M.C. Wahl

13.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
193 papers, 10.2k citations indexed

About

M.C. Wahl is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, M.C. Wahl has authored 193 papers receiving a total of 10.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 147 papers in Molecular Biology, 28 papers in Materials Chemistry and 22 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in M.C. Wahl's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (84 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (61 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (57 papers). M.C. Wahl is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (84 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (61 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (57 papers). M.C. Wahl collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. M.C. Wahl's co-authors include Reinhard Lührmann, Cindy L. Will, Gert Weber, Reinhard Jahn, M. Sundaralingam, Simon Trowitzsch, Karine Santos, André C. Stiel, Martin A. Andresen and Stefan Jakobs and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

M.C. Wahl

190 papers receiving 10.1k citations

Hit Papers

The Spliceosome: Design Principles of a Dynamic RNP Machine 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. The Spliceosome: Design Principles of a Dynamic RNP Machine
    2009 2.0k citations M.C. Wahl, Reinhard Lührmann et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
M.C. Wahl Germany 53 7.5k 1.1k 1.0k 819 815 193 10.2k
Duilio Cascio United States 55 8.0k 1.1× 2.0k 1.9× 917 0.9× 642 0.8× 455 0.6× 156 10.8k
Yves Engelborghs Belgium 51 5.0k 0.7× 1.0k 1.0× 558 0.6× 777 0.9× 550 0.7× 202 8.3k
Masahiro Shirakawa Japan 56 6.8k 0.9× 2.2k 2.1× 1.0k 1.0× 415 0.5× 369 0.5× 205 9.7k
Tad A. Holak Germany 54 6.3k 0.8× 763 0.7× 500 0.5× 555 0.7× 474 0.6× 190 10.8k
Masasuke Yoshida Japan 63 14.4k 1.9× 2.0k 1.9× 626 0.6× 583 0.7× 716 0.9× 288 16.1k
Catherine A. Royer United States 49 6.2k 0.8× 2.2k 2.1× 1.1k 1.1× 374 0.5× 402 0.5× 192 8.2k
Joseph J. Falke United States 56 7.4k 1.0× 724 0.7× 2.4k 2.3× 406 0.5× 1.3k 1.6× 128 9.4k
Germán Rivas Spain 47 6.4k 0.9× 1.6k 1.5× 1.9k 1.9× 285 0.3× 345 0.4× 181 9.0k
Lynne Regan United States 52 7.7k 1.0× 2.3k 2.1× 735 0.7× 373 0.5× 348 0.4× 173 9.2k
Volker Dötsch Germany 67 11.8k 1.6× 1.1k 1.1× 1.4k 1.3× 518 0.6× 838 1.0× 266 17.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by M.C. Wahl

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of M.C. Wahl

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of M.C. Wahl. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of M.C. Wahl based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with M.C. Wahl. M.C. Wahl is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Coulombe, Yan, et al.. (2026). Ski2-like helicase ASCC3 unwinds DNA upon fork stalling to control replication stress responses. Cell Reports. 45(3). 117051–117051.
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Müeller, U., Volodymyr Bon, Ronald Förster, et al.. (2025). The macromolecular crystallography beamlines of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin at the BESSY II storage ring: history, current status and future directions. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 32(3). 766–778.
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Kumar, Naveen, Bing Wang, Tarek Hilal, et al.. (2025). The Psu protein of phage satellite P4 inhibits transcription termination factor ρ by forced hyper-oligomerization. Nature Communications. 16(1). 550–550. 3 indexed citations
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Said, Nelly, Tarek Hilal, Bing Wang, et al.. (2024). Concerted transformation of a hyper-paused transcription complex and its reinforcing protein. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3040–3040. 11 indexed citations
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Liu, Sunbin, et al.. (2020). A skipping rope translocation mechanism in a widespread family of DNA repair helicases. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(1). 504–518. 7 indexed citations
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Said, Nelly, Tarek Hilal, Jörg Bürger, et al.. (2020). Steps toward translocation-independent RNA polymerase inactivation by terminator ATPase ρ. Science. 371(6524). 78 indexed citations
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Petzoldt, Astrid G., J.H. Driller, Janine Lützkendorf, et al.. (2020). RIM-binding protein couples synaptic vesicle recruitment to release sites. The Journal of Cell Biology. 219(7). 20 indexed citations
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Driller, J.H., Janine Lützkendorf, Harald Depner, et al.. (2019). Phosphorylation of the Bruchpilot N-terminus in Drosophila unlocks axonal transport of active zone building blocks. Journal of Cell Science. 132(6). 7 indexed citations
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Wahl, M.C. & Ranjan Sen. (2019). Exploiting phage strategies to modulate bacterial transcription. Transcription. 10(4-5). 222–230. 10 indexed citations
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Gratz, S., Daniel Petras, Claudia Alings, et al.. (2018). Molecular insights into antibiotic resistance - how a binding protein traps albicidin. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3095–3095. 33 indexed citations
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Höbartner, Claudia, et al.. (2016). Substrate-assisted mechanism of RNP disruption by the spliceosomal Brr2 RNA helicase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(28). 7798–7803. 19 indexed citations
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Ulrich, Alexander, et al.. (2016). Scaffolding in the Spliceosome via Single α Helices. Structure. 24(11). 1972–1983. 26 indexed citations
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Schneider, Cornelius, ShengQi Xiang, Francesca Munari, et al.. (2014). Cooperative structure of the heterotrimeric pre-mRNA retention and splicing complex. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 21(10). 911–918. 27 indexed citations
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Brakemann, T., André C. Stiel, Gert Weber, et al.. (2012). Dreiklang - the one, two, three in photoswitching.. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 1 indexed citations
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Burmann, Björn M., Kristian Schweimer, Xiao Luo, et al.. (2010). A NusE:NusG Complex Links Transcription and Translation. Science. 328(5977). 501–504. 262 indexed citations
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Rozov, A., et al.. (2008). The origin of eubacteria with three L7/L12 protein dimers in the ribosome. Doklady Biochemistry and Biophysics. 422(1). 257–260. 1 indexed citations
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Peña, Vladimir, Sunbin Liu, Janusz M. Bujnicki, Reinhard Lührmann, & M.C. Wahl. (2007). Structure of a Multipartite Protein-Protein Interaction Domain in Splicing Factor Prp8 and Its Link to Retinitis Pigmentosa. Molecular Cell. 25(4). 615–624. 110 indexed citations
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Gabashvili, Irene S., Steven T. Gregory, Mikel Valle, et al.. (2001). The Polypeptide Tunnel System in the Ribosome and Its Gating in Erythromycin Resistance Mutants of L4 and L22. Molecular Cell. 8(1). 181–188. 163 indexed citations
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