Katja Luck

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Katja Luck is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Katja Luck has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Cell Biology and 3 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Katja Luck's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (8 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (7 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (4 papers). Katja Luck is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (8 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (7 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (4 papers). Katja Luck collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Katja Luck's co-authors include Gilles Travé, Marc Vidal, Sébastian Charbonnier, Stephanie J. Ruiz, Bert Poolman, Ina L. Urbatsch, Frans Bianchi, Ivy Zhang, Gloria Sheynkman and Nishka Kishore and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

Katja Luck

22 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

Network-based prediction of protein interactions

2019 283 citations I. Kovács, Katja Luck et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Katja Luck Germany	15	755	146	113	94	80	25	1.1k
Tau‐Mu Yi United States	18	1.5k 2.0×	149 1.0×	85 0.8×	88 0.9×	79 1.0×	40	1.8k
Yoon Sup Choi South Korea	9	632 0.8×	121 0.8×	38 0.3×	64 0.7×	29 0.4×	12	870
Lan V. Zhang United States	7	1.7k 2.2×	96 0.7×	285 2.5×	122 1.3×	36 0.5×	7	1.9k
Michael Livstone United States	9	2.2k 3.0×	175 1.2×	380 3.4×	83 0.9×	40 0.5×	10	2.8k
Andrew Mugler United States	19	836 1.1×	182 1.2×	46 0.4×	113 1.2×	32 0.4×	60	1.2k
Denis Dupuy France	16	2.2k 2.9×	217 1.5×	264 2.3×	157 1.7×	65 0.8×	29	2.8k
Pablo Mier Germany	15	735 1.0×	37 0.3×	40 0.4×	59 0.6×	74 0.9×	52	932
John Wagner Australia	19	831 1.1×	170 1.2×	24 0.2×	88 0.9×	97 1.2×	30	1.4k
Martin H. Schaefer Germany	24	1.5k 2.1×	134 0.9×	213 1.9×	16 0.2×	26 0.3×	43	2.0k
Ney Lemke Brazil	19	877 1.2×	30 0.2×	219 1.9×	64 0.7×	50 0.6×	62	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Katja Luck

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20 of 20 papers shown

Luck, Katja, et al.. (2025). Bias in, bias out – AlphaFold-Multimer and the structural complexity of protein interfaces. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 91. 103002–103002. 5 indexed citations

Matias, Ana Catarina, Francesca Torelli, Tania Medeiros, et al.. (2025). Toxoplasma effector TgROP1 establishes membrane contact sites with the endoplasmic reticulum during infection. Nature Microbiology. 10(12). 3331–3345.

Skinnider, Michael A., Katja Luck, M. Shahid Mukhtar, et al.. (2025). What is the current bottleneck in mapping molecular interaction networks?. Cell Systems. 16(5). 101295–101295.

Casas-Delucchi, Corella S., Paulina Prorok, Sunil Kumar Pradhan, et al.. (2024). Histone variant macroH2A1 regulates synchronous firing of replication origins in the inactive X chromosome. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(19). 11659–11688.

Naveja, J. Jesús, et al.. (2024). Generation of a high confidence set of domain–domain interface types to guide protein complex structure predictions by AlphaFold. Bioinformatics. 40(8). 2 indexed citations

Varga, Julia K., Christian Schäfer, M Welzel, et al.. (2024). Systematic discovery of protein interaction interfaces using AlphaFold and experimental validation. Molecular Systems Biology. 20(2). 75–97. 41 indexed citations

Bronkhorst, Alfred W., Martin M. Möckel, António Miguel de Jesus Domingues, et al.. (2023). An extended Tudor domain within Vreteno interconnects Gtsf1L and Ago3 for piRNA biogenesis in Bombyx mori. The EMBO Journal. 42(24). e114072–e114072. 7 indexed citations

Luck, Katja, et al.. (2023). RNA-dependent interactome allows network-based assignment of RNA-binding protein function. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(10). 5162–5176. 4 indexed citations

Freiwald, Anja, Ramona Schmitt, Mario Dejung, et al.. (2022). Proteome effects of genome-wide single gene perturbations. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6153–6153. 12 indexed citations

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Helmy, Mohamed, Miles W. Mee, Tong Hao, et al.. (2022). OpenPIP: An Open-source Platform for Hosting, Visualizing and Analyzing Protein Interaction Data. Journal of Molecular Biology. 434(11). 167603–167603. 5 indexed citations

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Yadav, Anupama, Marc Vidal, & Katja Luck. (2020). Precision medicine — networks to the rescue. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 63. 177–189. 21 indexed citations

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Kovács, I., Katja Luck, Kerstin Spirohn, et al.. (2019). Network-based prediction of protein interactions. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1240–1240. 283 indexed citations breakdown →

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Martínez-Noël, Gustavo, Katja Luck, Simone Kühnle, et al.. (2018). Network Analysis of UBE3A/E6AP-Associated Proteins Provides Connections to Several Distinct Cellular Processes. Journal of Molecular Biology. 430(7). 1024–1050. 36 indexed citations

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Luck, Katja, Gloria Sheynkman, Ivy Zhang, & Marc Vidal. (2017). Proteome-Scale Human Interactomics. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 42(5). 342–354. 91 indexed citations

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Bianchi, Frans, et al.. (2016). Asymmetry in inward- and outward-affinity constant of transport explain unidirectional lysine flux in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 31443–31443. 199 indexed citations

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Vincentelli, Renaud, Katja Luck, Juline Poirson, et al.. (2015). Quantifying domain-ligand affinities and specificities by high-throughput holdup assay. Nature Methods. 12(8). 787–793. 59 indexed citations

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Luck, Katja, Sébastian Charbonnier, & Gilles Travé. (2012). The emerging contribution of sequence context to the specificity of protein interactions mediated by PDZ domains. FEBS Letters. 586(17). 2648–2661. 95 indexed citations

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Charbonnier, Sébastian, Yves Nominé, Juan Antonio Ortega, et al.. (2011). The Structural and Dynamic Response of MAGI-1 PDZ1 with Noncanonical Domain Boundaries to the Binding of Human Papillomavirus E6. Journal of Molecular Biology. 406(5). 745–763. 44 indexed citations

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Luck, Katja, et al.. (2011). Putting into Practice Domain-Linear Motif Interaction Predictions for Exploration of Protein Networks. PLoS ONE. 6(11). e25376–e25376. 33 indexed citations

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Diella, Francesca, Sophie Chabanis, Katja Luck, et al.. (2008). KEPE—a motif frequently superimposed on sumoylation sites in metazoan chromatin proteins and transcription factors. Bioinformatics. 25(1). 1–5. 24 indexed citations

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