Pablo I. Nikel

11.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
168 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Pablo I. Nikel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Pablo I. Nikel has authored 168 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 147 papers in Molecular Biology, 62 papers in Genetics and 26 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Pablo I. Nikel's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (95 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (62 papers) and Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (31 papers). Pablo I. Nikel is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (95 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (62 papers) and Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (31 papers). Pablo I. Nikel collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Spain and Germany. Pablo I. Nikel's co-authors include Vı́ctor de Lorenzo, Max Chavarría, Daniel C. Volke, Esteban Martínez‐García, Patricia Calero, M. Julia Pettinari, Danilo Pérez‐Pantoja, Beatriz S. Méndez, Nicolas T. Wirth and Antoine Danchin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Pablo I. Nikel

163 papers receiving 7.5k 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.

The Standard European Vector Architecture (SEVA): a coherent platform for the analysis and deployment of complex prokaryotic phenotypes

2012 487 citations Max Chavarría, Alejandro Arce‐Rodríguez et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pablo I. Nikel Denmark	50	5.7k	1.9k	1.8k	990	851	168	7.6k
Alexander F. Yakunin Canada	45	5.4k 0.9×	884 0.5×	759 0.4×	892 0.9×	500 0.6×	147	7.4k
Hideaki Yukawa Japan	49	7.0k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	3.9k 2.2×	441 0.4×	431 0.5×	203	8.7k
Eduardo Dı́az Spain	44	3.5k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	891 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	1.6k 1.9×	118	5.8k
Brian F. Pfleger United States	41	4.2k 0.7×	700 0.4×	2.0k 1.1×	467 0.5×	345 0.4×	110	5.9k
Aindrila Mukhopadhyay United States	48	6.0k 1.1×	762 0.4×	2.8k 1.6×	577 0.6×	265 0.3×	153	8.0k
Christoph Wittmann Germany	73	11.2k 2.0×	1.3k 0.7×	5.5k 3.1×	901 0.9×	469 0.6×	245	15.2k
K. T. Shanmugam United States	55	6.0k 1.0×	995 0.5×	3.8k 2.1×	397 0.4×	406 0.5×	133	8.3k
Byung‐Kwan Cho South Korea	49	5.1k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	674 0.7×	166 0.2×	222	7.1k
Masayuki Inui Japan	50	7.8k 1.4×	1.4k 0.7×	4.2k 2.4×	356 0.4×	215 0.3×	243	9.5k
Hisao Ohtake Japan	40	2.8k 0.5×	831 0.4×	915 0.5×	562 0.6×	716 0.8×	189	5.4k

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Donati, Stefano, et al.. (2025). Synthetic C ₁ metabolism in Pseudomonas putida enables strict formatotrophy and methylotrophy via the reductive glycine pathway. mBio. 16(9). e0197625–e0197625. 2 indexed citations

Bushin, Leah B., Daniel C. Volke, Tae‐Hwan Kim, et al.. (2025). Growth-coupled microbial biosynthesis of the animal pigment xanthommatin. Nature Biotechnology.

Erb, Tobias J., et al.. (2025). Systematic engineering of synthetic serine cycles in Pseudomonas putida uncovers emergent topologies for methanol assimilation. Trends in biotechnology. 43(10). 2539–2565. 4 indexed citations

Volke, Daniel C., et al.. (2025). Engineering a phi15-based expression system for stringent gene expression in Pseudomonas putida. Communications Biology. 8(1). 171–171. 5 indexed citations

Krühne, Ulrich, et al.. (2024). CFD-guided scaling of Pseudomonas putida fermentation. Biochemical Engineering Journal. 213. 109549–109549. 2 indexed citations

Kozaeva, Ekaterina, et al.. (2024). The pAblo · pCasso self-curing vector toolset for unconstrained cytidine and adenine base-editing in Gram-negative bacteria. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(4). e19–e19. 24 indexed citations

Bååth, Jenny Arnling, Peter Westh, Kenneth Jensen, et al.. (2024). A versatile microbial platform as a tunable whole-cell chemical sensor. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8316–8316. 16 indexed citations

Mezzina, Mariela P., Christoph Schroth, Tino Polen, et al.. (2024). Bio-upcycling of even and uneven medium-chain-length diols and dicarboxylates to polyhydroxyalkanoates using engineered Pseudomonas putida. Microbial Cell Factories. 23(1). 54–54. 10 indexed citations

Forné, Ignasi, Kirsten Jung, Pablo I. Nikel, et al.. (2023). Genetic dissection of the degradation pathways for the mycotoxin fusaric acid in Burkholderia ambifaria T16. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 89(12). e0063023–e0063023. 1 indexed citations

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Orsi, Enrico, et al.. (2023). From Rags to Riches: Exploiting the Calvin‐Benson‐Bassham Cycle for Biomanufacturing. ChemCatChem. 15(23). 11 indexed citations

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Wirth, Nicolas T., Anh V. Nguyen, Claudius Lenz, et al.. (2023). Anaerobic glucose uptake in Pseudomonas putida KT2440 in a bioelectrochemical system. Microbial Biotechnology. 17(1). e14375–e14375. 6 indexed citations

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Kozaeva, Ekaterina, et al.. (2022). High‐throughput colorimetric assays optimized for detection of ketones and aldehydes produced by microbial cell factories. Microbial Biotechnology. 15(9). 2426–2438. 10 indexed citations

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Arce‐Rodríguez, Alejandro, et al.. (2022). Dual Effect: High NADH Levels Contribute to Efflux-Mediated Antibiotic Resistance but Drive Lethality Mediated by Reactive Oxygen Species. mBio. 13(1). e0243421–e0243421. 20 indexed citations

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Fernández‐Cabezón, Lorena, et al.. (2021). Spatiotemporal Manipulation of the Mismatch Repair System of Pseudomonas putida Accelerates Phenotype Emergence. ACS Synthetic Biology. 10(5). 1214–1226. 19 indexed citations

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Nikel, Pablo I., et al.. (2021). Reconfiguration of metabolic fluxes in Pseudomonas putida as a response to sub-lethal oxidative stress. The ISME Journal. 15(6). 1751–1766. 99 indexed citations

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Pérez‐Pantoja, Danilo, Pablo I. Nikel, Max Chavarría, & Vı́ctor de Lorenzo. (2021). Transcriptional control of 2,4‐dinitrotoluene degradation in Burkholderia sp . R34 bears a regulatory patch that eases pathway evolution. Environmental Microbiology. 23(5). 2522–2531. 10 indexed citations

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Stritzler, Margarita, et al.. (2020). Elimination of GlnKAmtB affects serine biosynthesis and improves growth and stress tolerance of Escherichia coli under nutrient-rich conditions. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 367(23). 5 indexed citations

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Kohlstedt, Michael, et al.. (2020). Industrial biotechnology of Pseudomonas putida: advances and prospects. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 104(18). 7745–7766. 189 indexed citations

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Fernández‐Cabezón, Lorena, et al.. (2019). Functional implementation of a linear glycolysis for sugar catabolism in Pseudomonas putida. Metabolic Engineering. 54. 200–211. 51 indexed citations

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Wurtzel, Eleanore T., Claudia E. Vickers, Andrew D. Hanson, et al.. (2019). Revolutionizing agriculture with synthetic biology. Nature Plants. 5(12). 1207–1210. 114 indexed citations

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