Maria Bohnert

Maria Bohnert employs microscopy-based genome-wide screens to identify novel factors that mediate communication of LDs with other organelles via contact sites. She investigates how direct organelle contacts affect LD formation and diversification.

ORCID: 0000-0002-8154-555X

bohnertm[at]uni-muenster.de

Bohnert lab

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A metabolically controlled contact site between vacuoles and lipid droplets in yeast
Diep DTV, Collado J, Hugenroth M, Fausten RM, Percifull L, Wälte M, Schuberth C, Schmidt O, Fernández-Busnadiego R, Bohnert M
Dev Cell 59, 740 2024
doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2024.01.016 PMID: 38367622

A lysosomal biogenesis map reveals the cargo spectrum of yeast vacuolar protein targeting pathways
Eising S, Esch B, Wälte M, Vargas Duarte P, Walter S, Ungermann C, Bohnert M, Fröhlich F
J Cell Biol 221 2022
doi: 10.1083/jcb.202107148 PMID: 35175277 PMCID: PMC8859911

Lipid droplet contact sites in health and disease
Herker E, Vieyres G, Beller M, Krahmer N, Bohnert M
Trends Cell Biol 31, 345 2021
doi: 10.1016/j.tcb.2021.01.004 PMID: 33546922

Promethin is a conserved seipin partner protein
Castro IG, Eisenberg-Bord M, Persiani E, Rochford JJ, Schuldiner M, Bohnert M
Cells 8 2019
doi: 10.3390/cells8030268 PMID: 30901948 PMCID: PMC6468817

Identification of seipin-linked factors that act as determinants of a lipid droplet subpopulation
Eisenberg-Bord M, Mari M, Weill U, Rosenfeld-Gur E, Moldavski O, Castro IG, Soni KG, Harpaz N, Levine TP, Futerman AH, Reggiori F, Bankaitis VA, Schuldiner M, Bohnert M
J Cell Biol 217, 269 2019
doi: 10.1083/jcb.201704122 PMID: 29187527 PMCID: PMC5748981

Distinct roles of Mic12 and Mic27 in the mitochondrial contact site and cristae organizing system
Zerbes RM, Hoss P, Pfanner N, van der Laan M, Bohnert M
J Mol Biol 428 2016
doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2016.02.031 PMID: 26968360

Central role of Mic10 in the mitochondrial contact site and cristae organizing system
Bohnert M, Zerbes RM, Davies KM, Mühleip AW, Rampelt H, Horvath SE, Boenke T, Kram A, Perschil I, Veenhuis M, Kühlbrandt W, van der Klei IJ, Pfanner N, van der Laan M
Cell Metab 21, 747 2015
doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2015.04.007 PMID: 25955210

Role of mitochondrial inner membrane organizing system in protein biogenesis of the mitochondrial outer membrane
Bohnert M, Wenz LS, Zerbes RM*, Horvath SE, Stroud DA, von der Malsburg K, Muller JM, Oeljeklaus S, Perschil I, Warscheid B, Chacinska A, Veenhuis M, van der Klei IJ, Daum G, Wiedemann N, Becker T, Pfanner N, van der Laan M
Mol Biol Cell 23, 3948 2012
doi: 10.1091/mbc.E12-04-0295 PMID: 22918945 PMCID: PMC3469511

Dual role of mitofilin in mitochondrial membrane organization and protein biogenesis
von der Malsburg K, Müller JM, Bohnert M, * Oeljeklaus S, Kwiatkowska P, Becker T, Loniewska-Lwowska A, Wiese S, Rao S, Milenkovic D, Hutu DP, Zerbes RM, Schulze-Specking A, Meyer HE, Martinou JC, Rospert S, Rehling P, Meisinger C, Veenhuis M, Warscheid B, van der Klei IJ, Pfanner N, Chacinska A, van der Laan M
Dev Cell 21, 694 2011
doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2011.08.026 PMID: 21944719

Cooperation of stop-transfer and conservative sorting mechanisms in mitochondrial protein transport
Bohnert M, Rehling P, Guiard B, Herrmann JM, Pfanner N, van der Laan M
Curr Biol 20, 1227 2010
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.05.058 PMID: 20619821

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