Michael Kolbe

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Michael Kolbe is a scholar working on Endocrinology, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Kolbe has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Endocrinology, 16 papers in Molecular Biology and 14 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Michael Kolbe's work include Escherichia coli research studies (14 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (12 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (7 papers). Michael Kolbe is often cited by papers focused on Escherichia coli research studies (14 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (12 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (7 papers). Michael Kolbe collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and India. Michael Kolbe's co-authors include Dieter Oesterhelt, Hüseyin Besir, Lars‐Oliver Essen, Michele Lunelli, Christian Goosmann, Arturo Zychlinsky, Oliver P. Ernst, Klaus Peter Hofmann, Martin Heck and Ravi K. Lokareddy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael Kolbe

32 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Atomic model of the type III secretion system needle 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 50 100 150 200 250
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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.

  1. Atomic model of the type III secretion system needle
    2012 281 citations Antoine Loquet, Nikolaos G. Sgourakis et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Kolbe Germany 19 898 463 429 392 233 34 1.8k
Philippe Ringler Switzerland 27 1.5k 1.7× 203 0.4× 245 0.6× 478 1.2× 80 0.3× 57 2.8k
Tetsuya Mori United States 32 1.6k 1.8× 596 1.3× 262 0.6× 136 0.3× 84 0.4× 61 2.7k
Emilia L. Wu United States 17 2.0k 2.3× 323 0.7× 86 0.2× 327 0.8× 188 0.8× 26 2.7k
Rich Olson United States 16 1.5k 1.7× 790 1.7× 235 0.5× 155 0.4× 121 0.5× 31 2.1k
Ansgar Philippsen Switzerland 23 1.5k 1.7× 323 0.7× 128 0.3× 349 0.9× 82 0.4× 28 2.1k
Jörg H. Kleinschmidt Germany 29 1.9k 2.1× 166 0.4× 145 0.3× 680 1.7× 100 0.4× 52 2.2k
J.D. Pédelacq France 19 2.3k 2.5× 187 0.4× 95 0.2× 537 1.4× 74 0.3× 35 3.0k
Takayuki Kato Japan 27 1.2k 1.4× 139 0.3× 229 0.5× 612 1.6× 33 0.1× 84 2.0k
Karen G. Fleming United States 40 3.7k 4.2× 363 0.8× 167 0.4× 902 2.3× 171 0.7× 92 4.4k
Marcelo C. Sousa United States 28 2.0k 2.3× 227 0.5× 166 0.4× 678 1.7× 56 0.2× 44 2.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Kolbe

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Kolbe

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Kolbe. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Kolbe 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 Michael Kolbe. Michael Kolbe is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Chatziefthimiou, S.D., Maria Kuzikov, Gábor G. Kovács, et al.. (2025). Identification, validation, and characterization of approved and investigational drugs interfering with the SARS‐CoV‐2 endoribonuclease Nsp15. Protein Science. 34(6). e70156–e70156.
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Lunelli, Michele, Karol Kaszuba, Zhuo A. Chen, et al.. (2023). Integrative structural analysis of the type III secretion system needle complex from Shigella flexneri. Protein Science. 32(4). e4595–e4595. 9 indexed citations
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Nehls, Christian, Dirk Baabe, Olaf Burghaus, et al.. (2021). Flagellin lysine methyltransferase FliB catalyzes a [4Fe-4S] mediated methyl transfer reaction. PLoS Pathogens. 17(11). e1010052–e1010052. 3 indexed citations
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Kolbe, Michael, et al.. (2021). Vaccines Targeting Numerous Coronavirus Antigens, Ensuring Broader Global Population Coverage: Multi-epitope and Multi-patch Vaccines. Methods in molecular biology. 2410. 149–175. 3 indexed citations
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Furkert, Jens, et al.. (2021). Novel Method for Quantifying AhR-Ligand Binding Affinities Using Microscale Thermophoresis. Biosensors. 11(3). 60–60. 12 indexed citations
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Horstmann, Julia, Michele Lunelli, Caroline Kühne, et al.. (2020). Methylation of Salmonella Typhimurium flagella promotes bacterial adhesion and host cell invasion. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2013–2013. 87 indexed citations
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Verma, Sonia, Mohit Kamthania, Ajay K. Saxena, et al.. (2020). Computationally validated SARS-CoV-2 CTL and HTL Multi-Patch vaccines, designed by reverse epitomics approach, show potential to cover large ethnically distributed human population worldwide. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 40(5). 2369–2388. 11 indexed citations
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Verma, Sonia, Mohit Kamthania, Ajay K. Saxena, et al.. (2020). Structural Basis for Designing Multiepitope Vaccines Against COVID-19 Infection: In Silico Vaccine Design and Validation. PubMed. 1(1). e19371–e19371. 19 indexed citations
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Horstmann, Julia, Michele Lunelli, Manfred Rohde, et al.. (2017). Flagellin phase-dependent swimming on epithelial cell surfaces contributes to productiveSalmonellagut colonisation. Cellular Microbiology. 19(8). e12739–e12739. 47 indexed citations
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Goosmann, Christian, et al.. (2014). A Substrate-Fusion Protein Is Trapped inside the Type III Secretion System Channel in Shigella flexneri. PLoS Pathogens. 10(1). e1003881–e1003881. 36 indexed citations
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Demers, Jean‐Philippe, Nikolaos G. Sgourakis, Rashmi Gupta, et al.. (2013). The Common Structural Architecture of Shigella flexneri and Salmonella typhimurium Type Three Secretion Needles. PLoS Pathogens. 9(3). e1003245–e1003245. 49 indexed citations
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Mounier, Joëlle, Gaëlle Boncompain, Lidija Šenerović, et al.. (2012). Shigella Effector IpaB-Induced Cholesterol Relocation Disrupts the Golgi Complex and Recycling Network to Inhibit Host Cell Secretion. Cell Host & Microbe. 12(3). 381–389. 55 indexed citations
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Loquet, Antoine, Nikolaos G. Sgourakis, Rashmi Gupta, et al.. (2012). Atomic model of the type III secretion system needle. Nature. 486(7402). 276–279. 281 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lokareddy, Ravi K., et al.. (2010). Combination of Two Separate Binding Domains Defines Stoichiometry between Type III Secretion System Chaperone IpgC and Translocator Protein IpaB. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(51). 39965–39975. 35 indexed citations
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Poyraz, Ömer, H. Schmidt, Karsten Seidel, et al.. (2010). Protein refolding is required for assembly of the type three secretion needle. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 17(7). 788–792. 60 indexed citations
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Lunelli, Michele, Ravi K. Lokareddy, Arturo Zychlinsky, & Michael Kolbe. (2009). IpaB–IpgC interaction defines binding motif for type III secretion translocator. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(24). 9661–9666. 89 indexed citations
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Kolbe, Michael, et al.. (2007). Single Residue Determines the Specificity of Neutrophil Elastase for Shigella Virulence Factors. Journal of Molecular Biology. 377(4). 1053–1066. 25 indexed citations
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Schubert, Mario, Michael Kolbe, Brigitte Keßler, Dieter Oesterhelt, & Peter Schmieder. (2002). Heteronuclear Multidimensional NMR Spectroscopy of Solubilized Membrane Proteins: Resonance Assignment of Native Bacteriorhodopsin. ChemBioChem. 3(10). 1019–1023. 31 indexed citations

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