Heike Brand

2.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
12 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Heike Brand is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Heike Brand has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Heike Brand's work include Estrogen and related hormone effects (8 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (3 papers) and Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (2 papers). Heike Brand is often cited by papers focused on Estrogen and related hormone effects (8 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (3 papers) and Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (2 papers). Heike Brand collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and Ireland. Heike Brand's co-authors include Frank Gannon, George Reid, Raphaël Métivier, Michael R. Hübner, Martin Koš, Graziella Penot, Stefanie Denger, Jan Ellenberg, Joël Beaudouin and Gilles Flouriot and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Journal of Biological Chemistry and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

Heike Brand

12 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Estrogen Receptor-α Directs Ordered, Cyclical, and Combinatorial Recruitment of Cofactors on a Natural Target Promoter

2003 1.2k citations Raphaël Métivier, Graziella Penot et al. Cell profile →
Cyclic, Proteasome-Mediated Turnover of Unliganded and Liganded ERα on Responsive Promoters Is an Integral Feature of Estrogen Signaling

2003 610 citations George Reid, Michael R. Hübner et al. Molecular Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heike Brand Germany	11	2.0k	1.2k	414	231	175	12	2.5k
Michael R. Hübner United States	9	2.2k 1.1×	1.0k 0.8×	370 0.9×	229 1.0×	163 0.9×	9	2.6k
Twila A. Jackson United States	16	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	378 0.9×	194 0.8×	239 1.4×	23	2.1k
Graziella Penot France	11	1.4k 0.7×	914 0.7×	286 0.7×	182 0.8×	146 0.8×	12	1.9k
Ciro Abbondanza Italy	24	1.9k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	511 1.2×	344 1.5×	184 1.1×	56	2.7k
Timothy R. Geistlinger United States	8	2.1k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	625 1.5×	402 1.7×	172 1.0×	8	2.7k
Haruna Sasaki Japan	5	1.2k 0.6×	1.5k 1.2×	639 1.5×	188 0.8×	139 0.8×	9	2.0k
Gabriela N. Lopez United States	14	1.7k 0.8×	1.8k 1.5×	547 1.3×	214 0.9×	236 1.3×	14	2.5k
Stefanie Denger Germany	14	1.1k 0.6×	901 0.7×	338 0.8×	133 0.6×	139 0.8×	17	1.6k
Giuseppe Bunone Italy	14	1.1k 0.6×	855 0.7×	573 1.4×	242 1.0×	119 0.7×	15	1.8k
Han Ma United States	12	2.2k 1.1×	855 0.7×	240 0.6×	159 0.7×	139 0.8×	12	2.6k

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12 of 12 papers shown

Bretschneider, Nancy, Heike Brand, Nicola Miller, et al.. (2008). Estrogen Induces Repression of the Breast Cancer and Salivary Gland Expression Gene in an Estrogen Receptor α–Dependent Manner. Cancer Research. 68(1). 106–114. 23 indexed citations

Denger, Stefanie, Heike Brand, George Reid, et al.. (2007). Transcriptome Profiling of Estrogen-Regulated Genes in Human Primary Osteoblasts Reveals an Osteoblast-Specific Regulation of the Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 4 Gene. Molecular Endocrinology. 22(2). 361–379. 23 indexed citations

Reid, George, Raphaël Métivier, Chin‐Yo Lin, et al.. (2005). Multiple mechanisms induce transcriptional silencing of a subset of genes, including oestrogen receptor α, in response to deacetylase inhibition by valproic acid and trichostatin A. Oncogene. 24(31). 4894–4907. 139 indexed citations

Métivier, Raphaël, Graziella Penot, Michael R. Hübner, et al.. (2004). Transcriptional complexes engaged by apo‐estrogen receptor‐α isoforms have divergent outcomes. The EMBO Journal. 23(18). 3653–3666. 87 indexed citations

Reid, George, Michael R. Hübner, Raphaël Métivier, et al.. (2003). Cyclic, Proteasome-Mediated Turnover of Unliganded and Liganded ERα on Responsive Promoters Is an Integral Feature of Estrogen Signaling. Molecular Cell. 11(3). 695–707. 610 indexed citations breakdown →

Métivier, Raphaël, Graziella Penot, Michael R. Hübner, et al.. (2003). Estrogen Receptor-α Directs Ordered, Cyclical, and Combinatorial Recruitment of Cofactors on a Natural Target Promoter. Cell. 115(6). 751–763. 1195 indexed citations breakdown →

Flouriot, Gilles, Heike Brand, Bertrand Séraphin, & Frank Gannon. (2002). Natural Trans-spliced mRNAs Are Generated from the Human Estrogen Receptor-α (hERα) Gene. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(29). 26244–26251. 71 indexed citations

Brand, Heike, Martin Koš, Stefanie Denger, et al.. (2002). A Novel Promoter Is Involved in the Expression of Estrogen Receptor α in Human Testis and Epididymis. Endocrinology. 143(9). 3397–3404. 31 indexed citations

Métivier, Raphaël, Alexander Stark, Gilles Flouriot, et al.. (2002). A Dynamic Structural Model for Estrogen Receptor-α Activation by Ligands, Emphasizing the Role of Interactions between Distant A and E Domains. Molecular Cell. 10(5). 1019–1032. 106 indexed citations

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Denger, Stefanie, George Reid, Martin Koš, et al.. (2001). ERα Gene Expression in Human Primary Osteoblasts: Evidence for the Expression of Two Receptor Proteins. Molecular Endocrinology. 15(12). 2064–2077. 130 indexed citations

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Flouriot, Gilles, et al.. (2000). The 3′-Untranslated Region of the Human Estrogen Receptor α Gene Mediates Rapid Messenger Ribonucleic Acid Turnover¹. Endocrinology. 141(8). 2805–2813. 57 indexed citations

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Cereghini, Silvia, et al.. (2000). Synergistic activation of the Atlantic salmon hepatocyte nuclear factor (HNF) 1 promoter by the orphan nuclear receptors HNF4 and chicken ovalbumin upstream promoter transcription factor I (COUP-TFI). Biochemical Journal. 352(2). 557–564. 7 indexed citations

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