Athanasios Typas

16.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
77 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Athanasios Typas is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Athanasios Typas has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Molecular Biology, 38 papers in Genetics and 21 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Athanasios Typas's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (35 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (18 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (17 papers). Athanasios Typas is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (35 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (18 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (17 papers). Athanasios Typas collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Athanasios Typas's co-authors include Carol A. Gross, Manuel Banzhaf, Waldemar Vollmer, Peer Bork, Regine Hengge, Kiran Raosaheb Patil, Ana Rita Brochado, Lisa Maier, Georg Zeller and Michael Kuhn and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Athanasios Typas

76 papers receiving 8.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Extensive impact of non-antibiotic drugs on human gut bacteria

2018 1.3k citations Lisa Maier, Mihaela Pruteanu et al. profile →
From the regulation of peptidoglycan synthesis to bacterial growth and morphology

2011 932 citations Athanasios Typas, Manuel Banzhaf et al. profile →
Phenotypic Landscape of a Bacterial Cell

2010 509 citations Pedro Beltrão, Matylda Zietek et al. profile →
Construction and Analysis of Two Genome-Scale Deletion Libraries for Bacillus subtilis

2017 414 citations George Kritikos, Marco Galardini et al. profile →
Species-specific activity of antibacterial drug combinations

2018 267 citations Ana Rita Brochado, Jacob Bobonis et al. profile →
A Dual-Mechanism Antibiotic Kills Gram-Negative Bacteria and Avoids Drug Resistance

2020 259 citations André Mateus, Athanasios Typas et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Athanasios Typas Germany	40	5.8k	2.7k	1.4k	1.1k	852	77	8.4k
Michael A. Kohanski United States	26	3.9k 0.7×	1.6k 0.6×	673 0.5×	2.1k 1.9×	879 1.0×	107	8.6k
Maria A. Schumacher United States	50	6.0k 1.0×	3.1k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	893 0.8×	697 0.8×	145	8.2k
Laurence G. Rahme United States	53	7.2k 1.2×	2.5k 0.9×	962 0.7×	2.8k 2.6×	798 0.9×	119	11.3k
Volkhard Kaever Germany	48	4.4k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	593 0.4×	633 0.6×	906 1.1×	204	7.7k
George F. Mayhew United States	20	5.7k 1.0×	3.5k 1.3×	1.9k 1.4×	737 0.7×	932 1.1×	26	9.2k
Dominique Mengin‐Lecreulx France	59	5.2k 0.9×	3.0k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	167	10.1k
Haike Antelmann Germany	51	5.3k 0.9×	2.7k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	375 0.3×	805 0.9×	127	8.0k
Kazuhisa Sekimizu Japan	53	6.7k 1.2×	2.7k 1.0×	701 0.5×	547 0.5×	1.4k 1.6×	372	10.6k
Karina B. Xavier Portugal	33	4.1k 0.7×	1.7k 0.6×	671 0.5×	658 0.6×	662 0.8×	60	5.4k
Tyrrell Conway United States	51	6.2k 1.1×	2.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	543 0.5×	1.0k 1.2×	112	8.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Athanasios Typas

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Miguel, Amanda, Matylda Zietek, Handuo Shi, et al.. (2025). Modulation of bacterial cell size and growth rate via activation of a cell envelope stress response. mBio. 16(11). e0228125–e0228125. 1 indexed citations

Shi, Handuo, et al.. (2025). Harnessing gut microbial communities to unravel microbiome functions. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 83. 102578–102578. 2 indexed citations

Zietek, Matylda, Amanda Miguel, Handuo Shi, et al.. (2025). Bacterial cell widening alters periplasmic size and activates envelope stress responses. The EMBO Journal. 44(20). 5816–5833. 1 indexed citations

Jendrusch, Michael, Elisabetta Cacace, Jacob Bobonis, et al.. (2025). AlphaDesign: a de novo protein design framework based on AlphaFold. Molecular Systems Biology. 21(9). 1166–1189. 3 indexed citations

Aliashkevich, Alena, Laura Álvarez, André Mateus, et al.. (2024). LD-transpeptidation is crucial for fitness and polar growth in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. PLoS Genetics. 20(10). e1011449–e1011449.

