Erdinç Sezgin

9.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
101 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Erdinç Sezgin is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Erdinç Sezgin has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Biophysics and 17 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Erdinç Sezgin's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (64 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (24 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (15 papers). Erdinç Sezgin is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (64 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (24 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (15 papers). Erdinç Sezgin collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden. Erdinç Sezgin's co-authors include Christian Eggeling, Ilya Levental, Satyajit Mayor, Petra Schwille, Kai Simons, Dominic Waithe, Milka Doktorova, Alf Honigmann, Edward Lyman and Tobias Baumgart 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

Erdinç Sezgin

97 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

The mystery of membrane organization: composition, regulation and roles of lipid rafts

2017 1.5k citations Erdinç Sezgin, Ilya Levental et al. profile →
Plasma membranes are asymmetric in lipid unsaturation, packing and protein shape

2020 488 citations Joseph H. Lorent, Kandice R. Levental et al. Nature Chemical Biology profile →
Scanning STED-FCS reveals spatiotemporal heterogeneity of lipid interaction in the plasma membrane of living cells

2014 231 citations Erdinç Sezgin, Christian Eggeling et al. Nature Communications profile →
Cell membranes sustain phospholipid imbalance via cholesterol asymmetry

2025 33 citations Milka Doktorova, Jan Schlegel et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Erdinç Sezgin United Kingdom	38	4.6k	966	917	776	736	101	6.2k
Luís A. Bagatolli Denmark	45	6.4k 1.4×	1.2k 1.3×	803 0.9×	575 0.7×	1.6k 2.2×	119	8.0k
Sushmita Mukherjee United States	34	3.5k 0.8×	668 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	507 0.7×	338 0.5×	74	5.6k
Ryota Iino Japan	40	4.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	779 0.8×	843 1.1×	753 1.0×	108	6.0k
Sarah L. Veatch United States	33	6.3k 1.4×	1.7k 1.8×	867 0.9×	881 1.1×	1.9k 2.6×	76	7.5k
Alf Honigmann Germany	31	3.5k 0.8×	678 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	1.0k 1.4×	477 0.6×	68	4.8k
Thorsten Wohland Singapore	42	3.4k 0.7×	764 0.8×	593 0.6×	1.8k 2.3×	508 0.7×	169	5.4k
Prabuddha Sengupta United States	32	2.6k 0.6×	779 0.8×	813 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	441 0.6×	46	4.2k
Anne K. Kenworthy United States	41	5.7k 1.3×	559 0.6×	2.4k 2.6×	1.0k 1.3×	509 0.7×	106	7.8k
Robert M. Henderson United Kingdom	34	4.6k 1.0×	615 0.6×	852 0.9×	341 0.4×	881 1.2×	99	6.2k
Tobias Baumgart United States	40	6.0k 1.3×	1.5k 1.6×	1.9k 2.1×	340 0.4×	1.6k 2.2×	95	7.8k

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Süleyman, Bahadır, et al.. (2025). The Protective Effect of Thiamine and Thiamine Pyrophosphate Against Linezolid-Induced Oxidative Liver Damage and Lactic Acidosis in Rats. Antioxidants. 14(8). 920–920. 1 indexed citations

Fink, Julian, et al.. (2023). Development of an Effective Functional Lipid Anchor for Membranes (FLAME) for the Bioorthogonal Modification of the Lipid Bilayer of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells. Bioconjugate Chemistry. 34(7). 1221–1233. 5 indexed citations

Sych, Taras, Jan Schlegel, Hanna M. G. Barriga, et al.. (2023). High-throughput measurement of the content and properties of nano-sized bioparticles with single-particle profiler. Nature Biotechnology. 42(4). 587–590. 36 indexed citations

Sezgin, Erdinç, et al.. (2021). Nradd Acts as a Negative Feedback Regulator of Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling and Promotes Apoptosis. Biomolecules. 11(1). 100–100. 8 indexed citations

