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Marina V. Rodnina

Marina V. Rodnina

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
96
Citations
26540
World Ranking
1859
National Ranking
125

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2008 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Biochemistry and Biophysics
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Marina V. Rodnina is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has made contributions in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology. Their research encompasses several key areas including RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, RNA modifications and cancer, RNA research and splicing, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, peptidase inhibition and analysis, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, and viral infections and immunology research.

Their publication record includes papers in prominent venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Biophysical Journal, Nucleic Acids Research, and The EMBO Journal.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by them include:

  • "Cotranslational Folding of Proteins on the Ribosome," 2020, Biomolecules
  • "Translational Control by Ribosome Pausing in Bacteria: How a Non-uniform Pace of Translation Affects Protein Production and Folding," 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • "Sophisticated natural products as antibiotics," 2024, Nature
  • "Translation error clusters induced by aminoglycoside antibiotics," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Structural mechanism of GTPase-powered ribosome-tRNA movement," 2021, Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators in their research include Ekaterina Samatova, Frank Peske, Valentyn Petrychenko, Bee-Zen Peng, and N. Fischer.

The researcher has received several distinctions including:

  • Member of Academia Europaea (2020)
  • German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften (2008), recognized in Biochemistry and Biophysics
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Best Publications

  • Hydrolysis of GTP by elongation factor G drives tRNA movement on the ribosome

    Marina V. Rodnina;Andreas Savelsbergh;Vladimir I. Katunin;Wolfgang Wintermeyer

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

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

  • Structural basis for the inhibition of the eukaryotic ribosome

    Nicolas Garreau de Loubresse;Irina Prokhorova;Wolf Holtkamp;Marina V. Rodnina

  • Complete kinetic mechanism of elongation factor Tu-dependent binding of aminoacyl-tRNA to the A site of the E. coli ribosome.

    Tillmann Pape;Wolfgang Wintermeyer;Marina V. Rodnina

  • Structural Basis for the Function of the Ribosomal L7/12 Stalk in Factor Binding and GTPase Activation

    Mihaela Diaconu;Ute Kothe;Frank Schlünzen;Niels Fischer

  • Ribosome dynamics and tRNA movement by time-resolved electron cryomicroscopy

    Niels Fischer;Andrey L. Konevega;Wolfgang Wintermeyer;Marina V. Rodnina

  • Synonymous Codons Direct Cotranslational Folding toward Different Protein Conformations

    Florian Buhr;Sujata Jha;Michael Thommen;Joerg Mittelstaet

  • The ribosome as an entropy trap

    Annette Sievers;Malte Beringer;Marina V. Rodnina;Richard Wolfenden

  • Visualization of elongation factor Tu on the Escherichia coli ribosome

    H. Stark;M. V. Rodnina;J. Rinke-Appel;R. Brimacombe

  • Fidelity of Aminoacyl-tRNA Selection on the Ribosome: Kinetic and Structural Mechanisms

    Marina V. Rodnina;Wolfgang Wintermeyer

  • Kinetic determinants of high-fidelity tRNA discrimination on the ribosome.

    Kirill B. Gromadski;Marina V. Rodnina

  • Induced fit in initial selection and proofreading of aminoacyl‐tRNA on the ribosome

    Tillmann Pape;Wolfgang Wintermeyer;Marina Rodnina

  • Structure of the E. coli ribosome–EF-Tu complex at <3 Å resolution by Cs-corrected cryo-EM.

    Niels Fischer;Piotr Neumann;Andrey L. Konevega;Lars V. Bock

  • Large-Scale Movement of Elongation Factor G and Extensive Conformational Change of the Ribosome during Translocation

    Holger Stark;Marina V Rodnina;Hans-Joachim Wieden;Marin van Heel

  • An elongation factor G-induced ribosome rearrangement precedes tRNA-mRNA translocation.

    Andreas Savelsbergh;Vladimir I. Katunin;Dagmar Mohr;Frank Peske

  • Arrangement of tRNAs in pre- and posttranslocational ribosomes revealed by electron cryomicroscopy.

    Holger Stark;Elena V Orlova;Elena V Orlova;Jutta Rinke-Appel;Nicole Jünke

  • Conformational switch in the decoding region of 16S rRNA during aminoacyl-tRNA selection on the ribosome

    Tillmann Pape;Wolfgang Wintermeyer;Marina V. Rodnina

  • How ribosomes make peptide bonds

    Marina V. Rodnina;Malte Beringer;Wolfgang Wintermeyer

  • GTP consumption of elongation factor Tu during translation of heteropolymeric mRNAs

    Marina V. Rodnina;Wolfgang Wintermeyer

  • Translation in Prokaryotes

    Marina V. Rodnina

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Wintermeyer
Wolfgang Wintermeyer Max Planck Society
Holger Stark
Holger Stark Max Planck Society
Daniel N. Wilson
Daniel N. Wilson Universität Hamburg
Helmut Grubmüller
Helmut Grubmüller Max Planck Society
Henning Urlaub
Henning Urlaub University of Göttingen
Claudio O. Gualerzi
Claudio O. Gualerzi University of Camerino
Markus C. Wahl
Markus C. Wahl Freie Universität Berlin
Anton A. Komar
Anton A. Komar Cleveland State University
John F. Atkins
John F. Atkins University College Cork
Reinhard Lipowsky
Reinhard Lipowsky Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces

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