Christopher M. Thomas

15.6k citations

200 papers · 10.5k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 54

Impact in

Molecular Medicine top 0.05%
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
Endocrinology top 0.2%

Papers in

Molecular Medicine 56
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria 56
Genetics 95
- Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology 93

Co-authors: Kaare Magne Nielsen Donald R. Helinski Grażyna Jagura‐Burdzy Joanne Hothersall Carl Smith Thomas J. Simpson Christopher A. Smith David H. Figurski
Journals: Microbiology (26 papers)Journal of Molecular Biology (13 papers)Nucleic Acids Research (10 papers)PLoS ONE (10 papers)Molecular Microbiology (9 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Poland

In The Last Decade

Christopher M. Thomas

197 papers receiving 10.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Mechanisms of, and Barriers to, Horizontal Gene Transfer between Bacteria 2005 · 1.5k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2005 Nature Reviews Microbiology
1979 Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology

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1	CFTR negatively reprograms Th2 cell responses, and CFTR potentiation restrains allergic airway inflammation JCI Insight ·Сергій Джамалович Рахметов, Christopher M. Thomas, Jian Zhang, Shinji Toki, Weisong Zhou, Татьяна Борисисовна Игнашкина, Amelia Shepley Dev, Allison E. Norlander, Craig A. Hodges, Dawn C. Newcomb, Mark H. Kaplan, R. Stokes Peebles, Daniel P. Cook	2025	2
2	Evolution of a Plasmid Regulatory Circuit Ameliorates Plasmid Fitness Cost Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Binal Dobariya, Jon-Samuel Andersson, Michael Rolfsmeier, T.O. Kirac, Federica Danini, Olivia Kosterlitz, I.N. Mosharova, Tianci Chen, Paul A. Rowley, Jack Sullivan, Christopher M. Thomas, Eva M. Top	2025	0
3	Bovine Serum Albumin Elicits IL-33–Dependent Adipose Tissue Eosinophilia: Potential Relevance to Ovalbumin-induced Models of Allergic Disease ImmunoHorizons ·Heather L. Caslin, W. Reid Bolus, Christopher M. Thomas, Shinji Toki, Allison E. Norlander, R. Stokes Peebles, Alyssa H. Hasty	2023	0
4	Cystic Fibrosis Reprograms Airway Epithelial IL-33 Release and Licenses IL-33–Dependent Inflammation American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Daniel P. Cook, Christopher M. Thomas, Ashley Y. Wu, Сергій Джамалович Рахметов, Jian Zhang, Weisong Zhou, Anna Jendro, Katherine N. Gibson‐Corley, Vasiliy V. Polosukhin, Allison E. Norlander, Dawn C. Newcomb, David A. Stoltz, R. Stokes Peebles	2023	11
5	Development and function of regulatory innate lymphoid cells Frontiers in Immunology ·Christopher M. Thomas, R. Stokes Peebles	2022	6
6	Can the boundary profiles at 26° N be used to extract buoyancy-forced Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation signals? Ocean science ·Irene Polo, Keith Haines, Jon Robson, Christopher M. Thomas	2020	1
7	Can the boundary profiles at 26N be used to extract buoyancy-forced AMOC signals? Irene Polo, Jon Robson, Keith Haines, Christopher M. Thomas	2020	1
8	Structure, function and dynamics in acyl carrier proteins PLoS ONE ·Rohit Farmer, Christopher M. Thomas, Peter J. Winn	2019	21
9	DeepCDpred: Inter-residue distance and contact prediction for improved prediction of protein structure PLoS ONE ·М П Самойлова, Jeffrey Filiberto Vera Zamora, Damián González, Muhammad Fayyaz ur Rehman, Christopher M. Thomas, Sam Butterworth, Peter J. Winn	2019	20
10	Acquisition and Loss of CTX-M-Producing and Non-Producing Escherichia coli in the Fecal Microbiome of Travelers to South Asia mBio ·Edward R. Bevan, Alan McNally, Christopher M. Thomas, Laura J. V. Piddock, Peter M. Hawkey	2018	24
