Asunción Contreras

2.0k total citations
49 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Asunción Contreras is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Asunción Contreras has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 15 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Asunción Contreras's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (33 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (14 papers) and Algal biology and biofuel production (13 papers). Asunción Contreras is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (33 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (14 papers) and Algal biology and biofuel production (13 papers). Asunción Contreras collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Germany and United Kingdom. Asunción Contreras's co-authors include Javier Espinosa, Karl Forchhammer, Martin Drummond, Sergio Burillo‐Sanz, Paloma Salinas, Vicente Rubio, Ignacio Luque, J.L. Llacer, Raquel Cantos and Lesley A. Mitchenall and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Asunción Contreras

48 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Asunción Contreras Spain 23 1.3k 494 434 289 281 49 1.6k
Kevin M. Carr United States 16 1.1k 0.8× 176 0.4× 223 0.5× 446 1.5× 495 1.8× 19 1.5k
Agustı́n Vioque Spain 23 1.8k 1.4× 538 1.1× 500 1.2× 139 0.5× 288 1.0× 67 1.9k
David Dauvillée France 29 1.2k 0.9× 867 1.8× 247 0.6× 632 2.2× 79 0.3× 49 2.2k
С. В. Шестаков Russia 20 1.3k 1.0× 646 1.3× 305 0.7× 233 0.8× 45 0.2× 66 1.6k
Philip D. Weyman United States 20 702 0.5× 430 0.9× 260 0.6× 258 0.9× 97 0.3× 31 1.1k
Erhard Mörschel Germany 16 791 0.6× 276 0.6× 276 0.6× 122 0.4× 89 0.3× 26 1.0k
Francisco J. Murillo Spain 29 1.4k 1.1× 279 0.6× 210 0.5× 202 0.7× 419 1.5× 61 1.8k
Stephan Klähn Germany 24 1.4k 1.1× 794 1.6× 658 1.5× 171 0.6× 60 0.2× 47 1.7k
Sylvie Bédu France 13 610 0.5× 259 0.5× 239 0.6× 166 0.6× 63 0.2× 22 838
Rüdiger Cerff Germany 21 1.1k 0.9× 167 0.3× 286 0.7× 393 1.4× 48 0.2× 34 1.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Asunción Contreras

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Asunción Contreras

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Asunción Contreras. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Asunción Contreras based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Asunción Contreras. Asunción Contreras is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Neira, José L., et al.. (2025). Temperature changes are signaled in cyanobacteria through the PipX interaction network. Frontiers in Microbiology. 16. 1688974–1688974.
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Salinas, Paloma, et al.. (2024). Studies on the PII-PipX-NtcA Regulatory Axis of Cyanobacteria Provide Novel Insights into the Advantages and Limitations of Two-Hybrid Systems for Protein Interactions. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(10). 5429–5429. 2 indexed citations
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Cantos, Raquel, et al.. (2023). The Signal Transduction Protein PII Controls the Levels of the Cyanobacterial Protein PipX. Microorganisms. 11(10). 2379–2379. 4 indexed citations
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Rubio, Vicente, et al.. (2022). The Conserved Family of the Pyridoxal Phosphate-Binding Protein (PLPBP) and Its Cyanobacterial Paradigm PipY. Life. 12(10). 1622–1622. 3 indexed citations
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Salinas, Paloma, et al.. (2021). Regulatory Connections Between the Cyanobacterial Factor PipX and the Ribosome Assembly GTPase EngA. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 781760–781760. 8 indexed citations
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Selim, Khaled A., Clara Marco‐Marín, Vikram Alva, et al.. (2020). Functional and structural characterization of PII‐like protein CutA does not support involvement in heavy metal tolerance and hints at a small‐molecule carrying/signaling role. FEBS Journal. 288(4). 1142–1162. 11 indexed citations
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Espinosa, Javier, et al.. (2016). Expanding the Cyanobacterial Nitrogen Regulatory Network: The GntR-Like Regulator PlmA Interacts with the PII-PipX Complex. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1677–1677. 25 indexed citations
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Espinosa, Javier, et al.. (2012). Insights into the mechanism of activation of the phosphorylation-independent response regulator NblR. Role of residues Cys69 and Cys96. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. 1819(5). 382–390. 5 indexed citations
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Espinosa, Javier, et al.. (2012). Mutational Analysis of the Cyanobacterial Nitrogen Regulator PipX. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e35845–e35845. 20 indexed citations
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Contreras, Asunción, et al.. (2010). The regulatory factor SipA is a highly stable β‐II class protein with a SH3 fold. FEBS Letters. 584(5). 989–994. 7 indexed citations
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Burillo‐Sanz, Sergio, et al.. (2004). Interactions between the Nitrogen Signal Transduction Protein PII and N -Acetyl Glutamate Kinase in Organisms That Perform Oxygenic Photosynthesis. Journal of Bacteriology. 186(11). 3346–3354. 106 indexed citations
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Salinas, Paloma & Asunción Contreras. (2003). Identification and analysis of Escherichia coli proteins that interact with the histidine kinase NtrB in a yeast two-hybrid system. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 269(4). 574–581. 10 indexed citations
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Martínez‐Argudo, Isabel, José Martín‐Nieto, Paloma Salinas, et al.. (2001). Two‐hybrid analysis of domain interactions involving NtrB and NtrC two‐component regulators. Molecular Microbiology. 40(1). 169–178. 30 indexed citations
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Luque, Ignacio, Gérald Zabulon, Asunción Contreras, & Jean Houmard. (2001). Convergence of two global transcriptional regulators on nitrogen induction of the stress‐acclimation gene nblA in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942. Molecular Microbiology. 41(4). 937–947. 57 indexed citations
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Contreras, Asunción, Søren Molin, & Juan L. Ramos. (1991). Conditional-Suicide Containment System for Bacteria Which Mineralize Aromatics. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 57(5). 1504–1508. 70 indexed citations
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Contreras, Asunción, Rafaël Maldonado, & Josep Casadesús. (1991). Tn5 mutagenesis and insertion replacement in Azotobacter vinelandii. Plasmid. 25(1). 76–80. 7 indexed citations
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Contreras, Asunción & Martin Drummond. (1991). Cys184 and Cys187 of NifL protein of Klebsiella pneumoniae are not absolutely required for inhibition of NifA activity. Gene. 103(1). 83–86. 9 indexed citations
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Drummond, Martin, Asunción Contreras, & Lesley A. Mitchenall. (1990). The function of isolated domains and chimaeric proteins constructed from the transcriptional activators NifA and NtrC of Klebsiella pneumoniae. Molecular Microbiology. 4(1). 29–37. 91 indexed citations

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