Fredrik Westerlund

6.1k citations

163 papers · 4.8k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 37

Impact in

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

Papers in

Molecular Medicine 20
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria 20
Endocrinology 11

Co-authors: Per Lincoln Bengt Nordén Kasper Moth‐Poulsen Tina Gschneidtner Yuri Diaz Fernandez L. Marcus Wilhelmsson Vilhelm Müller Samuel Lara‐Avila
Journals: Nucleic Acids Research (14 papers)Biophysical Journal (9 papers)The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (8 papers)Langmuir (8 papers)PLoS ONE (7 papers)
Partner nations: Sweden United States Denmark

In The Last Decade

Fredrik Westerlund

156 papers receiving 4.7k citations

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MEG3 long noncoding RNA regulates the TGF-β pathway genes through formation of RNA–DNA triplex structures 2015 · 511 citations

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

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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.

2015 Nature Communications
2014 Chemical Society Reviews

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1	High-throughput single-molecule nanofluidic studies on B. subtilis Rok protein interaction with DNA PubMed ·Ewa Pavlová, 美也子藤谷, 卢秀新, 宜繁山下, Sriram KK, Remus T. Dame, Fredrik Westerlund	2025	0
2	A trackable trinuclear platinum complex for breast cancer treatment Nucleic Acids Research ·대죽강지, Creina Slator, Raphael Enoque Ferraz de Paiva, Bertalan Bodor, 尹少君, Sriram KK, Aeni Putri Salsabila, 金谷誠久, 代新勇, Katarzyna Mnich, Erica J. Peterson, Bin Hu, Jennifer E. Koblinski, Afshin Samali, Vickie McKee, Alice L. B. Pyne, Fredrik Westerlund, Nicholas P. Farrell, Andrew Kellett	2025	1
3	Plasmonic polymer nanoantenna arrays for electrically tunable and electrode-free metasurfaces Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·Seung Hyun Lee, J. Shoag, Sriram KK, Shangzhi Chen, Fredrik Westerlund, Byeongwon Kang, Kyoung‐Ho Kim, Magnus P. Jonsson, Evan S. H. Kang	2023	6
4	HnRNPK maintains single strand RNA through controlling double-strand RNA in mammalian cells Nature Communications ·大村智, Андрей Вячеславович Курангышев, 航脇田, Santhilal Subhash, Safa' Alsawalqa, Subazini Thankaswamy Kosalai, Jun Kumakura, Jagannath Kuchlyan, David Zdařil, Fredrik Westerlund, L. Marcus Wilhelmsson, Chandrasekhar Kanduri, Meena Kanduri	2022	5
5	Identification and characterization of plasmids carrying the mobile colistin resistance gene mcr-1 using optical DNA mapping JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance ·Sriram KK, Armando Sánchez Guzman, Tsegaye Sewunet, Volodymyr D. Goryachiy, Maarten Coorens, Nicholas Brian Fenning, Visanu Thamlikitkul, Christian G. Giske, Fredrik Westerlund	2022	2
6	Nanofluidic Trapping of Faceted Colloidal Nanocrystals for Parallel Single-Particle Catalysis ACS Nano ·Bhaimangesh Bhanudas Naik, А. А. Идрисова, 黄征宇, Joachim Fritzsche, Sriram KK, Henrik Ström, Kasper Moth‐Poulsen, Henrik Sundén, Anders Hellman, Fredrik Westerlund, Christoph Langhammer	2022	6
7	Fecal carriage and clonal dissemination of blaNDM-1 carrying Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 147 at an intensive care unit in Lao PDR PLoS ONE ·Tsegaye Sewunet, Jin-Pyo Jung, Jaime Betancur, Francesc d'Assís Pujol Escalé, Ngoc Thi Bich Hoang, Vanphanom Sychareun, J Prats Sariol, Mattias Larsson, Linus Olson, Fredrik Westerlund, Christian G. Giske	2022	2
8	Dynamics of Ku and bacterial non-homologous end-joining characterized using single DNA molecule analysis Nucleic Acids Research ·峰行津田, Jinglong Wang, Raphaël Guérois, Gaurav Goyal, Sriram KK, Virginie Ropars, Andrea Ferreiro-Prado, Olha Kushner, Jean‐Baptiste Charbonnier, Mauro Modesti, Terence R. Strick, Fredrik Westerlund	2021	22
9	Identity of blaCTX-M Carrying Plasmids in Sequential ESBL-E. coli Isolates from Patients with Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections Microorganisms ·Nahid Karami, Sriram KK, A. Inuggi, Yii-Lih Lin, Daniel Jaén‐Luchoro, Volodymyr D. Goryachiy, 雅治近藤, Anna Lindblom, Christina Åhrén, Fredrik Westerlund	2021	9
10	The HIV-1 nucleocapsid chaperone protein forms locally compacted globules on long double-stranded DNA Nucleic Acids Research ·Kai Jiang, Nicolas Humbert, Sriram KK, Ioulia Rouzina, Yves Mély, Fredrik Westerlund	2021	19
