Patrick Kiefer

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Patrick Kiefer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Kiefer has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Biochemistry and 8 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Patrick Kiefer's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (28 papers), Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (10 papers) and Microbial metabolism and enzyme function (10 papers). Patrick Kiefer is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (28 papers), Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (10 papers) and Microbial metabolism and enzyme function (10 papers). Patrick Kiefer collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and France. Patrick Kiefer's co-authors include Julia A. Vorholt, Jean‐Charles Portais, Christoph Wittmann, Elmar Heinzle, Philipp Christen, Fabien Létisse, Fabian Meyer, Oskar Zelder, Rémi Peyraud and Christoph J. Bolten and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Kiefer

57 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Strigolactones Stimulate Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi by Activating Mitochondria

2006 553 citations Arnaud Besserer, Virginie Puech‐Pagès et al. PLoS Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patrick Kiefer Switzerland	36	2.7k	857	818	381	274	57	3.9k
Bertold Hock Germany	35	1.9k 0.7×	822 1.0×	736 0.9×	199 0.5×	119 0.4×	175	4.0k
Nikolaos E. Labrou Greece	38	3.5k 1.3×	1.0k 1.2×	336 0.4×	112 0.3×	259 0.9×	207	5.0k
Hanhong Xu China	34	1.4k 0.5×	1.8k 2.1×	699 0.9×	359 0.9×	491 1.8×	311	4.3k
Fabien Létisse France	27	2.0k 0.7×	1.7k 2.0×	305 0.4×	284 0.7×	133 0.5×	54	3.6k
Carlos Jiménez Spain	34	1.3k 0.5×	462 0.5×	750 0.9×	299 0.8×	122 0.4×	236	4.5k
Anita J. Marsaioli Brazil	34	1.4k 0.5×	919 1.1×	215 0.3×	265 0.7×	99 0.4×	185	3.6k
Antoni R. Slabas United Kingdom	42	3.6k 1.3×	2.4k 2.8×	241 0.3×	298 0.8×	321 1.2×	145	5.6k
Joshua L. Heazlewood Australia	48	5.6k 2.0×	4.1k 4.8×	385 0.5×	756 2.0×	155 0.6×	117	7.8k
Tsukasa Ikeda Japan	34	2.3k 0.9×	432 0.5×	343 0.4×	452 1.2×	388 1.4×	126	4.0k
Jennifer A. Littlechild United Kingdom	39	3.2k 1.2×	583 0.7×	495 0.6×	195 0.5×	994 3.6×	149	4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Patrick Kiefer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Patrick Kiefer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick Kiefer

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

All Works

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Richter, Ingrid, Thomas Gassler, Christopher M. Field, et al.. (2024). Inducing novel endosymbioses by implanting bacteria in fungi. Nature. 635(8038). 415–422. 19 indexed citations

Haunreiter, Vanina Dengler, Federica Andreoni, Clément Vulin, et al.. (2023). C-di-AMP levels modulate Staphylococcus aureus cell wall thickness, response to oxidative stress, and antibiotic resistance and tolerance. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(6). e0278823–e0278823. 5 indexed citations

Kiefer, Patrick, et al.. (2023). The Legionella autoinducer LAI-1 is delivered by outer membrane vesicles to promote interbacterial and interkingdom signaling. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 299(12). 105376–105376. 8 indexed citations

Gül, Ersin, Erik Bakkeren, Guillem Salazar, et al.. (2023). The microbiota conditions a gut milieu that selects for wild-type Salmonella Typhimurium virulence. PLoS Biology. 21(8). e3002253–e3002253. 14 indexed citations

Keller, Philipp, Michael Reiter, Patrick Kiefer, et al.. (2022). Generation of an Escherichia coli strain growing on methanol via the ribulose monophosphate cycle. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5243–5243. 66 indexed citations

Kiefer, Patrick, Christopher M. Field, Lucas Hemmerle, et al.. (2021). A general non-self response as part of plant immunity. Nature Plants. 7(5). 696–705. 46 indexed citations

Keller, Philipp, Εlad Noor, Fabian Meyer, et al.. (2020). Methanol-dependent Escherichia coli strains with a complete ribulose monophosphate cycle. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5403–5403. 45 indexed citations

Millard, Pierre, Uwe Schmitt, Patrick Kiefer, et al.. (2020). ScalaFlux: A scalable approach to quantify fluxes in metabolic subnetworks. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(4). e1007799–e1007799. 12 indexed citations

Hartl, Johannes, Patrick Kiefer, Andreas Kaczmarczyk, et al.. (2020). Untargeted metabolomics links glutathione to bacterial cell cycle progression. Nature Metabolism. 2(2). 153–166. 41 indexed citations

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Saurel, Olivier, et al.. (2016). The One-carbon Carrier Methylofuran from Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 Contains a Large Number of α- and γ-Linked Glutamic Acid Residues. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 291(17). 9042–9051. 6 indexed citations

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Müller, Jonas E. N., Fabian Meyer, Boris Litsanov, et al.. (2015). Engineering Escherichia coli for methanol conversion. Metabolic Engineering. 28. 190–201. 171 indexed citations

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Vögeli, Bastian, Nick Quade, Guido Capitani, et al.. (2015). The use of ene adducts to study and engineer enoyl-thioester reductases. Nature Chemical Biology. 11(6). 398–400. 26 indexed citations

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Becker, Judith, et al.. (2013). Systems metabolic engineering of xylose‐utilizing Corynebacterium glutamicum for production of 1,5‐diaminopentane. Biotechnology Journal. 8(5). 557–570. 94 indexed citations

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Erb, Tobias J., Patrick Kiefer, Bodo Hattendorf, Detlef Günther, & Julia A. Vorholt. (2012). GFAJ-1 Is an Arsenate-Resistant, Phosphate-Dependent Organism. Science. 337(6093). 467–470. 72 indexed citations

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Kiefer, Patrick, et al.. (2009). Metabolite Profiling Uncovers Plasmid-Induced Cobalt Limitation under Methylotrophic Growth Conditions. PLoS ONE. 4(11). e7831–e7831. 29 indexed citations

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Takeuchi, Kasumi, Patrick Kiefer, Cornelia Reimmann, et al.. (2009). Small RNA-dependent Expression of Secondary Metabolism Is Controlled by Krebs Cycle Function in Pseudomonas fluorescens. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(50). 34976–34985. 62 indexed citations

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Spirig, Thomas, André N. Tiaden, Patrick Kiefer, et al.. (2008). The Legionella Autoinducer Synthase LqsA Produces an α-Hydroxyketone Signaling Molecule. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(26). 18113–18123. 90 indexed citations

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Nicolas, Cécile, Patrick Kiefer, Fabien Létisse, et al.. (2007). Response of the central metabolism of Escherichia coli to modified expression of the gene encoding the glucose‐6‐phosphate dehydrogenase. FEBS Letters. 581(20). 3771–3776. 48 indexed citations

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Kiefer, Patrick, Cécile Nicolas, Fabien Létisse, & Jean‐Charles Portais. (2006). Determination of carbon labeling distribution of intracellular metabolites from single fragment ions by ion chromatography tandem mass spectrometry. Analytical Biochemistry. 360(2). 182–188. 66 indexed citations

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Besserer, Arnaud, Virginie Puech‐Pagès, Patrick Kiefer, et al.. (2006). Strigolactones Stimulate Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi by Activating Mitochondria. PLoS Biology. 4(7). e226–e226. 553 indexed citations breakdown →

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