Birgit Schäfer

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Birgit Schäfer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Birgit Schäfer has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Oncology and 5 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Birgit Schäfer's work include Cancer-related Molecular Pathways (11 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers) and Cancer Research and Treatments (4 papers). Birgit Schäfer is often cited by papers focused on Cancer-related Molecular Pathways (11 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers) and Cancer Research and Treatments (4 papers). Birgit Schäfer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Birgit Schäfer's co-authors include Volker Dötsch, Ursula M. Gehling, Walter Fiedler, Christoph Wagener, K Kluge, Süleyman Ergün, Marcus Otte, Philippe Schafhausen, Thorsten Mende and Udo Schumacher and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Birgit Schäfer

33 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

In vitro differentiation of endothelial cells from AC133-positive progenitor cells

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Birgit Schäfer Germany	21	1.5k	537	244	230	205	33	2.1k
Hernán Carol United States	35	1.7k 1.1×	956 1.8×	244 1.0×	400 1.7×	91 0.4×	93	3.0k
Kristy L. Richards United States	29	1.3k 0.8×	760 1.4×	422 1.7×	324 1.4×	115 0.6×	86	2.9k
Sharon L. Aukerman United States	26	1.4k 0.9×	689 1.3×	198 0.8×	303 1.3×	199 1.0×	51	2.6k
Janardhan Sampath United States	14	1.7k 1.1×	1.6k 2.9×	427 1.8×	389 1.7×	334 1.6×	16	3.1k
Juhani Saarinen Finland	25	1.1k 0.7×	271 0.5×	403 1.7×	209 0.9×	281 1.4×	37	2.4k
Patricia Chévez‐Barrios United States	28	737 0.5×	582 1.1×	215 0.9×	182 0.8×	263 1.3×	144	2.8k
Li-Zhi Mi United States	20	1.5k 1.0×	597 1.1×	94 0.4×	162 0.7×	202 1.0×	30	2.6k
Olaf Heidenreich United Kingdom	36	3.0k 1.9×	613 1.1×	203 0.8×	491 2.1×	102 0.5×	136	4.1k
César Cobaleda Spain	21	1.3k 0.8×	695 1.3×	193 0.8×	294 1.3×	90 0.4×	60	2.7k
Marja‐Liisa Huhtala Finland	21	714 0.5×	393 0.7×	148 0.6×	276 1.2×	232 1.1×	31	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Birgit Schäfer

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Strubel, Alexander, Marco Mernberger, Christian Osterburg, et al.. (2025). DARPin-induced reactivation of p53 in HPV-positive cells. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 32(5). 790–801. 1 indexed citations

Zielinski, Jan M., Alexander Strubel, Birgit Dreier, et al.. (2024). DARPins as a novel tool to detect and degrade p73. Cell Death and Disease. 15(12). 909–909. 1 indexed citations

Strubel, Alexander, Oliver Hartmann, A. Chaikuad, et al.. (2023). DARPins detect the formation of hetero-tetramers of p63 and p73 in epithelial tissues and in squamous cell carcinoma. Cell Death and Disease. 14(10). 674–674. 7 indexed citations

Strubel, Alexander, A. Chaikuad, Birgit Dreier, et al.. (2022). Designed Ankyrin Repeat Proteins as a tool box for analyzing p63. Cell Death and Differentiation. 29(12). 2445–2458. 6 indexed citations

Osterburg, Christian, Jakob Gebel, Georg Tascher, et al.. (2019). TA*p63 and GTAp63 achieve tighter transcriptional regulation in quality control by converting an inhibitory element into an additional transactivation domain. Cell Death and Disease. 10(10). 686–686. 11 indexed citations

Tuppi, Marcel, Sebastian Kehrloesser, Daniel Coutandin, et al.. (2018). Oocyte DNA damage quality control requires consecutive interplay of CHK2 and CK1 to activate p63. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 25(3). 261–269. 119 indexed citations

Osterburg, Christian, Dario Antonini, Raffaele Ambrosio, et al.. (2018). Protein aggregation of the p63 transcription factor underlies severe skin fragility in AEC syndrome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(5). E906–E915. 36 indexed citations

Gebel, Jakob, Marcel Tuppi, Frank Löhr, et al.. (2018). Regulation of the Activity in the p53 Family Depends on the Organization of the Transactivation Domain. Structure. 26(8). 1091–1100.e4. 19 indexed citations

Stoffel, Michael, et al.. (2018). Structural characterization of four different naturally occurring porcine collagen membranes suitable for medical applications. PLoS ONE. 13(10). e0205027–e0205027. 30 indexed citations

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Coutandin, Daniel, Christian Osterburg, Ratnesh Kumar Srivastav, et al.. (2016). Quality control in oocytes by p63 is based on a spring-loaded activation mechanism on the molecular and cellular level. eLife. 5. 53 indexed citations

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Kehrloesser, Sebastian, Christian Osterburg, Marcel Tuppi, et al.. (2016). Intrinsic aggregation propensity of the p63 and p73 TI domains correlates with p53R175H interaction and suggests further significance of aggregation events in the p53 family. Cell Death and Differentiation. 23(12). 1952–1960. 42 indexed citations

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Modrof, Jens, et al.. (2014). Reduction of spiked porcine circovirus during the manufacture of a Vero cell-derived vaccine. Vaccine. 32(18). 2056–2061. 11 indexed citations

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Schäfer, Birgit, Georg W. Holzer, Michael G. Schwendinger, et al.. (2011). Pre-Clinical Efficacy and Safety of Experimental Vaccines Based on Non-Replicating Vaccinia Vectors against Yellow Fever. PLoS ONE. 6(9). e24505–e24505. 25 indexed citations

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Zielonka, Elisabeth M., Daniel Coutandin, Tobias Weber, et al.. (2011). DNA Damage in Oocytes Induces a Switch of the Quality Control Factor TAp63α from Dimer to Tetramer. Cell. 144(4). 566–576. 115 indexed citations

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Junge, Friederike, Laura M. Luh, Davide Proverbio, et al.. (2010). Modulation of G-protein coupled receptor sample quality by modified cell-free expression protocols: A case study of the human endothelin A receptor. Journal of Structural Biology. 172(1). 94–106. 37 indexed citations

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Schäfer, Birgit, et al.. (2006). Inhibition of Multidrug‐Resistant HIV‐1 by Interference with Cellular S‐adenosylmethionine Decarboxylase Activity. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 194(6). 740–750. 20 indexed citations

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Koglin, Alexander, Christian Klammt, Nikola Trbovic, et al.. (2006). Combination of cell-free expression and NMR spectroscopy as a new approach for structural investigation of membrane proteins. Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry. 44(S1). S17–S23. 28 indexed citations

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Klammt, Christian, Frank Löhr, Birgit Schäfer, et al.. (2004). High level cell‐free expression and specific labeling of integral membrane proteins. European Journal of Biochemistry. 271(3). 568–580. 196 indexed citations

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Pristovšek, Primož, Kaushik Sengupta, Frank Löhr, et al.. (2003). Structural Analysis of the DNA-binding Domain of theErwinia amylovora RcsB Protein and Its Interaction with the RcsAB Box. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(20). 17752–17759. 58 indexed citations

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Schäfer, Birgit, et al.. (1997). Fibroblast-directed expression and localization of 92-kDa type IV collagenase along the tumor-stroma interface in an in vitro three-dimensional model of human squamous cell carcinoma. Molecular Carcinogenesis. 19(4). 258–266. 27 indexed citations

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