Münch J, Kirchhoff F, Harms M, Abadi AH, Habib MMW, Zelikin A, Carmali S, Sanchez-García E, Sokkar P. EPI-X4 based peptides and derivatives thereof. Patent PCT/EP2021/054794, WO2021/170782, Sep 2nd, 2021.

Sanchez-Garcia E. et. al. Peptide and use thereof in the prevention of therapy-related leukemia. 2022, European Patent Office application number: 22 153 506.5

Joel Mieres-Perez*, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia* "Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics multiscale modeling of biomolecules" Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry 2020 54, 143-183. DOI: 10.1016/bs.apoc.2020.08.002.

Matthew Day, Bilal Tetik, Milena Parlak, Yasser Almeida-Hernandez, Markus Räschle, Farnusch Kaschani, Heike Siegert, Anika Marko, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia, Markus Kaiser, Isabel A Barker, Laurence H Pearl, Antony W Oliver, Dominik Boos “TopBP1 utilises a bipartite GINS binding mode to activate the replicative helicase”  Nature Communications 2024, 15, 1797 (2024), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45946-0

Mirja Harms, Rikke Fabech Hansson, Andrea Gilg, Yasser Almeida-Hernández, Jessica Löffler, Armando Rodríguez-Alfonso, Monica M. W. Habib, Dan Albers, Nermin S. Ahmed, Ashraf H. Abadi, Gordon Winter, Volker Rasche, Ambros J. Beer, Gilbert Weidinger, Nico Preising, Ludger Ständker, Sebastian Wiese, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia, Alexander N. Zelikin, Jan Münch “Development of N-Terminally Modified Variants of the CXCR4-Antagonistic Peptide EPI-X4 for Enhanced Plasma Stability” Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.3c01128

Yunjun Cao, Joel Mieres-Perez, Karsten Lucht, Iris Ulrich, Paul Schweer, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia*, Karina Morgenstern*, Wolfram Sander* “C-C coupling of carbene molecules on a metal surface in the presence of water” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023, 145, 21, 11544–11552, DOI:10.1021/jacs.2c12274

Carolin Kling, Anja Sommer, Yasser Almeida-Hernandez, Armando Rodríguez, Julio A Perez-Erviti, Rajendra Bhadane, Ludger Ständker, Sebastian Wiese, Holger Barth, Mario Pupo-Meriño, Arto T Pulliainen, Elsa Sánchez-García, Katharina Ernst “Inhibition of pertussis toxin by human α-defensins-1 and-5: Differential mechanisms of action” International Journal of Molecular Sciences (Special Issue “Current Advances in Peptide Inhibitors”) 2023, 24 (13), 10557, DOI: 10.3390/ijms241310557

Mirja Harms, Nikaïa Smith, Mingyu Han, Rüdiger Groß, Pascal von Maltitz, Christina Stürzel, Yasser B Ruiz-Blanco, Yasser Almeida-Hernández, Armando Rodriguez-Alfonso, Dominique Cathelin, Birgit Caspar, Bouceba Tahar, Sophie Sayettat, Nassima Bekaddour, Kanika Vanshylla, Franziska Kleipass, Sebastian Wiese, Ludger Ständker, Florian Klein, Bernard Lagane, Arnaud Boonen, Dominique Schols, Serge Benichou, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia, Jean-Philippe Herbeuval, Jan Münch "Spermine and spermidine bind CXCR4 and inhibit CXCR4- but not CCR5-tropic HIV-1 infection" Science Advances  2023, 9, eadf8251, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adf8251

Yunjun Cao, Joel Mieres-Perez, Julien Frederic Rowen, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia, Wolfram Sander, and Karina Morgenstern “Chirality control of a single carbene molecule by tip-induced van der Waals interactions"  Nature Communications 2023, 14, 4500,  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39870-y

Jonas Neblik, Abbna Kirupakaran, Christine Beuck, Joel Mieres Perez, Felix Carlsson Niemeyer, My-Hue Le, Ursula Telgheder, Jessica Felice Schmuck, Alexander Dudziak, Peter Bayer, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia*, Stefan Westermann*, Thomas Schrader* “Multivalent molecular tweezers disrupt the essential NDC80 interaction with microtubules” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023, 145, 28, 15251–15264, DOI:10.1021/jacs.3c02186

Raghuvir Haridas Gaonkar, Yannik Tim Schmidt, Rosalba Mansi, Yasser Almeida-Hernandez, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia, Mirja Harms, Jan Münch, Melpomeni Fani "Development of a new class of CXCR4 targeting radioligands based on the endogenous antagonist EPI-X4 for oncological applications" Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (Special issue “Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiopharmaceuticals” 2023,  66, 13, 8484–8497; DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.3c00131

Lia-Raluca Olari, Richard Bauer, Marta Gil Miró, Verena Vogel, Laura Cortez Rayas, Rüdiger Groß, Andrea Gilg, Raphael Klevesath, Armando A. Rodríguez Alfonso, Kübra Kaygisiz, Ulrich Rupp, Pradeep Pant, Joel Mierez-Perez, Lena Steppe, Ramona Schäffer, Lena Rauch-Wirth, Carina Conzelmann, Janis A. Müller, Fabian Zech, Fabian Gerbl, Jana Bleher, Nico Preising, Ludger Ständker, Sebastian Wiese, Dietmar Rudolph Thal, Christian Haupt, Hendrik R. A. Jonker, Manfred Wagner, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia, Tanja Weil, Steffen Stenger, Marcus Fändrich, Jens von Einem, Clarissa Read, Paul Walther, Frank Kirchhoff, Barbara Spellerberg, Jan Münch "The C-terminal 32-mer fragment of hemoglobin alpha is an amyloidogenic peptide with antimicrobial properties" Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 2023, 80, 151, DOI: 10.1007/s00018-023-04795-8

