Christoph Mayer

8.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
131 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Christoph Mayer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Christoph Mayer has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Molecular Biology, 32 papers in Genetics and 18 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Christoph Mayer's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (31 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (16 papers) and Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (16 papers). Christoph Mayer is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (31 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (16 papers) and Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (16 papers). Christoph Mayer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Christoph Mayer's co-authors include J. F. Reith, Marina Borisova, Stephen G. Withers, Tina Jaeger, Erwin Tschachler, Alexander Schneider, Dora M. Rast, Michael Rendl, Fisher Yu and Martin Danelljan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Christoph Mayer

127 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christoph Mayer Germany	39	2.0k	628	574	525	383	131	4.4k
Fen Hu China	44	2.6k 1.3×	320 0.5×	149 0.3×	164 0.3×	140 0.4×	204	6.6k
Bjarne Kjær Ersbøll Denmark	24	2.0k 1.0×	361 0.6×	152 0.3×	97 0.2×	601 1.6×	117	4.5k
Jehee Lee South Korea	49	2.7k 1.4×	529 0.8×	159 0.3×	330 0.6×	142 0.4×	407	9.4k
Shin�ichi Yoshida Japan	46	2.1k 1.1×	214 0.3×	533 0.9×	168 0.3×	63 0.2×	252	6.7k
Bong‐Jin Lee South Korea	32	2.0k 1.0×	479 0.8×	229 0.4×	95 0.2×	93 0.2×	185	4.0k
Jiangning Song Australia	57	8.0k 4.1×	401 0.6×	99 0.2×	266 0.5×	206 0.5×	329	10.3k
Chun‐Jung Chen Taiwan	44	2.3k 1.2×	343 0.5×	323 0.6×	270 0.5×	58 0.2×	284	6.5k
Won‐Jae Lee South Korea	61	4.7k 2.4×	962 1.5×	278 0.5×	195 0.4×	72 0.2×	240	14.3k
Chien‐Yu Chen Taiwan	34	2.3k 1.2×	241 0.4×	438 0.8×	111 0.2×	111 0.3×	198	5.2k
Chankyu Park South Korea	48	3.4k 1.7×	1.4k 2.2×	103 0.2×	274 0.5×	57 0.1×	342	7.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christoph Mayer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christoph Mayer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christoph Mayer based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Christoph Mayer. Christoph Mayer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mayer, Christoph, et al.. (2025). Diverse Metabolic Control of Phosphoglucomutases by Bisphosphorylated Sugars in Heterotrophic Bacteria. Microbial Physiology. 35(1). 50–64.

Beck, Christian, Anna Notaro, Axel Walter, et al.. (2024). Wall teichoic acid substitution with glucose governs phage susceptibility of Staphylococcus epidermidis. mBio. 15(4). e0199023–e0199023. 4 indexed citations

Timofte, Radu, et al.. (2024). Scoring facial attractiveness with deep convolutional neural networks: How training on standardized images reduces the bias of facial expressions. Orthodontics and Craniofacial Research. 27(S2). 25–32. 1 indexed citations

Schaller, Martin, Katharina J. Wenger, Christoph Mayer, et al.. (2023). Relevance of dedicated multiple sclerosis serum biomarkers in predicting contrast enhancement with gadolinium: Results from the REDUCE‐GAD trial. European Journal of Neurology. 30(8). 2393–2400. 6 indexed citations

Winterhalter, Mathias, et al.. (2023). Fosfomycin Uptake in Escherichia coli Is Mediated by the Outer-Membrane Porins OmpF, OmpC, and LamB. ACS Infectious Diseases. 10(1). 127–137. 4 indexed citations

Klein, Kristina, Michael Sonnabend, Angel Angelov, et al.. (2023). YgfB increases β-lactam resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa by counteracting AlpA-mediated ampDh3 expression. Communications Biology. 6(1). 254–254. 4 indexed citations

Borisova, Marina, et al.. (2022). NamZ1 and NamZ2 from the Oral Pathogen Tannerella forsythia Are Peptidoglycan Processing Exo-β- N -Acetylmuramidases with Distinct Substrate Specificities. Journal of Bacteriology. 204(3). e0059721–e0059721. 1 indexed citations

Marques, Joana, Anne Berscheid, Christoph Mayer, et al.. (2022). Synergetic Antimicrobial Activity and Mechanism of Clotrimazole-Linked CO-Releasing Molecules. PubMed. 2(4). 419–436. 34 indexed citations

Werther, Philipp, Klaus Yserentant, Felix Braun, et al.. (2021). Bio-orthogonal Red and Far-Red Fluorogenic Probes for Wash-Free Live-Cell and Super-resolution Microscopy. ACS Central Science. 7(9). 1561–1571. 88 indexed citations

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Du, Xin, Jesper Larsen, Min Li, et al.. (2021). Staphylococcus epidermidis clones express Staphylococcus aureus-type wall teichoic acid to shift from a commensal to pathogen lifestyle. Nature Microbiology. 6(6). 757–768. 34 indexed citations

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Borisova, Marina, et al.. (2020). Utilization of different MurNAc sources by the oral pathogen Tannerella forsythia and role of the inner membrane transporter AmpG. BMC Microbiology. 20(1). 352–352. 10 indexed citations

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Borisova, Marina, et al.. (2017). The N -Acetylmuramic Acid 6-Phosphate Phosphatase MupP Completes the Pseudomonas Peptidoglycan Recycling Pathway Leading to Intrinsic Fosfomycin Resistance. mBio. 8(2). 28 indexed citations

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Mayer, Christoph, et al.. (2017). An efficient synthesis of 1,6-anhydro-N-acetylmuramic acid from N-acetylglucosamine. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 13. 2631–2636. 8 indexed citations

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Exner, Thomas E., et al.. (2015). Crystal Structure of the N-Acetylmuramic Acid α-1-Phosphate (MurNAc-α1-P) Uridylyltransferase MurU, a Minimal Sugar Nucleotidyltransferase and Potential Drug Target Enzyme in Gram-negative Pathogens. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 290(17). 10804–10813. 12 indexed citations

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Sosnowski, Stefan, et al.. (2011). Improving Aspects of Empathy Subjective Performance for HRI through Mirroring Emotions. mediaTUM – the media and publications repository of the Technical University Munich (Technical University Munich). 5 indexed citations

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Mayer, Christoph & Bernd Radig. (2011). Learning Displacement Experts from Multi-band Images for Face Model Fitting. Advances in Computer-Human Interaction. 106–111. 1 indexed citations

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Sosnowski, Stefan, Christoph Mayer, Kolja Kühnlenz, & Bernd Radig. (2010). Mirror my emotions! Combining facial expression analysis and synthesis on a robot. mediaTUM (Technical University of Munich). 3 indexed citations

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Jaeger, Tina & Christoph Mayer. (2007). N-acetylmuramic acid 6-phosphate lyases (MurNAc etherases): role in cell wall metabolism, distribution, structure, and mechanism. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 65(6). 928–939. 31 indexed citations

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Mayer, Christoph, et al.. (2005). Controlled formation and topologies of thiophenolate-based macrocycles: rings, cylinders and bowls. Dalton Transactions. 108–120. 20 indexed citations

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Rendl, Michael, Christoph Mayer, Wolfgang Weninger, & Erwin Tschachler. (2001). Topically applied lactic acid increases spontaneous secretion of vascular endothelial growth factor by human reconstructed epidermis. British Journal of Dermatology. 145(1). 3–9. 49 indexed citations

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