August Böck

17.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
241 papers, 13.3k citations indexed

About

August Böck is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, August Böck has authored 241 papers receiving a total of 13.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 160 papers in Molecular Biology, 68 papers in Genetics and 55 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in August Böck's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (97 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (65 papers) and Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins (54 papers). August Böck is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (97 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (65 papers) and Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins (54 papers). August Böck collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Belgium. August Böck's co-authors include R. Gary Sawers, Karl Forchhammer, Walfred Leinfelder, F. Zinoni, Johann Heider, Melanie Blokesch, Martin Sauter, Friedrich Lottspeich, Alexander Birkmann and Bernhard Neuhierl and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

August Böck

240 papers receiving 12.4k citations

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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.

Selenocysteine: the 21st amino acid

1991 532 citations August Böck, Karl Forchhammer et al. Molecular Microbiology profile →
Nucleotide sequence and expression of the selenocysteine-containing polypeptide of formate dehydrogenase (formate-hydrogen-lyase-linked) from Escherichia coli.

1986 359 citations F. Zinoni, August Böck et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
August Böck Germany	66	8.1k	3.5k	3.1k	2.1k	1.9k	241	13.3k
Joël H. Weiner Canada	53	4.8k 0.6×	1.1k 0.3×	2.3k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	194	8.9k
R. Gary Sawers Germany	52	4.8k 0.6×	717 0.2×	2.8k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	206	9.3k
Robert P. Hausinger United States	61	7.1k 0.9×	987 0.3×	1.6k 0.5×	596 0.3×	2.8k 1.5×	212	15.5k
Tadayuki Imanaka Japan	58	8.4k 1.0×	958 0.3×	780 0.3×	1.3k 0.6×	2.3k 1.2×	382	12.1k
Karl Forchhammer Germany	56	6.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.3×	2.8k 0.9×	795 0.4×	833 0.4×	197	9.4k
Colin Ratledge United Kingdom	56	8.7k 1.1×	931 0.3×	2.0k 0.7×	1.0k 0.5×	381 0.2×	266	13.8k
Wil N. Konings Netherlands	69	9.8k 1.2×	2.1k 0.6×	325 0.1×	2.7k 1.3×	989 0.5×	318	16.0k
Nobuyoshi Esaki Japan	51	4.9k 0.6×	1.1k 0.3×	872 0.3×	452 0.2×	2.0k 1.1×	284	8.1k
Bruce Demple United States	75	13.3k 1.6×	751 0.2×	625 0.2×	3.4k 1.7×	591 0.3×	181	17.3k
Martin J. Warren United Kingdom	56	7.5k 0.9×	677 0.2×	1.3k 0.4×	654 0.3×	1.3k 0.7×	215	10.7k

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Biefer, Héctor Rodríguez Cetina, August Böck, Miriam Weisskopf, et al.. (2025). Volumetric 3D Printing and Melt‐Electrowriting to Fabricate Implantable Reinforced Cardiac Tissue Patches. Advanced Materials. 37(45). e2504765–e2504765. 5 indexed citations

Böck, August, Paul W. King, Melanie Blokesch, & Matthew C. Posewitz. (2006). Maturation of Hydrogenases. Advances in microbial physiology. 51. 1–225. 273 indexed citations

Blokesch, Melanie & August Böck. (2002). Maturation of [NiFe]-hydrogenases in Escherichia coli: The HypC Cycle. Journal of Molecular Biology. 324(2). 287–296. 79 indexed citations

Köhrle, Josef, Regina Brigelius‐Flohé, August Böck, et al.. (2000). Selenium in Biology: Facts and Medical Perspectives. Biological Chemistry. 381(9-10). 849–64. 264 indexed citations

Magalon, Axel & August Böck. (2000). Dissection of the maturation reactions of the [NiFe] hydrogenase 3 from Escherichia coli taking place after nickel incorporation. FEBS Letters. 473(2). 254–258. 48 indexed citations

Commans, Stéphane & August Böck. (1999). Selenocysteine inserting tRNAs: an overview. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 23(3). 335–351. 112 indexed citations

Atkins, John F., August Böck, Senya Matsufuji, & Raymond F. Gesteland. (1999). 24 Dynamics of the Genetic Code. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 37. 637–673. 14 indexed citations

Hüttenhofer, Alexander & August Böck. (1998). RNA Structures Involved in Selenoprotein Synthesis. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 35. 603–639. 24 indexed citations

Tormay, Peter, Reinhard Wilting, Friedrich Lottspeich, et al.. (1998). Bacterial selenocysteine synthase. European Journal of Biochemistry. 254(3). 655–661. 33 indexed citations

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Wilting, Reinhard, et al.. (1997). Functional expression in Escherichia coli of the Haemophilus influenzae gene coding for selenocysteine-containing selenophosphate synthetase. Archives of Microbiology. 169(1). 71–75. 16 indexed citations

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Hilgenfeld, Rolf, August Böck, & Reinhard Wilting. (1996). Structural model for the selenocysteine-specific elongation factor SelB. Biochimie. 78(11-12). 971–978. 27 indexed citations

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Mayer, Daniel, et al.. (1995). Identification of the transcriptional activator controlling the butanediol fermentation pathway in Klebsiella terrigena. Journal of Bacteriology. 177(18). 5261–5269. 54 indexed citations

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Müller, Sabine, H.-J. Senn, Bernard Gsell, et al.. (1994). The Formation of Diselenide Bridges in Proteins by Incorporation of Selenocysteine Residues: Biosynthesis and Characterization of (Se)2-Thioredoxin. Biochemistry. 33(11). 3404–3412. 140 indexed citations

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Thöny‐Meyer, Linda, August Böck, & Hauke Hennecke. (1992). Prokaryotic polyprotein precursors. FEBS Letters. 307(1). 62–65. 15 indexed citations

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Yang, Danzhou, et al.. (1991). The structure of the gene for ribosomal protein L5 in the archaebacterium Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. Biochimie. 73(6). 679–682. 7 indexed citations

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Böck, August, Karl Forchhammer, Johann Heider, et al.. (1991). Selenocysteine: the 21st amino acid. Molecular Microbiology. 5(3). 515–520. 532 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zehelein, Eva, et al.. (1989). Biochemical and genetic analysis of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli mutants defective in specific incorporation of selenium into formate dehydrogenase and tRNAs.. PubMed. 2(1). 35–44. 36 indexed citations

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Forchhammer, Karl, Walfred Leinfelder, & August Böck. (1989). Identification of a novel translation factor necessary for the incorporation of selenocysteine into protein. Nature. 342(6248). 453–456. 207 indexed citations

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Matheson, A. T., et al.. (1988). The complete amino acid sequence of the ribosomal A protein (L12) from the archaebacterium Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. FEBS Letters. 231(2). 331–335. 11 indexed citations

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Hummel, H. & August Böck. (1987). Thiostrepton resistance mutations in the gene for 23S ribosomal RNA of Halobacteria. Biochimie. 69(8). 857–861. 36 indexed citations

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