Belén Calles

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Belén Calles is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Belén Calles has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Genetics and 10 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Belén Calles's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (16 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (7 papers). Belén Calles is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (16 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (7 papers). Belén Calles collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Denmark and United States. Belén Calles's co-authors include Vı́ctor de Lorenzo, Esteban Martínez‐García, Pablo I. Nikel, Alejandro Arce‐Rodríguez, Juhyun Kim, Gonzalo Durante‐Rodríguez, Raúl Platero, Rafael Silva‐Rocha, Aitor de las Heras and Max Chavarría and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, The EMBO Journal and Molecular Cell.

In The Last Decade

Belén Calles

25 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

The Standard European Vector Architecture (SEVA): a coherent platform for the analysis and deployment of complex prokaryotic phenotypes

2012 487 citations Rafael Silva‐Rocha, Esteban Martínez‐García et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Belén Calles Spain	13	803	420	224	128	114	26	1.0k
Tomás Aparicio Spain	12	639 0.8×	333 0.8×	139 0.6×	58 0.5×	132 1.2×	18	780
Raúl Platero Uruguay	11	478 0.6×	220 0.5×	152 0.7×	279 2.2×	92 0.8×	25	828
Martin Krehenbrink United Kingdom	15	533 0.7×	174 0.4×	228 1.0×	173 1.4×	78 0.7×	17	856
Inés Canosa Spain	16	595 0.7×	369 0.9×	226 1.0×	105 0.8×	46 0.4×	23	793
Hortencia Silva‐Jiménez Mexico	12	487 0.6×	237 0.6×	119 0.5×	89 0.7×	70 0.6×	29	852
Warawan Eiamphungporn Thailand	16	463 0.6×	222 0.5×	141 0.6×	109 0.9×	43 0.4×	38	798
Janine Guespin‐Michel France	17	563 0.7×	272 0.6×	223 1.0×	128 1.0×	103 0.9×	54	854
Britta Tjaden Germany	15	795 1.0×	246 0.6×	222 1.0×	64 0.5×	62 0.5×	16	1.0k
Soledad Moreno Mexico	19	506 0.6×	165 0.4×	166 0.7×	163 1.3×	59 0.5×	42	814
Aresa Toukdarian United States	18	539 0.7×	420 1.0×	222 1.0×	178 1.4×	38 0.3×	28	883

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20 of 20 papers shown

Calles, Belén, et al.. (2024). The Structural Permissiveness of Triosephosphate Isomerase (TpiA) of Escherichia coli. ChemBioChem. 26(6). e202400863–e202400863.

Calles, Belén, et al.. (2023). Engineering Green-light-responsive Heterologous Gene Expression in Pseudomonas. Methods in molecular biology. 2721. 35–44. 1 indexed citations

Nikel, Pablo I., Ilaria Benedetti, Nicolas T. Wirth, Vı́ctor de Lorenzo, & Belén Calles. (2022). Standardization of regulatory nodes for engineering heterologous gene expression: a feasibility study. Microbial Biotechnology. 15(8). 2250–2265. 11 indexed citations

Durante‐Rodríguez, Gonzalo, Belén Calles, Vı́ctor de Lorenzo, & Pablo I. Nikel. (2020). A SsrA/NIa-based Strategy for Post-Translational Regulation of Protein Levels in Gram-negative Bacteria. BIO-PROTOCOL. 10(14). e3688–e3688. 1 indexed citations

Calles, Belén, et al.. (2020). The Wsp intermembrane complex mediates metabolic control of the swim‐attach decision of Pseudomonas putida. Environmental Microbiology. 22(8). 3535–3547. 16 indexed citations

Nyerges, Ákos, et al.. (2019). Multiple-Site Diversification of Regulatory Sequences Enables Interspecies Operability of Genetic Devices. ACS Synthetic Biology. 9(1). 104–114. 15 indexed citations

Calles, Belén, et al.. (2019). Gross transcriptomic analysis of Pseudomonas putida for diagnosing environmental shifts. Microbial Biotechnology. 13(1). 263–273. 7 indexed citations

Pérez‐Pantoja, Danilo, et al.. (2018). The Metabolic Redox Regime of Pseudomonas putida Tunes Its Evolvability toward Novel Xenobiotic Substrates. mBio. 9(4). 58 indexed citations

Billerbeck, Sonja, Belén Calles, Christian L. Müller, Vı́ctor de Lorenzo, & Sven Panke. (2013). Towards Functional Orthogonalisation of Protein Complexes: Individualisation of GroEL Monomers Leads to Distinct Quasihomogeneous Single Rings. ChemBioChem. 14(17). 2310–2321. 8 indexed citations

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Calles, Belén & Vı́ctor de Lorenzo. (2013). Expanding the Boolean Logic of the Prokaryotic Transcription Factor XylR by Functionalization of Permissive Sites with a Protease-Target Sequence. ACS Synthetic Biology. 2(10). 594–603. 11 indexed citations

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Silva‐Rocha, Rafael, Esteban Martínez‐García, Belén Calles, et al.. (2012). The Standard European Vector Architecture (SEVA): a coherent platform for the analysis and deployment of complex prokaryotic phenotypes. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(D1). D666–D675. 487 indexed citations breakdown →

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Martínez‐García, Esteban, Belén Calles, Miguel Arévalo-Rodrı́guez, & Vı́ctor de Lorenzo. (2011). pBAM1: an all-synthetic genetic tool for analysis and construction of complex bacterial phenotypes. BMC Microbiology. 11(1). 38–38. 128 indexed citations

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Arce‐Rodríguez, Alejandro, Gonzalo Durante‐Rodríguez, Raúl Platero, et al.. (2011). The Crp regulator of Pseudomonas putida : evidence of an unusually high affinity for its physiological effector, cAMP. Environmental Microbiology. 14(3). 702–713. 13 indexed citations

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Arce‐Rodríguez, Alejandro, et al.. (2010). Regulatory exaptation of the catabolite repression protein (Crp)–cAMP system in Pseudomonas putida. Environmental Microbiology. 13(2). 324–339. 33 indexed citations

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Calles, Belén, et al.. (2004). Detection of Functional Motifs in Biosequences: A Grammatical Inference Approach.. 33(1). 72–75. 1 indexed citations

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Susanna, Kim A., et al.. (2004). Mechanism of Transcription Activation at the comG Promoter by the Competence Transcription Factor ComK of Bacillus subtilis. Journal of Bacteriology. 186(4). 1120–1128. 18 indexed citations

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Calles, Belén, Margarita Salas, & Fernando Rojo. (2002). The φ29 transcriptional regulator contacts the nucleoid protein p6 to organize a repression complex. The EMBO Journal. 21(22). 6185–6194. 12 indexed citations

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Calles, Belén, et al.. (2001). A mutation in the C-terminal domain of the RNA polymerase alpha subunit that destabilizes the open complexes formed at the phage φ29 late A3 promoter. Journal of Molecular Biology. 307(2). 487–497. 6 indexed citations

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Monsalve, Marı́a, Belén Calles, Mario Mencı́a, Fernando Rojo, & Margarita Salas. (1998). Binding of phage Φ29 protein p4 to the early A2c promoter: recruitment of a repressor by the RNA polymerase. Journal of Molecular Biology. 283(3). 559–569. 21 indexed citations

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Monsalve, Marı́a, Belén Calles, Mario Mencı́a, Margarita Salas, & Fernando Rojo. (1997). Transcription Activation or Repression by Phage Φ29 Protein p4 Depends on the Strength of the RNA Polymerase–Promoter Interactions. Molecular Cell. 1(1). 99–107. 55 indexed citations

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