Mark S. Bretscher

8.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
78 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Mark S. Bretscher is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark S. Bretscher has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Molecular Biology, 30 papers in Cell Biology and 17 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Mark S. Bretscher's work include Cellular transport and secretion (20 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (19 papers) and Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology (17 papers). Mark S. Bretscher is often cited by papers focused on Cellular transport and secretion (20 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (19 papers) and Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology (17 papers). Mark S. Bretscher collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Mark S. Bretscher's co-authors include Sean Munro, Barbara M. F. Pearse, Martin Raff, Carmen Aguado‐Velasco, Kjeld A. Marcker, Jeffrey D. Bleil, J. Nichol Thomson, Nicholas P. Barry, René Lutter and M. Grunberg‐Manago and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Mark S. Bretscher

78 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Hit Papers

Cholesterol and the Golgi Apparatus 1971 2026 1989 2007 1993 1973 1972 1981 1971 200 400 600
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. Cholesterol and the Golgi Apparatus
    1993 683 citations Mark S. Bretscher et al. profile →
  2. Membrane Structure: Some General Principles
    1973 635 citations Mark S. Bretscher profile →
  3. Asymmetrical Lipid Bilayer Structure for Biological Membranes
    1972 501 citations Mark S. Bretscher profile →
  4. Membrane Recycling by Coated Vesicles
    1981 387 citations Barbara M. F. Pearse, Mark S. Bretscher profile →
  5. Major Human Erythrocyte Glycoprotein spans the Cell Membrane
    1971 347 citations Mark S. Bretscher profile →

Peers

Mark S. Bretscher
K. T. Tokuyasu United States
Alan G. Weeds United Kingdom
Helen L. Yin United States
Uno Lindberg Sweden
Ichiro Yahara Japan
Colin R. Hopkins United Kingdom
Jan E. Schnitzer United States
Max M. Burger Switzerland
Michael Schleicher Germany
Hans Georg Mannherz Germany
K. T. Tokuyasu United States
Mark S. Bretscher
Citations per year, relative to Mark S. Bretscher Mark S. Bretscher (= 1×) peers K. T. Tokuyasu

Countries citing papers authored by Mark S. Bretscher

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mark S. Bretscher

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark S. Bretscher

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Howe, Jonathan D., Nicholas P. Barry, & Mark S. Bretscher. (2013). How Do Amoebae Swim and Crawl?. PLoS ONE. 8(9). e74382–e74382. 16 indexed citations
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Barry, Nicholas P. & Mark S. Bretscher. (2010). Dictyostelium amoebae and neutrophils can swim. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(25). 11376–11380. 90 indexed citations
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Bretscher, Mark S.. (2008). Exocytosis provides the membrane for protrusion, at least in migrating fibroblasts. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 9(11). 916–916. 12 indexed citations
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Bretscher, Mark S.. (2007). Recap on Cell Migration. Traffic. 9(2). 198–199. 3 indexed citations
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Bretscher, Mark S., et al.. (2007). Using Single loxP Sites to Enhance Homologous Recombination: ts Mutants in Sec1 of Dictyostelium discoideum. PLoS ONE. 2(8). e724–e724. 5 indexed citations
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Aguado‐Velasco, Carmen & Mark S. Bretscher. (1999). Circulation of the Plasma Membrane inDictyostelium. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 10(12). 4419–4427. 57 indexed citations
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Bretscher, Mark S.. (1999). The Distribution of Circulating Receptors on COS 7 Cells. Experimental Cell Research. 248(2). 552–556. 1 indexed citations
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Bretscher, Mark S. & Carmen Aguado‐Velasco. (1998). EGF induces recycling membrane to form ruffles. Current Biology. 8(12). 721–S4. 72 indexed citations
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Bretscher, Mark S. & Carmen Aguado‐Velasco. (1998). Membrane traffic during cell locomotion. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 10(4). 537–541. 127 indexed citations
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Aguado‐Velasco, Carmen & Mark S. Bretscher. (1997). Dictyostelium myosin II null mutant can still cap Con A receptors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 94(18). 9684–9686. 19 indexed citations
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Bretscher, Mark S.. (1996). Getting Membrane Flow and the Cytoskeleton to Cooperate in Moving Cells. Cell. 87(4). 601–606. 161 indexed citations
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Bretscher, Mark S.. (1996). Moving Membrane up to the Front of Migrating Cells. Cell. 85(4). 465–467. 142 indexed citations
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Bretscher, Mark S.. (1988). Fibroblasts on the move [published erratum appears in J Cell Biol 1988 Apr;106(4):following 1403]. The Journal of Cell Biology. 106(2). 235–237. 55 indexed citations
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Bretscher, Mark S.. (1976). Membranes at EMBO. Nature. 261(5559). 366–367. 3 indexed citations
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Pearse, Barbara M. F. & Mark S. Bretscher. (1976). Coated vesicles and clathrin. Nature. 263(5573). 95–95. 1 indexed citations
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Bretscher, Mark S.. (1972). Phosphatidyl-ethanolamine: Differential labelling in intact cells and cell ghosts of human erythrocytes by a membrane-impermeable reagent. Journal of Molecular Biology. 71(3). 523–528. 220 indexed citations
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Bretscher, Mark S.. (1969). Punctuation in the genetic code in Escherichia coli. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 19. 175–197. 3 indexed citations
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Bretscher, Mark S.. (1969). Direct translation of bacteriophage fd DNA in the absence of neomycin B. Journal of Molecular Biology. 42(3). 595–598. 37 indexed citations
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Bretscher, Mark S.. (1968). Translocation in Protein Synthesis: A Hybrid Structure Model. Nature. 218(5142). 675–677. 117 indexed citations
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Bretscher, Mark S.. (1966). Polypeptide Chain Initiation and the Characterization of Ribosomal Binding Sites in E. coli. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 31(0). 289–295. 10 indexed citations

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