Kurt Bienz

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Kurt Bienz is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Kurt Bienz has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 27 papers in Molecular Biology and 24 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Kurt Bienz's work include Viral Infections and Immunology Research (48 papers), Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (24 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers). Kurt Bienz is often cited by papers focused on Viral Infections and Immunology Research (48 papers), Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (24 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers). Kurt Bienz collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Russia. Kurt Bienz's co-authors include Denise Egger, Rainer Gosert, Luis Pasamontes, Darius Moradpour, Hubert E. Blum, Ellie Ehrenfeld, Natalya L. Teterina, Benno Wölk, Leonardo Bianchi and Walter Bossart and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Analytical Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

Kurt Bienz

68 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Expression of Hepatitis C Virus Proteins Induces Distinct Membrane Alterations Including a Candidate Viral Replication Complex

2002 646 citations Denise Egger, Rainer Gosert et al. Journal of Virology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kurt Bienz Switzerland	34	2.2k	1.8k	1.5k	1.3k	1.2k	70	4.8k
Denise Egger Switzerland	33	2.1k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	57	4.6k
Ellie Ehrenfeld United States	47	4.3k 2.0×	3.5k 1.9×	2.4k 1.6×	1.0k 0.8×	677 0.6×	127	6.9k
Donald F. Summers United States	40	1.3k 0.6×	2.5k 1.4×	1.3k 0.8×	1.7k 1.3×	369 0.3×	119	5.5k
Michael M. C. Lai United States	48	743 0.3×	1.9k 1.1×	1.9k 1.3×	2.6k 2.0×	2.6k 2.2×	104	6.5k
Vadim I. Agol Russia	50	4.7k 2.1×	3.6k 2.0×	2.7k 1.8×	729 0.6×	202 0.2×	162	7.0k
George A. Belov United States	30	1.4k 0.6×	1.5k 0.8×	810 0.5×	517 0.4×	186 0.2×	55	3.0k
Eberhard Pfaff Germany	34	587 0.3×	1.5k 0.8×	519 0.3×	1.4k 1.1×	1.0k 0.9×	80	3.7k
Encarnación Martı́nez-Salas Spain	44	2.7k 1.2×	3.2k 1.8×	699 0.5×	325 0.2×	271 0.2×	119	5.0k
Tim Skern Austria	33	2.4k 1.1×	2.2k 1.2×	1.1k 0.7×	712 0.5×	79 0.1×	102	4.1k
Sven‐Erik Behrens Germany	31	589 0.3×	1.5k 0.8×	556 0.4×	699 0.5×	787 0.7×	62	3.1k

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Romanova, Lyudmila I., George A. Belov, Peter V. Lidsky, et al.. (2004). Variability in apoptotic response to poliovirus infection. Virology. 331(2). 292–306. 28 indexed citations

Egger, Denise & Kurt Bienz. (2003). Colloidal Gold Staining and Immunoprobing on the Same Western Blot. Humana Press eBooks. 10. 247–254. 1 indexed citations

Bienz, Kurt & Denise Egger. (2003). Electron Microscopic Silver Enhancement for Double Labeling with Antibodies Raised in the Same Species. Humana Press eBooks. 10. 187–194. 4 indexed citations

Gosert, Rainer, Amornrat Kanjanahaluethai, Denise Egger, Kurt Bienz, & Susan C. Baker. (2001). Comparison of Replicase Localization in Different Types of Mouse Hepatitis Virus (MHV)-infected Cells. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 494. 275–281. 2 indexed citations

Gosert, Rainer, Denise Egger, & Kurt Bienz. (2000). A Cytopathic and a Cell Culture Adapted Hepatitis A Virus Strain Differ in Cell Killing but Not in Intracellular Membrane Rearrangements. Virology. 266(1). 157–169. 60 indexed citations

Egger, Denise, Natalya L. Teterina, Ellie Ehrenfeld, & Kurt Bienz. (2000). Formation of the Poliovirus Replication Complex Requires Coupled Viral Translation, Vesicle Production, and Viral RNA Synthesis. Journal of Virology. 74(14). 6570–6580. 135 indexed citations

Egger, Denise, et al.. (1999). Fluorochrome-labeled RNA as a sensitive, strand-specific probe for direct fluorescence in situ hybridization. Histochemistry and Cell Biology. 111(4). 319–324. 20 indexed citations

Nakagawa, Junichi, et al.. (1999). Characterisation and mitochondrial localisation of AUH, an AU-specific RNA-binding enoyl-CoA hydratase. Gene. 228(1-2). 85–91. 24 indexed citations

Egger, Denise & Kurt Bienz. (1998). Colloidal Gold Staining and Immunoprobing on the Same Western Blot. Methods in molecular biology. 80. 217–222. 3 indexed citations

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Agol, Vadim I., George A. Belov, Kurt Bienz, et al.. (1998). Two Types of Death of Poliovirus-Infected Cells: Caspase Involvement in the Apoptosis but Not Cytopathic Effect. Virology. 252(2). 343–353. 91 indexed citations

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Teterina, Natalya L., Kurt Bienz, Denise Egger, Alexander E. Gorbalenya, & Ellie Ehrenfeld. (1997). Induction of Intracellular Membrane Rearrangements by HAV Proteins 2C and 2BC. Virology. 237(1). 66–77. 73 indexed citations

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Bienz, Kurt & Denise Egger. (1995). Immunocytochemistry and in situ hybridization in the electron microscope: combined application in the study of virus-infected cells. Histochemistry and Cell Biology. 103(5). 325–338. 20 indexed citations

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Teterina, Natalya L., et al.. (1994). Membrane Rearrangement and Vesicle Induction by Recombinant Poliovirus 2C and 2BC in Human Cells. Virology. 202(1). 129–145. 260 indexed citations

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Egger, Denise, et al.. (1994). Light and electron microscopic in situ hybridization: non-radioactive labeling and detection, double hybridization, and combined hybridization-immunocytochemistry.. Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry. 42(6). 815–822. 29 indexed citations

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Egger, Denise & Kurt Bienz. (1994). Protein (western) blotting. Molecular Biotechnology. 1(3). 289–305. 37 indexed citations

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Pfister, Thomas D., et al.. (1992). Immunocytochemical localization of capsid-related particles in subcellular fractions of poliovirus-infected cells. Virology. 188(2). 676–684. 38 indexed citations

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Egger, Denise, et al.. (1992). Intracellular localization of poliovirus RNA by in Situ hybridization at the ultrastructural level using single-stranded riboprobes. Virology. 191(2). 687–697. 39 indexed citations

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Egger, Denise & Kurt Bienz. (1987). Colloidal gold staining and immunoprobing of proteins on the same nitrocellulose blot. Analytical Biochemistry. 166(2). 413–417. 18 indexed citations

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Bossart, Walter, Denise Egger, Y. Rasser, & Kurt Bienz. (1984). Accumulation of Poliovirus Proteins in Uninfected Isolated HEp-2 Cell Nuclei in vitro. Intervirology. 21(3). 150–158. 4 indexed citations

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Bienz, Kurt, et al.. (1970). Coxsackievirus infection in skeletal muscles of mice an electron microscopic study II. Appearance and fate of virus progeny. Archives of Virology. 31(3-4). 257–265. 8 indexed citations

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