Christoph Gerle

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Christoph Gerle is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Structural Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Christoph Gerle has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Structural Biology and 4 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Christoph Gerle's work include ATP Synthase and ATPases Research (23 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (19 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (11 papers). Christoph Gerle is often cited by papers focused on ATP Synthase and ATPases Research (23 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (19 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (11 papers). Christoph Gerle collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Germany and United Kingdom. Christoph Gerle's co-authors include Paolo Bernardi, Chimari Jiko, Ben Hankamer, James Barber, Edward P. Morris, Kyoko Shinzawa‐Itoh, Yoshinori Fujiyoshi, Nelli Mnatsakanyan, Elizabeth A. Jonas and Andrew P. Halestrap and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Christoph Gerle

33 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Identity, structure, and function of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore: controversies, consensus, recent advances, and future directions

2023 195 citations Paolo Bernardi, Christoph Gerle et al. Cell Death and Differentiation profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christoph Gerle Japan	15	1.1k	127	100	99	88	37	1.3k
Steven B. Vik United States	23	1.6k 1.4×	122 1.0×	72 0.7×	79 0.8×	111 1.3×	58	1.8k
Holger Seelert Germany	17	1.2k 1.1×	94 0.7×	102 1.0×	59 0.6×	46 0.5×	27	1.4k
Jiapeng Zhu China	18	1.2k 1.0×	99 0.8×	25 0.3×	141 1.4×	54 0.6×	57	1.5k
Runyu Guo China	12	1.3k 1.2×	73 0.6×	47 0.5×	219 2.2×	42 0.5×	16	1.6k
Rozbeh Baradaran United Kingdom	12	1.3k 1.2×	142 1.1×	43 0.4×	150 1.5×	22 0.3×	13	1.6k
Karin B. Busch Germany	23	1.2k 1.1×	140 1.1×	35 0.3×	190 1.9×	76 0.9×	53	1.8k
Karol Fiedorczuk United States	11	1.2k 1.0×	58 0.5×	31 0.3×	164 1.7×	32 0.4×	14	1.5k
M.G. Montgomery United Kingdom	25	2.5k 2.2×	42 0.3×	107 1.1×	113 1.1×	213 2.4×	32	2.8k
Hannah R. Bridges United Kingdom	23	1.3k 1.2×	53 0.4×	53 0.5×	96 1.0×	19 0.2×	30	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christoph Gerle

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Kishikawa, Jun-ichi, et al.. (2025). Structures of rotary ATP synthase from Thermus thermophilus during proton powered ATP synthesis. Science Advances. 11(42). eadx8771–eadx8771.

Kawahara, Kazuki, Tomoya Imai, Christoph Gerle, et al.. (2025). High-resolution cryo-EM analysis visualizes hydrated type I and IV pilus structures from enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. Structure. 33(6). 1040–1050.e3.

Jiko, Chimari, Yoshito Tanaka, Hideki Shigematsu, et al.. (2024). NDT‐C11 as a Viable Novel Detergent for Single Particle Cryo‐EM. ChemPlusChem. 89(10).

Abe, Kazuhiro, Parthiban Marimuthu, Christoph Gerle, et al.. (2024). Molecular Structure of the Na+,K+-ATPase α4β1 Isoform in Its Ouabain-Bound Conformation. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(22). 12397–12397.

Gerle, Christoph, et al.. (2024). Structural insights into thermophilic chaperonin complexes. Structure. 32(6). 679–689.e4. 2 indexed citations

Negro, Alessandro, Antonio Filippi, Camilla Bean, et al.. (2024). N-terminal cleavage of cyclophilin D boosts its ability to bind F-ATP synthase. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1486–1486. 1 indexed citations

Jiko, Chimari, Y. Morimoto, Tomitake Tsukihara, & Christoph Gerle. (2023). Large-scale column-free purification of bovine F-ATP synthase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(2). 105603–105603. 3 indexed citations

Bernardi, Paolo, Christoph Gerle, Andrew P. Halestrap, et al.. (2023). Identity, structure, and function of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore: controversies, consensus, recent advances, and future directions. Cell Death and Differentiation. 30(8). 1869–1885. 195 indexed citations breakdown →

Abe, Kazuhiro, Chiaki Nagai‐Okatani, Christoph Gerle, et al.. (2023). Deep learning driven de novo drug design based on gastric proton pump structures. Communications Biology. 6(1). 956–956. 8 indexed citations

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Gerle, Christoph, Yuko Misumi, Akihiro Kawamoto, et al.. (2023). Three structures of PSI-LHCI from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii suggest a resting state re-activated by ferredoxin. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1864(4). 148986–148986. 4 indexed citations

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Tanaka, Hideaki, Akihiro Kawamoto, Eithar El-Mohsnawy, et al.. (2021). Cryo-EM structure of a functional monomeric Photosystem I from Thermosynechococcus elongatus reveals red chlorophyll cluster. Communications Biology. 4(1). 304–304. 33 indexed citations

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Urbani, Andrea, Valentina Giorgio, Andrea Carrer, et al.. (2019). Purified F-ATP synthase forms a Ca2+-dependent high-conductance channel matching the mitochondrial permeability transition pore. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4341–4341. 149 indexed citations

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Chorev, Dror S., Lindsay A. Baker, Di Wu, et al.. (2018). Protein assemblies ejected directly from native membranes yield complexes for mass spectrometry. Science. 362(6416). 829–834. 155 indexed citations

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Gerle, Christoph. (2016). On the structural possibility of pore-forming mitochondrial F o F 1 ATP synthase. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1857(8). 1191–1196. 40 indexed citations

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Hauer, Florian, Christoph Gerle, N. Fischer, et al.. (2015). GraDeR: Membrane Protein Complex Preparation for Single-Particle Cryo-EM. Structure. 23(9). 1769–1775. 85 indexed citations

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Jiko, Chimari, Karen M. Davies, Kyoko Shinzawa‐Itoh, et al.. (2015). Bovine F1Fo ATP synthase monomers bend the lipid bilayer in 2D membrane crystals. eLife. 4. e06119–e06119. 69 indexed citations

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Maeda, Shintaro, Kyoko Shinzawa‐Itoh, Mami Yamamoto, et al.. (2013). Two-dimensional crystallization of intact F-ATP synthase isolated from bovine heart mitochondria. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications. 69(12). 1368–1370. 7 indexed citations

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Hauer, Florian, et al.. (2012). Automated correlation of single particle tilt pairs for Random Conical Tilt and Orthogonal Tilt Reconstructions. Journal of Structural Biology. 181(2). 149–154. 4 indexed citations

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Hankamer, Ben, Edward P. Morris, Jon Nield, Christoph Gerle, & James Barber. (2001). Three-Dimensional Structure of the Photosystem II Core Dimer of Higher Plants Determined by Electron Microscopy. Journal of Structural Biology. 135(3). 262–269. 73 indexed citations

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Kruse, Olaf, Ben Hankamer, Christoph Gerle, et al.. (2000). Phosphatidylglycerol Is Involved in the Dimerization of Photosystem II. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 275(9). 6509–6514. 141 indexed citations

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