Axel A. Brakhage

30.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
336 papers, 19.4k citations indexed

About

Axel A. Brakhage is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Axel A. Brakhage has authored 336 papers receiving a total of 19.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 175 papers in Molecular Biology, 138 papers in Infectious Diseases and 134 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Axel A. Brakhage's work include Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (138 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (105 papers) and Fungal and yeast genetics research (84 papers). Axel A. Brakhage is often cited by papers focused on Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (138 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (105 papers) and Fungal and yeast genetics research (84 papers). Axel A. Brakhage collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Axel A. Brakhage's co-authors include Thorsten Heinekamp, Olaf Kniemeyer, Volker Schroeckh, Christian Hertweck, Vito Valiante, Kirstin Scherlach, Kim Langfelder, Bernhard Jahn, Daniel H. Scharf and Peter Hortschansky and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Axel A. Brakhage

329 papers receiving 19.2k citations

Hit Papers

Regulation of fungal seco... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2012 2009 2010 2009 2016 250 500 750
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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.

  1. Regulation of fungal secondary metabolism
    2012 768 citations Axel A. Brakhage profile →
  2. Surface hydrophobin prevents immune recognition of airborne fungal spores
    2009 581 citations Vishukumar Aimanianda, Jagadeesh Bayry et al. profile →
  3. Fungal secondary metabolites – Strategies to activate silent gene clusters
    2010 500 citations Axel A. Brakhage, Volker Schroeckh profile →
  4. Intimate bacterial–fungal interaction triggers biosynthesis of archetypal polyketides in Aspergillus nidulans
    2009 493 citations Volker Schroeckh, Kirstin Scherlach et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. Regulation and Role of Fungal Secondary Metabolites
    2016 298 citations Juliane Fischer, Tina Netzker et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Axel A. Brakhage Germany 76 9.1k 6.8k 5.9k 5.7k 3.3k 336 19.4k
Nancy P. Keller United States 86 13.0k 1.4× 11.3k 1.7× 2.7k 0.5× 12.5k 2.2× 1.2k 0.4× 339 26.5k
David E. Minnikin United Kingdom 50 12.2k 1.3× 2.5k 0.4× 2.9k 0.5× 3.0k 0.5× 3.1k 0.9× 223 17.3k
Neil A. R. Gow United Kingdom 91 10.9k 1.2× 2.3k 0.3× 19.0k 3.2× 7.5k 1.3× 13.5k 4.0× 360 31.5k
Hubertus Haas Austria 58 5.4k 0.6× 2.5k 0.4× 3.2k 0.5× 4.0k 0.7× 1.6k 0.5× 210 11.4k
Lorenza Bordoli Switzerland 20 15.3k 1.7× 1.2k 0.2× 2.0k 0.3× 3.2k 0.6× 1.6k 0.5× 23 24.1k
Gustavo H. Goldman Brazil 53 5.3k 0.6× 1.8k 0.3× 3.2k 0.5× 3.7k 0.6× 2.1k 0.6× 312 10.3k
Joseph Heitman United States 111 19.9k 2.2× 3.7k 0.5× 13.8k 2.3× 12.2k 2.1× 16.6k 5.0× 503 39.2k
Alistair J. P. Brown United Kingdom 74 8.3k 0.9× 1.2k 0.2× 10.3k 1.7× 3.0k 0.5× 6.8k 2.0× 251 17.2k
Andrew Waterhouse Switzerland 14 13.9k 1.5× 921 0.1× 2.0k 0.3× 3.3k 0.6× 1.6k 0.5× 16 22.1k
Frans M. Klis Netherlands 67 9.3k 1.0× 904 0.1× 4.0k 0.7× 5.6k 1.0× 2.7k 0.8× 161 14.6k

