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Roland Beckmann is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Oncology, Ecology, and Infectious Diseases as subfields.

The scientist's research is concentrated on several major topics, 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 ATP synthase and ATPases research.

Roland Beckmann has contributed to numerous publications in a variety of high-profile scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Molecular Cell, The EMBO Journal, and Nucleic Acids Research.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Beckmann are:

  • Structural basis for translational shutdown and immune evasion by the Nsp1 protein of SARS-CoV-2, 2020, Science
  • The Ccr4-Not complex monitors the translating ribosome for codon optimality, 2020, Science
  • EDF1 coordinates cellular responses to ribosome collisions, 2020, eLife
  • RQT complex dissociates ribosomes collided on endogenous RQC substrate SDD1, 2020, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
  • Structure of Gcn1 bound to stalled and colliding 80S ribosomes, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist has collaborated extensively with a group of frequent co-authors, including Otto Berninghausen, Jingdong Cheng, Thomas Becker, Robert Buschauer, and Ed Hurt.

Best Publications

  • Structural basis for translational shutdown and immune evasion by the Nsp1 protein of SARS-CoV-2.

    Matthias Thoms;Robert Buschauer;Michael Ameismeier;Lennart Koepke

  • Structure of the 80S Ribosome from Saccharomyces cerevisiae—tRNA-Ribosome and Subunit-Subunit Interactions

    Christian M.T. Spahn;Roland Beckmann;Roland Beckmann;Narayanan Eswar;Pawel A. Penczek

  • Structures of the human and Drosophila 80S ribosome

    Andreas M. Anger;Jean Paul Armache;Otto Berninghausen;Michael Habeck

  • A new system for naming ribosomal proteins

    Nenad Ban;Roland Beckmann;Jamie H D Cate;Jonathan D Dinman

  • Architecture of the protein-conducting channel associated with the translating 80S ribosome.

    Roland Beckmann;Christian M.T. Spahn;Christian M.T. Spahn;Narayanan Eswar;Jürgen Helmers

  • Structure of the signal recognition particle interacting with the elongation-arrested ribosome

    Mario Halic;Thomas Becker;Martin R. Pool;Christian M. T. Spahn

  • Domain movements of elongation factor eEF2 and the eukaryotic 80S ribosome facilitate tRNA translocation

    Christian M T Spahn;Christian M T Spahn;Christian M T Spahn;Maria G Gomez-Lorenzo;Maria G Gomez-Lorenzo;Robert A Grassucci;Robert A Grassucci;Rene Jørgensen

  • Alignment of Conduits for the Nascent Polypeptide Chain in the Ribosome-Sec61 Complex

    Roland Beckmann;Doryen Bubeck;Doryen Bubeck;Doryen Bubeck;Robert Grassucci;Robert Grassucci;Robert Grassucci;Pawel Penczek;Pawel Penczek;Pawel Penczek

  • A band 3-based macrocomplex of integral and peripheral proteins in the RBC membrane

    Lesley J Bruce;Roland Beckmann;M Leticia Ribeiro;Luanne L Peters

  • Structure of Monomeric Yeast and Mammalian Sec61 Complexes Interacting with the Translating Ribosome

    Thomas Becker;Shashi Bhushan;Alexander Jarasch;Jean Paul Armache

  • Cryo-EM structure of the ribosome–SecYE complex in the membrane environment

    Jens Frauenfeld;James Gumbart;Eli O van der Sluis;Eli O van der Sluis;Soledad Funes

  • Structural insight into nascent polypeptide chain-mediated translational stalling.

    Birgit Seidelt;C. Axel Innis;Daniel N. Wilson;Marco Gartmann

  • Collided ribosomes form a unique structural interface to induce Hel2-driven quality control pathways.

    Ken Ikeuchi;Petr Tesina;Yoshitaka Matsuo;Takato Sugiyama

  • Ubiquitination of stalled ribosome triggers ribosome-associated quality control

    Yoshitaka Matsuo;Ken Ikeuchi;Yasushi Saeki;Shintaro Iwasaki

  • Functional architecture of RNA polymerase I.

    Claus-D. Kuhn;Sebastian R. Geiger;Sonja Baumli;Marco Gartmann

  • Structural basis of highly conserved ribosome recycling in eukaryotes and archaea

    Thomas Becker;Sibylle Franckenberg;Stephan Wickles;Christopher J. Shoemaker

  • Cotranslational Protein Folding inside the Ribosome Exit Tunnel

    Ola B. Nilsson;Rickard Hedman;Jacopo Marino;Stephan Wickles

  • Cryo-EM structure and rRNA model of a translating eukaryotic 80S ribosome at 5.5-A resolution.

    Jean Paul Armache;Alexander Jarasch;Andreas M. Anger;Elizabeth Villa

  • Structure and Subunit Topology of the INO80 Chromatin Remodeler and Its Nucleosome Complex

    Alessandro Tosi;Caroline Haas;Franz Herzog;Franz Herzog;Andrea Gilmozzi

  • [alpha]-Helical nascent polypeptide chains visualized within distinct regions of the ribosomal exit tunnel

    Shashi Bhushan;Marco Gartmann;Mario Halic;Mario Halic;Jean Paul Armache

Frequent Co-Authors

Otto Berninghausen
Otto Berninghausen Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Daniel N. Wilson
Daniel N. Wilson Universität Hamburg
Thorsten Mielke
Thorsten Mielke Max Planck Society
Thomas Becker
Thomas Becker Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Gunnar von Heijne
Gunnar von Heijne Stockholm University
Ed Hurt
Ed Hurt Heidelberg University
Joachim Frank
Joachim Frank Columbia University
Christian M. T. Spahn
Christian M. T. Spahn Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Klaus Schulten
Klaus Schulten University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Irmgard Sinning
Irmgard Sinning Heidelberg University

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