LIST OF PUBBLICATIONS
S Sultana, PO Tawiah, C Jackson, M Bennis, T Bhimwal, A Anane, LR Knoke, A Foti, L Paz, ME Crompton, D Reichmann, LIO. Leichert, JU Dahl. "A newly identified detoxification system protects uropathogenic Escherichia coli from reactive chlorine species" 2026. BioRxiv doi: https://doi.org /10.64898/ 2026.03.12.711259
A Foti*, R Hurwitz, K Textoris-Taube, M Milek, A Pickrum, A Castellaw, H Jin Kim, R Chandrasekaran, S Becker, V Singh Mithu, R Krueger, H von Bernuth, M Mülleder, A Biswas, P Fahjen, M Winkler, U Abu Abed, D Humme, S Thee, A Prasse, B Seeliger, D Beule, C Griesinger, M Ralser, V J Torres and A Zychlinsky*. “Tyrosine halogenation converts α-defensins into potent immunomodulators”. Under revision at Science.
*co-corresponding authors. bioRxiv 19.12.2025; doi:https: //doi.org/10.1101/2023 .11.01.565105.
Brinkmann V, Goosmann C, Maier A, Meyer T, Foti A* . “SOD1 controls neutrophil oxidative burst and microbial killing.” J Immunol. 2025. 1;214(8): 2015-2028. doi: 10.1093/ jimmun/ vkaf110. PMID: 40498667. *Corresponding author.
Sultana S, Crompton ME, Meurer K, Jankiewicz O, Morales GH, Johnson C, Horbach E, Hoffmann KP, Kr P, Shah R, Anderson GM, Mortimer NT, Schmitz JE, Hadjifrangiskou M, Foti A and Dahl JU. “Redox-Mediated Inactivation of the Transcriptional Repressor RcrR is Responsible for Uropathogenic Escherichia coli's Increased Resistance to Reactive Chlorine Species” mBio, 2022.
Burn GL, Foti A, Marsman G, Patel DF, Zychlinsky A. “The neutrophil”. Immunity, 2021. Review.
Sultana S, Foti A, Dahl JU. “Bacterial Defense Systems against the Neutrophilic Oxidant Hypochlorous Acid” Infect Immun. 2020. Review.
C Mota, M Esmaeeli, C Coelho, TS‐Silva, M Wolff, A Foti, S Leimkühler, MJ Romao. "Human aldehyde oxidase (hAOX 1): structure determination of the Moco‐free form of the natural variant G1269R and biophysical studies of single nucleotide polymorphisms" FEBS open bio. 2019.
Foti A, Dorendorf F and Leimkuhler S. “Single nucleotide polymorphisms cause enhanced radical oxygen species production by human aldehyde oxidase” PLoS One, 2017.
Foti A, Hartmann T, Coelho C, Santos-Silva T, Romao MJ, Leimkuhler S. “Optimization of the expression of Human Aldehyde Oxidase for Investigations of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms.” Drug Metab Dispos, 2016.
Coelho C, Foti A, Hartmann T, Santos-Silva T, Leimkühler S, Romão MJ. “Structural insights into xenobiotic and inhibitor binding to human aldehyde oxidase”. Nature Chemical Biology, 2015.