Charles E. Helmstetter

4.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
66 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Charles E. Helmstetter is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles E. Helmstetter has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Molecular Biology, 45 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Charles E. Helmstetter's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (43 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (37 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (31 papers). Charles E. Helmstetter is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (43 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (37 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (31 papers). Charles E. Helmstetter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Sweden. Charles E. Helmstetter's co-authors include Stephen Cooper, O Pierucci, Alan C. Leonard, Donald J. Cummings, Joseph A. Bogan, Maureen Thornton, Julia E. Grimwade, Kathryn Leigh Eward, Peng Zhou and Alon Goren and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Molecular Biology and Oncogene.

In The Last Decade

Charles E. Helmstetter

65 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Chromosome replication and the division cycle of Escherichia coli

1968 980 citations Stephen Cooper, Charles E. Helmstetter Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
DNA synthesis during the division cycle of rapidly growing Escherichia coli

1968 385 citations Charles E. Helmstetter, Stephen Cooper Journal of Molecular Biology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Charles E. Helmstetter United States	27	2.9k	2.4k	694	244	185	66	3.6k
Stephen Cooper United States	28	2.8k 1.0×	1.7k 0.7×	771 1.1×	163 0.7×	166 0.9×	94	3.5k
Nora Goosen Netherlands	37	2.8k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	739 1.1×	189 0.8×	204 1.1×	79	3.4k
Philip L. Bloch United States	7	2.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.5×	590 0.9×	227 0.9×	138 0.7×	9	3.1k
Erik Boye Norway	39	3.7k 1.3×	2.6k 1.1×	710 1.0×	385 1.6×	220 1.2×	104	4.7k
Deborah A. Siegele United States	23	2.6k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	972 1.4×	384 1.6×	267 1.4×	41	3.7k
Katsumi Isono Japan	29	3.3k 1.2×	1.8k 0.8×	734 1.1×	314 1.3×	292 1.6×	66	4.0k
H. Buc France	28	2.9k 1.0×	1.7k 0.7×	610 0.9×	230 0.9×	152 0.8×	54	3.7k
Austin L. Taylor United States	18	2.9k 1.0×	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 1.6×	185 0.8×	216 1.2×	33	3.6k
Jonathan Gallant United States	38	3.9k 1.4×	2.0k 0.8×	649 0.9×	119 0.5×	186 1.0×	98	4.6k
Kouji Matsumoto Japan	25	1.8k 0.6×	1.0k 0.4×	425 0.6×	172 0.7×	183 1.0×	108	2.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Helmstetter, Charles E.. (2023). Fifty-Five Years of Research on B, C and D in Escherichia coli. Life. 13(4). 977–977. 3 indexed citations

Helmstetter, Charles E.. (2015). A ten-year search for synchronous cells: obstacles, solutions, and practical applications. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 238–238. 9 indexed citations

Farkash-Amar, Shlomit, Doron Lipson, Andreas Polten, et al.. (2008). Global organization of replication time zones of the mouse genome. Genome Research. 18(10). 1562–1570. 132 indexed citations

Matskova, Liudmila, Charles E. Helmstetter, Robert J. Ingham, et al.. (2007). The Shb signalling scaffold binds to and regulates constitutive signals from the Epstein–Barr virus LMP2A membrane protein. Oncogene. 26(34). 4908–4917. 18 indexed citations

Helmstetter, Charles E., et al.. (2003). Synchrony in Human, Mouse and Bacterial Cell Cultures: A Comparison. Cell Cycle. 2(1). 42–45. 34 indexed citations

Grover, N.B., et al.. (2001). Synchronous Cultures from the Baby Machine: Anatomy of a Model. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 212(3). 391–398. 1 indexed citations

Helmstetter, Charles E.. (2001). Cell-cycle research with synchronous cultures: An evaluation. Biochimie. 83(1). 83–89. 12 indexed citations

Bogan, Joseph A. & Charles E. Helmstetter. (1997). DNA sequestration and transcription in the oriC region of Escherichia coli. Molecular Microbiology. 26(5). 889–896. 54 indexed citations

Grover, N.B. & Charles E. Helmstetter. (1995). Characterization of cell-cycle-specific events in synchronous cultures of Escherichia coli: a theoretical evaluation. Microbiology. 141(1). 59–62. 5 indexed citations

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Grimwade, Julia E., et al.. (1993). Correlation of gene transcription with the time of initiation of chromosome replication in Escherichia coli. Molecular Microbiology. 10(3). 575–584. 87 indexed citations

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Helmstetter, Charles E. & Alan C. Leonard. (1990). Involvement of cell shape in the replication and segregation of chromosomes in Escherichia coli. Research in Microbiology. 141(1). 30–39. 10 indexed citations

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Pierucci, O, et al.. (1989). DnaA protein overproduction abolishes cell cycle specificity of DNA replication from oriC in Escherichia coli. Journal of Bacteriology. 171(7). 3760–3766. 17 indexed citations

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Munson, Benjamin R., et al.. (1987). E. coli minichromosome replication in vitro and in vivo: comparative analyses of replication intermediates. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Structure and Expression. 910(1). 11–20. 2 indexed citations

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Helmstetter, Charles E. & Alan C. Leonard. (1987). Mechanism for chromosome and minichromosome segregation in Escherichia coli. Journal of Molecular Biology. 197(2). 195–204. 23 indexed citations

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Helmstetter, Charles E., et al.. (1983). Expression of accumulated capacity for initiation of chromosome and minichromosome replication in dnaA mutants of Escherichia coli. Journal of Bacteriology. 154(3). 1371–1380. 8 indexed citations

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Leonard, Alan C., et al.. (1982). Kinetics of minichromosome replication in Escherichia coli B/r. Journal of Bacteriology. 149(2). 499–507. 22 indexed citations

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Helmstetter, Charles E., et al.. (1978). A comparison of DNA content between two substrains of Escherichia coliBr. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 80(4). 970–974. 4 indexed citations

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Helmstetter, Charles E.. (1969). SEQUENCE OF BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION. Annual Review of Microbiology. 23(1). 223–238. 36 indexed citations

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Helmstetter, Charles E., et al.. (1968). On the Bacterial Life Sequence. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 33(0). 809–822. 252 indexed citations

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Helmstetter, Charles E. & O Pierucci. (1968). Cell Division During Inhibition of Deoxyribonucleic Acid Synthesis in Escherichia coli. Journal of Bacteriology. 95(5). 1627–1633. 160 indexed citations

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