T., Tinguely M., Faggioni A., Trivedi P., Meister G., Renner C. & Grässer F.A. (2011) MicroRNA profiling in Epstein-Barr virus-associated B-cell lymphoma. Nucleic Acids Res., 39(5): 1880-1893. Epub 2010 Nov 09.

Gutierrez Aguilar A.L., Piskol R., Beitzinger M., Zhu J.Y., Kruspe D., Aszodi A., Moser M., Englert C. & Meister G. (2010) The small RNA expression profile of the developing murine urinary and reproductive systems. FEBS Lett., 584(21): 4426-34.

Treiber T. & Meister G. (2010) SMADs stimulate miRNA processing. Mol. Cell, 39: 315-316.

Zhu J.Y., Strehle M., Frohn A., Kremmer E., Höfig K.P., Meister G. & Adler H. (2010) Identification and analysis of expression of novel microRNAs of murine gammaherpesvirus 68. J. Virol., 84(19): 10266-10275.

Dueck A. & Meister G. (2010) MicroRNA processing without Dicer. Genome Biol., 11(6): 123-125.

Ender C. & Meister G. (2010) Argonaute proteins at a glance. J. Cell Sci., 123: 1819-1823.

Dölken L., Malterer G., Erhard F., Kothe S., Friedel C.C., Suffert G., Marcinowski L., Motsch N., Barth S., Beitzinger M. Lieber D., Bailer S.M., Hoffmann R., Ruzsics Z., Kremmer E., Pfeffer S., Zimmer R., Koszinowski U.H., Grässer F., Meister G. & Haas J. (2010) Systematic analysis of viral and cellular microRNA targets in cells latently infected with human gamma-herpesviruses by RISC immunoprecipitation assay. Cell Host Microbe. 7(4): 324-334.

Beitzinger M. & Meister G. (2010) MicroRNAs: from decay to decoy. Cell, 140: 612-614.
 

2009

Dueck A. & Meister G. (2009) TRIMming microRNA function in mouse stem cells. Nature Cell Biol., 11(12): 1392-1393.

Zhu J.Y., Pfuhl T., Motsch N., Barth S., Nicholls J., Grässer F. & Meister G. (2009) Identification of novel Epstein-Barr Virus microRNA genes from Nasopharyngeal Carcinomas. J. Virol., 83(7): 3333-3341.

Weinmann L., Höck J., Ivacevic T., Ohrt T., Mütze J., Schwille P., Kremmer E., Benes V., Urlaub H. & Meister G. (2009) Importin 8 is a gene silencing factor that targets Argonaute proteins to distinct mRNAs. Cell, 136: 496-507.
 

2008

Ender C., Krek A., Friedländer M.R., Beitzinger M., Weinmann L., Chen W., Pfeffer S., Rajewsky N. & Meister G. (2008) A human snoRNA with microRNA-like functions. Mol. Cell, 32: 519-528.

Ohrt T. Mütze J., Staroske W., Weinmann L., Höck J., Crell K., Meister G. & Schwille P. (2008) Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy reveal the cytoplasmic origination of loaded nuclear RISC in vivo in human cells. Nucleic Acids Res., 36(20): 6439-49.

Linder B., Plöttner O., Kroiss M., Hartmann E., Laggerbauer B., Meister G., Keidel E. & Fischer U. (2008) Tdrd3 is a novel stress granule-associated protein interacting with the Fragile-X syndrome protein FMRP. Hum. Mol. Genet., 17(20): 3236-3246.

Meister G. (2008) RNA interference in the nucleus. Science, 321: 496-497.

Rüdel S. & Meister G. (2008) Phosphorylation of Argonaute proteins: regulating gene regulators. Biochem. J., 413: e7-e9.

Rüdel S., Flatley A., Weinmann L., Kremmer E. & Meister G. (2008) A multifunctional human Argonaute2-specific monoclonal antibody. RNA, 14: 1244-1253.

Höck J. & Meister G. (2008) The Argonaute protein family. Genome Biol., 9: 210.

Chen P.Y., Weinmann L., Gaidatzis D., Pei Y., Zavolan M., Tuschl T. & Meister G. (2008) Strand-specific 5'-O-methylation of siRNA duplexes controls guide strand selection and targeting specificity. RNA, 14: 1-12.
 

2007

Barth S., Pfuhl T., Mamiani A., Ehses C., Roemer K., Kremmer E., Jäker C., Höck J., Meister G. & Grässer F. (2008) Epstein-Barr virus-encoded microRNA miR-BART2 down-regulates the viral DNA polymerase BALF5. Nucleic Acids Res., 36(2): 666-675.

Höck J., Weinmann L., Ender C., Rüdel S., Kremmer E., Raabe M., Urlaub H. & Meister G. (2007) Proteomic and functional analysis of Argonaute-containing mRNA-protein complexes in human cells. EMBO Reports, 8(11): 1052-1060.

Meister G. (2007) miRNAs get an early start on translational silencing. Cell, 131: 25-28.

Peters L. & Meister G. (2007) Argonaute proteins: Mediators of RNA silencing. Molecular Cell, 26: 611-623.

Tarasov V., Jung P., Verdoodt B., Lodygin D., Epanchintsev A., Menssen A., Meister G. & Hermeking H. (2007) Differential regulation of microRNAs by p53 revealed by massively parallel sequencing: miR-34a is a p53 target that induces apoptosis and G(1)-arrest. Cell Cycle, 6(13): 1586-1593.

Beitzinger M., Peters L., Zhu J.Y., Kremmer E. & Meister G. (2007) Identification of microRNA targets from isolated Argonaute protein complexes. RNA Biol, 4(2): 76-84.
 

