Markus Affolter

18.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
186 papers, 14.0k citations indexed

About

Markus Affolter is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Affolter has authored 186 papers receiving a total of 14.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 157 papers in Molecular Biology, 78 papers in Cell Biology and 26 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Markus Affolter's work include Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (80 papers), Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ (38 papers) and Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (25 papers). Markus Affolter is often cited by papers focused on Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (80 papers), Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ (38 papers) and Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (25 papers). Markus Affolter collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Markus Affolter's co-authors include Walter J. Gehring, Konrad Basler, Thomas R. Bürglin, Emmanuel Caussinus, Heinz‐Georg Belting, Martin Müller, Kurt Wüthrich, Gottfried Otting, Denise Nellen and Richard S. Mann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Markus Affolter

185 papers receiving 13.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS

1994 746 citations Markus Affolter et al. profile →
Homeodomain-DNA recognition

1994 675 citations Markus Affolter et al. profile →
Protein-DNA contacts in the structure of a homeodomain-DNA complex determined by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in solution.

1990 399 citations Markus Affolter et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author						Papers	Cites
Markus Affolter	11.0k	3.8k	1.9k	1.8k	1.3k	186	14.0k
Daniel St Johnston	12.7k 1.2×	4.7k 1.2×	2.4k 1.3×	1.7k 0.9×	979 0.8×	167	16.7k
Mark Peifer	12.2k 1.1×	5.5k 1.4×	1.5k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	711 0.6×	168	15.0k
Koichi Kawakami	9.8k 0.9×	5.5k 1.4×	3.6k 1.9×	2.4k 1.3×	862 0.7×	262	15.8k
Ben‐Zion Shilo	9.2k 0.8×	3.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	2.9k 1.6×	1.5k 1.2×	143	11.3k
Kenneth D. Irvine	9.5k 0.9×	6.6k 1.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	115	12.6k
Georg Halder	10.3k 0.9×	9.9k 2.6×	1.8k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	799 0.6×	84	16.4k
Derek L. Stemple	10.6k 1.0×	5.3k 1.4×	2.1k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	782 0.6×	116	14.6k
Stephen C. Ekker	11.2k 1.0×	4.4k 1.1×	3.1k 1.6×	1.1k 0.6×	801 0.6×	185	14.1k
Wolfgang Driever	13.9k 1.3×	7.1k 1.9×	4.2k 2.2×	2.1k 1.1×	893 0.7×	165	18.5k
Tian Xu	12.8k 1.2×	5.6k 1.5×	1.9k 1.0×	2.4k 1.3×	2.2k 1.7×	155	17.1k

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Viganò, M, et al.. (2024). Functionalized Protein Binders in Developmental Biology. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. 40(1). 119–142. 4 indexed citations

Affolter, Markus, et al.. (2024). Oscillatory contractile forces refine endothelial cell-cell interactions for continuous lumen formation governed by Heg1/Ccm1. Angiogenesis. 27(4). 845–860. 1 indexed citations

Matsuda, Shinya & Markus Affolter. (2023). Is Drosophila Dpp/BMP morphogen spreading required for wing patterning and growth?. BioEssays. 45(9). e2200218–e2200218. 2 indexed citations

Stoel, Miesje M. van der, et al.. (2022). Vinculin strengthens the endothelial barrier during vascular development. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 16 indexed citations

Łepeta, Katarzyna, Chantal Roubinet, M Viganò, et al.. (2022). Engineered kinases as a tool for phosphorylation of selected targets in vivo. The Journal of Cell Biology. 221(10). 3 indexed citations

Viganò, M, et al.. (2021). Protein manipulation using single copies of short peptide tags in cultured cells and in Drosophila melanogaster. Development. 148(6). 17 indexed citations

Betz, Charles, Ilkka Paatero, Christopher W. Wilson, et al.. (2021). Control of dynamic cell behaviors during angiogenesis and anastomosis by Rasip1. Development. 148(15). 7 indexed citations

Yang, Zhenguo, Yanyu Li, Wei Xiao, et al.. (2020). The tight junction protein Claudin-5 limits endothelial cell motility. Journal of Cell Science. 134(1). 15 indexed citations

Galeone, Antonio, Joshua Adams, Shinya Matsuda, et al.. (2020). Regulation of BMP4/Dpp retrotranslocation and signaling by deglycosylation. eLife. 9. 32 indexed citations

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Viganò, M, Jonas V. Schaefer, Roman P. Jakob, et al.. (2018). DARPins recognizing mTFP1 as novel reagents for in vitro and in vivo protein manipulations. Biology Open. 7(11). 10 indexed citations

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Cabochette, Pauline, Rodrigo Diéguez‐Hurtado, Yuki Wakayama, et al.. (2018). Wnt/β-catenin signaling regulates VE-cadherin-mediated anastomosis of brain capillaries by counteracting S1pr1 signaling. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4860–4860. 64 indexed citations

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Lagendijk, Anne K., Guillermo A. Gómez, Sungmin Baek, et al.. (2017). Live imaging molecular changes in junctional tension upon VE-cadherin in zebrafish. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1402–1402. 76 indexed citations

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Ochoa‐Espinosa, Amanda, Stefan Harmansa, Emmanuel Caussinus, & Markus Affolter. (2017). Myosin II is not required for Drosophila tracheal branch elongation and cell intercalation. Development. 144(16). 2961–2968. 23 indexed citations

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Harmansa, Stefan, et al.. (2017). A nanobody-based toolset to investigate the role of protein localization and dispersal in Drosophila. eLife. 6. 82 indexed citations

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Santos, M. Emília, Ingo Braasch, Nicolas Boileau, et al.. (2014). The evolution of cichlid fish egg-spots is linked with a cis-regulatory change. Nature Communications. 5(1). 5149–5149. 92 indexed citations

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Ellertsdóttir, Elín, Peter Berthold, Mohamed Bouzaffour, et al.. (2012). Developmental Role of Zebrafish Protease-Activated Receptor 1 (PAR1) in the Cardio-Vascular System. PLoS ONE. 7(7). e42131–e42131. 12 indexed citations

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Li, Keguo, Yannick Blum, Anjali Verma, et al.. (2009). A noncoding antisense RNA in tie-1 locus regulates tie-1 function in vivo. Blood. 115(1). 133–139. 130 indexed citations

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Pyrowolakis, George, Britta Hartmann, & Markus Affolter. (2008). 17 TGF-β Family Signaling in Drosophila. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 50. 493–526. 2 indexed citations

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Hintermann, Edith, et al.. (2000). Purification, Cloning, and Characterization of a Second Arylalkylamine N-Acetyltransferase from Drosophila melanogaster. DNA and Cell Biology. 19(11). 697–705. 50 indexed citations

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Affolter, Markus, et al.. (1986). cDNA Clones for Liver Cytochrome P-450s from Individual Aroclor-Treated Rats: Constitutive Expression of a New P-450 Gene Related to Phenobarbital-Inducible Forms. DNA. 5(3). 209–218. 45 indexed citations

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