Peter Kolb

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
83 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Peter Kolb is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Kolb has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Molecular Biology, 30 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 23 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Peter Kolb's work include Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (41 papers), Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (25 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (23 papers). Peter Kolb is often cited by papers focused on Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (41 papers), Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (25 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (23 papers). Peter Kolb collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Peter Kolb's co-authors include John J. Irwin, Amedeo Caflisch, Brian K. Shoichet, Daniel M. Rosenbaum, Florent Chevillard, Juan Carlos Mobarec, Danzhi Huang, Jie Yin, Brian K. Kobilka and Juan José Fung and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Peter Kolb

77 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Structure-based discovery of β ₂ -adrenergic receptor ligands

2009 238 citations Peter Kolb, Daniel M. Rosenbaum et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Kolb Germany	29	1.8k	830	627	263	252	83	2.5k
Jens Carlsson Sweden	34	2.5k 1.4×	897 1.1×	797 1.3×	266 1.0×	343 1.4×	74	3.3k
Hugo Gutiérrez‐de‐Terán Sweden	28	1.7k 0.9×	398 0.5×	606 1.0×	151 0.6×	389 1.5×	103	2.3k
Huaiyu Yang China	29	1.9k 1.1×	261 0.3×	565 0.9×	251 1.0×	378 1.5×	105	3.3k
Caterina Bissantz Switzerland	21	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	420 0.7×	202 0.8×	685 2.7×	46	3.2k
Dennis Underwood United States	22	1.5k 0.8×	427 0.5×	679 1.1×	207 0.8×	336 1.3×	41	2.4k
Wolfgang Guba Switzerland	26	1.2k 0.7×	646 0.8×	280 0.4×	108 0.4×	504 2.0×	60	2.0k
Tatsuro Shimamura Japan	26	2.3k 1.3×	267 0.3×	777 1.2×	380 1.4×	135 0.5×	49	3.1k
Syed Tasadaque Ali Shah Germany	21	2.9k 1.6×	248 0.3×	1.3k 2.1×	423 1.6×	409 1.6×	49	3.8k
Ben Capuano Australia	24	1.5k 0.9×	271 0.3×	887 1.4×	141 0.5×	468 1.9×	93	2.1k
Ingebrigt Sylte Norway	27	1.5k 0.9×	337 0.4×	569 0.9×	93 0.4×	497 2.0×	127	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Kolb

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Kolb

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Günther, Stefan, Lisa Hahnefeld, Jamal Shamsara, et al.. (2025). Orphan G protein-coupled receptor GPRC5B controls macrophage function by facilitating prostaglandin E receptor 2 signaling. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1448–1448. 2 indexed citations

Bünemann, Moritz, et al.. (2024). Investigation of Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor M₃ Activation in Atomistic Detail: A Chemist's Viewpoint. ChemMedChem. 20(3). e202400633–e202400633.

Παπαδόπουλος, Μάνθος Γ., Brian Medel-Lacruz, Angela Ladurner, et al.. (2024). Discovery and characterization of small-molecule TGR5 ligands with agonistic activity. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 276. 116616–116616. 3 indexed citations

Schihada, Hannes, Dovile Januliene, Kristian Parey, et al.. (2024). Cryo-EM structure of cell-free synthesized human histamine 2 receptor/Gs complex in nanodisc environment. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1831–1831. 6 indexed citations

Santos, Lucianna Helene, et al.. (2023). Structure-based discovery of novel cruzain inhibitors with distinct trypanocidal activity profiles. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 257. 115498–115498. 8 indexed citations

Kurz, Michael, Jingchen Shao, Horst Lemoine, et al.. (2023). EP4 Receptor Conformation Sensor Suited for Ligand Screening and Imaging of Extracellular Prostaglandins. Molecular Pharmacology. 104(3). 80–91. 4 indexed citations

Kolb, Peter, et al.. (2023). Development of Fluorescent AF64394 Analogues Enables Real-Time Binding Studies for the Orphan Class A GPCR GPR3. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 66(21). 15025–15041. 8 indexed citations

Lim, Victor, et al.. (2023). Differential interaction patterns of opioid analgesics with µ opioid receptors correlate with ligand-specific voltage sensitivity. eLife. 12. 8 indexed citations

Kolb, Peter, Terry Kenakin, S P H Alexander, et al.. (2022). Community guidelines for GPCR ligand bias: IUPHAR review 32. British Journal of Pharmacology. 179(14). 3651–3674. 121 indexed citations

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Schihada, Hannes, et al.. (2022). Isoforms of GPR35 have distinct extracellular N-termini that allosterically modify receptor-transducer coupling and mediate intracellular pathway bias. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 298(9). 102328–102328. 19 indexed citations

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Chevillard, Florent, et al.. (2021). Fragment evolution for GPCRs: the role of secondary binding sites in optimization. Chemical Communications. 57(81). 10516–10519. 5 indexed citations

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Sydow, Dominique, et al.. (2021). Analyzing Kinase Similarity in Small Molecule and Protein Structural Space to Explore the Limits of Multi-Target Screening. Molecules. 26(3). 629–629. 8 indexed citations

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Gunera, Jakub, Jillian G. Baker, Niek van Hilten, Daniel M. Rosenbaum, & Peter Kolb. (2020). Structure-Based Discovery of Novel Ligands for the Orexin 2 Receptor. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 63(19). 11045–11053. 7 indexed citations

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Chevillard, Florent, Anna Karawajczyk, Els Pardon, et al.. (2019). Interrogating dense ligand chemical space with a forward-synthetic library. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(23). 11496–11501. 18 indexed citations

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Hilten, Niek van, Florent Chevillard, & Peter Kolb. (2019). Virtual Compound Libraries in Computer-Assisted Drug Discovery. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 59(2). 644–651. 51 indexed citations

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Pardon, Els, Cecilia Betti, Toon Laeremans, et al.. (2018). Nanobody‐Enabled Reverse Pharmacology on G‐Protein‐Coupled Receptors. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(19). 5292–5295. 30 indexed citations

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Chevillard, Florent, Cecilia Betti, Els Pardon, et al.. (2018). Binding-Site Compatible Fragment Growing Applied to the Design of β₂-Adrenergic Receptor Ligands. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 61(3). 1118–1129. 37 indexed citations

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Pardon, Els, Cecilia Betti, Toon Laeremans, et al.. (2018). Nanobody‐Enabled Reverse Pharmacology on G‐Protein‐Coupled Receptors. Angewandte Chemie. 130(19). 5390–5393. 2 indexed citations

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Gunera, Jakub, et al.. (2017). Similarity- and Substructure-Based Development of β₂-Adrenergic Receptor Ligands Based on Unusual Scaffolds. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 8(5). 481–485. 5 indexed citations

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Munk, Christian, Vignir Ísberg, Stefan Mordalski, et al.. (2016). GPCRdb: the G protein‐coupled receptor database – an introduction. British Journal of Pharmacology. 173(14). 2195–2207. 151 indexed citations

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