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Maximilian Felix Blank

German Cancer Research CenterORCID 0000-0002-7524-4080Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Organism:human· 2 Research Focus:cancer & tumor microenvironment· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Approach:genetic perturbation / CRISPR· 1 Assay:long-read sequencing· 1

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Carsten Müller‐TidowiD· 2 shared Daniel HeidiD· 2 shared Anke Heit-Mondrzyk· 1 shared Cathrine Broberg VågbøiD· 1 shared Christian RohdeiD· 1 shared Christoph DieterichiD· 1 shared Claudia Dorothea BaldusiD· 1 shared Cornelius PauliiD· 1 shared

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WarpDemuX-custom - Multiplexed sequence-specific direct RNA sequencing

Isabel S. Naarmann‐de Vries, Wiep van der Toorn, Swastik Mishra, Maximilian Felix Blank, Daniel Heid, Carsten Müller‐Tidow, Max von Kleist, Christoph Dieterich

The paper introduces an improved protocol and software for sequence-specific direct RNA sequencing of non-polyadenylated RNAs, validated on human rRNA and other RNA species.

bioRxiv · Oct 11, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics

Unbiased functional genetic screens reveal essential RNA modifications in human cancer and drug resistance

Cornelius Pauli, Michael Kienhöfer, Maximilian Felix Blank, Oguzhan Begik, Christian Rohde, Daniel Heid, Fu Yong Xu, Sarah Miriam Naomi Zimmermann, Katharina Weidenauer, Sylvain Delaunay, Nadja Krall, Katrin Trunk, Duoduo Zhao, Fengbiao Zhou, Anke Heit-Mondrzyk, , Michaela Frye

The paper identifies essential RNA modifications in cancer using CRISPR screens and finds that mitochondrial metabolic plasticity influences drug resistance through specific RNA modifications.

bioRxiv · Jul 13, 2024 · PreprintCell Biology