Anders Wittrup

3.5k citations

22 papers · 2.8k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 17

Impact in

Cancer Research top 5%
- MicroRNA in disease regulation
Molecular Biology top 5%
- RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
- Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
- Extracellular vesicles in disease
- Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior

Papers in ⓘ

Molecular Biology 19
- RNA Interference and Gene Delivery 15
- Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques 7
- RNA regulation and disease 4
- Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior 3
- Extracellular vesicles in disease 3
- Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research 2
Immunology 4

Co-authors: Judy Lieberman (4 shared papers)Mattias Belting (13 shared papers)Staffan Sandgren (4 shared papers)Matthias Mörgelin (4 shared papers)Katrin J. Svensson (3 shared papers)Eva Lindqvist (1 shared paper)Lena Svensson (1 shared paper)Helena C. Christianson (1 shared paper)
Journals: Journal of Biological Chemistry (4 papers)Nature Communications (3 papers)Molecular Cancer Therapeutics (1 paper)The Journal of Cell Biology (1 paper)Cancer Research (1 paper)
Partner nations: Sweden United States Hungary

In The Last Decade

Anders Wittrup

22 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Visualizing lipid-formulated siRNA release from endosomes and target gene knockdown 2015 · 517 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

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it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2015 Nature Biotechnology
2015 Nature Reviews Genetics
2013 Journal of Biological Chemistry

