Christian Benda

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Christian Benda is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Benda has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Plant Science and 2 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Christian Benda's work include RNA modifications and cancer (6 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (4 papers). Christian Benda is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (6 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (4 papers). Christian Benda collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and United States. Christian Benda's co-authors include Elena Conti, Andreas Pichlmair, Matthias Mann, Jürg Müller, Philipp Hubel, Darya A. Haas, Matthias Habjan, Marianne Braun, Jennifer Wettmarshausen and Daniel Schnepf and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Communications and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Christian Benda

21 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Oxeiptosis, a ROS-induced caspase-independent apoptosis-like cell-death pathway

2017 338 citations Chloé Michaudel, Claire Mackowiak et al. Nature Immunology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian Benda Germany	18	1.2k	222	178	163	112	21	1.6k
Sam Lievens Belgium	25	1.0k 0.9×	306 1.4×	220 1.2×	271 1.7×	147 1.3×	59	1.7k
Yiwen Liao China	12	1.6k 1.4×	292 1.3×	137 0.8×	298 1.8×	75 0.7×	28	2.3k
Yu Takahashi Japan	25	1.2k 1.0×	92 0.4×	106 0.6×	188 1.2×	135 1.2×	62	1.9k
Dietmar E. Martin Germany	22	1.7k 1.5×	261 1.2×	81 0.5×	236 1.4×	149 1.3×	28	2.1k
Elah Pick Israel	22	1.2k 1.0×	208 0.9×	284 1.6×	327 2.0×	179 1.6×	42	1.7k
Simon Tuck Sweden	26	1.4k 1.2×	111 0.5×	112 0.6×	313 1.9×	137 1.2×	42	2.4k
M Nishizawa Japan	16	1.2k 1.0×	152 0.7×	236 1.3×	120 0.7×	108 1.0×	28	2.0k
Michael G. Kemp United States	27	1.3k 1.1×	256 1.2×	117 0.7×	252 1.5×	79 0.7×	80	2.1k
Nicolas Gévry Canada	25	1.9k 1.6×	192 0.9×	263 1.5×	98 0.6×	161 1.4×	52	2.6k
Ryo Kubota Japan	29	1.4k 1.2×	317 1.4×	124 0.7×	386 2.4×	75 0.7×	93	2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Benda

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20 of 20 papers shown

Benda, Christian, et al.. (2024). Structural basis of the histone ubiquitination read–write mechanism of RYBP–PRC1. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 31(7). 1023–1027. 9 indexed citations

Bonnet, Jacques, Simon Poepsel, Ingmar B. Schäfer, et al.. (2020). Structural basis for PRC2 decoding of active histone methylation marks H3K36me2/3. eLife. 9. 77 indexed citations

Schuller, Jan M., Sebastian Falk, Piotr Gerlach, et al.. (2019). To Process or to Decay: A Mechanistic View of the Nuclear RNA Exosome. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 84. 155–163. 17 indexed citations

Behler, Juliane, et al.. (2018). Biochemical analysis of the Cas6-1 RNA endonuclease associated with the subtype I-D CRISPR-Cas system inSynechocystissp. PCC 6803. RNA Biology. 16(4). 481–491. 17 indexed citations

Michaudel, Chloé, Claire Mackowiak, Darya A. Haas, et al.. (2017). Oxeiptosis, a ROS-induced caspase-independent apoptosis-like cell-death pathway. Nature Immunology. 19(2). 130–140. 338 indexed citations breakdown →

Bachmann, Andreas, et al.. (2017). DNA binding by PHF1 prolongs PRC2 residence time on chromatin and thereby promotes H3K27 methylation. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 24(12). 1039–1047. 95 indexed citations

Falk, Sebastian, Mireille Melko, Christian Benda, et al.. (2016). Structure of the RBM7–ZCCHC8 core of the NEXT complex reveals connections to splicing factors. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13573–13573. 40 indexed citations

Sheahan, Thomas W., Katja Finkl, Gabriele Stoehr, et al.. (2016). Molecular basis of PRC1 targeting to Polycomb response elements by PhoRC. Genes & Development. 30(9). 1116–1127. 67 indexed citations

Habjan, Matthias, Christian Benda, Darya A. Haas, et al.. (2015). mRNA export through an additional cap-binding complex consisting of NCBP1 and NCBP3. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8192–8192. 82 indexed citations

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Reischl, Silke, Thomas Wallach, Roman Klemz, et al.. (2014). Interaction of Circadian Clock Proteins CRY1 and PER2 Is Modulated by Zinc Binding and Disulfide Bond Formation. Cell. 157(5). 1203–1215. 144 indexed citations

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Benda, Christian, J. Ebert, Richard A. Scheltema, et al.. (2014). Structural Model of a CRISPR RNA-Silencing Complex Reveals the RNA-Target Cleavage Activity in Cmr4. Molecular Cell. 56(1). 43–54. 107 indexed citations

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Habjan, Matthias, Philipp Hubel, Lívia Lacerda Mariano, et al.. (2013). Sequestration by IFIT1 Impairs Translation of 2′O-unmethylated Capped RNA. PLoS Pathogens. 9(10). e1003663–e1003663. 160 indexed citations

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Ebert, J., et al.. (2013). Structure and RNA-binding properties of the Type III-A CRISPR-associated protein Csm3. RNA Biology. 10(11). 1670–1678. 29 indexed citations

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Kappei, Dennis, Falk Butter, Christian Benda, et al.. (2013). HOT1 is a mammalian direct telomere repeat-binding protein contributing to telomerase recruitment. The EMBO Journal. 32(12). 1681–1701. 59 indexed citations

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Jeyaprakash, A. Arockia, Anna Santamaría, Uma Jayachandran, et al.. (2012). Structural and Functional Organization of the Ska Complex, a Key Component of the Kinetochore-Microtubule Interface. Molecular Cell. 46(3). 274–286. 126 indexed citations

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Lin, Tien-chen, et al.. (2011). Phosphorylation of the Yeast γ-Tubulin Tub4 Regulates Microtubule Function. PLoS ONE. 6(5). e19700–e19700. 39 indexed citations

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Maček, Boris, Christian Benda, A. Jestel, et al.. (2008). Phosphorylation of the Human Full-Length Protein Kinase Cι. Journal of Proteome Research. 7(7). 2928–2935. 6 indexed citations

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Messerschmidt, Albrecht, Sofia Macieira, Christian Benda, et al.. (2005). Crystal Structure of the Catalytic Domain of Human Atypical Protein Kinase C-iota Reveals Interaction Mode of Phosphorylation Site in Turn Motif. Journal of Molecular Biology. 352(4). 918–931. 78 indexed citations

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Benda, Christian, Clemens Scheufler, Nicole Tandeau de Marsac, & Wolfgang Gärtner. (2004). Crystal Structures of Two Cyanobacterial Response Regulators in Apo- and Phosphorylated Form Reveal a Novel Dimerization Motif of Phytochrome-Associated Response Regulators. Biophysical Journal. 87(1). 476–487. 18 indexed citations

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Foerstendorf, Harald, et al.. (2001). FTIR Studies of Phytochrome Photoreactions Reveal the CO Bands of the Chromophore: Consequences for Its Protonation States, Conformation, and Protein Interaction. Biochemistry. 40(49). 14952–14959. 77 indexed citations

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