Jörg Piontek

4.4k citations

67 papers · 3.5k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 34

Impact in

Neurology top 0.1%
- Barrier Structure and Function Studies
- Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
Molecular Biology top 5%
- Connexins and lens biology
- Gut microbiota and health

Papers in

Neurology 62
- Barrier Structure and Function Studies 61
- Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments 22
- Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms 5
Molecular Biology 44
- Connexins and lens biology 26
- Gut microbiota and health 14

Co-authors: Gerd Krause Ingolf E. Blasig Lars Winkler Jonas Protze Reiner F. Haseloff Sebastian Mueller Dorothee Günzel Hartwig Wolburg
Journals: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (9 papers)Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (7 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (5 papers)International Journal of Molecular Sciences (3 papers)Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes (2 papers)
Partner nations: Germany United States Austria

In The Last Decade

Jörg Piontek

65 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Structure and function of claudins 2007 · 652 citations

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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.

2007 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes

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1	Components of Mineralocorticoid Receptor System in Human DRG Neurons Co-Expressing Pain-Signaling Molecules: Implications for Nociception Cells ·Shaaban A. Mousa, 燕丽康, Elsayed Metwally, Sascha Tafelski, 范熾文 Wen-Cheng Chang, Jörg Piontek, Sascha Treskatsch, Michael Schaefer, Mohammed Shaqura	2025	0
2	Generation of Advanced Blood–Brain Barrier Spheroids Using Human‐Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell‐Derived Brain Capillary Endothelial‐Like Cells Advanced Biology ·誠司有賀, Wen Yichao, Karen Gourd, Deimantė Stankevičiūtė, Sarah A. Mueller Stein, Heinz‐Georg Jahnke, Jörg Piontek, Winfried Neuhaus, Andreas Brachner, Marco Metzger, Antje Appelt‐Menzel	2025	1
3	Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Claudin-10a and -10b Ion Channels: With Similar Architecture, Different Pore Linings Determine the Opposite Charge Selectivity International Journal of Molecular Sciences ·Piotr Kaczmarczyk, Jörg Piontek	2024	7
4	cCPE Fusion Proteins as Molecular Probes to Detect Claudins and Tight Junction Dysregulation in Gastrointestinal Cell Lines, Tissue Explants and Patient-Derived Organoids Pharmaceutics ·Varsha Bhanudas Sankpal, Mei-hua Wu, Gilani Syed Ihtsham-ul-Haq, Simon Schallenberg, Claudia Vollbrecht, Philip Bischoff, Martí Farrera-Sal, Florian N. Loch, Christian Bojarski, Michael Schümann, Lars Winkler, Carsten Kamphues, Xin-gang LÜ, Jörg Piontek	2023	6
5	Nanoscale segregation of channel and barrier claudins enables paracellular ion flux Nature Communications ·Alison Wang, Christopher Schmied, 闫婷婷, Jenny Eichhorst, Nina Himmerkus, Jörg Piontek, Dorothee Günzel, Markus Bleich, Mikio Furuse, Volker Haucke, Martin Lehmann	2022	44
6	Effective Oncoleaking Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer by Claudin-Targeted Suicide Gene Therapy with Clostridium perfringens Enterotoxin (CPE) Cancers ·Ilia Roussou, Dennis Kobelt, Jutta Aumann, Diana Behrens, Theodore T Pikulsky, Ebrahimzadeh Parastoo, Jörg Piontek, Ulrike Stein, Wolfgang Walther	2021	18
7	Assembly of Tight Junction Strands: Claudin-10b and Claudin-3 Form Homo-Tetrameric Building Blocks that Polymerise in a Channel-Independent Manner Journal of Molecular Biology ·魏克军, Jonas Protze, C.-C. Radulescu, Scott Andochick, Anna Piontek, Anja Fromm, Stefan Lundgaard, Deep Mehta, Dorothee Günzel, Gerd Krause, Jörg Piontek	2020	34
8	Altered paracellular cation permeability due to a rare CLDN10B variant causes anhidrosis and kidney damage PLoS Genetics ·Joakim Klar, Jörg Piontek, Susanne Milatz, Muhammad Tariq, Muhammad Jameel, Tilman Breiderhoff, Jens Schuster, Ambrin Fatima, Maria Asif, 徳永尚登, Katrin Mäbert, Anja Fromm, Shahid Mahmood Baig, Dorothee Günzel, Niklas Dahl	2017	51
9	Tight junctions of the proximal tubule and their channel proteins Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology ·Michael Fromm, Jörg Piontek, Rita Rosenthal, Dorothee Günzel, Susanne M. Krug	2017	33
