Werner Schmitz

8.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
138 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Werner Schmitz is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Werner Schmitz has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Molecular Biology, 50 papers in Materials Chemistry and 17 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Werner Schmitz's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (20 papers), Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (17 papers) and Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (12 papers). Werner Schmitz is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (20 papers), Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (17 papers) and Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (12 papers). Werner Schmitz collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Finland and United States. Werner Schmitz's co-authors include Ernst Conzelmann, Ralph Fingerhut, J. Kalervo Hiltunen, Thomas D. Mueller, Rik K. Wierenga, Almut Schulze, W. Mehlhorn, Walter Sebald, G. Wendt and Joachim Nickel and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Werner Schmitz

133 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Mitochondrial dysfunction promotes the transition of precursor to terminally exhausted T cells through HIF-1α-mediated glycolytic reprogramming

2023 135 citations Hao Wu, Xiufeng Zhao et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Werner Schmitz Germany	35	1.9k	564	552	410	374	138	3.4k
John R. Mercer Canada	31	1.4k 0.7×	603 1.1×	347 0.6×	343 0.8×	366 1.0×	124	3.8k
Masato Sasaki Japan	28	1.6k 0.9×	637 1.1×	330 0.6×	331 0.8×	378 1.0×	113	3.4k
Ross T. A. MacGillivray Canada	43	2.7k 1.5×	254 0.5×	466 0.8×	240 0.6×	622 1.7×	161	6.3k
Michaela Aichler Germany	39	1.9k 1.0×	369 0.7×	155 0.3×	684 1.7×	504 1.3×	97	4.4k
Diane Braguer France	39	2.3k 1.2×	536 1.0×	330 0.6×	486 1.2×	1.1k 3.0×	104	4.6k
Zhuo Chen China	31	3.3k 1.7×	1.4k 2.6×	724 1.3×	377 0.9×	458 1.2×	80	6.5k
Yoshihiko Saito Japan	26	802 0.4×	357 0.6×	460 0.8×	286 0.7×	588 1.6×	178	3.4k
Steven A. Spencer Australia	22	1.9k 1.0×	448 0.8×	272 0.5×	307 0.7×	474 1.3×	31	5.2k
David C. Turner United States	42	3.0k 1.6×	429 0.8×	245 0.4×	251 0.6×	616 1.6×	123	5.5k
Stuart Thomson United Kingdom	25	2.1k 1.1×	511 0.9×	311 0.6×	696 1.7×	1.2k 3.3×	55	3.7k

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Hartmann, Oliver, Cristian Prieto‐Garcia, Kamal M. Al-Shami, et al.. (2023). USP28 controls SREBP2 and the mevalonate pathway to drive tumour growth in squamous cancer. Cell Death and Differentiation. 30(7). 1710–1725. 21 indexed citations

Koski, M. Kristian, Joanna Panecka-Hofman, Werner Schmitz, et al.. (2023). An engineered variant of MECR reductase reveals indispensability of long-chain acyl-ACPs for mitochondrial respiration. Nature Communications. 14(1). 619–619. 9 indexed citations

Wu, Hao, Xiufeng Zhao, Sophia M. Hochrein, et al.. (2023). Mitochondrial dysfunction promotes the transition of precursor to terminally exhausted T cells through HIF-1α-mediated glycolytic reprogramming. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6858–6858. 135 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhang, Lin, Yiran Wang, Werner Schmitz, et al.. (2023). The Molecular Basis of Catalysis by SDR Family Members Ketoacyl‐ACP Reductase FabG and Enoyl‐ACP Reductase FabI in Type‐II Fatty Acid Biosynthesis. Angewandte Chemie. 135(46). 1 indexed citations

Hufnagel, Anita, Werner Schmitz, Thamara Nishida Xavier da Silva, et al.. (2023). The integrated stress response effector ATF4 is an obligatory metabolic activator of NRF2. Cell Reports. 42(7). 112724–112724. 58 indexed citations

