Markus Sutter

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Markus Sutter is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Sutter has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 15 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Markus Sutter's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (29 papers), Algal biology and biofuel production (15 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (15 papers). Markus Sutter is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (29 papers), Algal biology and biofuel production (15 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (15 papers). Markus Sutter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Czechia. Markus Sutter's co-authors include Cheryl A. Kerfeld, Clément Aussignargues, Eilika Weber‐Ban, Fei Cai, Jan Zarzycki, Basil J. Greber, Matthew R. Melnicki, Nenad Ban, Frank Striebel and Sascha Gutmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Markus Sutter

59 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Bacterial microcompartments

2018 318 citations Cheryl A. Kerfeld, Clément Aussignargues et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Markus Sutter United States	31	2.7k	728	686	470	385	61	3.1k
Eckhard Hofmann Germany	32	2.2k 0.8×	255 0.4×	821 1.2×	494 1.1×	532 1.4×	93	3.6k
Yuichiro Takahashi Japan	38	3.7k 1.4×	294 0.4×	1.1k 1.7×	163 0.3×	185 0.5×	115	4.5k
Mark J. Dickman United Kingdom	34	5.4k 2.0×	826 1.1×	272 0.4×	112 0.2×	940 2.4×	109	6.2k
Dirk Schneider Germany	35	2.8k 1.0×	218 0.3×	466 0.7×	145 0.3×	304 0.8×	143	3.4k
Gadi Schuster Israel	44	4.3k 1.6×	444 0.6×	733 1.1×	156 0.3×	354 0.9×	107	5.2k
Alice Barkan United States	58	8.6k 3.2×	352 0.5×	765 1.1×	148 0.3×	405 1.1×	123	9.4k
Gabriele Klug Germany	41	4.3k 1.6×	1.7k 2.4×	568 0.8×	297 0.6×	1.2k 3.0×	156	5.1k
Adam Ben‐Shem France	18	3.1k 1.2×	160 0.2×	353 0.5×	272 0.6×	180 0.5×	28	3.5k
James W. Murray United Kingdom	30	1.9k 0.7×	193 0.3×	432 0.6×	756 1.6×	274 0.7×	71	3.0k
Jochen R. Golecki Germany	27	1.9k 0.7×	720 1.0×	531 0.8×	131 0.3×	346 0.9×	72	2.7k

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Zuo, Xiaobing, Alexander Jussupow, Nina Ponomarenko, et al.. (2025). Structure Characterization of Bacterial Microcompartment Shells via X-ray Scattering and Coordinate Modeling: Evidence for Adventitious Capture of Cytoplasmic Proteins. ACS Applied Bio Materials. 8(3). 2090–2103. 1 indexed citations

Lechno‐Yossef, Sigal, et al.. (2024). N-Terminal domain homologs of the orange carotenoid protein increase quenching of cyanobacterial phycobilisomes. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 198(1).

Sauer, Paul, Lorenzo Cupellini, Markus Sutter, et al.. (2024). Structural and quantum chemical basis for OCP-mediated quenching of phycobilisomes. Science Advances. 10(14). eadk7535–eadk7535. 10 indexed citations

Sutter, Markus, et al.. (2023). Characterization of a novel aromatic substrate-processing microcompartment in Actinobacteria. mBio. 14(4). e0121623–e0121623. 7 indexed citations

Sutter, Markus & Cheryl A. Kerfeld. (2022). BMC Caller: a webtool to identify and analyze bacterial microcompartment types in sequence data. Biology Direct. 17(1). 9–9. 12 indexed citations

Sutter, Markus, et al.. (2021). A Survey of Bacterial Microcompartment Distribution in the Human Microbiome. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 669024–669024. 9 indexed citations

Kerfeld, Cheryl A. & Markus Sutter. (2020). Engineered bacterial microcompartments: apps for programming metabolism. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 65. 225–232. 21 indexed citations

Greber, Basil J., Markus Sutter, & Cheryl A. Kerfeld. (2019). The Plasticity of Molecular Interactions Governs Bacterial Microcompartment Shell Assembly. Structure. 27(5). 749–763.e4. 45 indexed citations

Ferlez, Bryan, Markus Sutter, & Cheryl A. Kerfeld. (2019). A designed bacterial microcompartment shell with tunable composition and precision cargo loading. Metabolic Engineering. 54. 286–291. 37 indexed citations

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Kuznetsova, Valentyna, María Agustina Domínguez-Martín, Han Bao, et al.. (2019). Comparative ultrafast spectroscopy and structural analysis of OCP1 and OCP2 from Tolypothrix. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1861(2). 148120–148120. 22 indexed citations

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Gupta, Sayan, Markus Sutter, Soumya G. Remesh, et al.. (2019). X-ray radiolytic labeling reveals the molecular basis of orange carotenoid protein photoprotection and its interactions with fluorescence recovery protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(22). 8848–8860. 18 indexed citations

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Sutter, Markus, Basil J. Greber, Clément Aussignargues, & Cheryl A. Kerfeld. (2017). Assembly principles and structure of a 6.5-MDa bacterial microcompartment shell. Science. 356(6344). 1293–1297. 169 indexed citations

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Melnicki, Matthew R., Ryan L. Leverenz, Markus Sutter, et al.. (2016). Structure, Diversity, and Evolution of a New Family of Soluble Carotenoid-Binding Proteins in Cyanobacteria. Molecular Plant. 9(10). 1379–1394. 62 indexed citations

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Erbilgin, Onur, Markus Sutter, & Cheryl A. Kerfeld. (2016). The Structural Basis of Coenzyme A Recycling in a Bacterial Organelle. PLoS Biology. 14(3). e1002399–e1002399. 34 indexed citations

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Cai, Fei, et al.. (2013). The Structure of CcmP, a Tandem Bacterial Microcompartment Domain Protein from the β-Carboxysome, Forms a Subcompartment Within a Microcompartment. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(22). 16055–16063. 98 indexed citations

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Sutter, Markus, Steven C. Wilson, Samuel Deutsch, & Cheryl A. Kerfeld. (2013). Two new high-resolution crystal structures of carboxysome pentamer proteins reveal high structural conservation of CcmL orthologs among distantly related cyanobacterial species. Photosynthesis Research. 118(1-2). 9–16. 39 indexed citations

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Özcelik, Dennis, Jonas Barandun, N. Schmitz, et al.. (2012). Structures of Pup ligase PafA and depupylase Dop from the prokaryotic ubiquitin-like modification pathway. Nature Communications. 3(1). 1014–1014. 58 indexed citations

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Ranjan, Namit, Fred F. Damberger, Markus Sutter, Frédéric H.‐T. Allain, & Eilika Weber‐Ban. (2010). Solution Structure and Activation Mechanism of Ubiquitin-Like Small Archaeal Modifier Proteins. Journal of Molecular Biology. 405(4). 1040–1055. 26 indexed citations

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Sutter, Markus, Daniel Boehringer, Sascha Gutmann, et al.. (2008). Structural basis of enzyme encapsulation into a bacterial nanocompartment. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 15(9). 939–947. 321 indexed citations

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Gutmann, Sascha, Peter Haebel, Laurent Metzinger, et al.. (2003). Crystal structure of the transfer-RNA domain of transfer-messenger RNA in complex with SmpB. Nature. 424(6949). 699–703. 103 indexed citations

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