Publications

Gerda Fleischmann, Olivier Fisette, Christoph Thomas, Ralph Wieneke, Franz Tumulka, Clemens Schneeweiss, Sebastian Springer, Lars V. Schäfer, and Robert Tampé:
Mechanistic Basis for Epitope Proofreading in the Peptide Loading Complex .
J. Immunol. 195 (2015), 4503-13; doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1501515.

Esam T. Abualrous, Sunil K. Saini, Venkat R. Ramnarayan, Martin Zacharias, and Sebastian Springer:
The carboxy terminus of the ligand peptide determines the stability of the MHC class I molecule H-2K^b: a combined molecular dynamics and experimental study.
PLoS ONE 10 (2015): e0135421; doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135421

Sebastián Montealegre, Vaishnavi Venugopalan, Susanne Fritzsche, Corinna Kulicke, Zeynep Hein*, and Sebastian Springer*:
Dissociation of beta-2 microglobulin determines the surface quality control of MHC class I molecules.
FASEB J. 29 (2015), 2780-8; doi: 10.1096/fj.14-268094.

Sebastian Springer:
Transport and quality control of MHC class I molecules in the early secretory pathway.
Curr. Opin. Immunol. 34 (2015), 83-90; doi: 10.1016/j.coi.2015.02.009.

Esam T. Abualrous, Susanne Fritzsche, Zeynep Hein, Mohammed S. Al Balushi, Peter Reinink, Louise H. Boyle, Ursula Wellbrock, Antony N. Antoniou, and Sebastian Springer:
F pocket flexibility influences the tapasin dependence of two differentially disease-associated MHC Class I proteins.
Eur. J. Immunol. 45 (2015), p. 1248-57; doi: 10.1002/eji.201445307.
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Sunil Kumar Saini, Heiko Schuster, Venkat Raman Ramnarayan, Hans-Georg Rammensee, Stefan Stevanović, and Sebastian Springer:
Dipeptides catalyze rapid peptide exchange on MHC class I molecules.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112 (2015), p. 202-207.
News release: “Discovery by Jacobs University researchers facilitates detection of immune cells that fight tumors and viruses”

Susanne Fritzsche, Esam Tolba Abualrous, Britta Borchert, Frank Momburg, and Sebastian Springer:
Allotype-specific release from endoplasmic reticulum matrix proteins controls cell surface transport of MHC class I molecules.
Traffic 16 (2015), p. 591-603; doi: 10.1111/tra.12279
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Katja Ostermeir, Sebastian Springer, and Martin Zacharias:
Coupling between side chain interactions and binding pocket flexibility in HLA-B*44:02 molecules investigated by Molecular Dynamics simulations.
Mol. Immunol. 63 (2014), p. 312-9; doi: 10.1016/j.molimm.2014.07.021.

Zeynep Hein, Hannes Uchtenhagen, Esam Tolba Abualrous, Sunil Kumar Saini, Linda Janssen, Andy Van Hateren, Constanze Wiek, Helmut Hanenberg, Frank Momburg, Adnane Achour, Tim Elliott, Sebastian Springer, and Denise Boulanger:
Peptide-independent stabilization of MHC class I molecules breaches cellular quality control.
J. Cell Sci. 127 (2014), 2885-2897; doi: 10.1242/jcs.145334
With an editorial introduction: “MHC class I proteins are stable without peptide”.
The complete materials and methods section is at http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1005159

Hsiang-Ting Hsu*, Linda Janßen*, Myriam Lawand, Jessica Kim, Alicia Perez-Arroyo, Slobodan Culina, Abdel Gdoura, Anne Burgevin, Delphine Cumenal, Yousra Fourneau, Anna Moser, Roland Kratzer, F. Susan Wong, Sebastian Springer, and Peter van Endert:
Endoplasmic Reticulum Targeting alters Regulation of Expression and Antigen Presentation of Proinsulin.
J Immunol. 192 (2014), p. 4957-4966; doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1300631.

Susanne Fritzsche and Sebastian Springer:
Pulse-chase analysis for studying protein synthesis and maturation.
Curr. Protocols Prot. Sci. 78 (2014), 78:30.3.1.-30.3.23; doi: 10.1002/0471140864.ps3003s78.

Sebastian Springer, Per Malkus, Britta Borchert, Ursula Wellbrock, Robert A. Lesch, Rainer Duden, Randy Schekman:
Regulated oligomerization induces uptake of a membrane protein into COPII vesicles independent of its cytosolic tail.
Traffic 5 (2014), p. 531-545.
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Sebastian Temme, Martin Zacharias, J, Neumann, S. Wohlfromm, A. König, N. Temme, Sebastian Springer, John Trowsdale, and Norbert Koch:
A novel family of human lymphocyte antigen class II receptors may have its origin in archaic human species.
J.Biol.Chem. 289 (2013), p. 639-53.
Newspaper article featuring this: Modern humans inherited ‘immune gene’ from Neanderthals, Times of India, Nov. 24, 2013.

