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2024

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
109
Citations
44464
World Ranking
389
National Ranking
35

Henning Urlaub publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Henning Urlaub sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 487 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Henning Urlaub D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Henning Urlaub sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 109 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Henning Urlaub is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany and conducts research primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work encompasses a range of specialized subfields including Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Spectroscopy, Genetics, and Immunology.

Their research focuses on major topics such as RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, RNA research and splicing, RNA modifications and cancer, genomics and chromatin dynamics, mitochondrial function and pathology, advanced proteomics techniques and applications, as well as ubiquitin and proteasome pathways.

Henning Urlaub has contributed to several notable publications. Recent papers include:

  • Quantitative Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics: An Overview, 2021, Methods in Molecular Biology
  • Mucus sialylation determines intestinal host-commensal homeostasis, 2022, Cell
  • Structure of complete Pol II-DSIF-PAF-SPT6 transcription complex reveals RTF1 allosteric activation, 2020, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
  • Structure of the transcription coactivator SAGA, 2020, Nature
  • Structure of SWI/SNF chromatin remodeller RSC bound to a nucleosome, 2020, Nature

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Christof Lenz
  • Olexandr Dybkov
  • Luisa M. Welp
  • Kuan-Ting Pan
  • Ivan Silbern

Henning Urlaub's work is regularly published in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Nature
  • Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Best Publications

  • Molecular Anatomy of a Trafficking Organelle

    Shigeo Takamori;Matthew Holt;Katinka Stenius;Edward A. Lemke

  • Single-stranded antisense siRNAs guide target RNA cleavage in RNAi

    Javier Martinez;Agnieszka Patkaniowska;Henning Urlaub;Reinhard Lührmann

  • Composition of isolated synaptic boutons reveals the amounts of vesicle trafficking proteins

    Benjamin G. Wilhelm;Sunit Mandad;Sven Truckenbrodt;Katharina Kröhnert

  • Identification of Novel Argonaute-Associated Proteins

    Gunter Meister;Markus Landthaler;Lasse Peters;Po Yu Chen

  • Tau stabilizes microtubules by binding at the interface between tubulin heterodimers

    Harindranath Kadavath;Romina V. Hofele;Jacek Biernat;Satish Kumar

  • GraFix: sample preparation for single-particle electron cryomicroscopy

    Berthold Kastner;Niels Fischer;Monika Mariola Golas;Bjoern Sander

  • Human METTL16 is a N6‐methyladenosine (m6A) methyltransferase that targets pre‐mRNAs and various non‐coding RNAs

    Ahmed S Warda;Jens Kretschmer;Philipp Hackert;Christof Lenz;Christof Lenz

  • EF-P is essential for rapid synthesis of proteins containing consecutive proline residues

    Lili K. Doerfel;Ingo Wohlgemuth;Christina Kothe;Frank Peske

  • Isolation of an active step I spliceosome and composition of its RNP core.

    Sergey Bessonov;Maria Anokhina;Cindy L. Will;Henning Urlaub

  • Importin 8 is a gene silencing factor that targets argonaute proteins to distinct mRNAs.

    Lasse Weinmann;Julia Höck;Tomi Ivacevic;Thomas Ohrt

  • Anle138b: a novel oligomer modulator for disease-modifying therapy of neurodegenerative diseases such as prion and Parkinson’s disease

    Jens Wagner;Sergey Ryazanov;Sergey Ryazanov;Andrei Leonov;Andrei Leonov;Johannes Levin

  • Small Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein Remodeling During Catalytic Activation of the Spliceosome

    Evgeny M. Makarov;Olga V. Makarova;Henning Urlaub;Marc Gentzel

  • Proteomic and functional analysis of Argonaute-containing mRNA-protein complexes in human cells.

    Julia Höck;Lasse Weinmann;Christine Ender;Sabine Rüdel

  • Protein composition of human prespliceosomes isolated by a tobramycin affinity-selection method.

    Klaus Hartmuth;Henning Urlaub;Hans-Peter Vornlocher;Cindy L. Will

  • Protein Composition and Electron Microscopy Structure of Affinity-Purified Human Spliceosomal B Complexes Isolated under Physiological Conditions

    Jochen Deckert;Klaus Hartmuth;Daniel Boehringer;Nastaran Behzadnia

  • Structure of activated transcription complex Pol II-DSIF-PAF-SPT6.

    Seychelle M. Vos;Lucas Farnung;Marc Boehning;Christoph Wigge

  • The Evolutionarily Conserved Core Design of the Catalytic Activation Step of the Yeast Spliceosome

    Patrizia Fabrizio;Julia Dannenberg;Prakash Dube;Berthold Kastner

  • Characterization of novel SF3b and 17S U2 snRNP proteins, including a human Prp5p homologue and an SF3b DEAD-box protein.

    Cindy L. Will;Henning Urlaub;Tilmann Achsel;Marc Gentzel

  • A Compendium of RNA-Binding Proteins that Regulate MicroRNA Biogenesis

    Thomas Treiber;Nora Treiber;Uwe Plessmann;Simone Harlander

  • Structure of paused transcription complex Pol II–DSIF–NELF.

    Seychelle M. Vos;Lucas Farnung;Henning Urlaub;Henning Urlaub;Patrick Cramer

Frequent Co-Authors

Reinhard Lührmann
Reinhard Lührmann Max Planck Society
Hubert Serve
Hubert Serve Goethe University Frankfurt
Cindy L. Will
Cindy L. Will Max Planck Society
Peter Rehling
Peter Rehling University of Göttingen
Markus Zweckstetter
Markus Zweckstetter German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Ralf Ficner
Ralf Ficner University of Göttingen
Holger Stark
Holger Stark Max Planck Society
Frauke Melchior
Frauke Melchior Heidelberg University
Patrick Cramer
Patrick Cramer Max Planck Society
Markus C. Wahl
Markus C. Wahl Freie Universität Berlin

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