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Norbert Sewald

Norbert Sewald

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Chemistry

D-Index
54
Citations
12644
World Ranking
12487
National Ranking
916

Overview

Norbert Sewald is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany and has an extensive research portfolio spanning multiple fields within the biological and chemical sciences. Their work primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The scientist's subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Biochemistry.

The main topics of their research encompass:

  • Natural product bioactivities and synthesis
  • Phytochemistry and Biological Activities
  • Traditional and Medicinal Uses of Annonaceae
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Phytochemical compounds biological activities
  • Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity

Norbert Sewald has published frequently in the following scientific venues:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Natural Product Research
  • Phytochemistry Letters
  • Molecules
  • Biochemical Systematics and Ecology

Recent representative papers include:

  • "Meleagrin from marine fungus Emericella dentata Nq45: crystal structure and diverse biological activity studies" (2020), published in Natural Product Research
  • "Isolation, Characterization and Chemical Synthesis of Large Spectrum Antimicrobial Cyclic Dipeptide (l-leu-l-pro) from Streptomyces misionensis V16R3Y1 Bacteria Extracts. A Novel 1H NMR Metabolomic Approach" (2020), published in Antibiotics
  • "Recent Advances in Synthetic Application and Engineering of Halogenases" (2020), published in ChemCatChem
  • "Cytotoxicity of the methanol extracts and compounds of Brucea antidysenterica (Simaroubaceae) towards multifactorial drug-resistant human cancer cell lines" (2023), published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
  • "Bio-guided isolation of anti-leishmanial natural products from Diospyros gracilescens L. (Ebenaceae)" (2021), published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies

Their frequent co-authors comprise:

  • Bruno Ndjakou Lenta
  • Marcel Frese
  • Hans-Georg Stammler
  • Fabrice Fekam Boyom
  • Siméon F. Kouam

Best Publications

  • Peptides - Chemistry and Biology

    Norbert Sewald;Hans-Dieter Jakubke

  • Peptides: Chemistry and Biology: Sewald: Peptides E-BK

    Norbert Sewald;Hans-Dieter Jakubke

  • Molecular Mechanisms and Kinetics between DNA and DNA Binding Ligands

    Andy Sischka;Katja Toensing;Rainer Eckel;Sven David Wilking

  • Distinct Roles of Secreted HtrA Proteases from Gram-negative Pathogens in Cleaving the Junctional Protein and Tumor Suppressor E-cadherin

    Benjamin Hoy;Tim Geppert;Manja Boehm;Felix Reisen

  • Basic conformers in beta-peptides.

    Kerstin Möhle;Robert Günther;Michael Thormann;Norbert Sewald

  • Enzymatic halogenation of tryptophan on a gram scale.

    Marcel Frese;Norbert Sewald

  • Enzymatic Halogenation: A Timely Strategy for Regioselective C-H Activation.

    Christian Schnepel;Norbert Sewald

  • Synthetic routes towards enantiomerically pure beta-amino acids.

    Norbert Sewald

  • First Synthesis of a β2-Homoamino Acid by Enantioselective Catalysis

    Audrius Rimkus;Norbert Sewald

  • Are β-Amino Acids γ-Turn Mimetics? Exploring A New Design Principle for Bioactive Cyclopeptides

    Frank Schumann;Annett Müller;Mario Koksch;Gerhard Müller

  • Identification of binding mechanisms in single molecule-DNA complexes.

    Rainer Eckel;Robert Ros;Alexandra Ros;Sven David Wilking

  • Physicochemical and biological characterization of chitosan-microRNA nanocomplexes for gene delivery to MCF-7 breast cancer cells

    B. Santos-Carballal;L. J. Aaldering;M. Ritzefeld;S. Pereira

  • A small fibronectin-mimicking protein from bacteria induces cell spreading and focal adhesion formation

    Nicole Tegtmeyer;Roland Hartig;Robin M. Delahay;Manfred Rohde

  • Structure Elucidation of a Plant Metabolite of 4-Desoxynivalenol

    Norbert Sewald;Johann Lepschy von Gleissenthall;Manfred Schuster;Gerhard Müller

  • An improved method for the solution cyclization of peptides under pseudo-high dilution conditions.

    Miroslav Malesevic;Ulf Strijowski;Dirk Bächle;Norbert Sewald

  • Quantitative Efficacy Classification of Ice Recrystallization Inhibition Agents

    Carsten Budke;Axel Dreyer;Jasmin Jaeger;Kerstin Gimpel

  • Enantioselective copper(I) catalyzed 1,4-addition of diethylzinc to nitroolefins

    Norbert Sewald;Volkmar Wendisch

  • "Clicktophycin-52": a bioactive cryptophycin-52 triazole analogue.

    Markus Nahrwold;Tobias Bogner;Stefan Eissler;Spart Verma

  • Ice Recrystallization Kinetics in the Presence of Synthetic Antifreeze Glycoprotein Analogues Using the Framework of LSW Theory

    Carsten Budke;Carolin Heggemann;M. Koch;Norbert Sewald

  • Proteolytically stable peptides by incorporation of α‐Tfm amino acids

    Beate Koksch;Norbert Sewald;Hans-Jörg Hofmann;Klaus Burger

  • Leishmanicidal and cholinesterase inhibiting activities of phenolic compounds from Allanblackia monticola and Symphonia globulifera.

    Bruno Ndjakou Lenta;Catherine Vonthron-Sénécheau;Bernard Weniger;Krishna Prasad Devkota

  • Molecular systems biology

    Norbert Sewald;Alfred Pühler

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Georg Stammler
Hans-Georg Stammler Bielefeld University
Beate Neumann
Beate Neumann Bielefeld University
Steffen Backert
Steffen Backert University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Volker F. Wendisch
Volker F. Wendisch Bielefeld University
Mathias O. Senge
Mathias O. Senge Trinity College Dublin
Anke Becker
Anke Becker Philipp University of Marburg
Beate Koksch
Beate Koksch Freie Universität Berlin
Katharina Gaus
Katharina Gaus University of New South Wales
Martin Oestreich
Martin Oestreich Technical University of Berlin
Thomas Koop
Thomas Koop Bielefeld University

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