Alexander Leitner

11.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
132 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Alexander Leitner is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Leitner has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Molecular Biology, 42 papers in Spectroscopy and 24 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Alexander Leitner's work include Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications (36 papers), Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications (35 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (28 papers). Alexander Leitner is often cited by papers focused on Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications (36 papers), Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications (35 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (28 papers). Alexander Leitner collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Austria and United States. Alexander Leitner's co-authors include Ruedi Aebersold, Thomas Walzthoeni, Wolfgang Lindner, Franz Herzog, Daniel Boehringer, Nenad Ban, Florian Stengel, Martin Beck, Marc Leibundgut and Abdullah Kahraman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Leitner

127 papers receiving 7.7k 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.

Towards a structurally resolved human protein interaction network

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Leitner Switzerland	46	5.6k	2.5k	854	799	517	132	7.8k
Katheryn A. Resing United States	45	4.7k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	495 0.6×	1.1k 1.3×	222 0.4×	82	6.4k
Paola Picotti Switzerland	45	7.3k 1.3×	3.6k 1.5×	429 0.5×	776 1.0×	591 1.1×	110	10.5k
Frank Löhr Germany	41	4.3k 0.8×	818 0.3×	678 0.8×	768 1.0×	1.2k 2.4×	150	6.1k
John R. Engen United States	53	7.8k 1.4×	3.3k 1.3×	989 1.2×	959 1.2×	452 0.9×	194	11.3k
Thomas J. D. Jørgensen Denmark	42	3.3k 0.6×	3.1k 1.2×	456 0.5×	397 0.5×	262 0.5×	110	6.6k
Chu Wang China	43	6.4k 1.1×	976 0.4×	1.3k 1.5×	606 0.8×	556 1.1×	245	9.8k
Birthe B. Kragelund Denmark	49	5.2k 0.9×	696 0.3×	1.4k 1.6×	671 0.8×	185 0.4×	179	6.9k
Eldon L. Ulrich United States	27	5.0k 0.9×	1.0k 0.4×	1.2k 1.4×	435 0.5×	200 0.4×	54	6.2k
Marcus Bantscheff Germany	40	6.3k 1.1×	3.3k 1.3×	241 0.3×	661 0.8×	305 0.6×	88	8.3k
Martial Piotto France	28	4.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.5×	735 0.9×	325 0.4×	139 0.3×	78	6.1k

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Götze, Michael, et al.. (2025). A highly sensitive protein-RNA cross-linking mass spectrometry workflow with enhanced structural modeling potential. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(11).

Loeff, Luuk, et al.. (2025). Mechanistic basis for PYROXD1-mediated protection of the human tRNA ligase complex against oxidative inactivation. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 32(7). 1205–1212. 1 indexed citations

Martin, Franck, Élisa Maillard, Karine Lapouge, et al.. (2025). Structure of the nucleosome-bound human BCL7A. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(7).

Mrđenović, Dušan, et al.. (2024). Low-temperature plasma jet treatment generates reactive oxygen species in solution that leads to peptide oxidation and protein aggregation. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 57(47). 475206–475206. 3 indexed citations

Schuster, Dina, Alexander Leitner, Paola Picotti, et al.. (2023). Structural basis of calmodulin modulation of the rod cyclic nucleotide-gated channel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(15). e2300309120–e2300309120. 11 indexed citations

Leitner, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Transglutaminase 2 has higher affinity for relaxed than for stretched fibronectin fibers. Matrix Biology. 125. 113–132. 12 indexed citations

Novakovic, Mihajlo, Fred F. Damberger, Christophe Maris, et al.. (2023). Integrative solution structure of PTBP1-IRES complex reveals strong compaction and ordering with residual conformational flexibility. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6429–6429. 15 indexed citations

Campagne, Sébastien, Jason W.H. Wong, Alexander Leitner, et al.. (2022). Sequence-specific RNA recognition by an RGG motif connects U1 and U2 snRNP for spliceosome assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(6). 26 indexed citations

Knowlton, Jonathan J., Daniel R. Gestaut, Boxue Ma, et al.. (2021). Structural and functional dissection of reovirus capsid folding and assembly by the prefoldin-TRiC/CCT chaperone network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(11). 28 indexed citations

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Weitzer, Stefan, Marco Faini, Alexander Leitner, et al.. (2021). Molecular architecture of the human tRNA ligase complex. eLife. 10. 23 indexed citations

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Mohamed, Weaam I, Sophia Park, Julius Rabl, et al.. (2021). The human GID complex engages two independent modules for substrate recruitment. EMBO Reports. 22(11). e52981–e52981. 29 indexed citations

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Kschonsak, Marc, Han Chow Chua, Cameron L. Noland, et al.. (2021). Structural architecture of the human NALCN channelosome. Nature. 603(7899). 180–186. 20 indexed citations

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Wongpalee, Somsakul Pop, Shiheng Liu, Javier Gallego‐Bartolomé, et al.. (2019). CryoEM structures of Arabidopsis DDR complexes involved in RNA-directed DNA methylation. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3916–3916. 26 indexed citations

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Ramrath, D.J.F., Moritz Niemann, Simone Matteï, et al.. (2019). Mitoribosomal small subunit biogenesis in trypanosomes involves an extensive assembly machinery. Science. 365(6458). 1144–1149. 52 indexed citations

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Bleichert, Franziska, Alexander Leitner, Ruedi Aebersold, Michael R. Botchan, & James M. Berger. (2018). Conformational control and DNA-binding mechanism of the metazoan origin recognition complex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(26). E5906–E5915. 28 indexed citations

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Chowdhury, Saikat, Chinatsu Otomo, Alexander Leitner, et al.. (2018). Insights into autophagosome biogenesis from structural and biochemical analyses of the ATG2A-WIPI4 complex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(42). E9792–E9801. 170 indexed citations

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Ramrath, D.J.F., Moritz Niemann, Marc Leibundgut, et al.. (2018). Evolutionary shift toward protein-based architecture in trypanosomal mitochondrial ribosomes. Science. 362(6413). 95 indexed citations

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Herzog, Franz, Abdullah Kahraman, Daniel Boehringer, et al.. (2012). Structural Probing of a Protein Phosphatase 2A Network by Chemical Cross-Linking and Mass Spectrometry. Science. 337(6100). 1348–1352. 326 indexed citations

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Leitner, Alexander, Thomas Walzthoeni, Abdullah Kahraman, et al.. (2010). Probing Native Protein Structures by Chemical Cross-linking, Mass Spectrometry, and Bioinformatics. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 9(8). 1634–1649. 383 indexed citations

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Грубер, Флориан, Olga Oskolkova, Alexander Leitner, et al.. (2007). Photooxidation Generates Biologically Active Phospholipids That Induce Heme Oxygenase-1 in Skin Cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(23). 16934–16941. 49 indexed citations

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