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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

Günter Blobel was affiliated with Rockefeller University in the United States. Their research focused primarily on fields within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a specialization in Molecular Biology. The scientist contributed to several topics related to RNA and cellular function, including:

  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Nuclear Structure and Function

Their recent publications included the following:

  • Structure of the pre-mRNA leakage 39-kDa protein reveals a single domain of integrated zf-C3HC and Rsm1 modules, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Structure of the pre-mRNA leakage 39-kDa protein reveals a single domain of integrated zf-C3HC and Rsm1 modules, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Günter Blobel frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including:

  • Hideharu Hashimoto
  • Daniel H. Ramirez
  • Ophélie Lautier
  • Natalie Pawlak
  • Benoı̂t Palancade

Their work was commonly published in venues such as:

  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Throughout their career, Günter Blobel received multiple recognitions, including:

  • Nobel Prize in 1999 for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell
  • Member of the Academia Europaea in 1992
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1983

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

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

    Gunter Blobel;Van R. Potter

  • INTRACELLULAR PROTEIN TOPOGENESIS

    Günter Blobel

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

    W J Chirico;M G Waters;G Blobel

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

    Günter Blobel;Bernhard Dobberstein

  • The nuclear envelope lamina is reversibly depolymerized during mitosis

    Larry Gerace;Günter Blobel

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

    Michael Rexach;Günter Blobel

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Peter Walter;Günter Blobel

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

    Mary Shannon Moore;Günter Blobel

  • Preparation of microsomal membranes for cotranslational protein translocation

    Peter Walter;Günter Blobel

  • Protein translocation across the endoplasmic reticulum

    Peter Walter;Reid Gilmore;Günter Blobel

  • Identification and characterization of a nuclear pore complex protein

    Laura I. Davis;Günter Blobel

  • 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

  • Gene gating: a hypothesis

    Gunter Blobel

  • A protein-conducting channel in the endoplasmic reticulum.

    Sanford M. Simon;Giinter Blobel

  • 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

  • Intracellular protein topogenesis.

    G Blobel;P Walter;R Gilmore

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Walter
Peter Walter University of California, San Francisco
Keith E. Mostov
Keith E. Mostov University of California, San Francisco
Roland Beckmann
Roland Beckmann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Joachim Frank
Joachim Frank Columbia University
Henry G. Kunkel
Henry G. Kunkel Rockefeller University
Reid Gilmore
Reid Gilmore University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
David J. Anderson
David J. Anderson California Institute of Technology
Michael P. Rout
Michael P. Rout Rockefeller University
Nam-Hai Chua
Nam-Hai Chua National University of Singapore
Christian M. T. Spahn
Christian M. T. Spahn Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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