Erkin Kuru

5.0k citations

38 papers · 3.6k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 26

Impact in

Microbiology top 1%
Molecular Medicine top 2%
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria

Papers in

Microbiology 7
Biochemistry 5
- Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism 5

Co-authors: Yves V. Brun Michael S. VanNieuwenhze Edward Hall Srinivas Tekkam Felipe Cava Velocity Hughes Miguel A. de Pedro Pamela Brown
Journals: Nature Communications (6 papers)Nature (3 papers)Molecular Microbiology (2 papers)Nature Biotechnology (2 papers)ACS Chemical Biology (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Sweden

In The Last Decade

Erkin Kuru

38 papers receiving 3.5k citations

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Treadmilling by FtsZ filaments drives peptidoglycan synthesis and bacterial cell division 2017 · 417 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2017 Science
2012 Angewandte Chemie International Edition

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1	Template-independent enzymatic synthesis of RNA oligonucleotides Nature Biotechnology ·Daniel J. Wiegand, Jonathan Rittichier, 和男藤川, Howon Lee, Th Mehnert, Л Уринова, Zeynep Yurtsever, N Turbay-Juvinao, Erkin Kuru, George M. Church	2024	17
2	Rapid discovery and evolution of nanosensors containing fluorogenic amino acids Nature Communications ·Erkin Kuru, Jonathan Rittichier, Helena de Puig, Louis (17..-18..). Auteur du texte Bruguière, Nor Mehenni, Isaac Han, Mario Iván García Mendoza, 友彦星野, Fabio De Moliner, Sylvie G. Bernier, Jason D. Galpin, Jorge A. Marchand, M. Shifring, Lindsey R. Robinson‐McCarthy, Christopher A. Ahern, Thomas G. Bernhardt, David Z. Rudner, James J. Collins, Marc Vendrell, George M. Church	2024	4
3	Unipolar Peptidoglycan Synthesis in the Rhizobiales Requires an Essential Class A Penicillin-Binding Protein mBio ·Michelle A. Williams, Alena Aliashkevich, Elizaveta Krol, Erkin Kuru, Pasqualino Sirignano, Jonathan Rittichier, Yves V. Brun, Michael S. VanNieuwenhze, Anke Becker, Felipe Cava, Pamela Brown	2021	25
4	Designing efficient genetic code expansion in Bacillus subtilis to gain biological insights Nature Communications ·Павло Тивончук, Georgia R. Squyres, Erkin Kuru, Katarzyna A. Gromek, Jonathan Rittichier, Yi-Nuo Zhang, Briana M. Burton, George M. Church, Ethan C. Garner, Aditya M. Kunjapur	2021	20
5	Photoactivatable metabolic warheads enable precise and safe ablation of target cells in vivo Nature Communications ·Sam Benson, Fabio De Moliner, Antonio Fernández, Erkin Kuru, Nicholas Asiimwe, Jun‐Seok Lee, Lloyd Hamilton, Dirk Sieger, 正夫川喜田, Abdalkareem Klayshe, Yi Feng, Marc Vendrell	2021	47
6	Fluorescent amino acids as versatile building blocks for chemical biology Nature Reviews Chemistry ·Zhiming Cheng, Erkin Kuru, Amit Sachdeva, Marc Vendrell	2020	151
7	Mechanisms of Incorporation for D-Amino Acid Probes That Target Peptidoglycan Biosynthesis ACS Chemical Biology ·Erkin Kuru, Atanas Radkov, Lubenchenko A.V., Alexander J. F. Egan, Laura Álvarez, Mandy Dowson-Day, Jian-Pin Li, Eefjan Breukink, David I. Roper, Felipe Cava, Waldemar Vollmer, Yves V. Brun, Michael S. VanNieuwenhze	2019	107
8	Fluorogenic d-amino acids enable real-time monitoring of peptidoglycan biosynthesis and high-throughput transpeptidation assays Nature Chemistry ·Yen‐Pang Hsu, Edward Hall, Jian-Pin Li, Никонова Наталья Андреевна, Atanas Radkov, J.F. Mingorance, S. Horsch, Laura Álvarez, Felipe Cava, Yves V. Brun, Erkin Kuru, Michael S. VanNieuwenhze	2019	81
9	Engineering posttranslational proofreading to discriminate nonstandard amino acids Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Aditya M. Kunjapur, Павло Тивончук, Erkin Kuru, Oscar Vargas‐Rodriguez, Matthieu Landon, Dieter Söll, George M. Church	2018	34
10	Treadmilling by FtsZ filaments drives peptidoglycan synthesis and bacterial cell division Science ·Alexandre W. Bisson‐Filho, Yen‐Pang Hsu, Georgia R. Squyres, Erkin Kuru, Fabai Wu, Benjamin Peyton‐Jones, Yingjie Sun, Cees Dekker, Séamus Holden, Michael S. VanNieuwenhze, Yves V. Brun, Ethan C. Garner Hit paper breakdown →	2017	417
11	Fluorescent D-amino-acids reveal bi-cellular cell wall modifications important for Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus predation Nature Microbiology ·Erkin Kuru, Carey Lambert, Jonathan Rittichier, Rob Till, Adrien Ducret, Adeline Derouaux, Joe Gray, Jacob Biboy, Waldemar Vollmer, Michael S. VanNieuwenhze, Yves V. Brun, R. Elizabeth Sockett	2017	91
