Thomas Jank

2.3k total citations
41 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Thomas Jank is a scholar working on Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Jank has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Immunology, 21 papers in Infectious Diseases and 15 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Jank's work include Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (20 papers), Toxin Mechanisms and Immunotoxins (18 papers) and Legionella and Acanthamoeba research (8 papers). Thomas Jank is often cited by papers focused on Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (20 papers), Toxin Mechanisms and Immunotoxins (18 papers) and Legionella and Acanthamoeba research (8 papers). Thomas Jank collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Russia and Denmark. Thomas Jank's co-authors include Klaus Aktories, Torsten Giesemann, Carsten Schwan, Georg E. Schulz, Yury Belyi, D.J. Reinert, K.J.F. Satchell, Tina Tzivelekidis, Sabine Strahl and Ralf Gerhard and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Jank

40 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Jank Germany 22 1.1k 667 625 261 260 41 1.8k
Marinieve Montero Canada 13 322 0.3× 450 0.7× 766 1.2× 167 0.6× 222 0.9× 16 1.6k
Donald H. Rubin United States 19 666 0.6× 431 0.6× 348 0.6× 269 1.0× 66 0.3× 37 1.4k
Vânia Luiza Deperon Bonato Brazil 23 910 0.8× 812 1.2× 667 1.1× 730 2.8× 70 0.3× 83 2.0k
Pamela Schnupf France 18 306 0.3× 262 0.4× 623 1.0× 131 0.5× 260 1.0× 28 1.4k
Stephanie Schüller United Kingdom 26 787 0.7× 248 0.4× 586 0.9× 97 0.4× 1.1k 4.0× 42 1.8k
Markus Sauerborn Germany 14 984 0.9× 376 0.6× 320 0.5× 212 0.8× 41 0.2× 14 1.3k
Michele Trucksis United States 18 539 0.5× 347 0.5× 573 0.9× 389 1.5× 419 1.6× 37 1.6k
Julien Limenitakis Switzerland 12 238 0.2× 258 0.4× 721 1.2× 255 1.0× 80 0.3× 15 1.4k
D C Robertson United States 29 681 0.6× 383 0.6× 615 1.0× 123 0.5× 1.5k 5.9× 56 2.4k
Rhonda KuoLee Canada 26 636 0.6× 419 0.6× 1.1k 1.7× 227 0.9× 430 1.7× 51 1.9k

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All Works

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Schneider, Silvia, Christophe Wirth, Thomas Jank, Carola Hunte, & Klaus Aktories. (2024). Tyrosine-modifying glycosylation by Yersinia effectors. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(6). 107331–107331.
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Schneider, Silvia, et al.. (2018). Characterization of the glucosyltransferase activity of Legionella pneumophila effector SetA. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg s Archives of Pharmacology. 392(1). 69–79. 9 indexed citations
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Ernst, Katharina, Johannes A. Schmid, Mattias Beck, et al.. (2017). Hsp70 facilitates trans-membrane transport of bacterial ADP-ribosylating toxins into the cytosol of mammalian cells. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 2724–2724. 37 indexed citations
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Jank, Thomas, Yury Belyi, Christophe Wirth, et al.. (2017). Protein glutaminylation is a yeast-specific posttranslational modification of elongation factor 1A. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 292(39). 16014–16023. 12 indexed citations
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Belyy, Alexander, et al.. (2015). Roles of Asp179 and Glu270 in ADP-Ribosylation of Actin by Clostridium perfringens Iota Toxin. PLoS ONE. 10(12). e0145708–e0145708. 13 indexed citations
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Jank, Thomas, Marianne Schimpl, Sebastian Wiese, et al.. (2015). Tyrosine glycosylation of Rho by Yersinia toxin impairs blastomere cell behaviour in zebrafish embryos. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7807–7807. 41 indexed citations
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Belyi, Yury, Thomas Jank, & Klaus Aktories. (2013). Cytotoxic Glucosyltransferases of Legionella pneumophila. Current topics in microbiology and immunology. 376. 211–226. 14 indexed citations
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Jank, Thomas, Christophe Wirth, Michael Spoerner, et al.. (2013). A bacterial toxin catalyzing tyrosine glycosylation of Rho and deamidation of Gq and Gi proteins. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 20(11). 1273–1280. 49 indexed citations
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Tzivelekidis, Tina, Thomas Jank, Andreas Schlösser, et al.. (2011). Aminoacyl-tRNA-Charged Eukaryotic Elongation Factor 1A Is the Bona Fide Substrate for Legionella pneumophila Effector Glucosyltransferases. PLoS ONE. 6(12). e29525–e29525. 20 indexed citations
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Lommel, Mark, et al.. (2011). A Conserved Acidic Motif Is Crucial for Enzymatic Activity of Protein O-Mannosyltransferases. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(46). 39768–39775. 30 indexed citations
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Papatheodorou, Panagiotis, J. Orth, Thomas Jank, et al.. (2010). From cosubstrate similarity to inhibitor diversity—inhibitors of ADP-ribosyltransferases from kinase inhibitor screening. Molecular BioSystems. 7(3). 799–808. 9 indexed citations
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Mouyna, Isabelle, Olaf Kniemeyer, Thomas Jank, et al.. (2010). Members of protein O‐mannosyltransferase family in Aspergillus fumigatus differentially affect growth, morphogenesis and viability. Molecular Microbiology. 76(5). 1205–1221. 72 indexed citations
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Jank, Thomas, et al.. (2008). Inhibition of the glucosyltransferase activity of clostridial Rho/Ras‐glucosylating toxins by castanospermine. FEBS Letters. 582(15). 2277–2282. 22 indexed citations
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Jank, Thomas & Klaus Aktories. (2008). Structure and mode of action of clostridial glucosylating toxins: the ABCD model. Trends in Microbiology. 16(5). 222–229. 220 indexed citations
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Jank, Thomas, Torsten Giesemann, & Klaus Aktories. (2007). Clostridium difficile Glucosyltransferase Toxin B-essential Amino Acids for Substrate Binding. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(48). 35222–35231. 76 indexed citations
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Jank, Thomas, Torsten Giesemann, & Klaus Aktories. (2007). Rho-glucosylating Clostridium difficile toxins A and B: new insights into structure and function. Glycobiology. 17(4). 15R–22R. 133 indexed citations
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Giesemann, Torsten, et al.. (2007). Auto-catalytic Cleavage of Clostridium difficile Toxins A and B Depends on Cysteine Protease Activity. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(35). 25314–25321. 156 indexed citations
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Giesemann, Torsten, Thomas Jank, Ralf Gerhard, et al.. (2006). Cholesterol-dependent Pore Formation of Clostridium difficile Toxin A. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(16). 10808–10815. 73 indexed citations
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Jank, Thomas, et al.. (2006). Bacillus sphaericus mosquitocidal toxin (MTX) and pierisin: the enigmatic offspring from the family of ADP‐ribosyltransferases. Molecular Microbiology. 62(3). 621–630. 38 indexed citations
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Reinert, D.J., Thomas Jank, Klaus Aktories, & Georg E. Schulz. (2005). Structural Basis for the Function of Clostridium difficile Toxin B. Journal of Molecular Biology. 351(5). 973–981. 124 indexed citations

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