Publications (selected)

2023

• Fischer N, Gulich B, Keßler B, Längin M, Fishman JA, Wolf E, Boller K, Tönjes RR, Godehardt AW. PCR and peptide based PCMV detection in pig - development and application of a combined testing procedure differentiating newly from latent infected pigs. Xenotransplantation. 30:e12803. doi: 10.1111/xen.12803. Online ahead of print.

2021

• Fischer*, Rieblinger* (Co-first author), Hein R, Sfriso R, Zuber J, Schäffler A, Klinger B, Wei L, Flisikowski K, Kurome M, Zakhartchenko V, Kessler B, Wolf E, Rieben R, Schwinzer R, Kind A, Schnieke A. Viable pigs after simultaneous inactivation of porcine MHC class I and three xenoreactive antigen genes GGTA1, CMAH and B4GALNT2. Xenotransplantation,  27(1):e12560.

• Hinrichs A, Riedel EO, Klymiuk N, Blutke A, Kemter E, Längin M, Dahlhoff M, Keßler B, Kurome M, Zakhartchenko V, Jemiller EM, Ayares D, Bidlingmaier M, Flenkenthaler F, Hrabĕ de Angelis M, Arnold GJ, Reichart B, Fröhlich T, Wolf E. Growth hormone receptor knockout to reduce the size of donor pigs for preclinical xenotransplantation studies. Xenotransplantation. 2021 Mar;28(2):e12664. doi: 10.1111/xen.12664. Epub 2020 Nov 25. PMID: 33241624

• Kemter E, Citro A, Wolf-van Buerck L, Qiu Y, Böttcher A, Policardi M, Pellegrini S, Valla L, Alunni-Fabbroni M, Kobolak J, Kessler B, Kurome M, Zakhartchenko V, Dinnyes A, Cyran C, Lickert H, Piemonti L, Seissler J, Wolf E. Transgenic pigs expressing near infrared fluorescent protein—A novel tool for noninvasive imaging of islet xenotransplants. Xenotransplantation, 21 December; doi.org/10.1111/xen.12719

2020

• Reichart B, Längin M, Radan J, Mokelke M, Buttgereit I, Ying J, Fresch AK, Mayr T, Issl L, Buchholz S, Michel S, Ellgass R, Mihalj M, Egerer S, Baehr A, Kessler B, Kemter E, Kurome M, Zakhartchenko V, Steen S, Sjöberg T, Paskevicius A, Krüger L, Fiebig U, Denner J, Godehardt AW, Tönjes RR, Milusev A, Rieben R, Sfriso R, Walz C, Kirchner T, Ayares D, Lampe K, Schönmann U, Hagl C, Wolf E, Klymiuk N, Abicht JM, Brenner P. Pig-to-non-human primate heart transplantation: The final step toward clinical xenotransplantation? J Heart Lung Transplant. Aug;39(8):751-757.

2019

• Krüger L, Längin M, Reichart B, Fiebig U, Kristiansen Y, Prinz C, Kessler B, Egerer S, Wolf E, Abicht JM, Denner J. Transmission of Porcine Circovirus 3 (PCV3) by Xenotransplantation of Pig Hearts into Baboons. Viruses. Jul 16;11(7). pii: E650. doi: 10.3390/v11070650.

2018

• Hinrichs A, Kessler B, Kurome M, Blutke A, Kemter E, Bernau M, Scholz AM, Rathkolb B, Renner S, Bultmann S, Leonhardt H, de Angelis MH, Nagashima H, Hoeflich A, Blum WF, Bidlingmaier M, Wanke R, Dahlhoff M, Wolf E. Growth hormone receptor-deficient pigs resemble the pathophysiology of human Laron syndrome and reveal altered activation of signaling cascades in the liver. Mol Metab. May;11:113-128. doi: 10.1016/j.molmet.2018.03.006. Epub 2018 Mar 15.

• Egerer S, Fiebig U, Kessler B, Zakhartchenko V, Kurome M, Reichart B, Kupatt C, Klymiuk N, Wolf E, Denner J, Bähr A. Early weaning completely eliminates porcine cytomegalovirus from a newly established pig donor facility for xenotransplantation. Xenotransplantation Jul. 25(4):e12449
  
  
• Kurome M, Baehr A, Simmet K, Jemiller EM, Egerer S, Dahlhoff M, Zakhartchenko V, Nagashima H, Klymiuk N, Kessler B, Wolf E. Targeting αGal epitopes for multi-species embryo immunosurgery. Reprod Fertil Dev. 2018 Nov 2. doi: 10.1071/RD18120.
  
