Thomas A. Trautner

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
101 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Thomas A. Trautner is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas A. Trautner has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Molecular Biology, 69 papers in Ecology and 58 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Thomas A. Trautner's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (69 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (54 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (20 papers). Thomas A. Trautner is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (69 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (54 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (20 papers). Thomas A. Trautner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Thomas A. Trautner's co-authors include Mario Noyer-Weidner, Arthur Kornberg, Morton N. Swartz, H. Ch. Spatz, Umberto Canosi, B. Pawlek, Roland Lauster, Juan C. Alonso, B. Behrens and Ursula Günthert and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thomas A. Trautner

100 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

Enzymatic Synthesis of Deoxyribonucleic Acid 1962 2026 1983 2004 1962 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Enzymatic Synthesis of Deoxyribonucleic Acid
    1962 409 citations Thomas A. Trautner et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas A. Trautner Germany 36 3.4k 2.0k 2.0k 491 155 101 4.1k
J. Barry Egan Australia 30 2.9k 0.9× 1.9k 0.9× 1.4k 0.7× 304 0.6× 101 0.7× 79 3.7k
Marjorie Russel United States 41 3.1k 0.9× 1.7k 0.8× 1.7k 0.9× 519 1.1× 79 0.5× 60 4.6k
Miriam M. Susskind United States 29 2.2k 0.6× 1.5k 0.7× 1.6k 0.8× 217 0.4× 101 0.7× 41 2.8k
Robert A. Weisberg United States 37 3.5k 1.0× 2.1k 1.1× 2.1k 1.1× 318 0.6× 66 0.4× 86 4.2k
Diane K. Hawley United States 20 3.9k 1.2× 2.1k 1.0× 780 0.4× 329 0.7× 129 0.8× 27 4.6k
Thomas A. Bickle Switzerland 44 4.6k 1.4× 2.3k 1.1× 1.7k 0.8× 586 1.2× 73 0.5× 111 5.6k
P. J. Piggot United States 28 1.9k 0.6× 2.0k 1.0× 1.6k 0.8× 519 1.1× 155 1.0× 52 2.9k
Catherine L. Squires United States 41 4.0k 1.2× 2.3k 1.1× 1.0k 0.5× 240 0.5× 82 0.5× 55 4.5k
Jan van Duin Netherlands 40 3.7k 1.1× 1.5k 0.7× 1.4k 0.7× 349 0.7× 89 0.6× 94 4.3k
Hiroyuki Sugisaki Japan 26 2.2k 0.7× 1.1k 0.6× 755 0.4× 340 0.7× 84 0.5× 40 2.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas A. Trautner

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Кубарева, Е. А., et al.. (2001). Determination of a Non-methylated Deoxycytidine Residue in the Recognition Site of DNA-methyltransferases. Biochemistry (Moscow). 66(12). 1356–1360. 2 indexed citations
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Malagnac, Fabienne, Birgit Wendel, Christophe Goyon, et al.. (1997). A Gene Essential for De Novo Methylation and Development in Ascobolus Reveals a Novel Type of Eukaryotic DNA Methyltransferase Structure. Cell. 91(2). 281–290. 100 indexed citations
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Becker, Bernd, Natalia de la Fuente, Paulo Tavares, et al.. (1997). Head morphogenesis genes of the Bacillus subtilis Bacteriophage SPP1. Journal of Molecular Biology. 268(5). 822–839. 54 indexed citations
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Trautner, Thomas A., et al.. (1996). Exact size and organization of DNA target-recognizing domains of multispecific DNA-(cytosine-C5)-methyltransferases.. The EMBO Journal. 15(6). 1434–1442. 17 indexed citations
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Xu, Guoliang, et al.. (1995). BsuCI, a type-I restriction-modification system in bacillus subtilis. Gene. 157(1-2). 59–59. 14 indexed citations
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Walter, Jörn, et al.. (1995). M·BssHII: A new multispecific C5-DNA-methyltransferase. Gene. 157(1-2). 103–104. 5 indexed citations
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Noyer-Weidner, Mario & Thomas A. Trautner. (1993). Methylation of DNA in Prokaryotes. Birkhäuser Basel eBooks. 64. 39–108. 96 indexed citations
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Chai, Sunghee, et al.. (1992). Molecular analysis of the Bacillus subtilis bacteriophage SPP1 region encompassing genes 1 to 6. Journal of Molecular Biology. 224(1). 87–102. 62 indexed citations
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Alonso, Juan C., Gerhild Lüder, & Thomas A. Trautner. (1992). Intramolecular homologous recombination in Bacillus subtilis 168. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 236(1). 60–64. 17 indexed citations
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Xu, Guoliang, et al.. (1992). BsuBI—an isospecific restriction and modification system ofPstI: characterization of theBsuBI genes and enzymes. Nucleic Acids Research. 20(24). 6517–6523. 21 indexed citations
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Lange, C., et al.. (1991). 'Pseudo' domains in phage-encoded DNA methyltransferases. Nature. 352(6336). 645–648. 26 indexed citations
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Noyer-Weidner, Mario, et al.. (1991). M · H2I, a multispecific 5C-DNA methyltransferase encoded by Bacillus amyloliquefaciens phage H2. Gene. 100. 213–218. 18 indexed citations
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Bravo, Alicia, Juan C. Alonso, & Thomas A. Trautner. (1990). Functional analysis of thebacillus subtilisbacteriophage SPP1pacsite. Nucleic Acids Research. 18(10). 2881–2886. 39 indexed citations
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Alonso, Juan C., et al.. (1989). Analysis of structural and biological parameters affecting plasmid deletion formation in Bacillus subtilis. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 218(3). 402–408. 13 indexed citations
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Lauster, Roland, Thomas A. Trautner, & Mario Noyer-Weidner. (1989). Cytosine-specific type II DNA methyltransferases. Journal of Molecular Biology. 206(2). 305–312. 202 indexed citations
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Trautner, Thomas A., Tanjore S. Balganesh, Kathleen Wilke, et al.. (1988). Organization of target-recognizing domains in the multispecific DNA (cytosine-5) methyltransf erases of Bacillus subtilis phages SPR and φ3T. Gene. 74(1). 267–267. 3 indexed citations
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Trautner, Thomas A., Tanjore S. Balganesh, & B. Pawlek. (1988). Chimeric multispecific DNA methyltransferases with novel combinations of target recognition. Nucleic Acids Research. 16(14). 6649–6658. 62 indexed citations
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Noyer-Weidner, Mario, et al.. (1987). Recombinant Derivatives of Bacillus Subtilis Phage Z Containing the DNA Methyltransferase Genes of Related Methylation-proficient Phages. Microbiology. 133(4). 945–952. 3 indexed citations
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Jentsch, Stefan, Ursula Günthert, & Thomas A. Trautner. (1981). DNA methyltransferases affecting the sequence 5′LCCGG. Nucleic Acids Research. 9(12). 2753–2759. 52 indexed citations

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