Roland Riek

34.8k total citations · 15 hit papers
285 papers, 25.1k citations indexed

About

Roland Riek is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Roland Riek has authored 285 papers receiving a total of 25.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 177 papers in Molecular Biology, 65 papers in Physiology and 58 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Roland Riek's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (93 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (63 papers) and Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (47 papers). Roland Riek is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (93 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (63 papers) and Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (47 papers). Roland Riek collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Roland Riek's co-authors include Kurt Wüthrich, Gerhard Wider, Konstantin Pervushin, David Eisenberg, Jason Greenwald, Beat H. Meier, Thorsten Lührs, Simone Hornemann, Rudi Glockshuber and Martin Billeter and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Roland Riek

271 papers receiving 24.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Attenuated T ₂ relaxation by mutual cancellation of dipole–dipole coupling and chemical shift anisotropy indicates an avenue to NMR structures of very large biological macromolecules in solution

1997 1.9k citations Roland Riek, Kurt Wüthrich et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
3D structure of Alzheimer's amyloid-β(1–42) fibrils

2005 1.8k citations David Schubert, Roland Riek et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
In vivo demonstration that α-synuclein oligomers are toxic

2011 1.2k citations Samir K. Maji, Sebastian Jessberger et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
NMR structure of the mouse prion protein domain PrP(121–231)

1996 1.0k citations Roland Riek, Simone Hornemann et al. profile →
NMR solution structure of the human prion protein

2000 893 citations Roland Riek, Kurt Wüthrich et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Functional Amyloids As Natural Storage of Peptide Hormones in Pituitary Secretory Granules

2009 872 citations Samir K. Maji, Marilyn H. Perrin et al. Science profile →
Amyloid Fibrils of the HET-s(218–289) Prion Form a β Solenoid with a Triangular Hydrophobic Core

2008 838 citations Roland Riek, Beat H. Meier et al. Science profile →
Atomic-resolution structure of a disease-relevant Aβ(1–42) amyloid fibril

2016 679 citations Marielle Aulikki Wälti, Anja Böckmann et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Identifying the amylome, proteins capable of forming amyloid-like fibrils

2010 658 citations Lukasz Goldschmidt, Poh K. Teng et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
NMR characterization of the full‐length recombinant murine prion protein, mPrP(23–231)

1997 608 citations Roland Riek, Simone Hornemann et al. profile →
Prion (PrPSc)-specific epitope defined by a monoclonal antibody

1997 452 citations Simone Hornemann, Roland Riek et al. profile →
Cryo-EM structure of alpha-synuclein fibrils

2018 441 citations Ricardo Guerrero-Ferreira, Nicholas M. I. Taylor et al. eLife profile →
Half a century of amyloids: past, present and future

2020 425 citations Roland Riek, David Eisenberg et al. profile →
The activities of amyloids from a structural perspective

2016 391 citations Roland Riek, David Eisenberg profile →
The expanding amyloid family: Structure, stability, function, and pathogenesis

