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Franz-Georg Hanisch

Franz-Georg Hanisch

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
68
Citations
13342
World Ranking
7956
National Ranking
586

Overview

Franz-Georg Hanisch is affiliated with the University of Cologne in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in fields including Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Nursing. Their work spans multiple specialized subfields such as Nutrition and Dietetics, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Their research topics concentrate on areas such as Infant Nutrition and Health, Viral Gastroenteritis Research and Epidemiology, Breastfeeding Practices and Influences, Neonatal Respiratory Health Research, Adipose Tissue and Metabolism, Fatty Acid Research and Health, and Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases.

Some notable recent publications by Franz-Georg Hanisch include:

  • "Novel Class of Human Milk Oligosaccharides Based on 6'-Galactosyllactose Containing N-Acetylglucosamine Branches Extended by Oligogalactoses," 2021, Journal of Proteome Research
  • "Fucoidan and Derived Oligo-Fucoses: Structural Features with Relevance in Competitive Inhibition of Gastrointestinal Norovirus Binding," 2021, Marine Drugs

Other important papers relevant to their research interests where they appear as a co-author include:

  • "Sensitive asprosin detection in clinical samples reveals serum/saliva correlation and indicates cartilage as source for serum asprosin," 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "Biotechnologically produced fucosylated oligosaccharides inhibit the binding of human noroviruses to their natural receptors," 2020, Journal of Biotechnology
  • "Loss of zebrafish atp6v1e1b, encoding a subunit of vacuolar ATPase, recapitulates human ARCL type 2C syndrome and identifies multiple pathobiological signatures," 2021, PLoS Genetics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Franz-Georg Hanisch include Horst Schroten, Clemens Kunz, Cem Aydoğan, Lore Pottie, and Michiel Vanhooydonck.

The scientist has published repeatedly in reputed venues, with multiple papers appearing in Cells, Glycobiology, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), as well as the aforementioned journals. Their research output reflects ongoing intersections of molecular biology, nutrition, infectious disease epidemiology, and respiratory health, contributing to a multidisciplinary understanding of biomedical and clinical science topics.

Best Publications

  • Dipeptidyl Peptidase 4 Is a Novel Adipokine Potentially Linking Obesity to the Metabolic Syndrome

    Daniela Lamers;Susanne Famulla;Nina Wronkowitz;Sonja Hartwig

  • O-glycosylation of the mucin type.

    Franz-Georg Hanisch

  • MUC1: the polymorphic appearance of a human mucin.

    Franz-Georg Hanisch;Stefan Müller

  • Lipid rafts: signaling and sorting platforms of cells and their roles in cancer.

    Simon Staubach;Franz Georg Hanisch

  • A comparative analysis of the fibulin protein family. Biochemical characterization, binding interactions, and tissue localization.

    Naoyuki Kobayashi;Günter Kostka;Jörg H.O. Garbe;Douglas R. Keene

  • CD25 and indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase are up-regulated by prostaglandin E2 and expressed by tumor-associated dendritic cells in vivo: additional mechanisms of T-cell inhibition.

    Michael S von Bergwelt-Baildon;Alexey Popov;Tomo Saric;Jens M Chemnitz

  • Identification and Validation of Novel Adipokines Released from Primary Human Adipocytes

    Stefan Lehr;Sonja Hartwig;Daniela Lamers;Susanne Famulla

  • Structures of neutral O-linked polylactosaminoglycans on human skim milk mucins. A novel type of linearly extended poly-N-acetyllactosamine backbones with Gal beta(1-4)GlcNAc beta(1-6) repeating units.

    F.-G. Hanisch;G. Uhlenbruck;J. P. Peter-Katalinic;H. Egge

  • MUC1 and the MUCs: a family of human mucins with impact in cancer biology.

    Stephan E. Baldus;Katja Engelmann;Franz-Georg Hanisch

  • The Arabidopsis elch mutant reveals functions of an ESCRT component in cytokinesis.

    Christoph Spitzer;Swen Schellmann;Aneta Sabovljevic;Mojgan Shahriari

  • Complex carbohydrates are not removed during processing of glycoproteins by dendritic cells: processing of tumor antigen MUC1 glycopeptides for presentation to major histocompatibility complex class II-restricted T cells.

    Anda M. Vlad;Stefan Muller;Mare Cudic;Hans Paulsen

  • ST6GalNAc I expression in MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells greatly modifies their O-glycosylation pattern and enhances their tumourigenicity.

    S. Julien;E. Adriaenssens;K. Ottenberg;A. Furlan

  • MUC1 and Nuclear β-Catenin Are Coexpressed at the Invasion Front of Colorectal Carcinomas and Are Both Correlated with Tumor Prognosis

    Stephan E. Baldus;Stefan P. Mönig;Sandra Huxel;Stephanie Landsberg

  • Proteomics of MUC1-containing lipid rafts from plasma membranes and exosomes of human breast carcinoma cells MCF-7.

    Simon Staubach;Hanieh Razawi;Franz-Georg Hanisch

  • High density O-glycosylation on tandem repeat peptide from secretory MUC1 of T47D breast cancer cells.

    Stefan Müller;Kim Alving;Jasna Peter-Katalinic;Natasha Zachara

  • Recombinant MUC1 Probe Authentically Reflects Cell-specific O-Glycosylation Profiles of Endogenous Breast Cancer Mucin HIGH DENSITY AND PREVALENT CORE 2-BASED GLYCOSYLATION

    Stefan Müller;Franz-Georg Hanisch

  • Localization of O-Glycosylation Sites on Glycopeptide Fragments from Lactation-associated MUC1 ALL PUTATIVE SITES WITHIN THE TANDEM REPEAT ARE GLYCOSYLATION TARGETS IN VIVO

    Stefan Müller;Steffen Goletz;Nicolle Packer;Andrew Gooley

  • Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase–expressing dendritic cells form suppurative granulomas following Listeria monocytogenes infection

    Alexey Popov;Zeinab Abdullah;Claudia Wickenhauser;Tomo Saric

  • Secretome profiling of primary human skeletal muscle cells

    Sonja Hartwig;Silja Raschke;Birgit Knebel;Mika Scheler

  • MINI REVIEW MUC1: the polymorphic appearance of a human mucin

    Franz-Georg Hanisch;Stefan Müller

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Baldus
Stephan Baldus University of Cologne
Stefan Müller
Stefan Müller Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Uwe Karsten
Uwe Karsten Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Jasna Peter-Katalinić
Jasna Peter-Katalinić University of Münster
Heinz Egge
Heinz Egge University of Bonn
Hans Paulsen
Hans Paulsen Universität Hamburg
Olivera J. Finn
Olivera J. Finn University of Pittsburgh
Benedikt Schoser
Benedikt Schoser Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Joerg Hacker
Joerg Hacker University of Würzburg
Grant S. Hansman
Grant S. Hansman Griffith University

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