Mohammed Terrak

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Mohammed Terrak is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mohammed Terrak has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Genetics and 17 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Mohammed Terrak's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (25 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (17 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (13 papers). Mohammed Terrak is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (25 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (17 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (13 papers). Mohammed Terrak collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and France. Mohammed Terrak's co-authors include E. Sauvage, Frédéric Kerff, Juan A. Ayala, P. Charlier, Martine Nguyen‐Distèche, Eefjan Breukink, Roberto Domínguez, Terence Tao, Knut Langsetmo and Adeline Derouaux and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Mohammed Terrak

37 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

The penicillin-binding proteins: structure and role in peptidoglycan biosynthesis

2008 966 citations E. Sauvage, Frédéric Kerff et al. FEMS Microbiology Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mohammed Terrak Belgium	21	1.6k	964	592	519	334	37	2.6k
Mark Paetzel Canada	32	2.2k 1.4×	960 1.0×	447 0.8×	354 0.7×	356 1.1×	59	3.3k
L.J. Worrall Canada	28	1.1k 0.7×	676 0.7×	479 0.8×	370 0.7×	429 1.3×	58	2.5k
Carlos Contreras‐Martel France	30	1.3k 0.8×	558 0.6×	623 1.1×	276 0.5×	426 1.3×	50	2.5k
Frédéric Kerff Belgium	24	1.5k 0.9×	535 0.6×	825 1.4×	284 0.5×	373 1.1×	67	3.0k
Martine Nguyen‐Distèche Belgium	30	1.8k 1.1×	1.6k 1.7×	673 1.1×	780 1.5×	289 0.9×	56	2.8k
Ahmed Bouhss France	33	2.5k 1.6×	1.2k 1.3×	419 0.7×	646 1.2×	302 0.9×	78	3.4k
E. Sauvage Belgium	24	1.2k 0.7×	544 0.6×	966 1.6×	297 0.6×	446 1.3×	50	2.6k
Jolanta Zakrzewska‐Czerwińska Poland	30	1.5k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	339 0.6×	421 0.8×	259 0.8×	104	2.3k
Lloyd G. Czaplewski United Kingdom	21	981 0.6×	468 0.5×	551 0.9×	389 0.7×	269 0.8×	35	2.2k
Russell E. Bishop Canada	26	1.9k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	871 1.5×	319 0.6×	207 0.6×	45	3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mohammed Terrak

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Allaoui, Abdelmounaaïm, et al.. (2023). Nanobody-Based Sandwich Immunoassay for Pathogenic Escherichia coli F17 Strain Detection. Biosensors. 13(2). 299–299. 13 indexed citations

Terrak, Mohammed, et al.. (2023). Development of a bispecific Nanobody anti-F17 fimbria as a potential therapeutic tool. Protein Expression and Purification. 215. 106411–106411. 1 indexed citations

Li, Ying, Yuanyuan Cui, Shan Zhao, et al.. (2022). Identification of the potential active site of the septal peptidoglycan polymerase FtsW. PLoS Genetics. 18(1). e1009993–e1009993. 10 indexed citations

Kerff, Frédéric, et al.. (2020). The bacterial cell division protein fragment EFtsN binds to and activates the major peptidoglycan synthase PBP1b. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(52). 18256–18265. 13 indexed citations

Olatunji, Samir, et al.. (2020). Fluorescence anisotropy assays for high throughput screening of compounds binding to lipid II, PBP1b, FtsW and MurJ. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 6280–6280. 15 indexed citations

Olatunji, Samir, et al.. (2019). Regulation of the Peptidoglycan Polymerase Activity of PBP1b by Antagonist Actions of the Core Divisome Proteins FtsBLQ and FtsN. mBio. 10(1). 58 indexed citations

Matagne, André, et al.. (2018). Peptidoglycan glycosyltransferase-ligand binding assay based on tryptophan fluorescence quenching. Biochimie. 152. 1–5. 6 indexed citations

Leclercq, Sophie, Adeline Derouaux, Samir Olatunji, et al.. (2017). Interplay between Penicillin-binding proteins and SEDS proteins promotes bacterial cell wall synthesis. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 43306–43306. 87 indexed citations

Bury, Daniel, Adeline Derouaux, Piet Herdewijn, et al.. (2014). Positive cooperativity between acceptor and donor sites of the peptidoglycan glycosyltransferase. Biochemical Pharmacology. 93(2). 141–150. 11 indexed citations

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Derouaux, Adeline, E. Sauvage, & Mohammed Terrak. (2013). Peptidoglycan Glycosyltransferase Substrate Mimics as Templates for the Design of New Antibacterial Drugs. Frontiers in Immunology. 4. 78–78. 37 indexed citations

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Banzhaf, Manuel, H. Bart van den Berg van Saparoea, Mohammed Terrak, et al.. (2012). Cooperativity of peptidoglycan synthases active in bacterial cell elongation. Molecular Microbiology. 85(1). 179–194. 123 indexed citations

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Derouaux, Adeline, Samo Turk, Stanislav Gobec, et al.. (2011). Small molecule inhibitors of peptidoglycan synthesis targeting the lipid II precursor. Biochemical Pharmacology. 81(9). 1098–1105. 20 indexed citations

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Terrak, Mohammed, Adeline Derouaux, Eefjan Breukink, et al.. (2010). Optimization of conditions for the glycosyltransferase activity of penicillin‐binding protein 1a from Thermotoga maritima. FEBS Journal. 277(20). 4290–4298. 19 indexed citations

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Sauvage, E., Frédéric Kerff, Mohammed Terrak, Juan A. Ayala, & P. Charlier. (2008). The penicillin-binding proteins: structure and role in peptidoglycan biosynthesis. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 32(2). 234–258. 966 indexed citations breakdown →

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Terrak, Mohammed, E. Sauvage, Adeline Derouaux, et al.. (2008). Importance of the Conserved Residues in the Peptidoglycan Glycosyltransferase Module of the Class A Penicillin-binding Protein 1b of Escherichia coli. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(42). 28464–28470. 25 indexed citations

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Terrak, Mohammed. (2008). Peptidoglycan Glycosyltransferase Inhibition: New Perspectives for An Old Target. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 7(3). 180–192. 2 indexed citations

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Müller, Patrick, Christa Ewers, Ute Bertsche, et al.. (2007). The Essential Cell Division Protein FtsN Interacts with the Murein (Peptidoglycan) Synthase PBP1B in Escherichia coli. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(50). 36394–36402. 115 indexed citations

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Terrak, Mohammed, Frédéric Kerff, Knut Langsetmo, Terence Tao, & Roberto Domínguez. (2004). Structural basis of protein phosphatase 1 regulation. Nature. 429(6993). 780–784. 304 indexed citations

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Terrak, Mohammed, et al.. (2002). Crystallization, X-ray characterization and selenomethionine phasing of Mlc1p bound to IQ motifs from myosin V. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 58(10). 1882–1885. 7 indexed citations

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Terrak, Mohammed, Tushar K. Ghosh, Jean van Heijenoort, et al.. (1999). The catalytic, glycosyl transferase and acyl transferase modules of the cell wall peptidoglycan‐polymerizing penicillin‐binding protein 1b of Escherichia coli. Molecular Microbiology. 34(2). 350–364. 145 indexed citations

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