Michaela Wenzel

2.9k total citations
45 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Michaela Wenzel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michaela Wenzel has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Microbiology and 15 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Michaela Wenzel's work include Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (17 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (14 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (13 papers). Michaela Wenzel is often cited by papers focused on Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (17 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (14 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (13 papers). Michaela Wenzel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and Netherlands. Michaela Wenzel's co-authors include Julia E. Bandow, Declan A. Gray, Nils Metzler‐Nolte, Leendert W. Hamoen, Hans‐Georg Sahl, Henrik Strahl, Malay Patra, Bastian Kohl, Bauke Albada and Tjalling Siersma and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Michaela Wenzel

43 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michaela Wenzel Germany 23 1.2k 781 513 293 258 45 2.1k
Alysha G. Elliott Australia 28 1.5k 1.3× 696 0.9× 637 1.2× 445 1.5× 144 0.6× 68 2.9k
Zheng Hou China 25 1.3k 1.1× 471 0.6× 408 0.8× 372 1.3× 363 1.4× 75 2.2k
Paramita Sarkar India 18 786 0.6× 442 0.6× 274 0.5× 273 0.9× 169 0.7× 33 1.5k
Marlon H. Cardoso Brazil 29 1.5k 1.3× 1.3k 1.6× 207 0.4× 214 0.7× 143 0.6× 86 2.5k
Alexander Titz Germany 26 1.3k 1.1× 369 0.5× 515 1.0× 283 1.0× 335 1.3× 72 2.1k
Micha Fridman Israel 30 1.2k 0.9× 403 0.5× 848 1.7× 280 1.0× 83 0.3× 84 2.3k
Julian G. Hurdle United States 28 1.2k 1.0× 397 0.5× 498 1.0× 335 1.1× 103 0.4× 58 2.6k
Yury S. Polikanov United States 32 2.4k 2.0× 269 0.3× 195 0.4× 350 1.2× 249 1.0× 67 3.1k
John B. Rafferty United Kingdom 29 1.8k 1.5× 300 0.4× 592 1.2× 196 0.7× 221 0.9× 81 2.7k
Maya A. Farha Canada 17 969 0.8× 385 0.5× 244 0.5× 825 2.8× 135 0.5× 25 1.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michaela Wenzel

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All Works

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Koh, Alan, et al.. (2025). The last resort antibiotic daptomycin exhibits two independent antibacterial mechanisms of action. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10320–10320.
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Wenzel, Michaela, et al.. (2025). Fluoroquinolones as versatile scaffolds: Potential for targeting classical and novel mechanisms to combat antibacterial resistance. European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 214. 107247–107247. 3 indexed citations
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Gray, Declan A., Biwen Wang, Fabián A. Cornejo, et al.. (2024). Membrane depolarization kills dormant Bacillus subtilis cells by generating a lethal dose of ROS. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6877–6877. 17 indexed citations
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Wenzel, Michaela, et al.. (2024). Lipid phase separation impairs membrane thickness sensing by the Bacillus subtilis sensor kinase DesK. Microbiology Spectrum. 12(6). e0392523–e0392523. 1 indexed citations
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Undabarrena, Agustina, Inger Mattsby‐Baltzer, Daniel Tietze, et al.. (2023). Mimicking Nonribosomal Peptides from the Marine Actinomycete Streptomyces sp. H-KF8 Leads to Antimicrobial Peptides. ACS Infectious Diseases. 10(1). 79–92. 3 indexed citations
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Steenhuis, Maurice, Kin Ki Jim, Jolanda Neef, et al.. (2023). Dual Action of Eeyarestatin 24 on Sec-Dependent Protein Secretion and Bacterial DNA. ACS Infectious Diseases. 9(2). 253–269. 5 indexed citations
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Wenzel, Michaela, et al.. (2021). A flat embedding method for transmission electron microscopy reveals an unknown mechanism of tetracycline. Communications Biology. 4(1). 306–306. 27 indexed citations
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Wenzel, Michaela, Yongqiang Gao, Joost Willemse, et al.. (2020). Control of septum thickness by the curvature of SepF polymers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(2). 19 indexed citations
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Gray, Declan A. & Michaela Wenzel. (2020). More Than a Pore: A Current Perspective on the In Vivo Mode of Action of the Lipopeptide Antibiotic Daptomycin. Antibiotics. 9(1). 17–17. 85 indexed citations
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Wenzel, Michaela, et al.. (2020). A How-To Guide for Mode of Action Analysis of Antimicrobial Peptides. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 10. 540898–540898. 46 indexed citations
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Tipmanee, Varomyalin, Kin Ki Jim, Wilbert Bitter, et al.. (2018). The novel antibiotic rhodomyrtone traps membrane proteins in vesicles with increased fluidity. PLoS Pathogens. 14(2). e1006876–e1006876. 61 indexed citations
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Wenzel, Michaela, Marina Rautenbach, J. Arnold Vosloo, et al.. (2018). The Multifaceted Antibacterial Mechanisms of the Pioneering Peptide Antibiotics Tyrocidine and Gramicidin S. mBio. 9(5). 103 indexed citations
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Wenzel, Michaela, et al.. (2017). Effects of rhodomyrtone on Gram-positive bacterial tubulin homologue FtsZ. PeerJ. 5. e2962–e2962. 18 indexed citations
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Müller, Anna, Michaela Wenzel, Henrik Strahl, et al.. (2016). Daptomycin inhibits cell envelope synthesis by interfering with fluid membrane microdomains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(45). E7077–E7086. 304 indexed citations
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Wenzel, Michaela, Pascal Prochnow, Catherine Mowbray, et al.. (2016). Towards Profiles of Resistance Development and Toxicity for the Small Cationic Hexapeptide RWRWRW-NH2. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 4. 86–86. 15 indexed citations
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Wenzel, Michaela, Alina Iulia Chiriac, Andreas Otto, et al.. (2014). Small cationic antimicrobial peptides delocalize peripheral membrane proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(14). E1409–18. 280 indexed citations
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Münch, Daniela, Anna Müller, Tanja Schneider, et al.. (2014). The Lantibiotic NAI-107 Binds to Bactoprenol-bound Cell Wall Precursors and Impairs Membrane Functions. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(17). 12063–12076. 70 indexed citations
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Wenzel, Michaela, Malay Patra, Christoph Senges, et al.. (2013). Analysis of the Mechanism of Action of Potent Antibacterial Hetero-tri-organometallic Compounds: A Structurally New Class of Antibiotics. ACS Chemical Biology. 8(7). 1442–1450. 124 indexed citations
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