Thomas A. Link

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

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Thomas A. Link is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas A. Link has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 12 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Thomas A. Link's work include High Temperature Alloys and Creep (22 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (15 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (12 papers). Thomas A. Link is often cited by papers focused on High Temperature Alloys and Creep (22 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (15 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (12 papers). Thomas A. Link collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Russia and Netherlands. Thomas A. Link's co-authors include So Iwata, Gebhard von Jagow, Bjarne Rasmussen, S. Ramaswamy, Momi Iwata, Bing K. Jap, Kengo Okada, Monika Feller‐Kniepmeier, A. I. Epishin and H. Aquila and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Biological Chemistry and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Thomas A. Link

62 papers receiving 3.7k citations

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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.

Complete Structure of the 11-Subunit Bovine Mitochondrial Cytochrome bc ₁ Complex

1998 1.0k citations So Iwata, Thomas A. Link et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas A. Link Germany	32	2.5k	648	639	586	553	63	3.8k
Warren M. Garrison United States	26	595 0.2×	1.3k 2.0×	24 0.0×	132 0.2×	1.1k 2.0×	123	3.0k
Yasuhiko Yamamoto Japan	28	1.6k 0.6×	134 0.2×	57 0.1×	77 0.1×	555 1.0×	188	2.8k
Junhui Peng United States	25	609 0.2×	141 0.2×	85 0.1×	87 0.1×	1.1k 2.0×	56	2.3k
Eiji Kinoshita Japan	28	2.7k 1.1×	212 0.3×	56 0.1×	89 0.2×	506 0.9×	154	4.5k
Shaoqing Zhang China	18	736 0.3×	229 0.4×	60 0.1×	46 0.1×	694 1.3×	48	1.7k
Jian Yao China	17	2.3k 0.9×	89 0.1×	30 0.0×	94 0.2×	1.1k 1.9×	62	3.5k
Robert Günther Germany	28	1.4k 0.6×	227 0.4×	16 0.0×	53 0.1×	419 0.8×	89	2.6k
Tapan K. Das United States	30	2.2k 0.9×	71 0.1×	79 0.1×	114 0.2×	551 1.0×	91	3.6k
Michael Caplow United States	30	1.9k 0.8×	1.0k 1.6×	126 0.2×	102 0.2×	201 0.4×	72	3.9k
Stuart Thomson United Kingdom	25	2.1k 0.9×	86 0.1×	69 0.1×	88 0.2×	311 0.6×	55	3.7k

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Kleinschroth, Thomas, Oliver Anderka, Andreas Stöcker, et al.. (2008). Characterization of mutations in crucial residues around the Q_o binding site of the cytochrome bc₁ complex from Paracoccus denitrificans. FEBS Journal. 275(19). 4773–4785. 7 indexed citations

Epishin, A. I., Thomas A. Link, & Gert Nolze. (2007). SEM investigation of interfacial dislocations in nickel‐base superalloys. Journal of Microscopy. 228(2). 110–117. 59 indexed citations

Rughetti, Aurelia, Ilenia Pellicciotta, Mauro Biffoni, et al.. (2005). Recombinant Tumor-Associated MUC1 Glycoprotein Impairs the Differentiation and Function of Dendritic Cells. The Journal of Immunology. 174(12). 7764–7772. 71 indexed citations

Grüber, Gerhard, Jasminka Godovac‐Zimmermann, Thomas A. Link, et al.. (2002). Expression, purification, and characterization of subunit E, an essential subunit of the vacuolar ATPase. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 298(3). 383–391. 62 indexed citations

Wastl, Juergen, Evert C. Duin, L. Iuzzolino, et al.. (2000). Eukaryotically Encoded and Chloroplast-located Rubredoxin Is Associated with Photosystem II. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 275(39). 30058–30063. 20 indexed citations

