Lothar Esser

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

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Lothar Esser is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Lothar Esser has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Molecular Biology, 27 papers in Organic Chemistry and 18 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Lothar Esser's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (19 papers), Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (12 papers) and Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds (8 papers). Lothar Esser is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (19 papers), Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (12 papers) and Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds (8 papers). Lothar Esser collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Lothar Esser's co-authors include Di Xia, Herbert Schumann, Juliane A. Meese‐Marktscheffel, Chang‐An Yu, Linda Yu, J. Deisenhofer, Dick Van der Helm, Barbara Smith, Ranjan Chakraborty and Patrick G. Harran and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Lothar Esser

76 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity of Organometallic .pi.-Complexes of the Rare Earths in the Oxidation State Ln3+ with Aromatic Ligands

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Author						Papers	Cites
Lothar Esser	2.2k	1.4k	805	626	565	77	4.4k
Antonio Romero	3.1k 1.5×	1.2k 0.9×	505 0.6×	338 0.5×	520 0.9×	151	5.8k
Gregory D. Van Duyne	4.6k 2.1×	1.8k 1.3×	486 0.6×	995 1.6×	760 1.3×	95	7.2k
Isabel Usón	2.6k 1.2×	1.8k 1.3×	1.3k 1.6×	408 0.7×	1.6k 2.8×	204	5.7k
J.B. Bonanno	2.5k 1.2×	720 0.5×	573 0.7×	344 0.5×	616 1.1×	81	4.5k
P. John Hart	2.9k 1.4×	636 0.5×	406 0.5×	186 0.3×	473 0.8×	115	6.3k
Michail N. Isupov	3.7k 1.7×	402 0.3×	375 0.5×	466 0.7×	1.3k 2.4×	116	5.2k
Derek T. Logan	3.0k 1.4×	288 0.2×	909 1.1×	315 0.5×	737 1.3×	119	4.8k
Santosh Panjikar	2.8k 1.3×	649 0.5×	296 0.4×	510 0.8×	1.0k 1.8×	151	4.6k
Owen Johnson	1.8k 0.8×	584 0.4×	579 0.7×	307 0.5×	863 1.5×	6	3.3k
Hans E. Parge	2.0k 0.9×	432 0.3×	468 0.6×	265 0.4×	277 0.5×	44	3.7k

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Xia, Di, Fei Zhou, Lothar Esser, & Zhaohai Qin. (2023). Exploiting structural variations in highly conserved mitochondrial complex III to develop antifungal agents. Biophysical Journal. 122(3). 241a–241a.

Lin, Dong, Nathan Watson, Lothar Esser, et al.. (2023). Structures of Cancer Antigen Mesothelin and Its Complexes with Therapeutic Antibodies. Cancer Research Communications. 3(2). 175–191. 15 indexed citations

Esser, Lothar, Fei Zhou, Yihui Zhou, et al.. (2016). Hydrogen Bonding to the Substrate Is Not Required for Rieske Iron-Sulfur Protein Docking to the Quinol Oxidation Site of Complex III. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 291(48). 25019–25031. 20 indexed citations

Esser, Lothar, Fei Zhou, Kristen M. Pluchino, et al.. (2016). Structures of the Multidrug Transporter P-glycoprotein Reveal Asymmetric ATP Binding and the Mechanism of Polyspecificity. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 292(2). 446–461. 145 indexed citations

Xia, Di, Lothar Esser, Wai‐Kwan Tang, et al.. (2012). Structural analysis of cytochrome bc1 complexes: Implications to the mechanism of function. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1827(11-12). 1278–1294. 139 indexed citations

Xia, Di, Lothar Esser, Wai‐Kwan Tang, et al.. (2012). Redox Coupled Conformational Changes in Cytochrome BC1 Complex: Implication to the Bifurcated Electron Transfer at the Quinol Oxidation Site. Biophysical Journal. 102(3). 3a–3a. 1 indexed citations

Bao, Rui, et al.. (2012). Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of PsaA, the adhesive pilin subunit that forms the pH 6 antigen on the surface ofYersinia pestis. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications. 68(10). 1243–1246. 1 indexed citations

Su, Ting, Lothar Esser, Di Xia, Chang‐An Yu, & Linda Yu. (2011). Generation, characterization and crystallization of a cytochrome c1-subunit IV fused cytochrome bc1 complex from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1817(2). 298–305. 6 indexed citations

Yu, Chang‐An, et al.. (2008). Domain conformational switch of the iron–sulfur protein in cytochrome bc1 complex is induced by the electron transfer from cytochrome bL to bH. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1777(7-8). 1038–1043. 19 indexed citations

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Esser, Lothar, Maria Elberry, Fei Zhou, et al.. (2007). Inhibitor-complexed Structures of the Cytochrome bc1 from the Photosynthetic Bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(5). 2846–2857. 112 indexed citations

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Elberry, Maria, et al.. (2006). Generation, characterization and crystallization of a highly active and stable cytochrome bc1 complex mutant from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1757(7). 835–840. 14 indexed citations

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Li, Yongfu, Orsolya Polgár, Masaki Okada, et al.. (2006). Towards understanding the mechanism of action of the multidrug resistance-linked half-ABC transporter ABCG2: A molecular modeling study. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling. 25(6). 837–851. 36 indexed citations

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Poole, S., et al.. (2006). Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of CfaE, the adhesive subunit of the CFA/I fimbriae from human enterotoxigenicEscherichia coli. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications. 62(2). 121–124. 14 indexed citations

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Ferguson, Andrew D., Ranjan Chakraborty, Barbara Smith, et al.. (2002). Structural Basis of Gating by the Outer Membrane Transporter FecA. Science. 295(5560). 1715–1719. 287 indexed citations

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Guo, Fusheng, Michael R. Maurizi, Lothar Esser, & Di Xia. (2002). Crystal Structure of ClpA, an Hsp100 Chaperone and Regulator of ClpAP Protease. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(48). 46743–46752. 171 indexed citations

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Li, Jing, et al.. (2001). Total Synthesis of Nominal Diazonamides-Part 1: Convergent Preparation of the Structure Proposed for (−)-Diazonamide A. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 40(24). 4765–4769. 130 indexed citations

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Li, Jing, Anthony W. G. Burgett, Lothar Esser, Carlos Amezcua, & Patrick G. Harran. (2001). Total Synthesis of Nominal Diazonamides-Part 2: On the True Structure and Origin of Natural Isolates. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 40(24). 4770–4773. 160 indexed citations

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Wu, Yusheng, Lothar Esser, & Jef K. De Brabander. (2000). Revision of the Absolute Configuration of Salicylihalamide A through Asymmetric Total Synthesis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 39(23). 4308–4310. 61 indexed citations

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Deisenhofer, J., Susan K. Buchanan, Barbara Smith, et al.. (1999). Crystal structure of the outer membrane active transporter FepA from Escherichia coli.. Nature Structural Biology. 6(1). 56–63. 473 indexed citations

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Wang, Chyung‐Ru, et al.. (1997). Identification, expression, and crystallization of the protease‐resistant conserved domain of synapsin I. Protein Science. 6(10). 2264–2267. 8 indexed citations

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