Robert P. Hausinger

19.7k total citations · 7 hit papers
212 papers, 15.5k citations indexed

About

Robert P. Hausinger is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Environmental Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert P. Hausinger has authored 212 papers receiving a total of 15.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 135 papers in Molecular Biology, 70 papers in Environmental Engineering and 64 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Robert P. Hausinger's work include Microbial Applications in Construction Materials (66 papers), Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (60 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (48 papers). Robert P. Hausinger is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Applications in Construction Materials (66 papers), Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (60 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (48 papers). Robert P. Hausinger collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Japan. Robert P. Hausinger's co-authors include Harry L. T. Mobley, Scott B. Mulrooney, M D Island, P. Andrew Karplus, Matthew J. Ryle, Salette Martinez, Matthew J. Todd, Timothy F. Henshaw, Evelyn Jabri and Lee Macomber and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Robert P. Hausinger

210 papers receiving 15.1k 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.

Microbial ureases: significance, regulation, and molecular characterization

1989 1.1k citations Robert P. Hausinger et al. profile →
Molecular biology of microbial ureases

1995 1.0k citations Robert P. Hausinger et al. profile →
Fe(II)/α-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Hydroxylases and Related Enzymes

2004 772 citations Robert P. Hausinger Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology profile →
The crystal structure of urease from Klebsiella aerogenes

1995 691 citations Robert P. Hausinger, P. Andrew Karplus et al. Science profile →
Oxidative demethylation by Escherichia coli AlkB directly reverts DNA base damage

2002 617 citations Robert P. Hausinger et al. Nature profile →
Microbial ureases: significance, regulation, and molecular characterization.

1989 512 citations Robert P. Hausinger et al. profile →
Bile salt hydrolase acyltransferase activity expands bile acid diversity

2024 80 citations Douglas V. Guzior, C. R. Bridges et al. Nature profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Robert P. Hausinger	7.1k	3.9k	3.3k	2.8k	2.1k	212	15.5k
Michael W. W. Adams	12.9k 1.8×	2.1k 0.5×	3.4k 1.0×	5.1k 1.9×	1.2k 0.6×	491	24.2k
James A. Imlay	10.7k 1.5×	1.3k 0.3×	1.4k 0.4×	2.1k 0.8×	625 0.3×	122	22.2k
José J. G. Moura	5.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.4×	4.2k 1.3×	3.2k 1.1×	1.2k 0.6×	491	16.0k
Stefano Ciurli	2.6k 0.4×	2.2k 0.6×	843 0.3×	1.7k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	177	6.4k
Miguel Teixeira	5.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.3×	1.8k 0.5×	1.6k 0.6×	428 0.2×	254	11.1k
Amy C. Rosenzweig	5.9k 0.8×	439 0.1×	4.5k 1.4×	2.6k 1.0×	2.6k 1.2×	160	12.5k
Isabel Moura	4.5k 0.6×	1.3k 0.3×	3.5k 1.0×	2.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	375	12.8k
James G. Ferry	7.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.3×	1.0k 0.3×	1.7k 0.6×	217 0.1×	198	13.2k
Oliver Einsle	2.9k 0.4×	976 0.2×	2.1k 0.6×	2.0k 0.7×	598 0.3×	186	9.7k
Simón Silver	4.7k 0.7×	763 0.2×	669 0.2×	2.9k 1.0×	605 0.3×	182	18.3k

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Christov, Christo, et al.. (2025). Biochemical, Structural, and Conformational Characterization of a Fungal Ethylene-Forming Enzyme. Biochemistry. 64(9). 2054–2067. 2 indexed citations

Delaney, Bryan, et al.. (2025). Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction of the Ethylene-Forming Enzyme. Biochemistry. 64(15). 3432–3445. 1 indexed citations

Desguin, Benoît, et al.. (2025). Structural Basis for the Catalysis and Substrate Specificity of a LarA Racemase with a Broad Substrate Spectrum. ACS Catalysis. 15(4). 2857–2866.

