Christine Kocks

17.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
60 papers, 12.5k citations indexed

About

Christine Kocks is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christine Kocks has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 12.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Immunology and 16 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Christine Kocks's work include Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety (11 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (10 papers) and Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (8 papers). Christine Kocks is often cited by papers focused on Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety (11 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (10 papers) and Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (8 papers). Christine Kocks collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and United States. Christine Kocks's co-authors include Nikolaus Rajewsky, Agnieszka Rybak‐Wolf, Sebastian Memczak, Markus Landthaler, Lea H. Gregersen, Mathias Munschauer, Sebastian D. Mackowiak, Alexander Loewer, Janna Krueger and Marvin Jens and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Christine Kocks

59 papers receiving 12.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Circular RNAs are a large class of animal RNAs with regulatory potency

2013 6.2k citations Sebastian Memczak, Marvin Jens et al. Nature profile →
Loss of a mammalian circular RNA locus causes miRNA deregulation and affects brain function

2017 959 citations Monika Piwecka, Petar Glažar et al. Science profile →
L. monocytogenes-induced actin assembly requires the actA gene product, a surface protein

1992 653 citations Christine Kocks, Edith Gouin et al. Cell profile →
Eater, a Transmembrane Protein Mediating Phagocytosis of Bacterial Pathogens in Drosophila

2005 307 citations Christine Kocks et al. Cell profile →
Cell type atlas and lineage tree of a whole complex animal by single-cell transcriptomics

2018 288 citations Mireya Plass, Salah Ayoub et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christine Kocks Germany	37	9.3k	6.2k	1.7k	1.2k	794	60	12.5k
Robert J.C. Gilbert United Kingdom	49	4.5k 0.5×	976 0.2×	2.0k 1.2×	319 0.3×	97 0.1×	136	8.9k
Lei S. Qi United States	55	19.9k 2.1×	1.0k 0.2×	649 0.4×	492 0.4×	96 0.1×	186	22.2k
Erik J. Sontheimer United States	45	11.9k 1.3×	2.9k 0.5×	658 0.4×	158 0.1×	80 0.1×	92	13.7k
Luciano A. Marraffini United States	49	25.4k 2.7×	510 0.1×	972 0.6×	813 0.7×	339 0.4×	88	28.1k
Joan A. Steitz United States	102	32.2k 3.5×	8.2k 1.3×	2.9k 1.7×	137 0.1×	85 0.1×	288	38.2k
Stefan Stevanović Germany	68	8.7k 0.9×	668 0.1×	11.2k 6.4×	447 0.4×	451 0.6×	344	18.4k
David Tollervey United Kingdom	99	26.9k 2.9×	2.5k 0.4×	679 0.4×	117 0.1×	83 0.1×	257	28.5k
Stuart M. Haslam United Kingdom	60	7.6k 0.8×	198 0.0×	2.8k 1.6×	634 0.5×	329 0.4×	201	11.3k
Grant McFadden Canada	72	6.1k 0.7×	768 0.1×	5.6k 3.3×	602 0.5×	76 0.1×	347	18.9k
Peter Sarnow United States	65	12.8k 1.4×	4.2k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	339 0.3×	13 0.0×	129	17.4k

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Li, Xun, Timm Weber, Elijah D. Lowenstein, et al.. (2024). Precise CRISPR-Cas9 gene repair in autologous memory T cells to treat familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. Science Immunology. 9(92). eadi0042–eadi0042. 6 indexed citations

Xiong, Ermeng, Oliver Popp, Philipp Mertins, et al.. (2023). A CRISPR/Cas9-mediated screen identifies determinants of early plasma cell differentiation. Frontiers in Immunology. 13. 1083119–1083119. 6 indexed citations

Liu, Haiyue, Roberto Arsiè, Marcel Schilling, et al.. (2023). SLAM‐Drop ‐seq reveals mRNA kinetic rates throughout the cell cycle. Molecular Systems Biology. 19(10). 1–23. 10 indexed citations

