Gottfried Schatz

28.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
217 papers, 23.7k citations indexed

About

Gottfried Schatz is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Clinical Biochemistry and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gottfried Schatz has authored 217 papers receiving a total of 23.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 190 papers in Molecular Biology, 28 papers in Clinical Biochemistry and 21 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Gottfried Schatz's work include Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (144 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (54 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (53 papers). Gottfried Schatz is often cited by papers focused on Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (144 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (54 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (53 papers). Gottfried Schatz collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Austria. Gottfried Schatz's co-authors include Giuseppe Attardi, Martin Eilers, G. Daum, Bernhard Dobberstein, P C Böhni, Dietmar Vestweber, Kitaru Suda, Michael P. Yaffe, B. Pesold-Hurt and Eduard C. Hurt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Gottfried Schatz

215 papers receiving 22.1k citations

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Biogenesis of Mitochondria

1988 1.2k citations Gottfried Schatz et al. PubMed profile →
Import of proteins into mitochondria. Cytochrome b2 and cytochrome c peroxidase are located in the intermembrane space of yeast mitochondria.

1982 1.1k citations Gottfried Schatz et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
Common Principles of Protein Translocation Across Membranes

1996 879 citations Gottfried Schatz et al. profile →
Binding of a specific ligand inhibits import of a purified precursor protein into mitochondria

1986 590 citations Martin Eilers, Gottfried Schatz Nature profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Postdocs 2004 ·FEBS Letters ·Gottfried Schatz	1
2	Letting go 2004 ·FEBS Letters ·Gottfried Schatz	1
3	What Mitochondria Have Told Me 2001 ·Molecular Biology of the Cell ·Gottfried Schatz	2
4	Tim18p, a New Subunit of the TIM22 Complex That Mediates Insertion of Imported Proteins into the Yeast Mitochondrial Inner Membrane 2000 ·Molecular and Cellular Biology ·Carla M. Koehler, Michael P. Murphy, (unknown), Danielle Leuenberger, Wolfgang Oppliger, (unknown), Tina Junne, Gottfried Schatz, Eran Or	82
5	Interaction of mitochondrial targeting signals with acidic receptor domains along the protein import pathway: evidence for the 'acid chain' hypothesis 1998 ·The EMBO Journal ·Tohru Komiya, Sabine Rospert, Carla M. Koehler, Renate Looser, Gottfried Schatz, Katsuyoshi Mihara	134
6	What is the driving force for protein import into mitochondria? 1997 ·Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics ·Martin Horst, Abdussalam Azem, Gottfried Schatz, Benjamin S. Glick	31
7	Efraim Racker: June 28, 1913 - September 9, 1991. 1996 ·PubMed ·Gottfried Schatz	1
8	Mitochondria: beyond oxidative phosphorylation 1995 ·Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease ·Gottfried Schatz	69
9	The protein import receptor of mitochondria 1995 ·Trends in Biochemical Sciences ·Trevor Lithgow, Benjamin S. Glick, Gottfried Schatz	130
10	Import of the Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit Va Precursor into Yeast Mitochondria Is Mediated by the Outer Membrane Receptor Mas20p 1995 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Trevor Lithgow, Gottfried Schatz	23
11	Protein import into mitochondria: the requirement for external ATP is precursor-specific whereas intramitochondrial ATP is universally needed for translocation into the matrix. 1994 ·Molecular Biology of the Cell ·Clemens Wachter, Gottfried Schatz, Benjamin S. Glick	109
12	The protein import machinery of mitochondria 1993 ·Protein Science ·Gottfried Schatz	69
13	7 Biogenesis of Yeast Mitochondria 1991 ·Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Liza A. Pon, Gottfried Schatz	9
14	Mitochondrial proteins essential for viability mediate protein import into yeast mitochondria 1991 ·Nature ·Kevin P. Baker, Gottfried Schatz	236
15	A yeast mitochondrial outer membrane protein essential for protein import and cell viability 1990 ·Nature ·Kevin P. Baker, (unknown), Dietmar Vestweber, Gottfried Schatz	209
16	A 42K outer-membrane protein is a component of the yeast mitochondrial protein import site 1989 ·Nature ·Dietmar Vestweber, Josef Brunner, Alison Baker, Gottfried Schatz	221
17	Import of proteins into mitochondria 1988 ·Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences ·Martin Eilers, Keith Verner, Sam T. Hwang, Gottfried Schatz	4
18	Yeast mitochondrial outer membrane specifically binds cytoplasmically-synthesized precursors of mitochondrial proteins 1983 ·The EMBO Journal ·Howard Riezman, Rick V. Hay, (unknown), Nathan Nelson, Gottfried Schatz	118
19	[65] Isolation of promitochondria from anaerobically grown saccharomyces cerevisiae 1974 ·Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Gottfried Schatz, Ladislav Kováč	46
20	Identification of Mitochondrial Inner Membranes in Anaerobically Grown Baker's Yeast 1969 ·The Journal of General Physiology ·Richard S. Criddle, Fritz Paltauf, (unknown), Gottfried Schatz	2

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