Jörn Dengjel

27.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
198 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Jörn Dengjel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jörn Dengjel has authored 198 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Molecular Biology, 64 papers in Epidemiology and 59 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Jörn Dengjel's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (57 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (28 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (24 papers). Jörn Dengjel is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (57 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (28 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (24 papers). Jörn Dengjel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Jörn Dengjel's co-authors include Christine Gretzmeier, Zehan Hu, Jens Andersen, Stefan Stevanović, Christian Münz, Manuela Antonioli, Francesco Cecconi, Leena Bruckner‐Tuderman, Gian María Fimia and Hans‐Georg Rammensee and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Advanced Materials and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Jörn Dengjel

192 papers receiving 8.0k 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.

mTOR inhibits autophagy by controlling ULK1 ubiquitylation, self-association and function through AMBRA1 and TRAF6

2013 622 citations Manuela Antonioli, Christine Gretzmeier et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →
Autophagy promotes MHC class II presentation of peptides from intracellular source proteins

2005 504 citations Jörn Dengjel, Oliver Schoor et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jörn Dengjel Germany	47	4.4k	3.0k	1.8k	1.3k	649	198	8.0k
Yusuke Maeda Japan	49	4.1k 0.9×	1.8k 0.6×	2.0k 1.1×	979 0.8×	1.1k 1.8×	154	6.8k
Eric Spooner United States	43	5.6k 1.3×	1.6k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 1.2×	654 1.0×	58	8.4k
Jack‐Ansgar Bruun Norway	22	3.5k 0.8×	5.0k 1.7×	1.9k 1.1×	711 0.5×	748 1.2×	34	7.3k
Rebecca C. Taylor United Kingdom	23	4.0k 0.9×	2.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	919 1.4×	37	7.5k
Gérard Pierron France	43	6.4k 1.5×	3.8k 1.3×	1.3k 0.7×	2.0k 1.5×	417 0.6×	100	10.9k
Benjamin E. Turk United States	45	6.9k 1.6×	2.0k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	770 0.6×	662 1.0×	124	10.3k
Gary Thomas United States	45	4.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.4×	2.5k 1.4×	1.1k 0.9×	537 0.8×	79	8.1k
Claudia Puri United Kingdom	37	3.4k 0.8×	3.2k 1.1×	2.7k 1.5×	457 0.4×	1.1k 1.7×	56	7.0k
Ineke Braakman Netherlands	45	5.2k 1.2×	1.4k 0.5×	3.7k 2.1×	1.5k 1.1×	619 1.0×	100	8.3k
Robert C. Piper United States	56	5.5k 1.3×	1.4k 0.5×	4.0k 2.3×	658 0.5×	1.1k 1.6×	116	8.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Jörn Dengjel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jörn Dengjel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jörn Dengjel

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Brügger‐Verdon, Valérie, Dies Meijer, Robert Fledrich, et al.. (2025). Hypoxia-induced conversion of sensory Schwann cells into repair cells is regulated by HDAC8. Nature Communications. 16(1). 515–515. 5 indexed citations

Gross, Angelina S., Ruben Ghillebert, Elke Reinartz, et al.. (2024). A metabolite sensor subunit of the Atg1/ULK complex regulates selective autophagy. Nature Cell Biology. 26(3). 366–377. 6 indexed citations

Wietecha, Mateusz S., Céline Labouesse, Oksana Y. Dudaryeva, et al.. (2023). Serine protease 35 regulates the fibroblast matrisome in response to hyperosmotic stress. Science Advances. 9(35). eadh9219–eadh9219. 8 indexed citations

Fellay, Benoı̂t, et al.. (2022). Fibrin, Bone Marrow Cells and Macrophages Interactively Modulate Cardiomyoblast Fate. Biomedicines. 10(3). 527–527. 3 indexed citations

Hofer, Sebastian J., YongTian Liang, Andreas Zimmermann, et al.. (2021). Spermidine-induced hypusination preserves mitochondrial and cognitive function during aging. Autophagy. 17(8). 2037–2039. 54 indexed citations