Hedieh Shahpasand-Kroner, Ibrar Siddique, Ravinder Malik, Gabriel Linares, Magdalena Ivanova, Justin Ichida, Tatjana Weil, Jan Münch, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia, Frank-Gerrit Klärner, Thomas Schrader, and Gal Bitan "Molecular tweezers – supramolecular hosts with broad-spectrum biological applications" Pharmacological Reviews, 2023, 75 (2), 263-308, DOI: 10.1124/pharmrev.122.000654

Lukas Wettstein, Patrick Immenschuh, Tatjana Weil, Carina Conzelmann, Yasser Almeida-Hernández, Markus Hoffmann, Amy Kempf, Inga Nehlmeier, Rishikesh Lotke, Moritz Petersen, Steffen Stenger, Frank Kirchhoff, Daniel Sauter, Stefan Pöhlmann, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia and Jan Münch “Native and activated antithrombin inhibits TMPRSS2 activity and SARS-CoV-2 infection” Journal of Medical Virology 2023, 95 (1), e28124, DOI: 10.1002/jmv.28124.

Armando Rodríguez-Alfonso, Astrid Heck, Yasser B Ruiz-Blanco, Andrea Gilg, Ludger Ständker, Seah Ling Kuan, Tanja Weil, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia, Sebastian Wiese, Jan Münch, Mirja Harms “Advanced EPI-X4 derivatives covalently bind human serum albumin resulting in prolonged plasma stability International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2022, 23(23), 15029; DOI: 10.3390/ijms232315029

Yasser B. Ruiz-Blanco*, Guillermin Agüero-Chapin, Sandra Romero-Molina, Agostinho Antunes, Lia-Raluca Olari, Barbara Spellerberg, Jan Münch and Elsa Sanchez-Garcia* “ABP-Finder: A Tool to Identify Antibacterial Peptides and the Gram-Staining Type of Targeted Bacteria” Antibiotics

(Special Issue "Computational Approaches in Discovery & Design of Antimicrobial Peptides") 2022, 11(12), 1708, DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics11121708

Nirnay Samanta, Yasser B. Ruiz-Blanco, Zamira Fetahaj, David Gnutt, Carter Lantz, Joseph A. Loo, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia*, Simon Ebbinghaus* “Superoxide Dismutase Folding Stability as a Target for Molecular Tweezers in SOD1-related Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis” ChemBioChem 2022 23,  e20220039, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202200396

Tatjana Weil, Abbna Kirupakaran, My-Hue Le, Philipp Rebmann, Joel Mieres-Perez, Leila Issmail, Carina Conzelmann, Janis A. Müller, Lena Rauch, Andrea Gilg, Lukas Wettstein, Rüdiger Groß, Clarissa Read, Tim Bergner, Sandra Axberg Pålsson, Nadja Uhlig, Valentina Eberlein, Heike Wöll, Frank-Gerrit Klärner, Steffen Stenger, Beate M. Kümmerer, Hendrik Streeck, Giorgio Fois, Manfred Frick, Peter Braubach, Anna-Lena Spetz, Thomas Grunwald, James Shorter, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia*, Thomas Schrader*, and Jan Münch* “Advanced Molecular Tweezers with Lipid Anchors against SARS-CoV-2 and Other Respiratory Viruses” JACS Au 2022 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.2c00220

Abhijit Bera, Stefan Henkel, Joel Mieres-Perez, Yetsedaw Andargie Tsegaw, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia, Wolfram Sander, Karina Morgenstern “Surface Diffusion Aided by a Chirality Change of Self-Assembled Oligomers under 2D Confinement” Angewandte Chemie 2022 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202212245

Sandra Romero-Molina, Yasser B. Ruiz-Blanco, Joel Mieres-Perez, Mirja Harms, Jan Münch, Michael Ehrmann and Elsa Sanchez-Garcia* “PPI-Affinity: A web tool for the prediction and optimization of protein – peptide and protein – protein binding affinity” Journal of Proteome Research 2022, 21, 1829−1841. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.2c00020. Journal Cover

Juliana Rey, Maike Breiden, Vanda Lux, Anika Bluemke, Maike Steindel, Kamilla Ripkens, Bastian Möllers, Kenny Bravo Rodriguez, Prisca Boisguerin, Rudolf Volkmer, Joel Mieres-Perez, Tim Clausen, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia, and Michael Ehrmann “An allosteric HTRA1-calpain 2 complex with restricted activation profile” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2022, 119 (14) e2113520119. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2113520119

Mirja Harms, Rikke Fabech Hansson, Sheiliza Carmali, Yasser Almeida-Hernández, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia, Jan Münch and Alexander N. Zelikin. “Dimerization of the peptide CXCR4-antagonist on macromolecular and supramolecular protraction arms affords increased potency and enhanced plasma stability” Bioconjugate Chemistry 2022 DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.2c00034. Journal Cover

Richard Kosinski, Joel Mieres Perez, Elisa-C. Schöneweiß, Yasser B. Ruiz-Blanco, Irene Ponzo, Kenny Bravo-Rodriguez, Michael Erkelenz, Sebastian Schlücker, Guido Uhlenbrock, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia* and Barbara Saccà* "The role of DNA nanostructures in the catalytic properties of an allosterically regulated protease" Science Advances 2022 8(1). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abk0425

