Prof. Dr. Timm Maier

Anna Leder, Guillaume Mas, Viktória Szentgyörgyi, Roman P. Jakob, Timm Maier, Anne Spang, & Sebastian Hiller. (2025). A multichaperone condensate enhances protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum. Nature Cell Biology , 27(September), 1422–1430. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-025-01730-w

Lehner,Philippe Alain, Degen, Morris, Jakob, Roman, Burmann, Björn M., Callon, Morgane, Modaresi, Seyed Majed, Maier, Timm, & Hiller, Sebastian. (2025). Architecture and conformational dynamics of the BAM-SurA holo insertase complex. Science Advances , 11(14). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads6094

Chancellor, Andrew, Constantin, Daniel, Berloffa, Giuliano, Yang, Qinmei, Nosi, Vladimir, Loureiro, José Pedro, Colombo, Rodrigo, Jakob, Roman P., Joss, Daniel, Pfeffer, Michael, De Simone, Giulia, Morabito, Aurelia, Schaefer, Verena, Vacchini, Alessandro, Brunelli, Laura, Montagna, Daniela, Heim, Markus, Zippelius, Alfred, Davoli, Enrico, et al. (2024). The carbonyl nucleobase adduct M3Ade is a potent antigen for adaptive polyclonal MR1-restricted T cells [Journal-article]. Immunity, 58(2), 431–447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2024.11.019

Modaresi, Seyed Majed, Sugiyama, Ryosuke, Tram, Nhan Dai Thien, Jakob, Roman P., Phan, Chin-Soon, Saei, Amir Ata, Morishita, Yohei, Mühlethaler, Tobias, Lim, Joel, Ritz, Danilo, Long, Preston Shi Yang, Lehner, Phillipe A, Lim, Zhen Heng, Degen, Morris, Yao, Ziwei, Maier, Timm, Hou, Yuxin, Lee, Jia Ying, Xu, Jian, et al. (2024). Antibiotics that Kill Gram-negative Bacteria by Restructuring the Outer Membrane Protein BamA [Posted-content]. In bioRxiv . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.16.628070

Kaczmarczyk, Andreas, van Vliet, Simon, Jakob, Roman Peter, Dias Teixeira, Raphael, Scheidat, Inga, Reinders, Alberto, Klotz, Alexander, Maier, Timm, & Jenal, Urs. (2024). A genetically encoded biosensor to monitor dynamic changes of c-di-GMP with high temporal resolution. Nature Communications, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48295-0

Morita, Iori, Faraone, Adriana, Salvisberg, Elias, Zhang, Kailin, Jakob, Roman P., Maier, Timm, & Ward, Thomas R. (2024). Directed Evolution of an Artificial Hydroxylase Based on a Thermostable Human Carbonic Anhydrase Protein [Journal-article]. ACS Catalysis, 14(22), 17171–17179. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.4c04163

Mukherjee, Manjistha, Waser, Valerie, Morris, Elinor F., Igareta, Nico V., Follmer, Alec H., Jakob, Roman P., Maier, Timm, Üzümcü, Dilbirin, & Ward, Thomas R. (2024). Artificial Peroxidase Based on the Biotin–Streptavidin Technology that Rivals the Efficiency of Natural Peroxidases. ACS Catalysis, 14(21), 16266–16276. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.4c03208

Varga, Norbert, Smieško, Martin, Jiang, Xiaohua, Jakob, Roman P., Wagner, Beatrice, Mühlethaler, Tobias, Dätwyler, Philipp, Zihlmann, Pascal, Rabbani, Said, Maier, Timm, Schwardt, Oliver, & Ernst, Beat. (2024). Strengthening an Intramolecular Non-Classical Hydrogen Bond to Get in Shape for Binding. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 63(42). https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202406024

