Ellen L. Zechner

4.4k total citations
76 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Ellen L. Zechner is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Molecular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Ellen L. Zechner has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Molecular Biology, 36 papers in Genetics and 31 papers in Molecular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Ellen L. Zechner's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (35 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (31 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (14 papers). Ellen L. Zechner is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (35 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (31 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (14 papers). Ellen L. Zechner collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United States and Spain. Ellen L. Zechner's co-authors include Andreas Reisner, Søren Molin, Kenneth J. Marians, Fernando de la Cruz, Silvia Lang, Gregor Gorkiewicz, Richard J. Meyer, Laura S. Frost, Mark A. Schembri and Janus A. J. Haagensen and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Ellen L. Zechner

72 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ellen L. Zechner Austria 33 1.8k 1.3k 872 791 741 76 3.3k
Kim R. Hardie United Kingdom 32 2.1k 1.2× 1.1k 0.9× 390 0.4× 449 0.6× 782 1.1× 66 3.5k
Manjeet Bains Canada 32 2.6k 1.5× 906 0.7× 1.3k 1.5× 444 0.6× 521 0.7× 46 3.9k
Sophie Hélaine United Kingdom 29 1.9k 1.1× 1.4k 1.1× 957 1.1× 765 1.0× 1.2k 1.6× 54 4.2k
S E West United States 25 2.4k 1.3× 1.3k 1.0× 655 0.8× 453 0.6× 526 0.7× 35 3.8k
Carlos Balsalobre Spain 27 1.2k 0.7× 889 0.7× 462 0.5× 511 0.6× 937 1.3× 63 2.6k
Yajun Song China 33 1.9k 1.1× 1.7k 1.3× 447 0.5× 377 0.5× 653 0.9× 169 3.8k
Elżbieta Brzuszkiewicz Germany 24 1.5k 0.8× 543 0.4× 389 0.4× 438 0.6× 835 1.1× 38 3.0k
Mark Eppinger United States 25 882 0.5× 566 0.4× 362 0.4× 583 0.7× 753 1.0× 55 2.3k
Roger Simm Norway 22 2.2k 1.3× 913 0.7× 492 0.6× 436 0.6× 888 1.2× 50 3.4k
Levente Emödy Hungary 31 1.3k 0.7× 897 0.7× 448 0.5× 480 0.6× 1.6k 2.2× 88 3.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ellen L. Zechner

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All Works

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Kohl, Paul, Carmen Tam‐Amersdorfer, Kristina Schild-Prüfert, et al.. (2025). Enrichment of human IgA-coated bacterial vesicles in ulcerative colitis as a driver of inflammation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3995–3995. 6 indexed citations
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Haller, R. De, Michael D. Miller, Iris Kufferath, et al.. (2024). Immune evasion by proteolytic shedding of natural killer group 2, member D ligands in Helicobacter pylori infection. Frontiers in Immunology. 15. 1282680–1282680. 11 indexed citations
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Subramanian, Saravanan, Hua Geng, Longtao Wu, et al.. (2024). Microbiota regulates neonatal disease tolerance to virus-evoked necrotizing enterocolitis by shaping the STAT1-NLRC5 axis in the intestinal epithelium. Cell Host & Microbe. 32(10). 1805–1821.e10. 5 indexed citations
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Comas, Jaume, et al.. (2022). In Situ Monitoring and Quantitative Determination of R27 Plasmid Conjugation. Life. 12(8). 1212–1212.
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Kienesberger, Sabine, Eva Leitner, Bettina Halwachs, et al.. (2022). Enterotoxin tilimycin from gut-resident Klebsiella promotes mutational evolution and antibiotic resistance in mice. Nature Microbiology. 7(11). 1834–1848. 18 indexed citations
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Zechner, Ellen L.. (2017). Inflammatory disease caused by intestinal pathobionts. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 35. 64–69. 54 indexed citations
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Ilangovan, Aravindan, Christopher W. M. Kay, Sandro Roier, et al.. (2017). Cryo-EM Structure of a Relaxase Reveals the Molecular Basis of DNA Unwinding during Bacterial Conjugation. Cell. 169(4). 708–721.e12. 56 indexed citations
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Zechner, Ellen L., Gabriel Moncalián, & Fernando de la Cruz. (2017). Relaxases and Plasmid Transfer in Gram-Negative Bacteria. Current topics in microbiology and immunology. 413. 93–113. 31 indexed citations
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Gruber, Christian J., et al.. (2016). Conjugative DNA Transfer Is Enhanced by Plasmid R1 Partitioning Proteins. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 3. 32–32. 24 indexed citations
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Schneditz, Georg, Sandro Roier, Jakob Pletz, et al.. (2014). Enterotoxicity of a nonribosomal peptide causes antibiotic-associated colitis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(36). 13181–13186. 96 indexed citations
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Kienesberger, Sabine, Bettina Halwachs, Gerhard Thallinger, et al.. (2014). Comparative Genome Analysis of Campylobacter fetus Subspecies Revealed Horizontally Acquired Genetic Elements Important for Virulence and Niche Specificity. PLoS ONE. 9(1). e85491–e85491. 33 indexed citations
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Lang, Silvia & Ellen L. Zechner. (2012). General requirements for protein secretion by the F-like conjugation system R1. Plasmid. 67(2). 128–138. 22 indexed citations
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Lang, Silvia, Paul C. Kirchberger, Christian J. Gruber, et al.. (2011). An activation domain of plasmid R1 TraI protein delineates stages of gene transfer initiation. Molecular Microbiology. 82(5). 1071–1085. 40 indexed citations
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Reisner, Andreas, et al.. (2010). The transfer operon of plasmid R1 extends beyond finO into the downstream replication genes. Plasmid. 65(2). 150–158. 7 indexed citations
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Kienesberger, Sabine, Gregor Gorkiewicz, Heimo Wolinski, & Ellen L. Zechner. (2010). New molecular microbiology approaches in the study of Campylobacter fetus. Microbial Biotechnology. 4(1). 8–19. 5 indexed citations
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Zechner, Ellen L., et al.. (2004). Concomitant Reconstitution of TraI-catalyzed DNA Transesterase and DNA Helicase Activity in Vitro. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(44). 45477–45484. 13 indexed citations
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Reisner, Andreas, Søren Molin, & Ellen L. Zechner. (2002). Recombinogenic engineering of conjugative plasmids with fluorescent marker cassettes. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 42(2). 251–259. 26 indexed citations
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Strohmaier, Heimo, Sabine Kotschan, R. Gary Sawers, et al.. (1998). Signal transduction and bacterial conjugation: characterization of the role of ArcA in regulating conjugative transfer of the resistance plasmid R1. Journal of Molecular Biology. 277(2). 309–316. 45 indexed citations

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