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Biology and Biochemistry

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43
Citations
6186
World Ranking
19416
National Ranking
1325

Overview

Claus Urbanke is affiliated with Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant work in Chemistry as well.

The subfields in which Urbanke is active include Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Electrochemistry. The scientist's main research topics encompass Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, and Electrochemical Analysis and Applications.

One of Urbanke's recent publications is titled "Versatile roles of rubredoxin reductase of Pseudomonas aeruginosa TBCF10839 in virulence and stress protection", published in 2025 in PLoS Pathogens.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Urbanke include:

  • Lutz Wiehlmann
  • Thorsten Adams
  • Sonja Horatzek
  • Doris Jordan
  • Ilona Rosenboom

Urbanke's work is also often published in the venue PLoS Pathogens.

Best Publications

  • Structure of Internalin, a Major Invasion Protein of Listeria Monocytogenes, in Complex with its Human Receptor E-Cadherin

    Wolf Dieter Schubert;Claus Urbanke;Thilo Ziehm;Viola Beier

  • Clustering of VASP actively drives processive, WH2 domain-mediated actin filament elongation

    Dennis Breitsprecher;Antje K Kiesewetter;Joern Linkner;Claus Urbanke

  • Crystal structure of human mitochondrial single-stranded DNA binding protein at 2.4 A resolution.

    Cheng Yang;Ute Curth;Claus Urbanke;ChulHee Kang

  • Sedimentation velocity analysis of heterogeneous protein-protein interactions: Lamm equation modeling and sedimentation coefficient distributions c(s).

    Julie Dam;Carlos A. Velikovsky;Roy A. Mariuzza;Claus Urbanke

  • Unusual Structural Organization of the Endocytic Proteins AP180 and Epsin 1

    Christoph Kalthoff;Juergen Alves;Claus Urbanke;Ruth Knorr

  • Ternary complex formation between elongation factor Tu, GTP and aminoacyl-tRNA: an equilibrium study.

    Alfred Pingoud;Claus Urbanke;Gerhard Krauss;Frens Peters

  • In Vitro and in Vivo Function of the C-Terminus of Escherichia Coli Single-Stranded DNA Binding Protein

    Ute Curth;Jochen Genschel;Claus Urbanke;Joachim Greipel

  • Isolation and characterization of heparin‐ and phosphorylcholine‐binding proteins of boar and stallion seminal plasma. Primary structure of porcine pB1

    Juan J Calvete;Manfred Raida;Marc Gentzel;Claus Urbanke

  • Linear diffusion of restriction endonucleases on DNA.

    H J Ehbrecht;A Pingoud;C Urbanke;G Maass

  • Interaction of E. coli single-stranded DNA binding protein (SSB) with exonuclease I. The carboxy-terminus of SSB is the recognition site for the nuclease.

    Jochen Genschel;Ute Curth;Claus Urbanke

  • Formation of nucleoprotein filaments by mammalian DNA methyltransferase Dnmt3a in complex with regulator Dnmt3L

    Renata Z. Jurkowska;Nils Anspach;Claus Urbanke;Da Jia

  • Single-stranded-DNA-binding proteins from human mitochondria and Escherichia coli have analogous physicochemical properties

    Ute Curth;Claus Urbanke;Joachim Greipel;Holger Gerberding

  • Crystal Structure and Interactions of the Pas Repeat Region of the Drosophila Clock Protein Period

    Özkan Yildiz;Masao Doi;Irene Yujnovsky;Luca Cardone

  • Complex formation and catalytic activation by the PII signaling protein of N-acetyl-L-glutamate kinase from Synechococcus elongatus strain PCC 7942.

    Mani Maheswaran;Claus Urbanke;Karl Forchhammer

  • Aminoacyl transfer ribonucleic acid binding site of the bacterial elongation factor Tu.

    Alfred Pingoud;Claus Urbanke

  • Oligomerization and Binding of the Dnmt3a DNA Methyltransferase to Parallel DNA Molecules: HETEROCHROMATIC LOCALIZATION AND ROLE OF Dnmt3L *

    Renata Z. Jurkowska;Arumugam Rajavelu;Nils Anspach;Claus Urbanke

  • The Cfr10I restriction enzyme is functional as a tetramer.

    Virginijus Siksnys;Remigijus Skirgaila;Giedrius Sasnauskas;Claus Urbanke

  • Incorporation of hexose nucleoside analogues into oligonucleotides: synthesis, base-pairing properties and enzymatic stability

    Koen Augustyns;Frank Vandendriessche;Arthur Van Aerschot;Roger Busson

  • Site-directed mutagenesis studies with EcoRV restriction endonuclease to identify regions involved in recognition and catalysis

    V. Thielking;U. Selent;E. Kohler;H. Wolfes

  • Molecular characterization and crystallization of Diocleinae lectins.

    Juan J. Calvete;Hubert H. Thole;Manfred Raida;Claus Urbanke

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfred Pingoud
Alfred Pingoud University of Giessen
Virginijus Siksnys
Virginijus Siksnys Vilnius University
Albert Jeltsch
Albert Jeltsch University of Stuttgart
Juan J. Calvete
Juan J. Calvete Spanish National Research Council
Robert Huber
Robert Huber University of Duisburg-Essen
Dietmar J. Manstein
Dietmar J. Manstein Hannover Medical School
Jörg Langowski
Jörg Langowski German Cancer Research Center
Edda Töpfer-Petersen
Edda Töpfer-Petersen University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Koen Augustyns
Koen Augustyns University of Antwerp

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