Matthias Altmeyer

8.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
66 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Matthias Altmeyer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthias Altmeyer has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Molecular Biology, 37 papers in Oncology and 8 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Matthias Altmeyer's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (42 papers), PARP inhibition in cancer therapy (31 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (16 papers). Matthias Altmeyer is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (42 papers), PARP inhibition in cancer therapy (31 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (16 papers). Matthias Altmeyer collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Denmark. Matthias Altmeyer's co-authors include Michael O. Hottiger, Federico Teloni, Maj‐Britt Rask, Aleksandra Lezaja, Adriano Aguzzi, Ralph Imhof, Claudia Lukas, Michael L. Nielsen, Stephanie Jungmichel and Jone Michelena and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Matthias Altmeyer

65 papers receiving 6.0k 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.

ATR Prohibits Replication Catastrophe by Preventing Global Exhaustion of RPA

2013 661 citations Luis Toledo, Matthias Altmeyer et al. Cell profile →
Liquid demixing of intrinsically disordered proteins is seeded by poly(ADP-ribose)

2015 439 citations Matthias Altmeyer, Federico Teloni et al. Nature Communications profile →
Phase separation of 53 BP 1 determines liquid‐like behavior of DNA repair compartments

2019 321 citations Sinan Kilic, Aleksandra Lezaja et al. The EMBO Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matthias Altmeyer Switzerland	37	4.9k	2.6k	599	445	353	66	6.0k
Yonghao Yu United States	34	3.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	562 0.9×	417 0.9×	177 0.5×	93	4.7k
El Bachir Affar Canada	32	4.1k 0.8×	1.4k 0.5×	656 1.1×	312 0.7×	140 0.4×	61	5.3k
Jens Peter von Kries Germany	32	5.0k 1.0×	878 0.3×	550 0.9×	552 1.2×	101 0.3×	86	6.2k
Michael Chinkers United States	30	3.5k 0.7×	676 0.3×	535 0.9×	529 1.2×	219 0.6×	39	4.9k
Per Hydbring Sweden	20	3.6k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	396 0.7×	754 1.7×	85 0.2×	38	5.0k
Haico van Attikum Netherlands	44	5.2k 1.1×	1.5k 0.6×	179 0.3×	349 0.8×	29 0.1×	85	5.6k
Eric J. Bennett United States	36	6.4k 1.3×	1.4k 0.6×	684 1.1×	1.7k 3.9×	49 0.1×	69	7.7k
Julie L. Wilsbacher United States	21	2.2k 0.5×	700 0.3×	405 0.7×	470 1.1×	44 0.1×	31	3.1k
Tanya Svinkina United States	19	3.8k 0.8×	731 0.3×	337 0.6×	1.6k 3.6×	45 0.1×	27	5.0k
David C. Pallas United States	32	3.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	353 0.6×	919 2.1×	33 0.1×	40	4.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chiolo, Irene, Matthias Altmeyer, Gaëlle Legube, & Karim Mekhail. (2025). Nuclear and genome dynamics underlying DNA double-strand break repair. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 26(7). 538–557. 8 indexed citations

Spegg, Vincent, Ανδρέας Παναγόπουλος, Giordano Reginato, et al.. (2023). Phase separation properties of RPA combine high-affinity ssDNA binding with dynamic condensate functions at telomeres. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 30(4). 451–462. 45 indexed citations

Spegg, Vincent & Matthias Altmeyer. (2023). Genome maintenance meets mechanobiology. Chromosoma. 133(1). 15–36. 6 indexed citations

Ceppi, Ilaria, Sara Giovannini, Federico Uliana, et al.. (2022). The CDK1-TOPBP1-PLK1 axis regulates the Bloom’s syndrome helicase BLM to suppress crossover recombination in somatic cells. Science Advances. 8(5). eabk0221–eabk0221. 13 indexed citations

