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115 Publications
2020 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 8142 | 
Montesinos López JC, Abuzeineh A, Kopf A, Juanes Garcia A, Ötvös K, Petrášek J, Sixt MK, Benková E. 2020. Phytohormone cytokinin guides microtubule dynamics during cell progression from proliferative to differentiated stage. The Embo Journal. 39(17), e104238.
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2020 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 8787 |
Nicolai L, Schiefelbein K, Lipsky S, Leunig A, Hoffknecht M, Pekayvaz K, Raude B, Marx C, Ehrlich A, Pircher J, Zhang Z, Saleh I, Marel A-K, Löf A, Petzold T, Lorenz M, Stark K, Pick R, Rosenberger G, Weckbach L, Uhl B, Xia S, Reichel CA, Walzog B, Schulz C, Zheden V, Bender M, Li R, Massberg S, Gärtner FR. 2020. Vascular surveillance by haptotactic blood platelets in inflammation and infection. Nature Communications. 11, 5778.
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2020 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 8190 |
Sixt MK, Huttenlocher A. 2020. Zena Werb (1945-2020): Cell biology in context. The Journal of cell biology. 219(8), e202007029.
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2019 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 6824
Gärtner FR, Massberg S. 2019. Patrolling the vascular borders: Platelets in immunity to infection and cancer. Nature Reviews Immunology. 19(12), 747–760.
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2019 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 6979
Kopf A, Sixt MK. 2019. Gut homeostasis: Active migration of intestinal epithelial cells in tissue renewal. Current Biology. 29(20), R1091–R1093.
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2019 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 6988
Nicolai L, Gärtner FR, Massberg S. 2019. Platelets in host defense: Experimental and clinical insights. Trends in Immunology. 40(10), 922–938.
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2019 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 7009
Yamada K, Sixt MK. 2019. Mechanisms of 3D cell migration. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 20(12), 738–752.
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2019 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 7105 |
Yolland L, Burki M, Marcotti S, Luchici A, Kenny FN, Davis JR, Serna-Morales E, Müller J, Sixt MK, Davidson A, Wood W, Schumacher LJ, Endres RG, Miodownik M, Stramer BM. 2019. Persistent and polarized global actin flow is essential for directionality during cell migration. Nature Cell Biology. 21(11), 1370–1381.
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2019 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 7404 |
Stürner T, Tatarnikova A, Müller J, Schaffran B, Cuntz H, Zhang Y, Nemethova M, Bogdan S, Small V, Tavosanis G. 2019. Transient localization of the Arp2/3 complex initiates neuronal dendrite branching in vivo. Development. 146(7), dev171397.
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2019 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 7420 |
Sahgal P, Alanko JH, Icha J, Paatero I, Hamidi H, Arjonen A, Pietilä M, Rokka A, Ivaska J. 2019. GGA2 and RAB13 promote activity-dependent β1-integrin recycling. Journal of Cell Science. 132(11), jcs233387.
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2019 | Thesis | IST-REx-ID: 6891 |
Kopf A. 2019. The implication of cytoskeletal dynamics on leukocyte migration. IST Austria.
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2019 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 6328 |
Renkawitz J, Kopf A, Stopp JA, de Vries I, Driscoll MK, Merrin J, Hauschild R, Welf ES, Danuser G, Fiolka R, Sixt MK. 2019. Nuclear positioning facilitates amoeboid migration along the path of least resistance. Nature. 568, 546–550.
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2019 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 6877
Kopf A, Sixt MK. 2019. The neural crest pitches in to remove apoptotic debris. Cell. 179(1), 51–53.
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2019 | Thesis | IST-REx-ID: 6947 |
Assen FP. 2019. Lymph node mechanics: Deciphering the interplay between stroma contractility, morphology and lymphocyte trafficking. IST Austria.
