Sierd Bron

14.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
136 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Sierd Bron is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sierd Bron has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 114 papers in Genetics, 97 papers in Molecular Biology and 67 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Sierd Bron's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (112 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (67 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (41 papers). Sierd Bron is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (112 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (67 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (41 papers). Sierd Bron collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United States. Sierd Bron's co-authors include Jan Maarten van Dijl, Gerard Venema, Harold Tjalsma, Albert Bolhuis, Jan D.H. Jongbloed, Michael Hecker, Haike Antelmann, Oscar P. Kuipers, Anne de Jong and Wim J. Quax and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Sierd Bron

136 papers receiving 7.4k 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.

Signal Peptide-Dependent Protein Transport in Bacillus subtilis : a Genome-Based Survey of the Secretome

2000 659 citations Harold Tjalsma, Jan D.H. Jongbloed et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sierd Bron Netherlands	50	5.5k	4.6k	2.8k	1.1k	817	136	7.8k
M J Casadaban United States	30	7.2k 1.3×	4.9k 1.1×	2.1k 0.8×	500 0.4×	499 0.6×	50	9.7k
Philip Youngman United States	39	3.2k 0.6×	2.8k 0.6×	2.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	716 0.9×	58	5.3k
K. Brooks Low United States	28	4.1k 0.7×	3.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	1.6k 1.4×	289 0.4×	52	6.4k
Wolfgang Schumann Germany	38	3.9k 0.7×	2.6k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	600 0.5×	351 0.4×	146	5.4k
Guy Plunkett United States	22	7.3k 1.3×	4.3k 0.9×	2.7k 1.0×	357 0.3×	1.0k 1.2×	29	10.8k
Susan T. Lovett United States	51	7.1k 1.3×	4.4k 1.0×	1.6k 0.6×	287 0.3×	238 0.3×	197	8.5k
Georges Rapoport France	46	4.1k 0.7×	2.9k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	639 0.6×	423 0.5×	95	5.6k
David L. Popham United States	39	3.1k 0.6×	2.7k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	503 0.4×	388 0.5×	88	5.0k
Mary C. Betlach United States	28	5.4k 1.0×	3.0k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	416 0.4×	228 0.3×	43	7.3k
Charles P. Moran United States	46	4.3k 0.8×	4.6k 1.0×	3.4k 1.2×	499 0.4×	354 0.4×	108	6.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sierd Bron

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Jongbloed, Jan D.H., Haike Antelmann, Michael Hecker, et al.. (2004). Two minimal Tat translocases in Bacillus. Molecular Microbiology. 54(5). 1319–1325. 155 indexed citations

Roosmalen, Maarten L. van, Nick Geukens, Jan D.H. Jongbloed, et al.. (2004). Type I signal peptidases of Gram-positive bacteria. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1694(1-3). 279–297. 117 indexed citations

Dijl, Jan Maarten van, Peter Braun, Colin Robinson, et al.. (2002). Functional genomic analysis of the Bacillus subtilis Tat pathway for protein secretion. Journal of Biotechnology. 98(2-3). 243–254. 57 indexed citations

Tjalsma, Harold, Vesa P. Kontinen, Zoltán Prágai, et al.. (1999). The Role of Lipoprotein Processing by Signal Peptidase II in the Gram-positive Eubacterium Bacillus subtilis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(3). 1698–1707. 108 indexed citations

Noback, Michiel, Siger Holsappel, Rense Kiewiet, et al.. (1998). The 172 kb prkA-addAB region from 83° to 97° of the Bacillus subtilis chromosome contains several dysfunctional genes, the glyB marker, many genes encoding transporter proteins, and the ubiquitous hit gene. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 1 indexed citations

Meima, Rob, et al.. (1998). Sequence specificity of illegitimate plasmid recombination in Bacillus subtilis: Possible recognition sites for DNA topoisomerase I. Nucleic Acids Research. 26(10). 2366–2373. 9 indexed citations

Tjalsma, Harold, Michiel Noback, Sierd Bron, et al.. (1997). Bacillus subtilis Contains Four Closely Related Type I Signal Peptidases with Overlapping Substrate Specificities. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272(41). 25983–25992. 104 indexed citations

Meima, Rob, Gerard Venema, & Sierd Bron. (1996). A Positive Selection Vector for the Analysis of Structural Plasmid Instability inBacillus subtilis. Plasmid. 35(1). 14–30. 9 indexed citations

Dijl, Jan Maarten van, Anne de Jong, Gerard Venema, & Sierd Bron. (1995). Identification of the Potential Active Site of the Signal Peptidase SipS of Bacillus subtilis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 270(8). 3611–3618. 93 indexed citations

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Vehmaanperä, Jari, et al.. (1993). In vitro assay for theBacillus subtilissignal peptidase SipS: Systems for efficient in vitro transcription-translation and processing of precursors of secreted proteins. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 114(2). 207–14. 10 indexed citations

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Haima, Peter, Douwe van Sinderen, Sierd Bron, & Gerard Venema. (1990). An improved β-galactosidase α-complementation system for molecular cloning in Bacillus subtilis. Gene. 93(1). 41–47. 30 indexed citations

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Dijl, Jan Maarten van, et al.. (1990). Molecular cloning of the Salmonella typhimurium lep gene in Escherichia coli. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 223(2). 233–240. 43 indexed citations

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Peeters, Ben, Jan H. de Boer, Sierd Bron, & Gerard Venema. (1988). Structural plasmid instability in Bacillus subtilis: Effect of direct and inverted repeats. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 212(3). 450–458. 82 indexed citations

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Peijnenburg, Ad, Sierd Bron, & Gerard Venema. (1988). Plasmid deletion formation in Bacillus subtilis. Plasmid. 20(1). 23–32. 15 indexed citations

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Smith, Hilde, et al.. (1988). Characterization of signal-sequence-coding regions selected from the Bacillus subtilis chromosome. Gene. 70(2). 351–361. 48 indexed citations

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Bron, Sierd, et al.. (1988). Instability of recombinant pUB110 plasmids in Bacillus subtilis: Plasmid-encoded stability function and effects of DNA inserts. Plasmid. 19(3). 231–241. 77 indexed citations

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Bron, Sierd & Gerard Venema. (1972). Ultraviolet inactivation and excision-repair in Bacillus subtilis IV. Integration and repair of ultraviolet-inactivated transforming DNA. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 15(4). 395–409. 16 indexed citations

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Bron, Sierd & Gerard Venema. (1972). Ultraviolet inactivation and excision-repair in Bacillus subtilis III. Sensitized photoinactivation of transforming DNA, and the effect of thymine dimers on differential marker inactivation and differential marker repair. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 15(4). 377–393. 9 indexed citations

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Bron, Sierd & Gerard Venema. (1972). Ultraviolet inactivation and excision-repair in Bacillus subtilis I. Construction and characterization of a transformable eightfold auxotrophic strain and two ultraviolet-sensitive derivatives. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 15(1). 1–10. 172 indexed citations

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Bron, Sierd & Gerard Venema. (1972). Ultraviolet inactivation and excision-repair in bacillus subtilis II. Differential inactivation and differential repair of transforming markers. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 15(1). 11–22. 18 indexed citations

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