Marcus Jahnel

10.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
18 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Marcus Jahnel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Marcus Jahnel has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Cell Biology and 2 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Marcus Jahnel's work include RNA Research and Splicing (11 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers). Marcus Jahnel is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (11 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers). Marcus Jahnel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Marcus Jahnel's co-authors include Anthony A. Hyman, Simon Alberti, Ina Poser, Shovamayee Maharana, Titus M. Franzmann, David Drechsel, Hyun O. Lee, Stephan W. Grill, Julia Mahamid and Alex S. Holehouse and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Marcus Jahnel

17 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

A Liquid-to-Solid Phase Transition of the ALS Protein FUS... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2018 2018 2018 2024 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
What are hit papers?

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. A Liquid-to-Solid Phase Transition of the ALS Protein FUS Accelerated by Disease Mutation
    2015 2.1k citations Avinash Patel, Hyun O. Lee et al. Cell profile →
  2. A Molecular Grammar Governing the Driving Forces for Phase Separation of Prion-like RNA Binding Proteins
    2018 1.4k citations Jie Wang, Jeong‐Mo Choi et al. Cell profile →
  3. RNA buffers the phase separation behavior of prion-like RNA binding proteins
    2018 771 citations Shovamayee Maharana, Jie Wang et al. Science profile →
  4. Phase separation of a yeast prion protein promotes cellular fitness
    2018 516 citations Titus M. Franzmann, Marcus Jahnel et al. Science profile →
  5. PARP1-DNA co-condensation drives DNA repair site assembly to prevent disjunction of broken DNA ends
    2024 74 citations Nagaraja Chappidi, Thomas Quail et al. Cell profile →

Peers

Marcus Jahnel
Shovamayee Maharana Germany
Titus M. Franzmann Germany
Diana M. Mitrea United States
Avinash Patel Germany
Shambaditya Saha Germany
Jamshid Temirov United States
Salman F. Banani United States
Pavel Ivanov United States
Nicolas L. Fawzi United States
Steven Boeynaems United States
Shovamayee Maharana Germany
Marcus Jahnel
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Fields of papers citing papers by Marcus Jahnel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marcus Jahnel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marcus Jahnel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marcus Jahnel based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Marcus Jahnel. Marcus Jahnel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Chappidi, Nagaraja, Thomas Quail, Radoslav Aleksandrov, et al.. (2024). PARP1-DNA co-condensation drives DNA repair site assembly to prevent disjunction of broken DNA ends. Cell. 187(4). 945–961.e18. 74 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lauer, Janelle, et al.. (2023). Two-component molecular motor driven by a GTPase cycle. Nature Physics. 19(8). 1185–1192. 9 indexed citations
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Sankaranarayanan, Mugesh, Ryan J. Emenecker, Marcus Jahnel, et al.. (2021). Adaptable P body physical states differentially regulate bicoid mRNA storage during early Drosophila development. Developmental Cell. 56(20). 2886–2901.e6. 33 indexed citations
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Boczek, Edgar E., Louise Jawerth, Marcus Jahnel, et al.. (2021). HspB8 prevents aberrant phase transitions of FUS by chaperoning its folded RNA-binding domain. eLife. 10. 49 indexed citations
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Iserman, Christiane, Ulrike Friedrich, Taraneh Zarin, et al.. (2020). Condensation of Ded1p Promotes a Translational Switch from Housekeeping to Stress Protein Production. Cell. 181(4). 818–831.e19. 156 indexed citations
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Franzmann, Titus M., Marcus Jahnel, Andrei Pozniakovsky, et al.. (2018). Phase separation of a yeast prion protein promotes cellular fitness. Science. 359(6371). 516 indexed citations breakdown →
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Maharana, Shovamayee, Jie Wang, Dimitrios K. Papadopoulos, et al.. (2018). RNA buffers the phase separation behavior of prion-like RNA binding proteins. Science. 360(6391). 918–921. 771 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Jie, Jeong‐Mo Choi, Alex S. Holehouse, et al.. (2018). A Molecular Grammar Governing the Driving Forces for Phase Separation of Prion-like RNA Binding Proteins. Cell. 174(3). 688–699.e16. 1363 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jawerth, Louise, Mahdiye Ijavi, Martine Ruer, et al.. (2018). Salt-Dependent Rheology and Surface Tension of Protein Condensates Using Optical Traps. Physical Review Letters. 121(25). 258101–258101. 118 indexed citations
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Hernández‐Vega, Amayra, Marcus Braun, Lara Scharrel, et al.. (2018). Local Nucleation of Microtubule Bundles Through Tubulin Concentration Into a Condensed Tau Phase. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Hernández‐Vega, Amayra, Marcus Braun, Lara Scharrel, et al.. (2017). Local Nucleation of Microtubule Bundles through Tubulin Concentration into a Condensed Tau Phase. Cell Reports. 20(10). 2304–2312. 277 indexed citations
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Murray, David H., Marcus Jahnel, Janelle Lauer, et al.. (2016). An endosomal tether undergoes an entropic collapse to bring vesicles together. Nature. 537(7618). 107–111. 104 indexed citations
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Saha, Shambaditya, Christoph A. Weber, Marco Nousch, et al.. (2016). Polar Positioning of Phase-Separated Liquid Compartments in Cells Regulated by an mRNA Competition Mechanism. Cell. 166(6). 1572–1584.e16. 255 indexed citations
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Lisica, Ana, Christoph Engel, Marcus Jahnel, et al.. (2016). Mechanisms of backtrack recovery by RNA polymerases I and II. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(11). 2946–2951. 85 indexed citations
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Patel, Avinash, Hyun O. Lee, Louise Jawerth, et al.. (2015). A Liquid-to-Solid Phase Transition of the ALS Protein FUS Accelerated by Disease Mutation. Cell. 162(5). 1066–1077. 2097 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jahnel, Marcus, Martin Behrndt, Anita Jannasch, Erik Schäffer, & Stephan W. Grill. (2011). Measuring the complete force field of an optical trap. Optics Letters. 36(7). 1260–1260. 54 indexed citations
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Jahnel, Marcus, Thomas Andrew Waigh, & Jian R. Lu. (2008). Thermal fluctuations of fibrin fibres at short time scales. Soft Matter. 4(7). 1438–1438. 17 indexed citations

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