Dennis Aschmann, Cecilia Vallet, Sunil K. Tripathi, Yasser B. Ruiz-Blanco, Max Brabender, Carsten Schmuck, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia*, Shirley K. Knauer*, Michael Giese* "Selective Disruption of Survivin's Protein-Protein Interactions: A Supramolecular Approach Based on Guanidiniocarbonylpyrrole" ChemBioChem 2022, e202100618. DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202100618

Kim N. Ingenbosch, Julio Cesar Vieyto-Nuñez, Yasser B. Ruiz-Blanco, Christian Mayer, Kerstin Hoffmann-Jacobsen*, and Elsa Sanchez-Garcia* “Effect of Organic Solvents on the Structure and Activity of a Minimal Lipase” The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2022 87 (3), 1669-1678. DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c01136

Gerhard König, Pandian Sokkar, Niclas Pryk, Sascha Heinrich, David Möller, Giuseppe Cimicata, Donna Matzov, Pascal Dietze, Walter Thiel, Anat Bashan, Julia Elisabeth Bandow, Johannes Zuegg, Ada Yonath*, Frank Schulz*, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia* "Rational prioritization strategy allows the design of macrolide derivatives that overcome antibiotic resistance" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021 118 (46). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2113632118

Pandian Sokkar, Mirja Harms, Christina Stürzel, Andrea Gilg, Gönül Kizilsavas, Martina Raasholm, Nico Preising, Manfred Wagner, Frank Kirchhoff, Ludger Ständker, Gilbert Weidinger, Benjamin Mayer, Jan Münch*, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia* "Computational modeling and experimental validation of the EPI-X4/CXCR4 complex allows rational design of small peptide antagonists" Communications Biology 2021 4 (1), 1-13. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02638-5

Thomas Lohmiller, Sujan K. Sarkar, Jörg Tatchen, Stefan Henkel, Tim Schleif, Anton Savitsky, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia* and Wolfram Sander* “Sequential hydrogen tunneling in o-tolylmethylene” Chemistry–A European Journal. 2021, 27 (71), 17873-17879. DOI:10.1002/chem.202102010

Ravit Malishev, Nir Salinas, James Gibson, Angela Bailey Eden, Joel Mieres-Perez, Yasser B. Ruiz-Blanco, Orit Malka, Sofiya Kolusheva, Frank-Gerrit Klarner, Thomas Schrader, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia, Chunyu Wang, Meytal Landau, Gal Bitan, and Raz Jelinek "Inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus biofilm-forming functional amyloid by molecular tweezers" Cell Chemical Biology 2021 28, 1–11. DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2021.03.013.

Miriam Böhm, Kerstin Killinger, Alexander Dudziak, Pradeep Pant, Karolin Jänen, Simone Hohoff, Karl Mechtler, Mihkel Örd, Mart Loog, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia and Stefan Westermann "Cdc4 phospho-degrons allow differential regulation of Ame1^CENP-U protein stability across the cell cycle" eLife 2021 10, e67390. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.67390

Joel Mieres-Perez, Karsten Lucht, Iris Trosien, Wolfram Sander*, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia*, and Karina Morgenstern* "Controlling reactivity—real-space imaging of a surface metal carbene" Journal of the American Chemical Society 2021 143 (12), 4653–4660. DOI:10.1021/jacs.0c12995. Journal Cover and ACS spotlight.

Lukas Wettstein, Tatjana Weil, Carina Conzelmann, Janis A. Müller, Rüdiger Groß, Maximilian Hirschenberger, Alina Seidel, Susanne Klute, Fabian Zech, Caterina Prelli Bozzo, Nico Preising, Giorgio Fois, Robin Lochbaum, Philip Maximilian Knaff, Volker Mailänder, Ludger Ständker, Dietmar Rudolf Thal, Christian Schumann, Steffen Stenger, Alexander Kleger, Günter Lochnit, Benjamin Mayer, Yasser B. Ruiz-Blanco, Markus Hoffmann, Konstantin M. J. Sparrer, Stefan Pöhlmann, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia, Frank Kirchhoff, Manfred Frick & Jan Münch "Alpha-1 antitrypsin inhibits TMPRSS2 protease activity and SARS-CoV-2 infection" Nature Communications 2021 12 (1726). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21972-0.

Annika Meiners, Sandra Bäcker, Inesa Hadrović, Christian Heid, Christine Beuck, Yasser B. Ruiz-Blanco, Joel Mieres-Perez, Marius Pörschke, Jean-Noël Grad, Cecilia Vallet, Daniel Hoffmann, Peter Bayer, Elsa Sánchez-García*, Thomas Schrader* & Shirley K. Knauer* "Specific inhibition of the Survivin–CRM1 interaction by peptide-modified molecular tweezers" Nature Communications 2021 12 (1505). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21753-9.

Yasser B. Ruiz-Blanco*, and Elsa Sanchez-Garcia* “CL-FEP: An end-state free energy perturbation approach” Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 2020 6 (3), 1396-1410. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00725.

Tatjana Weil, Rüdiger Groß, Annika Röcker, Kenny Bravo-Rodriguez, Christian Heid, Andrea Sowislok, My-Hue Le, Nelli Erwin, Mridula Dwivedi, Stephen M. Bart, Paul Bates, Lukas Wettstein, Janis A. Müller, Mirja Harms, Konstantin Sparrer, Yasser B. Ruiz-Blanco, Christina M. Stürzel, Jens von Einem, Sina Lippold, Clarissa Read, Paul Walther, Marco Hebel, Florian Kreppel, Frank-Gerrit Klärner, Gal Bitan, Michael Ehrmann, Tanja Weil, Roland Winter, Thomas Schrader*, James Shorter*, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia*, and Jan Münch* "Supramolecular mechanism of viral envelope disruption by molecular tweezers" Journal of the American Chemical Society 2020 142 (40), 17024–17038. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c06400.