Nemli, Dilara D., Jiang, Xiaohua, Jakob, Roman P., Gloder, Laura Muñoz, Schwardt, Oliver, Rabbani, Said, Maier, Timm, Ernst, Beat, & Cramer, Jonathan. (2024). Thermodynamics-Guided Design Reveals a Cooperative Hydrogen Bond in DC-SIGN-targeted Glycomimetics. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 67(16), 13813–13828. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c00623

Battaglioni, Stefania, Craigie, Louise-Marie, Filippini, Sofia, Maier, Timm, & Hall, Michael N. (2024). mTORC1 phosphorylates and stabilizes LST2 to negatively regulate EGFR [Journal-article]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(34). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2405959121

Hiller, Sebastian, Szentgyörgyi, Viktória, Jakob, Roman, Maier, Timm, & Spang, Anne. (2024). A functional chaperone condensate in the endoplasmic reticulum. In Research Square. Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4796355/v1

Chen, Dongping, Zhang, Xiang, Vorobieva, Anastassia Andreevna, Tachibana, Ryo, Stein, Alina, Jakob, Roman P., Zou, Zhi, Graf, Damian Alexander, Li, Ang, Maier, Timm, Correia, Bruno E., & Ward, Thomas R. (2024). An evolved artificial radical cyclase enables the construction of bicyclic terpenoid scaffolds via an H-atom transfer pathway [Journal-article]. Nature Chemistry, 16(10), 1656–1664. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-024-01562-5

Wagner, Beatrice, Smieško, Martin, Jakob, Roman P., Mühlethaler, Tobias, Cramer, Jonathan, Maier, Tim, Rabbani, Said, Schwardt, Oliver, & Ernst, Beat. (2024). Analogues of the pan-selectin antagonist rivipansel (GMI-1070). European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmech.2024.116455

Höing, Lars, Sowa, Sven T., Toplak, Marina, Reinhardt, Jakob K., Jakob, Roman, Maier, Timm, Lill, Markus A., & Teufel, Robin. (2024). Biosynthesis of the bacterial antibiotic 3,7-dihydroxytropolone through enzymatic salvaging of catabolic shunt products [Journal-article]. Chemical Science, 15(20), 7749–7756. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sc01715c

Yu, K., Zhang, K., Jakob, R. P., Maier, T., & Ward, T. R. (2024). An artificial nickel chlorinase based on the biotin–streptavidin technology [Journal-article]. Chemical Communications, 60, 1944–1947. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3cc05847f

Mukherjee, Manjistha, Waser, Valerie, Igareta, Nico V., Follmer, Alec H., jakob, Roman P., Maier, Timm, Üzümcü, Dilbirin, & Ward, Thomas R. (2023). An Artificial Peroxidase based on the Biotin-Streptavidin Technology that Rivals the Efficiency of Natural Peroxidases [Posted-content]. In ChemRxiv. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-s830k

Degen, Morris, Santos, José Carlos, Pluhackova, Kristyna, Cebrero, Gonzalo, Ramos, Saray, Jankevicius, Gytis, Hartenian, Ella, Guillerm, Undina, Mari, Stefania A., Kohl, Bastian, Müller, Daniel J., Schanda, Paul, Maier, Timm, Perez, Camilo, Sieben, Christian, Broz, Petr, & Hiller, Sebastian. (2023). Structural basis of NINJ1-mediated plasma membrane rupture in cell death. Nature, 618(7967), 1065–1071. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05991-z

Isaikina, Polina, Petrovic, Ivana, Jakob, Roman P., Sarma, Parishmita, Ranjan, Ashutosh, Baruah, Minakshi, Panwalkar, Vineet, Maier, Timm, Shukla, Arun K., & Grzesiek, Stephan. (2023). A key GPCR phosphorylation motif discovered in arrestin2⋅CCR5 phosphopeptide complexes. Molecular cell, 83(12), 2108–2121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2023.05.002

