Publications by authors named "Andreas Denger"

Membrane transporters are responsible for moving a wide variety of molecules across biological membranes, making them integral to key biological pathways in all organisms. Identifying all membrane transporters within a (meta-)proteome, along with their specific substrates, provides important information for various research fields, including biotechnology, pharmacology, and metabolomics. Protein datasets are frequently annotated with thousands of molecular functions that form complex networks, often with partial or full redundancy and hierarchical relationships.

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α-Helical transmembrane proteins termed membrane transporters mediate the passage of small hydrophilic substrate molecules across biological lipid bilayer membranes. Annotating the specific substrates of the dozens to hundreds of individual transporters of an organism is an important task. In the past, machine learning classifiers have been successfully trained on pan-organism data sets to predict putative substrates of transporters.

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TNF-related apoptosis inducing ligand (TRAIL) is expressed on cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) and TRAIL is linked to progression of diabetes. However, the impact of high glucose on TRAIL expression and its related killing function in CTLs still remains largely elusive. Here, we report that TRAIL is substantially up-regulated in CTLs in environments with high glucose (HG) both and .

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Despite impressive advances in melanoma-directed immunotherapies, resistance is common and many patients still succumb to metastatic disease. In this context, harnessing natural killer (NK) cells, which have thus far been sidelined in the development of melanoma immunotherapy, could provide therapeutic benefits for cancer treatment. To identify molecular determinants of NK cell-mediated melanoma killing (), we quantified NK-cell cytotoxicity against a panel of genetically diverse melanoma cell lines and observed highly heterogeneous susceptibility.

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