Desiree Schütz, Yasser B. Ruiz-Blanco, Jan Münch, Frank Kirchhoff, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia*, Janis A. Müller* "Peptide and peptide-based inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 entry" Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews 2020 167, 47-65. DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2020.11.007.

Ave Kuusk, João Filipe Neves, Kenny Bravo-Rodriguez, Richard G. Doveston, Anders Gunnarsson, Michael Ehrmann, Hongming Chen, Isabelle*Landrieu, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia*, Helen Boyd* and Christian Ottmann* “Adoption of a turn conformation drives the binding affinity of p53 c-Terminal domain peptides to 14-3-3σ” ACS Chemical Biology 2020 15, 262-271 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.9b00893.

Mirja Harms, Monica M.W. Habib, Simona Nemska, Antonella Nicolò, Andrea Gilg, Nico Preising, Pandian Sokkar, Sara Carmignani, Martina Raasholm, Gilbert Weidinger, Gönül Kizilsavas, Manfred Wagner, Ludger Ständker, Ashraf H. Abadi, Hassan Jumaa, Frank Kirchhoff, Nelly Frossard, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia, Jan Münch "An optimized derivative of an endogenous CXCR4 antagonist prevents atopic dermatitis and airway inflammation" Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B 2020, ISSN 2211-3835, DOI: 10.1016/j.apsb.2020.12.005.

Armin Holch, Richard Bauer, Lia-Raluca Olari, Armando A. Rodriguez, Ludger Ständker, Nico Preising, Merve Karacan, Sebastian Wiese, Paul Walther, Yasser B. Ruiz-Blanco, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia, Christian Schumann, Jan Münch & Barbara Spellerberg "Respiratory ß-2-Microglobulin exerts pH dependent antimicrobial activity" Virulence 2020 11 (1), 1402-1414. DOI: 10.1080/21505594.2020.1831367.

Tim Schleif, Jörg Tatchen, Julien F. Rowen, Frederike Beyer, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia*, Wolfram Sander* "Heavy atom tunneling in semibullvalenes: how driving force, substituents, and environment influence the tunneling rates" Chemistry -A European Journal (2020) 26, 10452-10458. DOI:10.1002/chem.202001202. VIP publication and Journal Cover

Rüdiger Groß, Richard Bauer, Franziska Krüger, Elke Rücker-Braun, Lia-Raluca Olari, Ludger Ständker, Nico Preising, Armando A. Rodríguez, Carina Conzelmann, Fabian Gerbl, Daniel Sauter, Frank Kirchhoff, Benjamin Hagemann, Jasmina Gačanin, Tanja Weil, Yasser B. Ruiz-Blanco, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia, Wolf-Georg Forssmann, Annette Mankertz, Sabine Santibanez, Steffen Stenger, Paul Walther, Sebastian Wiese, Barbara Spellerberg and Jan Münch "A placenta derived C-terminal fragment of β-hemoglobin with combined antibacterial and antiviral activity" Frontiers in Microbiology  (2020) 11, 508. DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2020.00508.

Smith, Nikaïa; Rodero, Mathieu P; Bekaddour, Nassima; Bondet, Vincent; Ruiz-Blanco, Yasser B.; Harms, Mirja; Mayer, Benjamin; Badder-Meunier, Brigitte; Quartier, Pierre; Bodemer, Christine; Baudouin, Véronique; Dieudonné, Yannick; Kirchhoff, Frank; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa; Charbit, Bruno; Leboulanger, Nicolas; Jahrsdörfer, Bernd; Richard, Yolande; Korganow, Anne-Sophie; Münch, Jan; Nisole, Sébastien; Duffy, Darragh; and Herbeuval, Jean-Philippe “Control of TLR7-mediated type I IFN signaling in pDCs through CXCR4 engagement – a new target for Lupus treatment” Science Advances, Vol. 5, no. 7, eaav9019 (2019), DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav9019.

Romero-Molina, Sandra; Ruiz-Blanco, Yasser B.*; Green, James R.; and Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa* “ProtDCal-Suite: A web server for the numerical codification and functional analysis of proteins” Protein Science, special issue on Tools for Protein Science, (2019), 28, 1734–1743, DOI:10.1002/pro.3673.

Knorr, Johannes; Sokkar, Pandian; Costa, Paolo; Sander, Wolfram; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa* and Nuernberger, Patrick* “How protic solvents determine the reaction mechanisms of diphenylcarbene in solution” Journal of Organic Chemistry, (2019), 2019 84 (18), 11450-11457. DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b01228, Cover Page.

Romero-Molina, Sandra; Ruiz-Blanco, Yasser B.*; Harms, Mirja; Münch, Jan and Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa* "PPI-Detect: a support vector machine model for sequence-based prediction of protein–protein interactions" Journal of Computational Chemistry (2019), 40 (11), 1233-1242, DOI: 10.1002/jcc.25780, Cover Page.

Bartsch, Lina; Bartel, Maria; Iglesias-Fernandez, Javier; Ruiz-Blanco, Yasser B.; Beuck, Christine; Briels, Jeroen; Gigante, Alba; Toetsch, Niklas; Bayer, Peter; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa; Ottmann, Christian; Schmuck, Carsten "Multivalent ligands with tailor-made anion binding motif as stabilizers of protein-protein interactions" ChemBioChem (2019), 20 (23), 2921-2926. DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201900288

Berger, Nadja; Wollny, Laura; Sokkar, Pandian; Mittal, Sumit; Mieres-Perez, Joel; Stoll, Raphael; Sander, Wolfram*; and Sanchez-Garcia; Elsa* "Solvent‐enhanced conformational flexibility of cyclic tetrapeptides" ChemPhysChem (2019), 20 (13), 1664-1670. DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201900345, Cover page.

