Daniel Krug

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
39 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Daniel Krug is a scholar working on Pharmacology, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Krug has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Pharmacology, 25 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Daniel Krug's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (33 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers) and Marine Sponges and Natural Products (8 papers). Daniel Krug is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (33 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers) and Marine Sponges and Natural Products (8 papers). Daniel Krug collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Daniel Krug's co-authors include Rolf Müller, Marnix H. Medema, Robert E. Bruccoleri, Hyun Uk Kim, Tilmann Weber, Michael A. Fischbach, Eriko Takano, Rainer Breitling, Kai Blin and Wolfgang Wohlleben and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Krug

39 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

antiSMASH 3.0—a comprehensive resource for the genome mining of biosynthetic gene clusters

2015 1.5k citations Tilmann Weber, Kai Blin et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Compendium of specialized metabolite biosynthetic diversity encoded in bacterial genomes

2022 181 citations Athina Gavriilidou, Satria A. Kautsar et al. Nature Microbiology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel Krug Germany	26	2.4k	2.0k	835	585	404	39	3.5k
Harald Gross Germany	35	2.3k 1.0×	1.8k 0.9×	860 1.0×	1.2k 2.1×	338 0.8×	126	4.5k
Margherita Sosio Italy	31	2.2k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	584 0.7×	360 0.6×	411 1.0×	98	3.2k
Mohammad Alanjary Germany	16	2.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	553 0.7×	544 0.9×	486 1.2×	25	2.9k
Joachim Wink Germany	29	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	600 0.7×	366 0.6×	429 1.1×	120	2.7k
Fernando Reyes Spain	37	1.9k 0.8×	1.9k 1.0×	1.4k 1.7×	494 0.8×	269 0.7×	217	4.4k
Eric J. N. Helfrich Germany	22	1.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	685 0.8×	621 1.1×	412 1.0×	39	2.9k
Yit‐Heng Chooi Australia	38	2.5k 1.0×	2.9k 1.5×	818 1.0×	1.1k 1.9×	345 0.9×	102	4.9k
Hugo Gramajo Argentina	31	2.4k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	409 0.5×	358 0.6×	198 0.5×	92	3.3k
Paloma Liras Spain	38	2.9k 1.2×	2.7k 1.4×	652 0.8×	794 1.4×	207 0.5×	138	4.3k
Huarong Tan China	31	2.5k 1.0×	2.1k 1.1×	707 0.8×	600 1.0×	201 0.5×	127	3.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel Krug

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Wesseling, Hendrik, et al.. (2025). Chemical nucleases are a robust alternative for RNase H cleavage of human ribosomal RNA. PLoS ONE. 20(2). e0318697–e0318697. 1 indexed citations

Hidalgo, Alberto, Daniel Krug, Rolf Müller, et al.. (2023). 3D bioprinting of E. coli MG1655 biofilms on human lung epithelial cells for building complex in vitro infection models. Biofabrication. 15(3). 35019–35019. 14 indexed citations

Panter, Fabian, et al.. (2022). Myxobacteria of the Cystobacterineae Suborder Are Producers of New Vitamin K2 Derived Myxoquinones. Microorganisms. 10(3). 534–534. 2 indexed citations

Gavriilidou, Athina, Satria A. Kautsar, Nestor Zaburannyi, et al.. (2022). Compendium of specialized metabolite biosynthetic diversity encoded in bacterial genomes. Nature Microbiology. 7(5). 726–735. 181 indexed citations breakdown →

Boese, Annette, Teresa Röhrig, Martin Empting, et al.. (2021). Transferring Microclusters of P. aeruginosa Biofilms to the Air–Liquid Interface of Bronchial Epithelial Cells for Repeated Deposition of Aerosolized Tobramycin. ACS Infectious Diseases. 8(1). 137–149. 10 indexed citations

Hug, Joachim J., Daniel Krug, & Rolf Müller. (2020). Bacteria as genetically programmable producers of bioactive natural products. Nature Reviews Chemistry. 4(4). 172–193. 118 indexed citations