Sych, Taras, et al.. (2021). How Does Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Model Membranes Reflect Cell Membrane Heterogeneity?. Membranes. 11(5). 323–323. 37 indexed citations

Sezgin, Erdinç, et al.. (2020). Impact of Nanoscale Hindrances on the Relationship between Lipid Packing and Diffusion in Model Membranes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 124(8). 1487–1494. 16 indexed citations

Dustin, Michael L., et al.. (2020). Model membrane systems to reconstitute immune cell signaling. FEBS Journal. 288(4). 1070–1090. 23 indexed citations

Schneider, Falk, Pablo Hernández-Varas, B. Christoffer Lagerholm, et al.. (2020). High photon count rates improve the quality of super-resolution fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 53(16). 164003–164003. 13 indexed citations

Sieben, Christian, Erdinç Sezgin, Christian Eggeling, & Suliana Manley. (2020). Influenza A viruses use multivalent sialic acid clusters for cell binding and receptor activation. PLoS Pathogens. 16(7). e1008656–e1008656. 53 indexed citations

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Ballweg, Stephanie, Erdinç Sezgin, Milka Doktorova, et al.. (2020). Regulation of lipid saturation without sensing membrane fluidity. Nature Communications. 11(1). 756–756. 126 indexed citations

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Danylchuk, Dmytro I., Erdinç Sezgin, Philippe Chabert, & Andrey S. Klymchenko. (2020). Redesigning Solvatochromic Probe Laurdan for Imaging Lipid Order Selectively in Cell Plasma Membranes. Analytical Chemistry. 92(21). 14798–14805. 63 indexed citations

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Sezgin, Erdinç, Dario Carugo, Ilya Levental, Eleanor Stride, & Christian Eggeling. (2020). Creating Supported Plasma Membrane Bilayers Using Acoustic Pressure. Membranes. 10(2). 30–30. 5 indexed citations

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Xiong, Yaoyao, Silvia Galiani, Erdinç Sezgin, et al.. (2020). Super-resolution RESOLFT microscopy of lipid bilayers using a fluorophore-switch dyad. Chemical Science. 11(33). 8955–8960. 17 indexed citations

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Lorent, Joseph H., Kandice R. Levental, Lakshmi Ganesan, et al.. (2020). Plasma membranes are asymmetric in lipid unsaturation, packing and protein shape. Nature Chemical Biology. 16(6). 644–652. 488 indexed citations breakdown →

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Plochberger, Birgit, Taras Sych, Florian Weber, et al.. (2020). Lipoprotein Particles Interact with Membranes and Transfer Their Cargo without Receptors. Biochemistry. 59(45). 4421–4428. 20 indexed citations

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Axmann, Markus, Erdinç Sezgin, Andreas Karner, et al.. (2019). Receptor-Independent Transfer of Low Density Lipoprotein Cargo to Biomembranes. Nano Letters. 19(4). 2562–2567. 22 indexed citations

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Schneider, Falk, Martyna Lukoseviciute, Tatjana Sauka‐Spengler, et al.. (2019). Nanoscale dynamics of cholesterol in the cell membrane. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(34). 12599–12609. 54 indexed citations

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Jenkins, Edward, Ana Mafalda Santos, James H. Felce, et al.. (2018). Reconstitution of immune cell interactions in free-standing membranes. Journal of Cell Science. 132(4). 29 indexed citations

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Schneider, Falk, Dominic Waithe, B. Christoffer Lagerholm, et al.. (2018). Statistical Analysis of Scanning Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy Data Differentiates Free from Hindered Diffusion. ACS Nano. 12(8). 8540–8546. 21 indexed citations

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Sezgin, Erdinç, Xue Wen Ng, Cathleen Teh, et al.. (2017). Binding of canonical Wnt ligands to their receptor complexes occurs in ordered plasma membrane environments. FEBS Journal. 284(15). 2513–2526. 41 indexed citations

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