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2018 | Book Chapter | IST-REx-ID: 153
Renkawitz J, Reversat A, Leithner AF, Merrin J, Sixt MK. 2018.Micro-engineered “pillar forests” to study cell migration in complex but controlled 3D environments. In: Methods in Cell Biology. vol. 147, 79–91.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 275 |
Brown M, Johnson L, Leone D, Májek P, Vaahtomeri K, Senfter D, Bukosza N, Schachner H, Asfour G, Langer B, Hauschild R, Parapatics K, Hong Y, Bennett K, Kain R, Detmar M, Sixt MK, Jackson D, Kerjaschki D. 2018. Lymphatic exosomes promote dendritic cell migration along guidance cues. Journal of Cell Biology. 217(6), 2205–2221.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 276 |
Frick C, Dettinger P, Renkawitz J, Jauch A, Berger C, Recher M, Schroeder T, Mehling M. 2018. Nano-scale microfluidics to study 3D chemotaxis at the single cell level. PLoS One. 13(6), e0198330.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 437 |
Leithner AF, Renkawitz J, de Vries I, Hauschild R, Haecker H, Sixt MK. 2018. Fast and efficient genetic engineering of hematopoietic precursor cells for the study of dendritic cell migration. European Journal of Immunology. 48(6), 1074–1077.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 308 |
Ratheesh A, Bicher J, Smutny M, Veselá J, Papusheva E, Krens G, Kaufmann W, György A, Casano AM, Siekhaus DE. 2018. Drosophila TNF modulates tissue tension in the embryo to facilitate macrophage invasive migration. Developmental Cell. 45(3), 331–346.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 318 |
Casano AM, Sixt MK. 2018. A fat lot of good for wound healing. Developmental Cell. 44(4), 405–406.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 5672 |
Reversat A, Sixt MK. 2018. IgM’s exit route. Journal of Experimental Medicine. 215(12), 2959–2961.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 5858 |
Hross S, Theis FJ, Sixt MK, Hasenauer J. 2018. Mechanistic description of spatial processes using integrative modelling of noise-corrupted imaging data. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 15(149), 20180600.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 5861 |
Alanko JH, Sixt MK. 2018. The cell sets the tone. eLife. 7, e37888.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 5984 |
Morri M, Sanchez-Romero I, Tichy A-M, Kainrath S, Gerrard EJ, Hirschfeld P, Schwarz J, Janovjak HL. 2018. Optical functionalization of human class A orphan G-protein-coupled receptors. Nature Communications. 9(1), 1950.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 5992 |
Dolati S, Kage F, Mueller J, Müsken M, Kirchner M, Dittmar G, Sixt MK, Rottner K, Falcke M. 2018. On the relation between filament density, force generation, and protrusion rate in mesenchymal cell motility. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 29(22), 2674–2686.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 6354 |
Fan S, Lorenz M, Massberg S, Gärtner FR. 2018. Platelet migration and bacterial trapping assay under flow. Bio-Protocol. 8(18), e3018.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 6497 |
Moalli F, Ficht X, Germann P, Vladymyrov M, Stolp B, de Vries I, Lyck R, Balmer J, Fiocchi A, Kreutzfeldt M, Merkler D, Iannacone M, Ariga A, Stoffel MH, Sharpe J, Bähler M, Sixt MK, Diz-Muñoz A, Stein JV. 2018. The Rho regulator Myosin IXb enables nonlymphoid tissue seeding of protective CD8+T cells. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 2015(7), 1869–1890.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 15 |
Hons M, Kopf A, Hauschild R, Leithner AF, Gärtner FR, Abe J, Renkawitz J, Stein J, Sixt MK. 2018. Chemokines and integrins independently tune actin flow and substrate friction during intranodal migration of T cells. Nature Immunology. 19(6), 606–616.
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2018 | Thesis | IST-REx-ID: 323 |
Leithner AF. 2018. Branched actin networks in dendritic cell biology. IST Austria.
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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 402 |
Brown M, Assen FP, Leithner AF, Abe J, Schachner H, Asfour G, Bagó Horváth Z, Stein J, Uhrin P, Sixt MK, Kerjaschki D. 2018. Lymph node blood vessels provide exit routes for metastatic tumor cell dissemination in mice. Science. 359(6382), 1408–1411.
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2017 | Research Data | IST-REx-ID: 5567 |
Leithner AF. 2017. Immunological synapse DC-Tcells, IST Austria, 10.15479/AT:ISTA:71.
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2017 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 569 |
Spira F, Cuylen Haering S, Mehta S, Samwer M, Reversat A, Verma A, Oldenbourg R, Sixt MK, Gerlich D. 2017. Cytokinesis in vertebrate cells initiates by contraction of an equatorial actomyosin network composed of randomly oriented filaments. eLife. 6, e30867.
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2017 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 571
Gärtner FR, Ahmad Z, Rosenberger G, Fan S, Nicolai L, Busch B, Yavuz G, Luckner M, Ishikawa Ankerhold H, Hennel R, Benechet A, Lorenz M, Chandraratne S, Schubert I, Helmer S, Striednig B, Stark K, Janko M, Böttcher R, Verschoor A, Leon C, Gachet C, Gudermann T, Mederos Y Schnitzler M, Pincus Z, Iannacone M, Haas R, Wanner G, Lauber K, Sixt MK, Massberg S. 2017. Migrating platelets are mechano scavengers that collect and bundle bacteria. Cell Press. 171(6), 1368–1382.
