Karin M. Reinisch

9.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
74 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Karin M. Reinisch is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Karin M. Reinisch has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Molecular Biology, 49 papers in Cell Biology and 9 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Karin M. Reinisch's work include Cellular transport and secretion (47 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (23 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (22 papers). Karin M. Reinisch is often cited by papers focused on Cellular transport and secretion (47 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (23 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (22 papers). Karin M. Reinisch collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Karin M. Reinisch's co-authors include Susan Ferro‐Novick, Huaqing Cai, Pietro De Camilli, Joshua A. Lees, Max L. Nibert, Stephen C. Harrison, Thomas J. Melia, Gang Dong, Sandra L. Wolin and Nikit Kumar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Karin M. Reinisch

72 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Coats, Tethers, Rabs, and SNAREs Work Together to Mediate the Intracellular Destination of a Transport Vesicle

2007 534 citations Huaqing Cai, Karin M. Reinisch et al. profile →
Coming together to define membrane contact sites

2019 498 citations Luca Scorrano, Maria Antonietta De Matteis et al. Nature Communications profile →
VPS13A and VPS13C are lipid transport proteins differentially localized at ER contact sites

2018 406 citations Florian A. Horenkamp, Peiqi Li et al. The Journal of Cell Biology profile →
ATG2 transports lipids to promote autophagosome biogenesis

2019 371 citations Joshua A. Lees, Thomas Walz et al. The Journal of Cell Biology profile →
A model for a partnership of lipid transfer proteins and scramblases in membrane expansion and organelle biogenesis

2021 174 citations Alireza Ghanbarpour, Thomas J. Melia 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
Karin M. Reinisch United States	43	4.6k	3.3k	1.1k	719	520	74	6.8k
Tim P. Levine United Kingdom	47	6.5k 1.4×	4.7k 1.4×	746 0.7×	891 1.2×	466 0.9×	86	8.9k
Catherine Jackson France	45	5.7k 1.2×	3.9k 1.2×	501 0.5×	752 1.0×	748 1.4×	74	7.9k
Cathérine Rabouille Netherlands	52	6.7k 1.5×	5.4k 1.6×	860 0.8×	1.0k 1.4×	417 0.8×	108	9.6k
Ineke Braakman Netherlands	45	5.2k 1.1×	3.7k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	619 0.9×	211 0.4×	100	8.3k
Christopher G. Burd United States	48	7.4k 1.6×	3.5k 1.0×	734 0.7×	849 1.2×	544 1.0×	81	9.5k
James A. McNew United States	39	6.1k 1.3×	5.6k 1.7×	662 0.6×	919 1.3×	756 1.5×	65	7.9k
Charles Barlowe United States	42	5.0k 1.1×	5.6k 1.7×	614 0.6×	924 1.3×	402 0.8×	83	7.6k
Rohan D. Teasdale Australia	50	5.3k 1.1×	3.6k 1.1×	803 0.7×	1.1k 1.5×	551 1.1×	111	8.2k
Elizabeth Sztul United States	45	3.1k 0.7×	2.3k 0.7×	846 0.8×	449 0.6×	368 0.7×	91	5.2k
Michael G. Roth United States	52	7.5k 1.6×	3.9k 1.2×	1.5k 1.4×	1.1k 1.5×	515 1.0×	114	10.6k

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Reinisch, Karin M., Pietro De Camilli, & Thomas J. Melia. (2025). Lipid Dynamics at Membrane Contact Sites. Annual Review of Biochemistry. 94(1). 479–502. 10 indexed citations

Lü, Yingying, et al.. (2025). ATG2 is a triglyceride transfer protein. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(48). e2517469122–e2517469122.

Camilli, Pietro De & Karin M. Reinisch. (2025). Structural clues about bridge-mediated lipid transfer. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 32(6). 961–963. 1 indexed citations

Burke, John E., et al.. (2024). Spartin-mediated lipid transfer facilitates lipid droplet turnover. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(3). e2314093121–e2314093121. 11 indexed citations

Gupta, Kallol, et al.. (2022). Mitoguardin-2–mediated lipid transfer preserves mitochondrial morphology and lipid droplet formation. The Journal of Cell Biology. 221(12). 36 indexed citations

Li, Peiqi, et al.. (2022). Structural and biochemical insights into lipid transport by VPS13 proteins. The Journal of Cell Biology. 221(5). 44 indexed citations

Hanna, Michael G., et al.. (2022). SHIP164 is a chorein motif lipid transfer protein that controls endosome–Golgi membrane traffic. The Journal of Cell Biology. 221(6). 21 indexed citations

Ghanbarpour, Alireza, et al.. (2021). A model for a partnership of lipid transfer proteins and scramblases in membrane expansion and organelle biogenesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(16). 174 indexed citations breakdown →

Reinisch, Karin M., Xiaowei Chen, & Thomas J. Melia. (2021). “VTT”-Domain Proteins VMP1 and TMEM41B Function in Lipid Homeostasis Globally and Locally as ER Scramblases. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 16 indexed citations

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Scorrano, Luca, Maria Antonietta De Matteis, Scott D. Emr, et al.. (2019). Coming together to define membrane contact sites. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1287–1287. 498 indexed citations breakdown →

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Horenkamp, Florian A., et al.. (2018). Molecular basis for sterol transport by St ART ‐like lipid transfer domains. The EMBO Journal. 37(6). 77 indexed citations

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Lees, Joshua A., Yixiao Zhang, Michael S. Oh, et al.. (2017). Architecture of the human PI4KIIIα lipid kinase complex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(52). 13720–13725. 47 indexed citations

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Lees, Joshua A., Mirko Messa, Heather Wheeler, et al.. (2017). Lipid transport by TMEM24 at ER–plasma membrane contacts regulates pulsatile insulin secretion. Science. 355(6326). 147 indexed citations

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Reinisch, Karin M. & Pietro De Camilli. (2015). SMP-domain proteins at membrane contact sites: Structure and function. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1861(8). 924–927. 72 indexed citations

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Horenkamp, Florian A., Shaeri Mukherjee, Eric Alix, et al.. (2014). Legionella pneumophila Subversion of Host Vesicular Transport by SidC Effector Proteins. Traffic. 15(5). 488–499. 57 indexed citations

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Cai, Yiying, Harvey F. Chin, Darina L. Lazarova, et al.. (2008). The Structural Basis for Activation of the Rab Ypt1p by the TRAPP Membrane-Tethering Complexes. Cell. 133(7). 1202–1213. 156 indexed citations

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Menon, Shekar, Huaqing Cai, Gang Dong, et al.. (2006). mBET3 is required for the organization of the TRAPP complexes. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 350(3). 669–677. 10 indexed citations

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Dong, Gang, Alex H. Hutagalung, Chunmei Fu, Peter Novick, & Karin M. Reinisch. (2005). The structures of exocyst subunit Exo70p and the Exo84p C-terminal domains reveal a common motif. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 12(12). 1094–1100. 111 indexed citations

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Reinisch, Karin M., Lin Chen, Gregory L. Verdine, & William N. Lipscomb. (1994). Crystallization and Preliminary Crystallographic Analysis of a DNA (Cytosine-5)-Methyltransferase from Haemophilus aegyptius Bound Covalently to DNA. Journal of Molecular Biology. 238(4). 626–629. 7 indexed citations

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Stevens, Raymond C., Karin M. Reinisch, & William N. Lipscomb. (1991). Molecular structure of Bacillus subtilis aspartate transcarbamoylase at 3.0 A resolution.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 88(14). 6087–6091. 27 indexed citations

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