Thorsten Eggert

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Thorsten Eggert is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Thorsten Eggert has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Thorsten Eggert's work include Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (29 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (21 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (11 papers). Thorsten Eggert is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (29 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (21 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (11 papers). Thorsten Eggert collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and Italy. Thorsten Eggert's co-authors include Karl‐Erich Jaeger, Bauke W. Dijkstra, Gertie van Pouderoyen, Ulf Brockmeier, Ulrich Krauß, Aba Losi, Wolfgang Gärtner, Michael Puls, Roland Freudl and Michael Caspers and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Biotechnology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Thorsten Eggert

47 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Lipases for biotechnology

2002 1.1k citations Karl‐Erich Jaeger, Thorsten Eggert profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thorsten Eggert Germany	29	3.3k	622	550	472	359	49	3.8k
Li Zhou China	36	1.8k 0.6×	618 1.0×	389 0.7×	353 0.7×	213 0.6×	111	3.4k
Erik Vijgenboom Netherlands	34	1.8k 0.6×	253 0.4×	441 0.8×	593 1.3×	131 0.4×	82	2.9k
Seung‐Goo Lee South Korea	28	2.3k 0.7×	602 1.0×	380 0.7×	277 0.6×	114 0.3×	156	3.0k
Volker Kasche Germany	30	2.0k 0.6×	466 0.7×	225 0.4×	148 0.3×	189 0.5×	92	2.6k
Mogens Trier Hansen Denmark	18	2.3k 0.7×	272 0.4×	333 0.6×	318 0.7×	163 0.5×	23	2.9k
Robert K. Scopes Australia	24	2.0k 0.6×	517 0.8×	243 0.4×	199 0.4×	83 0.2×	56	3.0k
Tetsuya Tosa Japan	38	3.0k 0.9×	778 1.3×	566 1.0×	230 0.5×	363 1.0×	152	4.0k
Stefania Brocca Italy	29	2.1k 0.6×	342 0.5×	189 0.3×	124 0.3×	209 0.6×	63	2.6k
Xueqin Lv China	36	2.7k 0.8×	718 1.2×	496 0.9×	589 1.2×	280 0.8×	187	4.0k
Thomas Drepper Germany	34	1.9k 0.6×	477 0.8×	316 0.6×	301 0.6×	55 0.2×	84	2.8k

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Kind, Stefanie, et al.. (2019). Facile synthesis of D-xylulose-5-phosphate and L-xylulose-5-phosphate by xylulokinase-catalyzed phosphorylation. Biocatalysis and Biotransformation. 38(1). 35–45. 8 indexed citations

Kind, Stefanie, et al.. (2019). Efficient biocatalytic synthesis of D-tagatose 1,6-diphosphate by LacC-catalysed phosphorylation of D-tagatose 6-phosphate. Biocatalysis and Biotransformation. 38(1). 53–63. 9 indexed citations

Eggert, Thorsten, et al.. (2014). Enzymatic routes for the synthesis of ursodeoxycholic acid. Journal of Biotechnology. 191. 11–21. 72 indexed citations

Patenge, Nadja, Thorsten Eggert, Bernd Kreikemeyer, et al.. (2012). Evaluation of antimicrobial effects of novel implant materials by testing the prevention of biofilm formation using a simple small scale medium-throughput growth inhibition assay. Biofouling. 28(3). 267–277. 24 indexed citations

Andexer, Jennifer N., et al.. (2012). Hydroxynitrile Lyases with α/β‐Hydrolase Fold: Two Enzymes with Almost Identical 3D Structures but Opposite Enantioselectivities and Different Reaction Mechanisms. ChemBioChem. 13(13). 1932–1939. 25 indexed citations

Richter, Nina, Markus Neumann, Andreas Liese, et al.. (2010). Characterization of a whole‐cell catalyst co‐expressing glycerol dehydrogenase and glucose dehydrogenase and its application in the synthesis of L‐glyceraldehyde. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 106(4). 541–552. 52 indexed citations

