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69
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22158
World Ranking
1454
National Ranking
104

Overview

Boris Macek is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Plant Science, Ecology, and Genetics as subfields. The work covers various topics including Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, Algal biology and biofuel production, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Cellular transport and secretion.

Macek's publication record includes contributions to multiple journals, with a particularly frequent presence in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 33 publications. Other notable venues include Nature Communications and Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, with six publications each, mSystems with three publications, and The EMBO Journal with two publications.

Their recent papers include:

  • DRP1 interacts directly with BAX to induce its activation and apoptosis (2022) in The EMBO Journal
  • The novel P II -interactor PirC identifies phosphoglycerate mutase as key control point of carbon storage metabolism in cyanobacteria (2021) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A bacterial effector counteracts host autophagy by promoting degradation of an autophagy component (2022) in The EMBO Journal
  • The tomato receptor CuRe1 senses a cell wall protein to identify Cuscuta as a pathogen (2020) in Nature Communications
  • Discovery of a small protein factor involved in the coordinated degradation of phycobilisomes in cyanobacteria (2021) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborations have been established with several coauthors, including Mirita Franz-Wachtel, Philipp Spät, Ana Velić, Nicolas Nalpas, and Martin Hagemann. The counts of coauthored publications with these colleagues range from 10 to 35, reflecting ongoing collaborative research efforts.

Best Publications

  • Global, in vivo, and site-specific phosphorylation dynamics in signaling networks.

    Jesper V. Olsen;Blagoy Blagoev;Florian Gnad;Boris Macek;Boris Macek

  • Parts per Million Mass Accuracy on an Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer via Lock Mass Injection into a C-trap

    Jesper V. Olsen;Jesper V. Olsen;Lyris M.F. de Godoy;Guoqing Li;Guoqing Li;Boris Macek

  • Higher-energy C-trap dissociation for peptide modification analysis.

    Jesper V Olsen;Boris Macek;Oliver Lange;Alexander Makarov

  • SHARPIN forms a linear ubiquitin ligase complex regulating NF-κB activity and apoptosis.

    Fumiyo Ikeda;Yonathan Lissanu Deribe;Sigrid S. Skånland;Benjamin Stieglitz

  • Metabolic priming by a secreted fungal effector

    Armin Djamei;Kerstin Schipper;Kerstin Schipper;Kerstin Schipper;Franziska Rabe;Anupama Ghosh

  • PHOSIDA (phosphorylation site database): management, structural and evolutionary investigation, and prediction of phosphosites.

    Florian Gnad;Shubin Ren;Juergen Cox;Jesper V Olsen

  • Phosphoproteome Analysis of E. coli Reveals Evolutionary Conservation of Bacterial Ser/Thr/Tyr Phosphorylation

    Boris Macek;Florian Gnad;Boumediene Soufi;Chanchal Kumar

  • Global and Site-Specific Quantitative Phosphoproteomics: Principles and Applications

    Boris Macek;Matthias Mann;Jesper V. Olsen

  • The Serine/Threonine/Tyrosine Phosphoproteome of the Model Bacterium Bacillus subtilis

    Boris Macek;Ivan Mijakovic;Jesper V. Olsen;Florian Gnad

  • Protein post-translational modifications in bacteria.

    Boris Macek;Karl Forchhammer;Julie Hardouin;Eilika Weber-Ban

  • In Vivo Identification of Human Small Ubiquitin-like Modifier Polymerization Sites by High Accuracy Mass Spectrometry and an in Vitro to in Vivo Strategy

    Ivan Matic;Martijn van Hagen;Joost Schimmel;Boris Macek

  • C-mannosylation and O-fucosylation of the thrombospondin type 1 module.

    Jan Hofsteenge;Kristin G. Huwiler;Boris Macek;Daniel Hess

  • Fast-Forward Genetics Identifies Plant CPL Phosphatases as Regulators of miRNA Processing Factor HYL1

    Pablo A. Manavella;Joerg Hagmann;Felix Ott;Sascha Laubinger

  • Initial Quantitative Proteomic Map of 28 Mouse Tissues Using the SILAC Mouse

    Tamar Geiger;Ana Velic;Boris Macek;Emma Lundberg

  • Proteomic analysis of the acid-soluble organic matrix of the chicken calcified eggshell layer.

    Karlheinz Mann;Boris Maček;Jesper V. Olsen

  • Top-down Protein Sequencing and MS3 on a Hybrid Linear Quadrupole Ion Trap-Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer *

    Boris Macek;Leonie F. Waanders;Jesper V. Olsen;Jesper V. Olsen;Matthias Mann

  • MapZ marks the division sites and positions FtsZ rings in Streptococcus pneumoniae

    Aurore Fleurie;Christian Lesterlin;Sylvie Manuse;Chao Zhao;Chao Zhao

  • Interplay of the serine/threonine-kinase StkP and the paralogs DivIVA and GpsB in pneumococcal cell elongation and division.

    Aurore Fleurie;Sylvie Manuse;Chao Zhao;Nathalie Campo

  • Proteogenomics of Pristionchus pacificus reveals distinct proteome structure of nematode models

    Nadine Borchert;Christoph Dieterich;Karsten Krug;Wolfgang Schütz

  • WIPI3 and WIPI4 β-propellers are scaffolds for LKB1-AMPK-TSC signalling circuits in the control of autophagy

    Daniela Bakula;Daniela Bakula;Amelie J. Müller;Amelie J. Müller;Theresia Zuleger;Zsuzsanna Takacs;Zsuzsanna Takacs

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Mann
Matthias Mann Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Ivan Mijakovic
Ivan Mijakovic Chalmers University of Technology
Jesper V. Olsen
Jesper V. Olsen University of Copenhagen
Florian Gnad
Florian Gnad Roche (Germany)
Dominik Hartl
Dominik Hartl Novartis (Switzerland)
York-Dieter Stierhof
York-Dieter Stierhof University of Tübingen
Wolfgang R. Hess
Wolfgang R. Hess University of Freiburg
Carol V. Robinson
Carol V. Robinson University of Oxford
Ludger Schöls
Ludger Schöls University of Tübingen

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