F. Ulrich Hartl

68.5k total citations · 27 hit papers
284 papers, 53.2k citations indexed

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F. Ulrich Hartl is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, F. Ulrich Hartl has authored 284 papers receiving a total of 53.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 267 papers in Molecular Biology, 86 papers in Materials Chemistry and 48 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in F. Ulrich Hartl's work include Heat shock proteins research (154 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (96 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (86 papers). F. Ulrich Hartl is often cited by papers focused on Heat shock proteins research (154 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (96 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (86 papers). F. Ulrich Hartl collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. F. Ulrich Hartl's co-authors include Manajit Hayer‐Hartl, Andreas Bracher, Jörg Martin, Walter Neupert, Mark S. Hipp, Jason C. Young, Joseph P. Hendrick, Thomas Langer, Arthur L. Horwich and Ismail Moarefi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

F. Ulrich Hartl

283 papers receiving 52.3k citations

Hit Papers

Molecular Chaperones in the Cytosol: from Nascent Chain ... 1989 2026 2001 2013 2002 2011 1993 1997 2013 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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.

  1. Molecular Chaperones in the Cytosol: from Nascent Chain to Folded Protein
    2002 2.7k citations F. Ulrich Hartl, Manajit Hayer‐Hartl Science profile →
  2. Molecular chaperones in protein folding and proteostasis
    2011 2.6k citations F. Ulrich Hartl, Andreas Bracher et al. Nature profile →
  3. MOLECULAR CHAPERONE FUNCTIONS OF HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS
    1993 1.4k citations F. Ulrich Hartl et al. Annual Review of Biochemistry profile →
  4. Crystal Structure of an Hsp90–Geldanamycin Complex: Targeting of a Protein Chaperone by an Antitumor Agent
    1997 1.2k citations F. Ulrich Hartl et al. Cell profile →
  5. Molecular Chaperone Functions in Protein Folding and Proteostasis
    2013 1.1k citations Yujin Kim, Mark S. Hipp et al. Annual Review of Biochemistry profile →
  6. In vivo aspects of protein folding and quality control
    2016 1.0k citations David Balchin, Manajit Hayer‐Hartl et al. Science profile →
  7. Structure of TPR Domain–Peptide Complexes
    2000 1.0k citations F. Ulrich Hartl et al. Cell profile →
  8. The proteostasis network and its decline in ageing
    2019 961 citations Mark S. Hipp, Prasad Kasturi et al. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →
  9. Pathways of chaperone-mediated protein folding in the cytosol
    2004 896 citations Jason C. Young, F. Ulrich Hartl et al. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →
  10. Converging concepts of protein folding in vitro and in vivo
    2009 865 citations F. Ulrich Hartl, Manajit Hayer‐Hartl Nature Structural & Molecular Biology profile →
  11. Successive action of DnaK, DnaJ and GroEL along the pathway of chaperone-mediated protein folding
    1992 812 citations Thomas Langer, Manajit Hayer‐Hartl et al. Nature profile →
  12. Mitochondrial heat-shock protein hsp60 is essential for assembly of proteins imported into yeast mitochondria
    1989 781 citations F. Ulrich Hartl, Jörg Martin et al. Nature profile →
  13. Chaperonin-mediated protein folding at the surface of groEL through a 'molten globule'-like intermediate
    1991 748 citations Jörg Martin, Thomas Langer et al. Nature profile →
  14. Mitochondrial protein import
    1989 706 citations F. Ulrich Hartl et al. profile →
  15. Molecular Chaperones Hsp90 and Hsp70 Deliver Preproteins to the Mitochondrial Import Receptor Tom70
    2003 706 citations Jason C. Young, Nicholas J. Hoogenraad et al. Cell profile →
  16. Hsp90
    2001 689 citations Jason C. Young, F. Ulrich Hartl et al. profile →
  17. Folding of nascent polypeptide chains in a high molecular mass assembly with molecular chaperones
