Albrecht Wegner

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Albrecht Wegner is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Albrecht Wegner has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Cell Biology, 23 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 17 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Albrecht Wegner's work include Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (40 papers), Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (23 papers) and Polymer Surface Interaction Studies (10 papers). Albrecht Wegner is often cited by papers focused on Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (40 papers), Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (23 papers) and Polymer Surface Interaction Studies (10 papers). Albrecht Wegner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Czechia. Albrecht Wegner's co-authors include Klaus Aktories, Juergen Engel, Norma Selve, Terence P. Walsh, G. Isenberg, Jean‐Marc Neuhaus, Ingo Just, B. M. Jockusch, Andreas Teubner and Gabriele Dodt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Albrecht Wegner

66 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Head to tail polymerization of actin 1976 2026 1992 2009 1976 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Head to tail polymerization of actin
    1976 537 citations Albrecht Wegner Journal of Molecular Biology profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Albrecht Wegner Germany 29 1.6k 1.3k 778 368 331 66 3.0k
Deborah Wessels United States 39 2.5k 1.5× 1.5k 1.1× 401 0.5× 373 1.0× 284 0.9× 84 3.7k
Brian Pope United Kingdom 35 2.3k 1.4× 2.4k 1.9× 1.5k 1.9× 586 1.6× 141 0.4× 48 4.7k
Thomas P. Loisel Canada 18 1.2k 0.7× 1.6k 1.3× 189 0.2× 227 0.6× 171 0.5× 22 3.1k
T.D. Pollard United States 29 1.6k 1.0× 1.7k 1.3× 681 0.9× 204 0.6× 195 0.6× 34 3.1k
David A. Knecht United States 40 2.9k 1.8× 2.4k 1.8× 436 0.6× 408 1.1× 483 1.5× 99 5.2k
M F Carlier France 35 2.3k 1.5× 1.6k 1.2× 557 0.7× 441 1.2× 59 0.2× 49 3.3k
Marshall Elzinga United States 38 1.7k 1.0× 2.7k 2.1× 1.2k 1.6× 215 0.6× 108 0.3× 63 4.1k
Peter A. Rubenstein United States 37 1.8k 1.1× 2.4k 1.9× 1.2k 1.5× 363 1.0× 140 0.4× 118 4.0k
Dorothy A. Schafer United States 28 3.3k 2.0× 2.5k 1.9× 537 0.7× 495 1.3× 252 0.8× 44 5.0k
Christophe Le Clainche France 26 2.2k 1.4× 1.4k 1.1× 316 0.4× 328 0.9× 218 0.7× 48 3.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Teubner, Andreas, Helmut E. Meyer, R. Kaufmann, & Albrecht Wegner. (1998). Derivation of insertin. Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton. 39(4). 331–336. 4 indexed citations
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Teubner, Andreas & Albrecht Wegner. (1996). The rate of annealing of actin tropomyosin filaments depends strongly on the length of the filaments. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology. 1297(2). 214–218. 10 indexed citations
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Gerisch, Günther, et al.. (1995). Coactosin interferes with the capping of actin filaments. FEBS Letters. 374(2). 284–286. 32 indexed citations
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Wegner, Albrecht, et al.. (1994). Mechanism of ATP hydrolysis by polymeric actin. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology. 1208(1). 8–14. 19 indexed citations
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Wegner, Albrecht, et al.. (1994). Nucleation of Actin Polymerization by Gelsolin. European Journal of Biochemistry. 224(1). 223–227. 26 indexed citations
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Wegner, Albrecht, et al.. (1994). Actin-Gelsolin Interaction. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 358. 97–104. 18 indexed citations
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Aktories, Klaus & Albrecht Wegner. (1992). Mechanisms of the cytopathic action of actin‐ADP‐ribosylating toxins. Molecular Microbiology. 6(20). 2905–2908. 69 indexed citations
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Wegner, Albrecht, et al.. (1992). Occurrence of an actin-inserting domain in tensin. Journal of Molecular Biology. 227(2). 593–595. 21 indexed citations
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Wegner, Albrecht, et al.. (1991). Rate constants and equilibrium constants for binding of actin to the 1:1 gelsolin‐actin complex. European Journal of Biochemistry. 202(3). 1127–1131. 23 indexed citations
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Wegner, Albrecht, et al.. (1991). Rate and mechanism of the assembly of tropomyosin with actin filaments. Biochemistry. 30(44). 10700–10707. 26 indexed citations
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Wegner, Albrecht, et al.. (1991). Mechanism of the insertion of actin monomers between the barbed ends of actin filaments and barbed end-bound insertin. Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility. 12(1). 27–36. 18 indexed citations
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Mayr, Georg W., et al.. (1991). Binding of sugar phosphates, inositol phosphates and phosphorylated amino acids to actin. European Journal of Biochemistry. 198(1). 67–71. 7 indexed citations
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Wegner, Albrecht, et al.. (1991). Random copolymerization of ATP-actin and ADP-actin. Biochemistry. 30(47). 11193–11197. 5 indexed citations
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Just, Ingo, Udo Geipel, Albrecht Wegner, & Klaus Aktories. (1990). De‐ADP‐ribosylation actin by Clostridium perfringens iota‐toxin and Clostridium botulinum C2 toxin. European Journal of Biochemistry. 192(3). 723–727. 12 indexed citations
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Wegner, Albrecht, et al.. (1990). Tropomyosin‐troponin complex stabilizes the pointed ends of actin filaments against polymerization and depolymerization. FEBS Letters. 260(2). 266–268. 41 indexed citations
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Just, Ingo, et al.. (1989). Nonmuscle actin ADP‐ribosylated by botulinum C2 toxin caps actin filaments. FEBS Letters. 246(1-2). 181–184. 50 indexed citations
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Wegner, Albrecht, et al.. (1988). Rate of binding of tropomyosin to actin filaments. Biochemistry. 27(18). 6994–7000. 17 indexed citations
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Wegner, Albrecht, et al.. (1988). Characterization of the actin polymerization‐inhibiting protein from chicken gizzard smooth muscle. European Journal of Biochemistry. 170(3). 583–587. 6 indexed citations
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Selve, Norma & Albrecht Wegner. (1987). pH-dependent rate of formation of the gelsolin-actin complex from gelsolin and monomeric actin. European Journal of Biochemistry. 168(1). 111–115. 29 indexed citations
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Wegner, Albrecht. (1985). Cell biology: Subtleties of actin assembly. Nature. 313(5998). 97–98. 8 indexed citations

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