11	Optical DNA Mapping of Plasmids Reveals Clonal Spread of Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in a Large Thai Hospital Antibiotics ·Sriram KK, Tsegaye Sewunet, Ha Ngoc Pham, Nicholas Brian Fenning, Visanu Thamlikitkul, Christian G. Giske, Fredrik Westerlund	2021	7
12	A Parallelized Nanofluidic Device for High-Throughput Optical DNA Mapping of Bacterial Plasmids Micromachines ·Sriram KK, Yii-Lih Lin, Tsegaye Sewunet, Marie Wrande, Linus Sandegren, Christian G. Giske, Fredrik Westerlund	2021	6
13	High diversity of blaNDM-1-encoding plasmids in Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from neonates in a Vietnamese hospital International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents ·Sriram KK, Volodymyr D. Goryachiy, Ngoc Thi Bich Hoang, Tsegaye Sewunet, Björn Berglund, L. Lundberg, Arhab Slimane, Maud Nilsson, Lennart E. Nilsson, Ngai Kien Le, Dien Minh Tran, Håkan Hanberger, Linus Olson, Mattias Larsson, Christian G. Giske, Fredrik Westerlund	2021	9
14	Real-time compaction of nanoconfined DNA by an intrinsically disordered macromolecular counterion Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ·Andrea Ferreiro-Prado, Sriram KK, Erik D. Holmstrom, Fredrik Westerlund	2020	12
15	Phosphorylated CtIP bridges DNA to promote annealing of broken ends Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·峰行津田, Sean Howard, Andrea Ferreiro-Prado, T. M. Shabatina, Ilaria Ceppi, Sriram KK, Erik Kristiansson, Petr Ćejka, Fredrik Westerlund	2020	22
16	Hydrophobic catalysis and a potential biological role of DNA unstacking induced by environment effects Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Yang Kyun Kim, Benedikt Gregor Bederna, Muh. Zulfadillah Sinusi, Kai Jiang, Alex Tong, Kevin D. Dorfman, Masayuki Takahashi, Per Lincoln, Carlos Bustamante, Fredrik Westerlund, Bengt Nordén	2019	75
17	Vertically Aligned Graphene Coating is Bactericidal and Prevents the Formation of Bacterial Biofilms Advanced Materials Interfaces ·Santosh Pandit, Wu Jialin, V. R. S. S. Mokkapati, Emanuele Celauro, A. Yurgens, Martin Lovmar, Fredrik Westerlund, Jie Sun, Ivan Mijakovic̀	2018	78
18	PrgB promotes aggregation, biofilm formation, and conjugation through DNA binding and compaction Molecular Microbiology ·Andreas Schmitt, Kai Jiang, Martha I. Camacho, Venkateswara Rao Jonna, Anders Hofer, Fredrik Westerlund, Peter J. Christie, Ronnie P.‐A. Berntsson	2018	31
19	Binding of Thioflavin-T to Amyloid Fibrils Leads to Fluorescence Self-Quenching and Fibril Compaction Biochemistry ·Y. Stephenson, Anna Wenger, Agnese Moriconi, Emelie Wesén, Fredrik Westerlund, Elin K. Esbjörner	2017	61
20	Optical mapping of single DNA molecules in nanochannels: A novel method for identification and characterization of antibiotic resistance Chalmers Research (Chalmers University of Technology) ·Lena Nyberg, Gustav Emilsson, LAN Zhilin Huang Zhijian, Yoshihiko Kyutoh, Charleston Noble, Liselott Svensson‐Stadler, Nahid Karami, Fei Sjöberg, Edward R. B. Moore, Joachim Fritzsche, Erik Kristiansson, Tobias Ambjörnsson, Fredrik Westerlund	2015	1

About Fredrik Westerlund

Fredrik Westerlund is a scholar working on Molecular Medicine, Endocrinology, Molecular Biology, Clinical Biochemistry and Biomedical Engineering, having authored 163 papers that have together received 4.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (55 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (47 papers), Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (27 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (21 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (20 papers), Metal complexes synthesis and properties (16 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (13 papers) and Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Medicine (305 citations), Endocrinology (196 citations), Molecular Biology (2.5k citations), Cancer Research (462 citations) and Biomedical Engineering (1.2k citations). Fredrik Westerlund has collaborated with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Denmark. Frequent co-authors include Per Lincoln, Bengt Nordén, Kasper Moth‐Poulsen, Tina Gschneidtner, Yuri Diaz Fernandez, L. Marcus Wilhelmsson, Vilhelm Müller, Samuel Lara‐Avila, Joachim Fritzsche and Lanlan Sun. Their work appears in journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Biophysical Journal, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Langmuir and PLoS ONE.

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