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Rolf Hilgenfeld

Rolf Hilgenfeld

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Biology and Biochemistry

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74
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27257
World Ranking
5477
National Ranking
396

Overview

Rolf Hilgenfeld is affiliated with the University of Lübeck in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Computer Science, with a notable focus on Infectious Diseases and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The core topics in their work include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Synthesis and Biological Activity
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Viral Infections and Immunology Research
  • RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms
  • SARS-CoV-2 Detection and Testing

Hilgenfeld's research has been published in several venues, with a concentration in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Science
  • Scientific Reports

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • Linlin Zhang
  • Xinyuanyuan Sun
  • Johan Neyts
  • Dirk Jochmans
  • Wioletta Rut

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Hilgenfeld include:

  • Crystal structure of SARS-CoV-2 main protease provides a basis for design of improved α-ketoamide inhibitors, 2020, Science
  • Therapeutic strategies for COVID-19: progress and lessons learned, 2023, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
  • α-Ketoamides as Broad-Spectrum Inhibitors of Coronavirus and Enterovirus Replication: Structure-Based Design, Synthesis, and Activity Assessment, 2020, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • X-ray screening identifies active site and allosteric inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 main protease, 2021, Science
  • SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitors and activity-based probes for patient-sample imaging, 2020, Nature Chemical Biology

Best Publications

  • Crystal structure of SARS-CoV-2 main protease provides a basis for design of improved α-ketoamide inhibitors

    Linlin Zhang;Daizong Lin;Xinyuanyuan Sun;Ute Curth

  • Coronavirus Main Proteinase (3CLpro) Structure: Basis for Design of Anti-SARS Drugs

    Kanchan Anand;John Ziebuhr;Parvesh Wadhwani;Jeroen R. Mesters

  • The crystal structures of severe acute respiratory syndrome virus main protease and its complex with an inhibitor

    Haitao Yang;Maojun Yang;Yi Ding;Yiwei Liu

  • C-h⋯π-interactions in proteins

    Maria Brandl;Manfred S. Weiss;Andreas Jabs;Jürgen Sühnel

  • Design of Wide-Spectrum Inhibitors Targeting Coronavirus Main Proteases

    Haitao Yang;Weiqing Xie;Xiaoyu Xue;Xiaoyu Xue;Kailin Yang;Kailin Yang

  • Nsp3 of coronaviruses: Structures and functions of a large multi-domain protein

    Jian Lei;Yuri Kusov;Rolf Hilgenfeld

  • Crystal structure of active elongation factor Tu reveals major domain rearrangements

    Harald Berchtold;Ludmila Reshetnikova;Ludmila Reshetnikova;Christian O. A. Reiser;Norbert K. Schirmer

  • From SARS to MERS: crystallographic studies on coronaviral proteases enable antiviral drug design

    Rolf Hilgenfeld

  • Structure of coronavirus main proteinase reveals combination of a chymotrypsin fold with an extra alpha-helical domain.

    Kanchan Anand;Gottfried J. Palm;Jeroen R. Mesters;Stuart G. Siddell

  • α-Ketoamides as Broad-Spectrum Inhibitors of Coronavirus and Enterovirus Replication: Structure-Based Design, Synthesis, and Activity Assessment

    Linlin Zhang;Daizong Lin;Yuri Kusov;Yong Nian

  • The SARS-Coronavirus-Host Interactome: Identification of Cyclophilins as Target for Pan-Coronavirus Inhibitors

    Susanne Pfefferle;Julia Schöpf;Manfred Kögl;Caroline C. Friedel;Caroline C. Friedel

  • Non-proline cis peptide bonds in proteins

    Andreas Jabs;Manfred S Weiss;Rolf Hilgenfeld

  • Accessory proteins of SARS-CoV and other coronaviruses

    Ding Xiang Liu;To Sing Fung;Kelvin Kian Long Chong;Aditi Shukla

  • Structure and functionality in flavivirus NS-proteins: Perspectives for drug design

    Michela Bollati;Karin Alvarez;René Assenberg;Cécile Baronti

  • From SARS to MERS: 10 years of research on highly pathogenic human coronaviruses.

    Rolf Hilgenfeld;Malik Peiris

  • Utility of homology models in the drug discovery process.

    Alexander Hillisch;Luis Felipe Pineda;Rolf Hilgenfeld

  • Crystal structure of Zika virus NS2B-NS3 protease in complex with a boronate inhibitor.

    Jian Lei;Guido Hansen;Christoph Nitsche;Christian D. Klein

  • Conformational Antagonism between Opposing Active Sites in a Bifunctional RelA/SpoT Homolog Modulates (p)ppGpp Metabolism during the Stringent Response

    Tanis Hogg;Undine Mechold;Horst Malke;Mike Cashel

  • Structure of glutamate carboxypeptidase II, a drug target in neuronal damage and prostate cancer.

    Jeroen R Mesters;Cyril Barinka;Weixing Li;Takashi Tsukamoto

  • X-ray screening identifies active site and allosteric inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 main protease.

    Sebastian Günther;Patrick Y. A. Reinke;Yaiza Fernández-García;Julia Lieske

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Betzel
Christian Betzel Universität Hamburg
Henry N. Chapman
Henry N. Chapman Universität Hamburg
Matthias Rarey
Matthias Rarey Universität Hamburg
Dušan Turk
Dušan Turk Jožef Stefan Institute
Johan Neyts
Johan Neyts Rega Institute for Medical Research
Hualiang Jiang
Hualiang Jiang Chinese Academy of Sciences
John Ziebuhr
John Ziebuhr University of Giessen
Bruno Coutard
Bruno Coutard Aix-Marseille University
Zihe Rao
Zihe Rao Tsinghua University
Bruno Canard
Bruno Canard Aix-Marseille University

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