2006

Obernosterer G., Meister G., Poy M. & Kuras A. (2006) The impact of small RNAs. EMBO Reports. 8: 23-27.

Patel D.J., Ma J.B., Yuan Y.R., Ye K., Pei Y., Kuryavyi V., Malinina L., Meister G. & Tuschl T. (2006) Structural Biology of RNA silencing and its functional implications. Cold Spring Harb. Symp. Quant. Biol. 71: 81-93.

Peters L. & Meister G. (2006) Kleine nicht-kodierende RNAs als Regulatoren der Genexpression. BioSpektrum, 06.06, Jahrgang 12.
 

2005

Chen P.Y. & Meister G. (2005) microRNA-guided posttranscriptional gene regulation. Biol. Chem., 386: 1205-1218.

Meister G., Landthaler M., Peters L., Chen P.Y., Urlaub H., Lührmann R. & Tuschl T. (2005) Identification of novel Argonaute-associated proteins. Current Biology, 15: 1-7.

Azzouz T.N., Pillai R.S., Däpp C., Chari A., Meister G., Kambach C., Fischer U. & Schümperli D. (2005) Toward an Assembly Line for U7 snRNPs: interactions of U7-specific Lsm proteins with PRMT5 and SMN complexes. J. Biol. Chem. 280: 34435-34440.

Winkler C., Eggert C., Gradl D., Meister G., Giegerich M., Wedlich D., Laggerbauer B. & Fischer U. (2005) Reduced U snRNP assembly causes motor axon degeneration in an animal model for spinal muscular atrophy. Genes Dev., 19: 2320-2330.

Yuan Y-R., Pei Y., Ma J-B., Kuryavyi V., Zhadina M., Meister G., Chen H. Y., Dauter Z., Tuschl T. & Patel D.J. (2005) Crystal structure of A. aeolicus Argonaute, a site-specific DNA-guided endoribonuclease, provides insights into RISC-mediated mRNA cleavage. Molecular Cell, 19: 405-419.

Ma J-B., Yuan Y-R., Meister G., Pei Y., Tuschl T. & Patel D.J. (2005) Structural basis for 5'-end-specific recognition of guide RNA by the A. fulgidus PIWI protein. Nature, 434: 666-670.

Grimmler M., Martin L., Nousiainen M., Körner R., Meister G. & Fischer U. (2005) Phosphorylation regulates the activity of the SMN-complex during assembly of spliceosomal U snRNPs. EMBO Reports, 6(1): 70-6.
 

2004

Meister G., Landthaler M., Patkaniowska A., Dorsett Y., Teng G. & Thomas Tuschl (2004) Human Argonaute2 mediates RNA cleavage targeted by miRNAs and siRNAs. Molecular Cell, 15: 185-197.

Meister G. & Tuschl T. (2004) Mechanisms of gene silencing by double-stranded RNA. Nature, 16: 343-349.

Meister G., Landthaler M., Dorsett Y. & Tuschl T. (2004) Sequence specific inhibition of microRNA- and siRNA-induced RNA silencing. RNA, 10(3): 544-550.

Malatesta M., Scassellati C., Meister G., Plöttner O., Bühler D., Sowa G., Martin T., Keidel E., Fischer U. & Fakan S. (2004) Ultrastructural characterization of a nuclear domain highly enriched in Survival of Motor Neuron (SMN) protein. Exp. Cell Res., 292: 312-321.
 

2003

Pillai R.S., Grimmler M., Meister G., Will C.L, Lührmann R., Fischer U. & Schümperli D. (2003) Unique Sm core structure of U7 snRNPs: assembly by a specialized SMN complex and the role of a new component, Lsm11, in histone RNA processing. Genes Dev. 17(18): 2321-33.

Barth S., Liss M., Voss M.D., Dobner T., Fischer U., Meister G. & Grässer F.A. (2003) Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen 2 binds via its methylated arginine-glycine repeat to the survival motor neuron protein. J. Virol., 77(8): 5008-13.
 

2002

Meister G., Eggert C. & Fischer U. (2002) SMN-mediated RNP assembly: a complex story. Trends Cell Biol., 12: 472-478.

Meister G. & Fischer U. (2002) Assisted RNP assembly: SMN- and PRMT5-complexes cooperate in the formation of spliceosomal UsnRNPs. EMBO J., 21: 5853-5863.

Jablonka S., Holtmann B., Meister G., Bandilla M., Rossoll W., Fischer U. & Sendtner M., (2002) Gene targeting of Gemin2 in mice reveals a correlation between defects in the biogenesis of U snRNPs and motoneuron cell death. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 15: 10126-31.
 

2001

Meister G., Eggert C., Buehler D., Brahms H., Kambach C. & Fischer U. (2001) Methylation of Sm proteins by a complex containing PRMT5 and the putative U snRNP assembly factor pICln. Current Biology, 11: 1990-1994.

Meister G., Buhler D., Pillai R., Lottspeich F. & Fischer U. (2001) A multiprotein complex mediates the ATP-dependent assembly of spliceosomal U snRNPs. Nat. Cell Biol., 3: 945-949.

Meister G., Hannus S., Plottner O., Baars T., Hartmann E., Fakan S., Laggerbauer B. & Fischer U. (2001) SMNrp is an essential pre-mRNA splicing factor required for the formation of the mature spliceosome. EMBO J., 20: 2304-2314.
 

2000

Meister G., Buhler D., Laggerbauer B., Zobawa M., Lottspeich F. & Fischer U. (2000) Characterization of a nuclear 20S complex containing the survival of motor neurons (SMN) protein and a specific subset of spliceosomal Sm proteins. Hum. Mol. Genetics, 9: 1977-1986.