Elsa M. Tretter

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 794 citations indexed

About

Elsa M. Tretter is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Elsa M. Tretter has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 794 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Molecular Medicine and 1 paper in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Elsa M. Tretter's work include Cancer therapeutics and mechanisms (6 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (3 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (3 papers). Elsa M. Tretter is often cited by papers focused on Cancer therapeutics and mechanisms (6 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (3 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (3 papers). Elsa M. Tretter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Israel. Elsa M. Tretter's co-authors include James M. Berger, Bryan H. Thurtle-Schmidt, Seychelle M. Vos, Zev Bryant, Aakash Basu, Florian C. Oberstrass, Yuval Eshed, John L. Bowman, John Paul Alvarez and Allyn J. Schoeffler and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Elsa M. Tretter

8 papers receiving 782 citations

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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.

All tangled up: how cells direct, manage and exploit topoisomerase function

2011 509 citations Seychelle M. Vos, Elsa M. Tretter et al. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elsa M. Tretter United States	8	703	152	150	106	91	8	794
Bruce Alberts United States	4	436 0.6×	87 0.6×	68 0.5×	58 0.5×	19 0.2×	6	483
Richard E. Depew United States	7	540 0.8×	64 0.4×	64 0.4×	69 0.7×	77 0.8×	10	602
Benjamin P. Duckworth United States	14	561 0.8×	54 0.4×	8 0.1×	329 3.1×	37 0.4×	16	768
S. А. Streltsov Russia	11	302 0.4×	28 0.2×	41 0.3×	84 0.8×	5 0.1×	62	438
P.A. Elkins United States	10	597 0.8×	94 0.6×	5 0.0×	138 1.3×	41 0.5×	10	862
Inna V. Krieger United States	14	394 0.6×	17 0.1×	11 0.1×	48 0.5×	42 0.5×	28	674
Brigitte René France	12	318 0.5×	45 0.3×	42 0.3×	35 0.3×	10 0.1×	28	369
Nicholas M. Pearce United Kingdom	13	563 0.8×	30 0.2×	11 0.1×	55 0.5×	22 0.2×	21	705
G. V. Gursky Russia	13	463 0.7×	43 0.3×	18 0.1×	54 0.5×	6 0.1×	43	528
Marje Kasari Estonia	12	281 0.4×	54 0.4×	9 0.1×	60 0.6×	82 0.9×	14	454

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Basu, Aakash, et al.. (2018). Dynamic coupling between conformations and nucleotide states in DNA gyrase. Nature Chemical Biology. 14(6). 565–574. 17 indexed citations

2.

Basu, Aakash, et al.. (2014). Gold rotor bead tracking for high-speed measurements of DNA twist, torque and extension. Nature Methods. 11(4). 456–462. 73 indexed citations

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Tretter, Elsa M. & James M. Berger. (2012). Mechanisms for Defining Supercoiling Set Point of DNA Gyrase Orthologs. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(22). 18636–18644. 53 indexed citations

4.

Tretter, Elsa M. & James M. Berger. (2012). Mechanisms for Defining Supercoiling Set Point of DNA Gyrase Orthologs. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(22). 18645–18654. 47 indexed citations

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Vos, Seychelle M., Elsa M. Tretter, Bryan H. Thurtle-Schmidt, & James M. Berger. (2011). All tangled up: how cells direct, manage and exploit topoisomerase function. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 12(12). 827–841. 509 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tretter, Elsa M., et al.. (2010). A naturally chimeric type IIA topoisomerase in Aquifex aeolicus highlights an evolutionary path for the emergence of functional paralogs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(51). 22055–22059. 21 indexed citations

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Tretter, Elsa M., et al.. (2009). Crystal structure of the DNA gyrase GyrA N‐terminal domain from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 78(2). 492–495. 32 indexed citations

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Tretter, Elsa M., John Paul Alvarez, Yuval Eshed, & John L. Bowman. (2008). Activity Range of Arabidopsis Small RNAs Derived from Different Biogenesis Pathways . PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 147(1). 58–62. 42 indexed citations

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