Nathan Crook

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Nathan Crook is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Food Science and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan Crook has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Food Science and 8 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Nathan Crook's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (10 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (8 papers) and Probiotics and Fermented Foods (8 papers). Nathan Crook is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (10 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (8 papers) and Probiotics and Fermented Foods (8 papers). Nathan Crook collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Germany. Nathan Crook's co-authors include Gautam Dantas, Amy Langdon, Hal S. Alper, Frances H. Arnold, Rudi Fasan, Alexander Schmitz, Chase L. Beisel, Aura Ferreiro, Justin M. Vento and Kathleen A. Curran and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nucleic Acids Research and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Nathan Crook

42 papers receiving 2.2k 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 effects of antibiotics on the microbiome throughout development and alternative approaches for therapeutic modulation

2016 627 citations Amy Langdon, Nathan Crook et al. Genome Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nathan Crook United States	21	1.4k	289	235	232	221	46	2.3k
Meng‐Shiou Lee Taiwan	32	1.0k 0.7×	264 0.9×	212 0.9×	119 0.5×	187 0.8×	113	3.0k
Daijie Chen China	28	1.3k 0.9×	446 1.5×	212 0.9×	125 0.5×	149 0.7×	105	2.4k
Fengjun Sun China	27	999 0.7×	140 0.5×	197 0.8×	259 1.1×	122 0.6×	104	2.2k
Sook‐Young Lee South Korea	31	1.4k 1.0×	132 0.5×	465 2.0×	210 0.9×	157 0.7×	159	3.1k
Ana Rita Brochado Germany	11	1.5k 1.0×	193 0.7×	180 0.8×	363 1.6×	211 1.0×	15	2.1k
Krishnaswamy Balamurugan India	33	1.2k 0.9×	118 0.4×	327 1.4×	270 1.2×	128 0.6×	139	2.8k
Abolfazl Barzegari Iran	36	1.5k 1.0×	388 1.3×	509 2.2×	118 0.5×	230 1.0×	123	3.3k
Wooseong Kim South Korea	28	1.2k 0.8×	366 1.3×	139 0.6×	313 1.3×	210 1.0×	98	2.6k
Jianzhong Ye China	29	1.5k 1.0×	131 0.5×	565 2.4×	264 1.1×	186 0.8×	127	3.0k
Min Chen China	26	1.0k 0.7×	265 0.9×	208 0.9×	266 1.1×	124 0.6×	161	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Nathan Crook

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nathan Crook

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

All Works

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Salmon, Sonja, et al.. (2025). Techno-economic analysis of industrial-scale fermentation for formate dehydrogenase (FDH) production. Bioresources and Bioprocessing. 12(1). 145–145. 1 indexed citations

Salem, Khandoker Samaher, Adriana San‐Miguel, Charles Opperman, et al.. (2025). Pickering Emulsion for Enhanced Viability of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria and Combined Delivery of Agrochemicals and Biologics. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(24). 4 indexed citations

Parker, William, et al.. (2025). Enabling technologies for in situ biomanufacturing using probiotic yeast. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. 223. 115605–115605. 1 indexed citations

San‐Miguel, Adriana, et al.. (2024). Programming Probiotics: Diet-Responsive Gene Expression and Colonization Control in Engineered S. boulardii. ACS Synthetic Biology. 13(6). 1851–1865. 9 indexed citations

Crook, Nathan, et al.. (2024). The biochemical mechanisms of plastic biodegradation. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 48(6). 5 indexed citations

Vento, Justin M., Tianyu Li, Constantinos Patinios, et al.. (2024). A cell-free transcription-translation pipeline for recreating methylation patterns boosts DNA transformation in bacteria. Molecular Cell. 84(14). 2785–2796.e4. 10 indexed citations

Eroglu, Abdulkerim, et al.. (2024). Carotenoids. Advances in Nutrition. 15(11). 100304–100304.

Pirzada, Tahira, Richard Guenther, Tim L. Sit, et al.. (2023). Cellulose Acetate-Stabilized Pickering Emulsions: Preparation, Rheology, and Incorporation of Agricultural Active Ingredients. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 11(42). 15178–15191. 10 indexed citations

Bohn, Torsten, et al.. (2023). Carotenoids in Health as Studied by Omics-Related Endpoints. Advances in Nutrition. 14(6). 1538–1578. 20 indexed citations

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Li, Tianyu, Stefano Menegatti, & Nathan Crook. (2023). Breakdown of polyethylene therepthalate microplastics under saltwater conditions using engineered Vibrio natriegens. AIChE Journal. 69(12). 27 indexed citations

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Xiao, Xingqing, et al.. (2023). Design of 8-mer peptides that block Clostridioides difficile toxin A in intestinal cells. Communications Biology. 6(1). 878–878. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Tianyu, Abdulelah S. Alshehri, Nicholas L. Abbott, et al.. (2023). An integrated chemical engineering approach to understanding microplastics. AIChE Journal. 69(4). 15 indexed citations

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Menegatti, Stefano, et al.. (2021). Design and in situ biosynthesis of precision therapies against gastrointestinal pathogens. Current Opinion in Physiology. 23. 100453–100453. 4 indexed citations

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Xiao, Xingqing, et al.. (2021). In Silico Identification and Experimental Validation of Peptide-Based Inhibitors Targeting Clostridium difficile Toxin A. ACS Chemical Biology. 17(1). 118–128. 10 indexed citations

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Crook, Nathan, et al.. (2021). Discovery and delivery strategies for engineered live biotherapeutic products. Trends in biotechnology. 40(3). 354–369. 59 indexed citations

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Langdon, Amy, Nathan Crook, & Gautam Dantas. (2016). The effects of antibiotics on the microbiome throughout development and alternative approaches for therapeutic modulation. Genome Medicine. 8(1). 39–39. 627 indexed citations breakdown →

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Curran, Kathleen A., et al.. (2014). Design of synthetic yeast promoters via tuning of nucleosome architecture. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4002–4002. 120 indexed citations

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Lanza, Amanda M., John Blazeck, Nathan Crook, & Hal S. Alper. (2012). Linking Yeast Gcn5p Catalytic Function and Gene Regulation Using a Quantitative, Graded Dominant Mutant Approach. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e36193–e36193. 10 indexed citations

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Curran, Kathleen A., Nathan Crook, & Hal S. Alper. (2011). Using Flux Balance Analysis to Guide Microbial Metabolic Engineering. Methods in molecular biology. 834. 197–216. 28 indexed citations

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Fasan, Rudi, et al.. (2007). Engineered Alkane‐Hydroxylating Cytochrome P450_BM3 Exhibiting Nativelike Catalytic Properties. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 46(44). 8414–8418. 190 indexed citations

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