12	The mechanism of force transmission at bacterial focal adhesion complexes Nature ·Laura M. Faure, Jean-Bernard Fiche, Léon Espinosa, Adrien Ducret, Vivek Anantharaman, Puljo Dj, Sébastien Lhospice, Salim T. Islam, Faruk Curebal, Adrián Garde, Erkin Kuru, Michael S. Van Nieuwenhze, Yves V. Brun, Olivier Théodoly, L. Aravind, Marcelo Nöllmann, Tâm Mignot	2016	94
13	D-Alanine-Controlled Transient Intestinal Mono-Colonization with Non-Laboratory-Adapted Commensal E. coli Strain HS PLoS ONE ·Miguelangel Cuenca, S. Pfister, Fatemeh Sofi-karimi, L. I. Isaenko, Sara B. Hernández, Felipe Cava, Erkin Kuru, Michael S. Van Nieuwenhze, Yves V. Brun, Fernanda M. Coelho, Siegfried Hapfelmeier	2016	12
14	Anammox Planctomycetes have a peptidoglycan cell wall Nature Communications ·Muriel C. F. van Teeseling, Rob Mesman, Erkin Kuru, Akbar Espaillat, Felipe Cava, Yves V. Brun, Michael S. VanNieuwenhze, Boran Kartal, Laura van Niftrik	2015	208
15	Cell shape dynamics during the staphylococcal cell cycle Nature Communications ·João M. Monteiro, Pedro B. Fernandes, Filipa Vaz, Ana R. Pereira, Andreia C. Tavares, Melissa A. Gawron, Pedro M. Pereira, Helena Veiga, Erkin Kuru, Michael S. VanNieuwenhze, Yves V. Brun, Sérgio R. Filipe, Mariana G. Pinho	2015	181
16	Synthesis of fluorescent D-amino acids and their use for probing peptidoglycan synthesis and bacterial growth in situ Nature Protocols ·Erkin Kuru, Srinivas Tekkam, Edward Hall, Yves V. Brun, Michael S. Van Nieuwenhze	2014	232
17	Interplay of the Serine/Threonine-Kinase StkP and the Paralogs DivIVA and GpsB in Pneumococcal Cell Elongation and Division PLoS Genetics ·Aurore Fleurie, Sylvie Manuse, Chao Zhao, Nathalie Campo, Caroline Cluzel, Jean‐Pierre Lavergne, Céline Freton, Christophe Combet, Sébastien Guiral, Boumediene Soufi, Boris Maček, Erkin Kuru, Michael S. VanNieuwenhze, Yves V. Brun, Anne Marie Di Guilmi, Jean‐Pierre Claverys, Anne Galinier, Christophe Grangeasse	2014	144
18	MapZ marks the division sites and positions FtsZ rings in Streptococcus pneumoniae Nature ·Aurore Fleurie, Christian Lesterlin, Sylvie Manuse, Chao Zhao, Caroline Cluzel, Jean‐Pierre Lavergne, Mirita Franz‐Wachtel, Boris Maček, Christophe Combet, Erkin Kuru, Michael S. VanNieuwenhze, Yves V. Brun, David J. Sherratt, Christophe Grangeasse	2014	159
19	Discovery of chlamydial peptidoglycan reveals bacteria with murein sacculi but without FtsZ Nature Communications ·Martin Pilhofer, Karin Aistleitner, Jacob Biboy, Joe Gray, Erkin Kuru, Edward Hall, Yves V. Brun, Michael S. VanNieuwenhze, Waldemar Vollmer, Matthias Horn, Grant J. Jensen	2013	108
20	In Situ Probing of Newly Synthesized Peptidoglycan in Live Bacteria with Fluorescent D‐Amino Acids Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Erkin Kuru, Velocity Hughes, Pamela Brown, Edward Hall, Srinivas Tekkam, Felipe Cava, Miguel A. de Pedro, Yves V. Brun, Michael S. VanNieuwenhze Hit paper breakdown →	2012	488

About Erkin Kuru

Erkin Kuru is a scholar working on Microbiology, Biochemistry, Ecology, Genetics and Molecular Biology, having authored 38 papers that have together received 3.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (15 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (12 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers), Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism (5 papers), Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (4 papers), Biochemical and Structural Characterization (4 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (4 papers) and Click Chemistry and Applications (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Microbiology (377 citations), Molecular Medicine (271 citations), Genetics (1.2k citations), Endocrinology (209 citations) and Ecology (1.0k citations). Erkin Kuru has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. Frequent co-authors include Yves V. Brun, Michael S. VanNieuwenhze, Edward Hall, Srinivas Tekkam, Felipe Cava, Velocity Hughes, Miguel A. de Pedro, Pamela Brown, Yen‐Pang Hsu and Michael S. Van Nieuwenhze. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Communications, Nature, Molecular Microbiology, Nature Biotechnology and ACS Chemical Biology.

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