Kai Hilpert

11.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Kai Hilpert is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Hilpert has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Molecular Biology, 48 papers in Microbiology and 12 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Kai Hilpert's work include Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (48 papers), Biochemical and Structural Characterization (26 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (15 papers). Kai Hilpert is often cited by papers focused on Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (48 papers), Biochemical and Structural Characterization (26 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (15 papers). Kai Hilpert collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Canada. Kai Hilpert's co-authors include Robert E. W. Hancock, Irith Wiegand, Rudolf Volkmer, Dirk Winkler, Håvard Jenssen, Christopher D. Fjell, Artem Cherkasov, Ralf Mikut, Serge Ruden and Anne S. Ulrich and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Kai Hilpert

71 papers receiving 8.2k citations

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Agar and broth dilution methods to determine the minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) of antimicrobial substances

2008 4.7k citations Kai Hilpert, Robert E. W. Hancock et al. Nature Protocols profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kai Hilpert Germany	31	4.3k	3.8k	1.5k	1.1k	904	71	8.4k
Eefjan Breukink Netherlands	58	6.7k 1.6×	2.6k 0.7×	982 0.6×	2.9k 2.7×	1.1k 1.2×	160	10.9k
Irith Wiegand Canada	21	2.7k 0.6×	1.7k 0.4×	949 0.6×	950 0.9×	1.9k 2.1×	27	6.5k
Mohamed N. Seleem United States	48	3.4k 0.8×	1.9k 0.5×	2.1k 1.4×	760 0.7×	716 0.8×	225	7.9k
Yoonkyung Park South Korea	50	4.6k 1.1×	3.5k 0.9×	639 0.4×	669 0.6×	284 0.3×	233	8.0k
Dong Gun Lee South Korea	53	3.7k 0.9×	2.5k 0.7×	777 0.5×	1.2k 1.1×	274 0.3×	215	9.2k
Håvard Jenssen Denmark	47	4.7k 1.1×	4.9k 1.3×	952 0.6×	755 0.7×	378 0.4×	135	8.4k
Martti Vaara Finland	48	4.8k 1.1×	2.0k 0.5×	850 0.6×	2.2k 2.0×	3.2k 3.5×	168	11.9k
Brendan Gilmore United Kingdom	47	2.9k 0.7×	1.1k 0.3×	1.0k 0.7×	490 0.5×	873 1.0×	153	7.4k
Kenneth W. Bayles United States	57	7.6k 1.8×	1.8k 0.5×	355 0.2×	681 0.6×	807 0.9×	138	10.8k
José L. López-Ribot United States	70	5.4k 1.3×	1.2k 0.3×	1.2k 0.8×	2.1k 1.9×	341 0.4×	194	15.9k

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Hilpert, Kai, et al.. (2023). Discovery of Antimicrobial Peptides That Can Accelerate Culture Diagnostics of Slow-Growing Mycobacteria Including Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Microorganisms. 11(9). 2225–2225. 3 indexed citations

Hilpert, Kai, et al.. (2023). Can BioSAXS detect ultrastructural changes of antifungal compounds in Candida albicans?–an exploratory study. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 14. 1141785–1141785. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Kai, John Cheng, Yan Mei, et al.. (2021). Rapid Assembly of Infection-Resistant Coatings: Screening and Identification of Antimicrobial Peptides Works in Cooperation with an Antifouling Background. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(31). 36784–36799. 29 indexed citations

Hilpert, Kai & Ralf Mikut. (2021). Is There a Connection Between Gut Microbiome Dysbiosis Occurring in COVID-19 Patients and Post-COVID-19 Symptoms?. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 732838–732838. 17 indexed citations

Grimsey, Elizabeth, et al.. (2020). The effect of lipidation and glycosylation on short cationic antimicrobial peptides. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1862(8). 183195–183195. 78 indexed citations

Mardirossian, Mario, Natacha Pérébaskine, Monica Benincasa, et al.. (2018). The Dolphin Proline-Rich Antimicrobial Peptide Tur1A Inhibits Protein Synthesis by Targeting the Bacterial Ribosome. Cell chemical biology. 25(5). 530–539.e7. 109 indexed citations

Knappe, Daniel, Serge Ruden, Ralf Mikut, et al.. (2015). Optimization of oncocin for antibacterial activity using a SPOT synthesis approach: extending the pathogen spectrum to Staphylococcus aureus. Amino Acids. 48(1). 269–280. 35 indexed citations

Garamus, Vasil M., Heather Davies, Markus Reischl, et al.. (2015). Small angle X-ray scattering as a high-throughput method to classify antimicrobial modes of action. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1858(5). 918–925. 29 indexed citations

Wieczorek, Michał W., Håvard Jenssen, Jason Kindrachuk, et al.. (2010). Structural Studies of An Immune Modulating and Direct Antimicrobial Peptide. Biophysical Journal. 98(3). 84a–84a. 1 indexed citations

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Wieczorek, Michał W., Håvard Jenssen, Jason Kindrachuk, et al.. (2010). Structural Studies of a Peptide with Immune Modulating and Direct Antimicrobial Activity. Chemistry & Biology. 17(9). 970–980. 139 indexed citations

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Mikut, Ralf & Kai Hilpert. (2009). Interpretable Features for the Activity Prediction of Short Antimicrobial Peptides Using Fuzzy Logic. International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics. 15(2). 129–137. 14 indexed citations

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Hilpert, Kai. (2009). High-Throughput Screening for Antimicrobial Peptides Using the SPOT Technique. Methods in molecular biology. 618. 125–133. 7 indexed citations

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Fjell, Christopher D., Håvard Jenssen, Patrick Fries, et al.. (2008). Identification of novel host defense peptides and the absence of α‐defensins in the bovine genome. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 73(2). 420–430. 46 indexed citations

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Hilpert, Kai & Robert E. W. Hancock. (2007). Use of luminescent bacteria for rapid screening and characterization of short cationic antimicrobial peptides synthesized on cellulose using peptide array technology. Nature Protocols. 2(7). 1652–1660. 60 indexed citations

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Hilpert, Kai, Dirk Winkler, & Robert E. W. Hancock. (2007). Peptide arrays on cellulose support: SPOT synthesis, a time and cost efficient method for synthesis of large numbers of peptides in a parallel and addressable fashion. Nature Protocols. 2(6). 1333–1349. 225 indexed citations

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Hilpert, Kai, et al.. (2005). High-throughput generation of small antibacterial peptides with improved activity. Nature Biotechnology. 23(8). 1008–1012. 325 indexed citations

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Hilpert, Kai, et al.. (2005). Complete Substitutional Analysis of a Sunflower Trypsin Inhibitor with Different Serine Proteases. The Journal of Biochemistry. 138(4). 383–390. 26 indexed citations

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Höhne, Wolfgang & Kai Hilpert. (2005). Unraveling Sub-Site Specificities of Peptidic Serine Protease Inhibitors by Substitutional and Structural Analysis. Protein and Peptide Letters. 12(5). 449–456. 5 indexed citations

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Würtele, Martin, Michael G. Hahn, Kai Hilpert, & Wolfgang Höhne. (2000). Atomic resolution structure of native porcine pancreatic elastase at 1.1 Å. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 56(4). 520–523. 41 indexed citations

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Hilpert, Kai, et al.. (1999). Interaction of the Capsid Protein p24 (HIV-1) with Sequence-Derived Peptides: Influence on p24 Dimerization. Virology. 254(1). 6–10. 16 indexed citations

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