    1994 565 citations F. Ulrich Hartl et al. Nature profile →
  18. Protein folding in mitochondria requires complex formation with hsp60 and ATP hydrolysis
    1989 559 citations Arthur L. Horwich, F. Ulrich Hartl et al. Nature profile →
  19. Pathways of cellular proteostasis in aging and disease
    2017 559 citations Courtney L. Klaips, F. Ulrich Hartl et al. profile →
  20. Amyloid-like Aggregates Sequester Numerous Metastable Proteins with Essential Cellular Functions
    2011 541 citations Manajit Hayer‐Hartl, F. Ulrich Hartl et al. Cell profile →
  21. Hsp70 and Hsp40 chaperones can inhibit self-assembly of polyglutamine proteins into amyloid-like fibrils
    2000 523 citations Manajit Hayer‐Hartl, F. Ulrich Hartl et al. profile →
  22. DnaK, DnaJ and GrpE form a cellular chaperone machinery capable of repairing heat-induced protein damage.
    1993 522 citations Thomas Langer, F. Ulrich Hartl et al. The EMBO Journal profile →
  23. Proteome-wide Analysis of Chaperonin-Dependent Protein Folding in Escherichia coli
    2005 519 citations Manajit Hayer‐Hartl, Matthias Mann et al. Cell profile →
  24. Proteostasis impairment in protein-misfolding and -aggregation diseases
    2014 481 citations Mark S. Hipp, F. Ulrich Hartl et al. Trends in Cell Biology profile →
  25. Protein Misfolding Diseases
    2017 380 citations F. Ulrich Hartl Annual Review of Biochemistry profile →
  26. The nucleolus functions as a phase-separated protein quality control compartment
    2019 342 citations Frédéric Frottin, Roman Körner et al. Science profile →
  27. In Situ Structure of Neuronal C9orf72 Poly-GA Aggregates Reveals Proteasome Recruitment
    2018 287 citations Qiang Guo, Florian Beck et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
F. Ulrich Hartl Germany 122 45.6k 10.0k 8.8k 5.3k 4.0k 284 53.2k
Susan Lindquist United States 125 44.9k 1.0× 8.1k 0.8× 4.1k 0.5× 2.9k 0.6× 7.3k 1.8× 301 56.5k
Robert Huber Germany 135 46.8k 1.0× 6.8k 0.7× 11.3k 1.3× 3.9k 0.7× 1.7k 0.4× 600 66.7k
Axel T. Brünger United States 103 42.9k 0.9× 12.5k 1.3× 12.3k 1.4× 3.0k 0.6× 2.7k 0.7× 298 56.0k
Bernd Bukau Germany 107 30.3k 0.7× 6.6k 0.7× 6.1k 0.7× 4.0k 0.8× 1.5k 0.4× 259 34.5k
Jane S. Richardson United States 57 43.5k 1.0× 4.5k 0.4× 12.8k 1.4× 4.9k 0.9× 1.9k 0.5× 130 59.8k
Ralf W. Grosse‐Kunstleve United States 37 48.2k 1.1× 5.8k 0.6× 14.8k 1.7× 5.3k 1.0× 2.0k 0.5× 65 67.1k
Vladimir N. Uversky United States 132 51.9k 1.1× 7.2k 0.7× 13.9k 1.6× 2.5k 0.5× 10.8k 2.7× 1.1k 73.4k
David Eisenberg United States 120 46.7k 1.0× 3.9k 0.4× 10.0k 1.1× 3.8k 0.7× 12.3k 3.1× 409 62.2k
Randy J. Read United Kingdom 69 62.2k 1.4× 7.9k 0.8× 19.0k 2.2× 7.2k 1.4× 2.8k 0.7× 197 86.9k
Wolfgang Kabsch Germany 47 34.2k 0.8× 5.3k 0.5× 12.7k 1.4× 2.5k 0.5× 1.8k 0.4× 65 47.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bracher, Andreas, Florian Beck, William Wan, et al.. (2024). Visualizing chaperonin function in situ by cryo-electron tomography. Nature. 633(8029). 459–464. 10 indexed citations
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Hipp, Mark S. & F. Ulrich Hartl. (2024). Interplay of Proteostasis Capacity and Protein Aggregation: Implications for Cellular Function and Disease. Journal of Molecular Biology. 436(14). 168615–168615. 22 indexed citations
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Wales, Thomas E., Aleksandra Pajak, Steven Howell, et al.. (2024). Resolving chaperone-assisted protein folding on the ribosome at the peptide level. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 31(12). 1888–1897. 9 indexed citations
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Krainer, Georg, Matthias M. Schneider, Timothy J. Welsh, et al.. (2024). Single-molecule digital sizing of proteins in solution. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7740–7740. 5 indexed citations
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Riemenschneider, Henrick, Qiang Guo, Jakob M. Bader, et al.. (2022). Gel‐like inclusions of C‐terminal fragments of TDP‐43 sequester stalled proteasomes in neurons. EMBO Reports. 23(6). e53890–e53890. 39 indexed citations
