Vito Türk

46.4k total citations · 8 hit papers
424 papers, 25.3k citations indexed

About

Vito Türk is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Vito Türk has authored 424 papers receiving a total of 25.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 246 papers in Molecular Biology, 148 papers in Cancer Research and 84 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Vito Türk's work include Protease and Inhibitor Mechanisms (144 papers), Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (70 papers) and Enzyme Production and Characterization (45 papers). Vito Türk is often cited by papers focused on Protease and Inhibitor Mechanisms (144 papers), Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (70 papers) and Enzyme Production and Characterization (45 papers). Vito Türk collaborates with scholars based in Slovenia, Germany and United States. Vito Türk's co-authors include Boris Turk, Wolfram Bode, Veronika Stoka, Janko Kos, Olga Vasiljeva, Brigita Lenar≷cic̆, Anka Ritonja, Gregor Gunčar, M. Renko and Iztok Dolenc and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Vito Türk

419 papers receiving 24.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Cysteine cathepsins: From structure, function and regulation to new frontiers

2011 1.0k citations Vito Türk, Veronika Stoka et al. profile →
The cystatins: Protein inhibitors of cysteine proteinases

1991 681 citations Vito Türk et al. FEBS Letters profile →
Lysosomal cysteine proteases: more than scavengers

2000 673 citations Boris Turk, Vito Türk et al. profile →
NEW EMBO MEMBERS' REVIEW: Lysosomal cysteine proteases: facts and opportunities

2001 612 citations Vito Türk The EMBO Journal profile →
The refined 1.9‐Å X‐ray crystal structure of d‐Phe‐Pro‐Arg chloromethylketone‐inhibited human α‐thrombin: Structure analysis, overall structure, electrostatic properties, detailed active‐site geometry, and structure‐function relationships

1992 565 citations Vito Türk et al. profile →
Lysosomal Protease Pathways to Apoptosis

2001 543 citations Veronika Stoka, Boris Turk et al. profile →
The refined 2.15 A X-ray crystal structure of human liver cathepsin B: the structural basis for its specificity.

1991 522 citations Vito Türk, Tatjana Popović et al. The EMBO Journal profile →
The 2.0 A X-ray crystal structure of chicken egg white cystatin and its possible mode of interaction with cysteine proteinases.

1988 510 citations Jože Brzin, Janko Kos et al. The EMBO Journal profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Vito Türk	12.8k	7.1k	4.3k	3.0k	2.8k	424	25.3k
Richard J. Simpson	27.6k 2.2×	9.4k 1.3×	5.2k 1.2×	2.2k 0.7×	1.8k 0.6×	558	42.5k
Boris Turk	7.7k 0.6×	4.6k 0.7×	3.0k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	231	16.1k
William S. Lane	28.0k 2.2×	6.8k 1.0×	5.5k 1.3×	3.9k 1.3×	2.3k 0.8×	201	36.8k
Christopher M. Overall	11.8k 0.9×	10.8k 1.5×	9.5k 2.2×	2.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	297	28.1k
Geoffrey M. Wahl	21.7k 1.7×	4.8k 0.7×	11.1k 2.6×	2.6k 0.9×	1.4k 0.5×	178	30.1k
James Travis	7.4k 0.6×	5.1k 0.7×	3.0k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	1.2k 0.4×	286	19.6k
Philip S. Low	15.7k 1.2×	1.7k 0.2×	4.7k 1.1×	2.8k 0.9×	5.8k 2.1×	521	36.9k
Wolfram Bode	15.0k 1.2×	6.6k 0.9×	5.5k 1.3×	2.2k 0.7×	998 0.4×	282	28.0k
Yue Xiong	24.3k 1.9×	5.4k 0.8×	11.3k 2.6×	5.0k 1.7×	2.2k 0.8×	254	34.2k
William M. Bonner	25.4k 2.0×	5.5k 0.8×	6.2k 1.4×	2.6k 0.8×	1.8k 0.6×	143	33.4k

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Loboda, Jure, Emmanuelle Merquiol, Boris Turk, et al.. (2025). Development and Application of Small Molecule–Peptide Conjugates as Cathepsin K-Specific Covalent Irreversible Inhibitors in Human Osteoclast and Lung Cancer. JACS Au. 5(3). 1104–1120. 4 indexed citations

Ladányi, Márta, Meta Sterniša, Milica Perišić Nanut, et al.. (2024). Exposure to specific fungal lectins during adhesion impairs biofilm formation of Listeria on polystyrene. Microbial Biotechnology. 17(12). e70040–e70040. 1 indexed citations

