Markus Sauer

35.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
402 papers, 23.1k citations indexed

About

Markus Sauer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Sauer has authored 402 papers receiving a total of 23.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 177 papers in Molecular Biology, 175 papers in Biophysics and 68 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Markus Sauer's work include Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (173 papers), Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (50 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (44 papers). Markus Sauer is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (173 papers), Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (50 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (44 papers). Markus Sauer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Markus Sauer's co-authors include Mike Heilemann, Sebastian van de Linde, Philip Tinnefeld, Sören Doose, Hannes Neuweiler, Robert Kasper, Andreas Schulz, Claus A. M. Seidel, Teresa Klein and Anindita Mukherjee and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Markus Sauer

390 papers receiving 22.7k 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.

Subdiffraction‐Resolution Fluorescence Imaging with Conventional Fluorescent Probes

2008 1.4k citations Markus Sauer et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Nucleobase-Specific Quenching of Fluorescent Dyes. 1. Nucleobase One-Electron Redox Potentials and Their Correlation with Static and Dynamic Quenching Efficiencies

1996 862 citations Markus Sauer et al. profile →
Super-resolution microscopy demystified

2018 799 citations Christian Eggeling, Markus Sauer et al. profile →
Direct stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy with standard fluorescent probes

2011 771 citations Markus Sauer et al. profile →
Single-molecule localization microscopy

2021 538 citations Gerti Beliu, Markus Sauer et al. profile →
Fluorescence Quenching by Photoinduced Electron Transfer: A Reporter for Conformational Dynamics of Macromolecules

2009 442 citations Sören Doose, Markus Sauer et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Markus Sauer	11.2k	9.6k	4.9k	3.8k	3.3k	402	23.1k
Christian Eggeling	10.2k 0.9×	9.9k 1.0×	5.2k 1.1×	2.9k 0.8×	2.7k 0.8×	246	20.6k
Michael W. Davidson	11.7k 1.0×	12.0k 1.2×	6.3k 1.3×	1.8k 0.5×	3.4k 1.0×	204	26.3k
Xiaowei Zhuang	21.2k 1.9×	15.5k 1.6×	8.8k 1.8×	2.7k 0.7×	5.3k 1.6×	196	41.2k
Taekjip Ha	22.5k 2.0×	7.2k 0.7×	4.6k 0.9×	2.8k 0.7×	1.6k 0.5×	400	32.0k
Stefan Jakobs	7.2k 0.6×	7.6k 0.8×	3.3k 0.7×	1.8k 0.5×	2.8k 0.8×	195	14.9k
George H. Patterson	7.6k 0.7×	9.4k 1.0×	4.4k 0.9×	1.2k 0.3×	2.5k 0.8×	74	16.8k
Rachid Sougrat	4.2k 0.4×	5.3k 0.5×	4.5k 0.9×	3.2k 0.8×	2.0k 0.6×	90	16.2k
Mark Bates	4.6k 0.4×	9.4k 1.0×	5.1k 1.0×	1.5k 0.4×	3.4k 1.0×	32	13.9k
Eric Betzig	7.9k 0.7×	11.9k 1.2×	11.9k 2.4×	2.5k 0.6×	3.4k 1.0×	132	26.8k
W. E. Moerner	8.3k 0.7×	9.7k 1.0×	9.5k 2.0×	4.7k 1.2×	3.1k 0.9×	388	30.1k

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Balazs, Daniel M., Tommaso Costanzo, Markus Sauer, et al.. (2025). Spontaneous ordering of identical materials into a triboelectric series. Nature. 638(8051). 664–669. 22 indexed citations

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Ghosh, Arindam, Mara Meub, Dominic A. Helmerich, Sören Doose, & Markus Sauer. (2024). Lattice light-sheet DNA-PAINT microscopy with dual-labeled self-quenched imager probes. Biophysical Journal. 123(3). 464a–465a. 1 indexed citations

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Schumacher, Fabian, Dominic A. Helmerich, C. Oliver Kappe, et al.. (2024). Trifunctional sphingomyelin derivatives enable nanoscale resolution of sphingomyelin turnover in physiological and infection processes via expansion microscopy. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7456–7456. 5 indexed citations

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Fekete, Ágnes, Fabian Schumacher, Burkhard Kleuser, et al.. (2024). The Role of Neutral Sphingomyelinase-2 (NSM2) in the Control of Neutral Lipid Storage in T Cells. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(6). 3247–3247. 2 indexed citations

