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Meister TL, Nocke MK, Heinen N, Burkard TL, Brüggemann Y, Westhoven S, Trüeb B, Ebert N, Thomann L, Lubieniecki KP, Lubieniecka JM, Döring K, Herrmann M, Haid S, Pietschmann T, Wiegmann B, Tao R, Pfefferle S, Addo MM, Thiel V, Drexler I, Babel N, Phuc Nguyen H, Brown RJP, Todt D, Steinmann E, Pfaender S (2025). Mycophenolic acid treatment drives the emergence of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 122/2025; PubMed

Brüggemann Y, Meister TL, Heinen N, Richter E, Westhoven S, Poppe M, Shaban MS, Sirkinti L, Nocke M, Todt D, Pfaender S, Kracht M, Steinmann E (2025). JNK kinase regulates phosphorylation of HCoV-229E nucleocapsid protein. Npj Viruses. 3/2025; PubMed

Westhoven S, Bertzbach LD, Kloehn M, Mahncke C, Heinen N, Brown RJP, Pfaender S (2025). From zoonotic spillover to endemicity: the broad determinants of human coronavirus tropism. mBio. 2025 Sep 22; PubMed

Weidinger D, Jacobsen J, Alisch D, Uebner H, Heinen N, Greune L, Westhoven S, Jamal Jameel K, Kronsbein J, Pfaender S, Taube C, Reuter S, Peters M, Hatt H, Knobloch J (2024). Olfactory receptors impact pathophysiological processes of lung diseases in bronchial epithelial cells. Eur J Cell Biol. 103/2024; PubMed

Heinen N, Klöhn M, Westhoven S, Brown RJ, Pfaender S (2024). Host determinants and responses underlying SARS-CoV-2 liver tropism. Curr Opin Microbiol. 79/2024; PubMed

Khanal R, Heinen N, Bogomolova A, Meister TL, Herrmann ST, Westhoven S, Nocke MK, Todt D, Jockenhövel F, Klein IM, Hartmann L, Vondran FWR, Steinmann E, Zimmer G, Ott M, Brown RJP, Sharma AD, Pfaender S (2024). MicroRNAs modulate SARS-CoV-2 infection of primary human hepatocytes by regulating the entry factors ACE2 and TMPRSS2. Liver Int. 44/2024; PubMed

Awad N, Weidinger D, Greune L, Kronsbein J, Heinen N, Westhoven S, Pfaender S, Taube C, Reuter S, Peters M, Hatt H, Fender A, Knobloch J (2024). Functional characterization of OR51B5 and OR1G1 in human lung epithelial cells as potential drug targets for non-type 2 lung diseases. Cell Biol Toxicol. 40/2024; PubMed