Rainer Kalscheuer

7.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
115 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Rainer Kalscheuer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rainer Kalscheuer has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Molecular Biology, 44 papers in Pharmacology and 23 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Rainer Kalscheuer's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (41 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (21 papers) and Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (18 papers). Rainer Kalscheuer is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (41 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (21 papers) and Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (18 papers). Rainer Kalscheuer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and Egypt. Rainer Kalscheuer's co-authors include Alexander Steinbüchel, Bernd H. A. Rehm, Héctor M. Álvarez, William R. Jacobs, Tim Stöveken, Heinrich Luftmann, Rudolf Reichelt, Ursula Malkus, Peter Proksch and Marc Wältermann and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Rainer Kalscheuer

110 papers receiving 5.4k 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.

A sensitive, viable-colony staining method using Nile red for direct screening of bacteria that accumulate polyhydroxyalkanoic acids and other lipid storage compounds

1999 618 citations Rainer Kalscheuer, Alexander Steinbüchel et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rainer Kalscheuer Germany	37	3.4k	1.1k	863	701	697	115	5.5k
Hua Xiang China	43	3.7k 1.1×	440 0.4×	679 0.8×	249 0.4×	253 0.4×	242	6.2k
Byung‐Kwan Cho South Korea	49	5.1k 1.5×	1.0k 1.0×	219 0.3×	754 1.1×	144 0.2×	222	7.1k
Michael Lalk Germany	42	2.8k 0.8×	379 0.3×	1.1k 1.2×	579 0.8×	344 0.5×	181	5.3k
Rey‐Ting Guo China	38	2.5k 0.7×	971 0.9×	166 0.2×	536 0.8×	129 0.2×	178	5.1k
Katsuya Gomi Japan	50	4.6k 1.4×	1.3k 1.2×	271 0.3×	2.1k 2.9×	224 0.3×	168	6.7k
Xiaoyuan Wang China	43	3.7k 1.1×	1000 0.9×	230 0.3×	150 0.2×	277 0.4×	227	5.8k
Lothar Eggeling Germany	61	9.0k 2.6×	2.7k 2.5×	817 0.9×	325 0.5×	741 1.1×	164	10.5k
Tânia Ueda‐Nakamura Brazil	47	1.8k 0.5×	304 0.3×	292 0.3×	318 0.5×	1.3k 1.8×	226	6.9k
Cuiqing Ma China	50	4.7k 1.4×	3.0k 2.8×	328 0.4×	108 0.2×	90 0.1×	203	7.3k
Arthur F. J. Ram Netherlands	48	5.5k 1.6×	1.7k 1.6×	661 0.8×	1.2k 1.8×	529 0.8×	156	7.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rainer Kalscheuer

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All Works

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Cifuente, Javier O., Christophe Colleoni, Rainer Kalscheuer, & Marcelo E. Guerin. (2024). Architecture, Function, Regulation, and Evolution of α-Glucans Metabolic Enzymes in Prokaryotes. Chemical Reviews. 124(8). 4863–4934. 8 indexed citations

Illarionov, Boris, Laís Pessanha de Carvalho, Adelbert Bacher, et al.. (2024). Expanding the Chemical Space of Reverse Fosmidomycin Analogs. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 16(1). 136–143.

Illarionov, Boris, Laís Pessanha de Carvalho, Klaus Pfeffer, et al.. (2024). Reverse N-Substituted Hydroxamic Acid Derivatives of Fosmidomycin Target a Previously Unknown Subpocket of 1-Deoxy-d-xylulose 5-Phosphate Reductoisomerase (DXR). ACS Infectious Diseases. 10(5). 1739–1752. 2 indexed citations

Al‐Soud, Yaseen A., Raed A. Al‐Qawasmeh, Najim A. Al‐Masoudi, et al.. (2024). Novel 4-nitroimidazole analogues: synthesis, in vitro biological evaluation, in silico studies, and molecular dynamics simulation. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C. 79(3-4). 61–71.

