Çağla Tükel

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Çağla Tükel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Food Science and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Çağla Tükel has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Molecular Biology, 30 papers in Food Science and 18 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Çağla Tükel's work include Probiotics and Fermented Foods (17 papers), Gut microbiota and health (16 papers) and Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (15 papers). Çağla Tükel is often cited by papers focused on Probiotics and Fermented Foods (17 papers), Gut microbiota and health (16 papers) and Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (15 papers). Çağla Tükel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Türkiye and Canada. Çağla Tükel's co-authors include R. Paul Wilson, Andreas J. Bäumler, Sarah A. Tursi, Manuela Raffatellu, Maria G. Winter, Glenn J. Rapsinski, Gertrude O. Oppong, Lauren K. Nicastro, Sebastian Winter and Daniela Chessa and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Çağla Tükel

57 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Precision editing of the gut microbiota ameliorates colitis

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Çağla Tükel United States	27	1.6k	855	571	488	484	57	2.8k
R. Paul Wilson United States	27	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.5×	877 1.5×	802 1.6×	303 0.6×	39	3.2k
Parameth Thiennimitr Thailand	20	2.0k 1.3×	1.2k 1.4×	628 1.1×	867 1.8×	486 1.0×	44	3.5k
Till Robin Lesker Germany	16	1.6k 1.0×	363 0.4×	316 0.6×	448 0.9×	340 0.7×	27	2.5k
Cassie L. Behrendt United States	18	2.6k 1.7×	668 0.8×	207 0.4×	948 1.9×	571 1.2×	21	4.3k
Nathalie Rolhion France	25	1.4k 0.9×	433 0.5×	504 0.9×	485 1.0×	298 0.6×	40	2.5k
Fabian Rivera-Chávez United States	12	1.8k 1.1×	746 0.9×	392 0.7×	764 1.6×	407 0.8×	17	2.6k
Philippe Langella France	24	2.8k 1.8×	998 1.2×	141 0.2×	1.1k 2.2×	482 1.0×	41	4.1k
Franziska Faber Germany	17	1.9k 1.2×	704 0.8×	297 0.5×	768 1.6×	401 0.8×	31	2.6k
Maria G. Winter United States	33	3.2k 2.0×	1.8k 2.2×	1.2k 2.0×	1.4k 3.0×	432 0.9×	50	5.8k
U. Sonnenborn Germany	24	1.7k 1.1×	1.2k 1.4×	632 1.1×	565 1.2×	177 0.4×	37	3.0k

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Inan, Saadet, R. Paul Wilson, & Çağla Tükel. (2025). IUPHAR review: From gut to brain: The role of gut dysbiosis, bacterial amyloids, and metabolic disease in Alzheimer’s disease. Pharmacological Research. 215. 107693–107693. 4 indexed citations

Inan, Saadet, et al.. (2024). Blocking IL-17A prevents oxycodone-induced depression-like effects and elevation of IL-6 levels in the ventral tegmental area and reduces oxycodone-derived physical dependence in rats. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 117. 100–111. 7 indexed citations

Verstraelen, Peter, Gerardo Garcia-Díaz Barriga, Carmen Guerra, et al.. (2024). Serum Amyloid A3 Fuels a Feed-Forward Inflammatory Response to the Bacterial Amyloid Curli in the Enteric Nervous System. Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 18(1). 89–104. 7 indexed citations

Jain, Neha, et al.. (2024). The menace within: bacterial amyloids as a trigger for autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 79. 102473–102473. 13 indexed citations

Miller, Amanda L., Andres J. Klein–Szanto, Wenhan Zhu, et al.. (2023). Systemic exposure to bacterial amyloid curli alters the gut mucosal immune response and the microbiome, exacerbating Salmonella -induced arthritis. Gut Microbes. 15(1). 2221813–2221813. 10 indexed citations

