Thorsten Althoff

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

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Thorsten Althoff is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Thorsten Althoff has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Thorsten Althoff's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (2 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (2 papers) and ATP Synthase and ATPases Research (2 papers). Thorsten Althoff is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (2 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (2 papers) and ATP Synthase and ATPases Research (2 papers). Thorsten Althoff collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Thorsten Althoff's co-authors include Eric Gouaux, Werner Kühlbrandt, Jean‐Luc Popot, Deryck J. Mills, Surajit Banerjee, Ryan Hibbs, K. Christopher García, Kevin H. Wang, Isabelle Baconguis and April Goehring and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Thorsten Althoff

13 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Screening and large-scale expression of membrane proteins in mammalian cells for structural studies

2014 503 citations April Goehring, Kevin H. Wang et al. Nature Protocols profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thorsten Althoff United States	9	881	250	75	60	60	13	1.1k
Derek P. Claxton United States	14	806 0.9×	289 1.2×	77 1.0×	96 1.6×	64 1.1×	24	1.1k
Tsukasa Kusakizako Japan	21	878 1.0×	166 0.7×	199 2.7×	42 0.7×	125 2.1×	33	1.3k
Isabella Maiellaro Germany	15	658 0.7×	341 1.4×	90 1.2×	69 1.1×	38 0.6×	22	907
Merritt Maduke United States	23	1.2k 1.3×	412 1.6×	74 1.0×	64 1.1×	59 1.0×	39	1.5k
Cristina Paulino Netherlands	18	1.1k 1.3×	302 1.2×	130 1.7×	125 2.1×	92 1.5×	30	1.4k
Maria Musgaard United Kingdom	16	681 0.8×	261 1.0×	38 0.5×	66 1.1×	33 0.6×	34	876
Chia‐Hsueh Lee United States	14	739 0.8×	304 1.2×	47 0.6×	112 1.9×	53 0.9×	19	1.1k
Carole Williams United States	15	1.2k 1.4×	410 1.6×	40 0.5×	104 1.7×	82 1.4×	17	1.5k
Shangyu Dang China	16	1.1k 1.2×	162 0.6×	136 1.8×	131 2.2×	112 1.9×	26	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thorsten Althoff

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Ermolova, Natalia, et al.. (2024). Insights into VDAC Gating: Room-Temperature X-ray Crystal Structure of mVDAC-1. Biomolecules. 14(10). 1203–1203. 3 indexed citations

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Elgeti, Matthias, Aviv Paz, Thorsten Althoff, et al.. (2023). Membrane potential accelerates sugar uptake by stabilizing the outward facing conformation of the Na/glucose symporter vSGLT. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7511–7511. 8 indexed citations

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Besterman, Aaron D., Thorsten Althoff, Peter Elfferich, et al.. (2021). Functional and structural analyses of novel Smith-Kingsmore Syndrome-Associated MTOR variants reveal potential new mechanisms and predictors of pathogenicity. PLoS Genetics. 17(7). e1009651–e1009651. 9 indexed citations

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Bisignano, Paola, Chiara E. Ghezzi, Hyunil Jo, et al.. (2018). Inhibitor binding mode and allosteric regulation of Na+-glucose symporters. Nature Communications. 9(1). 5245–5245. 39 indexed citations

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Pantazis, Antonios, Karin Westerberg, Thorsten Althoff, Jeff Abramson, & Riccardo Olcese. (2018). Harnessing photoinduced electron transfer to optically determine protein sub-nanoscale atomic distances. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4738–4738. 25 indexed citations

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Althoff, Thorsten, Ryan Hibbs, Surajit Banerjee, & Eric Gouaux. (2014). X-ray structures of GluCl in apo states reveal a gating mechanism of Cys-loop receptors. Nature. 512(7514). 333–337. 204 indexed citations

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Goehring, April, Kevin H. Wang, Jennifer Carlisle Michel, et al.. (2014). Screening and large-scale expression of membrane proteins in mammalian cells for structural studies. Nature Protocols. 9(11). 2574–2585. 503 indexed citations breakdown →

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Althoff, Thorsten, Karen M. Davies, Sabrina Schulze, Friederike Joos, & Werner Kühlbrandt. (2012). GRecon: A Method for the Lipid Reconstitution of Membrane Proteins. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 51(33). 8343–8347. 17 indexed citations

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Althoff, Thorsten, Karen M. Davies, Sabrina Schulze, Friederike Joos, & Werner Kühlbrandt. (2012). GRecon: A Method for the Lipid Reconstitution of Membrane Proteins. Angewandte Chemie. 124(33). 8468–8472. 2 indexed citations

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Althoff, Thorsten, Deryck J. Mills, Jean‐Luc Popot, & Werner Kühlbrandt. (2011). Arrangement of electron transport chain components in bovine mitochondrial supercomplex I ₁ III ₂ IV ₁. The EMBO Journal. 30(22). 4652–4664. 261 indexed citations

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Althoff, Thorsten, et al.. (2007). Na⁺-d-glucose cotransporter in the kidney of Leucoraja erinacea: molecular identification and intrarenal distribution. American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 292(6). R2391–R2399. 13 indexed citations

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Althoff, Thorsten, et al.. (2005). Na⁺-d-glucose cotransporter in the kidney ofSqualus acanthias: molecular identification and intrarenal distribution. American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 290(4). R1094–R1104. 18 indexed citations

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Scharlau, Daniel, Thorsten Althoff, Hartmut Hentschel, & Rolf K. H. Kinne. (2004). Immunohistochemical studies of Na+/D-glucose cotransporters in the intestine and kidney of Squalus acanthias and Leucoraja erinacea. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 43. 18–21. 4 indexed citations

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