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Yuste‐Checa, Patricia, Victoria A. Trinkaus, Huping Wang, et al.. (2021). The extracellular chaperone Clusterin enhances Tau aggregate seeding in a cellular model. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4863–4863. 52 indexed citations
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Blumenstock, Sonja, et al.. (2021). Fluc‐EGFP reporter mice reveal differential alterations of neuronal proteostasis in aging and disease. The EMBO Journal. 40(19). e107260–e107260. 16 indexed citations
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Klaips, Courtney L., et al.. (2020). Sis1 potentiates the stress response to protein aggregation and elevated temperature. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6271–6271. 32 indexed citations
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Balchin, David, et al.. (2020). Bacterial Hsp70 resolves misfolded states and accelerates productive folding of a multi-domain protein. Nature Communications. 11(1). 365–365. 103 indexed citations
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Zinzula, Luca, J. Basquin, Stefan Bohn, et al.. (2020). High-resolution structure and biophysical characterization of the nucleocapsid phosphoprotein dimerization domain from the Covid-19 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 538. 54–62. 86 indexed citations
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Hipp, Mark S., Prasad Kasturi, & F. Ulrich Hartl. (2019). The proteostasis network and its decline in ageing. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 20(7). 421–435. 961 indexed citations breakdown →
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Balchin, David, Manajit Hayer‐Hartl, & F. Ulrich Hartl. (2016). In vivo aspects of protein folding and quality control. Science. 353(6294). aac4354–aac4354. 1045 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kirstein, Janine, Daisuke Morito, Taichi Kakihana, et al.. (2015). Proteotoxic stress and ageing triggers the loss of redox homeostasis across cellular compartments. The EMBO Journal. 34(18). 2334–2349. 73 indexed citations
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Bracher, Andreas, Thomas R. Hauser, Cuimin Liu, F. Ulrich Hartl, & Manajit Hayer‐Hartl. (2015). Structural Analysis of the Rubisco-Assembly Chaperone RbcX-II from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. PLoS ONE. 10(8). e0135448–e0135448. 14 indexed citations
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Kim, Yujin, Mark S. Hipp, Andreas Bracher, Manajit Hayer‐Hartl, & F. Ulrich Hartl. (2013). Molecular Chaperone Functions in Protein Folding and Proteostasis. Annual Review of Biochemistry. 82(1). 323–355. 1102 indexed citations breakdown →
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Herzog, Franz, Abdullah Kahraman, Daniel Boehringer, et al.. (2012). Structural Probing of a Protein Phosphatase 2A Network by Chemical Cross-Linking and Mass Spectrometry. Science. 337(6100). 1348–1352. 326 indexed citations
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Broadley, Sarah A. & F. Ulrich Hartl. (2007). Mitochondrial stress signaling: a pathway unfolds. Trends in Cell Biology. 18(1). 1–4. 49 indexed citations
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Young, Jason C., Nicholas J. Hoogenraad, & F. Ulrich Hartl. (2003). Molecular Chaperones Hsp90 and Hsp70 Deliver Preproteins to the Mitochondrial Import Receptor Tom70. Cell. 112(1). 41–50. 706 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hayer‐Hartl, Manajit, Karla L. Ewalt, & F. Ulrich Hartl. (1999). On the Role of Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Chaperonin Complexes in Assisted Protein Folding. Biological Chemistry. 380(5). 531–40. 16 indexed citations
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Martin, Jörg, et al.. (1991). Chaperonin-mediated protein folding at the surface of groEL through a 'molten globule'-like intermediate. Nature. 352(6330). 36–42. 748 indexed citations breakdown →

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