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Andrej Shevchenko

Andrej Shevchenko

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Biology and Biochemistry
Germany
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
119
Citations
76093
World Ranking
657
National Ranking
49

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Andrej Shevchenko is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has a research focus predominantly within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work frequently intersects with Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy, Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's research addresses key topics such as:

  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis
  • Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

Their recent published papers include:

  • "The Colorectal Cancer Lipidome: Identification of a Robust Tumor-Specific Lipid Species Signature" (2021, Gastroenterology)
  • "Loss of hepatic Mboat7 leads to liver fibrosis" (2020, Gut)
  • "Quality control requirements for the correct annotation of lipidomics data" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "Introducing the Lipidomics Minimal Reporting Checklist" (2022, Nature Metabolism)
  • "Live-cell lipid biochemistry reveals a role of diacylglycerol side-chain composition for cellular lipid dynamics and protein affinities" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Among their frequent co-authors are:

  • Oskar Knittelfelder
  • Bharath Kumar Raghuraman
  • Kai Schuhmann
  • Robert Ahrends
  • Sophie Ayciriex

Their work appears regularly in notable publication venues including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Proteome Research
  • Nature
  • Journal of Lipid Research
  • Cells

Best Publications

  • Mass Spectrometric Sequencing of Proteins from Silver-Stained Polyacrylamide Gels

    Andrej Shevchenko;Matthias Wilm;Ole Vorm;Matthias Mann

  • In-gel digestion for mass spectrometric characterization of proteins and proteomes

    Andrej Shevchenko;Henrik Tomas;Jan Havlis;Jesper V Olsen

  • FLICE, a novel FADD-homologous ICE/CED-3-like protease, is recruited to the CD95 (Fas/APO-1) death--inducing signaling complex.

    Marta Muzio;Arul M. Chinnaiyan;Frank C. Kischkel;Karen O'Rourke

  • IKK-1 and IKK-2: Cytokine-Activated IκB Kinases Essential for NF-κB Activation

    Frank Mercurio;Hengyi Zhu;Brion W. Murray;Andrej Shevchenko

  • Lipid extraction by methyl-tert-butyl ether for high-throughput lipidomics

    Vitali Matyash;Gerhard Liebisch;Teymuras V. Kurzchalia;Andrej Shevchenko

  • Femtomole sequencing of proteins from polyacrylamide gels by nano-electrospray mass spectrometry

    Matthias Wilm;Andrej Shevchenko;Tony Houthaeve;Stephen Breit

  • Linking genome and proteome by mass spectrometry: Large-scale identification of yeast proteins from two dimensional gels

    Shevchenko A;Jensen On;Podtelejnikov Av;Sagliocco F

  • Reverse Transcriptase Motifs in the Catalytic Subunit of Telomerase

    Joachim Lingner;Timothy R. Hughes;Andrej Shevchenko;Matthias Mann

  • FLICE is activated by association with the CD95 death-inducing signaling complex (DISC).

    Jan Paul Medema;Carsten Scaffidi;Frank C. Kischkel;Andrej Shevchenko

  • The Exosome: A Conserved Eukaryotic RNA Processing Complex Containing Multiple 3′→5′ Exoribonucleases

    Philip Mitchell;Elisabeth Petfalski;Andrej Shevchenko;Matthias Mann

  • Global analysis of the yeast lipidome by quantitative shotgun mass spectrometry

    Christer S. Ejsing;Julio L. Sampaio;Vineeth Surendranath;Eva Duchoslav

  • Exit from Mitosis Is Triggered by Tem1-Dependent Release of the Protein Phosphatase Cdc14 from Nucleolar RENT Complex

    Wenying Shou;Jae Hong Seol;Anna Shevchenko;Christopher Baskerville

  • Lipidomics: coming to grips with lipid diversity

    Andrej Shevchenko;Kai Simons

  • An ESP1/PDS1 Complex Regulates Loss of Sister Chromatid Cohesion at the Metaphase to Anaphase Transition in Yeast

    Rafal Ciosk;Wolfgang Zachariae;Christine Michaelis;Andrej Shevchenko

  • Cohesin's Binding to Chromosomes Depends on a Separate Complex Consisting of Scc2 and Scc4 Proteins

    Rafal Ciosk;Masaki Shirayama;Anna Shevchenko;Tomoyuki Tanaka

  • Promotion of NEDD8-CUL1 Conjugate Cleavage by COP9 Signalosome

    Svetlana Lyapina;Gregory Cope;Anna Shevchenko;Giovanna Serino

  • Resistance of cell membranes to different detergents

    Sebastian Schuck;Masanori Honsho;Kim Ekroos;Andrej Shevchenko

  • Charting the Proteomes of Organisms with Unsequenced Genomes by MALDI-Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry and BLAST Homology Searching

    Shevchenko A;Sunyaev S;Loboda A;Bork P

  • Lipid rafts function in biosynthetic delivery of proteins to the cell surface in yeast

    M Bagnat;S Keränen;A Shevchenko;K Simons

  • Rapid ‘de novo’ peptide sequencing by a combination of nanoelectrospray, isotopic labeling and a quadrupole/time‐of‐flight mass spectrometer

    Andrej Shevchenko;Igor Chernushevich;Werner Ens;Kenneth G. Standing

Frequent Co-Authors

Anna Shevchenko
Anna Shevchenko Max Planck Society
Matthias Mann
Matthias Mann Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Kai Simons
Kai Simons Lipotype
Suzanne Eaton
Suzanne Eaton Max Planck Society
Teymuras V. Kurzchalia
Teymuras V. Kurzchalia Max Planck Society
Shamil R. Sunyaev
Shamil R. Sunyaev Harvard University
Matthias Wilm
Matthias Wilm University College Dublin
William G. Dunphy
William G. Dunphy California Institute of Technology

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