Lode Wyns

12.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
154 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Lode Wyns is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Lode Wyns has authored 154 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Molecular Biology, 43 papers in Materials Chemistry and 24 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Lode Wyns's work include Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (49 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (42 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (30 papers). Lode Wyns is often cited by papers focused on Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (49 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (42 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (30 papers). Lode Wyns collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and United Kingdom. Lode Wyns's co-authors include Remy Loris, Serge Muyldermans, Julie Bouckaert, Katja Conrath, Thomas Hamelryck, Klaas Decanniere, Erwin De Genst, Minh‐Hoa Dao‐Thi, André Matagne and Henri De Greve and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Lode Wyns

154 papers receiving 9.7k 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.

  1. Molecular basis for the preferential cleft recognition by dromedary heavy-chain antibodies
    2006 514 citations Erwin De Genst, Klaas Decanniere et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lode Wyns Belgium 55 7.0k 3.2k 1.8k 1.3k 1.1k 154 9.9k
Remy Loris Belgium 47 5.3k 0.8× 1.5k 0.5× 1.3k 0.7× 1.7k 1.3× 1.0k 0.9× 170 7.5k
Pedro M. Alzari France 61 7.6k 1.1× 1.8k 0.6× 1.5k 0.9× 1.2k 0.9× 1.4k 1.3× 213 11.3k
Markus G. Grütter Switzerland 59 7.8k 1.1× 1.0k 0.3× 2.2k 1.3× 1.2k 0.9× 499 0.5× 168 11.3k
Anne Imberty France 74 11.7k 1.7× 1.7k 0.5× 2.4k 1.3× 877 0.7× 5.7k 5.2× 371 18.0k
Rudi Glockshuber Switzerland 59 9.3k 1.3× 1.0k 0.3× 634 0.4× 1.2k 0.9× 324 0.3× 171 11.9k
Laurent C. Storoni United Kingdom 10 14.2k 2.0× 925 0.3× 1.8k 1.0× 2.3k 1.8× 973 0.9× 12 19.9k
David R. Davies United States 62 14.0k 2.0× 3.7k 1.2× 3.7k 2.1× 1.1k 0.8× 1.0k 0.9× 146 20.1k
Charles S. Craik United States 76 10.6k 1.5× 1.2k 0.4× 2.2k 1.2× 1.2k 0.9× 1.5k 1.4× 344 19.6k
D.A. Keedy United States 27 11.3k 1.6× 688 0.2× 1.2k 0.7× 1.6k 1.2× 707 0.7× 46 16.0k
E.A. Merritt United States 41 8.3k 1.2× 587 0.2× 983 0.6× 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 1.0× 96 12.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lode Wyns

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ordóñez, Efrén, Karolien Van Belle, Goedele Roos, et al.. (2009). Arsenate Reductase, Mycothiol, and Mycoredoxin Concert Thiol/Disulfide Exchange. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(22). 15107–15116. 81 indexed citations
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Martínez‐Rodríguez, Sergio, Santosh Panjikar, Karolien Van Belle, et al.. (2008). Nonspecific base recognition mediated by water bridges and hydrophobic stacking in ribonuclease I from Escherichia coli. Protein Science. 17(4). 681–690. 8 indexed citations
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Molle, Inge Van, Jussi J. Joensuu, L. Buts, et al.. (2007). Chloroplasts Assemble the Major Subunit FaeG of Escherichia coli F4 (K88) Fimbriae to Strand-swapped Dimers. Journal of Molecular Biology. 368(3). 791–799. 25 indexed citations
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Azarkan, Mohamed, et al.. (2006). Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of a protease inhibitor from the latex ofCarica papaya. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications. 62(12). 1239–1242. 5 indexed citations
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Loris, Remy, Abel Garcia‐Pino, L. Buts, et al.. (2005). Crystallization and crystal manipulation of the Pterocarpus angolensis seed lectin. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 61(6). 685–689. 6 indexed citations
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Dao‐Thi, Minh‐Hoa, Laurence Van Melderen, Erwin De Genst, et al.. (2005). Molecular Basis of Gyrase Poisoning by the Addiction Toxin CcdB. Journal of Molecular Biology. 348(5). 1091–1102. 116 indexed citations
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Bouckaert, Julie, Jenny Berglund, Mark A. Schembri, et al.. (2004). Receptor binding studies disclose a novel class of high‐affinity inhibitors of the Escherichia coli FimH adhesin. Molecular Microbiology. 55(2). 441–455. 368 indexed citations
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Messens, Joris, Inge Van Molle, Karolien Van Belle, et al.. (2004). How Thioredoxin can Reduce a Buried Disulphide Bond. Journal of Molecular Biology. 339(3). 527–537. 32 indexed citations
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Buts, L., Remy Loris, Erwin De Genst, et al.. (2003). Solving the phase problem for carbohydrate-binding proteins using selenium derivatives of their ligands: a case study involving the bacterial F17-G adhesin. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 59(6). 1012–1015. 18 indexed citations
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Desmyter, Aline, Klaas Decanniere, Serge Muyldermans, & Lode Wyns. (2001). Antigen Specificity and High Affinity Binding Provided by One Single Loop of a Camel Single-domain Antibody. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(28). 26285–26290. 132 indexed citations
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Conrath, Katja, et al.. (2001). Camel Single-domain Antibodies as Modular Building Units in Bispecific and Bivalent Antibody Constructs. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(10). 7346–7350. 244 indexed citations
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Bouckaert, Julie, et al.. (2000). The Structural Features of Concanavalin A Governing Non-proline Peptide Isomerization. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 275(26). 19778–19787. 68 indexed citations
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Hamelryck, Thomas, Jeffrey G. Moore, Maarten J. Chrispeels, Remy Loris, & Lode Wyns. (2000). The role of weak protein-protein interactions in multivalent lectin-carbohydrate binding: crystal structure of cross-linked FRIL 1 1Edited by R. Huber. Journal of Molecular Biology. 299(4). 875–883. 38 indexed citations
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Decanniere, Klaas, Aline Desmyter, Marc Lauwereys, et al.. (1999). A single-domain antibody fragment in complex with RNase A: non-canonical loop structures and nanomolar affinity using two CDR loops. Structure. 7(4). 361–370. 131 indexed citations
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Bouckaert, Julie, Thomas Hamelryck, Lode Wyns, & Remy Loris. (1999). The Crystal Structures of Man(α1–3)Man(α1-O)Me and Man(α1–6)Man(α1-O)Me in Complex with Concanavalin A. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(41). 29188–29195. 54 indexed citations
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Hamelryck, Thomas, Remy Loris, Julie Bouckaert, & Lode Wyns. (1998). Structural Features of the Legume Lectins.. Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology. 10(55). 349–360. 18 indexed citations
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Verheyden, Patricia, et al.. (1997). Location of the three disulfide bonds in an antimicrobial peptide from Amaranthus caudatus using mass spectrometry. Journal of Peptide Research. 49(4). 336–340. 7 indexed citations
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Loris, Remy, Florence Casset, Julie Bouckaert, et al.. (1994). The monosaccharide binding site of lentil lectin: an X-ray and molecular modelling study. Glycoconjugate Journal. 11(6). 507–517. 35 indexed citations
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Steyaert, Jan & Lode Wyns. (1993). Functional Interactions among the His40, Glu58 and His92 Catalysts of Ribonuclease T1 as Studied by Double and Triple Mutants. Journal of Molecular Biology. 229(3). 770–781. 28 indexed citations
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