Bolck, Hella Anna, Sara Przetocka, Roger Meier, et al.. (2022). RNAi Screening Uncovers a Synthetic Sick Interaction between CtIP and the BARD1 Tumor Suppressor. Cells. 11(4). 643–643. 4 indexed citations

Groelly, Florian J., Rebecca A. Dagg, Michalis Petropoulos, et al.. (2022). Mitotic DNA synthesis is caused by transcription-replication conflicts in BRCA2-deficient cells. Molecular Cell. 82(18). 3382–3397.e7. 34 indexed citations

Lezaja, Aleksandra, et al.. (2021). RPA shields inherited DNA lesions for post-mitotic DNA synthesis. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3827–3827. 20 indexed citations

Rother, Magdalena B., Stefania Pellegrino, Rebecca Smith, et al.. (2020). CHD7 and 53BP1 regulate distinct pathways for the re-ligation of DNA double-strand breaks. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5775–5775. 34 indexed citations

Mulder, Monique P. C., Sibylle Bürger, Marco Gatti, et al.. (2020). Ubiquitin Phosphorylation at Thr12 Modulates the DNA Damage Response. Molecular Cell. 80(3). 423–436.e9. 48 indexed citations

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Simon, Anna Katharina, Aleksandra Lezaja, Federico Teloni, et al.. (2020). The iron–sulfur helicase DDX11 promotes the generation of single-stranded DNA for CHK1 activation. Life Science Alliance. 3(3). e201900547–e201900547. 19 indexed citations

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Παναγόπουλος, Ανδρέας & Matthias Altmeyer. (2020). The Hammer and the Dance of Cell Cycle Control. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 46(4). 301–314. 46 indexed citations

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Kilic, Sinan, Aleksandra Lezaja, Marco Gatti, et al.. (2019). Phase separation of 53 BP 1 determines liquid‐like behavior of DNA repair compartments. The EMBO Journal. 38(16). e101379–e101379. 321 indexed citations breakdown →

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Teloni, Federico, Jone Michelena, Aleksandra Lezaja, et al.. (2019). Efficient Pre-mRNA Cleavage Prevents Replication-Stress-Associated Genome Instability. Molecular Cell. 73(4). 670–683.e12. 65 indexed citations

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Michelena, Jone & Matthias Altmeyer. (2017). Cell Cycle Resolved Measurements of Poly(ADP-Ribose) Formation and DNA Damage Signaling by Quantitative Image-Based Cytometry. Methods in molecular biology. 1608. 57–68. 7 indexed citations

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Jungmichel, Stephanie, et al.. (2013). Proteome-wide Identification of Poly(ADP-Ribosyl)ation Targets in Different Genotoxic Stress Responses. Molecular Cell. 52(2). 272–285. 304 indexed citations

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Altmeyer, Matthias, Luis Toledo, Þorkell Guðjόnsson, et al.. (2013). The Chromatin Scaffold Protein SAFB1 Renders Chromatin Permissive for DNA Damage Signaling. Molecular Cell. 52(2). 206–220. 57 indexed citations

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Altmeyer, Matthias, et al.. (2013). To spread or not to spread—chromatin modifications in response to DNA damage. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 23(2). 156–165. 41 indexed citations

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Guðjόnsson, Þorkell, Matthias Altmeyer, Velibor Savic, et al.. (2012). TRIP12 and UBR5 Suppress Spreading of Chromatin Ubiquitylation at Damaged Chromosomes. Cell. 150(4). 697–709. 262 indexed citations

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Toller, Isabella M., Matthias Altmeyer, Esther Kohler, Michael O. Hottiger, & Anne Müller. (2010). Inhibition of ADP Ribosylation Prevents and Cures Helicobacter -Induced Gastric Preneoplasia. Cancer Research. 70(14). 5912–5922. 33 indexed citations

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Asher, Gad, Hans Reinke, Matthias Altmeyer, et al.. (2010). Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase 1 Participates in the Phase Entrainment of Circadian Clocks to Feeding. Cell. 142(6). 943–953. 282 indexed citations

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