Birte Höcker

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
69 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Birte Höcker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Birte Höcker has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Molecular Biology, 28 papers in Materials Chemistry and 10 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Birte Höcker's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (31 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (26 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (21 papers). Birte Höcker is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (31 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (26 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (21 papers). Birte Höcker collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Birte Höcker's co-authors include Noelia Ferruz, Reinhard Sterner, Steffen Schmidt, S. Shanmugaratnam, Simone Eisenbeis, D. Alejandro Fernández‐Velasco, David Baker, Po‐Ssu Huang, Fabio Parmeggiani and Matthias Wilmanns and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Birte Höcker

68 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

ProtGPT2 is a deep unsupervised language model for protein design

2022 348 citations Noelia Ferruz, Steffen Schmidt et al. Nature Communications profile →
De novo design of a four-fold symmetric TIM-barrel protein with atomic-level accuracy

2015 188 citations Po‐Ssu Huang, Birte Höcker et al. Nature Chemical Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Birte Höcker Germany	28	2.0k	730	175	171	148	69	2.4k
Gustav Oberdorfer Austria	18	1.2k 0.6×	408 0.6×	184 1.1×	67 0.4×	83 0.6×	37	1.7k
Antonín Pavelka Czechia	10	1.9k 1.0×	386 0.5×	143 0.8×	113 0.7×	45 0.3×	15	2.6k
Asim K. Bera United States	21	1.3k 0.7×	244 0.3×	125 0.7×	76 0.4×	98 0.7×	66	1.8k
Saul Treviño United States	10	1.2k 0.6×	364 0.5×	95 0.5×	127 0.7×	111 0.8×	11	1.7k
Hideo Nakano Japan	28	1.8k 0.9×	223 0.3×	90 0.5×	298 1.7×	366 2.5×	174	2.6k
Jan Štourač Czechia	16	1.6k 0.8×	250 0.3×	111 0.6×	195 1.1×	43 0.3×	26	2.2k
Bret A. Shirley United States	11	1.4k 0.7×	563 0.8×	120 0.7×	116 0.7×	71 0.5×	11	1.9k
Harumi Fukada Japan	22	1.3k 0.7×	246 0.3×	94 0.5×	285 1.7×	219 1.5×	65	1.8k
Roberto A. Chica Canada	20	1.2k 0.6×	334 0.5×	124 0.7×	108 0.6×	69 0.5×	42	1.5k
Christopher R. Otey United States	12	1.5k 0.7×	241 0.3×	125 0.7×	134 0.8×	147 1.0×	15	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Birte Höcker

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20 of 20 papers shown

Herzig, Eva M., et al.. (2025). Degradation Behavior of Aliphatic–Aromatic Polyesters: from Microplastic-free Composting to Enzyme-Driven Recycling Possibility. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 7(7). 4596–4608. 2 indexed citations

Shanmugaratnam, S., et al.. (2024). Diversifying de novoTIM barrels by hallucination. Protein Science. 33(6). e5001–e5001. 2 indexed citations

Höcker, Birte, Peilong Lu, Anum Glasgow, et al.. (2023). How can the protein design community best support biologists who want to harness AI tools for protein structure prediction and design?. Cell Systems. 14(8). 629–632. 1 indexed citations

Höcker, Birte, et al.. (2022). ATLIGATOR: editing protein interactions with an atlas-based approach. Bioinformatics. 38(23). 5199–5205. 1 indexed citations

Pérez-García, Pablo, et al.. (2022). Investigation of the halophilic PET hydrolase PET6 from Vibrio gazogenes. Protein Science. 31(12). e4500–e4500. 17 indexed citations

Rhys, Guto G., Jessica A. Cross, William Dawson, et al.. (2022). De novo designed peptides for cellular delivery and subcellular localisation. Nature Chemical Biology. 18(9). 999–1004. 24 indexed citations

Ferruz, Noelia, Steffen Schmidt, & Birte Höcker. (2022). ProtGPT2 is a deep unsupervised language model for protein design. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4348–4348. 348 indexed citations breakdown →

Stiel, André C., Martina Kolb, S. Shanmugaratnam, et al.. (2021). A biosensor for the direct visualization of auxin. Nature. 592(7856). 768–772. 125 indexed citations

Ferruz, Noelia, et al.. (2021). Protlego: a Python package for the analysis and design of chimeric proteins. Bioinformatics. 37(19). 3182–3189. 14 indexed citations

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Höcker, Birte, et al.. (2021). A newly introduced salt bridge cluster improves structural and biophysical properties of de novoTIM barrels. Protein Science. 31(2). 513–527. 12 indexed citations

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Shanmugaratnam, S., et al.. (2021). A comprehensive binding study illustrates ligand recognition in the periplasmic binding protein PotF. Structure. 29(5). 433–443.e4. 11 indexed citations

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Höcker, Birte, et al.. (2013). Design of Chimeric Proteins by Combination of Subdomain-Sized Fragments. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 523. 389–405. 4 indexed citations

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Scheib, U., et al.. (2013). Change in protein-ligand specificity through binding pocket grafting. Journal of Structural Biology. 185(2). 186–192. 17 indexed citations

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Wiesner, Silke, et al.. (2009). Computational design of ligand binding is not a solved problem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(44). 18491–18496. 75 indexed citations

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Höcker, Birte, et al.. (2009). Establishing wild-type levels of catalytic activity on natural and artificial (βα) ₈ -barrel protein scaffolds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(10). 3704–3709. 59 indexed citations

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Bharat, Tanmay A. M., Simone Eisenbeis, Kornelius Zeth, & Birte Höcker. (2008). A βα-barrel built by the combination of fragments from different folds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(29). 9942–9947. 53 indexed citations

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Cuneo, M.J., et al.. (2007). Structure‐based design of robust glucose biosensors using a Thermotoga maritima periplasmic glucose‐binding protein. Protein Science. 16(10). 2240–2250. 36 indexed citations

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Sterner, Reinhard & Birte Höcker. (2005). Catalytic Versatility, Stability, and Evolution of the (βα) ₈ -Barrel Enzyme Fold. Chemical Reviews. 105(11). 4038–4055. 163 indexed citations

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Höcker, Birte, et al.. (2004). Mimicking enzyme evolution by generating new (βα) ₈ -barrels from (βα) ₄ -half-barrels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(47). 16448–16453. 89 indexed citations

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Höcker, Birte, Steffen Schmidt, & Reinhard Sterner. (2001). A common evolutionary origin of two elementary enzyme folds. FEBS Letters. 510(3). 133–135. 35 indexed citations

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