Wilbert Bitter

13.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
164 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Wilbert Bitter is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wilbert Bitter has authored 164 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Infectious Diseases, 83 papers in Epidemiology and 60 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Wilbert Bitter's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (82 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (77 papers) and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (45 papers). Wilbert Bitter is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (82 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (77 papers) and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (45 papers). Wilbert Bitter collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and France. Wilbert Bitter's co-authors include Christina M. J. E. Vandenbroucke‐Grauls, Astrid M. van der Sar, Jan Tommassen, Edith N. G. Houben, Ben J. Appelmelk, Abdallah M. Abdallah, Joen Luirink, Roy Ummels, Margot Koster and Herman P. Spaink and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Wilbert Bitter

162 papers receiving 9.9k 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.

Type VII secretion — mycobacteria show the way

2007 556 citations Abdallah M. Abdallah, Nicolaas C. Gey van Pittius et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
Phagosomal Rupture by Mycobacterium tuberculosis Results in Toxicity and Host Cell Death

2012 417 citations Wilbert Bitter, Roland Brosch et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wilbert Bitter Netherlands	55	4.5k	3.9k	3.6k	2.2k	1.8k	164	10.0k
Jeffery S. Cox United States	50	5.7k 1.3×	5.6k 1.4×	5.9k 1.6×	2.8k 1.3×	1.3k 0.7×	75	13.2k
Marie‐Christine Prévost France	56	3.2k 0.7×	2.4k 0.6×	5.2k 1.4×	1.9k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	121	11.4k
David W. Holden United Kingdom	72	3.3k 0.7×	2.7k 0.7×	5.1k 1.4×	1.7k 0.8×	2.4k 1.3×	186	16.0k
Lalita Ramakrishnan United States	50	5.6k 1.2×	4.6k 1.2×	2.7k 0.7×	3.9k 1.8×	553 0.3×	101	10.9k
Dominique Missiakas United States	62	4.6k 1.0×	945 0.2×	7.8k 2.1×	1.5k 0.7×	3.0k 1.7×	179	12.3k
Douglas B. Young United Kingdom	52	6.1k 1.3×	4.9k 1.2×	3.3k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	853 0.5×	126	9.3k
John T. Belisle United States	56	6.6k 1.5×	5.5k 1.4×	3.9k 1.1×	4.1k 1.9×	737 0.4×	165	12.1k
Raphael H. Valdivia United States	41	1.3k 0.3×	1.7k 0.4×	4.0k 1.1×	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	97	9.0k
David Goulding United Kingdom	51	1.9k 0.4×	1.3k 0.3×	4.2k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	157	9.1k
Dirk Bumann Switzerland	44	995 0.2×	1.2k 0.3×	2.7k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	882 0.5×	107	6.6k

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Cheng, Hongjuan, et al.. (2026). Impairment of two non-essential LytR-cpsA-psr (Lcp) cell wall ligases decelerate cell wall assembly in Mycolicibacterium smegmatis. BMC Microbiology. 26(1).

Kuijl, Coenraad, et al.. (2025). PPE51 modulates membrane integrity in Mycobacterium marinum. mBio. 16(11). e0104425–e0104425. 1 indexed citations

Verboom, Theo, et al.. (2024). Vitamin B ₁₂ uptake across the mycobacterial outer membrane is influenced by membrane permeability in Mycobacterium marinum. Microbiology Spectrum. 12(6). e0316823–e0316823. 3 indexed citations

Durcik, Martina, Petra Szili, Márton Simon Czikkely, et al.. (2024). Development of narrow-spectrum topoisomerase-targeting antibacterials against mycobacteria. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 276. 116693–116693. 3 indexed citations

Ding, Yu, et al.. (2023). Reconstitution of a minimal ESX-5 type VII secretion system suggests a role for PPE proteins in the outer membrane transport of proteins. mSphere. 8(5). e0040223–e0040223. 6 indexed citations

Wettstadt, Sarah, et al.. (2023). The Prc and CtpA proteases modulate cell-surface signaling activity and virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. iScience. 26(7). 107216–107216. 4 indexed citations

Piersma, Sander R., et al.. (2022). The ESX-1 Substrate PPE68 Has a Key Function in ESX-1-Mediated Secretion in Mycobacterium marinum. mBio. 13(6). e0281922–e0281922. 11 indexed citations

Wenzel, Michaela, et al.. (2021). A flat embedding method for transmission electron microscopy reveals an unknown mechanism of tetracycline. Communications Biology. 4(1). 306–306. 27 indexed citations

Zon, Maaike van, Karin de Punder, Anita E. Grootemaat, et al.. (2021). IL-1R1-Dependent Signals Improve Control of Cytosolic Virulent Mycobacteria In Vivo. mSphere. 6(3). 4 indexed citations

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Ummels, Roy, et al.. (2020). Species‐specific secretion of ESX‐5 type VII substrates is determined by the linker 2 of EccC ₅. Molecular Microbiology. 114(1). 66–76. 15 indexed citations

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Ummels, Roy, et al.. (2020). Modification of a PE/PPE substrate pair reroutes an Esx substrate pair from the mycobacterial ESX-1 type VII secretion system to the ESX-5 system. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(18). 5960–5969. 21 indexed citations

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Ummels, Roy, Janneke J. Maaskant, Alexander Speer, et al.. (2020). Efficient genome editing in pathogenic mycobacteria using Streptococcus thermophilus CRISPR1-Cas9. Tuberculosis. 124. 101983–101983. 29 indexed citations

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Abdallah, Abdallah M., Eveline M. Weerdenburg, Qingtian Guan, et al.. (2019). Integrated transcriptomic and proteomic analysis of pathogenic mycobacteria and their esx-1 mutants reveal secretion-dependent regulation of ESX-1 substrates and WhiB6 as a transcriptional regulator. PLoS ONE. 14(1). e0211003–e0211003. 20 indexed citations

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Ates, Louis S., et al.. (2019). Optimization of secretion and surface localization of heterologous OVA protein in mycobacteria by using LipY as a carrier. Microbial Cell Factories. 18(1). 44–44. 12 indexed citations

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Abdallah, Abdallah M., Mamoon Rashid, Sabir A. Adroub, et al.. (2012). Complete Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium xenopi Type Strain RIVM700367. Journal of Bacteriology. 194(12). 3282–3283. 3 indexed citations

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Cascioferro, Alessandro, Marcello Ventura, Valentina Donà, et al.. (2011). Functional Dissection of the PE Domain Responsible for Translocation of PE_PGRS33 across the Mycobacterial Cell Wall. PLoS ONE. 6(11). e27713–e27713. 43 indexed citations

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Budding, Andries E., Colin J. Ingham, Wilbert Bitter, Christina M. J. E. Vandenbroucke‐Grauls, & Peter M. Schneeberger. (2009). The Dienes Phenomenon: Competition and Territoriality in Swarming Proteus mirabilis. Journal of Bacteriology. 191(12). 3892–3900. 50 indexed citations

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Traag, Bjørn A., Adam Driks, Patrick Stragier, et al.. (2009). Do mycobacteria produce endospores?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(2). 878–881. 54 indexed citations

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Abdallah, Abdallah M., Nigel D. L. Savage, Maaike van Zon, et al.. (2008). The ESX-5 Secretion System of Mycobacterium marinum Modulates the Macrophage Response. The Journal of Immunology. 181(10). 7166–7175. 120 indexed citations

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Abdallah, Abdallah M., Nicolaas C. Gey van Pittius, Patricia A. Champion, et al.. (2007). Type VII secretion — mycobacteria show the way. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 5(11). 883–891. 556 indexed citations breakdown →

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