Thorsten Lang

6.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
68 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Thorsten Lang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Immunology and Allergy. According to data from OpenAlex, Thorsten Lang has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Molecular Biology, 39 papers in Cell Biology and 12 papers in Immunology and Allergy. Recurrent topics in Thorsten Lang's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (40 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (35 papers) and Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (12 papers). Thorsten Lang is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (40 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (35 papers) and Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (12 papers). Thorsten Lang collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Thorsten Lang's co-authors include Reinhard Jahn, Thomas C. Südhof, Stefan W. Hell, Silvio O. Rizzoli, Jochen J. Sieber, Luise Florin, Katrin I. Willig, Jakob B. Sørensen, Christian Eggeling and Wolfhard Almers and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thorsten Lang

63 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Membrane Fusion

2003 1.1k citations Reinhard Jahn, Thorsten Lang et al. profile →
SNAREs are concentrated in cholesterol-dependent clusters that define docking and fusion sites for exocytosis

2001 544 citations Thorsten Lang The EMBO Journal profile →
Anatomy and Dynamics of a Supramolecular Membrane Protein Cluster

2007 345 citations Jochen J. Sieber, Katrin I. Willig et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thorsten Lang Germany	32	3.7k	2.9k	809	610	537	68	5.2k
John F. Presley Canada	35	4.3k 1.2×	3.4k 1.2×	501 0.6×	734 1.2×	459 0.9×	69	6.4k
Erik L. Snapp United States	41	3.9k 1.1×	2.5k 0.8×	592 0.7×	366 0.6×	863 1.6×	73	5.8k
John A. Hammer United States	57	5.5k 1.5×	5.6k 1.9×	913 1.1×	661 1.1×	782 1.5×	130	9.7k
Britta Qualmann Germany	40	3.7k 1.0×	3.9k 1.3×	1.3k 1.7×	672 1.1×	226 0.4×	89	6.3k
Xufeng Wu United States	39	2.9k 0.8×	3.0k 1.0×	297 0.4×	418 0.7×	432 0.8×	70	5.3k
Franck Perez France	43	4.8k 1.3×	3.4k 1.2×	660 0.8×	511 0.8×	293 0.5×	145	7.4k
Marko Kaksonen Germany	40	5.0k 1.4×	4.4k 1.5×	472 0.6×	479 0.8×	656 1.2×	63	7.3k
Alexis Gautreau France	36	3.0k 0.8×	3.1k 1.1×	494 0.6×	314 0.5×	275 0.5×	89	5.8k
Michael M. Kessels Germany	39	3.3k 0.9×	3.4k 1.2×	1.3k 1.6×	537 0.9×	269 0.5×	87	5.4k
Alexander Sorkin United States	60	8.5k 2.3×	4.9k 1.7×	1.7k 2.1×	805 1.3×	502 0.9×	138	11.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Thorsten Lang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thorsten Lang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thorsten Lang

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mass, Elvira, Valentin Stein, Thorsten Lang, et al.. (2025). Glucose tasting depletes intracellular calcium stores and impairs macrophage functionality. iScience. 28(11). 113770–113770.

Lang, Thorsten, et al.. (2022). The transmembrane domain of the amyloid precursor protein is required for antiamyloidogenic processing by α-secretase ADAM10. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 298(6). 101911–101911. 9 indexed citations

Aschenbrenner, Anna C., et al.. (2019). Classes of non-conventional tetraspanins defined by alternative splicing. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 14075–14075. 19 indexed citations

Schloetel, Jan-Gero, et al.. (2015). No Evidence for Spontaneous Lipid Transfer at ER–PM Membrane Contact Sites. The Journal of Membrane Biology. 249(1-2). 41–56. 11 indexed citations

Saka, Sinem K., Alf Honigmann, Christian Eggeling, et al.. (2014). Multi-protein assemblies underlie the mesoscale organization of the plasma membrane.. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 25. 2 indexed citations

Saka, Sinem K., Alf Honigmann, Christian Eggeling, et al.. (2014). Multi-protein assemblies underlie the mesoscale organization of the plasma membrane. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4509–4509. 135 indexed citations

Bogaart, Geert van den, Thorsten Lang, & Reinhard Jahn. (2013). Microdomains of SNARE Proteins in the Plasma Membrane. Current topics in membranes. 72. 193–230. 30 indexed citations

Okamura, Yosuke, et al.. (2011). A Few Immobilized Thrombins Are Sufficient for Platelet Spreading. Biophysical Journal. 100(8). 1855–1863. 19 indexed citations

Zilly, Felipe E., et al.. (2011). Ca2+ induces clustering of membrane proteins in the plasma membrane via electrostatic interactions. The EMBO Journal. 30(7). 1209–1220. 49 indexed citations

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Nawaz, Schanila, Aiman S. Saab, Hauke Werner, et al.. (2009). Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-Bisphosphate-Dependent Interaction of Myelin Basic Protein with the Plasma Membrane in Oligodendroglial Cells and Its Rapid Perturbation by Elevated Calcium. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(15). 4794–4807. 87 indexed citations

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Halemani, Nagaraj D., Ioanna Bethani, Silvio O. Rizzoli, & Thorsten Lang. (2009). Structure and Dynamics of a Two-Helix SNARE Complex in Live Cells. Traffic. 11(3). 394–404. 37 indexed citations

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Bar-On, Dana, Ulrike Winter, Esther Nachliel, et al.. (2008). Imaging the assembly and disassembly kinetics of cis‐SNARE complexes on native plasma membranes. FEBS Letters. 582(23-24). 3563–3568. 14 indexed citations

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Lang, Thorsten. (2007). SNARE proteins and ‘membrane rafts’. The Journal of Physiology. 585(3). 693–698. 100 indexed citations

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Chua, John Jia En, Alexander Stein, Ulrike Winter, et al.. (2007). A Novel Site of Action for α-SNAP in the SNARE Conformational Cycle Controlling Membrane Fusion. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 19(3). 776–784. 37 indexed citations

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Zwilling, Daniel, et al.. (2006). Homotypic fusion of early endosomes: SNAREs do not determine fusion specificity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(8). 2701–2706. 113 indexed citations

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Sieber, Jochen J., Katrin I. Willig, Rainer Heintzmann, Stefan W. Hell, & Thorsten Lang. (2006). The SNARE Motif Is Essential for the Formation of Syntaxin Clusters in the Plasma Membrane. Biophysical Journal. 90(8). 2843–2851. 150 indexed citations

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Milošević, Ira, Jakob B. Sørensen, Thorsten Lang, et al.. (2005). Plasmalemmal Phosphatidylinositol-4,5-Bisphosphate Level Regulates the Releasable Vesicle Pool Size in Chromaffin Cells. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(10). 2557–2565. 182 indexed citations

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Lang, Thorsten & Reinhard Jahn. (2002). Fusion of Vacuoles— Where Are the Membranes, and Where Are the Holes?. Developmental Cell. 2(3). 257–259. 3 indexed citations

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Lang, Thorsten. (2001). SNAREs are concentrated in cholesterol-dependent clusters that define docking and fusion sites for exocytosis. The EMBO Journal. 20(9). 2202–2213. 544 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lang, Thorsten, Irene Wacker, Christoph Kaether, et al.. (1997). Ca2+-Triggered Peptide Secretion in Single Cells Imaged with Green Fluorescent Protein and Evanescent-Wave Microscopy. Neuron. 18(6). 857–863. 189 indexed citations

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