Kaisa Karhumaa

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Kaisa Karhumaa is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kaisa Karhumaa has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 3 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Kaisa Karhumaa's work include Biofuel production and bioconversion (14 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (13 papers) and Fungal and yeast genetics research (8 papers). Kaisa Karhumaa is often cited by papers focused on Biofuel production and bioconversion (14 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (13 papers) and Fungal and yeast genetics research (8 papers). Kaisa Karhumaa collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Denmark and Portugal. Kaisa Karhumaa's co-authors include Marie F. Gorwa‐Grauslund, Bärbel Hahn‐Hägerdal, César Fonseca, Isabel Spencer‐Martins, Rosa García Sánchez, Violeta Sànchez i Nogué, Marie Jeppsson, João Ricardo Moreira de Almeida, Morten C. Kielland‐Brandt and Gunnar Lidén and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioresource Technology, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology and Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Kaisa Karhumaa

17 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Towards industrial pentose-fermenting yeast strains

2007 516 citations Bärbel Hahn‐Hägerdal, Kaisa Karhumaa et al. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kaisa Karhumaa Sweden	16	2.0k	1.9k	200	184	166	17	2.2k
Aaron A. Winkler Netherlands	14	1.9k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	262 1.3×	142 0.8×	139 0.8×	16	2.1k
Xiaoming Bao China	28	1.8k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	276 1.4×	407 2.2×	87 0.5×	61	2.2k
Z. Lewis Liu United States	24	2.1k 1.1×	2.0k 1.1×	218 1.1×	306 1.7×	417 2.5×	49	2.5k
Steven Ward Gorsich United States	11	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	204 1.0×	175 1.0×	151 0.9×	15	1.8k
Hans Marx Austria	22	1.3k 0.7×	576 0.3×	125 0.6×	148 0.8×	170 1.0×	38	1.5k
Sean W. York United States	24	2.1k 1.1×	2.1k 1.1×	115 0.6×	361 2.0×	108 0.7×	32	2.6k
Ronald E. Hector United States	25	1.7k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	246 1.2×	192 1.0×	47 0.3×	57	2.3k
Luis Caspeta Mexico	17	1.1k 0.6×	663 0.4×	126 0.6×	175 1.0×	171 1.0×	28	1.5k
Ewelina Celińska Poland	20	1.6k 0.8×	930 0.5×	56 0.3×	150 0.8×	161 1.0×	53	1.9k
Sutipa Tanapongpipat Thailand	22	1.1k 0.6×	825 0.4×	270 1.4×	522 2.8×	80 0.5×	71	1.6k

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17 of 17 papers shown

Karhumaa, Kaisa, et al.. (2016). Hybrid SSF/SHF Processing of SO2 Pretreated Wheat Straw—Tuning Co-fermentation by Yeast Inoculum Size and Hydrolysis Time. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology. 181(2). 536–547. 21 indexed citations

Nogué, Violeta Sànchez i & Kaisa Karhumaa. (2014). Xylose fermentation as a challenge for commercialization of lignocellulosic fuels and chemicals. Biotechnology Letters. 37(4). 761–772. 82 indexed citations

Chen, Xiao Dong, Kristian Fog Nielsen, Irina Borodina, Morten C. Kielland‐Brandt, & Kaisa Karhumaa. (2011). Increased isobutanol production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by overexpression of genes in valine metabolism. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 4(1). 21–21. 163 indexed citations

Sánchez, Rosa García, Kaisa Karhumaa, César Fonseca, et al.. (2010). Improved xylose and arabinose utilization by an industrial recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain using evolutionary engineering. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 3(1). 13–13. 109 indexed citations

Karhumaa, Kaisa, et al.. (2010). Conditions with high intracellular glucose inhibit sensing through glucose sensor Snf3 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. 110(4). 920–925. 14 indexed citations

Almeida, João Ricardo Moreira de, Kaisa Karhumaa, Oskar Bengtsson, & Marie F. Gorwa‐Grauslund. (2009). Screening of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains with respect to anaerobic growth in non-detoxified lignocellulose hydrolysate. Bioresource Technology. 100(14). 3674–3677. 29 indexed citations

Karhumaa, Kaisa, et al.. (2009). Proteome analysis of the xylose‐fermenting mutant yeast strain TMB 3400. Yeast. 26(7). 371–382. 25 indexed citations

Karhumaa, Kaisa, et al.. (2009). Amino acid residues involved in ligand preference of the Snf3 transporter‐like sensor in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast. 27(3). 131–138. 16 indexed citations

Hahn‐Hägerdal, Bärbel, Kaisa Karhumaa, César Fonseca, Isabel Spencer‐Martins, & Marie F. Gorwa‐Grauslund. (2007). Towards industrial pentose-fermenting yeast strains. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 74(5). 937–953. 516 indexed citations breakdown →

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Karhumaa, Kaisa, Rosa García Sánchez, Bärbel Hahn‐Hägerdal, & Marie F. Gorwa‐Grauslund. (2007). Comparison of the xylose reductase-xylitol dehydrogenase and the xylose isomerase pathways for xylose fermentation by recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Microbial Cell Factories. 6(1). 5–5. 216 indexed citations

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Hahn‐Hägerdal, Bärbel, Kaisa Karhumaa, Marie Jeppsson, & Marie F. Gorwa‐Grauslund. (2007). Metabolic Engineering for Pentose Utilization in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Advances in biochemical engineering, biotechnology. 147–177. 209 indexed citations

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Karhumaa, Kaisa, et al.. (2006). High activity of xylose reductase and xylitol dehydrogenase improves xylose fermentation by recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 73(5). 1039–1046. 103 indexed citations

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Petersson, Anneli, João Ricardo Moreira de Almeida, Tobias Modig, et al.. (2006). A 5‐hydroxymethyl furfural reducing enzyme encoded by the Saccharomyces cerevisiae ADH6 gene conveys HMF tolerance. Yeast. 23(6). 455–464. 212 indexed citations

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Karhumaa, Kaisa, B. Wiedemann, Bärbel Hahn‐Hägerdal, Eckhard Boles, & Marie F. Gorwa‐Grauslund. (2006). Co-utilization of L-arabinose and D-xylose by laboratory and industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains. Microbial Cell Factories. 5(1). 18–18. 102 indexed citations

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Hahn‐Hägerdal, Bärbel, Kaisa Karhumaa, Christer Larsson, et al.. (2005). Role of cultivation media in the development of yeast strains for large scale industrial use. Microbial Cell Factories. 4(1). 31–31. 176 indexed citations

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Karhumaa, Kaisa, Bärbel Hahn‐Hägerdal, & Marie F. Gorwa‐Grauslund. (2005). Investigation of limiting metabolic steps in the utilization of xylose by recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae using metabolic engineering. Yeast. 22(5). 359–368. 167 indexed citations

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Karhumaa, Kaisa, et al.. (2002). A 5′ stem–loop and ribosome binding but not translation are important for the stability of Bacillus subtilis aprE leader mRNA. Microbiology. 148(6). 1795–1803. 73 indexed citations

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