Felix Wieland

24.9k total citations · 8 hit papers
168 papers, 18.2k citations indexed

About

Felix Wieland is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Felix Wieland has authored 168 papers receiving a total of 18.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 148 papers in Molecular Biology, 105 papers in Cell Biology and 14 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Felix Wieland's work include Cellular transport and secretion (96 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (78 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (27 papers). Felix Wieland is often cited by papers focused on Cellular transport and secretion (96 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (78 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (27 papers). Felix Wieland collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Felix Wieland's co-authors include Britta Brügger, James E. Rothman, Chieh Hsu, Petra Schwille, Salvatore Chiantia, Katarina Trajković, Mikael Simons, Dirk Wenzel, Lawrence Rajendran and Roger Sandhoff and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Felix Wieland

167 papers receiving 17.8k citations

Hit Papers

Ceramide Triggers Budding... 1988 2026 2000 2013 2008 1996 1995 1997 2005 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
What are hit papers?

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. Ceramide Triggers Budding of Exosome Vesicles into Multivesicular Endosomes
    2008 2.8k citations Felix Wieland, Britta Brügger et al. Science profile →
  2. Protein Sorting by Transport Vesicles
    1996 979 citations Felix Wieland et al. Science profile →
  3. VIP21/caveolin is a cholesterol-binding protein.
    1995 751 citations Felix Wieland et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  4. Quantitative analysis of biological membrane lipids at the low picomole level by nano-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry
    1997 709 citations Britta Brügger, Felix Wieland et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. High cholesterol level is essential for myelin membrane growth
    2005 557 citations Britta Brügger, Felix Wieland et al. profile →
  6. The HIV lipidome: A raft with an unusual composition
    2006 556 citations Britta Brügger, Bärbel Glass et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  7. Purification of an N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive protein catalyzing vesicular transport.
    1988 416 citations Felix Wieland et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  8. A coat subunit of Golgi-derived non-clathrin-coated vesicles with homology to the clathrin-coated vesicle coat protein β-adaptin
    1991 338 citations Felix Wieland et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Felix Wieland Germany 68 14.4k 7.5k 1.9k 1.6k 1.5k 168 18.2k
Michael A. Frohman United States 70 13.5k 0.9× 4.6k 0.6× 2.0k 1.0× 1.1k 0.7× 1.8k 1.2× 161 19.1k
Wanjin Hong Singapore 81 12.5k 0.9× 11.7k 1.6× 2.1k 1.1× 1.1k 0.7× 1.8k 1.2× 323 20.9k
Bruno Goud France 77 13.4k 0.9× 11.6k 1.5× 2.3k 1.2× 1.4k 0.9× 2.3k 1.5× 227 20.6k
Mark A. McNiven United States 66 8.5k 0.6× 7.5k 1.0× 2.1k 1.1× 715 0.4× 1.1k 0.7× 157 14.5k
Mark A. Lemmon United States 78 18.3k 1.3× 7.1k 1.0× 1.4k 0.7× 1.3k 0.8× 2.1k 1.4× 159 25.5k
Jean Grüenberg Switzerland 70 11.5k 0.8× 8.7k 1.2× 3.0k 1.6× 982 0.6× 2.1k 1.4× 143 17.7k
James H. Hurley United States 82 15.2k 1.1× 8.6k 1.2× 2.4k 1.3× 1.3k 0.8× 1.8k 1.2× 232 22.1k
Gerrit van Meer Netherlands 61 15.6k 1.1× 5.1k 0.7× 3.3k 1.7× 687 0.4× 1.4k 0.9× 131 21.2k
Elina Ikonen Finland 62 14.4k 1.0× 6.1k 0.8× 3.8k 2.0× 1.2k 0.7× 1.7k 1.1× 185 20.3k
Michael J.O. Wakelam United Kingdom 64 10.5k 0.7× 2.5k 0.3× 2.0k 1.0× 1.6k 1.0× 1.6k 1.0× 241 15.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dodonova, Svetlana, Alexander von Appen, Wim J. H. Hagen, et al.. (2015). A structure of the COPI coat and the role of coat proteins in membrane vesicle assembly. Science. 349(6244). 195–198. 136 indexed citations
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Adolf, Frank, et al.. (2013). Scission of COPI and COPII Vesicles Is Independent of GTP Hydrolysis. Traffic. 14(8). 922–932. 29 indexed citations
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Faini, Marco, Simone Prinz, Rainer Beck, et al.. (2012). The Structures of COPI-Coated Vesicles Reveal Alternate Coatomer Conformations and Interactions. Science. 336(6087). 1451–1454. 2 indexed citations
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Brügger, Britta, et al.. (2012). Impaired neurotransmission in ether lipid-deficient nerve terminals. Human Molecular Genetics. 21(12). 2713–2724. 46 indexed citations
