Christian Behrends

21.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
85 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Christian Behrends is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Behrends has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Epidemiology, 47 papers in Molecular Biology and 41 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Christian Behrends's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (53 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (23 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (20 papers). Christian Behrends is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (53 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (23 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (20 papers). Christian Behrends collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Christian Behrends's co-authors include J. Wade Harper, Steven P. Gygi, Mathew E. Sowa, Jennifer Jung, Ivan Đikić, Heide Marika Genau, Raina Boteva, Katja Siegers, F. Ulrich Hartl and Gregor Schaffar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Christian Behrends

83 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

Network organization of the human autophagy system

2010 1.2k citations Christian Behrends et al. profile →
PLEKHM1 Regulates Autophagosome-Lysosome Fusion through HOPS Complex and LC3/GABARAP Proteins

2014 431 citations David G. McEwan, Doris Popovic et al. Molecular Cell profile →
CCPG1 Is a Non-canonical Autophagy Cargo Receptor Essential for ER-Phagy and Pancreatic ER Proteostasis

2017 341 citations Matthew D. Smith, Alain J. Kemp et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian Behrends Germany	36	3.3k	3.1k	1.9k	705	695	85	6.1k
Claudia Puri United Kingdom	37	3.4k 1.0×	3.2k 1.0×	2.7k 1.4×	1.1k 1.6×	842 1.2×	56	7.0k
David G. McEwan United Kingdom	20	3.0k 0.9×	4.1k 1.3×	1.6k 0.8×	589 0.8×	696 1.0×	27	5.8k
Dale W. Hailey United States	23	2.4k 0.7×	2.6k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	623 0.9×	598 0.9×	30	5.0k
Noriko Oshiro Japan	28	5.3k 1.6×	1.9k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	734 1.0×	341 0.5×	34	7.3k
Peter K. Kim Canada	33	3.2k 1.0×	2.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	578 0.8×	329 0.5×	70	5.1k
Eisuke Itakura Japan	24	2.3k 0.7×	4.0k 1.3×	1.9k 1.0×	698 1.0×	845 1.2×	41	5.4k
Michael Lazarou Australia	40	6.3k 1.9×	5.2k 1.7×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 1.8×	596 0.9×	74	9.7k
Junji Ezaki Japan	24	2.2k 0.7×	3.0k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 1.5×	522 0.8×	41	4.8k
Alban Ordureau United States	30	3.5k 1.1×	2.4k 0.8×	955 0.5×	573 0.8×	201 0.3×	51	5.4k
Maho Hamasaki Japan	23	2.5k 0.7×	3.0k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	648 0.9×	581 0.8×	41	4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Christian Behrends

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christian Behrends

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Behrends

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Kravić, Bojana, Johannes van den Boom, Nina Schulze, et al.. (2025). ATXN3 regulates lysosome regeneration after damage by targeting K48-K63-branched ubiquitin chains. The EMBO Journal. 44(18). 5086–5111. 1 indexed citations

Gharbi, Sarah, et al.. (2024). A ubiquitin-specific, proximity-based labeling approach for the identification of ubiquitin ligase substrates. Science Advances. 10(32). eadp3000–eadp3000. 10 indexed citations

Wu, Jianping, Asude Durmaz, Benedikt Wefers, et al.. (2024). Nonvesicular lipid transfer drives myelin growth in the central nervous system. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9756–9756. 4 indexed citations

Edbauer, Dieter, et al.. (2023). C9orf72 protein quality control by UBR5 ‐mediated heterotypic ubiquitin chains. EMBO Reports. 24(8). e55895–e55895. 6 indexed citations

Schifferer, Martina, Luis A. Williams, Alexandra Stolz, et al.. (2023). Spatial proteomics reveals secretory pathway disturbances caused by neuropathy-associated TECPR2. Nature Communications. 14(1). 870–870. 8 indexed citations

Borsa, Mariana, Daniel J. Puleston, Jesusa Capera, et al.. (2022). Mapping autophagosome contents identifies interleukin-7 receptor-α as a key cargo modulating CD4+ T cell proliferation. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5174–5174. 10 indexed citations

Schmitt, Daniel, Süleyman Bozkurt, Stefan Eimer, et al.. (2022). Lipid and protein content profiling of isolated native autophagic vesicles. EMBO Reports. 23(12). e53065–e53065. 27 indexed citations

Abudu, Yakubu Princely, Birendra Kumar Shrestha, Wenxin Zhang, et al.. (2021). SAMM50 acts with p62 in piecemeal basal- and OXPHOS-induced mitophagy of SAM and MICOS components. The Journal of Cell Biology. 220(8). 54 indexed citations

Behrends, Christian, et al.. (2021). Autophagosome content profiling using proximity biotinylation proteomics coupled to protease digestion in mammalian cells. STAR Protocols. 2(2). 100506–100506. 3 indexed citations

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Schifferer, Martina, et al.. (2021). Systematically defining selective autophagy receptor-specific cargo using autophagosome content profiling. Molecular Cell. 81(6). 1337–1354.e8. 84 indexed citations

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Phuyal, Santosh, Matthew D. Smith, Manuel Kaulich, et al.. (2020). ACSL3 is a novel GABARAPL2 interactor that links ufmylation and lipid droplet biogenesis. Journal of Cell Science. 133(18). 22 indexed citations

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Poschmann, Gereon, et al.. (2020). The GABARAP Co-Secretome Identified by APEX2-GABARAP Proximity Labelling of Extracellular Vesicles. Cells. 9(6). 1468–1468. 7 indexed citations

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Cai, Cui-Zan, Chuanbin Yang, Xu‐Xu Zhuang, et al.. (2020). NRBF2 is a RAB7 effector required for autophagosome maturation and mediates the association of APP-CTFs with active form of RAB7 for degradation. Autophagy. 17(5). 1112–1130. 34 indexed citations

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Bock, Christoph, Nicole Koller, Jennifer Jung, et al.. (2019). Lysosomal targeting of the ABC transporter TAPL is determined by membrane-localized charged residues. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(18). 7308–7323. 17 indexed citations

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Shaid, Shabnam, Olesya Vakhrusheva, Sebastian E. Koschade, et al.. (2018). Loss of the selective autophagy receptor p62 impairs murine myeloid leukemia progression and mitophagy. Blood. 133(2). 168–179. 84 indexed citations

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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

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Meyer, Nina, Svenja Zielke, Jonas B. Michaelis, et al.. (2018). AT 101 induces early mitochondrial dysfunction and HMOX1 (heme oxygenase 1) to trigger mitophagic cell death in glioma cells. Autophagy. 14(10). 1693–1709. 90 indexed citations

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Lamb, Christopher A., Delphine Judith, David Frith, et al.. (2015). TBC 1D14 regulates autophagy via the TRAPP complex and ATG 9 traffic. The EMBO Journal. 35(3). 281–301. 139 indexed citations

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Dunlop, Elaine A., Tijs Claessens, Christian Behrends, et al.. (2014). FLCN, a novel autophagy component, interacts with GABARAP and is regulated by ULK1 phosphorylation. Autophagy. 10(10). 1749–1760. 52 indexed citations

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McEwan, David G., Doris Popovic, Andrea Gubaš, et al.. (2014). PLEKHM1 Regulates Autophagosome-Lysosome Fusion through HOPS Complex and LC3/GABARAP Proteins. Molecular Cell. 57(1). 39–54. 431 indexed citations breakdown →

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