Selected publications only. A complete and up to date publication list is available via ORCID
Fabiana Oliveira, Olga Bondareva, Jesús Rafael Rodríguez-Aguilera, Bilal N. Sheikh Cultured brain pericytes adopt an immature phenotype and require endothelial cells for expression of canonical markers and ECM genes. Front Cell Neurosci. (2023)
Olga Bondareva, Jesús Rafael Rodríguez-Aguilera, Fabiana Oliveira, Longsheng Liao, Alina Rose, Anubhuti Gupta, Kunal Singh, Florian Geier, Jenny Schuster, Jes-Niels Boeckel, Joerg M Buescher, Shrey Kohli, Nora Klöting, Berend Isermann, Matthias Blüher, Bilal N Sheikh: Single-cell profiling of vascular endothelial cells reveals progressive organ-specific vulnerabilities during obesity. Nature Metabolism (2022)
Bilal N. Sheikh, Sukanya Guhathakurta, Tsz Hong Tsang, Marius Schwabenland, Gina Renschler, Benjamin Herquel, Vivek Bhardwaj, Herbert Holz, Thomas Stehle, Olga Bondareva, Nadim Aizarani, Omar Mossad, Oliver Kretz, Wilfried Reichardt, Aindrila Chatterjee, Laura J. Braun, Julien Thevenon, Herve Sartelet, Thomas Blank, Dominic Grün, Dominik von Elverfeldt, Tobias B. Huber, Dietmar Vestweber, Sergiy Avilov, Marco Prinz, Joerg M. Buescher and Asifa Akhtar: Neural metabolic imbalance induced by MOF dysfunction triggers pericyte activation and breakdown of vasculature. Nature Cell Biology (2020)
Olga Bondareva and Bilal N. Sheikh: Vascular homeostasis and inflammation in health and disease – lessons from single cell technologies. International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2020)
Aline Gaub, Bilal N. Sheikh, M. Felicia Basilicata, Marie Vincent, Mathilde Nizon, Cindy Colson, Matthew J. Bird, James E. Bradner, Julien Thevenon, Michael Boutros, Asifa Akhtar: Evolutionary conserved NSL complex/NRD4 axis controls transcription via histone acetylation. Nature Communications (2020)
Bilal N. Sheikh, Olga Bondareva, Sukanya Guhathakurta, Sagar, Nadim Aizarani, Dominic Grün, Lutz Hein and Asifa Akhtar:Systemic identification of cell-cell communication in the developing brain. iScience (2019)
Bilal N. Sheikh, Sukanya Guhathakurta and Asifa Akhtar: The Non-specific lethal (NSL) complex at the crossroads of transcriptional control and cellular homeostasis. EMBO reports (2019)
Bilal N. Sheikh and Asifa Akhtar: Many lives of KATs – detectors, integrators and modulators of the cellular environment.Nature Reviews Genetics (2019)
Jonathan B. Baell, David J. Leaver, Stefan J. Hermans, Gemma L. Kelly, Margs S. Brennan, Natalie L. Downer, Nghi Nguyen, Johannes Wichmann, Helen M. McRae, Yuqing Yang, Ben Cleary, H. Rachel Lagiakos, Stephen Mieruszynski, Guido Pacini, Hannah K. Vanyai, Maria I. Bergamasco, Rose E. May, Bethany K. Davey, Kimberly J. Morgan, Andrew J. Sealey, Beinan Wang, Natasha Zamudio, Stephen Wilcox, Alexandra Garnham, Bilal N. Sheikh, Brandon. J. Aubrey, Karen Doggett, Matthew C. Chung, Melanie de Silva, John Bentley, Pat Pilling, Meghan Hattarki, Olan Dolezal, Matthew Dennis, Hendrik Falk, Bin Ren, Susan A. Charman, Karen L. White, Jai Rautela, Andrea Newbold, Edwin D. Hawkins, Ricky W. Johnstone, Nicholas D. Huntington, Thomas S. Peat, Joan K Heath, Andreas Strasser, Michael W. Parker, Gordon K. Smyth, Ian P. Street, Brendon J. Monahan, Anne K. Voss, and Tim Thomas: Inhibitors of histone acetyltransferases KAT6A/B induce senescence and arrest tumor growth. Nature (2018)
Bilal N. Sheikh, Donald Metcalf, Anne K Voss and Tim Thomas: MOZ and BMI1 act synergistically to maintain hematopoietic stem cells. Experimental Hematology (2017)
Bilal N. Sheikh, Yuqing Yang, Jaring Schreuder, Susan K. Nilsson, Rebecca Bilardi, Sebastian Carotta, Helen M. McRae, Donald Metcalf, Anne K. Voss and Tim Thomas: MOZ (KAT6A) is essential for the maintenance of classically defined adult hematopoietic stem cells. Blood (2016)
Bilal N. Sheikh, Wibke Bechtel-Walz, Jacopo Lucci, Oleksandra Karpiuk, Iris Hild, Björn Hartleben, Julia Vornweg, Abdullah H. Sahyoun, Vivek Bhardwaj, Thomas Stehle, Sarah Diehl, Oliver Kretz, Anne K. Voss, Tim Thomas, Thomas Manke, Tobias B. Huber and Asifa Akhtar: MOF maintains transcriptional programs required to protect cells against stress. Oncogene (2016)
Bilal N. Sheikh, Natalie L. Downer, Belinda Phipson, Hannah K. Vanyai, Andrew J. Kueh, Davis J. McCarthy, Gordon K. Smyth, Tim Thomas and Anne K. Voss: MOZ and BMI1 play opposing roles during Hox gene activation in ES cells and in body segment identity specification in vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences – PNAS (2015)
Bilal N. Sheikh, Stanley C. W. Lee, Farrah El-Saafin, Hannah K. Vanyai, Yifang Hu, Stephanie Grabow, Andreas Strasser, Stephen L. Nutt, Warren S. Alexander, Gordon K. Smyth, Anne K. Voss and Tim Thomas: MOZ regulates B cell progenitors and, consequently, Moz haploinsufficiency dramatically retards MYC-induced lymphoma development. Blood (2015)
Bilal N. Sheikh, Belinda Phipson, Farrah El-Saafin, Hannah K. Vanyai, Natalie L. Downer, Matthew J. Bird, Andrew J. Kueh, Rose E. May, Gordon K. Smyth, Anne K. Voss and Tim Thomas: MOZ (MYST3, KAT6A) inhibits senescence via the INK4A-ARF pathway. Oncogene (2015)
Bilal N. Sheikh: Crafting the Brain – Role of Histone Acetyltransferases in neural development and disease. Cell Tissue Research (2014).
Bilal N. Sheikh, Natalie L. Downer, Andrew J. Kueh, Tim Thomas and Anne K. Voss: Excessive vs. physiologically relevant levels of Retinoic Acid in ES cell differentiation. Stem Cells (2014).
Bilal N. Sheikh, Mathew P. Dixon, Tim Thomas and Anne K. Voss: Querkopf is a key marker of self-renewal and multipotency of adult neural stem cells. Journal of Cell Science (2012)