Xu, Jiahui; Mieres-Perez, Joel; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa*; and Lee, Jeehiun K* "Gas-phase deprotonation of benzhydryl cations: carbene basicity, multiplicity, and rearrangements" Journal of Organic Chemistry (2019), 84 (12), 7685-7693. DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b00496, Cover Page.

Bongard, Jens; Schmitz, Anna Laura; Wolf, Alex; Zischinsky, Gunther; Pieren, Michel; Schellhorn, Birgit; Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny; Schillinger, Jasmin; Koch, Uwe; Nussbaumer, Peter; Klebl, Bert; Steinmann, Jörg; Buer, Jan; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa; Ehrmann, Michael; and Kaiser Markus "Chemical validation of DegS as a target for the development of antibiotics with a novel mode of action" ChemMedChem (2019), 14, 1074-1078, DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.201900193.

Henkel, Stefan; Trosien, Iris; Lohmiller, Thomas; Savitsky, Anton; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa and Sander, Wolfram “Reactions of cyclopentadienylidenes with ICF3: electron bond donation vs. halogen bond donation of the iodine atom" Journal of Organic Chemistry (2018), 83, 7586−7592. Feature Article

Yilmaz, Elvan; Bier, David; Guillory, Xavier; Briels, Jeroen; Ruiz-Blanco, Yasser B; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa; Ottmann, Christian and Kaiser, Markus “Mono- and bivalent 14-3-3 inhibitors for characterizing supramolecular ‘lysine wrapping’ of oligoethylene glycol (OEG) moieties in proteins” Chemistry - A European Journal (2018), 24, 13807 – 13814.

Shen, Bin; Tatchen, Jörg; Sanchez Garcia, Elsa and Holger Bettinger “Evolution of the Optical Gap in the Acene Series: Undecacene” Angewandte Chemie (2018) 57, 10506 –10509.

Mittal, Sumit; Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny and Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa* “Mechanism of Inhibition of Beta Amyloid Toxicity by Supramolecular Tweezers” The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2018), 122, 4196−4205

Wagner, Anne S.; Politi, Antonio Z.; Ast, Anne; Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny; Baum, Katharina; Buntru, Alexander; Strempel, Nadine U.; Brusendorf, Lydia; Hänig, Christian; Boeddrich, Annett; Plassmann, Stephanie; Klockmeier, Konrad; Ramirez-Anguita, Juan M.; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa; Wolf, Jana and Wanker, Erich E. “Self -assembly of Mutant Huntingtin Exon-1 Fragments into Large Complex Fibrillar Structures Involves Nucleated Branching” Journal of Molecular Biology (2018), 430, 1725.

Dirkmann, Michael; Iglesias, Javier; Muñoz, Victor; Sokkar, Pandian; Rumancev, Christoph; von Gundlach, Andreas; Krenczyk, Oktavian; Vöpel, Tobias; Nowack, Julia; Schroer, Martin; Ebbinghaus, Simon; Herrmann, Christian; Rosenhahn, Axel; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa* and Schulz, Frank*.  "A Multi-Perspective Approach to Solvent Regulation of Enzymatic Activity: HMG-Coa Reductase" ChemBioChem (2018), 19,153.Zakeri, Banafshe; Niebling, Stephan; Gigante-Martinez, Alba; Sokkar, Pandian; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa; Schmuck, Carsten and Schlücker, Sebastian. "Molecular Recognition of Carboxylates in the Protein Leucine Zipper by a Multivalent Supramolecular Ligand: Residue-Specific, Sensitive and Label-Free Probing by UV Resonance Raman Spectroscopy" Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2018), 20, 1817.

Ehlers, Martin; Grad, Jean-Noel; Mittal, Sumit; Bier, David; Mertel, Marcel; Ohl, Ludwig; Bartel, Maria; Briels, Jeroen; Heimann, Marius; Ottmann, Christian; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa*; Hoffmann, Daniel* and Schmuck, Carsten*. "Rational Design, Binding Studies and Crystal Structure Evaluation of the First Ligand Targeting the Dimerization Interface of the 14-3-3ζ Adapter Protein" ChemBioChem (2018), 19, 591.

Schulz, Nils; Sokkar, Pandian; Engelage, Elric; Schindler, Severin; Erdelyi, Mate; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa* and Huber, Stefan*. "XB, or not XB, that is the Question: The Interaction Modes of Haloimidazolium Salts in Solution" Chemistry - A European Journal (2018), 24, 3464. Cover page

Vöpel, Tobias; Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny; Mittal, Sumit; Vachharajani, Shivang; Gnutt, David; Sharma, Abhishek; Steinhof, Anne; Fatoba, Oluwaseun; Ellrichmann, Gisa; Nshanian, Michael; Heid, Christian; Loo, Joseph A.; Klärner, Frank-Gerrit; Schrader, Thomas; Bitan, Gal; Wanker, Erich E.; Ebbinghaus, Simon* and Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa*. “Inhibition of Huntingtin Exon-1 Aggregation by the Molecular Tweezer CLR01” Journal of the American Chemical Society (2017), 139, 5640.

