Prof. Dr. C. Höbartner

Prof. Dr. Claudia Höbartner

Universität Würzburg
Institut für Organische Chemie and
Center for Nanosystems Chemistry
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg

Phone: +49 931 31-89693
Fax: +49 931 31-84755
claudia.hoebartner@uni-wuerzburg.de

Office Administration

Eleonore Klaus

Phone: +49 931 31-85322
l-oc1.chemie@uni-wuerzburg.de
eleonore.klaus@uni-wuerzburg.de

Welcome

Explore with us the exciting chemistry of nucleic acids! We synthesize chemically modified DNA and RNA, develop DNA catalysts, ribozymes and RNA aptamers, and explore their functions and innovative applications at the interface of chemistry and biology.

Just Published

J. Kuper, T. Hove, S. Maidl, H. Neitz, F. Sauer, M. Kempf, T. Schroeder, E. Greiter, C. Höbartner & C. Kisker. "XPD stalled on cross-linked DNA provides insight into damage verification", Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 2024, published online May 28

I. Bessi, C. Stiller, T. Schroeder, B. Schäd, M. Grüne, J. Dietzsch, C. Höbartner, The Tautomeric State of N⁴-Hydroxycytidine within Base-Paired RNA, ACS Cent. Sci. 2024, published online April 25, 2024

C. Höbartner, K.E. Bohnsack, M.T. Bohnsack. How Natural Enzymes and Synthetic Ribozymes Generate Methylated Nucleotides in RNA. Annu Rev Biochem. 2024 Apr 10.

F. Seitz, T. Jungnickel, N. Kleiber, J. Kretschmer, J. Adelmann, J. Dietzsch, K.E. Bohnsack, M.T. Bohnsack, C. Höbartner. Atomic mutagenesis of N⁶-methyladenosine reveals distinct recognition modes of human m⁶A reader and eraser proteins J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, published online March 6

M. Müller, H. Neitz, C. Höbartner, H. Helten, BN-Phenanthrene- and BN-Pyrene-Based Fluorescent Uridine Analogues. Org. Lett. 2024, Jan 29.

J. Dietzsch, A. Jayachandran, S. Mueller, C. Höbartner, T. Brixner, Excitonic coupling of RNA-templated merocyanine dimer studied by higher-order transient absorption spectroscopyChem. Commun. 2023, May 23.

News

And the winner is....

Gamemaster Hermann and the proud winners of the AK Höbartner Euro2024 betting game. Many Congrats!

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The participants of the Symeres PhD Prize Symposium

Hermann was selected as one of six finalists from six European countries to present their work at the Symeres facilities in Nijmegen (The Netherlands).

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