Jeff Errington

30.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
245 papers, 19.9k citations indexed

About

Jeff Errington is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jeff Errington has authored 245 papers receiving a total of 19.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 207 papers in Genetics, 166 papers in Molecular Biology and 166 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Jeff Errington's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (207 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (164 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (55 papers). Jeff Errington is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (207 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (164 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (55 papers). Jeff Errington collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Jeff Errington's co-authors include Richard A. Daniel, Ling Juan Wu, Rut Carballido‐López, David W. Adams, Yoshikazu Kawai, Michaela Sharpe, Laura J. Jones, Dirk‐Jan Scheffers, Adèle L. Marston and Heath Murray and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Jeff Errington

243 papers receiving 19.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Control of Cell Shape in Bacteria

2001 727 citations Laura J. Jones, Jeff Errington et al. profile →
Bacterial cell division: assembly, maintenance and disassembly of the Z ring

2009 616 citations David W. Adams, Jeff Errington profile →
Control of Cell Morphogenesis in Bacteria

2003 609 citations Richard A. Daniel, Jeff Errington profile →
Bacillus subtilis sporulation: regulation of gene expression and control of morphogenesis

1993 502 citations Jeff Errington profile →
Regulation of peptidoglycan synthesis and remodelling

2020 364 citations Jeff Errington et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jeff Errington United Kingdom	81	13.7k	13.5k	8.9k	2.3k	1.8k	245	19.9k
Carol A. Gross United States	84	20.2k 1.5×	12.9k 1.0×	5.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	1.7k 1.0×	193	25.5k
Arnold J. M. Driessen Netherlands	85	17.6k 1.3×	8.2k 0.6×	3.9k 0.4×	1.5k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	451	24.5k
Alan D. Grossman United States	71	12.1k 0.9×	9.7k 0.7×	5.2k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	152	15.6k
Susan Gottesman United States	93	20.2k 1.5×	14.5k 1.1×	7.3k 0.8×	1.6k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	204	26.6k
Akira Ishihama Japan	77	16.8k 1.2×	12.1k 0.9×	4.9k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	453	21.8k
Frederick R. Blattner United States	65	16.3k 1.2×	8.0k 0.6×	5.2k 0.6×	2.9k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	135	24.5k
David Dubnau United States	70	11.3k 0.8×	9.4k 0.7×	5.8k 0.6×	954 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	175	14.7k
Masayori Inouye United States	106	29.4k 2.1×	16.3k 1.2×	8.3k 0.9×	2.4k 1.0×	2.3k 1.3×	624	38.9k
F. William Studier United States	60	26.8k 2.0×	11.7k 0.9×	8.2k 0.9×	3.2k 1.4×	690 0.4×	98	36.5k
Kirill A. Datsenko United States	25	14.6k 1.1×	9.8k 0.7×	3.5k 0.4×	1.0k 0.4×	2.2k 1.3×	38	21.2k

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Errington, Jeff, et al.. (2025). Biosynthesis of the quinovosamycin nucleoside antibiotics diverges from that of tunicamycins by additional sugar processing genes. Bioorganic Chemistry. 160. 108431–108431. 1 indexed citations

Belousoff, Matthew J., Alan C. Ward, Gregory L. Challis, et al.. (2024). Mode of Action and Mechanisms of Resistance to the Unusual Polyglycosylated Thiopeptide Antibiotic Persiathiacin A. ACS Infectious Diseases. 11(1). 155–163. 1 indexed citations

Kawai, Yoshikazu, et al.. (2023). On the mechanisms of lysis triggered by perturbations of bacterial cell wall biosynthesis. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4123–4123. 25 indexed citations

Dashti, Yousef & Jeff Errington. (2023). Chemistry and biology of specialized metabolites produced by Actinomadura. Natural Product Reports. 41(3). 370–401. 4 indexed citations