2021 267 citations M.R. Sawaya, Roland Riek et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Structural Insights and Functional Dynamics of β-Lactoglobulin Fibrils 2025 ·Nano Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), Genki Terashi, (unknown), Roland Riek, Jason Greenwald, Daisuke Kihara, Viviane Lutz‐Bueno, Jinghui Luo	0
2	NMR²-Based Drug Discovery Pipeline Presented on the Oncogenic Protein KRAS 2025 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·(unknown), (unknown), Harindranath Kadavath, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Nicolas Coudevylle, Roland Riek, Julien Orts	1
3	Homonuclear Super‐Resolution NMR Spectroscopy 2024 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·(unknown), (unknown), Peter Güntert, Roland Riek	1
4	Super-resolution NMR spectroscopy 2024 ·Journal of Magnetic Resonance ·(unknown), (unknown), Roland Riek	6
5	Rapid Protein–Ligand Affinity Determination by Photoinduced Hyperpolarized NMR 2024 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·(unknown), (unknown), Harindranath Kadavath, Riccardo Cadalbert, (unknown), Roland Riek	9
6	Fragment‐Screening und schnelle mikromolare Detektion mit einem Benchtop‐NMR‐Spektrometer ermöglicht durch photoinduzierte Hyperpolarisation 2023 ·Angewandte Chemie ·(unknown), Takuya F. Segawa, (unknown), (unknown), Sandra Loss, (unknown), (unknown), Roland Riek	0
7	Lorentz Transformation Under a Discrete Dynamical Time and Continuous Space 2022 ·Foundations of Physics ·Roland Riek	0
8	Modulating α-Synuclein Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation 2021 ·Biochemistry ·Ajay Singh Sawner, Soumik Ray, (unknown), Semanti Mukherjee, Rajlaxmi Panigrahi, Manisha Poudyal, Komal Patel, Dhiman Ghosh, (unknown), Ashutosh Kumar, Roland Riek, Samir K. Maji	108
9	Molecular features toward high photo-CIDNP hyperpolariztion explored through the oxidocyclization of tryptophan 2021 ·Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics ·(unknown), A. A. Sobol, Jason Greenwald, Alois Renn, Olga B. Morozova, Alexandra V. Yurkovskaya, Roland Riek	13
10	Atto Thio 12 as a promising dye for photo-CIDNP 2019 ·The Journal of Chemical Physics ·A. A. Sobol, (unknown), (unknown), Alois Renn, Roland Riek	15
11	Two new polymorphic structures of human full-length alpha-synuclein fibrils solved by cryo-electron microscopy 2019 ·eLife ·Ricardo Guerrero-Ferreira, Nicholas M. I. Taylor, Ana‐Andreea Arteni, Pratibha Kumari, Daniel Mona, Philippe Ringler, Markus Britschgi, Matthias E. Lauer, Ali Makky, Joeri Verasdonck, Roland Riek, Ronald Melki, Beat H. Meier, Anja Böckmann, Luc Bousset, Henning Stahlberg	222
12	Probing Ion Binding in the Selectivity Filter of the KcsA Potassium Channel 2019 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Cédric Eichmann, Lukas Frey, Innokentiy Maslennikov, Roland Riek	11
13	eNORA2 Exact NOE Analysis Program 2017 ·Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation ·Dean Strotz, Julien Orts, N. Celestine, Roland Riek, Beat Vögeli	25
14	Binding of Polythiophenes to Amyloids: Structural Mapping of the Pharmacophore 2017 ·ACS Chemical Neuroscience ·Anne K. Schütz, Simone Hornemann, Marielle Aulikki Wälti, Ladina Greuter, Cinzia Tiberi, Riccardo Cadalbert, (unknown), Roland Riek, Per Hammarström, K. Peter R. Nilsson, Anja Böckmann, Adriano Aguzzi, Beat H. Meier	32
15	NOE‐Derived Methyl Distances from a 360 kDa Proteasome Complex 2017 ·Chemistry - A European Journal ·N. Celestine, Dean Strotz, Roland Riek, Beat Vögeli	7
16	Identifying the amylome, proteins capable of forming amyloid-like fibrils breakdown → 2010 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Lukasz Goldschmidt, Poh K. Teng, Roland Riek, David Eisenberg	658
17	Cotranslational structure acquisition of nascent polypeptides monitored by NMR spectroscopy 2010 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Cédric Eichmann, Steffen Preißler, Roland Riek, Elke Deuerling	72
18	Functional Amyloids As Natural Storage of Peptide Hormones in Pituitary Secretory Granules breakdown → 2009 ·Science ·Samir K. Maji, Marilyn H. Perrin, M.R. Sawaya, Sebastian Jessberger, Krishna C. Vadodaria, Robert A. Rissman, Praful S. Singru, K. Peter R. Nilsson, Rozalyn Simon, David Schubert, David Eisenberg, Jean Rivier, Paul E. Sawchenko, Wylie Vale, Roland Riek	872
19	NMR Structure of Mistic, a Membrane-Integrating Protein for Membrane Protein Expression 2005 ·Science ·Tarmo P. Roosild, Jason Greenwald, M. Vega, Samantha Castronovo, Roland Riek, Senyon Choe	209
20	TROSY-NMR reveals interaction between ERp57 and the tip of the calreticulin P-domain 2002 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Eva‐Maria Frickel, Roland Riek, Ilian Jelesarov, Ari Helenius, Kurt Wüthrich, Lars Ellgaard	219

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