Benjamin P. Bratton

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Benjamin P. Bratton is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin P. Bratton has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Genetics and 9 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Benjamin P. Bratton's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (13 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (9 papers) and Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (8 papers). Benjamin P. Bratton is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (13 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (9 papers) and Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (8 papers). Benjamin P. Bratton collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Germany. Benjamin P. Bratton's co-authors include Zemer Gitai, James C. Weisshaar, Joshua W. Shaevitz, Kerwyn Casey Huang, Jeffrey Nguyen, Handuo Shi, Somenath Bakshi, Randy M. Morgenstein, Nikolay Ouzounov and Joseph Sheehan and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin P. Bratton

30 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

A Dual-Mechanism Antibiotic Kills Gram-Negative Bacteria and Avoids Drug Resistance

2020 259 citations James Kirby Martin, Joseph Sheehan et al. Cell profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin P. Bratton United States	17	830	537	310	129	111	30	1.2k
Gabriel Billings United States	10	752 0.9×	398 0.7×	261 0.8×	175 1.4×	56 0.5×	10	1.2k
Yen‐Pang Hsu United States	12	677 0.8×	376 0.7×	309 1.0×	65 0.5×	117 1.1×	15	1.2k
Amanda Miguel United States	9	648 0.8×	550 1.0×	306 1.0×	170 1.3×	74 0.7×	11	1.1k
Handuo Shi United States	20	1.2k 1.4×	709 1.3×	338 1.1×	183 1.4×	62 0.6×	40	1.6k
Itzhak Fishov Israel	21	1.1k 1.3×	799 1.5×	574 1.9×	151 1.2×	152 1.4×	46	1.7k
Srinivas Tekkam United States	9	565 0.7×	310 0.6×	282 0.9×	63 0.5×	113 1.0×	15	1.0k
Anke Treuner‐Lange Germany	20	1.0k 1.2×	657 1.2×	409 1.3×	183 1.4×	70 0.6×	36	1.4k
Jörg H. Kleinschmidt Germany	29	1.9k 2.2×	680 1.3×	138 0.4×	145 1.1×	117 1.1×	52	2.2k
Cécile Morlot France	20	698 0.8×	456 0.8×	266 0.9×	50 0.4×	144 1.3×	44	1.3k
Ellen M. Quardokus United States	18	1.2k 1.5×	935 1.7×	475 1.5×	255 2.0×	52 0.5×	26	1.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bratton, Benjamin P., Morgan Delarue, Joseph Sheehan, et al.. (2025). Macromolecular interactions and geometrical confinement determine the 3D diffusion of ribosome-sized particles in live Escherichia coli cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(4). e2406340121–e2406340121. 3 indexed citations

Bratton, Benjamin P., et al.. (2024). Evolution of pH-sensitive transcription termination in Escherichia coli during adaptation to repeated long-term starvation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(39). e2405546121–e2405546121. 3 indexed citations

Gupta, Meera, Randi L. Guest, Hsin‐Jung Li, et al.. (2024). Global protein turnover quantification in Escherichia coli reveals cytoplasmic recycling under nitrogen limitation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5890–5890. 5 indexed citations

Islam, Salim T., Akeisha M. Belgrave, Lætitia My, et al.. (2023). Unmasking of the von Willebrand A-domain surface adhesin CglB at bacterial focal adhesions mediates myxobacterial gliding motility. Science Advances. 9(8). eabq0619–eabq0619. 16 indexed citations

Bratton, Benjamin P., Jaime G Lopez, Aimee Payne, et al.. (2023). Bacterial DNA on the skin surface overrepresents the viable skin microbiome. eLife. 12. 28 indexed citations

Bratton, Benjamin P., Jaime G Lopez, Aimee Payne, et al.. (2023). Bacterial DNA on the skin surface overrepresents the viable skin microbiome. eLife. 12. 1 indexed citations

Sichel, Sophie R, Benjamin P. Bratton, & Nina R. Salama. (2022). Distinct regions of H. pylori’s bactofilin CcmA regulate protein–protein interactions to control helical cell shape. eLife. 11. 10 indexed citations

Bratton, Benjamin P., et al.. (2022). Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical blood isolates display significant phenotypic variability. PLoS ONE. 17(7). e0270576–e0270576. 9 indexed citations

Sugimoto, Yuki, Benjamin P. Bratton, Courtney K. Ellison, et al.. (2021). Pseudomonas aeruginosa detachment from surfaces via a self-made small molecule. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 296. 100279–100279. 9 indexed citations

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Martin, Nicholas R., et al.. (2021). CrvA and CrvB form a curvature-inducing module sufficient to induce cell-shape complexity in Gram-negative bacteria. Nature Microbiology. 6(7). 910–920. 10 indexed citations

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Martin, James Kirby, Joseph Sheehan, Benjamin P. Bratton, et al.. (2020). A Dual-Mechanism Antibiotic Kills Gram-Negative Bacteria and Avoids Drug Resistance. Cell. 181(7). 1518–1532.e14. 259 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bratton, Benjamin P., et al.. (2019). Three-dimensional Imaging of Bacterial Cells for Accurate Cellular Representations and Precise Protein Localization. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 1 indexed citations

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Sanfilippo, Joseph E., Alexander Lorestani, Matthias D. Koch, et al.. (2019). Microfluidic-based transcriptomics reveal force-independent bacterial rheosensing. Nature Microbiology. 4(8). 1274–1281. 55 indexed citations

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Guzzo, Mathilde, Séan Murray, Sébastien Lhospice, et al.. (2018). A gated relaxation oscillator mediated by FrzX controls morphogenetic movements in Myxococcus xanthus. Nature Microbiology. 3(8). 948–959. 32 indexed citations

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Shi, Handuo, Benjamin P. Bratton, Zemer Gitai, & Kerwyn Casey Huang. (2018). How to Build a Bacterial Cell: MreB as the Foreman of E. coli Construction. Cell. 172(6). 1294–1305. 116 indexed citations

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Bratton, Benjamin P., et al.. (2017). The effect of antibiotics on protein diffusion in the Escherichia coli cytoplasmic membrane. PLoS ONE. 12(10). e0185810–e0185810. 1 indexed citations

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Bratton, Benjamin P., Amanda Miguel, Ying Sheng, et al.. (2017). A Periplasmic Polymer Curves Vibrio cholerae and Promotes Pathogenesis. Cell. 168(1-2). 172–185.e15. 68 indexed citations

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Gaál, Tamás, et al.. (2016). Colocalization of distant chromosomal loci in space in E. coli: a bacterial nucleolus. Genes & Development. 30(20). 2272–2285. 45 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Jeffrey, Benjamin P. Bratton, & Joshua W. Shaevitz. (2016). Biophysical Measurements of Bacterial Cell Shape. Methods in molecular biology. 1440. 227–245. 1 indexed citations

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Bakshi, Somenath, Benjamin P. Bratton, & James C. Weisshaar. (2011). Subdiffraction-Limit Study of Kaede Diffusion and Spatial Distribution in Live Escherichia coli. Biophysical Journal. 101(10). 2535–2544. 59 indexed citations

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