Michael Köpke

6.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
52 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Michael Köpke is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Köpke has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 16 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Michael Köpke's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (37 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (26 papers) and Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production (16 papers). Michael Köpke is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (37 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (26 papers) and Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production (16 papers). Michael Köpke collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Estonia. Michael Köpke's co-authors include Séan D. Simpson, Fungmin Liew, James Daniell, Ryan Tappel, Peter Dürre, Björn D. Heijstra, Esteban Marcellin, Alexander P. Mueller, Kaspar Valgepea and Shilpa Nagaraju and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Michael Köpke

52 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Clostridium ljungdahlii represents a microbial production platform based on syngas

2010 506 citations Michael Köpke, Claudia Held et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Gas Fermentation—A Flexible Platform for Commercial Scale Production of Low-Carbon-Fuels and Chemicals from Waste and Renewable Feedstocks

2016 349 citations Fungmin Liew, Ryan Tappel et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Köpke Australia	29	2.9k	2.2k	1.1k	815	623	52	4.2k
Séan D. Simpson Australia	26	3.1k 1.1×	1.4k 0.6×	640 0.6×	445 0.5×	359 0.6×	40	4.5k
Hanno Richter United States	21	1.6k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	911 0.8×	1.7k 2.0×	321 0.5×	29	3.6k
Youngsoon Um South Korea	40	2.9k 1.0×	2.5k 1.1×	509 0.5×	451 0.6×	427 0.7×	113	4.3k
Esteban Marcellin Australia	30	1.9k 0.7×	911 0.4×	375 0.3×	286 0.4×	237 0.4×	113	2.9k
Chenlin Li United States	28	1.2k 0.4×	3.1k 1.4×	1.1k 1.0×	364 0.4×	139 0.2×	61	4.6k
P.A.M. Claassen Netherlands	29	1.3k 0.5×	1.9k 0.9×	1.5k 1.4×	471 0.6×	245 0.4×	54	2.9k
Chuang Xue China	28	1.6k 0.6×	1.8k 0.8×	266 0.2×	159 0.2×	112 0.2×	75	2.7k
Frank R. Bengelsdorf Germany	22	922 0.3×	750 0.3×	529 0.5×	266 0.3×	181 0.3×	51	1.5k
Truus de Vrije Netherlands	31	1.7k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	891 0.8×	258 0.3×	166 0.3×	55	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Köpke

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Köpke

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Köpke

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

All Works

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Aurand, Emily R., et al.. (2024). Addressing the climate crisis through engineering biology. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 1 indexed citations

Mueller, Alexander P., Robert Nogle, Séan D. Simpson, et al.. (2024). An alcove at the acetyl-CoA synthase nickel active site is required for productive substrate CO binding and anaerobic carbon fixation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(8). 107503–107503. 3 indexed citations

Köpke, Michael, et al.. (2023). Deletion of genes linked to the C1-fixing gene cluster affects growth, by-products, and proteome of Clostridium autoethanogenum. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 11. 1167892–1167892. 3 indexed citations

Valgepea, Kaspar, Gert Talbo, Nobuaki Takemori, et al.. (2022). Absolute Proteome Quantification in the Gas-Fermenting Acetogen Clostridium autoethanogenum. mSystems. 7(2). e0002622–e0002622. 18 indexed citations

Vögeli, Bastian, Luca Schulz, Shivani Garg, et al.. (2022). Cell-free prototyping enables implementation of optimized reverse β-oxidation pathways in heterotrophic and autotrophic bacteria. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3058–3058. 52 indexed citations

Pavan, Marilene, Shivani Garg, Alexander P. Mueller, et al.. (2022). Advances in systems metabolic engineering of autotrophic carbon oxide-fixing biocatalysts towards a circular economy. Metabolic Engineering. 71. 117–141. 55 indexed citations

Marcellin, Esteban, et al.. (2022). Faster Growth Enhances Low Carbon Fuel and Chemical Production Through Gas Fermentation. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 10. 879578–879578. 17 indexed citations

Nogle, Robert, Shilpa Nagaraju, Sagar M. Utturkar, et al.. (2022). Clostridium autoethanogenum isopropanol production via native plasmid pCA replicon. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 10. 932363–932363. 5 indexed citations

Karim, Ashty S., Quentin M. Dudley, Alex Juminaga, et al.. (2020). In vitro prototyping and rapid optimization of biosynthetic enzymes for cell design. Nature Chemical Biology. 16(8). 912–919. 174 indexed citations

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Karim, Ashty S., Fungmin Liew, Shivani Garg, et al.. (2020). Modular cell-free expression plasmids to accelerate biological design in cells. PubMed. 5(1). ysaa019–ysaa019. 10 indexed citations

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Krüger, Antje, Alexander P. Mueller, Nancy L. Engle, et al.. (2020). Development of a clostridia-based cell-free system for prototyping genetic parts and metabolic pathways. Metabolic Engineering. 62. 95–105. 42 indexed citations

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Greene, Jennifer L., James Daniell, Michael Köpke, Linda J. Broadbelt, & Keith E. J. Tyo. (2019). Kinetic ensemble model of gas fermenting Clostridium autoethanogenum for improved ethanol production. Biochemical Engineering Journal. 148. 46–56. 27 indexed citations

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Lemgruber, Renato de Souza Pinto, Kaspar Valgepea, Ryan Tappel, et al.. (2019). Systems-level engineering and characterisation of Clostridium autoethanogenum through heterologous production of poly-3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB). Metabolic Engineering. 53. 14–23. 65 indexed citations

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Al‐Sinawi, Bakir, Christopher M. Humphreys, Klaus Winzer, et al.. (2019). Engineering of vitamin prototrophy in Clostridium ljungdahlii and Clostridium autoethanogenum. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 103(11). 4633–4648. 27 indexed citations

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Valgepea, Kaspar, James B. Y. H. Behrendorff, Renato de Souza Pinto Lemgruber, et al.. (2017). Arginine deiminase pathway provides ATP and boosts growth of the gas-fermenting acetogen Clostridium autoethanogenum. Metabolic Engineering. 41. 202–211. 86 indexed citations

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Valgepea, Kaspar, Renato de Souza Pinto Lemgruber, Robin Palfreyman, et al.. (2017). Maintenance of ATP Homeostasis Triggers Metabolic Shifts in Gas-Fermenting Acetogens. Cell Systems. 4(5). 505–515.e5. 132 indexed citations

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Liew, Fungmin, Anne M. Henstra, Michael Köpke, et al.. (2017). Metabolic engineering of Clostridium autoethanogenum for selective alcohol production. Metabolic Engineering. 40. 104–114. 175 indexed citations

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Daniell, James, et al.. (2015). Low-Carbon Fuel and Chemical Production by Anaerobic Gas Fermentation. Advances in biochemical engineering, biotechnology. 156. 293–321. 18 indexed citations

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Brown, Steven D., Shilpa Nagaraju, Sagar M. Utturkar, et al.. (2014). Comparison of single-molecule sequencing and hybrid approaches for finishing the genome of Clostridium autoethanogenum and analysis of CRISPR systems in industrial relevant Clostridia. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 7(1). 40–40. 116 indexed citations

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Köpke, Michael, Claudia Held, Heiko Liesegang, et al.. (2010). Clostridium ljungdahlii represents a microbial production platform based on syngas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(29). 13087–13092. 506 indexed citations breakdown →

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