Thuenauer, Roland, Alessia Landi, S. Altmann, et al.. (2020). The Pseudomonas aeruginosa Lectin LecB Causes Integrin Internalization and Inhibits Epithelial Wound Healing. mBio. 11(2). 39 indexed citations

Zhou, Jianwen, et al.. (2019). Phosphorylation of mitochondrial matrix proteins regulates their selective mitophagic degradation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(41). 20517–20527. 25 indexed citations

Hu, Zehan, Malika Jaquenoud, Riko Hatakeyama, et al.. (2019). Multilayered Control of Protein Turnover by TORC1 and Atg1. Cell Reports. 28(13). 3486–3496.e6. 67 indexed citations

Qi, Wenjing, Ladislav Dokládal, Zehan Hu, et al.. (2019). Retromer and TBC1D5 maintain late endosomal RAB7 domains to enable amino acid–induced mTORC1 signaling. The Journal of Cell Biology. 218(9). 3019–3038. 50 indexed citations

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Wen, Xin, Damián Gatica, Zhangyuan Yin, et al.. (2019). The transcription factor Spt4-Spt5 complex regulates the expression of ATG8 and ATG41. Autophagy. 16(7). 1172–1185. 10 indexed citations

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Nyström, Alexander, Olivier Bornert, Tobias Kühl, et al.. (2018). Impaired lymphoid extracellular matrix impedes antibacterial immunity in epidermolysis bullosa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(4). 55 indexed citations

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Eimer, Stefan, et al.. (2017). Control of RAB 7 activity and localization through the retromer‐TBC1D5 complex enables RAB 7‐dependent mitophagy. The EMBO Journal. 37(2). 235–254. 146 indexed citations

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Gretzmeier, Christine, Gregory R. Johnson, Rudolf Engelke, et al.. (2017). Degradation of protein translation machinery by amino acid starvation-induced macroautophagy. Autophagy. 13(6). 1064–1075. 28 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Robert D., Manuela Antonioli, Oliver Kretz, et al.. (2017). Protein and Molecular Characterization of a Clinically Compliant Amniotic Fluid Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicle Fraction Capable of Accelerating Muscle Regeneration Through Enhancement of Angiogenesis. Stem Cells and Development. 26(18). 1316–1333. 42 indexed citations

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Diedrich, Britta, Kristoffer Rigbolt, Michael Röring, et al.. (2017). Discrete cytosolic macromolecular BRAF complexes exhibit distinct activities and composition. The EMBO Journal. 36(5). 646–663. 47 indexed citations

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Dumit, Verónica I., Dietmar Pfeifer, Jörn Dengjel, et al.. (2015). The balance of Id3 and E47 determines neural stem/precursor cell differentiation into astrocytes. The EMBO Journal. 34(22). 2804–2819. 44 indexed citations

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Funk, Maja C., Tabea Menchen, Georg Kuales, et al.. (2015). Cyclin O ( Ccno ) functions during deuterosome‐mediated centriole amplification of multiciliated cells. The EMBO Journal. 34(8). 1078–1089. 67 indexed citations

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Nylandsted, Jesper, Andrea C. Becker, Jakob Bunkenborg, et al.. (2011). ErbB2‐associated changes in the lysosomal proteome. PROTEOMICS. 11(14). 2830–2838. 20 indexed citations

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Dengjel, Jörn, Maria-Dorothea Nastke, Cécile Gouttefangeas, et al.. (2006). Unexpected Abundance of HLA Class II Presented Peptides in Primary Renal Cell Carcinomas. Clinical Cancer Research. 12(14). 4163–4170. 54 indexed citations

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Dengjel, Jörn, Oliver Schoor, Rainer Fischer, et al.. (2005). Autophagy promotes MHC class II presentation of peptides from intracellular source proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(22). 7922–7927. 504 indexed citations breakdown →

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