Imre Berger

9.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
133 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Imre Berger is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biotechnology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Imre Berger has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Biotechnology and 21 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Imre Berger's work include Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects (42 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (28 papers) and Transgenic Plants and Applications (21 papers). Imre Berger is often cited by papers focused on Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects (42 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (28 papers) and Transgenic Plants and Applications (21 papers). Imre Berger collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and United States. Imre Berger's co-authors include Christiane Schaffitzel, Christoph Bieniossek, Nad’a Špačková, Jiřı́ Šponer, Timothy J. Richmond, Alexander Rich, Philipp Berger, Daniel J. Fitzgerald, Martin Egli and Frédéric Garzoni and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Imre Berger

129 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

In vitrogenerated antibodies specific for telomeric guanine-quadruplex DNA react withStylonychia lemnaemacronuclei

2001 512 citations Christiane Schaffitzel, Imre Berger et al. profile →
Structural insight into cap-snatching and RNA synthesis by influenza polymerase

2014 354 citations Imre Berger et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Imre Berger United Kingdom	42	4.9k	658	644	481	454	133	6.0k
Christiane Schaffitzel United Kingdom	38	3.9k 0.8×	849 1.3×	495 0.8×	168 0.3×	218 0.5×	90	4.7k
Muriel Delepierre France	40	3.5k 0.7×	922 1.4×	689 1.1×	353 0.7×	249 0.5×	158	5.4k
Raghavan Varadarajan India	39	3.1k 0.6×	601 0.9×	506 0.8×	762 1.6×	225 0.5×	150	4.6k
Gerrit Vriend Netherlands	30	3.3k 0.7×	616 0.9×	701 1.1×	623 1.3×	227 0.5×	50	5.2k
Tatsuya Sawasaki Japan	43	4.1k 0.8×	413 0.6×	266 0.4×	409 0.9×	575 1.3×	209	6.2k
Swati Jain United States	18	2.9k 0.6×	430 0.7×	467 0.7×	284 0.6×	150 0.3×	60	4.2k
João Rodrigues Netherlands	24	3.6k 0.7×	349 0.5×	675 1.0×	254 0.5×	161 0.4×	42	4.8k
Christine Ebel France	41	3.6k 0.7×	392 0.6×	225 0.3×	465 1.0×	230 0.5×	154	5.2k
Stefan T. Arold Saudi Arabia	42	3.2k 0.7×	773 1.2×	634 1.0×	439 0.9×	88 0.2×	172	5.8k
Abraham Loyter Israel	39	3.1k 0.6×	864 1.3×	839 1.3×	552 1.1×	459 1.0×	172	4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Imre Berger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Imre Berger

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Toelzer, Christine, et al.. (2025). Crystal structure of ferric recombinant horseradish peroxidase. JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. 30(3). 221–227. 1 indexed citations

Aparicio‐Puerta, Ernesto, Candela Cives-Losada, José J.G. Marı́n, et al.. (2024). Unlocking the effective alliance of β-lapachone and hydroxytyrosol against triple-negative breast cancer cells. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 174. 116439–116439. 7 indexed citations

Capin, Julien, Alexandra Harrison, Sathish K.N. Yadav, et al.. (2024). An engineered baculoviral protein and DNA co-delivery system for CRISPR-based mammalian genome editing. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(6). 3450–3468. 7 indexed citations

Toelzer, Christine, et al.. (2024). ATAC and SAGA histone acetyltransferase modules facilitate transcription factor binding to nucleosomes independent of their acetylation activity. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(1). 2 indexed citations

Mattioli, M., et al.. (2024). Tuning VSV-G Expression Improves Baculovirus Integrity, Stability and Mammalian Cell Transduction Efficiency. Viruses. 16(9). 1475–1475. 2 indexed citations

Oliveira, A. Sofia F., Deborah K. Shoemark, Andrew D. Davidson, et al.. (2023). SARS-CoV-2 spike variants differ in their allosteric responses to linoleic acid. Journal of Molecular Cell Biology. 15(3). 8 indexed citations

Aulicino, Francesco, Christine Toelzer, Julien Capin, et al.. (2022). Highly efficient CRISPR-mediated large DNA docking and multiplexed prime editing using a single baculovirus. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(13). 7783–7799. 35 indexed citations

Staufer, Oskar, et al.. (2022). Bottom-up assembly of viral replication cycles. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6530–6530. 6 indexed citations

Toelzer, Christine, Kapil Gupta, Sathish K.N. Yadav, et al.. (2022). The free fatty acid–binding pocket is a conserved hallmark in pathogenic β-coronavirus spike proteins from SARS-CoV to Omicron. Science Advances. 8(47). eadc9179–eadc9179. 28 indexed citations

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Williams, Christopher, Airlie J. McCoy, H. H. Hoppe, et al.. (2020). Structure of the Human Cation-Independent Mannose 6-Phosphate/IGF2 Receptor Domains 7–11 Uncovers the Mannose 6-Phosphate Binding Site of Domain 9. Structure. 28(12). 1300–1312.e5. 11 indexed citations

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Cvetešić, Nevena, Kapil Gupta, Tao Ye, et al.. (2020). TBPL2/TFIIA complex establishes the maternal transcriptome through oocyte-specific promoter usage. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6439–6439. 23 indexed citations

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Toelzer, Christine, Kapil Gupta, Sathish K.N. Yadav, et al.. (2020). Free fatty acid binding pocket in the locked structure of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. Science. 370(6517). 725–730. 282 indexed citations

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Sari, Duygu, Shervin Bahrami, Magdalena Janina Laska, et al.. (2019). High-Throughput Production of Influenza Virus-Like Particle (VLP) Array by Using VLP-factory™, a MultiBac Baculoviral Genome Customized for Enveloped VLP Expression. Methods in molecular biology. 2025. 213–226. 9 indexed citations

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Cottet‐Rousselle, Cécile, Cécile M. Bidan, Aurélie Dupont, et al.. (2019). Synthetic energy sensor AMPfret deciphers adenylate-dependent AMPK activation mechanism. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1038–1038. 69 indexed citations

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Huber, Nina, Christoph Bieniossek, Hans‐Peter Elsässer, et al.. (2016). Glutathione-conjugating and membrane-remodeling activity of GDAP1 relies on amphipathic C-terminal domain. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 36930–36930. 27 indexed citations

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Berger, Imre & Arnaud Poterszman. (2015). Baculovirus expression: old dog, new tricks. Bioengineered. 6(6). 316–322. 17 indexed citations

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Imasaki, Tsuyoshi, Guillermo Calero, Gang Cai, et al.. (2011). Architecture of the Mediator head module. Nature. 475(7355). 240–243. 95 indexed citations

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Fitzgerald, Daniel J., Christiane Schaffitzel, Philipp Berger, et al.. (2007). Multiprotein Expression Strategy for Structural Biology of Eukaryotic Complexes. Structure. 15(3). 275–279. 47 indexed citations

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Šponer, Jiřı́, Imre Berger, Nad’a Špačková, Jerzy Leszczyński, & Pavel Hobza. (2000). Aromatic Base Stacking in DNA: Fromab initioCalculations to Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 17(sup1). 1–24. 23 indexed citations

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Berger, Imre, Li Su, Jeffrey R. Spitzner, et al.. (1995). Molecular structure of the halogenated anti-cancer drug iododoxorubicin complexed with d(TGTACA) and d(CGATCG). Nucleic Acids Research. 23(21). 4488–4494. 14 indexed citations

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