Shimobayashi, Mitsugu, Shetty, Sunil, Frei, Irina C., Wölnerhanssen, Bettina K., Weissenberger, Diana, Weissenberger, Diana, Dietz, Nikolaus, Thomas, Amandine, Ritz, Danilo, Meyer-Gerspach, Anne Christin, Maier, Timm, Hay, Nissim, Peterli, Ralph, Rohner, Nicolas, & Hall, Michael N. (2023). Diet-induced loss of adipose hexokinase 2 correlates with hyperglycemia. eLife, 12, e85103. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.85103

Isaikina, Polina, Petrovic, Ivana, Jakob, Roman P., Sarma, Parishmita, Ranjan, Ashutosh, Baruah, Minakshi, Panwalkar, Vineet, Maier, Timm, Shukla, Arun K., & Grzesiek, Stephan. (2022). A key GPCR phosphorylation motif discovered in arrestin2•CCR5 phosphopeptide complexes [Posted-content]. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.10.511578

Kaczmarczyk, Andreas, van Vliet, Simon, Jakob, Roman Peter, Reinders, Alberto, Klotz, Alexander, Maier, Timm, & Jenal, Urs. (2022). A Novel Biosensor Reveals Dynamic Changes of C-di-GMP in Differentiating Cells with Ultra-High Temporal Resolution [Posted-content]. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.18.512705

Battaglioni, Stefania, Benjamin, Don, Wälchli, Matthias, Maier, Timm, & Hall, Michael N. (2022). mTOR substrate phosphorylation in growth control. Cell, 185(11), 1814–1836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2022.04.013

Chaker-Margot, Malik, Werten, Sebastiaan, Dunzendorfer-Matt, Theresia, Lechner, Stefan, Ruepp, Angela, Scheffzek, Klaus, & Maier, Timm. (2022). Structural basis of activation of the tumor suppressor protein neurofibromin. Molecular Cell, 82(7), 1288–1296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2022.03.011

Miller, Ryan D., Iinishi, Akira, Modaresi, Seyed Majed, Yoo, Byung-Kuk, Curtis, Thomas D., Lariviere, Patrick J., Liang, Libang, Son, Sangkeun, Nicolau, Samantha, Bargabos, Rachel, Morrissette, Madeleine, Gates, Michael F., Pitt, Norman, Jakob, Roman P., Rath, Parthasarathi, Maier, Timm, Malyutin, Andrey G., Kaiser, Jens T., Niles, Samantha, et al. (2022). Computational identification of a systemic antibiotic for gram-negative bacteria. Nature Microbiology, 7(10), 1661–1672. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01227-4

Mohammed, Inayathulla, Schmitz, Kai A., Schenck, Niko, Balasopoulos, Dimitrios, Topitsch, Annika, Maier, Timm, & Abrahams, Jan Pieter. (2022). Catalytic cycling of human mitochondrial Lon protease. Structure, 30(9), 1254–1268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2022.06.006

Tittes, Yves U., Herbst, Dominik A., Martin, Solène F. X., Munoz-Hernandez, Hugo, Jakob, Roman P., & Maier, Timm. (2022). The structure of a polyketide synthase bimodule core. Science Advances, 8(38), eabo6918. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abo6918

Zhang, Lei, Toplak, Marina, Saleem-Batcha, Raspudin, Höing, Lars Simon, Jakob, Roman, Jehmlich, Nico, von Bergen , Martin, Maier, Timm, & Teufel, Robin. (2022). Bacterial Dehydrogenases Facilitate Oxidative Inactivation and Bioremediation of Chloramphenicol. ChemBioChem, 24(2), e202200632. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202200632

Mohammed, Inayathulla, Schmitz, Kai A., Schenck, Niko, Topitsch, Annika, Maier, Timm, & Abrahams, Jan Pieter. (2021). Catalytic cycling of human mitochondrial Lon protease [Posted-content]. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.28.454137