Quách, Tâm D., Weiqing Huang, Ranjit Kumar Sahu, et al.. (2022). Context-dependent induction of autoimmunity by TNF signaling deficiency. JCI Insight. 7(5). 3 indexed citations

Nicastro, Lauren K., Sarah A. Tursi, Jaime de Anda, et al.. (2022). Phenol-Soluble Modulins From Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms Form Complexes With DNA to Drive Autoimmunity. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 12. 884065–884065. 13 indexed citations

Sivaranjani, Murugesan, et al.. (2022). Purification of the Bacterial Amyloid “Curli” from Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium and Detection of Curli from Infected Host Tissues. BIO-PROTOCOL. 12(10). e4419–e4419. 2 indexed citations

Hunter, Thérèse, Sarah A. Tursi, Çağla Tükel, et al.. (2020). Development of a New Bead Movement-Based Computational Framework Shows that Bacterial Amyloid Curli Reduces Bead Mobility in Biofilms. Journal of Bacteriology. 202(18). 2 indexed citations

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Miller, Amanda L., J. Alex Pasternak, Lauren K. Nicastro, et al.. (2020). In vivo synthesis of bacterial amyloid curli contributes to joint inflammation during S. Typhimurium infection. PLoS Pathogens. 16(7). e1008591–e1008591. 42 indexed citations

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Wilson, R. Paul, Sarah A. Tursi, Glenn J. Rapsinski, et al.. (2019). STAT2 dependent Type I Interferon response promotes dysbiosis and luminal expansion of the enteric pathogen Salmonella Typhimurium. PLoS Pathogens. 15(4). e1007745–e1007745. 26 indexed citations

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Nicastro, Lauren K. & Çağla Tükel. (2019). Bacterial Amyloids: The Link between Bacterial Infections and Autoimmunity. Trends in Microbiology. 27(11). 954–963. 35 indexed citations

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Ingram, Justin P., Sarah A. Tursi, Ting Zhang, et al.. (2018). A Nonpyroptotic IFN-γ–Triggered Cell Death Mechanism in Nonphagocytic Cells Promotes Salmonella Clearance In Vivo. The Journal of Immunology. 200(10). 3626–3634. 13 indexed citations

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Oppong, Gertrude O., Glenn J. Rapsinski, Sarah A. Tursi, et al.. (2015). Biofilm-associated bacterial amyloids dampen inflammation in the gut: oral treatment with curli fibres reduces the severity of hapten-induced colitis in mice. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 1(1). 43 indexed citations

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Rapsinski, Glenn J., Tiffanny Newman, Gertrude O. Oppong, Jos P. M. van Putten, & Çağla Tükel. (2013). CD14 Protein Acts as an Adaptor Molecule for the Immune Recognition of Salmonella Curli Fibers. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(20). 14178–14188. 47 indexed citations

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Tükel, Çağla, et al.. (2009). Responses to Amyloids of Microbial and Host Origin Are Mediated through Toll-like Receptor 2. Cell Host & Microbe. 6(1). 45–53. 145 indexed citations

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Chessa, Daniela, Maria G. Winter, Sean‐Paul Nuccio, Çağla Tükel, & Andreas J. Bäumler. (2008). RosE represses Std fimbrial expression in Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium. Molecular Microbiology. 68(3). 573–587. 30 indexed citations

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Tükel, Çağla, et al.. (2007). Protein Profile and Plasmid Content of Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis LL52 and Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris LC79 Strains under Several Stress Conditions. TURKISH JOURNAL OF VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES. 31(4). 247–252. 1 indexed citations

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Tükel, Çağla, et al.. (2006). Characterization of bacteriocins from two Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis isolates. Molecular Nutrition & Food Research. 50(3). 306–313. 28 indexed citations

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Akçelik, Nefise, Pınar Şanlıbaba, Çağla Tükel, & Yasin Tuncer. (2001). Genetic Determinants of Industrially Important Characters in Lactococci. TURKISH JOURNAL OF VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES. 25(4). 615–621. 1 indexed citations

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