Georg Krainer

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
62 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Georg Krainer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Georg Krainer has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 9 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Georg Krainer's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (11 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (11 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (10 papers). Georg Krainer is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (11 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (11 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (10 papers). Georg Krainer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and South Sudan. Georg Krainer's co-authors include Tuomas P. J. Knowles, Michael Schlierf, Sandro Keller, William E. Arter, Andreas Hartmann, Timothy J. Welsh, Simon Alberti, Titus M. Franzmann, Kadi L. Saar and Rosana Collepardo‐Guevara and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Georg Krainer

60 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Reentrant liquid condensate phase of proteins is stabilized by hydrophobic and non-ionic interactions

2021 339 citations Georg Krainer, Timothy J. Welsh et al. Nature Communications profile →
Phase-separating RNA-binding proteins form heterogeneous distributions of clusters in subsaturated solutions

2022 170 citations Mrityunjoy Kar, Timothy J. Welsh et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Georg Krainer Germany	25	1.6k	240	187	156	133	62	2.1k
Shana Elbaum‐Garfinkle United States	15	2.6k 1.6×	120 0.5×	260 1.4×	317 2.0×	239 1.8×	27	3.0k
Iban Ubarretxena‐Belandia United States	25	1.8k 1.2×	97 0.4×	230 1.2×	164 1.1×	239 1.8×	52	2.5k
Elin K. Esbjörner Sweden	31	2.0k 1.2×	260 1.1×	139 0.7×	587 3.8×	175 1.3×	63	2.8k
Timothy D. Craggs United Kingdom	18	2.3k 1.5×	135 0.6×	129 0.7×	38 0.2×	278 2.1×	36	2.7k
Alexander Fedorov Portugal	26	1.6k 1.0×	186 0.8×	230 1.2×	302 1.9×	240 1.8×	76	2.2k
Grzegorz Piszczek United States	33	2.1k 1.3×	182 0.8×	566 3.0×	117 0.8×	509 3.8×	92	3.3k
Javoris Hollingsworth United States	10	1.8k 1.1×	98 0.4×	233 1.2×	56 0.4×	246 1.8×	12	2.2k
Till Rudack Germany	22	1.8k 1.1×	73 0.3×	486 2.6×	91 0.6×	402 3.0×	39	2.3k
Liesbeth M. Veenhoff Netherlands	26	2.5k 1.6×	158 0.7×	298 1.6×	58 0.4×	257 1.9×	51	3.0k
Patrick Farber Canada	12	2.4k 1.5×	62 0.3×	145 0.8×	50 0.3×	266 2.0×	17	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Georg Krainer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Georg Krainer

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All Works

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Qian, Daoyuan, Kadi L. Saar, Georg Krainer, et al.. (2026). Biomolecular condensates sustain pH gradients at equilibrium through charge neutralization. Nature Chemistry. 18(2). 246–257.

Ausserwӧger, Hannes, Ella de Csilléry, Daoyuan Qian, et al.. (2025). Quantifying collective interactions in biomolecular phase separation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7724–7724. 3 indexed citations

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

Czekalska, Magdalena A., Catherine K. Xu, Georg Krainer, et al.. (2024). α-Synuclein Oligomers Displace Monomeric α-Synuclein from Lipid Membranes. ACS Nano. 18(27). 17469–17482. 7 indexed citations

Xu, Catherine K., Georg Meisl, Georg Krainer, et al.. (2024). α-Synuclein oligomers form by secondary nucleation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7083–7083. 21 indexed citations

Ghosh, Dhiman, Matthias M. Schneider, Harindranath Kadavath, et al.. (2024). The inhibitory action of the chaperone BRICHOS against the α-Synuclein secondary nucleation pathway. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10038–10038. 8 indexed citations

Ausserwӧger, Hannes, Georg Krainer, Timothy J. Welsh, et al.. (2023). Surface patches induce nonspecific binding and phase separation of antibodies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(15). e2210332120–e2210332120. 16 indexed citations

Krainer, Georg, Quentin Peter, Catherine K. Xu, et al.. (2023). Single-Molecule Sizing through Nanocavity Confinement. Nano Letters. 23(5). 1629–1636. 8 indexed citations

Garaizar, Adiran, Jorge R. Espinosa, Jerelle A. Joseph, et al.. (2022). Aging can transform single-component protein condensates into multiphase architectures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(26). e2119800119–e2119800119. 70 indexed citations

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Krainer, Georg, Pavan K. Challa, Quentin Peter, et al.. (2022). Nanofluidic Traps by Two-Photon Fabrication for Extended Detection of Single Macromolecules and Colloids in Solution. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 5(2). 1995–2005. 6 indexed citations

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Arter, William E., Runzhang Qi, Nadia A. Erkamp, et al.. (2022). Biomolecular condensate phase diagrams with a combinatorial microdroplet platform. Nature Communications. 13(1). 53 indexed citations

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Schneider, Matthias M., Saurabh Gautam, Therese W. Herling, et al.. (2021). The Hsc70 disaggregation machinery removes monomer units directly from α-synuclein fibril ends. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5999–5999. 53 indexed citations

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Xu, Yufan, Runzhang Qi, Hongjia Zhu, et al.. (2021). Liquid–Liquid Phase‐Separated Systems from Reversible Gel–Sol Transition of Protein Microgels. Advanced Materials. 33(33). e2008670–e2008670. 23 indexed citations

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Krainer, Georg, Timothy J. Welsh, Jerelle A. Joseph, et al.. (2021). Reentrant liquid condensate phase of proteins is stabilized by hydrophobic and non-ionic interactions. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1085–1085. 339 indexed citations breakdown →

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Krainer, Georg, Kadi L. Saar, William E. Arter, & Tuomas P. J. Knowles. (2021). Direct Digital Sensing of Proteins in Solution through Single-Molecule Optofluidics. Biophysical Journal. 120(3). 114a–114a. 2 indexed citations

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Krainer, Georg, Timothy J. Welsh, Jerelle A. Joseph, et al.. (2021). Reentrant Liquid Condensate Phase of Proteins is Stabilized by Hydrophobic and Non-Ionic interactions. Biophysical Journal. 120(3). 28a–28a. 19 indexed citations

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Arter, William E., Catherine K. Xu, Therese W. Herling, et al.. (2020). Rapid Structural, Kinetic, and Immunochemical Analysis of Alpha-Synuclein Oligomers in Solution. Nano Letters. 20(11). 8163–8169. 24 indexed citations

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Musteikytė, Greta, et al.. (2020). Interactions of α-synuclein oligomers with lipid membranes. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1863(4). 183536–183536. 63 indexed citations

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Krainer, Georg, Andreas Hartmann, & Michael Schlierf. (2016). farFRET: Extending the Range in Single-Molecule FRET Experiments Beyond 10 nm. Biophysical Journal. 110(3). 195a–195a. 1 indexed citations

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Ramakrishnan, Saminathan, Georg Krainer, Guido Grundmeier, Michael Schlierf, & Adrian Keller. (2016). Structural stability of DNA origami nanostructures in the presence of chaotropic agents. Nanoscale. 8(19). 10398–10405. 69 indexed citations

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