Volker Kiessling

4.0k total citations
66 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Volker Kiessling is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Volker Kiessling has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Molecular Biology, 39 papers in Cell Biology and 16 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Volker Kiessling's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (52 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (37 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (12 papers). Volker Kiessling is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (52 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (37 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (12 papers). Volker Kiessling collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Belgium. Volker Kiessling's co-authors include Lukas K. Tamm, Sung‐Tae Yang, Alex J.B. Kreutzberger, Jonathan M. Crane, Chen Wan, Binyong Liang, Marta K. Domańska, Jinwoo Lee, Judith M. White and James A. Simmons and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Volker Kiessling

64 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Volker Kiessling United States 30 2.4k 945 415 365 334 66 3.0k
Michelle Peckham United Kingdom 36 2.1k 0.9× 1.1k 1.2× 179 0.4× 300 0.8× 293 0.9× 110 3.5k
Vadim A. Frolov United States 23 2.3k 0.9× 1.1k 1.1× 277 0.7× 616 1.7× 164 0.5× 39 3.1k
Fred Cohen United States 31 2.4k 1.0× 641 0.7× 276 0.7× 267 0.7× 354 1.1× 70 3.1k
Prabuddha Sengupta United States 32 2.6k 1.1× 813 0.9× 441 1.1× 779 2.1× 199 0.6× 46 4.2k
Kirsten Bacia Germany 23 2.9k 1.2× 667 0.7× 487 1.2× 458 1.3× 198 0.6× 48 3.6k
Brian Pope United Kingdom 35 2.4k 1.0× 2.3k 2.4× 529 1.3× 207 0.6× 289 0.9× 48 4.7k
Tae‐Young Yoon South Korea 30 1.8k 0.8× 789 0.8× 399 1.0× 538 1.5× 240 0.7× 90 3.0k
Benoît Zuber Switzerland 29 1.7k 0.7× 679 0.7× 134 0.3× 173 0.5× 403 1.2× 73 2.9k
Iwan A.T. Schaap Germany 28 1.8k 0.7× 662 0.7× 497 1.2× 580 1.6× 137 0.4× 49 3.6k
Zenon Rajfur Poland 30 1.2k 0.5× 946 1.0× 120 0.3× 270 0.7× 240 0.7× 94 3.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Volker Kiessling

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Volker Kiessling

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Volker Kiessling. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Volker Kiessling 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 Volker Kiessling. Volker Kiessling is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Preobraschenski, Julia, Alex J.B. Kreutzberger, Marcelo Ganzella, et al.. (2025). Synaptophysin accelerates synaptic vesicle fusion by expanding the membrane upon neurotransmitter loading. Science Advances. 11(17). eads4661–eads4661. 3 indexed citations
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Liang, Binyong, et al.. (2024). Functionally distinct SNARE motifs of SNAP25 cooperate in SNARE assembly and membrane fusion. Biophysical Journal. 124(4). 637–650. 5 indexed citations
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Heberle, Frederick A., Ilya Levental, Kandice R. Levental, et al.. (2023). Serinc5 Restricts HIV Membrane Fusion by Altering Lipid Order and Heterogeneity in the Viral Membrane. ACS Infectious Diseases. 9(4). 773–784. 14 indexed citations
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Kiessling, Volker, Ramkumar Mohan, Catherine A. Doyle, et al.. (2022). Membrane order regulates SNARE mediated vesicle fusion in insulin-secreting cells. Biophysical Journal. 121(3). 292a–293a. 1 indexed citations
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Kiessling, Volker, et al.. (2021). Conserved arginine residues in synaptotagmin 1 regulate fusion pore expansion through membrane contact. Nature Communications. 12(1). 761–761. 22 indexed citations
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Lee, Jinwoo, Alex J.B. Kreutzberger, Elizabeth A. Nelson, et al.. (2021). Ebola virus glycoprotein interacts with cholesterol to enhance membrane fusion and cell entry. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 28(2). 181–189. 44 indexed citations
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Narahari, Adishesh K., Alex J.B. Kreutzberger, Pablo S. Gaete, et al.. (2021). ATP and large signaling metabolites flux through caspase-activated Pannexin 1 channels. eLife. 10. 70 indexed citations
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Kiessling, Volker, et al.. (2021). Vesicle Membrane Order Controls Fusion by Determining Synaptobrevin's Conformation. Biophysical Journal. 120(3). 51a–51a. 1 indexed citations
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Bendahmane, Mounir, Alex J.B. Kreutzberger, Ramkumar Mohan, et al.. (2020). Synaptotagmin‐7 enhances calcium‐sensing of chromaffin cell granules and slows discharge of granule cargos. Journal of Neurochemistry. 154(6). 598–617. 12 indexed citations
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Kreutzberger, Alex J.B., Volker Kiessling, Catherine A. Doyle, et al.. (2020). Distinct insulin granule subpopulations implicated in the secretory pathology of diabetes types 1 and 2. eLife. 9. 27 indexed citations
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Kreutzberger, Alex J.B., Volker Kiessling, Christopher Stroupe, et al.. (2019). In vitro fusion of single synaptic and dense core vesicles reproduces key physiological properties. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3904–3904. 35 indexed citations
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Kiessling, Volker, Alex J.B. Kreutzberger, Binyong Liang, et al.. (2018). A molecular mechanism for calcium-mediated synaptotagmin-triggered exocytosis. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 25(10). 911–917. 31 indexed citations
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Gari, Raghavendar Reddy Sanganna, Patrick Seelheim, Brendan Marsh, et al.. (2018). Quaternary structure of the small amino acid transporter OprG from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 293(44). 17267–17277. 6 indexed citations
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Kreutzberger, Alex J.B., Volker Kiessling, Binyong Liang, et al.. (2017). Reconstitution of calcium-mediated exocytosis of dense-core vesicles. Science Advances. 3(7). e1603208–e1603208. 45 indexed citations
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Yang, Sung‐Tae, Alex J.B. Kreutzberger, Volker Kiessling, et al.. (2017). HIV virions sense plasma membrane heterogeneity for cell entry. Science Advances. 3(6). e1700338–e1700338. 80 indexed citations
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Kiessling, Volker, Saheeb Ahmed, Marta K. Domańska, et al.. (2013). Fast Snare Mediated Synaptic Vesicle Fusion in Supported Membranes. Biophysical Journal. 104(2). 88a–88a. 1 indexed citations
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Domańska, Marta K., Volker Kiessling, Alexander Stein, Dirk Fasshauer, & Lukas K. Tamm. (2010). Single vesicle millisecond fusion kinetics reveals number of SNARE complexes optimal for fast SNARE-mediated membrane fusion.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(15). 11753–11753. 9 indexed citations
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Crane, Jonathan M., Volker Kiessling, & Lukas K. Tamm. (2005). Measuring Lipid Asymmetry in Planar Supported Bilayers by Fluorescence Interference Contrast Microscopy. Langmuir. 21(4). 1377–1388. 121 indexed citations
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Kiessling, Volker & Lukas K. Tamm. (2003). Measuring Distances in Supported Bilayers by Fluorescence Interference-Contrast Microscopy: Polymer Supports and SNARE Proteins. Biophysical Journal. 84(1). 408–418. 152 indexed citations

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