Peixoto, Joana, Sudha Janaki‐Raman, Lisa Schlicker, et al.. (2021). Integrated Metabolomics and Transcriptomics Analysis of Monolayer and Neurospheres from Established Glioblastoma Cell Lines. Cancers. 13(6). 1327–1327. 12 indexed citations

Loza‐Valdes, Angel, Alexander E. Mayer, Werner Schmitz, et al.. (2021). A phosphoproteomic approach reveals that PKD3 controls PKA-mediated glucose and tyrosine metabolism. Life Science Alliance. 4(8). e202000863–e202000863. 5 indexed citations

Schmitz, Werner, J. Kalervo Hiltunen, Rajaram Venkatesan, et al.. (2020). Crystallographic binding studies of rat peroxisomal multifunctional enzyme type 1 with 3-ketodecanoyl-CoA: capturing active and inactive states of its hydratase and dehydrogenase catalytic sites. Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology. 76(12). 1256–1269. 4 indexed citations

Janaki‐Raman, Sudha, Apoorva Baluapuri, Francesca R. Dejure, et al.. (2020). Reprogramming of host glutamine metabolism during Chlamydia trachomatis infection and its key role in peptidoglycan synthesis. Nature Microbiology. 5(11). 1390–1402. 38 indexed citations

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Schmitz, Werner, et al.. (2020). Metabolomics in postmortem cerebrospinal fluid diagnostics: a state-of-the-art method to interpret central nervous system–related pathological processes. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 135(1). 183–191. 17 indexed citations

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Schmitz, Werner, Jani Seitsonen, Jan Skov Pedersen, et al.. (2019). Complementary substrate specificity and distinct quaternary assembly of the Escherichia coli aerobic and anaerobic β-oxidation trifunctional enzyme complexes. Biochemical Journal. 476(13). 1975–1994. 11 indexed citations

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Kaymak, Irem, Werner Schmitz, Andrew D. Campbell, et al.. (2019). Mevalonate Pathway Provides Ubiquinone to Maintain Pyrimidine Synthesis and Survival in p53-Deficient Cancer Cells Exposed to Metabolic Stress. Cancer Research. 80(2). 189–203. 66 indexed citations

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Kiema, Tiila‐Riikka, Mikko Laitaoja, Werner Schmitz, et al.. (2018). The peroxisomal zebrafish SCP2-thiolase (type-1) is a weak transient dimer as revealed by crystal structures and native mass spectrometry. Biochemical Journal. 476(2). 307–332. 11 indexed citations

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Koski, M. Kristian, et al.. (2015). Structures of yeast peroxisomal Δ³,Δ²-enoyl-CoA isomerase complexed with acyl-CoA substrate analogues: the importance of hydrogen-bond networks for the reactivity of the catalytic base and the oxyanion hole. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 71(11). 2178–2191. 9 indexed citations

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Nair, R., Werner Schmitz, Ari-Pekka Kvist, et al.. (2015). Phytol is lethal for Amacr-deficient mice. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1851(10). 1394–1405. 10 indexed citations

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Baljuls, Angela, Ulrike Rennefahrt, Andreas Fischer, et al.. (2009). Identification of Novel in Vivo Phosphorylation Sites of the Human Proapoptotic Protein BAD. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(41). 28004–28020. 47 indexed citations

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Bhaumik, Prasenjit, Werner Schmitz, Antti Hassinen, et al.. (2007). The Catalysis of the 1,1-Proton Transfer by α-Methyl-acyl-CoA Racemase Is Coupled to a Movement of the Fatty Acyl Moiety Over a Hydrophobic, Methionine-rich Surface. Journal of Molecular Biology. 367(4). 1145–1161. 38 indexed citations

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Bhaumik, Prasenjit, Werner Schmitz, Tiina Kotti, et al.. (2005). α-Methylacyl-CoA Racemase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(13). 12611–12620. 41 indexed citations

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Zipes, Jack & Werner Schmitz. (1984). Aufstand der Elfen : phantastische Erzählungen aus dem viktorianischen England.

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Schmitz, Werner. (1964). Der Gebrauch der deutschen Präpositionen. 2 indexed citations

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