Ilka Wittig

14.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
190 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Ilka Wittig is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Ilka Wittig has authored 190 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 148 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Physiology and 24 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Ilka Wittig's work include Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (80 papers), ATP Synthase and ATPases Research (44 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (23 papers). Ilka Wittig is often cited by papers focused on Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (80 papers), ATP Synthase and ATPases Research (44 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (23 papers). Ilka Wittig collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Ilka Wittig's co-authors include Hermann Schägger, Hans‐Peter Braun, Michael Karas, Ulrich Brandt, Stefan Dröse, Heinrich Heide, Andreas S. Reichert, Werner Kühlbrandt, Juliana Heidler and Rosalba Carrozzo and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Ilka Wittig

186 papers receiving 9.6k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ilka Wittig Germany	52	7.5k	1.2k	974	671	660	190	9.6k
Ian M. Fearnley United Kingdom	60	9.0k 1.2×	1.6k 1.4×	1.5k 1.5×	435 0.6×	753 1.1×	128	11.1k
Angela Bachi Italy	56	7.4k 1.0×	678 0.6×	772 0.8×	983 1.5×	1.1k 1.7×	200	11.2k
Thomas Becker Germany	60	7.1k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	871 0.9×	424 0.6×	918 1.4×	154	9.2k
Werner J.H. Koopman Netherlands	50	6.5k 0.9×	1.7k 1.5×	1.1k 1.1×	779 1.2×	520 0.8×	149	9.0k
Cesare Indiveri Italy	46	4.7k 0.6×	2.6k 2.2×	627 0.6×	784 1.2×	452 0.7×	211	7.3k
Rodrigue Rossignol France	44	5.5k 0.7×	994 0.9×	1.3k 1.4×	1.6k 2.4×	393 0.6×	110	7.9k
Stefan Bröer Australia	64	6.0k 0.8×	1.9k 1.6×	1.5k 1.5×	940 1.4×	831 1.3×	179	11.7k
Marco Colombini United States	57	10.3k 1.4×	1.6k 1.3×	990 1.0×	566 0.8×	768 1.2×	134	11.7k
Leo Nijtmans Netherlands	57	7.4k 1.0×	2.7k 2.3×	618 0.6×	424 0.6×	477 0.7×	108	8.5k
John W. Crabb United States	58	7.3k 1.0×	898 0.8×	861 0.9×	484 0.7×	1.6k 2.4×	213	11.2k

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Kuenne, Carsten, Stefan Günther, Ilka Wittig, et al.. (2025). Nuclear eNOS Interacts With and S -Nitrosates ADAR1 to Modulate Type I Interferon Signaling and Endothelial Function. Circulation. 152(25). 1781–1799. 1 indexed citations

Yoval‐Sánchez, Belem, et al.. (2024). Sex-dependent differences in macaque brain mitochondria. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1865(4). 149494–149494. 4 indexed citations

Wittig, Ilka, et al.. (2024). Mitochondrial complex I inhibition triggers NAD+-independent glucose oxidation via successive NADPH formation, “futile” fatty acid cycling, and FADH2 oxidation. GeroScience. 46(4). 3635–3658. 16 indexed citations

Warwick, Timothy, Stefan Günther, Sebastian Wolf, et al.. (2024). RUNX1 interacts with lncRNA SMANTIS to regulate monocytic cell functions. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1131–1131. 4 indexed citations

Cabrera‐Orefice, Alfredo, et al.. (2024). Hyperbaric oxygen treatment reveals spatiotemporal OXPHOS plasticity in the porcine heart. PNAS Nexus. 3(6). pgae210–pgae210.

Keller, Mario, Anja Bremm, Ilka Wittig, et al.. (2023). Poison cassette exon splicing ofSRSF6regulates nuclear speckle dispersal and the response to hypoxia. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(2). 870–890. 27 indexed citations

Ven, Amelie T. van der, Alfredo Cabrera‐Orefice, René G. Feichtinger, et al.. (2023). Expanding the phenotypic and biochemical spectrum of NDUFAF3-related mitochondrial disease. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism. 140(3). 107675–107675. 4 indexed citations

Imre, Gergely, Dominik C. Fuhrmann, Josef Pfeilschifter, et al.. (2022). Reciprocal abrogation of PKM isoforms: contradictory outcomes and differing impact of splicing signal on CRISPR /Cas9 mediates gene editing in keratinocytes. FEBS Journal. 290(9). 2338–2365. 6 indexed citations

Yoval‐Sánchez, Belem, Zoya Niatsetskaya, Sergey A. Sosunov, et al.. (2022). Redox-dependent loss of flavin by mitochondria complex I is different in brain and heart. Redox Biology. 51. 102258–102258. 12 indexed citations

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Helfinger, Valeska, Tobias Schmid, Flávia Rezende, et al.. (2021). Genetic deletion of Nox4 enhances cancerogen-induced formation of solid tumors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(11). 25 indexed citations

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Nuebel, Esther, Jeffrey T. Morgan, Sarah Fogarty, et al.. (2021). The biochemical basis of mitochondrial dysfunction in Zellweger Spectrum Disorder. EMBO Reports. 22(10). e51991–e51991. 29 indexed citations

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Szibor, Marten, Rolf Schreckenberg, Zemfira Gizatullina, et al.. (2020). Respiratory chain signalling is essential for adaptive remodelling following cardiac ischaemia. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. 24(6). 3534–3548. 18 indexed citations

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Lobo‐Jarne, Teresa, Rafael Pérez‐Pérez, Flavia Fontanesi, et al.. (2020). Multiple pathways coordinate assembly of human mitochondrial complex IV and stabilization of respiratory supercomplexes. The EMBO Journal. 39(14). 56 indexed citations

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Mozos, Igor Ruiz de los, et al.. (2020). SRSF7 maintains its homeostasis through the expression of Split-ORFs and nuclear body assembly. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 27(3). 260–273. 48 indexed citations

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Anand, Ruchika, Arun Kumar Kondadi, Julia Riedel, et al.. (2020). MIC26 and MIC27 cooperate to regulate cardiolipin levels and the landscape of OXPHOS complexes. Life Science Alliance. 3(10). e202000711–e202000711. 43 indexed citations

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Степанова, Анна, Sergey A. Sosunov, Zoya Niatsetskaya, et al.. (2019). Redox-Dependent Loss of Flavin by Mitochondrial Complex I in Brain Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 31(9). 608–622. 52 indexed citations

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Stanicek, Laura, Noelia Lozano‐Vidal, Didier Y. R. Stainier, et al.. (2017). Abstract 19863: The Shear Stress-induced Human Long Non-coding RNA Lassie Regulates Endothelial Cell-cell Junctions. Circulation. 2 indexed citations

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Davies, Karen M., Claudio Anselmi, Ilka Wittig, José D. Faraldo‐Gómez, & Werner Kühlbrandt. (2012). Structure of the yeast F ₁ F _o -ATP synthase dimer and its role in shaping the mitochondrial cristae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(34). 13602–13607. 378 indexed citations

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Heidler, Juliana, Christian Kukat, Isabelle Salwig, et al.. (2011). Nitric Oxide-associated Protein 1 (NOA1) Is Necessary for Oxygen-dependent Regulation of Mitochondrial Respiratory Complexes. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(37). 32086–32093. 25 indexed citations

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Wittig, Ilka, et al.. (2009). Chapter 8 Two-Dimensional Native Electrophoresis for Fluorescent and Functional Assays of Mitochondrial Complexes. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 456. 153–168. 10 indexed citations

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