Sprengel, Andreas; Lill, Pascal; Stegemann, Pierre; Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny; Schöneweiß, Elisa-C.; Merdanovic, Melisa; Gudnason, Daniel; Aznauryan, Mikayel; Gamrad, Lisa; Barcikowski, Stephan; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa; Birkedal, Victoria; Gatsogiannis, Christos; Ehrmann, Michael and Saccà, Barbara. “Tailored Protein Encapsulation into a DNA Host Using Geometrically Organized Supramolecular Interactions” Nature Communications (2017), 8, 14472.

Tsegaw, Yetsedaw A.; Kadam, Pritam E.; Tötsch, Niklas; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa* and Sander, Wolfram*. “Is Magnetic Bistability of Carbenes a General Phenomenon? Isolation of Simple Aryl(Trifluoromethyl)Carbenes in both their Singlet and Triplet States” Journal of the American Chemical Society (2017), 139, 12310.

Bier, David; Mittal, Sumit; Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny; Sowislok, Andrea; Guillory, Xavier; Briels, Jeroen; Heid, Christian; Bartel, Maria; Wettig, Burkhard; Brunsveld, Luc; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa*; Schrader, Thomas* and Ottmann, Christian*. “Molecular Tweezers Stabilize a Disordered Protein-Protein Interface” Journal of the American Chemical Society (2017), 139, 16256.

Ganguly, Abir; Quan L., Trung; Brylski, Oliver; Dirkmann, Michael; Möller, David; Ebbinghaus, Simon; Schulz, Frank; Winter, Roland; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa* and Thiel, Walter*. “Elucidation of the Catalytic Mechanism of a Miniature Zinc Finger Hydrolase” The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2017), 121, 6390.

Bettinger, Holger F*; Tönshoff, Christina; Doerr, Markus and Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa* “Electronically excited states of higher acenes up to nonacene: A Density Functional Theory/Multireference Configuration Interaction (DFT/MRCI) Study”. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (2016), 12, 305.

Costa, Paolo; Lohmiller, Thomas; Trosien, Iris; Savitsky, Anton*; Lubitz, Wolfgang; Fernández-Oliva, Miguel; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa* and Sander, Wolfram*. “Light and Temperature Control of the Spin State of Bis(P-Methoxy-Phenyl)Carbene: A Magnetically Bistable Carbene” Journal of the American Chemical Society (2016),  138, 1622.

Henkel, Stefan; Costa, Paolo; Klute, Linda; Sokkar, Pandian; Fernandez-Oliva, Miguel; Thiel, Walter; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa* and Sander, Wolfram*. “Switching the Spin State of Diphenylcarbene via Halogen Bonding” Journal of the American Chemical Society (2016), 138, 1689.

Knorr, Johannes; Sokkar, Pandian; Schott, Sebastian; Costa, Paolo; Thiel, Walter; Sander, Wolfram; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa* and Nuernberger, Patrick*. “Competitive Solvent-Molecule Interactions Govern the Primary Processes of Diphenylcarbene in Solvent Mixtures” Nature Communications (2016), 7, 12968.

Arumughan , Anup; Roske , Yvette; Barth , Carolin; Forero,  Laura; Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny; Redel, Alexandra; Faelber, Katja; Rau , Kirstin; Mielke , Thorsten; Daumke , Oliver; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa; Rocks, Oliver; Panakova , Daniela; Heinemann, Udo and Wanker, Erich. “Quantitative Interaction Mapping Reveals an Extended Ubiquitin Regulatory Domain in ASPL that Disrupts Functional p97 Hexamers” Nature Communications (2016), 7, 13047.

Trusch, Franziska; Kowski, Klaus; Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny; Beuck, Christine; Sowislok, Andrea; Wettig, Burkhard; Matena, Anja; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa; Meyer, Hemmo; Schrader, Thomas and Bayer, Peter “Molecular Tweezers Target a Protein-Protein Interface and Thereby Modulate Complex Formation” (2016), Chemical Communications, 52, 14141.

Costa, Paolo; Trosien, Iris; Fernandez-Oliva, Miguel; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa* and Sander, Wolfram*. “The Fluorenyl Cation” Angewandte Chemie (2015), 54, 2656-2660. VIP publication and Journal Cover.

Sokkar, Pandian; Boulanger, Eliot; Thiel, Walter and Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa*. “Hybrid Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics/Coarse-Grained Modeling: A Triple-Resolution Approach for Biomolecular Systems” Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (2015), 11, 1809. Journal Cover.

Hanke, Kenny; Kaufmann, Matin; Schwaab, Gerhard; Havenith, Martina; Wolke, Conrad T.; Gorlova, Olga; Johnson, Mark A.; Kar, Bishnu; Sander, Wolfram and Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa “Understanding the Ionic Liquid [NC4111][NTf2] from Individual Building Blocks: An IR-spectroscopic Study” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2015), 17, 8518.

Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny; Klopries, Stephan; Koopmans, Kyra R. M.; Sundermann, Uschi; Yahiaoui, Samir; Arens, Julia; Kushnir, Susanna; Schulz, Frank* and Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa*. “Substrate Flexibility of a Mutated Acyltransferase Domain: Implications for Polyketide Biosynthesis”. Chemistry & Biology (2015), 22, 1425. Journal Cover.

Klopries, Stephan; Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny; Koopmans, Kyra R. M.; Sundermann, Uschi; Yahiaoui, Samir; Arens, Julia; Kushnir, Susanna; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa* and Schulz, Frank*. “Data in support of Substrate Flexibility of a Mutated Acyltransferase Domain: Implications for Polyketide Biosynthesis”. Data in Brief (2015), 5, 528.

