Lars‐Oliver Essen

11.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
174 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Lars‐Oliver Essen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Lars‐Oliver Essen has authored 174 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Molecular Biology, 77 papers in Plant Science and 53 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Lars‐Oliver Essen's work include Light effects on plants (68 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (51 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (45 papers). Lars‐Oliver Essen is often cited by papers focused on Light effects on plants (68 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (51 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (45 papers). Lars‐Oliver Essen collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Lars‐Oliver Essen's co-authors include Dieter Oesterhelt, Mohamed A. Marahiel, Roger Williams, Alfred Batschauer, Stefan A. Samel, Jon Hughes, Richard Pokorný, Jo Mailliet, Matilda Katan and Olga Perišić and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Lars‐Oliver Essen

172 papers receiving 8.7k 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.

The Cryptochromes: Blue Light Photoreceptors in Plants and Animals

2011 645 citations Richard Pokorný, Thorsten Ritz et al. profile →

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Brian R. Crane United States

Kevin H. Gardner United States

Eiki Yamashita Japan

Tomitake Tsukihara Japan

Nieng Yan China

Amy E. Palmer United States

Stefan Weber Germany

Ning Zheng United States

Takashi Kumasaka Japan

Ryuichiro Ishitani Japan

Brian R. Crane United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lars‐Oliver Essen

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20 of 20 papers shown

Schmidt, Nina, Amit Kumar, Frank Abendroth, et al.. (2024). Development of mirror-image monobodies targeting the oncogenic BCR::ABL1 kinase. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10724–10724. 3 indexed citations

Rosner, Christian, et al.. (2024). Time-Resolved Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry to Solve Conformational Changes in a Cryptochrome. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(21). 14468–14478. 2 indexed citations

Essen, Lars‐Oliver, et al.. (2024). A Novel O- and S-Methyltransferase from Pleurotus sapidus Is Involved in Flavor Formation. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 72(12). 6471–6480.

Ho, Chun‐Chih, et al.. (2023). One More for Light-triggered Conformational Changes in Cryptochromes: CryP from Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Journal of Molecular Biology. 436(5). 168408–168408. 1 indexed citations

Geisselbrecht, Yann, et al.. (2021). Inactive pseudoenzyme subunits in heterotetrameric BbsCD, a novel short‐chain alcohol dehydrogenase involved in anaerobic toluene degradation. FEBS Journal. 289(4). 1023–1042. 4 indexed citations

Albers, Sonja‐Verena, et al.. (2021). The archaeal triphosphate tunnel metalloenzyme SaTTM defines structural determinants for the diverse activities in the CYTH protein family. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 297(1). 100820–100820. 8 indexed citations

Hong, Gongyi, Ruth Pachter, Lars‐Oliver Essen, & Thorsten Ritz. (2020). Electron transfer and spin dynamics of the radical-pair in the cryptochrome from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by computational analysis. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 152(6). 65101–65101. 8 indexed citations

Maestre‐Reyna, Manuel, Junpei Yamamoto, Wei‐Cheng Huang, et al.. (2018). Twist and turn: a revised structural view on the unpaired bubble of class II CPD photolyase in complex with damaged DNA. IUCrJ. 5(5). 608–618. 6 indexed citations

Lacombat, Fabien, et al.. (2018). Delocalized hole transport coupled to sub-ns tryptophanyl deprotonation promotes photoreduction of class II photolyases. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 20(39). 25446–25457. 11 indexed citations

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Maestre‐Reyna, Manuel, et al.. (2018). Structure of the bifunctional cryptochrome aCRY from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(15). 8010–8022. 49 indexed citations

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Müller, Pavel, et al.. (2017). Sub-nanosecond tryptophan radical deprotonation mediated by a protein-bound water cluster in class II DNA photolyases. Chemical Science. 9(5). 1200–1212. 28 indexed citations

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Banerjee, Ankan, Manuel Serif, Manuel Maestre‐Reyna, et al.. (2016). Allosteric communication between DNA-binding and light-responsive domains of diatom class I aureochromes. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(12). 5957–5970. 38 indexed citations

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Essen, Lars‐Oliver, et al.. (2016). Extended Electron-Transfer in Animal Cryptochromes Mediated by a Tetrad of Aromatic Amino Acids. Biophysical Journal. 111(2). 301–311. 76 indexed citations

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Marahiel, Mohamed A. & Lars‐Oliver Essen. (2009). Chapter 13 Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetases. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 458. 337–351. 70 indexed citations

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Samel, Stefan A., Mohamed A. Marahiel, & Lars‐Oliver Essen. (2008). How to tailor non-ribosomal peptide products—new clues about the structures and mechanisms of modifying enzymes. Molecular BioSystems. 4(5). 387–393. 28 indexed citations

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Klar, Tobias, et al.. (2006). Cryptochrome 3 from Arabidopsis thaliana: Structural and Functional Analysis of its Complex with a Folate Light Antenna. Journal of Molecular Biology. 366(3). 954–964. 73 indexed citations

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Mees, Alexandra, Tobias Klar, Petra Gnau, et al.. (2004). Crystal Structure of a Photolyase Bound to a CPD-Like DNA Lesion After in Situ Repair. Science. 306(5702). 1789–1793. 308 indexed citations

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Essen, Lars‐Oliver, et al.. (2003). Crystal Structure of Halophilic Dodecin. Structure. 11(4). 375–385. 76 indexed citations

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Essen, Lars‐Oliver, et al.. (2000). Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of the catalytic domain of the adenylate cyclase GRESAG4.1 fromTrypanosoma brucei. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 56(3). 359–362. 4 indexed citations

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Nitsch, Michael, Jochen Walz, Dieter Typke, et al.. (1998). Group II chaperonin in an open conformation examined by electron tomography. Nature Structural Biology. 5(10). 855–857. 83 indexed citations

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