Michael Letko

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Michael Letko is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Animal Science and Zoology and Virology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Letko has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Infectious Diseases, 12 papers in Animal Science and Zoology and 9 papers in Virology. Recurrent topics in Michael Letko's work include SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (19 papers), Animal Virus Infections Studies (12 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (9 papers). Michael Letko is often cited by papers focused on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (19 papers), Animal Virus Infections Studies (12 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (9 papers). Michael Letko collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Michael Letko's co-authors include Vincent J. Munster, Andrea Marzi, Stephanie N. Seifert, Raina K. Plowright, Kevin J. Olival, Marcel Ooms, Viviana Simon, Neeltje van Doremalen, Dana Scott and Bronwyn M. Gunn and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Michael Letko

32 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

Functional assessment of cell entry and receptor usage for SARS-CoV-2 and other lineage B betacoronaviruses

2020 2.1k citations Michael Letko, Andrea Marzi et al. Nature Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Letko United States	17	2.6k	534	412	402	379	33	3.3k
Mart M. Lamers Netherlands	25	2.4k 0.9×	784 1.5×	422 1.0×	572 1.4×	319 0.8×	51	3.6k
Susanne Pfefferle Germany	24	2.4k 0.9×	492 0.9×	537 1.3×	392 1.0×	404 1.1×	63	3.2k
Reed F. Johnson United States	29	2.1k 0.8×	628 1.2×	334 0.8×	778 1.9×	180 0.5×	85	3.2k
Markus Eickmann Germany	29	2.6k 1.0×	571 1.1×	473 1.1×	946 2.4×	216 0.6×	74	4.1k
Xing‐Yi Ge China	25	2.4k 0.9×	627 1.2×	933 2.3×	345 0.9×	194 0.5×	84	3.5k
Danielle E. Anderson Singapore	25	2.2k 0.8×	467 0.9×	360 0.9×	592 1.5×	116 0.3×	65	3.0k
Emma C. Thomson United Kingdom	22	2.9k 1.1×	938 1.8×	326 0.8×	828 2.1×	210 0.6×	90	4.0k
Fei Yu China	26	1.7k 0.7×	578 1.1×	264 0.6×	862 2.1×	252 0.7×	83	2.8k
Jian Yu United States	29	2.6k 1.0×	979 1.8×	392 1.0×	488 1.2×	194 0.5×	60	3.8k
Stephen A. Rawlings United States	15	2.7k 1.0×	791 1.5×	161 0.4×	291 0.7×	546 1.4×	36	3.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Letko

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Falzarano, Darryl, et al.. (2025). Expanding the bat toolbox: Carollia perspicillata bat cell lines and reagents enable the characterization of viral susceptibility and innate immune responses. PLoS Biology. 23(4). e3003098–e3003098. 2 indexed citations

Doremalen, Neeltje van, Trenton Bushmaker, Robert J. Fischer, et al.. (2024). Transmission dynamics of MERS-CoV in a transgenic human DPP4 mouse model. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 36–36.

Guo, Hua, Ang Li, Hao-Rui Si, et al.. (2023). Isolation of ACE2-dependent and -independent sarbecoviruses from Chinese horseshoe bats. Journal of Virology. 97(9). e0039523–e0039523. 5 indexed citations

Guo, Hua, Ang Li, Haofeng Lin, et al.. (2022). The Glycan-Binding Trait of the Sarbecovirus Spike N-Terminal Domain Reveals an Evolutionary Footprint. Journal of Virology. 96(15). e0095822–e0095822. 9 indexed citations

Guo, Hua, Ang Li, Jia Su, et al.. (2022). ACE2-Independent Bat Sarbecovirus Entry and Replication in Human and Bat Cells. mBio. 13(6). e0256622–e0256622. 16 indexed citations

Letko, Michael, et al.. (2022). Sequence determinants of human-cell entry identified in ACE2-independent bat sarbecoviruses: A combined laboratory and computational network science approach. EBioMedicine. 79. 103990–103990. 14 indexed citations

Seifert, Stephanie N., Elizabeth B. Norton, Kevin J. Zwezdaryk, et al.. (2022). An ACE2-dependent Sarbecovirus in Russian bats is resistant to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. PLoS Pathogens. 18(9). e1010828–e1010828. 27 indexed citations

Wells, Heather, Michael Letko, Gorka Lasso, et al.. (2021). The evolutionary history of ACE2 usage within the coronavirus subgenus Sarbecovirus. Virus Evolution. 7(1). veab007–veab007. 49 indexed citations

Fischer, Robert J., Jyothi N. Purushotham, Neeltje van Doremalen, et al.. (2021). ChAdOx1-vectored Lassa fever vaccine elicits a robust cellular and humoral immune response and protects guinea pigs against lethal Lassa virus challenge. npj Vaccines. 6(1). 32–32. 32 indexed citations

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Letko, Michael, Andrea Marzi, & Vincent J. Munster. (2020). Functional assessment of cell entry and receptor usage for SARS-CoV-2 and other lineage B betacoronaviruses. Nature Microbiology. 5(4). 562–569. 2065 indexed citations breakdown →

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Letko, Michael, Stephanie N. Seifert, Kevin J. Olival, Raina K. Plowright, & Vincent J. Munster. (2020). Bat-borne virus diversity, spillover and emergence. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 18(8). 461–471. 321 indexed citations

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Letko, Michael & Vincent J. Munster. (2019). Studying Evolutionary Adaptation of MERS-CoV. Methods in molecular biology. 2099. 3–8. 4 indexed citations

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Adney, Danielle R., Michael Letko, Izabela Ragan, et al.. (2019). Bactrian camels shed large quantities of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) after experimental infection. Emerging Microbes & Infections. 8(1). 717–723. 28 indexed citations

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Letko, Michael, Vincent J. Munster, Rashid Manzoor, et al.. (2018). Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Human NPC1 Influence Filovirus Entry Into Cells. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 218(suppl_5). S397–S402. 16 indexed citations

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Letko, Michael, Kerri Miazgowicz, Stephanie N. Seifert, et al.. (2018). Adaptive Evolution of MERS-CoV to Species Variation in DPP4. Cell Reports. 24(7). 1730–1737. 90 indexed citations

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Reddy, Kavidha, Marcel Ooms, Michael Letko, et al.. (2016). Functional characterization of Vif proteins from HIV-1 infected patients with different APOBEC3G haplotypes. AIDS. 30(11). 1723–1729. 12 indexed citations

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Ooms, Marcel, Michael Letko, & Viviana Simon. (2016). The Structural Interface between HIV-1 Vif and Human APOBEC3H. Journal of Virology. 91(5). 24 indexed citations

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McCarthy, Kevin R., Marcel Ooms, Michael Letko, et al.. (2013). APOBEC3G Polymorphism as a Selective Barrier to Cross-Species Transmission and Emergence of Pathogenic SIV and AIDS in a Primate Host. PLoS Pathogens. 9(10). e1003641–e1003641. 41 indexed citations

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Ooms, Marcel, Michael Letko, Christopher D. Pilcher, et al.. (2013). HIV-1 Vif Adaptation to Human APOBEC3H Haplotypes. Cell Host & Microbe. 14(4). 411–421. 88 indexed citations

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Letko, Michael, Guido Silvestri, Beatrice H. Hahn, et al.. (2013). Vif Proteins from Diverse Primate Lentiviral Lineages Use the Same Binding Site in APOBEC3G. Journal of Virology. 87(21). 11861–11871. 28 indexed citations

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