  
• Längin M, Mayr T, Reichart B, Michel S, Buchholz S, Guethoff S, Dashkevich A, Baehr A, Egerer S, Bauer A, Mihalj M, Panelli A, Issl L, Ying J, Fresch AK, Buttgereit I, Mokelke M, Radan J, Werner F, Lutzmann I, Steen S, Sjöberg T, Paskevicius A, Qiuming L, Sfriso R, Rieben R, Dahlhoff M, Kessler B, Kemter E, Klett K, Hinkel R, Kupatt C, Falkenau A, Reu S, Ellgass R, Herzog R, Binder U, Wich G, Skerra A, Ayares D, Kind A, Schönmann U, Kaup FJ, Hagl C, Wolf E, Klymiuk N, Brenner P, Abicht J. Consistent success in life-supporting porcine cardiac xenotransplantation. Nature 5. Dez.;564, pages430–433
  
  
• Rieblinger B, Fischer K, Kind A, Saller BS, Baars W, Schuster M, Wolf-van Buerck L, Schäffler A, Flisikowska T, Kurome M, Zakhartchenko V, Kessler B, Flisikowski K, Wolf E, Seissler J, Schwinzer R, Schnieke A. Strong xenoprotective function by single-copy transgenes placed sequentially at a permissive locus. Xenotransplantation Jan 23. doi: 10.1111/xen.12382.

2017

• Kemter E, Cohrs CM, Schäfer M, Schuster M, Steinmeyer K, Wolf-van Buerck L, Wolf A, Wuensch A, Kurome M, Kessler B, Zakhartchenko V, Loehn M, Ivashchenko Y, Seissler J, Schulte AM, Speier S, Wolf E. INS-eGFP transgenic pigs: a novel reporter system for studying maturation, growth and vascularisation of neonatal islet-like cell clusters. Diabetologia 60, 1152-1156.
  

2016

• Bähr A, Käser T, Kemter E, Gerner W, Kurome M, Baars W, Herbach N, Witter K, Wünsch A, Talker SC, Kessler B, Nagashima H, Saalmüller A, Schwinzer R, Wolf E, Klymiuk N. Ubiquitous LEA29Y Expression Blocks T Cell Co-Stimulation but Permits Sexual Reproduction in Genetically Modified Pigs. PLoS One. 2016 May 13;11(5):e0155676. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155676.

• Fischer K, Kraner-Scheiber S, Petersen B, Rieblinger B et al. Efficient production of multi-modified pigs for xenotransplantation by cobineering, gene stacking and gene editing. Nature Scientific Reports 2016; doi: 10.1038/srep29081

2015

• Kurome M, Kessler B, Wuensch A, Nagashima H, Wolf E. Nuclear transfer and transgenesis in the pig Methods Mol Biol;1222:37-59.

2014

• Kurome M, Dahlhoff M, Bultmann S, Krebs S, Blum H, Kessler B, Leonhardt H, Wolf E. 361 growth hormone receptor mutant pigs produced by using the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (crispr) and crispr-associated systems in in vitro-produced zygotes. Reprod Fertil Dev. 27(1):269.
  
  
• Li S, Flisikowska T, Kurome M, Zakhartchenko V, Kessler B, Saur D, Kind A, Wolf E, Flisikowski K, Schnieke A. Dual fluorescent reporter pig for Cre recombination: transgene placement at the ROSA26 locus. PLoS One. 15;9(7):e102455.
  
  
• Klymiuk N, Fezert P, Wünsch A, Kurome M, Kessler B, Wolf E. Homologous recombination contributes to the repair of zinc-finger-nuclease induced double strand breaks in pig primary cells and facilitates recombination with exogenous DNA. J Biotechnol; 177:74-81.
  
  
• Wuensch A, Baehr A, Bongoni AK, Kemter E, Blutke A, Baars W, Haertle S, Zakhartchenko V, Kurome M, Kessler B, Faber C, Abicht JM, Reichart B, Wanke R, Schwinzer R, Nagashima H, Rieben R, Ayares D, Wolf E, Klymiuk N. Regulatory sequences of the porcine THBD gene facilitate endothelial-specific expression of bioactive human thrombomodulin in single- and multitransgenic pigs. Transplantation;97(2):138-47.

2013

• Klymiuk N, Blutke A, Graf A, Krause S, Burkhardt K, Wuensch A, Krebs S, Kessler B, Zakhartchenko V, Kurome M, Kemter E, Nagashima H, Schoser B, Herbach N, Blum H, Wanke R, Aartsma-Rus A, Thirion C, Lochmüller H, Walter MC, Wolf E. Dystrophin-deficient pigs provide new insights into the hierarchy of physiological derangements of dystrophic muscle. Hum Mol Genet;22(21):4368-82.
  
  
• Kurome M, Geistlinger L, Kessler B, Zakhartchenko V, Klymiuk N, Wuensch A, Richter A, Baehr A, Kraehe K, Burkhardt K, Flisikowski K, Flisikowska T, Merkl C, Landmann M, Durkovic M, Tschukes A, Kraner S, Schindelhauer D, Petri T, Kind A, Nagashima H, Schnieke A, Zimmer R, Wolf E. Factors influencing the efficiency of generating genetically engineered pigs by nuclear transfer: multi-factorial analysis of a large data set. BMC
  
  
• Renner S, Braun-Reichhart C, Blutke A, Herbach N, Emrich D, Streckel E, Wünsch A, Kessler B, Kurome M, Bähr A, Klymiuk N, Krebs S, Puk O, Nagashima H, Graw J, Blum H, Wanke R, Wolf E. Permanent neonatal diabetes in INS(C94Y) transgenic pigs. Diabetes;62(5):1505-11.