Akoné, Sergi Hervé, et al.. (2024). Xylatolides A and B, new 10-membered macrolides from the endophytic fungus Xylaria sp.. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C. 79(11-12). 371–376. 3 indexed citations

Elissawy, Ahmed M., Nehal Ibrahim, Attila Mándi, et al.. (2023). New Meroterpenoid Derivatives from the Pomegranate-Derived Endophytic Fungus Talaromyces purpureogenus. Molecules. 28(22). 7650–7650. 4 indexed citations

Eze, Peter M., Yang Liu, Sherif S. Ebada, et al.. (2023). Two new metabolites from a marine-derived fungus Penicillium ochrochloron. Phytochemistry Letters. 55. 101–104. 2 indexed citations

Frank, Marian, et al.. (2022). In Vitro Biological Activity of Natural Products from the Endophytic Fungus Paraboeremia selaginellae against Toxoplasma gondii. Antibiotics. 11(9). 1176–1176. 4 indexed citations

Akoné, Sergi Hervé, Hao Wang, Attila Mándi, et al.. (2022). Prenylated cyclohexene-type meroterpenoids and sulfur-containing xanthones produced by Pseudopestalotiopsis theae. Phytochemistry. 197. 113124–113124. 8 indexed citations

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Wichern, Florian, et al.. (2021). Distinct Resistomes and Microbial Communities of Soils, Wastewater Treatment Plants and Households Suggest Development of Antibiotic Resistances Due to Distinct Environmental Conditions in Each Environment. Antibiotics. 10(5). 514–514. 12 indexed citations

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Lucassen, Ralf, et al.. (2020). The Household Resistome: Frequency of β-Lactamases, Class 1 Integrons, and Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in the Domestic Environment and Their Reduction during Automated Dishwashing and Laundering. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 86(23). 16 indexed citations

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Ancheeva, Elena, Marian Frank, Fabian Stuhldreier, et al.. (2020). Didymellanosine, a new decahydrofluorene analogue, and ascolactone C from Didymella sp. IEA-3B.1, an endophyte of Terminalia catappa. RSC Advances. 10(12). 7232–7240. 9 indexed citations

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Wichern, Florian, et al.. (2020). Winter is coming – Impact of temperature on the variation of beta-lactamase and mcr genes in a wastewater treatment plant. The Science of The Total Environment. 712. 136499–136499. 65 indexed citations

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Kamariza, Mireille, Peyton Shieh, Christopher Ealand, et al.. (2018). Rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum with a solvatochromic trehalose probe. Science Translational Medicine. 10(430). 115 indexed citations

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Δαλέτος, Γεώργιος, et al.. (2016). Antimycobacterial Metabolites from Marine Invertebrates. Archiv der Pharmazie. 349(10). 763–773. 12 indexed citations

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Steiger, Julia, Alexander Stephan, Megan S. Inkeles, et al.. (2016). Imatinib Triggers Phagolysosome Acidification and Antimicrobial Activity against Mycobacterium bovis Bacille Calmette–Guérin in Glucocorticoid-Treated Human Macrophages. The Journal of Immunology. 197(1). 222–232. 20 indexed citations

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Trujillo, Carolina, Karl Syson, Hendrik Koliwer‐Brandl, et al.. (2016). Trehalose-6-Phosphate-Mediated Toxicity Determines Essentiality of OtsB2 in Mycobacterium tuberculosis In Vitro and in Mice. PLoS Pathogens. 12(12). e1006043–e1006043. 28 indexed citations

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Kalscheuer, Rainer, Brian Weinrick, Veeraraghavan Usha, Gurdyal S. Besra, & William R. Jacobs. (2010). Trehalose-recycling ABC transporter LpqY-SugA-SugB-SugC is essential for virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(50). 21761–21766. 151 indexed citations

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Kalscheuer, Rainer, Tim Stöveken, & Alexander Steinbüchel. (2007). Engineered microorganisms for sustainable production of diesel fuel and other oleochemicals from renewable plant biomass. International sugar journal. 109(1297). 16–19. 6 indexed citations

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Kalscheuer, Rainer, et al.. (2006). Microdiesel: Escherichia coli engineered for fuel production. Microbiology. 152(9). 2529–2536. 334 indexed citations

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