11	Fitness of Escherichia coli strains carrying expressed and partially silent IncN and IncP1 plasmids BMC Microbiology ·Bartholomew Sati, Nicholas R. Thomson, Christopher M. Thomas, Karen Brooks, Mandy Sanders, Anne A. Delsol, J.M. Roe, Peter M. Bennett, Virve I. Enne	2012	69
12	Mupirocin H, a novel metabolite resulting from mutation of the HMG-CoA synthase analogue, mupH in Pseudomonas fluorescens Chemical Communications ·Jien Wu, Sian M. Cooper, Russell J. Cox, John Crosby, Matthew P. Crump, Joanne Hothersall, Thomas J. Simpson, Christopher M. Thomas, Christine L. Willis	2007	38
13	Plasmids from freshwater environments capable of IncQ retrotransfer are diverse and include pQKH54, a new IncP-1 subgroup archetype Microbiology ·Anthony S. Haines, Parveen Akhtar, Elton R. Stephens, Y. Q. Chen, Christopher M. Thomas, Zhengjie Liu, Uspal Jandevi, Martin J. Day, John C. Fry	2006	39
14	Evidence that IncG (IncP-6) and IncU plasmids form a single incompatibility group Plasmid ·Anthony S. Haines, Martin Cheung, Christopher M. Thomas	2006	11
15	Signals, switches, regulons and cascades : control of bacterial gene expression University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) ·David A. Hodgson, Christopher M. Thomas	2002	30
16	Mutations at tyrosine-235 in the mobile loop region of domain I protein of transhydrogenase from Rhodospirillum rubrum strongly inhibit hydride transfer Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics ·Tania Bizouarn, Rachel L. Grimley, Christine P. Diggle, Christopher M. Thomas, J. Baz Jackson	1997	19
17	Preelectrophoresis of Agarose Plugs Containing Bacterial Chromosomal DNA Prepared for Analysis by Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis Can Improve the Clarity of Restriction Patterns Analytical Biochemistry ·Carl Whatling, Christopher M. Thomas	1993	6
18	Crosstalk between plasmid vegetative replication and conjugative transfer: repression of thetrfAoperon bytrbAof broad host range plasmid RK2 Nucleic Acids Research ·Grażyna Jagura‐Burdzy, Farhat L. Khanim, Christopher A. Smith, Christopher M. Thomas	1992	48
19	Promiscuous plasmids of gram-negative bacteria Academic Press eBooks ·Christopher M. Thomas	1989	131
20	[17] Plasmid cloning vehicles derived from plasmids ColE1, F, R6K, and RK2 Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Michael L. Kahn, Roberto Kolter, Christopher M. Thomas, David H. Figurski, Richard J. Meyer, E. Remaut, Donald R. Helinski Hit paper breakdown →	1979	477

About Christopher M. Thomas

Christopher M. Thomas is a scholar working on Molecular Medicine, Genetics, Ecology, Endocrinology and Plant Science, having authored 200 papers that have together received 10.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (93 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (56 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (40 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (34 papers), Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (32 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (26 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (21 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Medicine (2.8k citations), Endocrinology (1.1k citations), Genetics (4.5k citations), Pollution (1.2k citations) and Ecology (2.6k citations). Christopher M. Thomas has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Poland. Frequent co-authors include Kaare Magne Nielsen, Donald R. Helinski, Grażyna Jagura‐Burdzy, Joanne Hothersall, Carl Smith, Thomas J. Simpson, Christopher A. Smith, David H. Figurski, Christopher A. Smith and Victoria Shingler. Their work appears in journals such as Microbiology, Journal of Molecular Biology, Nucleic Acids Research, PLoS ONE and Molecular Microbiology.

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