Publications Institut of Biological Chemistry (founded 2011)

Martelli T, Ravera E, Louka A, Cerofolini L, Hafner M, Fragai M et al. Atomic-Level Quality Assessment of Enzymes Encapsulated in Bioinspired Silica. Chemistry: A European Journal. 2016 Jan 4;22(1):425-432. doi: 10.1002/chem.201503613

Conibear AC, Chaousis S, Durek T, Rosengren KJ, Craik DJ, Schroeder CI. Approaches to the Stabilization of Bioactive Epitopes by Grafting and Peptide Cyclization. Biopolymers: original research on biological molecules and assemblies. 2016 Jan;106(1):89-100. doi: 10.1002/bip.22767

Conibear AC, Farbiarz K, Mayer RL, Matveenko M, Kählig H , Becker CFW. Arginine side-chain modification that occurs during copper-catalysed azide-alkyne click reactions resembles an advanced glycation end product. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 2016;14(26):6205-6211. doi: 10.1039/c6ob00932h

Lechner CC, Becker CFW. Silaffins in Silica Biomineralization and Biomimetic Silica Precipitation. Marine Drugs. 2015 Aug;13(8):5297-5333. doi: 10.3390/md13085297

Bello C, Wang S, Meng L, Moremen KW, Becker CFW. A PEGylated Photocleavable Auxiliary Mediates the Sequential Enzymatic Glycosylation and Native Chemical Ligation of Peptides. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition). 2015 Jun 22;54(26):7711-7715. doi: 10.1002/anie.201501517

Bello C, Kikul F, Becker CFW. Efficient generation of peptide hydrazides via direct hydrazinolysis of Peptidyl-Wang-TentaGel resins. Journal of Peptide Science. 2015 Mar;21(3):201-207. doi: 10.1002/psc.2747

Lechner CC, Becker CFW. Immobilising proteins on silica with site-specifically attached modified silaffin peptides. Biomaterials Science. 2015;3(2):288-297. doi: 10.1039/c4bm00310a

Chu NK, Shabbir W, Bove-Fenderson E, Araman MC, Lemmens R, Harris DA et al. A C-terminal Membrane Anchor Affects the Interactions of Prion Proteins with Lipid Membranes. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2014 Oct 24;289(43):30144-30160. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M114.587345

Schwaighofer A, Pechlaner M, Oostenbrink C, Kotlowski C, Araman MC, Mastrogiacomo R et al. Insights into structural features determining odorant affinities to honey bee odorant binding protein 14. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 2014 Apr 18;446(4):1042-1046. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2014.03.054

Bello C, Farbiarz K, Moeller JF, Becker CFW, Schwientek T. A quantitative and site-specific chemoenzymatic glycosylation approach for PEGylated MUC1 peptides. Chemical Science. 2014 Apr;5(4):1634-1641. doi: 10.1039/c3sc52641k

Schwaighofer A, Kotlowski C, Araman MC, Chu N, Mastrogiacomo R, Becker C et al. Honey bee odorant-binding protein 14: effects on thermal stability upon odorant binding revealed by FT-IR spectroscopy and CD measurements. European Biophysics Journal. 2014 Mar;43(2-3):105-112. doi: 10.1007/s00249-013-0939-4

Lechner CC, Becker CFW. A sequence-function analysis of the silica precipitating silaffin R5 peptide. Journal of Peptide Science. 2014 Feb;20(2):152-158. doi: 10.1002/psc.2577

Tripsianes K, Chu NK, Friberg A, Sattler M, Becker CFW. Studying Weak and Dynamic Interactions of Posttranslationally Modified Proteins using Expressed Protein Ligation. ACS Chemical Biology. 2014 Feb;9(2):347-352. doi: 10.1021/cb400723j

Rauh D, Fischer F, Gertz M, Lakshminarasimhan M, Bergbrede T, Aladini F et al. An acetylome peptide microarray reveals specificities and deacetylation substrates for all human sirtuin isoforms. Nature Communications. 2013 Sept;4:2327. doi: 10.1038/ncomms3327

Marcinowski M, Rosam M, Seitz C, Elferich J, Behnke J, Bello C et al. Conformational Selection in Substrate Recognition by Hsp70 Chaperones. Journal of Molecular Biology. 2013 Feb 8;425(3):466-474. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2012.11.030

Lechner C, Becker CFW. Modified silaffin R5 peptides enable encapsulation and release of cargo molecules from biomimetic silica particles. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 2013;21(12):3533-3541. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2013.04.006

Gogolin L, Schroeder H, Itzen A, Goody RS, Niemeyer CM, Becker CFW. Protein-DNA Arrays as Tools for Detection of Protein-Protein Interactions by Mass Spectrometry. ChemBioChem: a european journal of chemical biology. 2013;14(1):92-99. doi: 10.1002/cbic.201200597

Chu N, Becker CFW. Recombinant expression of soluble murine prion protein for C-terminal modification. FEBS Letters. 2013;587(5):430-435. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2012.12.026

Gertz M, Giang TTN, Fischer F, Suenkel B, Schlicker C, Fraenzel B et al. A Molecular Mechanism for Direct Sirtuin Activation by Resveratrol. PLoS ONE. 2012;7(11). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049761

Lechner C, Becker CFW. Exploring the effect of native and artificial peptide modifications on silaffin induced silica precipitation. Chemical Science. 2012;3(12):3500-3504. doi: 10.1039/c2sc20687k

Hong GS, Chen CP, Lin MH, Krueger J, Becker CFW, Fink RHA et al. Molecular dynamics simulations and conductance studies of the interaction of VP1 N-terminus from Polio virus and gp41 fusion peptide from HIV-1 with lipid membranes. Molecular Membrane Biology. 2012;29(1):9-25. doi: 10.3109/09687688.2011.644589

Stein ML, Beck P, Kaiser M, Dudler R, Becker CFW, Groll M. One-shot NMR analysis of microbial secretions identifies highly potent proteasome inhibitor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). 2012;109(45):18367-18371. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1211423109

Brehs M, Bäuml K, Becker CFW. Chemical Synthesis of an Integral Membrane Enzyme u The Challenges of Diacylglycerol Kinase. Israel Journal of Chemistry. 2011;51(8-9):930-939. doi: 10.1002/ijch.201100090

Weber M, Prodoehl A, Dreher C, Becker CFW, Underhaug J, Svane ASP et al. SDS-facilitated in vitro formation of a transmembrane B-type cytochrome is mediated by changes in local pH. Journal of Molecular Biology. 2011;407(4):594-606. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2011.02.005

Lahiri S, Brehs M, Olschewski D, Becker CFW. Total Chemical Synthesis of an Integral Membrane Enzyme: Diacylglycerol Kinase from Escherichia coli. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition). 2011;50(17):3988-3992. doi: 10.1002/anie.201006686

Gille L, Stamberg W, Gregor W, Jäger W, Reznicek G, Netscher T et al. Ubichromanol: A prodrug to support mitochondrial ubiquinone functions? BioFactors. 2008 Jan 1;32(1-4):83-90. doi: 10.1002/biof.5520320110