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D-Index
58
Citations
16104
World Ranking
12984
National Ranking
925

Overview

Andreas Kuhn is affiliated with the University of Hohenheim in Germany and conducts research primarily within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Spectroscopy, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's research topics focus on areas such as Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications, Protein Structure and Dynamics, Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications, and Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications.

Andreas Kuhn has co-authored multiple papers with frequent collaborators including Maximilian Haase, Ross Dalbey, P. Laskowski, Kristýna Pluháčková, and Brian M. Lang. Publications are often featured in venues such as Viruses, Das Gesundheitswesen, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biophysical Journal, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Recent publications by Andreas Kuhn include:

  • Parallelized Acquisition of Orbitrap and Astral Analyzers Enables High-Throughput Quantitative Analysis, 2023, Analytical Chemistry
  • Parallelized Acquisition of Orbitrap and Astral Analyzers Enables High-Throughput Quantitative Analysis, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Monitoring the binding and insertion of a single transmembrane protein by an insertase, 2021, Nature Communications
  • A hydrophilic microenvironment in the substrate-translocating groove of the YidC membrane insertase is essential for enzyme function, 2022, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Efficiency of a compact CO2 coaxial plasma torch driven by ultrafast microwave power pulsing: Stability and plasma gas flow dynamics, 2022, Journal of CO2 Utilization

Best Publications

  • Personalized RNA mutanome vaccines mobilize poly-specific therapeutic immunity against cancer

    Ugur Sahin;Evelyna Derhovanessian;Matthias Miller;Björn-Philipp Kloke

  • Systemic RNA delivery to dendritic cells exploits antiviral defence for cancer immunotherapy

    Lena M. Kranz;Mustafa Diken;Heinrich Haas;Sebastian Kreiter

  • Exploiting the mutanome for tumor vaccination

    John C. Castle;Sebastian Kreiter;Jan Diekmann;Martin Löwer

  • An RNA vaccine drives immunity in checkpoint-inhibitor-treated melanoma.

    Ugur Sahin;Petra Oehm;Evelyna Derhovanessian;Robert A. Jabulowsky

  • YidC mediates membrane protein insertion in bacteria.

    James C. Samuelson;Minyong Chen;Fenglei Jiang;Ines Möller

  • BNT162b vaccines protect rhesus macaques from SARS-CoV-2.

    Annette B. Vogel;Isis Kanevsky;Ye Che;Kena A. Swanson

  • Improving mRNA-Based Therapeutic Gene Delivery by Expression-Augmenting 3' UTRs Identified by Cellular Library Screening.

    Alexandra G. Orlandini von Niessen;Marco A. Poleganov;Corina Rechner;Arianne Plaschke

  • Escherichia coli YidC is a membrane insertase for Sec-independent proteins

    Justyna Serek;Gabriele Bauer-Manz;Gabriele Struhalla;Lambertus van den Berg

  • Phosphorothioate cap analogs increase stability and translational efficiency of RNA vaccines in immature dendritic cells and induce superior immune responses in vivo

    A N Kuhn;M Diken;S Kreiter;A Selmi

  • Assembly of bacterial inner membrane proteins.

    Ross E Dalbey;Peng Wang;Andreas Kuhn

  • Function of YidC for the Insertion of M13 Procoat Protein inEscherichia coli TRANSLOCATION OF MUTANTS THAT SHOW DIFFERENCES IN THEIR MEMBRANE POTENTIAL DEPENDENCE AND Sec REQUIREMENT

    James C. Samuelson;Fenglei Jiang;Liang Yi;Minyong Chen

  • Direct interaction of YidC with the Sec-independent Pf3 coat protein during its membrane protein insertion.

    Minyong Chen;James C. Samuelson;Fenglei Jiang;Matthias Muller

  • Alterations in the extracellular domain of M13 procoat protein make its membrane insertion dependent on secA and secY

    Andreas Kuhn

  • The Alb3/Oxa1/YidC protein family: membrane-localized chaperones facilitating membrane protein insertion?

    Andreas Kuhn;Rosemary Stuart;Ralph Henry;Ross E. Dalbey

  • Analysis of the role of interfacial tryptophan residues in controlling the topology of membrane proteins.

    Anja N. J. A. Ridder;Sven Morein;Jeanette G. Stam;Andreas Kuhn

  • A molecular switch in SecA protein couples ATP hydrolysis to protein translocation.

    Spyridoula Karamanou;Eleftheria Vrontou;George Sianidis;Catherine Baud

  • Differential use of the signal recognition particle translocase targeting pathway for inner membrane protein assembly in Escherichia coli.

    Jan-Willem L. de Gier;Pier A. Scotti;Annika Sääf;Quido A. Valent

  • The mechanosensitive channel protein MscL is targeted by the SRP to the novel YidC membrane insertion pathway of Escherichia coli.

    Sandra J. Facey;Stella A. Neugebauer;Susanne Krauss;Andreas Kuhn

  • Evolutionarily related insertion pathways of bacterial, mitochondrial, and thylakoid membrane proteins

    Ross E. Dalbey;Andreas Kuhn

  • Protein Traffic in Gram-negative bacteria – how exported and secreted proteins find their way

    Ross E. Dalbey;Andreas Kuhn

Frequent Co-Authors

Ross E. Dalbey
Ross E. Dalbey The Ohio State University
Ugur Sahin
Ugur Sahin Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Stephan Grabbe
Stephan Grabbe Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Özlem Türeci
Özlem Türeci BioNTech (Germany)
Jochen Utikal
Jochen Utikal German Cancer Research Center
Christoph Huber
Christoph Huber BioNTech (Germany)
Horst Vogel
Horst Vogel Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
Laurence Zitvogel
Laurence Zitvogel University of Paris-Saclay
John C. Castle
John C. Castle Monte Rosa Therapeutics

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