Florian Wilfling: Mechanisms of Cellular Quality Control – Research Group Publications

Sachweh, J.; Börmel, M.; Klumpe, S.; Becker, A.; Taniguchi, R.; Kubańska, M. A.; Pintschovius, V.; Kaindl, E.; Plitzko, J. M.; Wilfling, F. et al.; Beck, M.; Hampoelz, B.: The small GTPase Ran defines nuclear pore complex asymmetry. Cell 188 (21), pp. 5931 - 5946 (2025)

Kumari, R.; Nath, T.; Pflaum, J.; R, I.; Vinay, S.; Wilfling, F.; Manjithaya, R.: The autophagy-specific exocyst subcomplex contributes to phagophore assembly site integrity by promoting phagophore expansion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (41), e2426476122 (2025)

Rose, K.; Herrmann, E.; Kakudji, E.; Lizarrondo, J.; Celebi, A. Y.; Wilfling, F.; Lewis, S. C.; Hurley, J. H.: In situ cryo-ET visualization of mitochondrial depolarization and mitophagic engulfment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (31), e2511890122 (2025)

Licheva, M.; Babic, R.; Pflaum, J.; Mancilla, H.; Wilfling, F.; Kraft, C.: To degrade or not to degrade: how phase separation modulates selective autophagy. Autophagy (2025)

Licheva, M.; Pflaum, J.; Babic, R.; Mancilla, H.; Elsässer, J.; Boyle, E.; Hollenstein, D. M.; Jimenez-Niebla, J.; Pleyer, J.; Heinrich, M. et al.; Wieland, F.-G.; Brenneisen, J.; Eickhorst, C.; Brenner, J.; Jiang, S.; Hartl, M.; Welsch, S.; Hunte, C.; Timmer, J.; Wilfling, F.; Kraft, C.: Phase separation of initiation hubs on cargo is a trigger switch for selective autophagy. Nature Cell Biology 27 (2), pp. 283 - 297 (2025)

Kraus, F.; He, Y.; Swarup, S.; Overmyer, K. A.; Jiang, Y.; Brenner, J.; Capitanio, C.; Bieber, A.; Jen, A.; Nightingale, N. M. et al.; Anderson, B. J.; Lee, C.; Paulo, J. A.; Smith, I. R.; Plitzko, J. M.; Gygi, S. P.; Schulman, B. A.; Wilfling, F.; Coon, J. J.; Harper, J. W.: Global cellular proteo-lipidomic profiling of diverse lysosomal storage disease mutants using nMOST. Science Advances 11 (4), eadu5787 (2025)

Grizel, A. V.; Gorsheneva, N. A.; Stevenson, J. B.; Pflaum, J.; Wilfling, F.; Rubel, A. A.; Chernoff, Y. O.: Osmotic stress induces formation of both liquid condensates and amyloids by a yeast prion domain. Journal of Biological Chemistry 300 (10), 107766 (2024)

Lizarrondo, J.; Wilfling, F.: Selective autophagy of macromolecular complexes: what does it take to be taken? Journal of Molecular Biology 436, 168574 (2024)

Wilfling, F.; Graef, M.: Molecular Mechanisms and Physiological Functions of Autophagy. Journal of Molecular Biology 436, 168692 (2024)

Zhao, D. Y.; Bäuerlein, F. J. B.; Saha, I.; Hartl, F. U.; Baumeister, W.; Wilfling, F.: Autophagy preferentially degrades non-fibrillar polyQ aggregates. Molecular Cell 84 (10), pp. 1980 - 1994.e8 (2024)

Hoyer, M. J.; Capitanio, C.; Smith, I. R.; Paoli, J. C.; Bieber, A.; Jiang, Y.; Paulo, J. A.; Gonzalez-Lozano, M. A.; Baumeister, W.; Wilfling, F. et al.; Schulman, B. A.; Harper, J. W.: Combinatorial selective ER-phagy remodels the ER during neurogenesis. Nature Cell Biology 26 (3), pp. 378 - 392 (2024)