Böhm, Raphael, Imseng, Stefan, Jakob, Roman P., Hall, Michael N., Maier, Timm, & Hiller, Sebastian. (2021). The dynamic mechanism of 4E-BP1 recognition and phosphorylation by mTORC1. Molecular Cell, 81(11), 2403–2416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2021.03.031

Böhringer, Nils, Green, Robert, Liu, Yang, Mettal, Ute, Marner, Michael, Modaresi, Seyed Majed, Jakob, Roman P., Wuisan, Zerlina G., Maier, Timm, Iinishi, Akira, Hiller, Sebastian, Lewis, Kim, & Schäberle, Till F. (2021). Mutasynthetic Production and Antimicrobial Characterization of Darobactin Analogs. Microbiology spectrum, 9(3), e0153521. https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.01535-21

Cramer, Jonathan, Lakkaichi, Adem, Aliu, Butrint, Jakob, Roman P., Klein, Sebastian, Cattaneo, Ivan, Jiang, Xiaohua, Rabbani, Said, Schwardt, Oliver, Zimmer, Gert, Ciancaglini, Matias, Abreu Mota, Tiago, Maier, Timm, & Ernst, Beat. (2021). Sweet Drugs for Bad Bugs: A Glycomimetic Strategy against the DC-SIGN-Mediated Dissemination of SARS-CoV-2. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 143(42), 17465–17478. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c06778

Isaikina, Polina, Tsai, Ching-Ju, Dietz, Nikolaus, Pamula, Filip, Grahl, Anne, Goldie, Kenneth N., Guixà-González, Ramon, Branco, Camila, Paolini-Bertrand, Marianne, Calo, Nicolas, Cerini, Fabrice, Schertler, Gebhard F. X., Hartley, Oliver, Stahlberg, Henning, Maier, Timm, Deupi, Xavier, & Grzesiek, Stephan. (2021). Structural basis of the activation of the CC chemokine receptor 5 by a chemokine agonist. Science Advances, 7(25), eabg8685. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abg8685

Jia, Jian-Jun, Lahr, Roni M., Solgaard, Michael T., Moraes, Bruno J., Pointet, Roberta, Yang, An-Dao, Celucci, Giovanna, Graber, Tyson E., Hoang, Huy-Dung, Niklaus, Marius R., Pena, Izabella A., Hollensen, Anne K., Smith, Ewan M., Chaker-Margot, Malik, Anton, Leonie, Dajadian, Christopher, Livingstone, Mark, Hearnden, Jaclyn, Wang, Xu-Dong, et al. (2021). mTORC1 promotes TOP mRNA translation through site-specific phosphorylation of LARP1. Nucleic Acids Research, 49(6), 3461–3489. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa1239

Kaur, Hundeep, Jakob, Roman P., Marzinek, Jan K., Green, Robert, Imai, Yu, Bolla, Jani Reddy, Agustoni, Elia, Robinson, Carol V., Bond, Peter J., Lewis, Kim, Maier, Timm, & Hiller, Sebastian. (2021). The antibiotic darobactin mimics a β-strand to inhibit outer membrane insertase. Nature, 593(7857), 125–129. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03455-w

Pipercevic, Joka, Jakob, Roman P., Righetto, Ricardo D., Goldie, Kenneth N., Stahlberg, Henning, Maier, Timm, & Hiller, Sebastian. (2021). Identification of a Dps contamination in Mitomycin-C-induced expression of Colicin Ia. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, 1863(7), 183607. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbamem.2021.183607

Tomašič, Tihomir, Rabbani, Said, Jakob, Roman P., Reisner, Andreas, Jakopin, Žiga, Maier, Timm, Ernst, Beat, & Anderluh, Marko. (2021). Does targeting Arg98 of FimH lead to high affinity antagonists? European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 211, 113093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmech.2020.113093

Wälchli, Matthias, Berneiser, Karolin, Mangia, Francesca, Imseng, Stefan, Craigie, Louise-Marie, Stuttfeld, Edward, Hall, Michael N., & Maier, Timm. (2021). Regulation of human mTOR complexes by DEPTOR. eLife, 10, e70871. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.70871