Lopes, Dahabada H. J.; Attar, Aida; Nair, Gayatri; Hayden, Eric; Du, Zhenming; McDaniel, Kirsten; Dutt, Som; Bandmann, Heinz; Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny; Mittal, Sumit; Klärner, Frank; Wang, Chunyu; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa; Schrader, Thomas and Bitan, Gal. “Molecular Tweezers Inhibit Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Assembly and Toxicity by a New Mechanism” ACS Chemical Biology, (2015), 10, 1555. Journal Cover.

Lump, Edina; Castellano, Laura M.; Meier, Christoph; Seeliger, Janine; Erwin, Nelli; Sperlich, Benjamin; Stürzel, Christina M.; Usmani, Shariq; Hammond, Rebecca M.; von Einem, Jens; Gerold, Gisa; Kreppel, Florian; Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny; Pietschmann, Thomas; Holmes, Veronica M.; Weissman, Drew; Sowislok, Andrea; Wettig, Burkhard; Heid, Christian; Kirchhoff, Frank; Weil, Tanja; Klaerner, Frank-Gerrit; Schrader, Thomas; Bitan, Gal; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa; Winter, Roland; Shorter, James and Münch, Jan. “A Molecular Tweezer Antagonizes Seminal Amyloids and HIV Infection” elife, (2015), 4:e05397.

Martinez Gonzalez, Marco; Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny; Suardíaz, Reynier; García de la Vega, José M.; Montero, Luis A., Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa and Crespo-Otero, Rachel. “Complexes of Nitric Oxide with Water and Imidazole” Theoretical Chemistry Accounts (2015) 134:88, DOI 10.1007/s00214-015-1691-x.

Costa, Paolo; Fernandez-Oliva, Miguel; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa* and Sander, Wolfram*. “The Highly Reactive Benzhydryl Cation Isolated and Stabilized in Water Ice” Journal of the American Chemical Society (2014), 136, 15625. Featured in JACS Spotlights and Journal Cover.

Sander, Wolfram*; Roy, Saonli; Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny; Grote, Dirk and Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa*. “The Benzylperoxy Radical as a Source of Hydroxyl and Phenyl Radicals” Chemistry–A European Journal (2014), 20, 12917.

Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny; Ismail-Ali, Ahmed F.; Klopries, Stephan; Kushnir, Susanna; Ismail, Shehab; Fansa, Eyad K.; Wittinghofer, Alfred; Schulz, Frank* and Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa*. “Predicted Incorporation of Non-Native Substrates by a Polyketide Synthase Yields Bioactive Natural Product Derivatives” ChemBioChem (2014), 15, 1991.

Crespo-Otero, Rachel; Mardyukov, Artur; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa; Sander, Wolfram and Barbatti, Mario. “Photo-stability of Peptide-bond Aggregates: N-methylformamide Dimers” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2014), 16, 18877.

Klopries, Stephan; Koopmans, Kyra R. M.; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa* and Schulz, Frank*. “Biosynthesis with Fluorine”. ChemBioChem (2014), 15, 495.

Merten, Christian; Li, Fee; Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa; Xu, Yunjie and Sander, Wolfram. “Solvent-induced Conformational Changes in Cyclic Peptides: A Vibrational Circular Dichroism Study” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2014), 16, 5627.

Li, Fee; Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny; Fernandez-Oliva, Miguel; Ramirez-Anguita, Juan M.; Merz, Klaus; Winter, Manuela; Lehmann, Christian W.; Sander, Wolfram* and Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa*. “Stereochemistry Rules: a Single Stereocenter Changes the Conformation of a Cyclic Tetrapeptide” Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2013), 117, 10785.

Hernández-Rodríguez, Erix W.; Montero Alejo, Ana L.; López, Rafael; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa; Montero, Luis A. and García de la Vega, José M. “Electron Density Deformations provide new Insights into the Spectral Shift of Rhodopsins” Journal of Computational Chemistry (2013), 34, 2460 (inside cover).

Dutt, Som; Wilch, Constanze; Gersthagen, Thomas; Talbiersky, Peter; Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny; Hanni, Matti; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa*; Ochsenfeld, Christian*; Klärner, Frank* and Schrader, Thomas*. “Molecular Tweezers with Varying Anions: A Comparative Study” Journal of Organic Chemistry (2013), 78, 6721.

Li, Fee; Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny; Phillips, Charlotte; Seidel, Ruediger; Wieberneit, Florian; Stoll, Raphael; Doltsinis, Nikos L.; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa* and Sander, Wolfram*. “Conformation and Dynamics of a Cyclic Disulfide-Bridged Peptide: Effects of Temperature and Solvent” Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2013), 117, 3560.

Bier, David; Rose, Rolf; Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny; Bartel, Maria; Ramirez-Anguita, Juan Manuel; Dutt, Som; Wilch, Constanze; Klärner, Frank; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa*; Schrader, Thomas* and Ottmann, Christian*. “Molecular Tweezers Modulate 14-3-3 Protein-protein Interactions” Nature Chemistry (2013), 5, 234.

Sundermann, Uschi; Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny; Klopries, Stephan; Kushnir, Susanna; Gomez, Hansel; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa* and Schulz, Frank*. “Enzyme-Directed Mutasynthesis: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Approach to Substrate Recognition of a Polyketide Synthase” ACS Chemical Biology (2013), 8, 443.

Crespo-Otero, Rachel; Bravo-Rodriguez, Kenny; Roy, Saonli; Benighaus Tobias; Thiel, Walter; Sander, Wolfram and Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa*. “Interactions of Aromatic Radicals with Water” ChemPhysChem, special issue (2013), 14, 805.

Crespo-Otero, Rachel; Mardyukov, Artur; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa; Barbatti, Mario and Sander, Wolfram. "Photochemistry of N-Methylformamide: Matrix Isolation and Nonadiabatics Dynamics” ChemPhysChem, special issue (2013), 14, 827.