Wilfling, F.; Kaksonen, M.; Stachowiak, J.: Protein condensates as flexible platforms for membrane traffic. Current Opinion in Cell Biology 85, 102258 (2023)

Boyle, E.; Wilfling, F.: Autophagy as a caretaker of nuclear integrity. FEBS Letters 597, pp. 2728 - 2738 (2023)

Brenner, J.; Klumpe, S.; Wilfling, F.; Plitzko, J. M.: Towards Temporal Resolution in Correlative Cryo-electron Tomography. Microscopy and Microanalysis 29 (Supplement\1), pp. 1937 - 1938 (2023)

Schmitt, D.; Bozkurt, S.; Henning-Domres, P.; Huesmann, H.; Eimer, S.; Bindila, L.; Behrends, C.; Boyle, E.; Wilfling, F.; Tascher, G. et al.; Münch, C.; Behl, C.; Kern, A.: FACS-mediated isolation of native autophagic vesicles. Autophagy 19 (7), pp. 2146 - 2147 (2023)

Capitanio, C.; Bieber, A.; Wilfling, F.: How Membrane Contact Sites Shape the Phagophore. Contact 6 (2023)

Li, M.; Tripathi-Giesgen, I.; Schulman, B. A.; Baumeister, W.; Wilfling, F.: In situ snapshots along a mammalian selective autophagy pathway. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120 (12), e2221712120 (2023)

Schmitt, D.; Bozkurt, S.; Henning-Domres, P.; Huesmann, H.; Eimer, S.; Bindila, L.; Behrends, C.; Boyle, E.; Wilfling, F.; Tascher, G. et al.; Münch, C.; Behl, C.; Kern, A.: Lipid and protein content profiling of isolated native autophagic vesicles. EMBO Reports, e53065 (2022)

Bieber, A.; Capitanio, C.; Erdmann, P. S.; Fiedler, F.; Beck, F.; Lee, C.-W.; Li, D.; Hummer, G.; Schulman, B. A.; Baumeister, W. et al.; Wilfling, F.: In situ structural analysis reveals membrane shape transitions during autophagosome formation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (39), e2209823119 (2022)

Enenkel, C.; Kang, R. W.; Wilfling, F.; Ernst, O. P.: Intracellular localization of the proteasome in response to stress conditions. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 298 (7), 102083 (2022)

Qiao, S.; Lee, C.-W.; Sherpa, D.; Chrustowicz, J.; Cheng, J.; Duennebacke, M.; Steigenberger, B.; Karayel, O.; Vu, D. T.; von Gronau, S. et al.; Mann, M.; Wilfling, F.; Schulman, B. A.: Cryo-EM structures of Gid12-bound GID E3 reveal steric blockade as a mechanism inhibiting substrate ubiquitylation. Nature Communications 13, 3041 (2022)

Boyle, E.; Wilfling, F.: Bypassing the nuclear gate: A non-canonical entry pathway for the mitochondrial pyruvate dehydrogenase complex. Molecular Cell 82 (5), pp. 886 - 888 (2022)

Bieber, A.; Capitanio, C.; Wilfling, F.; Plitzko, J.; Erdmann, P. S.: Sample Preparation by 3D-Correlative Focused Ion Beam Milling for High-Resolution Cryo-Electron Tomography. Journal of Visualized Experiments (176), e62886 (2021)

Erdbrügger, P.; Wilfling, F.: p62 condensates are a hub for proteasome-mediated protein turnover in the nucleus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (37), e2113647118 (2021)

Erdmann, P. S.; Hou, Z.; Klumpe, S.; Khavnekar, S.; Beck, F.; Wilfling, F.; Plitzko, J. M.; Baumeister, W.: In situ cryo-electron tomography reveals gradient organization of ribosome biogenesis in intact nucleoli. Nature Communications 12 (1), 5364 (2021)