Merbitz-Zahradnik, Torsten, et al.. (1998). Alteration of the Midpoint Potential and Catalytic Activity of the Rieske Iron-Sulfur Protein by Changes of Amino Acids Forming Hydrogen Bonds to the Iron-Sulfur Cluster. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273(15). 9085–9093. 148 indexed citations

Schröter, Thomas, et al.. (1998). Mutational analysis of residues forming hydrogen bonds in the Rieske [2Fe‐2S] cluster of the cytochrome bc₁ complex in Paracoccus denitrificans. European Journal of Biochemistry. 255(1). 100–106. 87 indexed citations

Link, Thomas A., et al.. (1997). Expression Studies on the ba₃ Quinol Oxidase from Paracoccus Denitrificans A bb₃ Variant is Enzymatically Inactive. European Journal of Biochemistry. 246(3). 618–624. 15 indexed citations

Link, Thomas A., et al.. (1997). Structural and functional analysis of deficient mutants in subunit I of cytochrome c oxidase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1321(1). 79–92. 11 indexed citations

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Link, Thomas A.. (1997). The role of the `Rieske' iron sulfur protein in the hydroquinone oxidation (Q_P) site of the cytochrome bc₁ complex. FEBS Letters. 412(2). 257–264. 118 indexed citations

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Anemüller, Stefan, et al.. (1996). Biochemical and spectroscopic properties of the four-subunit quinol oxidase (cytochrome ba3) from Paracoccus denitrificans. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1277(1-2). 93–102. 23 indexed citations

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Link, Thomas A. & So Iwata. (1996). Functional implications of the structure of the ‘Rieske’ iron-sulfur protein of bovine heart mitochondrial cytochrome bc1 complex. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1275(1-2). 54–60. 29 indexed citations

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Link, Thomas A. & Gebhard von Jagow. (1995). Zinc Ions Inhibit the Qp Center of Bovine Heart Mitochondrial bc1 Complex by Blocking a Protonatable Group. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 270(42). 25001–25006. 139 indexed citations

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Geier, Birgitta M., Hermann Schägger, Thomas A. Link, et al.. (1995). Kinetic Properties and Ligand Binding of the Eleven‐subunit Cytochrome‐c Oxidase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae Isolated with a Novel Large‐Scale Purification Method. European Journal of Biochemistry. 227(1-2). 296–302. 50 indexed citations

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Dorovska‐Taran, Victoria, Arie van Hoek, Thomas A. Link, Antonie J. W. G. Visser, & Wilfred R. Hagen. (1994). A comparative picosecond‐resolved fluorescence study of tryptophan residues in iron‐sulfur proteins. FEBS Letters. 348(3). 305–310. 9 indexed citations

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Link, Thomas A., et al.. (1992). Determination of the redox properties of the Rieske [2Fe‐2S] cluster of bovine heart bc₁ complex by direct electrochemistry of a water‐soluble fragment. European Journal of Biochemistry. 208(3). 685–691. 84 indexed citations

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Link, Thomas A. & Monika Feller‐Kniepmeier. (1992). Shear mechanisms of the γ′ phase in single-crystal superalloys and their relation to creep. Metallurgical Transactions A. 23(1). 99–105. 89 indexed citations

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Dreses‐Werringloer, Ute, Karsten Fischer, Elmar Wächter, Thomas A. Link, & Ulf‐Ingo Flügge. (1991). cDNA sequence and deduced amino acid sequence of the precursor of the 37‐kDa inner envelope membrane polypeptide from spinach chloroplasts. European Journal of Biochemistry. 195(2). 361–368. 54 indexed citations

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Pinto, Vito De, et al.. (1991). Peptide-specific antibodies and proteases as probes of the transmembrane topology of the bovine heart mitochondrial porin. Biochemistry. 30(42). 10191–10200. 106 indexed citations

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Esposti, Mauro Degli, et al.. (1991). The structure of the dihaem cytochrome b of fumarate reductase in Wolinella succinogenes: circular dichroism and sequence analysis studies. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1056(3). 243–249. 16 indexed citations

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