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Müller WEG, Schröder HC, Skorokhod A, Bünz C, Müller IM, Grebenjuk VA (2001) Contribution of sponge genes to unravel the genome of the hypothetical ancestor of Metazoa (Urmetazoa). Gene 276:161-173

Müller WEG, Steffen R, Lorenz B, Kruse M, Krasko A, Müller IM, Batel R, Schröder HC (2001) Suppression of allograft rejection in the sponge Suberites domuncula by FK506 and expression of genes encoding FK506-binding proteins in allografts. J Exp Biol 204:2129-2207

Müller WEG (2001) How was metazoan threshold crossed? The hypothetical Urmetazoa. Comp Biochem Physiol (A) 129:433-460

Schütze J, Krasko A, Diehl-Seifert B, Müller WEG (2001) Cloning and expression of the putative aggregation factor from the marine sponge Geodia cydonium. J Cell Sci 114:3189-3198

Schütze J, Skorokhod A, Müller IM, Müller WEG (2001) Molecular evolution of metazoan extracellular matrix: cloning and expression of structural proteins from the demosponges Suberites domuncula and Geodia cydonium. J Molec Evol 53:402-415

Seack J, Perović S, Gamulin V, Schröder HC, Beutelmann P, Müller IM, Müller WEG (2001) Identification of highly conserved genes: SNZ and SNO in the marine sponge Suberites domuncula: their gene structure and promoter activity in mammalian cells. Biochim Biophys Acta 1520:21-34

Wiens M, Diehl-Seifert B, Müller WEG (2001) Sponge bcl-2 homologous protein (BHP2-GC) confers selected stress resistance to human HEK-293 cells. Cell Death Differ 8:887-898