En-Face Imaging of T Cell-Dendritic Cell Immunological Synapses
A.F. Leithner, J. Merrin, M.K. Sixt, in:, C. Baldari, M. Dustin (Eds.), The Immune Synapse, Springer Nature, New York, NY, 2023, pp. 137–147.

WASp triggers mechanosensitive actin patches to facilitate immune cell migration in dense tissues
F. Gaertner, P. Reis-Rodrigues, I. de Vries, M. Hons, J. Aguilera, M. Riedl, A.F. Leithner, S. Tasciyan, A. Kopf, J. Merrin, V. Zheden, W. Kaufmann, R. Hauschild, M.K. Sixt, Developmental Cell 57 (2022) 47–62.e9.

Type 1 piliated uropathogenic Escherichia coli hijack the host immune response by binding to C
K. Tomasek, A.F. Leithner, I. Glatzová, M.S. Lukesch, C.C. Guet, M.K. Sixt, ELife 11 (2022).

Dendritic cell actin dynamics control contact duration and priming efficiency at the immunological synapse
A.F. Leithner, L. Altenburger, R. Hauschild, F.P. Assen, K. Rottner, S. TEB, A. Diz-Muñoz, J. Stein, M.K. Sixt, Journal of Cell Biology 220 (2021).

Type 1 piliated uropathogenic Escherichia coli hijack the host immune response by binding to C
K. Tomasek, A.F. Leithner, I. Glatzová, M.S. Lukesch, C.C. Guet, M.K. Sixt, BioRxiv (n.d.).

Branched actin networks in dendritic cell biology
A.F. Leithner, Branched Actin Networks in Dendritic Cell Biology, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2018.

Chemokines and integrins independently tune actin flow and substrate friction during intranodal migration of T cells
M. Hons, A. Kopf, R. Hauschild, A.F. Leithner, F.R. Gärtner, J. Abe, J. Renkawitz, J. Stein, M.K. Sixt, Nature Immunology 19 (2018) 606–616.

Micro-engineered cpillar forestsd to study cell migration in complex but controlled 3D environments
J. Renkawitz, A. Reversat, A.F. Leithner, J. Merrin, M.K. Sixt, in:, Methods in Cell Biology, Academic Press, 2018, pp. 79–91.

Lymph node blood vessels provide exit routes for metastatic tumor cell dissemination in mice
M. Brown, F.P. Assen, A.F. Leithner, J. Abe, H. Schachner, G. Asfour, Z. Bagó Horváth, J. Stein, P. Uhrin, M.K. Sixt, D. Kerjaschki, Science 359 (2018) 1408–1411.

Fast and efficient genetic engineering of hematopoietic precursor cells for the study of dendritic cell migration
A.F. Leithner, J. Renkawitz, I. de Vries, R. Hauschild, H. Haecker, M.K. Sixt, European Journal of Immunology 48 (2018) 1074–1077.

Locally triggered release of the chemokine CCL21 promotes dendritic cell transmigration across lymphatic endothelia
K. Vaahtomeri, M. Brown, R. Hauschild, I. de Vries, A.F. Leithner, M. Mehling, W. Kaufmann, M.K. Sixt, Cell Reports 19 (2017) 902–909.

Dendritic cells interpret haptotactic chemokine gradients in a manner governed by signal to noise ratio and dependent on GRK6
J. Schwarz, V. Bierbaum, K. Vaahtomeri, R. Hauschild, M. Brown, I. de Vries, A.F. Leithner, A. Reversat, J. Merrin, T. Tarrant, M.T. Bollenbach, M.K. Sixt, Current Biology 27 (2017) 1314–1325.

Immunological synapse DC-Tcells
A.F. Leithner, (2017).

Diversified actin protrusions promote environmental exploration but are dispensable for locomotion of leukocytes
A.F. Leithner, A. Eichner, J. Müller, A. Reversat, M. Brown, J. Schwarz, J. Merrin, D. De Gorter, F.K. Schur, J. Bayerl, I. de Vries, S. Wieser, R. Hauschild, F. Lai, M. Moser, D. Kerjaschki, K. Rottner, V. Small, T. Stradal, M.K. Sixt, Nature Cell Biology 18 (2016) 1253–1259.