Isaikina, Polina, Tsai, Ching-Ju, Dietz, Nikolaus, Pamula, Filip, Grahl, Anne, Goldie, Kenneth N., Guixà-González, Ramon, Schertler, Gebhard F.X., Hartley, Oliver, Stahlberg, Henning, Maier, Timm, Deupi, Xavier, & Grzesiek, Stephan. (2020). Structural basis of the activation of the CC chemokine receptor 5 by a chemokine agonist [Posted-content]. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.27.401117

Brunner, Janine D., Jakob, Roman P., Schulze, Tobias, Neldner, Yvonne, Moroni, Anna, Thiel, Gerhard, Maier, Timm, & Schenck, Stephan. (2020). Structural basis for ion selectivity in TMEM175 K+ channels. eLife, 9. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.53683

Cramer, Jonathan, Jiang, Xiaohua, Schönemann, Wojciech, Silbermann, Marleen, Zihlmann, Pascal, Siegrist, Stefan, Fiege, Brigitte, Jakob, Roman Peter, Rabbani, Said, Maier, Timm, & Ernst, Beat. (2020). Enhancing the enthalpic contribution of hydrogen bonds by solvent shielding. RSC Chemical Biology, 1(4), 281–287. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0cb00108b

Künzli, Marco, Schreiner, David, Pereboom, Tamara C., Swarnalekha, Nivedya, Litzler, Ludivine C., Lötscher, Jonas, Ertuna, Yusuf I., Roux, Julien, Geier, Florian, Jakob, Roman P., Maier, Timm, Hess, Christoph, Taylor, Justin J., & King, Carolyn G. (2020). Long-lived T follicular helper cells retain plasticity and help sustain humoral immunity. Science Immunology, 5(45). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciimmunol.aay5552

Perez, Camilo, & Maier, Timm. (2020). Expression, Purification, and Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins. In Methods in Molecular Biology (1 ed., Vol. 2127). Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0373-4

Righetto, Ricardo D., Anton, Leonie, Adaixo, Ricardo, Jakob, Roman P., Zivanov, Jasenko, Mahi, Mohamed-Ali, Ringler, Philippe, Schwede, Torsten, Maier, Timm, & Stahlberg, Henning. (2020). High-resolution cryo-EM structure of urease from the pathogen Yersinia enterocolitica. Nature Communications, 11(1), 5101. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18870-2

Righetto, Ricardo D., Anton, Leonie, Adaixo, Ricardo, Jakob, Roman P., Zivanov, Jasenko, Mahi, Mohamed-Ali, Ringler, Philippe, Schwede, Torsten, Maier, Timm, & Stahlberg, Henning. (2020). Author Correction: High-resolution cryo-EM structure of urease from the pathogen Yersinia enterocolitica. Nature Communications, 11(1), 5873. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19845-z

Scaiola, Alain, Mangia, Francesca, Imseng, Stefan, Boehringer, Daniel, Berneiser, Karolin, Shimobayashi, Mitsugu, Stuttfeld, Edward, Hall, Michael N., Ban, Nenad, & Maier, Timm. (2020). The 3.2-Å resolution structure of human mTORC2. Science advances, 6(45), eabc1251. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abc1251

Shimobayashi, Mitsugu, Shetty, Sunil, Frei, Irina C., Wölnerhanssen, Bettina K., Weissenberger, Diana, Dietz, Nikolaus, Thomas, Amandine, Ritz, Danilo, Meyer-Gerspach, Anne Christin, Maier, Timm, Hay, Nissim, Peterli, Ralph, Rohner, Nicolas, & Hall, Michael N. (2020). Diet-induced loss of adipose Hexokinase 2 triggers hyperglycemia. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.28.887794