Guterl, Jan‐Karl, Jennifer N. Andexer, Torsten Sehl, et al.. (2009). Uneven twins: Comparison of two enantiocomplementary hydroxynitrile lyases with α/β-hydrolase fold. Journal of Biotechnology. 141(3-4). 166–173. 48 indexed citations

Andexer, Jennifer N., Jan von Langermann, Marco Bocola, et al.. (2008). ChemInform Abstract: An R‐Selective Hydroxynitrile Lyase from Arabidopsis thaliana with an α/β‐Hydrolase Fold.. ChemInform. 39(12). 2 indexed citations

Drepper, Thomas, Thorsten Eggert, Achim Heck, et al.. (2007). Reporter proteins for in vivo fluorescence without oxygen. Nature Biotechnology. 25(4). 443–445. 314 indexed citations

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Brockmeier, Ulf, Michael Caspers, Roland Freudl, et al.. (2006). Systematic Screening of All Signal Peptides from Bacillus subtilis: A Powerful Strategy in Optimizing Heterologous Protein Secretion in Gram-positive Bacteria. Journal of Molecular Biology. 362(3). 393–402. 215 indexed citations

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Reetz, Manfred T., Michael Puls, José Daniel Carballeira, et al.. (2006). Learning from Directed Evolution: Further Lessons from Theoretical Investigations into Cooperative Mutations in Lipase Enantioselectivity. ChemBioChem. 8(1). 106–112. 80 indexed citations

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Losi, Aba, Thorsten Eggert, Ulrich Krauß, et al.. (2006). Conformational analysis of the blue-light sensing protein YtvA reveals a competitive interface for LOV—LOV dimerization and interdomain interactions. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 6(1). 41–49. 56 indexed citations

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Eggert, Thorsten, Susanne Aileen Funke, Nalam Madhusudhana Rao, et al.. (2005). Multiplex‐PCR‐Based Recombination as a Novel High‐Fidelity Method for Directed Evolution. ChemBioChem. 6(6). 1062–1067. 21 indexed citations

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Funke, Susanne Aileen, Nikolaj Otte, Thorsten Eggert, et al.. (2005). Combination of computational prescreening and experimental library construction can accelerate enzyme optimization by directed evolution. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 18(11). 509–514. 28 indexed citations

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Krauß, Ulrich, Aba Losi, Wolfgang Gärtner, Karl‐Erich Jaeger, & Thorsten Eggert. (2005). Initial characterization of a blue-light sensing, phototropin-related protein from Pseudomonas putida: a paradigm for an extended LOV construct. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 7(14). 2804–2804. 45 indexed citations

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Krauß, Ulrich & Thorsten Eggert. (2005). insilico.mutagenesis: A Primer Selection Tool Designed for Sequence Scanning Applications Used in Directed Evolution Experiments. BioTechniques. 39(5). 679–682. 4 indexed citations

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Eggert, Thorsten, Manfred T. Reetz, & Karl‐Erich Jaeger. (2004). Directed Evolution by Random Mutagenesis: A Critical Evaluation. 375–390. 5 indexed citations

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Eggert, Thorsten, et al.. (2003). Extracellular lipases fromBacillus subtilis: regulation of gene expression and enzyme activity by amino acid supply and external pH. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 225(2). 319–324. 38 indexed citations

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Pouderoyen, Gertie van, Thorsten Eggert, Karl‐Erich Jaeger, & Bauke W. Dijkstra. (2001). The crystal structure of Bacillus subtili lipase: a minimal α/β hydrolase fold enzyme. Journal of Molecular Biology. 309(1). 215–226. 227 indexed citations

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Eggert, Thorsten, Gertie van Pouderoyen, Bauke W. Dijkstra, & Karl‐Erich Jaeger. (2001). Lipolytic enzymes LipA and LipB from Bacillus subtilis differ in regulation of gene expression, biochemical properties, and three‐dimensional structure. FEBS Letters. 502(3). 89–92. 55 indexed citations

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