Hoffmann, Thomas, Daniel Krug, Rolf Jansen, et al.. (2018). Correlating chemical diversity with taxonomic distance for discovery of natural products in myxobacteria. Nature Communications. 9(1). 803–803. 123 indexed citations

Meusel, Marvin, Franziska Hufsky, Fabian Panter, et al.. (2016). Predicting the Presence of Uncommon Elements in Unknown Biomolecules from Isotope Patterns. Analytical Chemistry. 88(15). 7556–7566. 23 indexed citations

Weber, Tilmann, Kai Blin, Daniel Krug, et al.. (2015). antiSMASH 3.0—a comprehensive resource for the genome mining of biosynthetic gene clusters. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(W1). W237–W243. 1507 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jansen, Rolf, Klaus Gerth, Volker Hüch, et al.. (2015). Two of a Kind—The Biosynthetic Pathways of Chlorotonil and Anthracimycin. ACS Chemical Biology. 10(11). 2480–2490. 27 indexed citations

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Cortina, Niña Socorro, Daniel Krug, Alberto Plaza, Ole Revermann, & Rolf Müller. (2011). Myxoprincomide: A Natural Product from Myxococcus xanthus Discovered by Comprehensive Analysis of the Secondary Metabolome. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 51(3). 811–816. 83 indexed citations

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Garcia, Ronald, Daniel Krug, & Rolf Müller. (2009). Chapter 3 Discovering Natural Products from Myxobacteria with Emphasis on Rare Producer Strains in Combination with Improved Analytical Methods. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 458. 59–91. 50 indexed citations

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Krug, Daniel & Rolf Müller. (2009). Discovery of Additional Members of the Tyrosine Aminomutase Enzyme Family and the Mutational Analysis of CmdF. ChemBioChem. 10(4). 741–750. 50 indexed citations

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Ewen, Kerstin Maria, Frank Hannemann, Yogan Khatri, et al.. (2009). Genome Mining in Sorangium cellulosum So ce56. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(42). 28590–28598. 35 indexed citations

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Meiser, Peter, Kira J. Weissman, Helge B. Bode, et al.. (2008). DKxanthene Biosynthesis—Understanding the Basis for Diversity-Oriented Synthesis in Myxobacterial Secondary Metabolism. Chemistry & Biology. 15(8). 771–781. 59 indexed citations

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Krug, Daniel, Gabriela Zurek, Birgit Schneider, Ronald Garcia, & Rolf Müller. (2008). Efficient mining of myxobacterial metabolite profiles enabled by liquid chromatography–electrospray ionisation-time-of-flight mass spectrometry and compound-based principal component analysis. Analytica Chimica Acta. 624(1). 97–106. 57 indexed citations

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Bode, Helge B., Peter Meiser, Niña Socorro Cortina, et al.. (2007). Mutasynthesis‐Derived Myxalamids and Origin of the Isobutyryl‐CoA Starter Unit of Myxalamid B. ChemBioChem. 8(17). 2139–2144. 31 indexed citations

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Rachid, Shwan, Daniel Krug, Kira J. Weissman, & Rolf Müller. (2007). Biosynthesis of (R)-β-Tyrosine and Its Incorporation into the Highly Cytotoxic Chondramides Produced by Chondromyces crocatus. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(30). 21810–21817. 43 indexed citations

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Rachid, Shwan, Daniel Krug, Brigitte Kunze, et al.. (2006). Molecular and Biochemical Studies of Chondramide Formation—Highly Cytotoxic Natural Products from Chondromyces crocatus Cm c5. Chemistry & Biology. 13(6). 667–681. 79 indexed citations

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Zapp, Josef, et al.. (2006). Myxovirescin A Biosynthesis is Directed by Hybrid Polyketide Synthases/Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase, 3‐Hydroxy‐3‐Methylglutaryl–CoA Synthases, and trans‐Acting Acyltransferases. ChemBioChem. 7(8). 1206–1220. 128 indexed citations

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