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All Works

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Straßburger, Maria, Bastian Seelbinder, Sándor Nietzsche, et al.. (2025). The murine lung microbiome is disbalanced by the human-pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus resulting in enrichment of anaerobic bacteria. Cell Reports. 44(3). 115442–115442. 1 indexed citations
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Melamed, Sahar, Michaela Huber, Thomas Krüger, et al.. (2024). ProQ-associated small RNAs control motility in Vibrio cholerae. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(4). 4 indexed citations
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Schmidt, Franziska, Zoltán Cseresnyés, Thomas Orasch, et al.. (2023). The Lipid Raft-Associated Protein Stomatin Is Required for Accumulation of Dectin-1 in the Phagosomal Membrane and for Full Activity of Macrophages against Aspergillus fumigatus. mSphere. 8(1). e0052322–e0052322. 7 indexed citations
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Krüger, Thomas, Xiaoqing Pan, Sascha Schäuble, et al.. (2023). Disruption of the Aspergillus fumigatus RNA interference machinery alters the conidial transcriptome. RNA. 29(7). 1033–1050. 2 indexed citations
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Krüger, Thomas, et al.. (2022). PLB-985 Neutrophil-Like Cells as a Model To Study Aspergillus fumigatus Pathogenesis. mSphere. 7(1). e0094021–e0094021. 10 indexed citations
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Hortschansky, Peter, Petra Merschak, Michael Bromley, et al.. (2022). Azole Resistance-Associated Regulatory Motifs within the Promoter of cyp51A in Aspergillus fumigatus. Microbiology Spectrum. 10(3). e0120922–e0120922. 10 indexed citations
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Ueberschaar, Nico, Thomas Krüger, Olaf Kniemeyer, et al.. (2022). Salt and Metal Tolerance Involves Formation of Guttation Droplets in Species of the Aspergillus versicolor Complex. Genes. 13(9). 1631–1631. 4 indexed citations
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Scherlach, Kirstin, Daniel H. Scharf, Axel A. Brakhage, et al.. (2021). Strukturelle und mechanistische Einblicke in die Bildung der C‐S‐Bindungen in Gliotoxin. Angewandte Chemie. 133(25). 14307–14314. 1 indexed citations
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Ewald, Jan, et al.. (2021). Dynamic optimization reveals alveolar epithelial cells as key mediators of host defense in invasive aspergillosis. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(12). e1009645–e1009645. 13 indexed citations
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Gostinčar, Cene, Patrick Rabe, Immo Burkhardt, et al.. (2021). The Termite Fungal Cultivar Termitomyces Combines Diverse Enzymes and Oxidative Reactions for Plant Biomass Conversion. mBio. 12(3). e0355120–e0355120. 22 indexed citations
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Hortschansky, Peter, Matthias Misslinger, Fabio Gsaller, et al.. (2020). Structural basis of HapEP88L-linked antifungal triazole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus. Life Science Alliance. 3(7). e202000729–e202000729. 18 indexed citations
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Jia, Lei‐Jie, Thomas Krüger, Matthew G. Blango, et al.. (2020). Biotinylated Surfome Profiling Identifies Potential Biomarkers for Diagnosis and Therapy of Aspergillus fumigatus Infection. mSphere. 5(4). 9 indexed citations
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Belyaev, I. A., Prasad Dasari, Susanne Jahreis, et al.. (2020). Human Neutrophils Produce Antifungal Extracellular Vesicles against Aspergillus fumigatus. mBio. 11(2). 54 indexed citations
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Fischer, Juliane, Sebastian Müller, Tina Netzker, et al.. (2018). Chromatin mapping identifies BasR, a key regulator of bacteria-triggered production of fungal secondary metabolites. eLife. 7. 47 indexed citations
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Gsaller, Fabio, Peter Hortschansky, Sarah R. Beattie, et al.. (2014). The J anus transcription factor H ap X controls fungal adaptation to both iron starvation and iron excess. The EMBO Journal. 33(19). 2261–2276. 109 indexed citations
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Bayry, Jagadeesh, Audrey Beaussart, Yves F. Dufrêne, et al.. (2014). Surface Structure Characterization of Aspergillus fumigatus Conidia Mutated in the Melanin Synthesis Pathway and Their Human Cellular Immune Response. Infection and Immunity. 82(8). 3141–3153. 92 indexed citations
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Nützmann, Hans‐Wilhelm, Yazmid Reyes-Domínguez, Kirstin Scherlach, et al.. (2011). Bacteria-induced natural product formation in the fungus Aspergillus nidulans requires Saga/Ada-mediated histone acetylation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(34). 14282–14287. 253 indexed citations
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Schroeckh, Volker, Kirstin Scherlach, Hans‐Wilhelm Nützmann, et al.. (2009). Intimate bacterial–fungal interaction triggers biosynthesis of archetypal polyketides in Aspergillus nidulans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(34). 14558–14563. 493 indexed citations breakdown →
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Thön, Marcel, Qusai Al Abdallah, Peter Hortschansky, & Axel A. Brakhage. (2007). The Thioredoxin System of the Filamentous Fungus Aspergillus nidulans. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(37). 27259–27269. 88 indexed citations
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Spröte, Petra & Axel A. Brakhage. (2007). The light-dependent regulator velvet A of Aspergillus nidulans acts as a repressor of the penicillin biosynthesis. Archives of Microbiology. 188(1). 69–79. 53 indexed citations

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