Steffen Stenger

17.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
126 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

About

Steffen Stenger is a scholar working on Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Steffen Stenger has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Immunology, 48 papers in Infectious Diseases and 34 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Steffen Stenger's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (30 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (27 papers) and Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (26 papers). Steffen Stenger is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (30 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (27 papers) and Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (26 papers). Steffen Stenger collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Steffen Stenger's co-authors include Robert L. Modlin, Martin Röllinghoff, Christian Bogdan, Barry R. Bloom, Philip T. Liu, Dominic H. Tang, Steven A. Porcelli, Sybille Thoma-Uszynski, Kayvan Niazi and Alan M. Krensky and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Steffen Stenger

124 papers receiving 8.9k 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.

An Antimicrobial Activity of Cytolytic T Cells Mediated by Granulysin

1998 844 citations Steffen Stenger, Sybille Thoma-Uszynski et al. Science profile →
Cutting Edge: Vitamin D-Mediated Human Antimicrobial Activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis Is Dependent on the Induction of Cathelicidin

2007 632 citations Steffen Stenger, Robert L. Modlin et al. The Journal of Immunology profile →
Induction of Direct Antimicrobial Activity Through Mammalian Toll-Like Receptors

2001 576 citations Sybille Thoma-Uszynski, Steffen Stenger et al. Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Steffen Stenger	4.8k	3.4k	3.0k	1.7k	868	126	9.1k
Mark R. Alderson	7.4k 1.5×	2.3k 0.7×	3.3k 1.1×	2.9k 1.7×	792 0.9×	115	12.0k
Cécil Czerkinsky	5.2k 1.1×	2.2k 0.7×	1.9k 0.6×	1.9k 1.1×	737 0.8×	162	10.2k
Peter Garred	11.2k 2.3×	2.0k 0.6×	2.5k 0.8×	2.5k 1.5×	596 0.7×	416	17.2k
Zhou Xing	6.1k 1.3×	3.7k 1.1×	2.6k 0.9×	2.2k 1.3×	393 0.5×	196	11.7k
Peter A. Sieling	5.3k 1.1×	2.2k 0.7×	2.5k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	470 0.5×	84	8.9k
Thomas R. Hawn	5.3k 1.1×	3.0k 0.9×	3.5k 1.2×	2.0k 1.2×	824 0.9×	131	9.9k
Shabaana A. Khader	6.0k 1.2×	4.5k 1.3×	3.6k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	299 0.3×	117	10.1k
Michel Huerre	3.2k 0.7×	5.0k 1.5×	3.0k 1.0×	2.4k 1.4×	558 0.6×	214	12.9k
Timothy W. Schacker	6.5k 1.4×	6.3k 1.9×	4.3k 1.4×	1.5k 0.9×	467 0.5×	119	15.3k
Thomas S. McCormick	2.9k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	1.5k 0.5×	2.3k 1.3×	467 0.5×	169	8.2k

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Walter, John B., Ann‐Kathrin Kissmann, Nico Preising, et al.. (2025). Antimicrobial Activity of the Peptide C14R Against Ab Initio Growing and Preformed Biofilms of Candida albicans, Candida parapsilosis and Candidozyma auris. Biomolecules. 15(3). 322–322. 2 indexed citations

Blinder, Rémi, Christian Laube, Wolfgang Knolle, et al.. (2024). Nanoscale temperature and surface potential sensing inside living cells. Biophysical Journal. 123(3). 288a–288a. 1 indexed citations

Burger, Max M., et al.. (2024). Polycytotoxic T cells mediate antimicrobial activity against intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Infection and Immunity. 93(1). e0029724–e0029724. 1 indexed citations

Kissmann, Ann‐Kathrin, Christopher V. Synatschke, Jakob Andersson, et al.. (2023). Aptamers as Novel Binding Molecules on an Antimicrobial Peptide-Armored Composite Hydrogel Wound Dressing for Specific Removal and Efficient Eradication of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(5). 4800–4800. 10 indexed citations

