Jorge E. Galán

35.9k total citations · 13 hit papers
190 papers, 28.6k citations indexed

About

Jorge E. Galán is a scholar working on Food Science, Endocrinology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jorge E. Galán has authored 190 papers receiving a total of 28.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Food Science, 110 papers in Endocrinology and 68 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Jorge E. Galán's work include Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (118 papers), Vibrio bacteria research studies (78 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (68 papers). Jorge E. Galán is often cited by papers focused on Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (118 papers), Vibrio bacteria research studies (78 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (68 papers). Jorge E. Galán collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Austria. Jorge E. Galán's co-authors include María Lara‐Tejero, Richard A. Flavell, Alan Collmer, Tomoko Kubori, Daoguo Zhou, Hans Wolf‐Watz, R Curtiss, C. Erec Stebbins, Christine C. Ginocchio and Lorraine D. Hernandez and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Jorge E. Galán

188 papers receiving 28.0k 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.

  1. IRAK-M Is a Negative Regulator of Toll-like Receptor Signaling
    2002 1.1k citations Lorraine D. Hernandez, Jorge E. Galán et al. Cell profile →
  2. Type III Secretion Machines: Bacterial Devices for Protein Delivery into Host Cells
    1999 1.0k citations Jorge E. Galán et al. Science profile →
  3. Amplification of an invA gene sequence of Salmonella typhimurium by polymerase chain reaction as a specific method of detection of Salmonella
    1992 857 citations Jorge E. Galán, Christine C. Ginocchio et al. profile →
  4. Cloning and molecular characterization of genes whose products allow Salmonella typhimurium to penetrate tissue culture cells.
    1989 809 citations Jorge E. Galán et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. Protein delivery into eukaryotic cells by type III secretion machines
    2006 809 citations Jorge E. Galán et al. profile →
  6. Critical Role for NALP3/CIAS1/Cryopyrin in Innate and Adaptive Immunity through Its Regulation of Caspase-1
    2006 799 citations María Lara‐Tejero, Jorge E. Galán et al. profile →
  7. RICK/Rip2/CARDIAK mediates signalling for receptors of the innate and adaptive immune systems
    2002 731 citations Lorraine D. Hernandez, Jorge E. Galán et al. profile →
  8. Supramolecular Structure of the Salmonella typhimurium Type III Protein Secretion System
    1998 695 citations Tomoko Kubori, Dai NAKAMURA et al. Science profile →
  9. S. typhimurium Encodes an Activator of Rho GTPases that Induces Membrane Ruffling and Nuclear Responses in Host Cells
    1998 645 citations Wolf‐Dietrich Hardt, Jorge E. Galán et al. Cell profile →
  10. SalmonellaInteractions with Host Cells: Type III Secretion at Work
    2001 585 citations Jorge E. Galán profile →
  11. Molecular and functional characterization of the Salmonella invasion gene invA: homology of InvA to members of a new protein family
    1992 491 citations Jorge E. Galán, Christine C. Ginocchio et al. profile →
  12. Bacterial Type III Secretion Systems: Specialized Nanomachines for Protein Delivery into Target Cells
    2014 387 citations Jorge E. Galán, María Lara‐Tejero et al. profile →
  13. Salmonella Typhimurium and inflammation: a pathogen-centric affair
    2021 187 citations Jorge E. Galán profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jorge E. Galán United States 91 11.4k 10.4k 8.3k 6.6k 5.5k 190 28.6k
Samuel I. Miller United States 97 8.3k 0.7× 7.3k 0.7× 12.6k 1.5× 7.0k 1.1× 4.6k 0.8× 235 29.7k
Philippe Sansonetti France 113 16.0k 1.4× 6.2k 0.6× 13.6k 1.6× 8.0k 1.2× 10.8k 2.0× 446 42.0k
Gordon Dougan United Kingdom 107 14.3k 1.3× 14.3k 1.4× 13.6k 1.6× 5.3k 0.8× 7.9k 1.4× 612 43.5k
John J. Mekalanos United States 111 24.8k 2.2× 6.8k 0.7× 14.6k 1.8× 8.8k 1.3× 10.1k 1.8× 308 39.9k
Wolf‐Dietrich Hardt Switzerland 71 5.5k 0.5× 6.6k 0.6× 7.8k 0.9× 2.9k 0.4× 3.0k 0.6× 241 18.6k
Matthew K. Waldor United States 80 9.6k 0.8× 3.2k 0.3× 8.0k 1.0× 4.9k 0.7× 4.0k 0.7× 284 20.7k
Gad Frankel United Kingdom 74 11.7k 1.0× 4.5k 0.4× 5.0k 0.6× 3.8k 0.6× 2.5k 0.5× 324 18.5k
Eduardo A. Groisman United States 79 5.9k 0.5× 5.8k 0.6× 9.0k 1.1× 7.0k 1.1× 1.3k 0.2× 195 20.1k
Pascale Cossart France 110 5.4k 0.5× 12.1k 1.2× 16.0k 1.9× 4.1k 0.6× 4.3k 0.8× 400 38.3k
David W. Holden United Kingdom 72 5.5k 0.5× 5.3k 0.5× 5.1k 0.6× 2.4k 0.4× 1.7k 0.3× 186 16.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chang, Shu-Jung, et al.. (2022). Typhoid toxin sorting and exocytic transport from Salmonella Typhi-infected cells. eLife. 11. 11 indexed citations
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Galán, Jorge E., et al.. (2021). Cryo-EM structure of the needle filament tip complex of the Salmonella type III secretion injectisome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(44). 14 indexed citations
