Eric Metzger

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Eric Metzger is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric Metzger has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 5 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Eric Metzger's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (33 papers), Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research (15 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (15 papers). Eric Metzger is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (33 papers), Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research (15 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (15 papers). Eric Metzger collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Eric Metzger's co-authors include Roland Schüle, Reinhard Buettner, Judith M. Müller, Thomas Günther, Na Yin, Robert Schneider, Antoine H.F.M. Peters, Nicolaus Friedrichs, Holger Greschik and Jutta Kirfel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Eric Metzger

50 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

LSD1 demethylates repressive histone marks to promote androgen-receptor-dependent transcription

2005 1.4k citations Eric Metzger, Na Yin et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eric Metzger Germany	31	4.4k	653	619	500	445	52	5.1k
Ivan García-Bassets United States	17	3.1k 0.7×	550 0.8×	345 0.6×	557 1.1×	546 1.2×	27	3.6k
Junran Zhang United States	33	2.9k 0.7×	440 0.7×	660 1.1×	960 1.9×	1.2k 2.7×	71	3.9k
Susan K. Logan United States	28	1.8k 0.4×	492 0.8×	538 0.9×	504 1.0×	486 1.1×	64	3.0k
Peter Mulligan United States	16	4.0k 0.9×	617 0.9×	169 0.3×	436 0.9×	353 0.8×	25	4.6k
Motoko Unoki Japan	29	2.8k 0.6×	395 0.6×	200 0.3×	468 0.9×	319 0.7×	51	3.4k
Diane M. Robins United States	33	2.3k 0.5×	1.2k 1.8×	648 1.0×	277 0.6×	366 0.8×	85	3.6k
Steven A. Johnsen Germany	42	3.8k 0.9×	617 0.9×	298 0.5×	635 1.3×	1.3k 2.9×	106	4.9k
Massimo Zollo Italy	31	2.5k 0.6×	403 0.6×	240 0.4×	839 1.7×	636 1.4×	97	3.5k
Sharon Shacham United States	46	4.4k 1.0×	380 0.6×	500 0.8×	369 0.7×	1.4k 3.2×	221	5.8k
Gwen Lomberk United States	36	2.5k 0.6×	496 0.8×	249 0.4×	482 1.0×	740 1.7×	135	3.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eric Metzger

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Müller, Anja, Judith M. Müller, Florian Perner, et al.. (2025). Lysine-specific demethylase 1 regulates hematopoietic stem cell expansion and myeloid cell differentiation. Cell Death and Disease. 16(1). 619–619. 1 indexed citations

Schmidt, Sonja, Stefan Fischer, Rafael Schmid, et al.. (2025). Modeling a mesenchymal cell state by bioprinting for the molecular analysis of dormancy in melanoma. Materials Today Bio. 32. 101674–101674.

Urban, Sylvia, Judith M. Müller, Qing Wang, et al.. (2025). Mitochondrial KMT9 methylates DLAT to control pyruvate dehydrogenase activity and prostate cancer growth. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1191–1191. 3 indexed citations

Cai, Qingshuang, Céline Charvet, Tao Ye, et al.. (2024). LSD1 inhibition circumvents glucocorticoid-induced muscle wasting of male mice. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3563–3563. 7 indexed citations

Melesina, Jelena, Dina Robaa, Lin Zhang, et al.. (2024). Structure–Activity Studies of 1,2,4-Oxadiazoles for the Inhibition of the NAD⁺-Dependent Lysine Deacylase Sirtuin 2. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 67(12). 10076–10095. 7 indexed citations

Willmann, Dominica, Eric Metzger, Lutz Hein, et al.. (2024). Soft drug inhibitors for the epigenetic targets lysine‐specific demethylase 1 and histone deacetylases. Archiv der Pharmazie. 357(10). e2400450–e2400450. 1 indexed citations

Sailer, Verena, Gunhild von Amsberg, Stefan Duensing, et al.. (2022). Experimental in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo models in prostate cancer research. Nature Reviews Urology. 20(3). 158–178. 31 indexed citations

Metzger, Eric, Matthias Fahrner, Julie George, et al.. (2020). Depletion of histone methyltransferase KMT9 inhibits lung cancer cell proliferation by inducing non-apoptotic cell death. Cancer Cell International. 20(1). 52–52. 25 indexed citations

Metzger, Eric, Sylvia Urban, Dominica Willmann, et al.. (2017). KDM4 Inhibition Targets Breast Cancer Stem–like Cells. Cancer Research. 77(21). 5900–5912. 73 indexed citations

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Mohr, Sebastian, Martin Schmitt, Alexandra Walter, et al.. (2017). LSD1 Inhibition Leads to Differentiation in Hoxa9/Meis1- but Not in MN1-Induced Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Blood. 130. 1246–1246. 1 indexed citations

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Mohr, Sebastian, Martin Schmitt, Alexandra Walter, et al.. (2017). Lsd1 inhibition induces differentiation and decreases leukemic stem cell frequency in Hoxa9/Meis1-driven AML. Experimental Hematology. 53. S125–S125. 2 indexed citations

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Schmitt, Martin, Luca Carlino, Dominica Willmann, et al.. (2014). Heterogeneous Antibody-Based Activity Assay for Lysine Specific Demethylase 1 (LSD1) on a Histone Peptide Substrate. SLAS DISCOVERY. 19(6). 973–978. 7 indexed citations

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Nam, Hye Jin, Kyung-Jin Boo, Dongha Kim, et al.. (2014). Phosphorylation of LSD1 by PKCα Is Crucial for Circadian Rhythmicity and Phase Resetting. Molecular Cell. 53(5). 791–805. 81 indexed citations

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Jilg, Cordula A., Dominica Willmann, Barbara Hummel, et al.. (2014). LSD1 controls metastasis of androgen-independent prostate cancer cells through PXN and LPAR6. Oncogenesis. 3(10). e120–e120. 52 indexed citations

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Zhu, Dongmei, Eric Metzger, Cordula A. Jilg, et al.. (2014). Lysine-specific demethylase 1 regulates differentiation onset and migration of trophoblast stem cells. Nature Communications. 5(1). 3174–3174. 56 indexed citations

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Willmann, Dominica, Soyoung Lim, Stefan Wetzel, et al.. (2012). Impairment of prostate cancer cell growth by a selective and reversible lysine‐specific demethylase 1 inhibitor. International Journal of Cancer. 131(11). 2704–2709. 106 indexed citations

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Schulte, Johannes H., Soyoung Lim, Alexander Schramm, et al.. (2009). Lysine-Specific Demethylase 1 Is Strongly Expressed in Poorly Differentiated Neuroblastoma: Implications for Therapy. Cancer Research. 69(5). 2065–2071. 369 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yue, Guillaume Lang, Saya Ito, et al.. (2008). A TFTC/STAGA Module Mediates Histone H2A and H2B Deubiquitination, Coactivates Nuclear Receptors, and Counteracts Heterochromatin Silencing. Molecular Cell. 29(1). 92–101. 290 indexed citations

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Metzger, Eric, Na Yin, Natalia Kunowska, et al.. (2007). Phosphorylation of histone H3 at threonine 11 establishes a novel chromatin mark for transcriptional regulation. Nature Cell Biology. 10(1). 53–60. 163 indexed citations

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Metzger, Eric, Na Yin, Judith M. Müller, et al.. (2005). LSD1 demethylates repressive histone marks to promote androgen-receptor-dependent transcription. Nature. 437(7057). 436–439. 1370 indexed citations breakdown →

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