Marek Basler

6.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
56 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

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Marek Basler is a scholar working on Endocrinology, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Marek Basler has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Endocrinology, 20 papers in Molecular Biology and 20 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Marek Basler's work include Vibrio bacteria research studies (36 papers), Escherichia coli research studies (24 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (18 papers). Marek Basler is often cited by papers focused on Vibrio bacteria research studies (36 papers), Escherichia coli research studies (24 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (18 papers). Marek Basler collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Czechia. Marek Basler's co-authors include John J. Mekalanos, Brian T. Ho, P.G. Leiman, Gregory P. Henderson, Martin Pilhofer, Grant J. Jensen, Peter Šebo, Andrea Vettiger, Jiří Mašín and Radim Osička and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Marek Basler

54 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.

Type VI secretion requires a dynamic contractile phage tail-like structure

2012 530 citations Marek Basler, John J. Mekalanos et al. Nature profile →
Type VI secretion apparatus and phage tail-associated protein complexes share a common evolutionary origin

2009 501 citations P.G. Leiman, Marek Basler et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
PAAR-repeat proteins sharpen and diversify the type VI secretion system spike

2013 407 citations Mikhail M. Shneider, S.A. Buth et al. Nature profile →
Structure of the Type VI Secretion System Contractile Sheath

2015 187 citations Maximilian Brackmann, Marek Basler et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marek Basler Switzerland	32	3.0k	1.9k	1.2k	1.1k	718	56	4.7k
Roy R. Chaudhuri United Kingdom	36	1.4k 0.5×	1.7k 0.9×	963 0.8×	586 0.5×	933 1.3×	70	4.0k
Christopher S. Hayes United States	39	1.9k 0.6×	2.4k 1.3×	1.9k 1.6×	661 0.6×	794 1.1×	86	4.2k
Françoise Jacob‐Dubuisson France	37	1.2k 0.4×	2.0k 1.1×	1.8k 1.4×	599 0.5×	657 0.9×	87	4.0k
Roland Lloubès France	38	1.6k 0.5×	3.2k 1.7×	2.8k 2.3×	697 0.6×	1.2k 1.6×	79	5.4k
Laure Journet France	32	1.9k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	683 0.6×	472 0.7×	46	3.2k
Rémi Fronzes France	28	1.1k 0.4×	1.5k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	549 0.5×	536 0.7×	52	3.2k
Marcia B. Goldberg United States	42	2.2k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	1.7k 1.4×	320 0.3×	790 1.1×	101	5.1k
Tomoko Kubori Japan	30	2.0k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	1.5k 1.2×	287 0.3×	741 1.0×	52	3.7k
Eric Cascalès France	52	4.9k 1.7×	3.6k 1.9×	3.4k 2.7×	2.1k 1.9×	1.6k 2.2×	119	9.1k
Guy Tran Van Nhieu France	41	1.7k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	450 0.4×	292 0.4×	85	4.2k

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Pereira, Joana, et al.. (2025). The type VI secretion system and associated effector proteins. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 24(4). 288–303.

Peaudecerf, François J., Kang Soo Lee, Lucas Paoli, et al.. (2025). Antagonism as a foraging strategy in microbial communities. Science. 388(6752). 1214–1217. 4 indexed citations

Smith, William P. J., et al.. (2025). Multiplicity of type 6 secretion system toxins limits the evolution of resistance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(2). e2416700122–e2416700122. 4 indexed citations

Kaczmarczyk, Andreas, et al.. (2025). Mechanisms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa resistance to type VI secretion system attacks. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10744–10744.

Chen, Yahua, et al.. (2024). Burkholderia thailandensis uses a type VI secretion system to lyse protrusions without triggering host cell responses. Cell Host & Microbe. 32(5). 676–692.e5. 4 indexed citations

Hayes, Beth M., Johannes Schneider, Jing Wang, et al.. (2023). Lipopolysaccharide transport regulates bacterial sensitivity to a cell wall-degrading intermicrobial toxin. PLoS Pathogens. 19(6). e1011454–e1011454. 2 indexed citations

Brüningk, Sarah C., et al.. (2022). reComBat: batch-effect removal in large-scale multi-source gene-expression data integration. Bioinformatics Advances. 2(1). vbac071–vbac071. 14 indexed citations

García-Bayona, Leonor, Michael J. Coyne, Paula Montero Llopis, et al.. (2020). Nanaerobic growth enables direct visualization of dynamic cellular processes in human gut symbionts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(39). 24484–24493. 28 indexed citations

Smith, William P. J., Andrea Vettiger, Julius Winter, et al.. (2020). The evolution of the type VI secretion system as a disintegration weapon. PLoS Biology. 18(5). e3000720–e3000720. 61 indexed citations

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Brodmann, Maj, Rosalie Heilig, Petr Brož, & Marek Basler. (2018). Mobilizable Plasmids for Tunable Gene Expression in Francisella novicida. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 8. 284–284. 6 indexed citations

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Brackmann, Maximilian, Jing Wang, & Marek Basler. (2017). Type VI secretion system sheath inter‐subunit interactions modulate its contraction. EMBO Reports. 19(2). 225–233. 28 indexed citations

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Schneider, Johannes & Marek Basler. (2016). Shedding light on biology of bacterial cells. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 371(1707). 20150499–20150499. 22 indexed citations

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Basler, Marek, et al.. (2015). Established Microbial Colonies Can Survive Type VI Secretion Assault. PLoS Computational Biology. 11(10). e1004520–e1004520. 51 indexed citations

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Ho, Brian T., Marek Basler, & John J. Mekalanos. (2013). Type 6 Secretion System–Mediated Immunity to Type 4 Secretion System–Mediated Gene Transfer. Science. 342(6155). 250–253. 101 indexed citations

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Basler, Marek, Brian T. Ho, & John J. Mekalanos. (2013). Tit-for-Tat: Type VI Secretion System Counterattack during Bacterial Cell-Cell Interactions. Cell. 152(4). 884–894. 392 indexed citations

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Shneider, Mikhail M., S.A. Buth, Brian T. Ho, et al.. (2013). PAAR-repeat proteins sharpen and diversify the type VI secretion system spike. Nature. 500(7462). 350–353. 407 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fišer, Radovan, Jiří Mašín, Ladislav Bumba, et al.. (2012). Calcium Influx Rescues Adenylate Cyclase-Hemolysin from Rapid Cell Membrane Removal and Enables Phagocyte Permeabilization by Toxin Pores. PLoS Pathogens. 8(4). e1002580–e1002580. 41 indexed citations

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Leiman, P.G., Marek Basler, U.A. Ramagopal, et al.. (2009). Type VI secretion apparatus and phage tail-associated protein complexes share a common evolutionary origin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(11). 4154–4159. 501 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pánek, Josef, Jan Bobek, Karel Mikulı́k, Marek Basler, & Jiří Vohradský. (2008). Biocomputational prediction of small non-coding RNAs in Streptomyces. BMC Genomics. 9(1). 217–217. 51 indexed citations

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Basler, Marek, Irena Linhartová, Petr Halada, et al.. (2006). The iron‐regulated transcriptome and proteome of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C. PROTEOMICS. 6(23). 6194–6206. 25 indexed citations

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