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Butan, Carmen, María Lara‐Tejero, Wenwei Li, Jun Liu, & Jorge E. Galán. (2019). High-resolution view of the type III secretion export apparatus in situ reveals membrane remodeling and a secretion pathway. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(49). 24786–24795. 40 indexed citations
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Gao, Xiang, Lingquan Deng, Gabrielle Stack, et al.. (2017). Evolution of host adaptation in the Salmonella typhoid toxin. Nature Microbiology. 2(12). 1592–1599. 35 indexed citations
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Dietsche, Tobias, Mehari Tesfazgi Mebrhatu, Matthias Brünner, et al.. (2016). Structural and Functional Characterization of the Bacterial Type III Secretion Export Apparatus. PLoS Pathogens. 12(12). e1006071–e1006071. 55 indexed citations
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Lefebre, Matthew & Jorge E. Galán. (2013). The inner rod protein controls substrate switching and needle length in a Salmonella type III secretion system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(2). 817–822. 39 indexed citations
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Spanò, Stefania, Xiaoyun Liu, & Jorge E. Galán. (2011). Proteolytic targeting of Rab29 by an effector protein distinguishes the intracellular compartments of human-adapted and broad-host Salmonella. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(45). 18418–18423. 97 indexed citations
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Hicks, Stuart W., Guillaume Charron, Howard C. Hang, & Jorge E. Galán. (2011). Subcellular Targeting of Salmonella Virulence Proteins by Host-Mediated S-Palmitoylation. Cell Host & Microbe. 10(1). 9–20. 72 indexed citations
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Lara‐Tejero, María & Jorge E. Galán. (2009). Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Pathogenicity Island 1-Encoded Type III Secretion System Translocases Mediate Intimate Attachment to Nonphagocytic Cells. Infection and Immunity. 77(7). 2635–2642. 142 indexed citations
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Quezada, Cindy M., Stuart W. Hicks, Jorge E. Galán, & C. Erec Stebbins. (2009). A family of Salmonella virulence factors functions as a distinct class of autoregulated E3 ubiquitin ligases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(12). 4864–4869. 150 indexed citations
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Spanò, Stefania, Juan E. Ugalde, & Jorge E. Galán. (2008). Delivery of a Salmonella Typhi Exotoxin from a Host Intracellular Compartment. Cell Host & Microbe. 3(1). 30–38. 149 indexed citations
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Patel, Jayesh C. & Jorge E. Galán. (2006). Differential activation and function of Rho GTPases during Salmonella– host cell interactions. The Journal of Cell Biology. 175(3). 453–463. 220 indexed citations
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Haghjoo, Erik & Jorge E. Galán. (2004). Salmonella typhi encodes a functional cytolethal distending toxin that is delivered into host cells by a bacterial-internalization pathway. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(13). 4614–4619. 198 indexed citations
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Marlovits, Thomas C., Tomoko Kubori, Anand Sukhan, et al.. (2004). Structural Insights into the Assembly of the Type III Secretion Needle Complex. Science. 306(5698). 1040–1042. 303 indexed citations
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Hernandez, Lorraine D., Marc Pypaert, Richard A. Flavell, & Jorge E. Galán. (2003). A Salmonella protein causes macrophage cell death by inducing autophagy. The Journal of Cell Biology. 163(5). 1123–1131. 183 indexed citations
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Stebbins, C. Erec & Jorge E. Galán. (2003). Priming virulence factors for delivery into the host. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 4(9). 738–744. 61 indexed citations
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Carlyon, Jason A., Wai-Tsing Chan, Jorge E. Galán, Dirk Roos, & Erol Fikrig. (2002). Repression of rac2 mRNA Expression by Anaplasma phagocytophila Is Essential to the Inhibition of Superoxide Production and Bacterial Proliferation. The Journal of Immunology. 169(12). 7009–7018. 81 indexed citations
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Zhou, Daoguo, Wolf‐Dietrich Hardt, & Jorge E. Galán. (1999). Salmonella typhimuriumEncodes a Putative Iron Transport System within the Centisome 63 Pathogenicity Island. Infection and Immunity. 67(4). 1974–1981. 137 indexed citations
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Kubori, Tomoko, Dai NAKAMURA, María Lara‐Tejero, et al.. (1998). Supramolecular Structure of the Salmonella typhimurium Type III Protein Secretion System. Science. 280(5363). 602–605. 695 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ginocchio, Christine C., Stephen B. Olmsted, Carol L. Wells, & Jorge E. Galán. (1994). Contact with epithelial cells induces the formation of surface appendages on Salmonella typhimurium. Cell. 76(4). 717–724. 214 indexed citations

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