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Annette G. Beck-Sickinger

Annette G. Beck-Sickinger

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
83
Citations
23295
World Ranking
3528
National Ranking
269

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Chemistry

Overview

Annette G. Beck-Sickinger is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions also made in the fields of medicine and neuroscience.

Their primary subfields of study include molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, oncology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and biomaterials. The main topics of their work focus on receptor mechanisms and signaling, neuropeptides and animal physiology, chemokine receptors and signaling, chemical synthesis and analysis, adipokines, inflammation and metabolic diseases, regulation of appetite and obesity, and neurobiology and insect physiology research.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Annette G. Beck-Sickinger are:

  • The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2023/24: G protein-coupled receptors (2023), British Journal of Pharmacology
  • Peptide-Drug Conjugates and Their Targets in Advanced Cancer Therapies (2020), Frontiers in Chemistry
  • Structures of active melanocortin-4 receptor-Gs-protein complexes with NDP-α-MSH and setmelanotide (2021), Cell Research
  • Live cell PNA labelling enables erasable fluorescence imaging of membrane proteins (2020), Nature Chemistry
  • Targeting of peptide-binding receptors on cancer cells with peptide-drug conjugates (2020), Peptide Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Beck-Sickinger include:

  • Karin Mörl
  • Anette Kaiser
  • Jens Meiler
  • Jan Stichel
  • Philipp Wolf

The scientist often publishes in journals such as the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, ChemBioChem, Angewandte Chemie, and Journal of Peptide Science.

Annette G. Beck-Sickinger received recognition from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2012 in the field of chemistry.

Best Publications

  • XVI. International Union of Pharmacology Recommendations for the Nomenclature of Neuropeptide Y, Peptide YY, and Pancreatic Polypeptide Receptors

    Martin C. Michel;Annette Beck-Sickinger;Helen Cox;Henri N. Doods

  • GPR39 Signaling Is Stimulated by Zinc Ions But Not by Obestatin

    Birgitte Holst;Kristoffer L. Egerod;Enrico Schild;Steve P. Vickers

  • The first highly potent and selective non-peptide neuropeptide Y Y1 receptor antagonist: BIBP3226.

    Klaus Rudolf;Wolfgang Eberlein;Wolfhard Engel;Heike A. Wieland

  • Multiple Peptide Synthesis Methods and Their Applications. New Synthetic Methods (87)

    Günther Jung;Annette G. Beck-Sickinger

  • Peptide chemistry toolbox – Transforming natural peptides into peptide therapeutics

    Miloš Erak;Kathrin Bellmann-Sickert;Sylvia Els-Heindl;Annette G. Beck-Sickinger

  • Molecular characterization of the ligand-receptor interaction of the neuropeptide Y family.

    Chiara Cabrele;Annette G. Beck-Sickinger

  • Automated solid-phase peptide synthesis to obtain therapeutic peptides

    Veronika Mäde;Sylvia Els-Heindl;Annette G. Beck-Sickinger

  • The first selective agonist for the neuropeptide YY5 receptor increases food intake in rats.

    Chiara Cabrele;Michael Langer;Reto Bader;Heike A. Wieland

  • Complete L‐Alanine Scan of Neuropeptide Y Reveals Ligands Binding to Y1 and Y2 Receptors with Distinguished Conformations

    Annette G. Beck‐Sickinger;Heike A. Weland;Helmut Wittneben;Klaus‐Dieter Willim

  • Neuropeptide Y stimulates neuronal precursor proliferation in the post-natal and adult dentate gyrus

    Owain W. Howell;Kharen Doyle;Jeffrey H. Goodman;Helen E. Scharfman

  • Visfatin/PBEF/Nampt: structure, regulation and potential function of a novel adipokine.

    Grit Sommer;Antje Garten;Stefanie Petzold;Annette G. Beck-Sickinger

  • Expressed protein ligation. Method and applications.

    Ralf David;Michael P.O. Richter;Annette G. Beck-Sickinger

  • Peptide-tags for site-specific protein labelling in vitro and in vivo

    Jonathan Lotze;Ulrike Reinhardt;Oliver Seitz;Annette G. Beck-Sickinger

  • Peptide-Drug Conjugates and Their Targets in Advanced Cancer Therapies.

    Paul Hoppenz;Sylvia Els-Heindl;Annette G. Beck-Sickinger

  • Central vaspin administration acutely reduces food intake and has sustained blood glucose-lowering effects

    N. Klöting;P. Kovacs;M. Kern;J. T. Heiker

  • Neuropeptide Y is neuroproliferative for post-natal hippocampal precursor cells.

    Owain W. Howell;Helen E. Scharfman;Herbert Herzog;Lars E. Sundstrom

  • Neuropeptide Y receptors: how to get subtype selectivity

    Xavier Pedragosa-Badia;Jan Stichel;Annette G. Beck-Sickinger

  • Peptides and peptide conjugates: therapeutics on the upward path

    Verena M Ahrens;Kathrin Bellmann-Sickert;Annette G Beck-Sickinger

  • Vaspin inhibits kallikrein 7 by serpin mechanism

    John T. Heiker;Nora Klöting;Peter Kovacs;E. Bartholomeus Kuettner

  • Processing, signaling, and physiological function of chemerin

    Andreas Mattern;Tristan Zellmann;Annette G. Beck-Sickinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Günther Jung
Günther Jung University of Tübingen
Daniel Huster
Daniel Huster Leipzig University
Jens Meiler
Jens Meiler Vanderbilt University
Evamarie Hey-Hawkins
Evamarie Hey-Hawkins Leipzig University
Vsevolod V. Gurevich
Vsevolod V. Gurevich Vanderbilt University
Thue W. Schwartz
Thue W. Schwartz University of Copenhagen
Gerd Folkers
Gerd Folkers ETH Zurich
Matthias Blüher
Matthias Blüher Leipzig University
Martin von Bergen
Martin von Bergen Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Oliver Seitz
Oliver Seitz Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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