Rodríguez, Armando, Annia Alba, Antonio A. Vázquez, et al.. (2023). Identification and Characterization of Three New Antimicrobial Peptides from the Marine Mollusk Nerita versicolor (Gmelin, 1791). International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(4). 3852–3852. 15 indexed citations

Lichtenstein, Dajana, Helen Hammer, Kyoko Momoi, et al.. (2023). Unnatural Endotype B PPAPs as Novel Compounds with Activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 66(22). 15073–15083. 3 indexed citations

Kissmann, Ann‐Kathrin, Anselmo J. Otero‐González, Carolina Firacative, et al.. (2023). Cm-p5 Peptide Dimers Inhibit Biofilms of Candida albicans Clinical Isolates, C. parapsilosis and Fluconazole-Resistant Mutants of C. auris. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(12). 9788–9788. 6 indexed citations

Nchioua, Rayhane, Susanne Klute, Lennart Koepke, et al.. (2023). Reduced replication but increased interferon resistance of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1. Life Science Alliance. 6(6). e202201745–e202201745. 12 indexed citations

Kissmann, Ann‐Kathrin, Christopher V. Synatschke, Anselmo J. Otero‐González, et al.. (2022). Combination of Six Individual Derivatives of the Pom-1 Antibiofilm Peptide Doubles Their Efficacy against Invasive and Multi-Resistant Clinical Isolates of the Pathogenic Yeast Candida albicans. Pharmaceutics. 14(7). 1332–1332. 8 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Hanna, Alexander Sauter, Fabian Zech, et al.. (2022). Serially passaged, conditionally reprogrammed nasal epithelial cells as a model to study epithelial functions and SARS-CoV-2 infection. American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology. 322(4). C591–C604. 3 indexed citations

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Zenk, Sebastian F., et al.. (2021). Stabilization of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor Promotes Antimicrobial Activity of Human Macrophages Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 678354–678354. 22 indexed citations

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Balin, Samuel J., Matteo Pellegrini, Eynav Klechevsky, et al.. (2018). Human antimicrobial cytotoxic T lymphocytes, defined by NK receptors and antimicrobial proteins, kill intracellular bacteria. Science Immunology. 3(26). 59 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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Teles, Rosane M. B., Thomas G. Graeber, Stephan R. Krutzik, et al.. (2013). Type I Interferon Suppresses Type II Interferon–Triggered Human Anti-Mycobacterial Responses. Science. 339(6126). 1448–1453. 296 indexed citations

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Sieling, Peter A., Jordi B. Torrelles, Steffen Stenger, et al.. (2005). The Human CD1-Restricted T Cell Repertoire Is Limited to Cross-Reactive Antigens: Implications for Host Responses against Immunologically Related Pathogens. The Journal of Immunology. 174(5). 2637–2644. 17 indexed citations

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Buettner, Maike, Christoph Meinken, Max Bastian, et al.. (2005). Inverse Correlation of Maturity and Antibacterial Activity in Human Dendritic Cells. The Journal of Immunology. 174(7). 4203–4209. 46 indexed citations

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Thoma-Uszynski, Sybille, Steffen Stenger, & Robert L. Modlin. (2000). CTL-Mediated Killing of Intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis Is Independent of Target Cell Nuclear Apoptosis. The Journal of Immunology. 165(10). 5773–5779. 40 indexed citations

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Bloom, Barry R., Richard J. Mazzaccaro, JoAnne L. Flynn, et al.. (1999). Immunology of an infectious diseas: Pathogenesis and protection in tuberculosis. 7. 54–59. 4 indexed citations

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Stenger, Steffen, et al.. (1999). Porins in the Cell Wall of.. Journal of Bacteriology. 181(24). 7650–7650. 2 indexed citations

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Gong, Jianhua, Steffen Stenger, Jerome A. Zack, et al.. (1998). Isolation of mycobacterium-reactive CD1-restricted T cells from patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection.. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 101(2). 383–389. 29 indexed citations

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