Martin Aepfelbacher

19.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
208 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

About

Martin Aepfelbacher is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Martin Aepfelbacher has authored 208 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Infectious Diseases, 63 papers in Molecular Biology and 44 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Martin Aepfelbacher's work include Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research (36 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (27 papers) and Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (26 papers). Martin Aepfelbacher is often cited by papers focused on Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research (36 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (27 papers) and Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (26 papers). Martin Aepfelbacher collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Martin Aepfelbacher's co-authors include Stefan Linder, Markus Essler, Holger Rohde, Martin Christner, Christian Weber, Klaus Ruckdeschel, Jürgen Heesemann, Manuel Wolters, Marc Lütgehetmann and Moritz Hentschke and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, JAMA and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Martin Aepfelbacher

200 papers receiving 9.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Podosomes: adhesion hot-spots of invasive cells

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Martin Aepfelbacher Germany	51	3.6k	1.8k	1.6k	1.4k	1.2k	208	9.2k
Jan Potempa Poland	78	7.9k 2.2×	2.7k 1.5×	781 0.5×	3.4k 2.5×	1.3k 1.0×	483	22.9k
Matthias Mörgelin Sweden	63	4.8k 1.3×	1.4k 0.8×	766 0.5×	3.6k 2.6×	784 0.6×	266	12.8k
Motoyuki Sugai Japan	57	4.9k 1.4×	3.3k 1.8×	321 0.2×	2.0k 1.5×	1.5k 1.2×	300	10.6k
Sucharit Bhakdi Germany	65	5.6k 1.6×	2.9k 1.6×	1.1k 0.7×	4.6k 3.4×	1.1k 0.9×	272	14.5k
Dominique Missiakas United States	62	7.8k 2.1×	4.6k 2.5×	1.1k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	3.0k 2.4×	179	12.3k
David Goulding United Kingdom	51	4.2k 1.2×	1.9k 1.0×	707 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	157	9.1k
Karl‐Eric Magnusson Sweden	53	3.9k 1.1×	1.0k 0.6×	800 0.5×	1.5k 1.1×	1.9k 1.5×	310	10.1k
Lars Björck Sweden	70	4.5k 1.2×	3.2k 1.7×	336 0.2×	2.7k 2.0×	691 0.6×	199	12.4k
Daniel A. Portnoy United States	79	6.9k 1.9×	2.5k 1.4×	1.6k 1.0×	6.0k 4.4×	2.6k 2.1×	173	20.5k
Joanne N. Engel United States	51	5.5k 1.5×	834 0.5×	759 0.5×	1.4k 1.0×	1.7k 1.4×	108	9.7k

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Keller, Johannes, Tim Rolvien, Marc Lütgehetmann, et al.. (2025). Prospective evaluation of real-world performance and clinical impact of the Biofire FilmArray joint infection panel. Microbiology Spectrum. 13(4). e0223924–e0223924. 1 indexed citations

Both, Anna, Antonio Virgilio Failla, Jiabin Huang, et al.. (2024). Staphylococcus epidermidis alters macrophage polarization and phagocytic uptake by extracellular DNA release in vitro. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 10(1). 131–131. 4 indexed citations

Carsten, Alexander, Manuel Wolters, & Martin Aepfelbacher. (2023). Super‐resolution fluorescence microscopy for investigating bacterial cell biology. Molecular Microbiology. 121(4). 646–658. 9 indexed citations

Petersen, Elina, Ines Schäfer, Raphael Twerenbold, et al.. (2023). Performance of an interferon-γ release assay-based test for cell-mediated immunity to SARS-CoV-2. Frontiers in Immunology. 14. 1069968–1069968. 2 indexed citations

Olearo, Flaminia, Veronica Zanichelli, Aimilia Exarchakou, et al.. (2023). The Impact of Antimicrobial Therapy Duration in the Treatment of Prosthetic Joint Infections Depending on Surgical Strategies: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 10(5). ofad246–ofad246. 8 indexed citations