Sunil K. Saini, Katja Ostermeir, Venkat R. Ramnarayan, Heiko Schuster, Martin Zacharias, and Sebastian Springer:
Dipeptides promote folding and peptide binding of MHC class I molecules.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110 (2013), p. 15383–15388.

Hannes Uchtenhagen, Esam T. Abualrous, E. Stahl, M. Sluijter, Martin Zacharias, Tatiana Sandalova, Thorbald van Hall, Sebastian Springer, Per Nygren, and A.dnane Achour:
Proline substitution independently enhances H-2Db complex stabilization and TCR recognition of melanoma-associated peptides.
Eur. J. Immunol. 43 (2013), p. 3051-3060.
With a commentary by H. Hickman and J. Yewdell: “Going Pro to enhance T-cell immunogenicity: Easy as π?” Eur. J. Immunol. 43 (2013), p. 2814-1817.

N. Beutler, S. Hauka, A. Niepel, D.J. Kowalewski, J. Uhlmann, Esther Ghanem, S. Erkelenz, C. Wiek, Helmut Hanenberg, H. Schaal, Stefan Stevanovic, Sebastian Springer, Frank Momburg, Hartmut Hengel, and Anne Halenius:
A natural tapasin isoform lacking exon 3 modifies peptide loading complex function.
Eur J. Immunol. 46 (2013), p. 1459-1469.

Susanne Fritzsche and Sebastian Springer:
Investigating MHC class I folding and trafficking with pulse-chase experiments.
Mol. Immunol. 55 (2013), p. 126-130.

Sunil K. Saini, Esam T. Abualrous, Anca-S. Tigan, Kathryn Covella, Ursula Wellbrock, and Sebastian Springer:
Not all empty MHC class I molecules are molten globules: Tryptophan fluorescence reveals a two-step mechanism of thermal denaturation.
Mol. Immunol. 54 (2013), p. 386–396.

Esther Ghanem and Sebastian Springer:
Determining the Activity of the Transporter Associated with Antigen Processing in the Compartments of the Secretory Pathway.
In: Antigen Processing: Methods and Protocols (Peter van Endert, ed.).
Methods in Molecular Biology 960 (2012), p. 137-144.

Malgorzata A. Garstka, Susanne Fritzsche, Isabel Lenart, Zeynep Hein, Gytis Jankevicius, Louise H. Boyle, Tim Elliott, John Trowsdale, Antony N. Antoniou, Martin Zacharias, and Sebastian Springer:
Tapasin dependence of MHC class I molecules correlates with their conformational flexibility.
FASEB J. 25 (2011), p. 3989-98.

Norbert Koch, Martin Zacharias, A. König, Sebastian Temme, J. Neumann, and Sebastian Springer:
Stoichiometry of HLA Class II-Invariant Chain Oligomers.
PLoS ONE 6(2): e17257 (2011).

Esther Ghanem, Susanne Fritzsche, Mohammed Al-Balushi, Jood Hashem, Lana Ghuneim, Lena Thomer, Hubert Kalbacher, Peter Van Endert, Emmanuel J.H.J. Wiertz, Robert Tampé, and Sebastian Springer:
The Transporter associated with Antigen Processing (TAP) is active in a post-ER compartment.
J. Cell Science 123 (2010), p. 4271-4279.

Deborah Studer, Raghavendra Palankar, Mathieu Bédard, Mathias Winterhalter, and Sebastian Springer:
Retrieval of a Metabolite from Cells with Polyelectrolyte Microcapsules.
Small 6 (2010), p. 2412-2419.

PVK Praveen*, R. Yaneva*, H. Kalbacher, and S. Springer:
Tapasin edits peptides on MHC class I molecules by accelerating peptide exchange.
Eur. J. Immunol. 40 (2010), p. 214-224.

Rakina Yaneva, Clemens Schneeweiss, Martin Zacharias, and Sebastian Springer:
Peptide binding to MHC class I and II proteins: new avenues from new methods.
Mol. Immunol. 47 (2010), p. 649-657.

Chris Howe*, Malgorzata Garstka*, Mohammed Al-Balushi, Esther Ghanem, Antony N. Antoniou, Susanne Fritzsche, Gytis Jankevicius, Nadia Kontouli, Clemens Schneeweiss, Anthony Williams, Tim Elliott, and Sebastian Springer:
Calreticulin-dependent recycling in the early secretory pathway mediates optimal peptide loading of MHC class I molecules.
EMBO Journal 28 (2009), p. 3730-3744.