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Vogt, Cornelia, Larissa Haertle, Xiang Zhou, et al.. (2023). Secondary Genetic Events Impact the Expression of Key Immunotargets on the Surface of Multiple Myeloma Cells. Blood. 142(Supplement 1). 451–451. 2 indexed citations

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Thiele, Jan Christoph, Dominic A. Helmerich, Roman Tsukanov, et al.. (2022). Isotropic three-dimensional dual-color super-resolution microscopy with metal-induced energy transfer. Science Advances. 8(23). eabo2506–eabo2506. 19 indexed citations

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Paul, Mila M., Georgios N. Hatzopoulos, Martin Pauli, et al.. (2022). The human cognition-enhancing CORD7 mutation increases active zone number and synaptic release. Brain. 145(11). 3787–3802. 8 indexed citations

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Moradi, Mehri, Sebastian Reinhard, Sibylle Jablonka, et al.. (2021). Dynamic remodeling of ribosomes and endoplasmic reticulum in axon terminals of motoneurons. Journal of Cell Science. 134(22). 24 indexed citations

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Beliu, Gerti, Ramón Guixà-González, Nicole Scholz, et al.. (2021). Tethered agonist exposure in intact adhesion/class B2 GPCRs through intrinsic structural flexibility of the GAIN domain. Molecular Cell. 81(5). 905–921.e5. 50 indexed citations

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Pauli, Martin, Mila M. Paul, Sven Proppert, et al.. (2021). Targeted volumetric single-molecule localization microscopy of defined presynaptic structures in brain sections. Communications Biology. 4(1). 407–407. 9 indexed citations

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Beliu, Gerti, Alexander Kuhlemann, Sören Doose, et al.. (2021). Bioorthogonal labeling of transmembrane proteins with non-canonical amino acids unveils masked epitopes in live neurons. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6715–6715. 45 indexed citations

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Sauer, Markus, et al.. (2021). The More, the Merrier? Multiple Myoglobin Genes in Fish Species, Especially in Gray Bichir (Polypterus senegalus) and Reedfish (Erpetoichthys calabaricus). Genome Biology and Evolution. 13(7). 5 indexed citations

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Frenz, Silke, María‐Belén Vídriales, Marcos González, et al.. (2021). Siglec-6 is a novel target for CAR T-cell therapy in acute myeloid leukemia. Blood. 138(19). 1830–1842. 74 indexed citations

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Pauli, Martin, Philip Kollmannsberger, Felix Repp, et al.. (2021). Active zone compaction correlates with presynaptic homeostatic potentiation. Cell Reports. 37(1). 109770–109770. 31 indexed citations

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Thiele, Jan Christoph, Dominic A. Helmerich, Nazar Oleksiievets, et al.. (2020). Confocal Fluorescence-Lifetime Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy. ACS Nano. 14(10). 14190–14200. 79 indexed citations

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Zwettler, Fabian U., Sebastian Reinhard, Davide Gambarotto, et al.. (2020). Molecular resolution imaging by post-labeling expansion single-molecule localization microscopy (Ex-SMLM). Nature Communications. 11(1). 3388–3388. 127 indexed citations

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Volz, Julia, Sarah Beck, Sheila Bryson, et al.. (2019). Platelet lamellipodium formation is not required for thrombus formation and stability. Blood. 134(25). 2318–2329. 33 indexed citations

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Beliu, Gerti, Ulrich Terpitz, Christian Werner, et al.. (2018). Bioorthogonal Click Chemistry Enables Site‐specific Fluorescence Labeling of Functional NMDA Receptors for Super‐Resolution Imaging. Angewandte Chemie. 130(50). 16602–16607. 6 indexed citations

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Beliu, Gerti, Ulrich Terpitz, Christian Werner, et al.. (2018). Bioorthogonal Click Chemistry Enables Site‐specific Fluorescence Labeling of Functional NMDA Receptors for Super‐Resolution Imaging. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(50). 16364–16369. 47 indexed citations

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Betzig, Eric, Stefan W. Hell, W. E. Moerner, et al.. (2014). Nobelpreis für Chemie: Faszinierende Blicke in die Nanowelt. Chemie in unserer Zeit. 48(6). 1 indexed citations

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