Frederick A. Heberle

6.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
100 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Frederick A. Heberle is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Frederick A. Heberle has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Molecular Biology, 44 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 34 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Frederick A. Heberle's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (97 papers), Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (34 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (29 papers). Frederick A. Heberle is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (97 papers), Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (34 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (29 papers). Frederick A. Heberle collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Austria. Frederick A. Heberle's co-authors include Gerald W. Feigenson, John Katsaras, Ilya Levental, Jianjun Pan, Norbert Kučerka, Kandice R. Levental, Robert F. Standaert, Robin S. Petruzielo, Milka Doktorova and Drew Marquardt and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Frederick A. Heberle

92 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Lipid Rafts: Controversies Resolved, Mysteries Remain

2020 406 citations Ilya Levental, Kandice R. Levental et al. profile →
How cholesterol stiffens unsaturated lipid membranes

2020 261 citations Saptarshi Chakraborty, Milka Doktorova et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Cell membranes sustain phospholipid imbalance via cholesterol asymmetry

2025 33 citations Milka Doktorova, Frederick A. Heberle et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Frederick A. Heberle United States	36	4.1k	1.2k	1.1k	493	364	100	4.6k
Horia I. Petrache United States	28	3.7k 0.9×	1.6k 1.3×	585 0.5×	539 1.1×	195 0.5×	68	4.5k
John H. Ipsen Denmark	41	5.2k 1.3×	1.7k 1.4×	886 0.8×	856 1.7×	840 2.3×	116	6.0k
J. Alfredo Freites United States	24	4.4k 1.1×	832 0.7×	528 0.5×	335 0.7×	298 0.8×	67	5.3k
W. Rawicz Canada	11	3.0k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	984 0.9×	442 0.9×	482 1.3×	12	3.7k
Marta Pasenkiewicz‐Gierula Poland	41	4.0k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	451 0.4×	586 1.2×	252 0.7×	97	4.9k
Georg Pabst Austria	40	4.1k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	693 0.7×	826 1.7×	217 0.6×	124	5.0k
Jianjun Pan United States	29	2.7k 0.7×	779 0.6×	538 0.5×	397 0.8×	145 0.4×	61	3.0k
Miglena I. Angelova France	22	2.5k 0.6×	548 0.5×	736 0.7×	377 0.8×	339 0.9×	47	3.0k
Karin A. Riske Brazil	34	2.5k 0.6×	502 0.4×	1.0k 1.0×	526 1.1×	196 0.5×	92	3.5k
Norbert Kučerka Slovakia	42	6.9k 1.7×	2.3k 1.9×	1.3k 1.2×	1.2k 2.4×	318 0.9×	121	7.9k

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Heberle, Frederick A. & Milka Doktorova. (2025). Exploring the sensitivities of experimental techniques to various types of membrane asymmetry using atomistic simulations. Faraday Discussions. 259(0). 300–320. 2 indexed citations

Chang, Ya‐Ting, et al.. (2025). Surface Morphometrics reveals local membrane thickness variation in organellar subcompartments. The Journal of Cell Biology. 225(3).

Castello-Serrano, Ivan, Frederick A. Heberle, Barbara Diaz‐Rohrer, et al.. (2023). Partitioning to ordered membrane domains regulates the kinetics of secretory traffic. eLife. 12. 3 indexed citations

Heberle, Frederick A., Ilya Levental, Kandice R. Levental, et al.. (2023). Serinc5 Restricts HIV Membrane Fusion by Altering Lipid Order and Heterogeneity in the Viral Membrane. ACS Infectious Diseases. 9(4). 773–784. 14 indexed citations

Heberle, Frederick A., Milka Doktorova, Haden L. Scott, et al.. (2020). Direct label-free imaging of nanodomains in biomimetic and biological membranes by cryogenic electron microscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(33). 19943–19952. 86 indexed citations

Chakraborty, Saptarshi, Milka Doktorova, Trivikram R. Molugu, et al.. (2020). How cholesterol stiffens unsaturated lipid membranes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(36). 21896–21905. 261 indexed citations breakdown →

Scott, Haden L., Milka Doktorova, Frederick A. Heberle, et al.. (2020). Coupling of Leaflet Structure in Asymmetric Lipid Vesicles. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 90a–90a. 1 indexed citations

Enoki, Thais A., Frederick A. Heberle, & Gerald W. Feigenson. (2020). Experimental Evidence That Bilayer Asymmetry Decreases Lo/Ld Line Tension. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 386a–386a. 1 indexed citations

Nguyen, Michael H. L., Mitchell DiPasquale, Frederick A. Heberle, et al.. (2019). Transverse lipid organization dictates bending fluctuations in model plasma membranes. Nanoscale. 12(3). 1438–1447. 31 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Michael H. L., Mitchell DiPasquale, Milka Doktorova, et al.. (2019). Peptide-Induced Lipid Flip-Flop in Asymmetric Liposomes Measured by Small Angle Neutron Scattering. Langmuir. 35(36). 11735–11744. 46 indexed citations

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Scott, Haden L., Frederick A. Heberle, John Katsaras, & Francisco N. Barrera. (2019). PS Membrane Asymmetry Influences the Folding and Insertion of a Transmembrane Helix. Biophysical Journal. 116(3). 519a–519a.

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Doktorova, Milka, Frederick A. Heberle, Drew Marquardt, et al.. (2019). Gramicidin Increases Lipid Flip-Flop in Symmetric and Asymmetric Lipid Vesicles. Biophysical Journal. 116(5). 860–873. 38 indexed citations

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Doktorova, Milka, Frederick A. Heberle, Boris Dzikovski, et al.. (2018). Interleaflet Coupling in Asymmetric Membranes: Protocols and Revelations. Biophysical Journal. 114(3). 604a–604a.

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Katsaras, John, et al.. (2018). Cyclodextrin-Mediated Lipid Exchange Monitored with FRET. Biophysical Journal. 114(3). 97a–97a. 1 indexed citations

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Heberle, Frederick A., et al.. (2013). Bilayer thickness mismatch controls domain size in biomimetic membranes. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2013. 1 indexed citations

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Kučerka, Norbert, Jianjun Pan, Frederick A. Heberle, et al.. (2012). The Detailed Scattering Density Profile Model of Pg Bilayers as Determined by Molecular Dynamics Simulations, and Small-Angle Neutron and X-ray Scattering Experiments. Biophysical Journal. 102(3). 504a–505a. 15 indexed citations

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Heberle, Frederick A., et al.. (2012). Model-based approaches for the determination of lipid bilayer structure from small-angle neutron and X-ray scattering data. European Biophysics Journal. 41(10). 875–890. 62 indexed citations

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Heberle, Frederick A., Jing Wu, Shih Lin Goh, Robin S. Petruzielo, & Gerald W. Feigenson. (2010). Comparison of Three Ternary Lipid Bilayer Mixtures: FRET and ESR Reveal Nanodomains. Biophysical Journal. 99(10). 3309–3318. 176 indexed citations

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Hammond, Adam T., Frederick A. Heberle, Tobias Baumgart, et al.. (2005). Crosslinking a lipid raft component triggers liquid ordered-liquid disordered phase separation in model plasma membranes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(18). 6320–6325. 260 indexed citations

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Heberle, Frederick A., Jeffrey T. Buboltz, David E. Stringer, & Gerald W. Feigenson. (2005). Fluorescence methods to detect phase boundaries in lipid bilayer mixtures. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1746(3). 186–192. 51 indexed citations

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