Frank Sobott

10.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
169 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Frank Sobott is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Frank Sobott has authored 169 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Molecular Biology, 71 papers in Spectroscopy and 23 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Frank Sobott's work include Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications (68 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (27 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (23 papers). Frank Sobott is often cited by papers focused on Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications (68 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (27 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (23 papers). Frank Sobott collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Belgium and United States. Frank Sobott's co-authors include Carol V. Robinson, Albert Konijnenberg, Justin L. P. Benesch, Margaret G. McCammon, Helena Hernández, Frederik Lermyte, Annika Butterer, Bernhard Brutschy, J. Günter Grossmann and Brandon T. Ruotolo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Frank Sobott

168 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

A homologue of the Parkinson’s disease-associated protein LRRK2 undergoes a monomer-dimer transition during GTP turnover

2017 402 citations Egon Deyaert, Albert Konijnenberg et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Frank Sobott United Kingdom	49	4.5k	2.5k	970	597	474	169	7.2k
Andrew J. Baldwin United Kingdom	38	5.7k 1.3×	1.4k 0.6×	1.2k 1.2×	281 0.5×	567 1.2×	87	7.5k
Gavin E. Reid Australia	52	7.0k 1.6×	3.9k 1.5×	489 0.5×	375 0.6×	481 1.0×	204	11.0k
Perdita E. Barran United Kingdom	47	3.3k 0.7×	2.9k 1.2×	825 0.9×	123 0.2×	238 0.5×	194	6.7k
Justin L. P. Benesch United Kingdom	51	6.1k 1.4×	3.6k 1.4×	1.6k 1.6×	437 0.7×	849 1.8×	130	8.7k
Arthur Laganowsky United States	35	4.1k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	678 0.7×	212 0.4×	406 0.9×	105	5.7k
Michael A. Baldwin United States	39	4.3k 1.0×	1.9k 0.8×	344 0.4×	317 0.5×	269 0.6×	99	6.1k
Cait E. MacPhee United Kingdom	44	4.6k 1.0×	1.1k 0.4×	1.3k 1.3×	446 0.7×	374 0.8×	97	7.0k
Masahiro Shirakawa Japan	56	6.8k 1.5×	813 0.3×	2.2k 2.3×	1.0k 1.7×	674 1.4×	205	9.7k
Wenzhu Zhang China	40	3.9k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	1.4k 1.4×	228 0.4×	340 0.7×	109	6.4k
J. Martin Scholtz United States	45	8.5k 1.9×	1.2k 0.5×	3.0k 3.1×	619 1.0×	748 1.6×	91	10.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Frank Sobott

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frank Sobott

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Frank Sobott. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Frank Sobott based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Frank Sobott. Frank Sobott is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Brockwell, David J., et al.. (2025). Zn²⁺ Binding Shifts the Conformational Ensemble of α-Synuclein Monomers toward Accelerated Amyloid Formation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(40). 36464–36477. 1 indexed citations

Singh, Ranjan K., et al.. (2024). Toxin:antitoxin ratio sensing autoregulation of the Vibrio cholerae parDE2 module. Science Advances. 10(1). eadj2403–eadj2403. 2 indexed citations

Uddin, Muhammad Ramiz, Mohammad Moniruzzaman, Katie M. Kuo, et al.. (2023). Conformational restriction shapes the inhibition of a multidrug efflux adaptor protein. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3900–3900. 15 indexed citations

Yusupov, Maksudbek, et al.. (2022). Molecular understanding of the possible mechanisms of oligosaccharide oxidation by cold plasma. Plasma Processes and Polymers. 20(2). 10 indexed citations

Ulamec, Sabine M., Roberto Maya‐Martinez, Yong Xu, et al.. (2022). Single residue modulators of amyloid formation in the N-terminal P1-region of α-synuclein. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4986–4986. 34 indexed citations

Ault, James R., et al.. (2021). Analysis of the PcrA-RNA polymerase complex reveals a helicase interaction motif and a role for PcrA/UvrD helicase in the suppression of R-loops. eLife. 10. 18 indexed citations

Germani, Francesca, David Hoogewijs, Marcelo A. Martí, et al.. (2021). Structural modeling of a novel membrane-bound globin-coupled sensor in Geobacter sulfurreducens. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 19. 1874–1888. 1 indexed citations

Klebl, David P., Stephan Niebling, Martin A. Schroer, et al.. (2021). Structure of the endocytic adaptor complex reveals the basis for efficient membrane anchoring during clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2889–2889. 13 indexed citations

Bruyn, Pieter De, Milan Malfait, Yann G.‐J. Sterckx, et al.. (2021). Nanobody-aided crystallization of the transcription regulator PaaR2 from Escherichia coli O157:H7. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology Communications. 77(10). 374–384. 1 indexed citations

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Cánovas, Rocío, Elise Daems, Rui Campos, et al.. (2021). Novel electrochemiluminescent assay for the aptamer-based detection of testosterone. Talanta. 239. 123121–123121. 20 indexed citations

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Maso, Lorenzo, Giulia Moro, Elise Daems, et al.. (2021). Unveiling the binding mode of perfluorooctanoic acid to human serum albumin. Protein Science. 30(4). 830–841. 46 indexed citations

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Cecco, Elena De, Erika Ponzini, Pierluigi Mauri, et al.. (2021). Profiling Dopamine-Induced Oxidized Proteoforms of β-synuclein by Top-Down Mass Spectrometry. Antioxidants. 10(6). 893–893. 2 indexed citations

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Moons, Rani, et al.. (2020). Effects of Detergent on α-Synuclein Structure: A Native MS-Ion Mobility Study. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(21). 7884–7884. 13 indexed citations

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Allison, Timothy M., Perdita E. Barran, Sarah Cianférani, et al.. (2020). Computational Strategies and Challenges for Using Native Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry in Biophysics and Structural Biology. Analytical Chemistry. 92(16). 10872–10880. 29 indexed citations

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Leemans, Margaux, Egon Deyaert, Elise Daems, et al.. (2020). Allosteric modulation of the GTPase activity of a bacterial LRRK2 homolog by conformation-specific Nanobodies. Biochemical Journal. 477(7). 1203–1218. 11 indexed citations

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Allison, Timothy M., Perdita E. Barran, Justin L. P. Benesch, et al.. (2020). Software Requirements for the Analysis and Interpretation of Native Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry Data. Analytical Chemistry. 92(16). 10881–10890. 17 indexed citations

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Ponzini, Erika, Antonella De Palma, Antonino Natalello, et al.. (2019). Methionine oxidation in α-synuclein inhibits its propensity for ordered secondary structure. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(14). 5657–5665. 31 indexed citations

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Li, Jinyu, Giulia Rossetti, Albert Konijnenberg, et al.. (2017). Proton Dynamics in Protein Mass Spectrometry. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 8(6). 1105–1112. 39 indexed citations

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Chatzi, Katerina E., Marios Frantzeskos Sardis, Alexandra Tsirigotaki, et al.. (2017). Preprotein mature domains contain translocase targeting signals that are essential for secretion. The Journal of Cell Biology. 216(5). 1357–1369. 57 indexed citations

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Burger, Virginia, Jelle Hendrix, Albert Konijnenberg, et al.. (2017). Hidden States within Disordered Regions of the CcdA Antitoxin Protein. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(7). 2693–2701. 6 indexed citations

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