Raghavendra Palankar, André G. Skirtach, Oliver Kreft, Mathieu Bedard, Malgorzata Garstka, Keith Gould, Helmuth Möhwald, Gleb B. Sukhorukov, Mathias Winterhalter, and Sebastian Springer:
Controlled intracellular release of peptides from microcapsules enhances antigen presentation on MHC class I molecules.
Small 5 (2009), p. 2168-76.

Clemens Schneeweiss, Malgorzata Garstka, James Smith, Marc T. Huett, and Sebastian Springer:
The mechanism of action of tapasin in the peptide exchange of MHC class I molecules determined form kinetics simulation studies.
Mol. Immunol. 46 (2009), p. 2054-2063.

Rakina Yaneva, Sebastian Springer, and Martin Zacharias:
Flexibility of the MHC class II peptide binding cleft in the bound, partially filled, and empty states: A molecular dynamics simulation study.
Biopolymers 91 (2009), p. 14-27.

Florian Sieker, T.P. Straatsma, Sebastian Springer, and Martin Zacharias:
Differential tapasin dependence of MHC class I molecules correlates with conformational changes upon peptide dissociation: A molecular dynamics simulation study.
Mol. Immunol. 45 (2008), 3714-22.

Malgorzata Garstka*, Britta Borchert*, Mohammed Al-Balushi*, PVK Praveen, Nicole M. Kühl, Irina Majoul, Rainer Duden, and Sebastian Springer:
Peptide-receptive MHC class I molecules cycle between endoplasmic reticulum and cis-Golgi in wild type lymphocytes.
J. Biol. Chem. 282 (2007), p. 30680-90.

Gleb B. Sukhorukov, Andrei L. Rogach, Malgorzata Garstka, Sebastian Springer, Wolfgang J. Parak, A. Munoz-Javier, Oliver Kreft, Andrei G. Skirtach, A.S. Susha, Yannick Ramaye, Raghavendra Palankar, and Mathias Winterhalter:
Multifunctionalized polymer microcapsules: novel tools for biological and pharmacological applications.
Small 3 (2007), p. 944-55.

Florian Sieker, Sebastian Springer, and Martin Zacharias:
Comparative molecular dynamics analysis of tapasin-dependent and -independent MHC class I alleles.
Protein Sci. 16 (2007), p. 299-308.

Martin Zacharias and Sebastian Springer:
Conformational flexibility of the MHC class I α1-α2 domain in peptide bound and free states: a molecular dynamics simulation study.
Biophys. J. 87 (2004), p. 2203-14.

Cynthia Anne Wright, Patrycja Kozik, Martin Zacharias, and Sebastian Springer:
Tapasin and other chaperones: models of the MHC class I loading complex.
Biol Chem. 385 (2004), p.763-78; doi: 10.1515/BC.2004.100

G.Z. Lederkremer, Y. Cheng, B.V. Petre, E. Vogan, S. Springer, R. Schekman, T. Walz, and T. Kirchhausen:
Structure of the Sec23p/24p and Sec13/31p complexes of COPII.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98 (2001), p. 10704-10709.

Sebastian Springer, Eric Chen, Rainer Duden, M. Marzioch, Adele Rowley, Susan Hamamoto, Sabeeha Merchant, and Randy Schekman:
The p24 family of transmembrane proteins is not essential for vesicular transport in S. cerevisiae.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97 (2000), p. 4034-4039 .

Sebastian Springer, Anne Spang, and Randy Schekman:
A primer on vesicle budding.
Cell 97 (1999), p. 145-148.

Ann Glithero, José Tormo, Jonathan S. Haurum, Gemma Arsequell, G. Valencia, Jon Edwards, Sebastian Springer, Alain R.M. Townsend, Y.L. Pao, Mark Wormald, Raymond A. Dwek, E. Yvonne Jones, and Tim Elliott:
Crystal structures of two H-2Db/glycopeptide complexes suggest a molecular basis for CTL cross-reactivity.
Immunity 10 (1999), p.63-74.

Sebastian Springer and Randy Schekman:
Nucleation of COPII Vesicular Coat Complex by Endoplasmic Reticulum to Golgi Vesicle SNAREs.
Science 281 (1998), p. 698-700; doi: 10.1126/science.281.5377.698

Sebastian Springer, Klaus Döring, Jonathan C. A. Skipper, Alain R. M. Townsend, and Vincenzo Cerundolo:
Fast Association Rates suggest a Conformational Change in the MHC Class I Molecule H-2Db upon Peptide Binding.
Biochemistry 37 (1998), p. 3001-3012.

Sebastian Springer:
The biochemistry of antigen presentation.
DPhil thesis (1996), University of Oxford.