Roberts, David M., Tomas G. Kloosterman, Heath Murray, et al.. (2022). Chromosome remodelling by SMC/Condensin in B. subtilis is regulated by monomeric Soj/ParA during growth and sporulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(41). e2204042119–e2204042119. 12 indexed citations

Watson, Andrew, Sahar Mubarak Bakhiet, Najwa A. Mhmoud, et al.. (2022). Systematic whole-genome sequencing reveals an unexpected diversity among actinomycetoma pathogens and provides insights into their antibacterial susceptibilities. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 16(7). e0010128–e0010128. 5 indexed citations

Green, Katherine, Juanjuan Li, Adam P. Hopkins, et al.. (2021). Screening and Purification of Natural Products from Actinomycetes that Induce a “Rounded” Morphological Phenotype in Fission Yeast. Natural Products and Bioprospecting. 11(4). 431–445. 4 indexed citations

Roberts, David M., Jeff Errington, & Yoshikazu Kawai. (2021). Characterization of the L-form switch in the Gram-negative pathogen Streptobacillus moniliformis. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 368(21-24). 1 indexed citations

Kawai, Yoshikazu, Romain Mercier, Katarzyna Mickiewicz, et al.. (2019). Crucial role for central carbon metabolism in the bacterial L-form switch and killing by β-lactam antibiotics. Nature Microbiology. 4(10). 1716–1726. 48 indexed citations

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Lewis, Richard A., Juanjuan Li, Nick Allenby, et al.. (2017). Screening and purification of natural products from actinomycetes that affect the cell shape of fission yeast. Journal of Cell Science. 130(18). 3173–3185. 9 indexed citations

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Errington, Jeff, Katarzyna Mickiewicz, Yoshikazu Kawai, & Ling Juan Wu. (2016). L-form bacteria, chronic diseases and the origins of life. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 371(1707). 20150494–20150494. 81 indexed citations

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Adams, David W., Ling Juan Wu, & Jeff Errington. (2015). Nucleoid occlusion protein N oc recruits DNA to the bacterial cell membrane. The EMBO Journal. 34(4). 491–501. 80 indexed citations

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Domínguez‐Cuevas, Patricia, Ida Porcelli, Richard A. Daniel, & Jeff Errington. (2013). Differentiated roles for MreB ‐actin isologues and autolytic enzymes in B acillus subtilis morphogenesis. Molecular Microbiology. 89(6). 1084–1098. 70 indexed citations

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Haydon, David J., Neil R. Stokes, James M. Bennett, et al.. (2008). An Inhibitor of FtsZ with Potent and Selective Anti-Staphylococcal Activity. Science. 321(5896). 1673–1675. 379 indexed citations

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Thomaides‐Brears, Helena, et al.. (2006). Essential Bacterial Functions Encoded by Gene Pairs. Journal of Bacteriology. 189(2). 591–602. 48 indexed citations

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Hunt, Alison, et al.. (2006). Functional analysis of 11 putative essential genes in Bacillus subtilis. Microbiology. 152(10). 2895–2907. 100 indexed citations

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Errington, Jeff, et al.. (2005). A magnesium‐dependent mreB null mutant: implications for the role of mreB in Bacillus subtilis. Molecular Microbiology. 55(6). 1646–1657. 155 indexed citations

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Scheffers, Dirk‐Jan, Laura J. Jones, & Jeff Errington. (2003). Several distinct localization patterns for penicillin‐binding proteins in Bacillus subtilis. Molecular Microbiology. 51(3). 749–764. 120 indexed citations

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Feucht, Andrea, Louise Evans, & Jeff Errington. (2003). Identification of sporulation genes by genome-wide analysis of the σ E regulon of Bacillus subtilis. Microbiology. 149(10). 3023–3034. 62 indexed citations

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Dervyn, Etienne, Catherine Suski, Richard A. Daniel, et al.. (2001). Two Essential DNA Polymerases at the Bacterial Replication Fork. Science. 294(5547). 1716–1719. 123 indexed citations

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