Christian Ungermann

21.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
149 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Christian Ungermann is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Ungermann has authored 149 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 131 papers in Cell Biology, 86 papers in Molecular Biology and 39 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Christian Ungermann's work include Cellular transport and secretion (130 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (53 papers) and Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism (38 papers). Christian Ungermann is often cited by papers focused on Cellular transport and secretion (130 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (53 papers) and Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism (38 papers). Christian Ungermann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and United States. Christian Ungermann's co-authors include William Wickner, Fulvio Reggiori, Clemens W. Ostrowicz, Lars Langemeyer, Cornelia Bröcker, Margarita Cabrera, Siegfried Engelbrecht-Vandré, Lars E. P. Dietrich, Benjamin J. Nichols and Hugh R.B. Pelham and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Christian Ungermann

145 papers receiving 9.9k 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.

Coming together to define membrane contact sites

2019 498 citations Luca Scorrano, Maria Antonietta De Matteis et al. Nature Communications profile →
CORVET and HOPS tethering complexes–coordinators of endosome and lysosome fusion

2013 379 citations Christian Ungermann et al. Journal of Cell Science profile →
Rab GTPase Function in Endosome and Lysosome Biogenesis

2018 288 citations Lars Langemeyer, Florian Fröhlich et al. Trends in Cell Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian Ungermann Germany	56	6.6k	6.5k	2.1k	1.7k	1.3k	149	10.0k
Matthew Seaman United Kingdom	44	6.7k 1.0×	6.0k 0.9×	3.6k 1.7×	1.2k 0.7×	2.1k 1.6×	73	11.2k
Maria Antonietta De Matteis Italy	49	5.9k 0.9×	4.9k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	129	9.5k
Susan Ferro‐Novick United States	54	5.7k 0.9×	6.3k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	690 0.4×	856 0.7×	110	8.3k
Lois S. Weisman United States	49	4.3k 0.7×	4.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	656 0.5×	89	6.9k
Nicholas T. Ktistakis United Kingdom	47	4.6k 0.7×	3.5k 0.5×	3.8k 1.8×	935 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	100	8.4k
Francis A. Barr United Kingdom	61	8.4k 1.3×	8.4k 1.3×	915 0.4×	863 0.5×	996 0.8×	129	11.8k
Gia K. Voeltz United States	33	7.2k 1.1×	4.7k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	487 0.3×	1.1k 0.9×	40	10.0k
David J. Katzmann United States	35	5.1k 0.8×	4.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	609 0.4×	1.0k 0.8×	57	7.5k
Sylvie Urbé United Kingdom	49	8.7k 1.3×	4.4k 0.7×	2.4k 1.1×	719 0.4×	957 0.8×	92	11.5k
Suzanne R. Pfeffer United States	58	8.2k 1.2×	8.3k 1.3×	1000 0.5×	1.6k 1.0×	2.5k 2.0×	143	12.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Ungermann

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Gao, Jieqiong, Ernst ter Haar, Kathrin Auffarth, et al.. (2025). Vps41 functions as a molecular ruler for HOPS tethering complex-mediated membrane fusion. Journal of Cell Science. 138(8).

Moeller, Arne, et al.. (2023). Regulatory sites in the Mon1–Ccz1 complex control Rab5 to Rab7 transition and endosome maturation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(30). e2303750120–e2303750120. 14 indexed citations

Arlt, Henning, Yan Hu, Ralph Hardenberg, et al.. (2023). The dynamin Vps1 mediates Atg9 transport to the sites of autophagosome formation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 299(5). 104712–104712. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Shen, Huiying Huang, Linsen Li, et al.. (2023). C9orf72-catalyzed GTP loading of Rab39A enables HOPS-mediated membrane tethering and fusion in mammalian autophagy. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6360–6360. 19 indexed citations

Wälte, Mike, et al.. (2022). A lysosomal biogenesis map reveals the cargo spectrum of yeast vacuolar protein targeting pathways. The Journal of Cell Biology. 221(4). 16 indexed citations

Klink, B.U., Claudia Antoni, Lars Langemeyer, et al.. (2022). Structure of the Mon1-Ccz1 complex reveals molecular basis of membrane binding for Rab7 activation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(6). 19 indexed citations

Perz, Angela, Stephan Kiontke, Lars Langemeyer, et al.. (2022). Structure of the HOPS tethering complex, a lysosomal membrane fusion machinery. eLife. 11. 47 indexed citations

Brohée, Laura, Claudia Antoni, Stephan Kiontke, et al.. (2021). TSC1 binding to lysosomal PIPs is required for TSC complex translocation and mTORC1 regulation. Molecular Cell. 81(13). 2705–2721.e8. 39 indexed citations

Ungermann, Christian & Daniel Kümmel. (2019). Structure of membrane tethers and their role in fusion. Traffic. 20(7). 479–490. 51 indexed citations

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Scorrano, Luca, Maria Antonietta De Matteis, Scott D. Emr, et al.. (2019). Coming together to define membrane contact sites. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1287–1287. 498 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kriegenburg, Franziska, et al.. (2019). The multi-functional SNARE protein Ykt6 in autophagosomal fusion processes. Cell Cycle. 18(6-7). 639–651. 31 indexed citations

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D’Agostino, M., et al.. (2017). A tethering complex drives the terminal stage of SNARE-dependent membrane fusion. Nature. 551(7682). 634–638. 79 indexed citations

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Montoro, Ayelén González & Christian Ungermann. (2015). StARTing to understand membrane contact sites. Trends in Cell Biology. 25(9). 497–498. 14 indexed citations

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Lachmann, Jens, et al.. (2013). The CORVET complex promotes tethering and fusion of Rab5/Vps21-positive membranes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(10). 3823–3828. 85 indexed citations

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Cabrera, Margarita & Christian Ungermann. (2013). Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors (GEFs) Have a Critical but Not Exclusive Role in Organelle Localization of Rab GTPases. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(40). 28704–28712. 59 indexed citations

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Bröcker, Cornelia, Anne Kuhlee, Christos Gatsogiannis, et al.. (2012). Molecular architecture of the multisubunit homotypic fusion and vacuole protein sorting (HOPS) tethering complex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(6). 1991–1996. 219 indexed citations

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Jaquenoud, Malika, et al.. (2012). Leucyl-tRNA Synthetase Controls TORC1 via the EGO Complex. Molecular Cell. 46(1). 105–110. 274 indexed citations

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Arlt, Henning, Clemens W. Ostrowicz, Cornelia Bröcker, et al.. (2010). The Rab GTPase Ypt7 is linked to retromer-mediated receptor recycling and fusion at the yeast late endosome. Journal of Cell Science. 123(23). 4085–4094. 92 indexed citations

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Ostrowicz, Clemens W., Cornelia Bröcker, Jens Lachmann, et al.. (2010). Defined Subunit Arrangement and Rab Interactions Are Required for Functionality of the HOPS Tethering Complex. Traffic. 11(10). 1334–1346. 118 indexed citations

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Cabrera, Margarita, Clemens W. Ostrowicz, Muriel Mari, et al.. (2009). Vps41 Phosphorylation and the Rab Ypt7 Control the Targeting of the HOPS Complex to Endosome–Vacuole Fusion Sites. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 20(7). 1937–1948. 83 indexed citations

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