Loboda, Jure, Francis Impens, Robert Vidmar, et al.. (2023). Proteomic data and structure analysis combined reveal interplay of structural rigidity and flexibility on selectivity of cysteine cathepsins. Communications Biology. 6(1). 450–450. 4 indexed citations

Kordiš, Dušan & Vito Türk. (2023). Origin and Early Diversification of the Papain Family of Cysteine Peptidases. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(14). 11761–11761. 5 indexed citations

Stoka, Veronika, Olga Vasiljeva, Hiroshi Nakanishi, & Vito Türk. (2023). The Role of Cysteine Protease Cathepsins B, H, C, and X/Z in Neurodegenerative Diseases and Cancer. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(21). 15613–15613. 16 indexed citations

Petek, Marko, Tjaša Lukan, Katja Stare, et al.. (2022). A mini-TGA protein modulates gene expression through heterogeneous association with transcription factors. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 191(3). 1934–1952. 7 indexed citations

Mikhaylov, Georgy, Miha Butinar, Vito Türk, et al.. (2022). Theranostic Applications of an Ultra-Sensitive T1 and T2 Magnetic Resonance Contrast Agent Based on Cobalt Ferrite Spinel Nanoparticles. Cancers. 14(16). 4026–4026. 5 indexed citations

Mons, Elma, Ineke D.C. Jansen, Jure Loboda, et al.. (2019). The Alkyne Moiety as a Latent Electrophile in Irreversible Covalent Small Molecule Inhibitors of Cathepsin K. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(8). 3507–3514. 79 indexed citations

Tomašič, Tihomir, et al.. (2018). Application of fragment based virtual screening towards inhibition of bacterial N- acetyglucosaminidase ^$. SAR and QSAR in environmental research. 29(9). 647–660. 2 indexed citations

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Vidmar, Robert, Matej Vizovišek, Vito Türk, Boris Turk, & Marko Fonovič. (2017). Protease cleavage site fingerprinting by label‐free in‐gel degradomics reveals pH ‐dependent specificity switch of legumain. The EMBO Journal. 36(16). 2455–2465. 63 indexed citations

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Renko, M., Jerica Sabotič, Jože Brzin, & Vito Türk. (2009). Structural studies of mycocypins, a new family of cysteine protease inhibitors. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 65(a1). s136–s136. 1 indexed citations

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Ivanova, Saška, et al.. (2008). Chapter Nine Lysosomes in Apoptosis. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 442. 183–199. 71 indexed citations

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Štefanić, Zoran, et al.. (2007). Preliminary crystallographic study of Streptomyces coelicolor single-stranded DNA-binding protein. Croatica Chemica Acta. 80(1). 35–39. 4 indexed citations

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Golouh, Rastko, et al.. (2001). Immunochemical Localisation of Cathepsin S, Cathepsin L and MHC Class II-Associated p41 Isoform of Invariant Chain in Human Lymph Node Tissue. Biological Chemistry. 382(5). 799–804. 15 indexed citations

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Štrukelj, Borut, et al.. (2000). Cloning and Expression of Functional Equistatin. Biological Chemistry. 381(1). 85–8. 8 indexed citations

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Cimerman, Nina, et al.. (1999). Interaction of Cystatin C Variants with Papain and Human Cathepsins B, H and L. Journal of enzyme inhibition. 14(2). 167–174. 41 indexed citations

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Gunčar, Gregor, et al.. (1998). Crystal structure of porcine cathepsin H determined at 2.1 å resolution: location of the mini-chain C-terminal carboxyl group defines cathepsin H aminopeptidase function. Structure. 6(1). 51–61. 136 indexed citations

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Štrukelj, Borut, et al.. (1995). Molecular cloning and sequence analysis of human preprocathepsin C. FEBS Letters. 369(2-3). 326–330. 71 indexed citations

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Lenar≷cic̆, Brigita, Anka Ritonja, Boris Turk, Iztok Dolenc, & Vito Türk. (1992). Characterization and Structure of Pineapple Stem Inhibitor of Cysteine Proteinases. Biological Chemistry Hoppe-Seyler. 373(2). 459–464. 16 indexed citations

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Keil-Dlouhá, V. & Vito Türk. (1988). Structural analogies between adhesive proteins and cysteine proteinase inhibitors.. Biological Chemistry Hoppe-Seyler. 199–204. 1 indexed citations

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