Publications by Mirko Bischofberger

Engaging the public or asking your friends? Analysing science-related crowdfunding using behavioural and survey data

Science-related crowdfunding enables public engagement with science. However, we know little about citizens engaging with science this way: Who are the people engaging with and donating to science through crowdfunding - and how do they decide how much to g ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2022

Revealing Assembly of a Pore-Forming Complex Using Single-Cell Kinetic Analysis and Modeling

Felix Naef, Daniel Boss, Mirko Bischofberger, Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Mircea Ioan Iacovache

Many biological processes depend on the sequential assembly of protein complexes. However, studying the kinetics of such processes by direct methods is often not feasible. As an important class of such protein complexes, pore-forming toxins start their jou ...

Elsevier2016

Pathogenic Pore-Forming Proteins: Function and Host Response

Mirko Bischofberger, Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Mircea Ioan Iacovache

Organisms from all kingdoms produce pore-forming proteins, with the best-characterized being of bacterial origin. The last decade of research has revealed that the channels formed by these proteins can be very diverse, thus differentially affecting target ...

Cell Press2012

Pore-forming toxins induce multiple cellular responses promoting survival

Mirko Bischofberger, Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Rodrigo Manuel Gonzalez, Sylvia Ho

Pore-forming toxins (PFTs) are secreted proteins that contribute to the virulence of a great variety of bacterial pathogens. They inflict one of the more disastrous damages a target cell can be exposed to: disruption of plasma membrane integrity. Since thi ...

Wiley-Blackwell2011

Assembly Mechanisms and Cellular Effects of Bacterial Pore-Forming Toxins

Mirko Bischofberger

The correct assembly of macromolecular protein complexes such as ribosomes or multisubunit membrane channels is essential for their function. Alterations in the process can lead to disease either by loss of function or by acquisition of toxic function. How ...

EPFL2011

How today's scientific culture affects young scientists

Mirko Bischofberger, Enrico Guarnera

2010

Stabilizing patterning in the Drosophila segment polarity network by selecting models in silico

Felix Naef, Mirko Bischofberger, Jacques Rougemont

The segmentation of Drosophila is a prime model to study spatial patterning during embryogenesis. The spatial expression of segment polarity genes results from a complex network of interacting proteins whose expression products are maintained after success ...

Elsevier2010

A self-regulatory system of interlinked signaling feedback loops controls mouse limb patterning

Felix Naef, Mirko Bischofberger

Embryogenesis depends on self-regulatory interactions between spatially separated signaling centers, but few of these are well understood. Limb development is regulated by epithelial-mesenchymal (e-m) feedback loops between sonic hedgehog (SHH) and fibrobl ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2009

Bacterial pore-forming toxins: the (w)hole story?

Mirko Bischofberger, Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Rodrigo Manuel Gonzalez

Pore-forming toxins (PFTs) are the most common class of bacterial protein toxins and constitute important bacterial virulence factors. The mode of action of PFT is starting to be better understood. In contrast, little is known about the cellular response t ...

Birkhäuser-Verlag, Springer2008