Sander, Wolfram;* Roy, Saonli; Polyak, Iakov; Ramirez-Anguita, Juan Manuel and Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa*. “The Phenoxyl Radical−Water Complex – A Matrix Isolation and Computational Study”. Journal of the American Chemical Society (2012), 134, 8222.

Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa* and Jansen, Georg*“Competition between H···π and H···O Interactions in Furan Heterodimers” Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2012), 116, 5689.

Hernández-Rodríguez, Erix W.; Sanchez-Garcia, Elsa*; Crespo-Otero, Rachel; Montero Alejo, Ana L.; Montero, Luis A. and Thiel, Walter. “Understanding Rhodopsin Mutations Linked to the Retinitis Pigmentosa Disease: A QM/MM and DFT/MRCI Study” Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2012), 116, 1060.

Metzelthin, Anja; Sánchez-García, Elsa; Birer, Özgür; Schwaab, Gerhard; Thiel, Walter; Sander, Wolfram and Havenith, Martina. "Acetylene•••Furan Trimer Formation at 0.37 K as a Model for Ultracold Aggregation of Non- and Weakly Polar Molecules" ChemPhysChem (2011), 12, 2009.

Hsiao, Ya-Wen; Sánchez-García, Elsa; Doerr, Markus and Thiel, Walter. “Quantum Refinement of Protein Structures: Implementation and Application to the Red Fluorescent Protein DsRed.M1”. Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2010), 114, 15413.

Mardyukov, Artur; Crespo-Otero, Rachel; Sánchez-García, Elsa and Sander, Wolfram. “Photochemistry and Reactivity of the Phenyl Radical – Water System: A Matrix Isolation and Computational Study” Chemistry – A European Journal (2010), 16, 8679.

Sánchez-García, Elsa; Doerr, Markus and Thiel, Walter. “QM/MM Study of the Absorption Spectra of DsRed.M1 Chromophores” Journal of Computational Chemistry (2009), 31, 1603.

Sánchez-García, Elsa; Doerr, Markus; Hsiao, Ya-Wen and Thiel, Walter. “QM/MM Study of the Monomeric Red Fluorescent Protein DsRed.M1” Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2009), 113, 16622.

Mardyukov, Artur; Sánchez-García, Elsa; Crespo-Otero, Rachel and Sander, Wolfram. “Interaction and Reaction of the Phenyl Radical with Water – a new Source of OH Radicals”. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition (2009), 48, 4804.

Bettinger, Holger F.; Kar, Tapas and Sánchez-García, Elsa. “The Borazine and Benzene Homo- and Heterodimers”. Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2009), 113, 3353.

Mardyukov, Artur; Sánchez-García, Elsa and Sander, Wolfram. “Matrix Isolation and Ab Initio Study of the Noncovalent Complexes between Formamide and Acetylene” Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2009), 113, 1086.

Crespo-Otero, Rachel; Sánchez-García, Elsa*; Suardíaz, Reynier; Montero, Luis A. and Sander, Wolfram*. “Interactions between Simple Radicals and Water” Chemical Physics (2008), 353, 193.

Metzelthin, Anja; Birer, Özgür; Sánchez-García, Elsa and Havenith, Martina. "High Resolution IR-Spectroscopy of Acetylene-Furan in Ultracold Helium Nanodroplets" Journal of Chemical Physics (2008), 129, 114307.

Sánchez-García, Elsa; Mardyukov, Artur.; Tekin, Adem; Crespo-Otero, Rachel; Montero, Luis. A.; Sander, Wolfram and Jansen, Georg. “Ab initio and Matrix Isolation Study of the Acetylene–Furan Dimer” Chemical Physics (2008), 343, 168.

Mardyukov, Artur; Sánchez-García, Elsa; Rodziewicz, Pawel; Doltsinis, Nikos L. and Sander, Wolfram. “Formamide Dimers: A Computational and Matrix Isolation Study”. Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2007), 111, 10552.

Sánchez-García, Elsa; Mardyukov, Arthur; Studentkowski, Marc; Montero, Luis A. and Sander, Wolfram. “Furan-Formic Acid Dimers: An ab Initio and Matrix Isolation Study” Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2006), 110, 13775.

Sánchez-García, Elsa; Montero, Luis A. and Sander, Wolfram. “Computational Study of Noncovalent Complexes between Formamide and Formic Acid”. Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2006), 110, 12613.

Sánchez-García, Elsa and Montero, Luis A. “Analysis of the Similarity of Molecular Associations of Amylose with some Organoleptic Compounds” Revista Cubana de Física (2005), 22, 73.

Sánchez-García, Elsa; Studentkowski, Marc; Montero, Luis A. and Sander, Wolfram. “Noncovalent Complexes between Dimethylether and Formic Acid- an Ab initio and Matrix Isolation Study” ChemPhysChem (2005), 6, 618.

Sánchez-García, Elsa; George, Lisa; Montero, Luis A. and Sander, Wolfram. “1:2 Formic Acid/Acetylene Complexes: Ab initio and Matrix Isolation Studies of Weakly Interacting Systems” Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2004), 108, 11846.

George, Lisa; Sánchez-García, Elsa and Sander, Wolfram. “Matrix Isolation Infrared and ab initio Study of Formic Acid-Acetylene Interaction: Example of H•••π and C-H•••O Interaction” Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2003), 107, 6850.

García, Elsa Sánchez; Montero, Luis A.; Hermida, Jose M.; Cruz, Roberto and Gonzalez, Gerardo. “Calculation of Association Energy in Acetone Clusters by the Multiple Minima Hypersurface Approximation” Revista Cubana de Física (2000), 17, 41.