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Michal Hocek is affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Molecular Biology as the dominant subfield. Other areas of study include Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Infectious Diseases, and Physiology.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, notably:

  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
  • HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Click Chemistry and Applications
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies

Recent published papers illustrate the scope and breadth of their research contributions, including:

  • Carborane- or Metallacarborane-Linked Nucleotides for Redox Labeling. Orthogonal Multipotential Coding of all Four DNA Bases for Electrochemical Analysis and Sequencing, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Solid-phase recombinase polymerase amplification using ferrocene-labelled dNTPs for electrochemical detection of single nucleotide polymorphisms, 2021, Biosensors and Bioelectronics
  • Enzymatic synthesis of hypermodified DNA polymers for sequence-specific display of four different hydrophobic groups, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Antiviral Activity of 7-Substituted 7-Deazapurine Ribonucleosides, Monophosphate Prodrugs, and Triphoshates against Emerging RNA Viruses, 2021, ACS Infectious Diseases
  • Thiophene-linked tetramethylbodipy-labeled nucleotide for viscosity-sensitive oligonucleotide probes of hybridization and protein-DNA interactions, 2020, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

They have collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Radek Pohl
  • Veronika Sýkorová
  • Lenka Poštová Slavětínská
  • Michal Tichý
  • Soňa Gurská

Throughout their career, Michal Hocek has published in multiple scientific venues with repeated contributions to:

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Best Publications

  • C-nucleosides: synthetic strategies and biological applications.

    Jan Štambaský;Michal Hocek;Pavel Kočovský

  • Synthesis and cytostatic activity of substituted 6-phenylpurine bases and nucleosides: application of the Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reactions of 6-chloropurine derivatives with phenylboronic acids.

    Michal Hocek;Antonín Holý;and Ivan Votruba;Hana Dvořáková

  • An Efficient Method for the Construction of Functionalized DNA Bearing Amino Acid Groups through Cross‐Coupling Reactions of Nucleoside Triphosphates Followed by Primer Extension or PCR

    Petr Čapek;Hana Cahová;Radek Pohl;Michal Hocek

  • Cross-coupling reactions of nucleoside triphosphates followed by polymerase incorporation. Construction and applications of base-functionalized nucleic acids.

    Michal Hocek;Miroslav Fojta

  • Aminophenyl- and nitrophenyl-labeled nucleoside triphosphates: synthesis, enzymatic incorporation, and electrochemical detection.

    Hana Cahová;Luděk Havran;Petra Brázdilová;Hana Pivoňková

  • Cytostatic 6-arylpurine nucleosides. 6. SAR in anti-HCV and cytostatic activity of extended series of 6-hetarylpurine ribonucleosides.

    Michal Hocek;Petr Naus;Radek Pohl;Ivan Votruba

  • Nucleobase modification as redox DNA labelling for electrochemical detection

    Michal Hocek;Miroslav Fojta

  • Synthesis of base-modified 2'-deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates and their use in enzymatic synthesis of modified DNA for applications in bioanalysis and chemical biology.

    Michal Hocek

  • Cross-coupling reactions of unprotected halopurine bases, nucleosides, nucleotides and nucleoside triphosphates with 4-boronophenylalanine in water. Synthesis of (purin-8-yl)- and (purin-6-yl)phenylalanines

    Petr Čapek;Radek Pohl;Michal Hocek

  • Ferrocenylethynyl derivatives of nucleoside triphosphates: synthesis, incorporation, electrochemistry, and bioanalytical applications.

    Petra Brázdilová;Petra Brázdilová;Milan Vrábel;Radek Pohl;Hana Pivoňková

  • Direct C-H arylation of purines: development of methodology and its use in regioselective synthesis of 2,6,8-trisubstituted purines.

    Igor Cerna;Radek Pohl;Blanka Klepetarová;Michal Hocek

  • Cytostatic 6-Arylpurine Nucleosides III. Synthesis and Structure-Activity Relationship Study in Cytostatic Activity of 6-Aryl-, 6-Hetaryl- and 6-Benzylpurine Ribonucleosides

    Michal Hocek;Antonín Holý;Ivan Votruba;Hana Dvořáková

  • Base‐Modified DNA Labeled by [Ru(bpy)3]2+ and [Os(bpy)3]2+ Complexes: Construction by Polymerase Incorporation of Modified Nucleoside Triphosphates, Electrochemical and Luminescent Properties, and Applications

    Milan Vrábel;Petra Horáková;Hana Pivoňková;Lubica Kalachova

  • A Rotational BODIPY Nucleotide: An Environment‐Sensitive Fluorescence‐Lifetime Probe for DNA Interactions and Applications in Live‐Cell Microscopy

    Dmytro Dziuba;Piotr Jurkiewicz;Marek Cebecauer;Martin Hof

  • Pyrrolo[2,3‐d]pyrimidine (7‐deazapurine) as a privileged scaffold in design of antitumor and antiviral nucleosides

    Pavla Perlíková;Michal Hocek;Michal Hocek

  • Direct Polymerase Synthesis of Reactive Aldehyde‐Functionalized DNA and Its Conjugation and Staining with Hydrazines

    Veronika Raindlová;Radek Pohl;Miloslav Šanda;Michal Hocek

  • Synthesis and Significant Cytostatic Activity of 7-Hetaryl-7-deazaadenosines

    Aurelie Bourderioux;Petr Nauš;Pavla Perlíková;Radek Pohl

  • Syntheses of Purines Bearing Carbon Substituents in Positions 2, 6 or 8 by Metal- or Organometal-Mediated C−C Bond-Forming Reactions

    Michal Hocek

  • Enzymatic Synthesis of Base-Functionalized Nucleic Acids for Sensing, Cross-linking, and Modulation of Protein–DNA Binding and Transcription

    Michal Hocek;Michal Hocek

  • 6-(Het)aryl-7-deazapurine ribonucleosides as novel potent cytostatic agents.

    Petr Naus;Radek Pohl;Ivan Votruba;Petr Dzubák

  • Synthesis and photophysical properties of biaryl-substituted nucleos(t)ides. Polymerase synthesis of DNA probes bearing solvatochromic and pH-sensitive dual fluorescent and 19F NMR labels.

    Jan Riedl;Radek Pohl;Lubomír Rulíšek;Michal Hocek

Frequent Co-Authors

Radek Pohl
Radek Pohl Czech Academy of Sciences
Miroslav Fojta
Miroslav Fojta Czech Academy of Sciences
Martin Kotora
Martin Kotora Charles University
Antonín Holý
Antonín Holý Czech Academy of Sciences
Radek Marek
Radek Marek Central European Institute of Technology
Ciara K. O'Sullivan
Ciara K. O'Sullivan Rovira i Virgili University
Martin Hof
Martin Hof Czech Academy of Sciences
Ivana Císařová
Ivana Císařová Charles University
Lubomír Rulíšek
Lubomír Rulíšek Czech Academy of Sciences
Jan Balzarini
Jan Balzarini KU Leuven

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