Khusainov, Iskander, Natalie Romanov, Camille Goemans, et al.. (2024). Bactericidal effect of tetracycline in E. coli strain ED1a may be associated with ribosome dysfunction. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4783–4783. 8 indexed citations

Bobonis, Jacob, et al.. (2024). TAC–TIC, a high-throughput genetics method to identify triggers or blockers of bacterial toxin–antitoxin systems. Nature Protocols. 19(8). 2231–2249. 6 indexed citations

Irazoki, Oihane, Josy ter Beek, Laura Álvarez, et al.. (2023). d-amino acids signal a stress-dependent run-away response in Vibrio cholerae. Nature Microbiology. 8(8). 1549–1560. 18 indexed citations

Mitosch, Karin, Prasad Phapale, Bernhard Drotleff, et al.. (2023). A pathogen-specific isotope tracing approach reveals metabolic activities and fluxes of intracellular Salmonella. PLoS Biology. 21(8). e3002198–e3002198. 10 indexed citations

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Müller, Patrick, Jacobo de la Cuesta‐Zuluaga, Michael Kuhn, et al.. (2023). High-throughput anaerobic screening for identifying compounds acting against gut bacteria in monocultures or communities. Nature Protocols. 19(3). 668–699. 14 indexed citations

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Cacace, Elisabetta, Vladislav Kim, Vallo Varik, et al.. (2023). Systematic analysis of drug combinations against Gram-positive bacteria. Nature Microbiology. 8(11). 2196–2212. 31 indexed citations

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Cendejas‐Bueno, Emilio, Dhananjay Shinde, André Mateus, et al.. (2022). Transient Glycolytic Complexation of Arsenate Enhances Resistance in the Enteropathogen Vibrio cholerae. mBio. 13(5). e0165422–e0165422. 4 indexed citations

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Verheul, Jolanda, Hamish C. L. Yau, Alexandra S. Solovyova, et al.. (2022). Early midcell localization of Escherichia coli PBP4 supports the function of peptidoglycan amidases. PLoS Genetics. 18(5). e1010222–e1010222. 9 indexed citations

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Periwal, Vinita, Sergej Andrejev, Natalia Gabrielli, et al.. (2022). Bioactivity assessment of natural compounds using machine learning models trained on target similarity between drugs. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(4). e1010029–e1010029. 28 indexed citations

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Stein, Frank, et al.. (2020). Systematic Localization of Escherichia coli Membrane Proteins. mSystems. 5(2). 20 indexed citations

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Banzhaf, Manuel, Hamish C. L. Yau, Jolanda Verheul, et al.. (2020). Outer membrane lipoprotein NlpI scaffolds peptidoglycan hydrolases within multi‐enzyme complexes in Escherichia coli. The EMBO Journal. 39(5). e102246–e102246. 63 indexed citations

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Galardini, Marco, Bede P. Busby, Cristina Viéitez, et al.. (2019). The impact of the genetic background on gene deletion phenotypes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular Systems Biology. 15(12). e8831–e8831. 41 indexed citations

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Andrejev, Sergej, Mihaela Pruteanu, Martina Klünemann, et al.. (2018). Nutritional preferences of human gut bacteria reveal their metabolic idiosyncrasies. Nature Microbiology. 3(4). 514–522. 179 indexed citations

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Ochoa, David, Robert Lawrence, Bachir El Debs, et al.. (2016). An atlas of human kinase regulation. Molecular Systems Biology. 12(12). 888–888. 69 indexed citations

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Ezraty, Benjamin, Alexandra Vergnes, Manuel Banzhaf, et al.. (2013). Fe-S Cluster Biosynthesis Controls Uptake of Aminoglycosides in a ROS-Less Death Pathway. Science. 340(6140). 1583–1587. 178 indexed citations

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