Sauer, Maximilian M., Jakob, Roman P., Luber, Thomas, Canonica, Fabia, Navarra, Giulio, Ernst, Beat, Unverzagt, Carlo, Maier, Timm, & Glockshuber, Rudi. (2019). Binding of the bacterial adhesin FimH to its natural, multivalent high-mannose type glycan targets. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141(2), 936–944. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b10736

Kaur, Hundeep, Hartmann, Jean-Baptiste, Jakob, Roman P., Zahn, Michael, Zimmermann, Iwan, Maier, Timm, Seeger, Markus A., & Hiller, Sebastian. (2019). Identification of conformation-selective nanobodies against the membrane protein insertase BamA by an integrated structural biology approach. Journal of Biomolecular NMR, 73(6-7), 375–384. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10858-019-00250-8

Schönemann, Wojciech, Cramer, Jonathan, Mühlethaler, Tobias, Fiege, Brigitte, Silbermann, Marleen, Rabbani, Said, Dätwyler, Philipp, Zihlmann, Pascal, Jakob, Roman P., Sager, Christoph P., Smiesko, Martin, Schwardt, Oliver, Maier, Timm, & Ernst, Beat. (2019). Improvement of Aglycone π-Stacking Yields Nano- to Subnanomolar FimH Antagonists. ChemMedChem, 14(7), 749–757. https://doi.org/10.1002/cmdc.201900051

Brunner, Janine D., Jakob, Roman P., Schulze, Tobias, Neldner, Yvonne, Moroni, Anna, Thiel, Gerhard, Maier, Timm, & Schenck, Stephan. (2018). Structural basis for ion selectivity in TMEM175 K+ channels [Posted-content]. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/480863

Vigano, M. Alessandra, Bieli, Dimitri, Schaefer, Jonas V., Peter Jakob, Roman, Matsuda, Shinya, Maier, Timm, Plückthun, Andreas, & Affolter, Markus. (2018). DARPins recognizing mTFP1 as novel reagents for in vitro and in vivo protein manipulations [Posted-content]. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/354134

Bauer, Daniela, Meinhold, Sarah, Jakob, Roman P., Stigler, Johannes, Merkel, Ulrich, Maier, Timm, Rief, Matthias, & Žoldák, Gabriel. (2018). A folding nucleus and minimal ATP binding domain of Hsp70 identified by single-molecule force spectroscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(18), 4666–4671. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1716899115

Herbst, Dominik A., Huitt-Roehl, Callie R., Jakob, Roman P., Kravetz, Jacob M., Storm, Philip A., Alley, Jamie R., Townsend, Craig A., & Maier, Timm. (2018). The structural organization of substrate loading in iterative polyketide synthases. Nature Chemical Biology, 14(5), 474–479. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-018-0026-3

Herbst, Dominik A., Townsend, Craig A., & Maier, Timm. (2018). The architectures of iterative type I PKS and FAS. Natural Product Reports, 35(10), 1046–1069. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8np00039e

Hunkeler, Moritz, Hagmann, Anna, Stuttfeld, Edward, Chami, Mohamed, Guri, Yakir, Stahlberg, Henning, & Maier, Timm. (2018). Structural basis for regulation of human acetyl-CoA carboxylase. Nature, 558(7710), 470–474. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0201-4

Imseng, Stefan, Aylett, Christopher Hs, & Maier, Timm. (2018). Architecture and activation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase related kinases. Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 49, 177–189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbi.2018.03.010

Maier, Timm, & Weissman, Kira J. (2018). Macromolecular assemblies: Assembly, dynamics and control of activity. Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 49, vi–vii. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbi.2018.04.001

Rabbani, Said, Fiege, Brigitte, Eris, Deniz, Silbermann, Marleen, Jakob, Roman Peter, Navarra, Giulio, Maier, Timm, & Ernst, Beat. (2018). Conformational Switch of the Bacterial Adhesin FimH in the Absence of the Regulatory Domain: Engineering a Minimalistic Allosteric System. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 293(5), 1835–1849. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m117.802942

