Moritz M. Gaidt

4.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
22 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Moritz M. Gaidt is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Moritz M. Gaidt has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Immunology and 3 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Moritz M. Gaidt's work include Inflammasome and immune disorders (7 papers), Immune Response and Inflammation (7 papers) and interferon and immune responses (6 papers). Moritz M. Gaidt is often cited by papers focused on Inflammasome and immune disorders (7 papers), Immune Response and Inflammation (7 papers) and interferon and immune responses (6 papers). Moritz M. Gaidt collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Austria. Moritz M. Gaidt's co-authors include Veit Hornung, Jonathan L. Schmid‐Burgk, Thomas S. Ebert, Tobias Schmidt, Dhruv Chauhan, Thomas Graf, Francesca Rapino, Liudmila Andreeva, Karl‐Peter Hopfner and Avril A. B. Robertson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Moritz M. Gaidt

22 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Human Monocytes Engage an Alternative Inflammasome Pathway 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 2017 2017 2023 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Human Monocytes Engage an Alternative Inflammasome Pathway
    2016 591 citations Moritz M. Gaidt, Thomas S. Ebert et al. Immunity profile →
  2. The DNA Inflammasome in Human Myeloid Cells Is Initiated by a STING-Cell Death Program Upstream of NLRP3
    2017 475 citations Moritz M. Gaidt, Thomas S. Ebert et al. Cell profile →
  3. cGAS senses long and HMGB/TFAM-bound U-turn DNA by forming protein–DNA ladders
    2017 395 citations Liudmila Andreeva, Björn Hiller et al. Nature profile →
  4. Effector-Triggered Immunity
    2023 105 citations Moritz M. Gaidt, Russell E. Vance et al. profile →

Peers

Moritz M. Gaidt
Yi‐Nan Gong United States
Dan T. Bergstralh United States
Thomas S. Ebert Germany
Mercedes Monteleone Australia
Jennifer J. Dong United States
Chris B. Moore United States
Hanne Van Gorp Belgium
Jelena S. Bezbradica United States
Jueqi Chen United States
Marc Sitbon France
Yi‐Nan Gong United States
Moritz M. Gaidt
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Moritz M. Gaidt

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Grabarczyk, Daniel B., Eric J. Aird, Paul C. Kirchgatterer, et al.. (2025). A split-site E3 ligase mechanism enables ZNFX1 to ubiquitinate and cluster single-stranded RNA into ubiquitin-coated nucleoprotein particles. Cell. 188(21). 5995–6011.e17. 1 indexed citations
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Hornung, Veit & Moritz M. Gaidt. (2024). Friendly fire: recognition of self by the innate immune system. Current Opinion in Immunology. 90. 102457–102457. 2 indexed citations
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Schmacke, Niklas A., Moritz M. Gaidt, Jonathan L. Schmid‐Burgk, et al.. (2022). IKKβ primes inflammasome formation by recruiting NLRP3 to the trans-Golgi network. Immunity. 55(12). 2271–2284.e7. 72 indexed citations
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Pinci, Francesca, et al.. (2022). Tumor necrosis factor is a necroptosis-associated alarmin. Frontiers in Immunology. 13. 1074440–1074440. 16 indexed citations
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Gaidt, Moritz M., et al.. (2021). Self-guarding of MORC3 enables virulence factor-triggered immunity. Nature. 600(7887). 138–142. 43 indexed citations
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Ji, Daisy X., Kristen C. Witt, Dmitri I. Kotov, et al.. (2021). Role of the transcriptional regulator SP140 in resistance to bacterial infections via repression of type I interferons. eLife. 10. 42 indexed citations
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Pinci, Francesca, et al.. (2020). C-tag TNF: a reporter system to study TNF shedding. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(52). 18065–18075. 9 indexed citations
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Wagner, Mirko, Moritz M. Gaidt, Che A. Stafford, et al.. (2019). TLR8 Is a Sensor of RNase T2 Degradation Products. Cell. 179(6). 1264–1275.e13. 126 indexed citations
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Chauhan, Dhruv, Eva Bartok, Moritz M. Gaidt, et al.. (2018). BAX/BAK-Induced Apoptosis Results in Caspase-8-Dependent IL-1β Maturation in Macrophages. Cell Reports. 25(9). 2354–2368.e5. 77 indexed citations
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Gaidt, Moritz M., Thomas S. Ebert, Dhruv Chauhan, et al.. (2017). The DNA Inflammasome in Human Myeloid Cells Is Initiated by a STING-Cell Death Program Upstream of NLRP3. Cell. 171(5). 1110–1124.e18. 475 indexed citations breakdown →
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Andreeva, Liudmila, Björn Hiller, Dirk Kostrewa, et al.. (2017). cGAS senses long and HMGB/TFAM-bound U-turn DNA by forming protein–DNA ladders. Nature. 549(7672). 394–398. 395 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gaidt, Moritz M. & Veit Hornung. (2017). The NLRP3 Inflammasome Renders Cell Death Pro-inflammatory. Journal of Molecular Biology. 430(2). 133–141. 94 indexed citations
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Gaidt, Moritz M., Francesca Rapino, Thomas Graf, & Veit Hornung. (2017). Modeling Primary Human Monocytes with the Trans–Differentiation Cell Line BLaER1. Methods in molecular biology. 1714. 57–66. 21 indexed citations
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Gaidt, Moritz M. & Veit Hornung. (2016). Alternative inflammasome activation enables IL-1β release from living cells. Current Opinion in Immunology. 44. 7–13. 90 indexed citations
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Gaidt, Moritz M., Thomas S. Ebert, Dhruv Chauhan, et al.. (2016). Human Monocytes Engage an Alternative Inflammasome Pathway. Immunity. 44(4). 833–846. 591 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schmidt, Tobias, Jonathan L. Schmid‐Burgk, Thomas S. Ebert, Moritz M. Gaidt, & Veit Hornung. (2015). Designer Nuclease-Mediated Generation of Knockout THP1 Cells. Methods in molecular biology. 1338. 261–272. 18 indexed citations
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Schmid‐Burgk, Jonathan L., Moritz M. Gaidt, Tobias Schmidt, et al.. (2015). Caspase‐4 mediates non‐canonical activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome in human myeloid cells. European Journal of Immunology. 45(10). 2911–2917. 256 indexed citations
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Schmid‐Burgk, Jonathan L., Tobias Schmidt, Moritz M. Gaidt, et al.. (2014). OutKnocker: a web tool for rapid and simple genotyping of designer nuclease edited cell lines. Genome Research. 24(10). 1719–1723. 100 indexed citations
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Mankan, Arun K., Tobias Schmidt, Dhruv Chauhan, et al.. (2014). Cytosolic RNA:DNA hybrids activate the cGAS –STING axis. The EMBO Journal. 33(24). 2937–2946. 259 indexed citations
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Abdullah, Zeinab, Andrea Niño‐Castro, Jan P. Böttcher, et al.. (2012). Lack of PPARγ in Myeloid Cells Confers Resistance to Listeria monocytogenes Infection. PLoS ONE. 7(5). e37349–e37349. 23 indexed citations

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