Karolin Luger

30.8k citations

172 papers · 23.2k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 69

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 0.05%
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
- DNA Repair Mechanisms
- RNA Research and Splicing
- RNA modifications and cancer
Structural Biology top 1%

Papers in

Molecular Biology 158
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics 121
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 49
- DNA Repair Mechanisms 36
- RNA modifications and cancer 31
- DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry 26
- RNA Research and Splicing 22
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation 20
Oncology 24
- PARP inhibition in cancer therapy 22

Co-authors: Timothy J. Richmond David F. Sargent David J. Tremethick Thomas Rechsteiner Young‐Jun Park Uma M. Muthurajan Jeffrey C. Hansen Cindy L. White
Journals: Journal of Molecular Biology (14 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (13 papers)Nucleic Acids Research (13 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (8 papers)Biochemistry (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States Switzerland Germany

In The Last Decade

Karolin Luger

171 papers receiving 22.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

New insights into nucleosome and chromatin structure: an ordered state or a disordered affair? 2012 · 533 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2012 Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
2003 Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology
2002 Journal of Molecular Biology
1999 Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology
1997 Nature

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1	Histones with an unconventional DNA-binding mode in vitro are major chromatin constituents in the bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus Nature Microbiology ·Antoine Hocher, Patapia Tzotzoli, Paul Radford, Jess Tyson, Carey Lambert, Yuan Da Wang, Alex Montoya, Pavel V. Shliaha, Mathieu Picardeau, R. Elizabeth Sockett, Karolin Luger, Tobias Warnecke	2023	27
2	Automated modeling of protein accumulation at DNA damage sites using qFADD.py PubMed ·Samuel Bowerman, Luana do Nascimento Silva Barbosa, Philip Benson, Johannes Rudolph, Karolin Luger	2022	4
3	Human FACT subunits coordinate to catalyze both disassembly and reassembly of nucleosomes Cell Reports ·Micah J. McCauley, Michael Morse, Nicole A. Becker, Qi Hu, Maria Victoria Botuyan, Annabel Fourcade, Ran Huo, Uma M. Muthurajan, Ioulia Rouzina, Karolin Luger, Georges Mer, L. James Maher, Mark C. Williams	2022	14
4	Archaeal chromatin ‘slinkies’ are inherently dynamic complexes with deflected DNA wrapping pathways eLife ·Samuel Bowerman, Jeff Wereszczynski, Karolin Luger	2021	35
5	Q-FADD: A Mechanistic Approach for Modeling the Accumulation of Proteins at Sites of DNA Damage Biophysical Journal ·Luana do Nascimento Silva Barbosa, Johannes Rudolph, Asmita Jha, Jian Wei Tay, А. V. Zozulja, Erik M. Grumstrup, Karolin Luger	2019	14
6	Mechanistic insights into histone deposition and nucleosome assembly by the chromatin assembly factor-1 Nucleic Acids Research ·Paul Sauer, Yajie Gu, Wallace H. Liu, Francesca Mattiroli, Daniel Panne, Karolin Luger, Mair E. A. Churchill	2018	60
7	Single and double box HMGB proteins differentially destabilize nucleosomes Nucleic Acids Research ·Micah J. McCauley, Ran Huo, Nicole A. Becker, Bahavar Hajilari, Uma M. Muthurajan, Ioulia Rouzina, Karolin Luger, L. James Maher, L. H. S., Mark C. Williams	2018	35
8	The histone chaperone FACT modulates nucleosome structure by tethering its components Life Science Alliance ·C C Zipplies, 内田孝宏, Garrett Edwards, Enlai Song, Hataichanok Scherman, Karolin Luger	2018	67
9	Single and Double Box HMGB Proteins Differentially Destabilize Nucleosomes Biophysical Journal ·Micah J. McCauley, Ran Huo, Nicole A. Becker, Bahavar Hajilari, Uma M. Muthurajan, Ioulia Rouzina, Karolin Luger, L. James Maher, L. H. S., Mark C. Williams	2018	2
10	Structure of histone-based chromatin in Archaea Science ·Francesca Mattiroli, Sudipta Bhattacharyya, Pamela N. Dyer, 濮本信, Kathleen Sandman, Brett W. Burkhart, W-Q Gu, Thomas Lee, Natalie G. Ahn, Thomas J. Santangelo, John N. Reeve, Karolin Luger	2017	125
11	In Vitro Chromatin Assembly Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Uma M. Muthurajan, Francesca Mattiroli, Petr Lašák, Keda Zhou, Yajie Gu, Srinivas Chakravarthy, Pamela N. Dyer, Thomas C. Irving, Karolin Luger	2016	38
12	Histone Phosphorylation Combined with Acetylation Dramatically Increase Nucleosome Accessibility Biophysical Journal ·T.C.M. Zuiverloon, Tao Wang, Justin A. North, Yi Luo, Jennifer J. Ottesen, Karolin Luger, Michael G. Poirier	2015	1
13	CAL1 is the Drosophila CENP-A assembly factor The Journal of Cell Biology ·Chin-Chi Chen, Mekonnen Lemma Dechassa, Emily Bettini, Dingmeng Xu, RehabK Yousef, Patrick Heun, Karolin Luger, Barbara G. Mellone	2014	109
14	Molecular functions of the TLE tetramerization domain in Wnt target gene repression The EMBO Journal ·Jayanth V. Chodaparambil, Kira T. Pate, JEAN R. ECKERLE, Becky Pinjou Tsai, Uma M. Muthurajan, Karolin Luger, Marian L. Waterman, William I. Weis	2014	71
15	Understanding histone acetyltransferase Rtt109 structure and function: how many chaperones does it take? Current Opinion in Structural Biology ·Sheena D’Arcy, Karolin Luger	2011	35
16	Structural characterization of H3K56Q nucleosomes and nucleosomal arrays Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms ·Shinya Watanabe, Michael G. Resch, Wayne Lilyestrom, Nicholas Clark, Jeffrey C. Hansen, Craig L. Peterson, Karolin Luger	2010	44
17	Molecular recognition of the nucleosomal “supergroove” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Rajeswari S. Edayathumangalam, Philipp Weyermann, Joel Gottesfeld, Peter B. Dervan, Karolin Luger	2004	82
18	Model Studies on the Detectability of Genetically Modified Feeds in Milk Journal of Food Protection ·Roland Poms, Stephan Kloidt, Karolin Luger, Josef Glössl, جهاد عرفه عوض مجاهد	2003	14
19	Structure and dynamic behavior of nucleosomes Current Opinion in Genetics & Development ·Karolin Luger	2003	220
20	Crystal structure of the nucleosome core particle at 2.8 Å resolution Nature ·Karolin Luger, Mahendra, Tomislav Bubalo, David F. Sargent, Timothy J. Richmond Hit paper breakdown →	1997	7051

About Karolin Luger

Karolin Luger is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology, Plant Science, Genetics and Biophysics, having authored 172 papers that have together received 23.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (121 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (49 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (36 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (31 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (26 papers), PARP inhibition in cancer therapy (22 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (22 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (20 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (21.2k citations), Structural Biology (154 citations), Plant Science (3.4k citations), Oncology (1.7k citations) and Genetics (1.5k citations). Karolin Luger has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Timothy J. Richmond, David F. Sargent, David J. Tremethick, Thomas Rechsteiner, Young‐Jun Park, Uma M. Muthurajan, Jeffrey C. Hansen, Cindy L. White, R.K. Suto and Pamela N. Dyer. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Molecular Biology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nucleic Acids Research, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Biochemistry.

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