Beckham, Katherine S. H., Matt D. Johansen, Laura Berneking, et al.. (2022). C25-modified rifamycin derivatives with improved activity against Mycobacterium abscessus. PNAS Nexus. 1(4). pgac130–pgac130. 9 indexed citations

Brehm, Thomas Theo, Dorothee Schwinge, Samuel Huber, et al.. (2022). Three Separate Spike Antigen Exposures by COVID-19 Vaccination or SARS-CoV-2 Infection Elicit Strong Humoral Immune Responses in Healthcare Workers. Vaccines. 10(7). 1086–1086. 3 indexed citations

Both, Anna, Jiabin Huang, Christian Lausmann, et al.. (2021). Distinct clonal lineages and within-host diversification shape invasive Staphylococcus epidermidis populations. PLoS Pathogens. 17(2). e1009304–e1009304. 48 indexed citations

Nörz, Dominik, Armin Hoffmann, Martin Aepfelbacher, Susanne Pfefferle, & Marc Lütgehetmann. (2021). Clinical evaluation of a fully automated, laboratory-developed multiplex RT-PCR assay integrating dual-target SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A/B detection on a high-throughput platform. Journal of Medical Microbiology. 70(2). 26 indexed citations

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Brehm, Thomas Theo, Dorothee Schwinge, Marylyn M. Addo, et al.. (2021). Low SARS-CoV-2 infection rates and high vaccine-induced immunity among German healthcare workers at the end of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 238. 113851–113851. 11 indexed citations

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Pfefferle, Susanne, Thomas Günther, Robin Kobbe, et al.. (2020). SARS Coronavirus-2 variant tracing within the first Coronavirus Disease 19 clusters in northern Germany. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 27(1). 130.e5–130.e8. 16 indexed citations

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Roedl, Kevin, Susanne Pfefferle, Dominik Jarczak, et al.. (2020). Viral Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in Critically Ill Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients and Immunocompetent Patients with COVID-19. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 203(2). 242–245. 13 indexed citations

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Middendorf, L., Carola Schneider, Barbara Holstermann, et al.. (2019). Activation of the macroautophagy pathway byYersinia enterocoliticapromotes intracellular multiplication and egress of yersiniae from epithelial cells. Cellular Microbiology. 21(9). e13046–e13046. 9 indexed citations

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Klóska, Damian, Aleksandra Kopacz, Dominik Cysewski, et al.. (2018). Nrf2 Sequesters Keap1 Preventing Podosome Disassembly: A Quintessential Duet Moonlights in Endothelium. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 30(14). 1709–1730. 21 indexed citations

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Wolters, Manuel, Erin C. Boyle, Konrad Trülzsch, et al.. (2013). Cytotoxic Necrotizing Factor-Y Boosts Yersinia Effector Translocation by Activating Rac Protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(32). 23543–23553. 22 indexed citations

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Hentschke, Moritz, Stathis D. Kotsakis, Manuel Wolters, et al.. (2011). CMY-42, a Novel Plasmid-Mediated CMY-2 Variant AmpC Beta-Lactamase. Microbial Drug Resistance. 17(2). 165–169. 32 indexed citations

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Ruckdeschel, Klaus, et al.. (2006). The Proteasome Pathway Destabilizes Yersinia Outer Protein E and Represses Its Antihost Cell Activities. The Journal of Immunology. 176(10). 6093–6102. 27 indexed citations

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Aepfelbacher, Martin & Jürgen Heesemann. (2001). Modulation of Rho GTPases and the actin cytoskeleton by Yersinia outer proteins (Yops). International Journal of Medical Microbiology. 291(4). 269–276. 37 indexed citations

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Essler, Markus, James M. Staddon, Christian Weber, & Martin Aepfelbacher. (2000). Cyclic AMP Blocks Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Myosin Light Chain Phosphorylation in Endothelial Cells Through Inhibition of Rho/Rho Kinase Signaling. The Journal of Immunology. 164(12). 6543–6549. 131 indexed citations

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Essler, Markus, et al.. (1998). Thrombin Inactivates Myosin Light Chain Phosphatase via Rho and Its Target Rho Kinase in Human Endothelial Cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273(34). 21867–21874. 314 indexed citations

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