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2017 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 659 |
Kage F, Winterhoff M, Dimchev V, Müller J, Thalheim T, Freise A, Brühmann S, Kollasser J, Block J, Dimchev GA, Geyer M, Schnittler H, Brakebusch C, Stradal T, Carlier M, Sixt MK, Käs J, Faix J, Rottner K. 2017. FMNL formins boost lamellipodial force generation. Nature Communications. 8, 14832.
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2017 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 668 |
Horsthemke M, Bachg A, Groll K, Moyzio S, Müther B, Hemkemeyer S, Wedlich Söldner R, Sixt MK, Tacke S, Bähler M, Hanley P. 2017. Multiple roles of filopodial dynamics in particle capture and phagocytosis and phenotypes of Cdc42 and Myo10 deletion. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 292(17), 7258–7273.
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2017 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 672 |
Vaahtomeri K, Brown M, Hauschild R, de Vries I, Leithner AF, Mehling M, Kaufmann W, Sixt MK. 2017. Locally triggered release of the chemokine CCL21 promotes dendritic cell transmigration across lymphatic endothelia. Cell Reports. 19(5), 902–909.
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2017 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 674
Schwarz J, Bierbaum V, Vaahtomeri K, Hauschild R, Brown M, de Vries I, Leithner AF, Reversat A, Merrin J, Tarrant T, Bollenbach MT, Sixt MK. 2017. Dendritic cells interpret haptotactic chemokine gradients in a manner governed by signal to noise ratio and dependent on GRK6. Current Biology. 27(9), 1314–1325.
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2017 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 677 |
Lademann C, Renkawitz J, Pfander B, Jentsch S. 2017. The INO80 complex removes H2A.Z to promote presynaptic filament formation during homologous recombination. Cell Reports. 19(7), 1294–1303.
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2017 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 679 |
Ebner F, Sedlyarov V, Tasciyan S, Ivin M, Kratochvill F, Gratz N, Kenner L, Villunger A, Sixt MK, Kovarik P. 2017. The RNA-binding protein tristetraprolin schedules apoptosis of pathogen-engaged neutrophils during bacterial infection. The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 127(6), 2051–2065.
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2017 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 694 |
Veß A, Blache U, Leitner L, Kurz A, Ehrenpfordt A, Sixt MK, Posern G. 2017. A dual phenotype of MDA MB 468 cancer cells reveals mutual regulation of tensin3 and adhesion plasticity. Journal of Cell Science. 130(13), 2172–2184.
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2017 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 664
Assen FP, Sixt MK. 2017. The dynamic cytokine niche. Immunity. 46(4), 519–520.
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2016 | Thesis | IST-REx-ID: 1129 |
Schwarz J. 2016. Quantitative analysis of haptotactic cell migration. IST Austria.
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2016 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1137 |
Salzer E, Çaǧdaş D, Hons M, Mace E, Garncarz W, Petronczki O, Platzer R, Pfajfer L, Bilic I, Ban S, Willmann K, Mukherjee M, Supper V, Hsu H, Banerjee P, Sinha P, Mcclanahan F, Zlabinger G, Pickl W, Gribben J, Stockinger H, Bennett K, Huppa J, Dupré L, Sanal Ö, Jäger U, Sixt MK, Tezcan I, Orange J, Boztug K. 2016. RASGRP1 deficiency causes immunodeficiency with impaired cytoskeletal dynamics. Nature Immunology. 17(12), 1352–1360.
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2016 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1142 |
Martins R, Maier J, Gorki A, Huber K, Sharif O, Starkl P, Saluzzo S, Quattrone F, Gawish R, Lakovits K, Aichinger M, Radic Sarikas B, Lardeau C, Hladik A, Korosec A, Brown M, Vaahtomeri K, Duggan M, Kerjaschki D, Esterbauer H, Colinge J, Eisenbarth S, Decker T, Bennett K, Kubicek S, Sixt MK, Superti Furga G, Knapp S. 2016. Heme drives hemolysis-induced susceptibility to infection via disruption of phagocyte functions. Nature Immunology. 17(12), 1361–1372.
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2016 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1154 |
Schwarz J, Bierbaum V, Merrin J, Frank T, Hauschild R, Bollenbach MT, Tay S, Sixt MK, Mehling M. 2016. A microfluidic device for measuring cell migration towards substrate bound and soluble chemokine gradients. Scientific Reports. 6, 36440.
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