10	Targeting and alteration of tight junctions by bacteria and their virulence factors such as Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology ·Miriam Eichner, Jonas Protze, Anna Piontek, Gerd Krause, Jörg Piontek	2016	51
11	Directed structural modification of Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin to enhance binding to claudin-5 Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences ·Jonas Protze, Miriam Eichner, Anna Piontek, O Amorrotu, Jan Rossa, Kinga Blecharz, Peter Vajkoczy, Jörg Piontek, Gerd Krause	2014	47
12	Claudin-3 and Claudin-5 Protein Folding and Assembly into the Tight Junction Are Controlled by Non-conserved Residues in the Transmembrane 3 (TM3) and Extracellular Loop 2 (ECL2) Segments Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Jan Rossa, Carolin Ploeger, Xiaotian Hu, Tarek M. Saleh, Jonas Protze, Dorothee Günzel, Hartwig Wolburg, Gerd Krause, Jörg Piontek	2014	72
13	Visualization and Quantitative Analysis of Reconstituted Tight Junctions Using Localization Microscopy PLoS ONE ·Rainer Kaufmann, Jörg Piontek, F. R. Grull, M. Kirchgeßner, Jan Rossa, Hartwig Wolburg, Ingolf E. Blasig, Christoph Cremer	2012	45
14	Novel Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin suicide gene therapy for selective treatment of claudin-3- and -4-overexpressing tumors Gene Therapy ·Wolfgang Walther, Armando Salazar, Olga N. Kuvardina, Jutta Aumann, Dennis Kobelt, Iduna Fichtner, M Lemm, Jörg Piontek, Ingolf E. Blasig, Ulrike Stein, P. M. Schlag	2011	58
15	Mechanism of Clostridium perfringens Enterotoxin Interaction with Claudin-3/-4 Protein Suggests Structural Modifications of the Toxin to Target Specific Claudins Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Onchari Divinah N, Jörg Piontek, Jonas Protze, DeArmon, Abdusamatova Sa, Gerd Krause	2011	75
16	The hinge region of the scaffolding protein of cell contacts, zonula occludens protein 1, regulates interacting with various signaling proteins Journal of Cellular Biochemistry ·Manjot Bal, Vı́ctor Castro, Jörg Piontek, Christine Rueckert, Lars T. Lih, Aliaksei Shymanets, Kausik Sahu, Hannelore Haase, Bernd Nürnberg, Ingolf E. Blasig	2011	8
17	Participation of the second extracellular loop of claudin-5 in paracellular tightening against ions, small and large molecules Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences ·Christian Piehl, Jörg Piontek, Jimmi Cording, Hartwig Wolburg, Ingolf E. Blasig	2010	89
18	Structure and Function of Extracellular Claudin Domains Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·Gerd Krause, Lars Winkler, Christian Piehl, Ingolf E. Blasig, Jörg Piontek, Sebastian Müller	2009	83
19	Structure and function of claudins Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes ·Gerd Krause, Lars Winkler, Sebastian Mueller, Reiner F. Haseloff, Jörg Piontek, Ingolf E. Blasig Hit paper breakdown →	2007	652
20	Neurotrophins Differentially Regulate the Survival and Morphological Complexity of Human CNS Model Neurons Journal of Neurochemistry ·Jörg Piontek, Ozoagu S. N., Martina Kempf, Roland Brandt	1999	25

About Jörg Piontek

Jörg Piontek is a scholar working on Neurology, Molecular Biology, Developmental Neuroscience, Periodontics and Biotechnology, having authored 67 papers that have together received 3.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Barrier Structure and Function Studies (61 papers), Connexins and lens biology (26 papers), Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (22 papers), Gut microbiota and health (14 papers), Neonatal and fetal brain pathology (6 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (5 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (5 papers) and Caveolin-1 and cellular processes (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Neurology (2.5k citations), Molecular Biology (1.7k citations), Cell Biology (355 citations), Oncology (453 citations) and Cancer Research (230 citations). Jörg Piontek has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United States and Austria. Frequent co-authors include Gerd Krause, Ingolf E. Blasig, Lars Winkler, Jonas Protze, Reiner F. Haseloff, Sebastian Mueller, Dorothee Günzel, Hartwig Wolburg, Michael Fromm and Christian Piehl. Their work appears in journals such as Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry, International Journal of Molecular Sciences and Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes.

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