Bruk Mensa

917 total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 623 citations indexed

About

Bruk Mensa is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruk Mensa has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 623 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Microbiology and 2 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Bruk Mensa's work include Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (4 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (3 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers). Bruk Mensa is often cited by papers focused on Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (4 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (3 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers). Bruk Mensa collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Israel. Bruk Mensa's co-authors include William F. DeGrado, Nathan W. Schmidt, Richard W. Scott, Shira Shaham‐Niv, Linda J. W. Shimon, Lee Schnaider, Lihi Adler‐Abramovich, Darya Bychenko, Sofiya Kolusheva and Sayanti Brahmachari and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Bruk Mensa

8 papers receiving 620 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Self-assembling dipeptide antibacterial nanostructures with membrane disrupting activity

2017 349 citations Lee Schnaider, Sayanti Brahmachari et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bruk Mensa United States	7	318	312	207	188	69	8	623
Esteban Nicolás Lorenzón Brazil	18	423 1.3×	441 1.4×	101 0.5×	106 0.6×	111 1.6×	32	829
Lukas Boge Sweden	9	255 0.8×	396 1.3×	160 0.8×	122 0.6×	62 0.9×	10	660
Merete Skar Norway	12	413 1.3×	457 1.5×	172 0.8×	91 0.5×	50 0.7×	14	809
Zhenheng Lai China	13	627 2.0×	521 1.7×	162 0.8×	106 0.6×	49 0.7×	19	818
Randi Nordström Sweden	12	377 1.2×	360 1.2×	176 0.9×	118 0.6×	100 1.4×	14	706
Josefine Eilsø Nielsen Norway	13	264 0.8×	327 1.0×	111 0.5×	64 0.3×	40 0.6×	26	496
Rossella Tarallo Italy	12	115 0.4×	361 1.2×	85 0.4×	100 0.5×	51 0.7×	15	621
Damian Neubauer Poland	18	585 1.8×	555 1.8×	161 0.8×	55 0.3×	61 0.9×	46	914
Bee‐Ha Gan Switzerland	15	546 1.7×	612 2.0×	239 1.2×	54 0.3×	63 0.9×	19	885
Dylan J. Clements United States	9	654 2.1×	619 2.0×	510 2.5×	73 0.4×	36 0.5×	9	985

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bruk Mensa

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Kratochvil, Huong T., Robert W. Newberry, Bruk Mensa, Marco Mravic, & William F. DeGrado. (2021). Spiers Memorial Lecture: Analysis and de novo design of membrane-interactive peptides. Faraday Discussions. 232(0). 9–48. 7 indexed citations

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Clark, Iain C., Bruk Mensa, Christopher J. Ochs, et al.. (2021). Protein design-scapes generated by microfluidic DNA assembly elucidate domain coupling in the bacterial histidine kinase CpxA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(12). 3 indexed citations

3.

Dang, Bobo, Marco Mravic, Hailin Hu, et al.. (2019). SNAC-tag for sequence-specific chemical protein cleavage. Nature Methods. 16(4). 319–322. 36 indexed citations

4.

Bhate, Manasi, Thomas Lemmin, Georg Kuenze, et al.. (2018). Structure and Function of the Transmembrane Domain of NsaS, an Antibiotic Sensing Histidine Kinase in Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(24). 7471–7485. 16 indexed citations

5.

Schnaider, Lee, Sayanti Brahmachari, Nathan W. Schmidt, et al.. (2017). Self-assembling dipeptide antibacterial nanostructures with membrane disrupting activity. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1365–1365. 349 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lin, Chun‐Wei, Bruk Mensa, Marta Barniol‐Xicota, William F. DeGrado, & Feng Gai. (2017). Activation pH and Gating Dynamics of Influenza A M2 Proton Channel Revealed by Single‐Molecule Spectroscopy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(19). 5283–5287. 7 indexed citations

7.

Mensa, Bruk, et al.. (2014). Comparative Mechanistic Studies of Brilacidin, Daptomycin, and the Antimicrobial Peptide LL16. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 58(9). 5136–5145. 141 indexed citations

8.

Mensa, Bruk, Yong Ho Kim, Sungwook Choi, et al.. (2011). Antibacterial Mechanism of Action of Arylamide Foldamers. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 55(11). 5043–5053. 64 indexed citations

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