Gunter Blobel

Specialty: Cell Biology (Cell Biology)

Location: New York, United States

Tier: TITAN

H-Index: 128

Years Active: 0

Hospital Affiliations

• Rockefeller University - John D. Rockefeller Jr. Professor

Techniques Invented

• Signal hypothesis for protein targeting [Gold Standard]

Key Publications

1. "Transfer of proteins across membranes. I. Presence of proteolytically processed and unprocessed nascent immunoglobulin light chains on membrane-bound ribosomes of murine myeloma." - The Journal of Cell Biology (1975) [3006 citations]
2. "Nuclei from Rat Liver: Isolation Method That Combines Purity with High Yield" - Science (1966) [1672 citations]
3. "Intracellular protein topogenesis" - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1980) [1382 citations]
4. "70K heat shock related proteins stimulate protein translocation into microsomes" - Nature (1988) [1253 citations]
5. "Transfer of proteins across membranes. II. Reconstitution of functional rough microsomes from heterologous components." - The Journal of Cell Biology (1975) [1168 citations]
6. "The nuclear envelope lamina is reversibly depolymerized during mitosis" - Cell (1980) [961 citations]
7. "Protein translocation across the endoplasmic reticulum" - Cell (1984) [833 citations]
8. "Translocation of proteins across the endoplasmic reticulum III. Signal recognition protein (SRP) causes signal sequence-dependent and site-specific arrest of chain elongation that is released by microsomal membranes." - The Journal of Cell Biology (1981) [813 citations]
9. "Crystallographic Analysis of the Recognition of a Nuclear Localization Signal by the Nuclear Import Factor Karyopherin α" - Cell (1998) [779 citations]
10. "Signal recognition particle contains a 7S RNA essential for protein translocation across the endoplasmic reticulum" - Nature (1982) [769 citations]

Knowledge Graph Relationships

Gunter Blobel is a Cell Biology specialist affiliated with Rockefeller University. Invented techniques: Signal hypothesis for protein targeting. Authored 10 scholarly articles.