Timo Denk

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 727 citations indexed

About

Timo Denk is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Timo Denk has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 727 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Oncology and 1 paper in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Timo Denk's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (5 papers). Timo Denk is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (5 papers). Timo Denk collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and France. Timo Denk's co-authors include Roland Beckmann, Matthias Thoms, Robert Buschauer, Jingdong Cheng, Christina M. Stürzel, Michael Ameismeier, Lennart Koepke, Timur Mackens‐Kiani, Thomas Fröhlich and Frank Kirchhoff and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Timo Denk

8 papers receiving 720 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.

Structural basis for translational shutdown and immune evasion by the Nsp1 protein of SARS-CoV-2

2020 549 citations Matthias Thoms, Robert Buschauer et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Timo Denk Germany	5	405	365	131	81	63	11	727
Timur Mackens‐Kiani Germany	7	410 1.0×	406 1.1×	164 1.3×	80 1.0×	62 1.0×	7	773
Michael Ameismeier Germany	7	408 1.0×	471 1.3×	131 1.0×	76 0.9×	62 1.0×	7	830
Orel Mizrahi Israel	9	380 0.9×	516 1.4×	133 1.0×	82 1.0×	41 0.7×	10	844
Manuel Hayn Germany	5	406 1.0×	240 0.7×	134 1.0×	70 0.9×	62 1.0×	8	598
Maximilian Hirschenberger Germany	7	439 1.1×	229 0.6×	147 1.1×	72 0.9×	77 1.2×	7	615
Katharina Schubert Switzerland	8	312 0.8×	260 0.7×	91 0.7×	76 0.9×	22 0.3×	10	523
Lukas‐Adrian Gurzeler Switzerland	4	298 0.7×	222 0.6×	85 0.6×	68 0.8×	22 0.3×	5	437
Yue Ma‐Lauer Germany	7	286 0.7×	148 0.4×	83 0.6×	33 0.4×	49 0.8×	11	434
Oded Danziger Israel	8	253 0.6×	208 0.6×	119 0.9×	23 0.3×	40 0.6×	9	464
Qingfeng Meng China	10	315 0.8×	319 0.9×	136 1.0×	17 0.2×	45 0.7×	19	663

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Timo Denk

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Timo Denk. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Timo Denk based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Timo Denk. Timo Denk is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Denk, Timo, et al.. (2026). Structural basis of co-translational N-myristoylation in humans. Nature Communications. 17(1). 1191–1191.

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Saba, James A., Timo Denk, Eugene Park, et al.. (2025). ZAK activation at the collided ribosome. Nature. 649(8098). 1051–1060.

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Thoms, Matthias, Benjamin H.S. Lau, Timo Denk, et al.. (2025). H/ACA snR30 snoRNP guides independent 18S rRNA subdomain formation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4720–4720.

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Becker, Thomas, et al.. (2025). The ribosome as a platform to coordinate mRNA decay. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(4). 3 indexed citations

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Thoms, Matthias, Klemens Wild, Timo Denk, et al.. (2025). Highly conserved ribosome biogenesis pathways between human and yeast revealed by the MDN1-NLE1 interaction and NLE1 containing pre-60S subunits. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(7). 1 indexed citations

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Li, Xiang, Mengjiao Wang, Timo Denk, et al.. (2024). Structural basis for differential inhibition of eukaryotic ribosomes by tigecycline. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5481–5481. 7 indexed citations

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Urs, Ankanahalli N. Nanjaraj, Timo Denk, Petr Těšina, et al.. (2024). Multiprotein bridging factor 1 is required for robust activation of the integrated stress response on collided ribosomes. Molecular Cell. 84(23). 4594–4611.e9. 3 indexed citations

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Thoms, Matthias, Benjamin H.S. Lau, Jingdong Cheng, et al.. (2023). Structural insights into coordinating 5S RNP rotation with ITS2 pre‐ RNA processing during ribosome formation. EMBO Reports. 24(12). e57984–e57984. 6 indexed citations

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Denk, Timo, Yoshitaka Matsuo, Takato Sugiyama, et al.. (2022). A distinct mammalian disome collision interface harbors K63-linked polyubiquitination of uS10 to trigger hRQT-mediated subunit dissociation. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6411–6411. 45 indexed citations

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Thoms, Matthias, Robert Buschauer, Michael Ameismeier, et al.. (2020). Structural basis for translational shutdown and immune evasion by the Nsp1 protein of SARS-CoV-2. Science. 369(6508). 1249–1255. 549 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sinha, Niladri K., Alban Ordureau, James A. Saba, et al.. (2020). EDF1 coordinates cellular responses to ribosome collisions. eLife. 9. 113 indexed citations

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