Sager, Christoph P., Fiege, Brigitte, Zihlmann, Pascal, Vannam, Raghu, Rabbani, Said, Jakob, Roman P., Preston, Roland C., Zalewski, Adam, Maier, Timm, Peczuh, Mark W., & Ernst, Beat. (2018). The price of flexibility - a case study on septanoses as pyranose mimetics. Chemical Science, 9(3), 646–654. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7sc04289b

Stuttfeld, E., Aylett, C. H. S., Imseng, S., Boehringer, D., Scaiola, A., Sauer, E., Hall, M. N., Maier, T., & Ban, N. (2018). Architecture of the human mTORC2 core complex. eLife, 7, e33101. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.33101

Vigano, M. Alessandra, Bieli, Dimitri, Schaefer, Jonas V., Jakob, Roman Peter, Matsuda, Shinya, Maier, Timm, Plückthun, Andreas, & Affolter, Markus. (2018). DARPins recognizing mTFP1 as novel reagents for in vitro and in vivo protein manipulations. Biology Open, 7(11), bio036749. https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.036749

Vigano, M. Alessandra, Bieli, Dimitri, Schaefer, Jonas V., Jakob, Roman P., Matsuda, Shinya, Maier, Timm, Plückthun, Andreas, & Affolter, Markus. (2018). Correction:DARPins recognizing mTFP1 as novel reagents for in vitro; and in vivo protein manipulations. Biology Open, 7(12), bio036749. https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.040832

Zihlmann, Pascal, Silbermann, Marleen, Sharpe, Timothy, Jiang, Xiaohua, Mühlethaler, Tobias, Jakob, Roman P., Rabbani, Said, Sager, Christoph P., Frei, Priska, Pang, Lijuan, Maier, Timm, & Ernst, Beat. (2018). KinITC-One Method Supports both Thermodynamic and Kinetic SARs as Exemplified on FimH Antagonists. Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany), 24(49), 13049–13057. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201802599

Anton, Leonie, Sborgi, Lorenzo, Hiller, Sebastian, Broz, Petr, & Maier, Timm. (2017). Insights into Gasdermin D activation from the crystal structure of its C-terminal domain [Posted-content]. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/187211

Benning, Friederike M. C., Sakiyama, Yusuke, Mazur, Adam, Bukhari, Habib S. T., Lim, Roderick Y. H., & Maier, Timm. (2017). High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy Visualization of the Dynamics of the Multienzyme Fatty Acid Synthase. ACS Nano, 11(11), 10852–10859. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b04216

Maier, Timm. (2017). Fatty acid synthases: Re-engineering biofactories. Nature Chemical Biology, 13(4), 344–345. https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.2338

Navarra, Giulio, Zihlmann, Pascal, Jakob, Roman P., Stangier, Katia, Preston, Roland C., Rabbani, Said, Smiesko, Martin, Wagner, Bea, Maier, Timm, & Ernst, Beat. (2017). Carbohydrate-Lectin Interactions - An Unexpected Contribution to Affinity. ChemBioChem, 18(6), 539–544. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.201600615

Roth, Christian, Weizenmann, Nicole, Bexten, Nicola, Saenger, Wolfram, Zimmermann, Wolfgang, Maier, Timm, & Sträter, Norbert. (2017). Amylose recognition and ring-size determination of amylomaltase. Science Advances, 3(1), e1601386. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1601386

Storm, Philip A., Herbst, Dominik A., Maier, Timm, & Townsend, Craig A. (2017). Functional and Structural Analysis of Programmed C-Methylation in the Biosynthesis of the Fungal Polyketide Citrinin. Cell Chemical Biology, 24(3), 316–325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2017.01.008

Stuttfeld, Edward, Imseng, Stefan, & Maier, Timm. (2017). A central role for a region in the middle. eLife, 6, e25700. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.25700

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