Karl‐Wilhelm Koch

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
157 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Karl‐Wilhelm Koch is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Karl‐Wilhelm Koch has authored 157 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Molecular Biology, 99 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 25 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Karl‐Wilhelm Koch's work include Retinal Development and Disorders (89 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (68 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (30 papers). Karl‐Wilhelm Koch is often cited by papers focused on Retinal Development and Disorders (89 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (68 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (30 papers). Karl‐Wilhelm Koch collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Italy and United States. Karl‐Wilhelm Koch's co-authors include Lubert Stryer, Daniele Dell’Orco, U. Benjamin Kaupp, Hans-Georg Lambrecht, Teresa Duda, Rameshwar K. Sharma, Ji‐Young Hwang, Christian Lange, Alexander Scholten and Joaquı́n M. Fuster and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Karl‐Wilhelm Koch

156 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

Highly cooperative feedback control of retinal rod guanylate cyclase by calcium ions

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karl‐Wilhelm Koch Germany	39	4.3k	3.0k	764	748	459	157	5.3k
Jeannie Chen United States	40	4.1k 1.0×	2.7k 0.9×	678 0.9×	508 0.7×	742 1.6×	87	5.4k
Theodore G. Wensel United States	49	6.3k 1.5×	3.1k 1.0×	607 0.8×	1.1k 1.5×	309 0.7×	163	7.9k
Vadim Y. Arshavsky United States	51	6.8k 1.6×	3.4k 1.2×	1.0k 1.4×	1.3k 1.7×	458 1.0×	155	7.9k
Alexander M. Dizhoor United States	42	5.3k 1.2×	3.5k 1.2×	1.6k 2.1×	758 1.0×	289 0.6×	90	5.9k
Cheryl M. Craft United States	45	3.7k 0.9×	2.0k 0.7×	797 1.0×	531 0.7×	345 0.8×	132	5.5k
Sławomir Filipek Poland	44	5.9k 1.4×	3.6k 1.2×	267 0.3×	390 0.5×	493 1.1×	151	7.2k
Paul A. Hargrave United States	45	5.8k 1.4×	4.1k 1.4×	522 0.7×	634 0.8×	296 0.6×	110	6.9k
James B. Ames United States	42	4.3k 1.0×	2.9k 1.0×	217 0.3×	858 1.1×	252 0.5×	139	6.1k
Daniel D. Oprian United States	39	5.6k 1.3×	4.4k 1.5×	277 0.4×	475 0.6×	107 0.2×	76	6.4k
Yiannis Koutalos United States	32	2.7k 0.6×	1.6k 0.5×	913 1.2×	196 0.3×	102 0.2×	83	3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karl‐Wilhelm Koch

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Koch, Karl‐Wilhelm, et al.. (2025). Intracellular and exosomal localization of the negative checkpoint regulator VISTA in immune cells. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1872(5). 119966–119966. 1 indexed citations

Bartölke, Rabea, Jessica Schmidt, Henrik Mouritsen, et al.. (2025). European Robin Cryptochrome-4a Associates with Lipid Bilayers in an Ordered Manner, Fulfilling a Molecular-Level Condition for Magnetoreception. ACS Chemical Biology. 20(3). 592–606. 2 indexed citations

Bartölke, Rabea, et al.. (2024). Comparison of retinol binding protein 1 with cone specific G-protein as putative effector molecules in cryptochrome signalling. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 28326–28326. 1 indexed citations

Lin, Yusheng, Ghizlane Choukrani, Valerie R. Wiersma, et al.. (2024). VISTA drives macrophages towards a pro-tumoral phenotype that promotes cancer cell phagocytosis yet down-regulates T cell responses. Experimental Hematology and Oncology. 13(1). 35–35. 8 indexed citations

Schmidt, Jessica, Rabea Bartölke, Tarick J. El‐Baba, et al.. (2023). Dimerization of European Robin Cryptochrome 4a. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 127(28). 6251–6264. 6 indexed citations

Koch, Karl‐Wilhelm, et al.. (2023). Kinetics of cone specific G-protein signaling in avian photoreceptor cells. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 16. 1107025–1107025. 2 indexed citations

Weisschuh, Nicole, Valerio Marino, Katarína Štingl, et al.. (2022). Molecular Properties of Human Guanylate Cyclase-Activating Protein 3 (GCAP3) and Its Possible Association with Retinitis Pigmentosa. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(6). 3240–3240. 5 indexed citations

Marino, Valerio, et al.. (2021). Molecular properties of human guanylate cyclase–activating protein 2 (GCAP2) and its retinal dystrophy–associated variant G157R. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 296. 100619–100619. 9 indexed citations

Tänzler, Dirk, Christian Tüting, Panagiotis L. Kastritis, et al.. (2021). First 3D-Structural Data of Full-Length Guanylyl Cyclase 1 in Rod-Outer-Segment Preparations of Bovine Retina by Cross-Linking/Mass Spectrometry. Journal of Molecular Biology. 433(10). 166947–166947. 4 indexed citations

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Bartölke, Rabea, et al.. (2021). The secrets of cryptochromes: photoreceptors, clock proteins, and magnetic sensors. 27(3). 151–157. 7 indexed citations

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Janssen‐Bienhold, Ulrike, et al.. (2020). Interaction of G protein-coupled receptor kinases and recoverin isoforms is determined by localization in zebrafish photoreceptors. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1868(4). 118946–118946. 3 indexed citations

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Zernii, Evgeni Yu., Ilya I. Grigoriev, Alexander Scholten, et al.. (2015). Regulatory function of the C-terminal segment of guanylate cyclase-activating protein 2. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1854(10). 1325–1337. 9 indexed citations

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Invergo, Brandon M., Daniele Dell’Orco, Ludovica Montanucci, Karl‐Wilhelm Koch, & Jaume Bertranpetit. (2014). A comprehensive model of the phototransduction cascade in mouse rod cells. Molecular BioSystems. 10(6). 1481–1489. 28 indexed citations

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Koch, Karl‐Wilhelm, et al.. (2014). Dysfunction of outer segment guanylate cyclase caused by retinal disease related mutations. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 7. 4–4. 8 indexed citations

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Zernii, Evgeni Yu., Ilya I. Grigoriev, Konstantin E. Komolov, et al.. (2013). New mechanisms of regulatory activity of photoreceptor calcium sensors. FEBS Journal. 280. 438–439. 2 indexed citations

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Hwang, Ji‐Young, et al.. (2003). Regulatory modes of rod outer segment membrane guanylate cyclase differ in catalytic efficiency and Ca²⁺‐sensitivity. European Journal of Biochemistry. 270(18). 3814–3821. 98 indexed citations

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Körschen, Heinz G., Michael Beyermann, Frank Müller, et al.. (1999). Interaction of glutamic-acid-rich proteins with the cGMP signalling pathway in rod photoreceptors. Nature. 400(6746). 761–766. 108 indexed citations

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Müller, Frank & Karl‐Wilhelm Koch. (1998). Calcium-Binding Proteins and Nitric Oxide in Retinal Function and Disease. Cells Tissues Organs. 162(2-3). 142–150. 7 indexed citations

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Koch, Karl‐Wilhelm, et al.. (1994). Bovine retinal rod guanyl cyclase represents a new N‐glycosylated subtype of membrane‐bound guanyl cyclases. European Journal of Biochemistry. 222(2). 589–595. 17 indexed citations

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Koch, Karl‐Wilhelm & U. Benjamin Kaupp. (1985). Cyclic GMP directly regulates a cation conductance in membranes of bovine rods by a cooperative mechanism.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 260(11). 6788–6800. 171 indexed citations

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