Markus Muttenthaler

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Markus Muttenthaler is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Social Psychology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Muttenthaler has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Social Psychology and 16 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Markus Muttenthaler's work include Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (23 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (18 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (15 papers). Markus Muttenthaler is often cited by papers focused on Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (23 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (18 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (15 papers). Markus Muttenthaler collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Austria and United States. Markus Muttenthaler's co-authors include Paul F. Alewood, Glenn F. King, David J. Adams, Richard J. Lewis, Christian W. Gruber, David J. Craik, Quentin Kaas, Sébastien Dutertre, Kalyana Bharati Akondi and Nayara Braga Emídio and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Markus Muttenthaler

64 papers receiving 3.6k citations

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Trends in peptide drug discovery

2021 1.3k citations Markus Muttenthaler, Glenn F. King et al. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Markus Muttenthaler Australia	28	2.6k	697	454	431	413	66	3.7k
Gábor K. Tóth Hungary	35	2.8k 1.1×	867 1.2×	334 0.7×	1.7k 3.9×	253 0.6×	194	4.4k
Paul W. R. Harris New Zealand	31	2.1k 0.8×	1.0k 1.5×	393 0.9×	483 1.1×	70 0.2×	192	3.5k
Jiřina Slaninová Czechia	26	1.2k 0.4×	343 0.5×	500 1.1×	458 1.1×	340 0.8×	165	2.0k
Sándor Lovas United States	29	1.8k 0.7×	295 0.4×	674 1.5×	344 0.8×	50 0.1×	126	3.1k
Steve Bourgault Canada	29	1.6k 0.6×	153 0.2×	119 0.3×	1.3k 3.0×	206 0.5×	91	3.1k
Roger Freidinger United States	37	3.5k 1.3×	2.4k 3.5×	120 0.3×	1.1k 2.5×	384 0.9×	121	5.9k
Peta J. Harvey Australia	28	1.6k 0.6×	375 0.5×	531 1.2×	258 0.6×	37 0.1×	97	2.5k
Keld Fosgerau Denmark	18	2.1k 0.8×	509 0.7×	449 1.0×	398 0.9×	17 0.0×	33	3.6k
Xiang Li China	35	2.8k 1.1×	768 1.1×	513 1.1×	149 0.3×	42 0.1×	185	4.1k
Per F. Nielsen Denmark	32	1.8k 0.7×	155 0.2×	682 1.5×	799 1.9×	43 0.1×	78	3.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Markus Muttenthaler

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20 of 20 papers shown

Muttenthaler, Markus, et al.. (2025). An Efficient Thiol‐ene Mediated Protocol for Thiolated Peptide Synthesis and On‐Resin Diversification. Chemistry - A European Journal. 31(36). e202501372–e202501372.

Hopping, Gene, Eivind A. B. Undheim, Johannes Zuegg, et al.. (2025). PeptideMiner—neuropeptide discovery across the animal kingdom. GigaScience. 14. 1 indexed citations

Schober, Gudrun, et al.. (2024). Oxytocin Analogues for the Oral Treatment of Abdominal Pain. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(52). e202415333–e202415333. 5 indexed citations

Jones, Alun, et al.. (2022). Approaches to Improve the Quantitation of Oxytocin in Human Serum by Mass Spectrometry. Frontiers in Chemistry. 10. 889154–889154. 3 indexed citations

Emídio, Nayara Braga, Åsa Andersson, Philip E. Dawson, et al.. (2021). Improving the Gastrointestinal Stability of Linaclotide. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 64(12). 8384–8390. 29 indexed citations

Muttenthaler, Markus, et al.. (2021). Fmoc Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis of Oxytocin and Analogues. Methods in molecular biology. 2384. 175–199. 6 indexed citations

Muttenthaler, Markus, Glenn F. King, David J. Adams, & Paul F. Alewood. (2021). Trends in peptide drug discovery. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 20(4). 309–325. 1290 indexed citations breakdown →

Peschel, Andreas, Fernanda C. Cardoso, Andrew A. Walker, et al.. (2020). Two for the Price of One: Heterobivalent Ligand Design Targeting Two Binding Sites on Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels Slows Ligand Dissociation and Enhances Potency. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 63(21). 12773–12785. 16 indexed citations

Liu, Huiping, Christian W. Gruber, Paul F. Alewood, Andreas Möller, & Markus Muttenthaler. (2020). The oxytocin receptor signalling system and breast cancer: a critical review. Oncogene. 39(37). 5917–5932. 38 indexed citations

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Emídio, Nayara Braga, Werner Hoffmann, Stuart M. Brierley, & Markus Muttenthaler. (2019). Trefoil Factor Family: Unresolved Questions and Clinical Perspectives. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 44(5). 387–390. 48 indexed citations

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Jadhav, Kirtikumar B., Katrina Woolcock, & Markus Muttenthaler. (2019). Anhydrous Hydrogen Fluoride Cleavage in Boc Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis. Methods in molecular biology. 2103. 41–57. 4 indexed citations

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Conibear, Anne C. & Markus Muttenthaler. (2018). Advancing the Frontiers of Chemical Protein Synthesis—The 7th CPS Meeting, Haifa, Israel. Cell chemical biology. 25(3). 247–254. 1 indexed citations

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Breger, Joyce C., Markus Muttenthaler, James B. Delehanty, et al.. (2017). Nanoparticle cellular uptake by dendritic wedge peptides: achieving single peptide facilitated delivery. Nanoscale. 9(29). 10447–10464. 27 indexed citations

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Muttenthaler, Markus, Åsa Andersson, Irina Vetter, et al.. (2017). Subtle modifications to oxytocin produce ligands that retain potency and improved selectivity across species. Science Signaling. 10(508). 67 indexed citations

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Koehbach, Johannes, Margaret O’Brien, Markus Muttenthaler, et al.. (2013). Oxytocic plant cyclotides as templates for peptide G protein-coupled receptor ligand design. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(52). 21183–21188. 122 indexed citations

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Muttenthaler, Markus, et al.. (2012). Abundance and diversity of Conus species (Gastropoda: Conidae) at the northern tip of New Ireland province of Papua New Guinea. The Nautilus. 126(2). 47–56. 3 indexed citations

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Gruber, Christian W. & Markus Muttenthaler. (2012). Discovery of Defense- and Neuropeptides in Social Ants by Genome-Mining. PLoS ONE. 7(3). e32559–e32559. 55 indexed citations

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Muttenthaler, Markus, Kalyana Bharati Akondi, & Paul F. Alewood. (2011). Structure-Activity Studies on Alpha-Conotoxins. Current Pharmaceutical Design. 17(38). 4226–4241. 50 indexed citations

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Mobli, Mehdi, David Morgenstern, Glenn F. King, Paul F. Alewood, & Markus Muttenthaler. (2011). Site‐Specific pK_a Determination of Selenocysteine Residues in Selenovasopressin by Using ⁷⁷Se NMR Spectroscopy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 50(50). 11952–11955. 40 indexed citations

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Muttenthaler, Markus & Paul F. Alewood. (2008). Selenopeptide chemistry. Journal of Peptide Science. 14(12). 1223–1239. 128 indexed citations

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