Fellner, Matthias, et al.. (2024). Structural, Spectroscopic, and Computational Insights from Canavanine-Bound and Two Catalytically Compromised Variants of the Ethylene-Forming Enzyme. Biochemistry. 63(8). 1038–1050. 8 indexed citations

Guzior, Douglas V., C. R. Bridges, Yousi Fu, et al.. (2024). Bile salt hydrolase acyltransferase activity expands bile acid diversity. Nature. 626(8000). 852–858. 80 indexed citations breakdown →

Turmo, Aiko, et al.. (2024). Overcoming barriers for investigating nickel-pincer nucleotide cofactor-related enzymes. mBio. 16(2). e0340424–e0340424. 1 indexed citations

Turmo, Aiko, et al.. (2024). A structural view of nickel-pincer nucleotide cofactor-related biochemistry. Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 59(6). 402–417.

Chaturvedi, Shobhit S., et al.. (2023). Dioxygen Binding Is Controlled by the Protein Environment in Non‐heme Fe^II and 2‐Oxoglutarate Oxygenases: A Study on Histone Demethylase PHF8 and an Ethylene‐Forming Enzyme. Chemistry - A European Journal. 29(24). e202300138–e202300138. 10 indexed citations

Chaturvedi, Shobhit S., et al.. (2023). Can an external electric field switch between ethylene formation and l-arginine hydroxylation in the ethylene forming enzyme?. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 25(19). 13772–13783. 17 indexed citations

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Hausinger, Robert P., et al.. (2023). Biological formation of ethylene. RSC Chemical Biology. 4(9). 635–646. 12 indexed citations

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Desguin, Benoît, et al.. (2021). The LarB carboxylase/hydrolase forms a transient cysteinyl-pyridine intermediate during nickel-pincer nucleotide cofactor biosynthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(39). 12 indexed citations

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Hausinger, Robert P., et al.. (2018). Nickel–pincer nucleotide cofactor. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 47. 18–23. 14 indexed citations

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Fellner, Matthias, et al.. (2018). Analysis of the Active Site Cysteine Residue of the Sacrificial Sulfur Insertase LarE from Lactobacillus plantarum. Biochemistry. 57(38). 5513–5523. 19 indexed citations

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Desguin, Benoît, Matthias Fellner, Olivier Riant, et al.. (2018). Biosynthesis of the nickel-pincer nucleotide cofactor of lactate racemase requires a CTP-dependent cyclometallase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 293(32). 12303–12317. 30 indexed citations

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Fellner, Matthias, Benoît Desguin, John McCracken, et al.. (2018). Lactate Racemase Nickel-Pincer Cofactor Operates by a Proton-Coupled Hydride Transfer Mechanism. Biochemistry. 57(23). 3244–3251. 26 indexed citations

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Fellner, Matthias, Benoît Desguin, Robert P. Hausinger, & Jian Hu. (2017). Structural insights into the catalytic mechanism of a sacrificial sulfur insertase of the N-type ATP pyrophosphatase family, LarE. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(34). 9074–9079. 34 indexed citations

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Desguin, Benoît, Patrice Soumillion, Pascal Hols, & Robert P. Hausinger. (2016). Nickel-pincer cofactor biosynthesis involves LarB-catalyzed pyridinium carboxylation and LarE-dependent sacrificial sulfur insertion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(20). 5598–5603. 39 indexed citations

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Desguin, Benoît, Tuo Zhang, Patrice Soumillion, et al.. (2015). A tethered niacin-derived pincer complex with a nickel-carbon bond in lactate racemase. Science. 349(6243). 66–69. 73 indexed citations

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Carter, Eric L., et al.. (2011). Iron-containing urease in a pathogenic bacterium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(32). 13095–13099. 57 indexed citations

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Kim, Sang-Dal & Robert P. Hausinger. (1994). Genetic Organization of the Recombinant Bacillus pasteurii Urease Genes Expressed in Escherichia coli. Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology. 4(2). 108–112. 2 indexed citations

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