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1	Knocking down disease: a progress report on siRNA therapeutics Nature Reviews Genetics ·Anders Wittrup, Judy Lieberman Hit paper breakdown →	2015	647
2	Exosome Uptake Depends on ERK1/2-Heat Shock Protein 27 Signaling and Lipid Raft-mediated Endocytosis Negatively Regulated by Caveolin-1 Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Katrin J. Svensson, Helena C. Christianson, Anders Wittrup, Erika Bourseau-Guilmain, Eva Lindqvist, Lena Svensson, Matthias Mörgelin, Mattias Belting Hit paper breakdown →	2013	567
3	Visualizing lipid-formulated siRNA release from endosomes and target gene knockdown Nature Biotechnology ·Anders Wittrup, Angela Ai, Xing Liu, Péter Hamar, Radiana Trifonova, Klaus Charissé, Muthiah Manoharan, Tomas Kirchhausen, Judy Lieberman Hit paper breakdown →	2015	517
4	The Human Antimicrobial Peptide LL-37 Transfers Extracellular DNA Plasmid to the Nuclear Compartment of Mammalian Cells via Lipid Rafts and Proteoglycan-dependent Endocytosis Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Staffan Sandgren, Anders Wittrup, Fang Cheng, Mats Jönsson, Erik A. Eklund, Susann Busch, Mattias Belting	2004	189
5	Nuclear delivery of macromolecules: barriers and carriers Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews ·Mattias Belting, Staffan Sandgren, Anders Wittrup	2004	153
6	Nanotubes, exosomes, and nucleic acid–binding peptides provide novel mechanisms of intercellular communication in eukaryotic cells: implications in health and disease The Journal of Cell Biology ·Mattias Belting, Anders Wittrup	2008	141
7	Imaging small molecule-induced endosomal escape of siRNA Nature Communications ·Hampus Du Rietz, Hampus Hedlund, Sten Wilhelmson, Pontus Nordenfelt, Anders Wittrup	2020	134
8	N-terminal peptides from unprocessed prion proteins enter cells by macropinocytosis Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ·Mazin Magzoub, Staffan Sandgren, Pontus Lundberg, Kamila Oglęcka, Johanna Lilja, Anders Wittrup, L.E.Göran Eriksson, Ülo Langel, Mattias Belting, Astrid Gräslund	2006	84
9	Gene Knockdown by EpCAM Aptamer–siRNA Chimeras Suppresses Epithelial Breast Cancers and Their Tumor-Initiating Cells Molecular Cancer Therapeutics ·Adi Gilboa-Geffen, Péter Hamar, Minh T. N. Le, Lee Adam Wheeler, Radiana Trifonova, Fabio Petrocca, Anders Wittrup, Judy Lieberman	2015	69
10	Magnetic nanoparticle-based isolation of endocytic vesicles reveals a role of the heat shock protein GRP75 in macromolecular delivery Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Anders Wittrup, Sihe Zhang, Katrin J. Svensson, Paulina Kucharzewska, Maria C. Johansson, Matthias Mörgelin, Mattias Belting	2010	53
11	ScFv Antibody-induced Translocation of Cell-surface Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycan to Endocytic Vesicles Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Anders Wittrup, Sihe Zhang, Gerdy B. ten Dam, Toin H. Van Kuppevelt, Per Bengtson, Maria C. Johansson, Johanna E. Welch, Matthias Mörgelin, Mattias Belting	2009	51
12	Cancer Cells Can Exhibit a Sparing FLASH Effect at Low Doses Under Normoxic In Vitro-Conditions Frontiers in Oncology ·Gabriel Adrian, Elise Konradsson, Sarah Beyer, Anders Wittrup, Karl T. Butterworth, Stephen J. McMahon, Mihaela Ghita, Kristoffer Petersson, Crister Ceberg	2021	44
13	Identification of Proteins Released by Mammalian Cells That Mediate DNA Internalization through Proteoglycan-dependent Macropinocytosis Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Anders Wittrup, Staffan Sandgren, Johanna Lilja, Charlotte Bratt, Niklas Gustavsson, Matthias Mörgelin, Mattias Belting	2007	35
14	Single chain fragment anti-heparan sulfate antibody targets the polyamine transport system and attenuates polyamine-dependent cell proliferation International Journal of Oncology ·Mattias Belting, Toin van Kuppevelt, Anders Wittrup, Guido J. Jenniskens, Gerdy ten Dam, Katrin J. Svensson, Per Bengtson, Johanna E. Welch	2008	25
15	Single-cell quantification and dose-response of cytosolic siRNA delivery Nature Communications ·Hampus Hedlund, Hampus Du Rietz, J Johansson, Hanna C. Eriksson, Wahed Zedan, Linfeng Huang, Jonas Wallin, Anders Wittrup	2023	22
16	Auto-segmentations by convolutional neural network in cervical and anorectal cancer with clinical structure sets as the ground truth Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology ·Hanna Sartor, David Minarik, Olof Enqvist, Johannes Ulén, Anders Wittrup, Maria Bjurberg, Elin Trägårdh	2020	20
17	Macromolecular Drug Delivery: Basic Principles and Therapeutic Applications Molecular Biotechnology ·Mattias Belting, Anders Wittrup	2009	19
18	Developments in Macromolecular Drug Delivery Methods in molecular biology ·Mattias Belting, Anders Wittrup	2008	14
19	Studies of Proteoglycan Involvement in CPP-Mediated Delivery Methods in molecular biology ·Anders Wittrup, Sihe Zhang, Mattias Belting	2010	10
20	Cellular and biophysical barriers to lipid nanoparticle mediated delivery of RNA to the cytosol Nature Communications ·J Johansson, Hampus Du Rietz, Hampus Hedlund, Hanna C. Eriksson, Erik Oude Blenke, Aditya R. Pote, Said Harun, Pontus Nordenfelt, Lennart Lindfors, Anders Wittrup	2025	7

About Anders Wittrup

Anders Wittrup is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology, Cell Biology, Genetics and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, having authored 22 papers that have together received 2.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (15 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (7 papers), RNA regulation and disease (4 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (3 papers), Virus-based gene therapy research (3 papers), Extracellular vesicles in disease (3 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (2 papers) and Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cancer Research (613 citations), Molecular Biology (2.4k citations), Microbiology (160 citations), Biomaterials (264 citations) and Immunology (355 citations). Anders Wittrup has collaborated with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Hungary. Frequent co-authors include Judy Lieberman, Mattias Belting, Staffan Sandgren, Matthias Mörgelin, Katrin J. Svensson, Eva Lindqvist, Lena Svensson, Helena C. Christianson, Erika Bourseau-Guilmain and Péter Hamar. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Communications, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, The Journal of Cell Biology and Cancer Research.

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