Morten Kjeldgaard

16.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 15.5k citations indexed

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Morten Kjeldgaard is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Morten Kjeldgaard has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 15.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Materials Chemistry and 4 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Morten Kjeldgaard's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (18 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (14 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (13 papers). Morten Kjeldgaard is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (18 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (14 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (13 papers). Morten Kjeldgaard collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United States and Sweden. Morten Kjeldgaard's co-authors include T. Alwyn Jones, Sandra W. Cowan, Jens Nyborg, Poul Nissen, Søren Thirup, Brian F.C. Clark, Galina Polekhina, L. Reshetnikova, Ditlev E. Brodersen and Donald M. Engelman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Morten Kjeldgaard

32 papers receiving 15.3k citations

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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.

Improved methods for building protein models in electron density maps and the location of errors in these models

1991 12.1k citations T. Alwyn Jones, Sandra W. Cowan et al. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography profile →
Crystal Structure of the Ternary Complex of Phe-tRNA ^Phe , EF-Tu, and a GTP Analog

1995 718 citations Poul Nissen, Morten Kjeldgaard et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Morten Kjeldgaard Denmark	22	12.1k	3.7k	2.1k	1.5k	1.2k	32	15.5k
Sandra W. Cowan Sweden	14	11.5k 1.0×	3.5k 0.9×	2.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	16	15.2k
P. Kraulis Sweden	16	12.1k 1.0×	4.2k 1.1×	1.5k 0.7×	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	18	16.1k
John Kuszewski United States	21	15.6k 1.3×	4.8k 1.3×	2.3k 1.1×	1.8k 1.2×	1.4k 1.2×	25	20.0k
Thomas Simonson France	36	15.7k 1.3×	4.7k 1.3×	2.2k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	128	20.4k
D.A. Keedy United States	27	11.3k 0.9×	3.2k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	46	16.0k
Georg E. Schulz Germany	77	15.3k 1.3×	4.4k 1.2×	2.2k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	242	20.9k
Geerten W. Vuister Netherlands	46	15.8k 1.3×	3.8k 1.0×	1.6k 0.8×	2.0k 1.3×	1.3k 1.1×	120	20.2k
Harold R. Powell United Kingdom	22	9.2k 0.8×	3.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	991 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	73	14.2k
E. J. Dodson United Kingdom	4	9.6k 0.8×	3.3k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	5	13.3k
Guang Zhu Hong Kong	32	13.7k 1.1×	3.1k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	1.9k 1.3×	1.3k 1.1×	125	18.4k

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Liljas, Anders, et al.. (2016). Textbook of Structural Biology. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 22 indexed citations

Eck, Leon van, Morten Kjeldgaard, Christopher J. Russo, et al.. (2015). Structural insights into the bacterial carbon–phosphorus lyase machinery. Nature. 525(7567). 68–72. 67 indexed citations

Behrens, Manja A., et al.. (2014). The Shapes of Z- α 1 -Antitrypsin Polymers in Solution Support the C-Terminal Domain-Swap Mechanism of Polymerization. Biophysical Journal. 107(8). 1905–1912. 15 indexed citations

Kjeldgaard, Morten. (2003). The Unfolding Story of Polypeptide Release Factors. Molecular Cell. 11(1). 8–10. 4 indexed citations

Boesen, Thomas, Natalya U. Fedosova, Morten Kjeldgaard, Svend Birkelund, & Gunna Christiansen. (2001). Molecular design of Mycoplasma hominis Vaa adhesin. Protein Science. 10(12). 2577–2586. 21 indexed citations

Vestergaard, Bente, Leon van Eck, G.R. Andersen, et al.. (2001). Bacterial Polypeptide Release Factor RF2 Is Structurally Distinct from Eukaryotic eRF1. Molecular Cell. 8(6). 1375–1382. 155 indexed citations

Brodersen, Ditlev E., Eric de La Fortelle, Clemens Vonrhein, et al.. (2000). Applications of single-wavelength anomalous dispersion at high and atomic resolution. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 56(4). 431–441. 40 indexed citations

Clark, Brian F.C., Søren Thirup, Morten Kjeldgaard, & Jens Nyborg. (1999). Structural information for explaining the molecular mechanism of protein biosynthesis. FEBS Letters. 452(1-2). 41–46. 18 indexed citations

Brodersen, Ditlev E., Michael Etzerodt, Peder Madsen, et al.. (1998). EF-hands at atomic resolution: the structure of human psoriasin (S100A7) solved by MAD phasing. Structure. 6(4). 477–489. 88 indexed citations

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Nyborg, Jens, Poul Nissen, Morten Kjeldgaard, et al.. (1997). Macromolecular mimicry in protein biosynthesis. PubMed. 2(3). S7–S11. 5 indexed citations

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Jones, T. Alwyn & Morten Kjeldgaard. (1997). [10] Electron-density map interpretation. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 277. 173–208. 475 indexed citations

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Nissen, Poul, Morten Kjeldgaard, Søren Thirup, Brian F.C. Clark, & Jens Nyborg. (1996). The ternary complex of aminoacylated tRNA and EF-Tu-GTP. Recognition of a bond and a fold. Biochimie. 78(11-12). 921–933. 48 indexed citations

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Nissen, Poul, L. Reshetnikova, Gunhild E. Siboska, et al.. (1994). Purification and crystallization of the ternary complex of elongation factor Tu:GTP and Phe‐tRNA^Phe. FEBS Letters. 356(2-3). 165–168. 12 indexed citations

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Kjeldgaard, Morten, Poul Nissen, Søren Thirup, & Jens Nyborg. (1993). The crystal structure of elongation factor EF-Tu from Thermus aquaticus in the GTP conformation. Structure. 1(1). 35–50. 345 indexed citations

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Jones, T. Alwyn, et al.. (1991). Improved methods for building protein models in electron density maps and the location of errors in these models. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 47(2). 110–119. 12092 indexed citations breakdown →

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Capel, Malcolm, Donald M. Engelman, Betty Freeborn, et al.. (1988). A complete mapping of the positions of the proteins in the small ribosomal subunit of escherichia coli. Makromolekulare Chemie Macromolecular Symposia. 15(1). 123–130. 6 indexed citations

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Capel, Malcolm, Morten Kjeldgaard, Donald M. Engelman, & Peter B. Moore. (1988). Positions of S2, S13, S16, S17, S19 and S21 in the 30 S ribosomal subunit of Escherichia coli. Journal of Molecular Biology. 200(1). 65–87. 88 indexed citations

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Capel, Malcolm, Donald M. Engelman, Betty Freeborn, et al.. (1987). A Complete Mapping of the Proteins in the Small Ribosomal Subunit of Escherichia coli. Science. 238(4832). 1403–1406. 216 indexed citations

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Cenatiempo, Y., J. Dondon, M. Grunberg‐Manago, et al.. (1987). The protein synthesis initiation factor 2 G-domain. Study of a functionally active C-terminal 65-kilodalton fragment of IF2 from Escherichia coli. Biochemistry. 26(16). 5070–5076. 50 indexed citations

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Kjeldgaard, Morten, et al.. (1984). Trypanosome variant-specific glycoproteins: a polygene protein family with multiple folding patterns?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 81(4). 998–1002. 16 indexed citations

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