Hartmut Michel

28.2k citations

259 papers · 21.6k indexed · 11 hit papers · h-index 67

Impact in

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience top 0.1%
- Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
Molecular Biology top 0.1%
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior

Papers in

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 77
- Photoreceptor and optogenetics research 63
Structural Biology 5

Co-authors: J. Deisenhofer O. Epp Robert Huber Christian Ostermeier Kunio Miki Bernd Ludwig So Iwata Axel Harrenga
Journals: Biochemistry (32 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (20 papers)Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics (19 papers)FEBS Letters (15 papers)Journal of Molecular Biology (11 papers)
Partner nations: Germany United States France

In The Last Decade

Hartmut Michel

257 papers receiving 21.0k citations

Hit Papers

11 papers align trajectories log scale

Structure of a Na+/H+ antiporter and insights into mechanism of action and regulation by pH 2005 · 524 citations

What are hit papers?

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

it has ≥500 total citations;
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.

2005 Nature
1997 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1996 Structure
1995 Nature
1995 Journal of Molecular Biology
1994 Structure
1988 Biochemistry
1986 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1985 Nature
1984 Journal of Molecular Biology
1982 Journal of Molecular Biology

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	Dieter Oesterhelt (1940–2022): Life with light and color, pioneer of membrane protein research Biophysics and Physicobiology ·Peter Hegemann, Hartmut Michel	2023	2
2	Detection of Known and Novel Small Proteins in Pseudomonas stutzeri Using a Combination of Bottom-Up and Digest-Free Proteomics and Proteogenomics Analytical Chemistry ·Jakob Meier‐Credo, Kapilan Natesan, Christian Schori, Illyas Tan, Hartmut Michel, Christian H. Ahrens, Julian D. Langer	2023	7
3	Top-Down Identification and Sequence Analysis of Small Membrane Proteins Using MALDI-MS/MS Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry ·Jakob Meier‐Credo, Laura Preiß, S. A. Pustilnik, Anja Resemann, M. V. Sivokon, H J Lin, Detlev Suckau, Hartmut Michel, Marc M. Nowaczyk, Thomas Meier, Julian D. Langer	2022	12
4	Cryo‐EM structures of pentameric autoinducer‐2 exporter from Escherichia coli reveal its transport mechanism The EMBO Journal ·Rashmi Sapkal, Ahmad Reza Mehdipour, Jani Reddy Bolla, Rosemary Wright, Sonja Welsch, Ulrich Ermler, Cornelia Muenke, Carol V. Robinson, Gerhard Hummer, Hao Xie, Hartmut Michel	2022	12
5	The cryo-EM structure of the bd oxidase from M. tuberculosis reveals a unique structural framework and enables rational drug design to combat TB Nature Communications ·Schara Safarian, Joy Jing-Ian Wu, Di Wu, Ahmad Reza Mehdipour, Kiel Hards, Liam K. Harold, A. M. V. Radescu, Ian Stewart, Sonja Welsch, Gerhard Hummer, Gregory M. Cook, Kurt L. Krause, Hartmut Michel	2021	40
6	The structure of the Aquifex aeolicus MATE family multidrug resistance transporter and sequence comparisons suggest the existence of a new subfamily Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Adriano Roberto Vieira de Sousa, Hao Xie, Ahmad Reza Mehdipour, Schara Safarian, Ulrich Ermler, Colin Falconer Flint, Yvonne Thielmann, Gerhard Hummer, Ingo Ebersberger, Jingkang Wang, Hartmut Michel	2021	8
7	Structural basis for amino acid exchange by a human heteromeric amino acid transporter Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Di Wu, V. C. Sharma, Sonja Welsch, Deryck J. Mills, Zhang Lin, Schara Safarian, Hartmut Michel	2020	33
8	Inward-facing conformation of a multidrug resistance MATE family transporter Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·勇臣矢島, Ahmad Reza Mehdipour, Юлія Чепела, Tsuyoshi Nonaka, Juergen Koepke, Cornelia Muenke, Winfried Hausner, Gerhard Hummer, Schara Safarian, Hartmut Michel	2019	36
