Eckhard Hofmann

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Eckhard Hofmann is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Eckhard Hofmann has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 17 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Eckhard Hofmann's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (46 papers), Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins (17 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (16 papers). Eckhard Hofmann is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (46 papers), Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins (17 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (16 papers). Eckhard Hofmann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Poland. Eckhard Hofmann's co-authors include Kay Diederichs, Wolfram Welte, Andrew D. Ferguson, James W. Coulton, Roger G. Hiller, Thomas Happe, Frank P. Sharples, Pamela M. Wrench, Ulf‐Peter Apfel and Tim Schulte and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Eckhard Hofmann

90 papers receiving 3.6k citations

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Siderophore-Mediated Iron Transport: Crystal Structure of FhuA with Bound Lipopolysaccharide

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eckhard Hofmann Germany	32	2.2k	821	593	532	494	93	3.6k
Jean‐Louis Rigaud France	36	3.5k 1.6×	183 0.2×	709 1.2×	233 0.4×	440 0.9×	53	4.3k
Blanca Barquera United States	34	2.3k 1.1×	229 0.3×	137 0.2×	277 0.5×	264 0.5×	82	3.1k
Dirk Schneider Germany	35	2.8k 1.3×	466 0.6×	140 0.2×	304 0.6×	145 0.3×	143	3.4k
Geoffrey R. Moore United Kingdom	42	3.3k 1.5×	232 0.3×	209 0.4×	1.4k 2.6×	751 1.5×	119	5.1k
A.W. Roszak United Kingdom	25	1.4k 0.7×	188 0.2×	370 0.6×	174 0.3×	445 0.9×	71	2.1k
Ryota Kuroki Japan	31	2.5k 1.1×	225 0.3×	121 0.2×	312 0.6×	1.0k 2.1×	114	4.1k
Wolf‐Dieter Schubert Germany	34	2.2k 1.0×	370 0.5×	323 0.5×	142 0.3×	333 0.7×	74	3.4k
Lothar Esser United States	32	2.2k 1.0×	195 0.2×	110 0.2×	626 1.2×	565 1.1×	77	4.4k
Markus Sutter United States	31	2.7k 1.2×	686 0.8×	66 0.1×	385 0.7×	470 1.0×	61	3.1k
William Cramer United States	31	2.1k 1.0×	143 0.2×	248 0.4×	858 1.6×	203 0.4×	58	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eckhard Hofmann

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Schäkermann, Sina, et al.. (2025). Two redox-responsive LysR-type transcription factors control the oxidative stress response of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(6).

Scholz, M., Jens Reiners, Sander H. J. Smits, et al.. (2025). Glutathione S-Transferase Mediated Epoxide Conversion: Functional and Structural Properties of an Enantioselective Catalyst. ACS Catalysis. 15(14). 12308–12324.

Hofmann, Eckhard, et al.. (2024). Toward More Selective Antibiotic Inhibitors: A Structural View of the Complexed Binding Pocket of E. coli Peptide Deformylase. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 67(8). 6384–6396. 1 indexed citations

Hartmann, J., et al.. (2023). On the evolution of the plant phytochrome chromophore biosynthesis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 193(1). 246–258. 4 indexed citations

Duan, Jifu, Lingling Liu, Ulf‐Peter Apfel, et al.. (2023). Insights into the Molecular Mechanism of Formaldehyde Inhibition of [FeFe]-Hydrogenases. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(48). 26068–26074. 4 indexed citations

Schultz, André, Eckhard Hofmann, Julia E. Bandow, et al.. (2023). Structural Insights into Antibacterial Payload Release from Gold Nanoparticles Bound to E. coli Peptide Deformylase. ChemMedChem. 19(6). e202300538–e202300538. 1 indexed citations

Hofmann, Eckhard, et al.. (2022). Characterization of three novel DyP-type peroxidases from Streptomyces chartreusis NRRL 3882. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 133(4). 2417–2429. 4 indexed citations

Winkler, Martin, Jifu Duan, Ulf‐Peter Apfel, et al.. (2021). A safety cap protects hydrogenase from oxygen attack. Nature Communications. 12(1). 756–756. 62 indexed citations

Gasper, Raphael, et al.. (2020). Distinctive structural properties of THB11, a pentacoordinate Chlamydomonas reinhardtii truncated hemoglobin with N- and C-terminal extensions. JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. 25(2). 267–283. 4 indexed citations

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Duan, Jifu, et al.. (2020). The roles of long-range proton-coupled electron transfer in the directionality and efficiency of [FeFe]-hydrogenases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(34). 20520–20529. 58 indexed citations

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Corte, Dennis Della, Hugo L. van Beek, Marcus Schallmey, et al.. (2020). Engineering and application of a biosensor with focused ligand specificity. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4851–4851. 79 indexed citations

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Frankenberg‐Dinkel, Nicole, et al.. (2019). Crystal structure of the first eukaryotic bilin reductase GtPEBB reveals a flipped binding mode of dihydrobiliverdin. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(38). 13889–13901. 9 indexed citations

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Duan, Jifu, Stefan Mebs, Konstantin Laun, et al.. (2019). Geometry of the Catalytic Active Site in [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Is Determined by Hydrogen Bonding and Proton Transfer. ACS Catalysis. 9(10). 9140–9149. 37 indexed citations

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Hofmann, Eckhard, et al.. (2019). Structural Analysis of the 42 kDa Parvulin of Trypanosoma brucei. Biomolecules. 9(3). 93–93. 1 indexed citations

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Duan, Jifu, Moritz Senger, Julian Esselborn, et al.. (2018). Crystallographic and spectroscopic assignment of the proton transfer pathway in [FeFe]-hydrogenases. Nature Communications. 9(1). 64 indexed citations

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Winkler, Martin, Moritz Senger, Jifu Duan, et al.. (2017). Accumulating the hydride state in the catalytic cycle of [FeFe]-hydrogenases. Nature Communications. 8(1). 16115–16115. 93 indexed citations

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Wittkamp, Florian, Constanze Sommer, Julian Esselborn, et al.. (2017). Chalcogenide substitution in the [2Fe] cluster of [FeFe]-hydrogenases conserves high enzymatic activity. Dalton Transactions. 46(48). 16947–16958. 47 indexed citations

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Gasper, Raphael, et al.. (2016). Dirigent Protein Mode of Action Revealed by the Crystal Structure of AtDIR6. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 172(4). 2165–2175. 56 indexed citations

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Esselborn, Julian, Norifumi Muraki, Kathrin Klein, et al.. (2015). A structural view of synthetic cofactor integration into [FeFe]-hydrogenases. Chemical Science. 7(2). 959–968. 123 indexed citations

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Kowalska, Dorota, et al.. (2013). Metal‐Enhanced Fluorescence of Chlorophylls in Light‐Harvesting Complexes Coupled to Silver Nanowires. The Scientific World JOURNAL. 2013(1). 670412–670412. 33 indexed citations

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