Günter Blobel

Günter Blobel publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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Günter Blobel D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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Research.com Recognitions

• 2000 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
• 1999 - Nobel Prize for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell
• 1993 - Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Lasker Foundation
• 1992 - Member of Academia Europaea
• 1986 - E.B. Wilson Medal, American Society for Cell Biology
• 1983 - Richard Lounsbery Award, National Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Sciences for his work in uncovering the molecular interactions that control the traffic of newly synthesized proteins in eukaryotic cells,,for his incisive experiments and
• 1983 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1982 - Canada Gairdner International Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Transfer of proteins across membranes. I. Presence of proteolytically processed and unprocessed nascent immunoglobulin light chains on membrane-bound ribosomes of murine myeloma.

  Günter Blobel;Bernhard Dobberstein

  4266
  Citations

• Nuclei from Rat Liver: Isolation Method That Combines Purity with High Yield

  Gunter Blobel;Van R. Potter

  2331
  Citations

• INTRACELLULAR PROTEIN TOPOGENESIS

  Günter Blobel

  1945
  Citations

• 70K heat shock related proteins stimulate protein translocation into microsomes

  W J Chirico;M G Waters;G Blobel

  1784
  Citations

• TRANSFER OF PROTEINS ACROSS MEMBRANES II. Reconstitution of Functional Rough Microsomes from Heterologous Components

  Günter Blobel;Bernhard Dobberstein

  1561
  Citations

• The nuclear envelope lamina is reversibly depolymerized during mitosis

  Larry Gerace;Günter Blobel

  1293
  Citations

• Protein import into nuclei: association and dissociation reactions involving transport substrate, transport factors, and nucleoporins

  Michael Rexach;Günter Blobel

  1090
  Citations

• Translocation of proteins across the endoplasmic reticulum III. Signal recognition protein (SRP) causes signal sequence-dependent and site-specific arrest of chain elongation that is released by microsomal membranes.

  Peter Walter;Gonter Blobel

  1084
  Citations

• Crystallographic analysis of the recognition of a nuclear localization signal by the nuclear import factor karyopherin alpha.

  Elena Conti;Marc Uy;Marc Uy;Lore Leighton;Lore Leighton;Günter Blobel;Günter Blobel

  1013
  Citations

• cDNA sequencing of nuclear lamins A and C reveals primary and secondary structural homology to intermediate filament proteins

  Daniel Z. Fisher;Nilabh Chaudhary;Gunter Blobel

  986
  Citations

• Signal recognition particle contains a 7S RNA essential for protein translocation across the endoplasmic reticulum.

  Peter Walter;Günter Blobel

  984
  Citations

• The GTP-binding protein Ran/TC4 is required for protein import into the nucleus.

  Mary Shannon Moore;Günter Blobel

  979
  Citations

• Preparation of microsomal membranes for cotranslational protein translocation

  Peter Walter;Günter Blobel

  948
  Citations

• Protein translocation across the endoplasmic reticulum

  Peter Walter;Reid Gilmore;Günter Blobel

  907
  Citations

• Identification and characterization of a nuclear pore complex protein

  Laura I. Davis;Günter Blobel

  839
  Citations

• Translocation of proteins across the endoplasmic reticulum. I. Signal recognition protein (SRP) binds to in-vitro-assembled polysomes synthesizing secretory protein.

  P Walter;I Ibrahimi;G Blobel

  827
  Citations

• Gene gating: a hypothesis

  Gunter Blobel

  815
  Citations

• A protein-conducting channel in the endoplasmic reticulum.

  Sanford M. Simon;Giinter Blobel

  807
  Citations

• The ubiquitin-like protein Smt3p is activated for conjugation to other proteins by an Aos1p/Uba2p heterodimer

  Erica S. Johnson;Ingrid Schwienhorst;R. Jürgen Dohmen;Günter Blobel

  778
  Citations

• Intracellular protein topogenesis.

  G Blobel;P Walter;R Gilmore

  6
  Citations