• Richter A, Kurome M, Kessler B, Zakhartchenko V, Klymiuk N, Nagashima H, Wolf E, Wuensch A. Potential of primary kidney cells for somatic cell nuclear transfer mediated transgenesis in pig. BMC Biotechnol;12:84.

2012

• Leuchs S, Saalfrank A, Merkl C, Flisikowska T, Edlinger M, Durkovic M, Rezaei N, Kurome M, Zakhartchenko V, Kessler B, Flisikowski K, Kind A, Wolf E, Schnieke A. PLoS One. Inactivation and inducible oncogenic mutation of p53 in gene targeted pigs;7(10):e43323.
  
  
• Sax G, Kessler B, Wolf E, Winter G. In-vivo biodegradation of extruded lipid implants in rabbits. J Control Release; 163(2):195-202.
  
  
• Flisikowska T, Merkl C, Landmann M, Eser S, Rezaei N, Cui X, Kurome M, Zakhartchenko V, Kessler B, Wieland H, Rottmann O, Schmid RM, Schneider G, Kind A, Wolf E, Saur D, Schnieke A. A porcine model of familial adenomatous polyposis. Gastroenterology;143(5):1173-5.e1-7. 
  
  
• Klymiuk N, van Buerck L, Bähr A, Offers M, Kessler B, Wuensch A, Kurome M, Thormann M, Lochner K, Nagashima H, Herbach N, Wanke R, Seissler J, Wolf E.  Xenografted islet cell clusters from INSLEA29Y transgenic pigs rescue diabetes and prevent immune rejection in humanized mice. Diabetes;61(6):1527-32. 
  
  
• Kemter E, Lieke T, Kessler B, Kurome M, Wuensch A, Summerfield A, Ayares D, Nagashima H, Baars W, Schwinzer R, Wolf E. Human TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand-expressing dendritic cells from transgenic pigs attenuate human xenogeneic T cell responses. Xenotransplantation;19(1):40-51.
  
  
• Klymiuk, N., Mundhenk, L., Kraehe, K., Wuensch, A., Plog, S., Emrich, D., Langenmayer, M.C., Stehr, M., Holzinger, A., Kroner, C., Richter, A., Kessler, B., Kurome, M., Eddicks, M., Nagashima, H., Heinritzi, K., Gruber, A.D., and Wolf, E. Sequential targeting of CFTR by BAC vectors generates a novel pig model of cystic fibrosis. Journal of molecular medicine 90, 597-608.

2010

• Aigner B, Renner S, Kessler B, Klymiuk N, Kurome M, Wünsch A, Wolf E. J Mol Med (Berl). Transgenic pigs as models for translational biomedical research;88(7):653-64.
  
  
• Renner S, Fehlings C, Herbach N, Hofmann A, von Waldthausen DC, Kessler B, Ulrichs K, Chodnevskaja I, Moskalenko V, Amselgruber W, Göke B, Pfeifer A, Wanke R, Wolf E. Glucose intolerance and reduced proliferation of pancreatic beta-cells in transgenic pigs with impaired glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide function. Diabetes; 59(5):1228-38.

2009

• Dieckhoff B, Kessler B, Jobst D, Kues W, Petersen B, Pfeifer A, Kurth R, Niemann H, Wolf E, Denner J. Distribution and expression of porcine endogenous retroviruses in multi-transgenic pigs generated for xenotransplantation. Xenotransplantation; 16(2):64-73.
  
  
•  Weiss EH, Lilienfeld BG, Müller S, Müller E, Herbach N, Kessler B, Wanke R, Schwinzer R, Seebach JD, Wolf E, Brem G. HLA-E/human beta2-microglobulin transgenic pigs: protection against xenogeneic human anti-pig natural killer cell cytotoxicity. Transplantation; 87(1):35-43.

2008

• Schwab M, Kessler B, Wolf E, Jordan G, Mohl S, Winter G. Correlation of in vivo and in vitro release data for rh-INFalpha lipid implants.  Eur J Pharm Biopharm;70(2):690-4.

2007

• Yang F, Hao R, Kessler B, Brem G, Wolf E, Zakhartchenko V. Rabbit somatic cell cloning: effects of donor cell type, histone acetylation status and chimeric embryo complementation. Reproduction;133(1):219-30.

2006

• Hofmann A, Kessler B, Ewerling S, Kabermann A, Brem G, Wolf E, Pfeifer A. Epigenetic regulation of lentiviral transgene vectors in a large animal model. Mol Ther; 13(1):59-66.

2003

• Hofmann A, Kessler B, Ewerling S, Weppert M, Vogg B, Ludwig H, Stojkovic M, Boelhauve M, Brem G, Wolf E, Pfeifer A. Efficient transgenesis in farm animals by lentiviral vectors. EMBO Rep; 4(11):1054-60.