Claudine Kraft

10.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
63 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Claudine Kraft is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Claudine Kraft has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Epidemiology, 38 papers in Cell Biology and 34 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Claudine Kraft's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (43 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (22 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (18 papers). Claudine Kraft is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (43 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (22 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (18 papers). Claudine Kraft collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and Netherlands. Claudine Kraft's co-authors include Matthias Peter, Kay Hofmann, Daniel Papinski, Anna Deplazes‐Zemp, Marc Sohrmann, Sascha Martens, Fulvio Reggiori, Jan‐Michael Peters, Julia Romanov and Martina Schuschnig and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Claudine Kraft

59 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Mature ribosomes are selectively degraded upon starvation by an autophagy pathway requiring the Ubp3p/Bre5p ubiquitin protease

2008 565 citations Claudine Kraft, Matthias Peter et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →
Selective autophagy: ubiquitin-mediated recognition and beyond

2010 506 citations Claudine Kraft, Matthias Peter et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →
SLC38A9 is a component of the lysosomal amino acid sensing machinery that controls mTORC1

2015 506 citations Claudine Kraft et al. profile →
Mechanism and functions of membrane binding by the Atg5–Atg12/Atg16 complex during autophagosome formation

2012 371 citations Julia Romanov, Marta Walczak et al. The EMBO Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Claudine Kraft Austria	33	3.0k	2.9k	2.2k	557	406	63	5.1k
Yukiko Kabeya Japan	17	2.3k 0.8×	3.8k 1.3×	1.6k 0.7×	561 1.0×	431 1.1×	21	4.9k
Ryan C. Russell United States	25	3.4k 1.1×	2.8k 1.0×	1.3k 0.6×	531 1.0×	225 0.6×	36	5.8k
Eisuke Itakura Japan	24	2.3k 0.8×	4.0k 1.4×	1.9k 0.9×	845 1.5×	207 0.5×	41	5.4k
David G. McEwan United Kingdom	20	3.0k 1.0×	4.1k 1.4×	1.6k 0.7×	696 1.2×	212 0.5×	27	5.8k
Michael Thumm Germany	36	2.1k 0.7×	2.4k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	306 0.5×	393 1.0×	61	3.8k
Yoshiaki Kamada Japan	23	3.6k 1.2×	3.2k 1.1×	2.0k 0.9×	375 0.7×	876 2.2×	40	5.6k
Maho Hamasaki Japan	23	2.5k 0.8×	3.0k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	581 1.0×	162 0.4×	41	4.9k
Takayoshi Kirisako Japan	11	2.8k 0.9×	2.8k 1.0×	1.3k 0.6×	335 0.6×	392 1.0×	18	4.8k
Misuzu Baba Japan	28	2.7k 0.9×	3.8k 1.3×	2.3k 1.0×	499 0.9×	458 1.1×	47	5.1k
Mariko Ohsumi Japan	17	3.3k 1.1×	5.0k 1.7×	2.2k 1.0×	660 1.2×	606 1.5×	25	6.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Claudine Kraft

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Cruz-León, Sergio, Héctor Mancilla, Sigrid Milles, et al.. (2026). Biomolecular condensate architecture of an autophagic cargo at molecular resolution in situ. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Licheva, Mariya, et al.. (2025). To degrade or not to degrade: how phase separation modulates selective autophagy. Autophagy. 21(11). 2518–2520. 1 indexed citations

Deau, Marie‐Céline, Laure‐Anne Ligeon, Pablo Sánchez‐Martín, et al.. (2025). LRBA deficiency impairs autophagy and contributes to enhanced antigen presentation and T-cell dysregulation. EMBO Reports. 26(16). 4040–4071.

Hofmann, Kay, et al.. (2024). Beyond the C-terminal Glycine of ATG8 Proteins – The Story of Some Neglected Amino Acids. Journal of Molecular Biology. 436(15). 168588–168588.

Sánchez‐Martín, Pablo, David M. Hollenstein, Jonas B. Michaelis, et al.. (2024). FIP200 Phosphorylation Regulates Late Steps in Mitophagy. Journal of Molecular Biology. 436(15). 168631–168631. 3 indexed citations

Rampelt, Heike, Florian Wollweber, Mariya Licheva, et al.. (2022). Dual role of Mic10 in mitochondrial cristae organization and ATP synthase-linked metabolic adaptation and respiratory growth. Cell Reports. 38(4). 110290–110290. 22 indexed citations

Reggiori, Fulvio, Patricia Boya, David Da Costa, et al.. (2022). The mechanism of macroautophagy: The movie. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 414–417. 1 indexed citations

Poveda-Huertes, Daniel, Stanka Matic, Lukas Habernig, et al.. (2019). An Early mtUPR: Redistribution of the Nuclear Transcription Factor Rox1 to Mitochondria Protects against Intramitochondrial Proteotoxic Aggregates. Molecular Cell. 77(1). 180–188.e9. 51 indexed citations

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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Papinski, Daniel, et al.. (2018). Ykt6 mediates autophagosome-vacuole fusion. Molecular & Cellular Oncology. 5(6). e1526006–e1526006. 7 indexed citations

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Papinski, Daniel, et al.. (2018). Reconstitution reveals Ykt6 as the autophagosomal SNARE in autophagosome–vacuole fusion. The Journal of Cell Biology. 217(10). 3656–3669. 95 indexed citations

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Kraft, Claudine, Patricia Boya, Patrice Codogno, et al.. (2018). Driving next-generation autophagy researchers towards translation (DRIVE), an international PhD training program on autophagy. Autophagy. 15(2). 347–351. 4 indexed citations

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Reiter, Wolfgang, Thorsten Brach, Daniel Papinski, et al.. (2014). Hrr25 kinase promotes selective autophagy by phosphorylating the cargo receptor A tg19. EMBO Reports. 15(8). 862–870. 73 indexed citations

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Romanov, Julia, Marta Walczak, Stefan Schüchner, et al.. (2012). Mechanism and functions of membrane binding by the Atg5–Atg12/Atg16 complex during autophagosome formation. The EMBO Journal. 31(22). 4304–4317. 371 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kraft, Claudine, Monika Kijańska, Sung Sik Lee, et al.. (2012). Binding of the Atg1/ULK1 kinase to the ubiquitin‐like protein Atg8 regulates autophagy. The EMBO Journal. 31(18). 3691–3703. 213 indexed citations

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Solé, Carme, Mariona Nadal‐Ribelles, Claudine Kraft, et al.. (2011). Control of Ubp3 ubiquitin protease activity by the Hog1 SAPK modulates transcription upon osmostress. The EMBO Journal. 30(16). 3274–3284. 41 indexed citations

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Kijańska, Monika, Ilse Dohnal, Wolfgang Reiter, et al.. (2010). Activation of Atg1 kinase in autophagy by regulated phosphorylation. Autophagy. 6(8). 1168–1178. 49 indexed citations

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Kraft, Claudine, Matthias Peter, & Kay Hofmann. (2010). Selective autophagy: ubiquitin-mediated recognition and beyond. Nature Cell Biology. 12(9). 836–841. 506 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kraft, Claudine & Matthias Peter. (2008). Is the Rsp5 ubiquitin ligase involved in the regulation of ribophagy?. Autophagy. 4(6). 838–840. 37 indexed citations

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Kraft, Claudine. (2003). Mitotic Entry: Tipping the Balance. Current Biology. 13(11). R445–R446. 12 indexed citations

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