9	Active site rearrangement and structural divergence in prokaryotic respiratory oxidases Science ·Schara Safarian, Alexander Hahn, Deryck J. Mills, A. M. V. Radescu, P. Schultz, Anton Nikolaev, Jakob Meier‐Credo, Frédéric Melin, Hideto Miyoshi, Robert B. Gennis, ANDRES FELIPE VILLAREAL COGOLLO, Julian D. Langer, Petra Hellwig, Werner Kühlbrandt, Hartmut Michel	2019	89
10	Characterization and X-ray structure of the NADH-dependent coenzyme A disulfide reductase from Thermus thermophilus Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics ·Menekşe Turan, Juergen Koepke, 鲍路瑶, Cornelia Muenke, Robert B. Gennis, Hartmut Michel, Lici A. Schurig-Briccio	2019	1
11	The structure of Aquifex aeolicus sulfide:quinone oxidoreductase, a basis to understand sulfide detoxification and respiration Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Marco Marcia, Ulrich Ermler, Guohong Peng, Hartmut Michel	2009	130
12	Protein AQ_1862 from the Hyperthermophilic Bacterium Aquifex aeolicus Is a Porin and Contains Two Conductance Pathways of Different Selectivity Biophysical Journal ·Marco Vinicio Baéz Oñate, Guohong Peng, Hartmut Michel, Klaus Hartung	2007	3
13	C‐terminal truncated cannabinoid receptor 1 coexpressed with G protein trimer in Sf9 cells exists in a precoupled state and shows constitutive activity FEBS Journal ·Chandramouli Chillakuri, Christoph Reinhart, Hartmut Michel	2007	8
14	Refined crystal structures of reaction centres from Rhodopseudomonas viridis in complexes with the herbicide atrazine and two chiral atrazine derivatives also lead to a new model of the bound carotenoid 1 1Edited by R. Huber Journal of Molecular Biology ·C. Roy D. Lancaster, Hartmut Michel	1999	78
15	Crystallization of membrane proteins Current Opinion in Structural Biology ·Christian Ostermeier, Hartmut Michel	1997	281
16	Crystallization of membrane proteins with the help of antibody fragments Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography ·Christian Ostermeier, Shusuke Iwata, Hartmut Michel	1996	1
17	Channelling of dioxygen into the respiratory enzyme Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics ·Sirpa Riistama, Anne Puustinen, J. Arturo García‐Horsman, So Iwata, Hartmut Michel, Mårten Wikström	1996	85
18	Isolation and Structural Characterization of Trimeric Cyanobacterial Photosystem I Complex with the Help of Recombinant Antibody Fragments European Journal of Biochemistry ·Georgios Tsiotis, Winfried Haase, Andreas Engel, Hartmut Michel	1995	22
19	Isolation and Structural Characterization of Trimeric Cyanobacterial Photosystem I Complex with the Help of Recombinant Antibody Fragments European Journal of Biochemistry ·Georgios Tsiotis, Winfried Haase, Andreas Engel, Hartmut Michel	1995	1
20	The structure of the photosynthetic reaction centre from Rhodopseudomonas viridis Hartmut Michel, J. Deisenhofer	1988	1

About Hartmut Michel

Hartmut Michel is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Structural Biology, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, having authored 259 papers that have together received 21.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (158 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (63 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (40 papers), ATP Synthase and ATPases Research (25 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (24 papers), Hemoglobin structure and function (23 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (21 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (5.9k citations), Molecular Biology (17.9k citations), Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (1.5k citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (4.7k citations) and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (2.1k citations). Hartmut Michel has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Frequent co-authors include J. Deisenhofer, O. Epp, Robert Huber, Christian Ostermeier, Kunio Miki, Bernd Ludwig, So Iwata, Axel Harrenga, Dieter Oesterhelt and Aimo Kannt. Their work appears in journals such as Biochemistry, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, FEBS Letters and Journal of Molecular Biology.

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