Michal Breker

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Michal Breker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michal Breker has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Cell Biology and 4 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Michal Breker's work include Fungal and yeast genetics research (8 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (5 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (4 papers). Michal Breker is often cited by papers focused on Fungal and yeast genetics research (8 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (5 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (4 papers). Michal Breker collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and United Kingdom. Michal Breker's co-authors include Harris Perlman, Alexander Mildner, Steffen Jung, Ki-Wook Kim, Alexander V. Misharin, Dalit Strauss‐Ayali, Sergey Viukov, Martin Guilliams, Elazar Zelzer and Bernard Malissen and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Michal Breker

20 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Fate Mapping Reveals Origins and Dynamics of Monocytes and Tissue Macrophages under Homeostasis

2012 2.3k citations Simon Yona, Ki-Wook Kim et al. Immunity profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michal Breker Israel	15	1.7k	1.1k	658	321	252	20	3.0k
Liesbet Martens Belgium	17	1.8k 1.1×	930 0.9×	689 1.0×	439 1.4×	187 0.7×	24	3.0k
Ronnie Blecher‐Gonen Israel	14	1.7k 1.0×	1.5k 1.4×	493 0.7×	237 0.7×	92 0.4×	19	3.2k
Yoko Hamazaki Japan	25	861 0.5×	752 0.7×	334 0.5×	215 0.7×	281 1.1×	49	2.2k
Bert van het Hof Netherlands	32	871 0.5×	1.5k 1.4×	826 1.3×	239 0.7×	157 0.6×	48	3.1k
Violeta Chiţu United States	22	1.5k 0.9×	900 0.8×	777 1.2×	112 0.3×	146 0.6×	38	2.9k
David E. Szymkowski United States	33	1.0k 0.6×	1.5k 1.3×	579 0.9×	219 0.7×	87 0.3×	66	3.5k
Joshua D. Stender United States	19	1.1k 0.6×	2.0k 1.8×	418 0.6×	152 0.5×	175 0.7×	22	3.1k
Stephanie A. Amici United States	20	770 0.5×	839 0.8×	317 0.5×	160 0.5×	143 0.6×	29	2.0k
Hiroshi Takashima Japan	33	564 0.3×	1.8k 1.6×	738 1.1×	206 0.6×	451 1.8×	260	4.4k
Joseph R. Podojil United States	28	1.2k 0.7×	606 0.6×	333 0.5×	162 0.5×	122 0.5×	55	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michal Breker

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Shpilman, Michal, et al.. (2025). Shared abscisic acid biosynthesis pathway across 600 million years of streptophyte evolution. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 198(1). 1 indexed citations

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Kafri, Moshe, Weronika Patena, Lance Martin, et al.. (2023). Systematic identification and characterization of genes in the regulation and biogenesis of photosynthetic machinery. Cell. 186(25). 5638–5655.e25. 15 indexed citations

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Li, Jianhui, Michal Breker, Morven Graham, Maya Schuldiner, & Mark Hochstrasser. (2019). AMPK regulates ESCRT-dependent microautophagy of proteasomes concomitant with proteasome storage granule assembly during glucose starvation. PLoS Genetics. 15(11). e1008387–e1008387. 25 indexed citations

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Breker, Michal, et al.. (2018). Comprehensive Discovery of Cell-Cycle-Essential Pathways in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The Plant Cell. 30(6). 1178–1198. 17 indexed citations

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Cross, Frederick R., et al.. (2017). Validated Bayesian Differentiation of Causative and Passenger Mutations. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 7(7). 2081–2094. 3 indexed citations

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Cohen, Nir, Michal Breker, Anush Bakunts, et al.. (2017). Iron affects Ire1 clustering propensity and the amplitude of endoplasmic reticulum stress signaling. Journal of Cell Science. 130(19). 3222–3233. 35 indexed citations

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Herbst, Rebecca H., Sharon Reikhav, Ilya Soifer, et al.. (2017). Heterosis as a consequence of regulatory incompatibility. BMC Biology. 15(1). 38–38. 27 indexed citations

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Breker, Michal, et al.. (2016). High-Throughput Robotically Assisted Isolation of Temperature-sensitive Lethal Mutants in <em>Chlamydomonas reinhardtii</em>. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 7 indexed citations

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Ravarani, Charles N. J., Guilhem Chalancon, Michal Breker, Natalia Sánchez de Groot, & M. Madan Babu. (2016). Affinity and competition for TBP are molecular determinants of gene expression noise. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10417–10417. 41 indexed citations

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Avci, Dönem, Shai Fuchs, Bianca Schrul, et al.. (2014). The Yeast ER-Intramembrane Protease Ypf1 Refines Nutrient Sensing by Regulating Transporter Abundance. Molecular Cell. 56(5). 630–640. 45 indexed citations

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Breker, Michal & Maya Schuldiner. (2014). The emergence of proteome-wide technologies: systematic analysis of proteins comes of age. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 15(7). 453–464. 69 indexed citations

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Breker, Michal, Melissa Gymrek, & Maya Schuldiner. (2013). A novel single-cell screening platform reveals proteome plasticity during yeast stress responses. The Journal of Cell Biology. 201(2). 353–353. 2 indexed citations

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Yona, Simon, Ki-Wook Kim, Yochai Wolf, et al.. (2013). Fate Mapping Reveals Origins and Dynamics of Monocytes and Tissue Macrophages under Homeostasis. Immunity. 38(5). 1073–1079. 22 indexed citations

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Breker, Michal, Melissa Gymrek, Ofer Moldavski, & Maya Schuldiner. (2013). LoQAtE—Localization and Quantitation ATlas of the yeast proteomE. A new tool for multiparametric dissection of single-protein behavior in response to biological perturbations in yeast. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(D1). D726–D730. 64 indexed citations

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Breker, Michal, Melissa Gymrek, & Maya Schuldiner. (2013). A novel single-cell screening platform reveals proteome plasticity during yeast stress responses. The Journal of Cell Biology. 200(6). 839–850. 162 indexed citations

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Breker, Michal, et al.. (2013). Formation and dissociation of proteasome storage granules are regulated by cytosolic pH. The Journal of Cell Biology. 201(5). 663–671. 60 indexed citations

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Yona, Simon, Ki-Wook Kim, Yochai Wolf, et al.. (2012). Fate Mapping Reveals Origins and Dynamics of Monocytes and Tissue Macrophages under Homeostasis. Immunity. 38(1). 79–91. 2282 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schrul, Bianca, Heather L. Tienson, Irina Gostimskaya, et al.. (2012). Get3 is a holdase chaperone and moves to deposition sites for aggregated proteins when membrane targeting is blocked. Journal of Cell Science. 126(2). 473–483. 48 indexed citations

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Nadler-Holly, Michal, Michal Breker, Ariel Azia, et al.. (2012). Interactions of subunit CCT3 in the yeast chaperonin CCT/TRiC with Q/N-rich proteins revealed by high-throughput microscopy analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(46). 18833–18838. 32 indexed citations

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Breker, Michal & Maya Schuldiner. (2009). Explorations in topology–delving underneath the surface of genetic interaction maps. Molecular BioSystems. 5(12). 1473–1481. 9 indexed citations

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