Hinze, Christian, Anastasiya Boltengagen, Caroline Braeuning, et al.. (2021). Nuclei Isolation from Adult Mouse Kidney for Single-Nucleus RNA-Sequencing. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 5 indexed citations

Praktiknjo, Samantha D., Benedikt Obermayer, Qionghua Zhu, et al.. (2020). Tracing tumorigenesis in a solid tumor model at single-cell resolution. Nature Communications. 11(1). 991–991. 38 indexed citations

Labi, Verena, Siying Peng, Filippos Klironomos, et al.. (2019). Context-specific regulation of cell survival by a miRNA-controlled BIM rheostat. Genes & Development. 33(23-24). 1673–1687. 12 indexed citations

Wyler, Emanuel, Vedran Franke, Jennifer Menegatti, et al.. (2019). Single-cell RNA-sequencing of herpes simplex virus 1-infected cells connects NRF2 activation to an antiviral program. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4878–4878. 96 indexed citations

Kocks, Christine, Anastasiya Boltengagen, Monika Piwecka, Agnieszka Rybak‐Wolf, & Nikolaus Rajewsky. (2018). Single-Molecule Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) of Circular RNA CDR1as. Methods in molecular biology. 1724. 77–96. 28 indexed citations

Karaiskos, Nikos, Philipp Wahle, Jonathan Alles, et al.. (2017). The Drosophila embryo at single-cell transcriptome resolution. Science. 358(6360). 194–199. 249 indexed citations

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Piwecka, Monika, Petar Glažar, Luis R. Hernández-Miranda, et al.. (2017). Loss of a mammalian circular RNA locus causes miRNA deregulation and affects brain function. Science. 357(6357). 959 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wyler, Emanuel, Jennifer Menegatti, Vedran Franke, et al.. (2017). Widespread activation of antisense transcription of the host genome during herpes simplex virus 1 infection. Genome biology. 18(1). 209–209. 30 indexed citations

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Memczak, Sebastian, Marvin Jens, Francesca Torti, et al.. (2013). Circular RNAs are a large class of animal RNAs with regulatory potency. Nature. 495(7441). 333–338. 6168 indexed citations breakdown →

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Whiteman, Noah K., Andrew D. Gloss, Timothy B. Sackton, et al.. (2012). Genes Involved in the Evolution of Herbivory by a Leaf-Mining, Drosophilid Fly. Genome Biology and Evolution. 4(9). 900–916. 44 indexed citations

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Kocks, Christine, et al.. (2011). Recognition of pathogenic microbes by the phagocytic pattern recognition receptor Eater.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(45). 39674–39674. 1 indexed citations

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Kocks, Christine, et al.. (2011). Recognition of Pathogenic Microbes by the Drosophila Phagocytic Pattern Recognition Receptor Eater. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(30). 26524–26532. 42 indexed citations

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Sheehan, Brian J., Christine Kocks, Shaynoor Dramsi, et al.. (1994). Molecular and Genetic Determinants of the Listeria monocytogenes Infectious Process. Current topics in microbiology and immunology. 192. 187–216. 129 indexed citations

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Kocks, Christine. (1994). Intracellular Motility: Profilin puts pathogens on the actin drive. Current Biology. 4(5). 465–468. 10 indexed citations

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Cossart, Pascale & Christine Kocks. (1994). The actin‐based motility of the facultative intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. Molecular Microbiology. 13(3). 395–402. 53 indexed citations

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Kocks, Christine, Edith Gouin, Marc Tabouret, et al.. (1992). L. monocytogenes-induced actin assembly requires the actA gene product, a surface protein. Cell. 68(3). 521–531. 653 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kocks, Christine & Klaus Rajewsky. (1989). Stable Expression and Somatic Hypermutation of Antibody V Regions in B-Cell Developmental Pathways. Annual Review of Immunology. 7(1). 537–559. 228 indexed citations

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