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Gehart, Helmuth, Alexander Goginashvili, Rainer Beck, et al.. (2012). The BAR Domain Protein Arfaptin-1 Controls Secretory Granule Biogenesis at the trans-Golgi Network. Developmental Cell. 23(4). 756–768. 73 indexed citations
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Merz, Andreas, Gang Long, Marie–Sophie Hiet, et al.. (2010). Biochemical and Morphological Properties of Hepatitis C Virus Particles and Determination of Their Lipidome. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(4). 3018–3032. 284 indexed citations
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Osman, Christof, Mathias Haag, Felix Wieland, Britta Brügger, & Thomas Langer. (2010). A mitochondrial phosphatase required for cardiolipin biosynthesis: the PGP phosphatase Gep4. The EMBO Journal. 29(12). 1976–1987. 110 indexed citations
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Beck, Rainer, Zhe Sun, Frank Adolf, et al.. (2008). Membrane curvature induced by Arf1-GTP is essential for vesicle formation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(33). 11731–11736. 134 indexed citations
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Krauß, M., Aurélien Roux, Rainer Beck, et al.. (2008). Arf1-GTP-induced Tubule Formation Suggests a Function of Arf Family Proteins in Curvature Acquisition at Sites of Vesicle Budding. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(41). 27717–27723. 85 indexed citations
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Moelleken, Jörg, Jörg Malsam, Matthew J. Betts, et al.. (2007). Differential localization of coatomer complex isoforms within the Golgi apparatus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(11). 4425–4430. 67 indexed citations
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Brügger, Britta, Ellen Krautkrämer, Nadine Tibroni, et al.. (2007). Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Nef protein modulates the lipid composition of virions and host cell membrane microdomains. Retrovirology. 4(1). 70–70. 64 indexed citations
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Haberkant, Per, F.‐Xabier Contreras, Christoph Thiele, et al.. (2007). Protein-sphingolipid interactions within cellular membranes. Journal of Lipid Research. 49(1). 251–262. 54 indexed citations
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Brügger, Britta, et al.. (2006). The HIV lipidome: A raft with an unusual composition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(8). 2641–2646. 556 indexed citations breakdown →
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Moelleken, Jörg, et al.. (2003). The Tyrosine Kinase Pyk2 Regulates Arf1 Activity by Phosphorylation and Inhibition of the Arf-GTPase-activating Protein ASAP1. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(32). 29560–29570. 46 indexed citations
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Brügger, Britta, Dora V. Kaloyanova, Xueyi Li, et al.. (2001). Sphingomyelin-enriched Microdomains at the Golgi Complex. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 12(6). 1819–1833. 134 indexed citations
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Zhao, Liyun, J. Bernd Helms, Josef Brunner, & Felix Wieland. (1999). GTP-dependent Binding of ADP-ribosylation Factor to Coatomer in Close Proximity to the Binding Site for Dilysine Retrieval Motifs and p23. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(20). 14198–14203. 73 indexed citations
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Nickel, Walter, Britta Brügger, & Felix Wieland. (1998). Intracellular Transport of Glycoproteins and Glycolipids.. Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology. 10(51). 1–11. 1 indexed citations
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Helms, J. Bernd, Britta Brügger, Walter Nickel, et al.. (1998). A Putative Heterotrimeric G Protein Inhibits the Fusion of COPI-coated Vesicles. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273(24). 15203–15208. 23 indexed citations
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Lannert, H., et al.. (1994). Lactosylceramide is synthesized in the lumen of the Golgi apparatus. FEBS Letters. 342(1). 91–96. 84 indexed citations
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Wieland, Felix, et al.. (1977). Localization of three non‐thiol binding sites on polypeptide chain β yeast fatty acid synthetase. FEBS Letters. 82(1). 139–142. 10 indexed citations

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