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Christoph W. Turck

Christoph W. Turck

Max Planck Society
Germany

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
88
Citations
30210
World Ranking
2688
National Ranking
197

Christoph W. Turck publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christoph W. Turck sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 332 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Christoph W. Turck D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christoph W. Turck sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 316 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 899 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,025 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,149 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,235 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,162 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,130 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,031 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 714 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 71 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 88 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Christoph W. Turck is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, neuroscience, and medicine. Their research spans various subfields including molecular biology, physiology, biological psychiatry, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and neurology.

Their work covers several focused topics, notably:

  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Stress responses and cortisol
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Gut microbiota and health

Among their most recent and cited papers are:

  • The underappreciated diversity of bile acid modifications, 2024, Cell
  • Stress-primed secretory autophagy promotes extracellular BDNF maturation by enhancing MMP9 secretion, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Ketamine exerts its sustained antidepressant effects via cell-type-specific regulation of Kcnq2, 2022, Neuron
  • A cynomolgus monkey with naturally occurring Parkinson's disease, 2020, National Science Review
  • Paroxetine Administration Affects Microbiota and Bile Acid Levels in Mice, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry

The frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • Božidar Novak
  • Frederik Dethloff
  • Xintian Hu
  • Yingzhou Hu
  • Longbao Lv

Turck has published in a variety of venues, with multiple works appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Metabolites
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • ZAP-70: A 70 kd protein-tyrosine kinase that associates with the TCR ζ chain

    Andrew C. Chan;Makio Iwashima;Christoph W. Turck;Arthur Weiss

  • Inhibition of CDK2 activity in vivo by an associated 20K regulatory subunit

    Yong Gu;Christoph W. Turck;David O. Morgan

  • Nuclear Export of NF-ATc Enhanced by Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3

    Chan R. Beals;Colleen M. Sheridan;Christoph W. Turck;Phyllis Gardner

  • A potential fusion peptide and an integrin ligand domain in a protein active in sperm-egg fusion.

    Carl P. Blobel;Tyra G. Wolfsberg;Christoph W. Turck;Diana G. Myles

  • A homolog of the armadillo protein in Drosophila (plakoglobin) associated with E-cadherin.

    Pierre D. Mccrea;Christoph W. Turck;Barry Gumbiner

  • Distinct phosphotyrosines on a growth factor receptor bind to specific molecules that mediate different signaling pathways

    Wendy J. Fantl;Jaime A. Escobedo;George A. Martin;Christoph W. Turck

  • BLNK: a Central Linker Protein in B Cell Activation

    Chong Fu;Christoph W. Turck;Tomohiro Kurosaki;Andrew C. Chan

  • Cloning and gene defects in microsomal triglyceride transfer protein associated with abetalipoproteinaemia

    Daru Sharp;Laura Blinderman;Kelly A. Combs;Bernadette Kienzle

  • Net1, a Sir2-associated nucleolar protein required for rDNA silencing and nucleolar integrity.

    Aaron F Straight;Wenying Shou;Gustave J Dowd;Christoph W Turck

  • Immunolocalization of the mercurial-insensitive water channel and glycerol intrinsic protein in epithelial cell plasma membranes

    Antonio Frigeri;Michael A. Gropper;C. W. Turck;A. S. Verkman

  • Regulation of Btk Function by a Major Autophosphorylation Site Within the SH3 Domain

    Hyunsun Park;Matthew I Wahl;Daniel E.H Afar;Christoph W Turck

  • Exploiting the basis of proline recognition by SH3 and WW domains: design of N-substituted inhibitors.

    Jack T. Nguyen;Christoph W. Turck;Fred E. Cohen;Ronald N. Zuckermann

  • Cooperative assembly of an hnRNP complex induced by a tissue-specific homolog of polypyrimidine tract binding protein.

    Vadim Markovtsov;Julia M. Nikolic;Joseph A. Goldman;Christoph W. Turck

  • Tethered ligand agonist peptides. Structural requirements for thrombin receptor activation reveal mechanism of proteolytic unmasking of agonist function.

    R. M. Scarborough;M. A. Naughton;W. Teng;D. T. Hung

  • A phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase binds to platelet-derived growth factor receptors through a specific receptor sequence containing phosphotyrosine.

    J A Escobedo;D R Kaplan;W M Kavanaugh;C W Turck

  • Molecular Cloning of SLP-76, a 76-kDa Tyrosine Phosphoprotein Associated with Grb2 in T Cells

    Janet K. Jackman;David G. Motto;Qiming Sun;Masayuki Tanemoto

  • Plasma Protein Biomarkers for Depression and Schizophrenia by Multi Analyte Profiling of Case-Control Collections

    Enrico Domenici;David R. Willé;Federica Tozzi;Inga Prokopenko

  • Identification of Glyoxalase-I as a Protein Marker in a Mouse Model of Extremes in Trait Anxiety

    Simone A. Krömer;Melanie S. Keßler;Dale Milfay;Isabel N. Birg

  • HNRNP H IS A COMPONENT OF A SPLICING ENHANCER COMPLEX THAT ACTIVATES A C-SRC ALTERNATIVE EXON IN NEURONAL CELLS

    Min-Yuan Chou;Nanette Rooke;Christoph W. Turck;Douglas L. Black;Douglas L. Black

  • PTB domain binding to signaling proteins through a sequence motif containing phosphotyrosine

    WM Kavanaugh;CW Turck;LT Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Florian Holsboer
Florian Holsboer Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
John M. Asara
John M. Asara Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Rainer Landgraf
Rainer Landgraf Max Planck Society
Andrea Schmitt
Andrea Schmitt Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Edward J. Goetzl
Edward J. Goetzl University of California, San Francisco
Peter Falkai
Peter Falkai Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Marianne B. Müller
Marianne B. Müller Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Johann Steiner
Johann Steiner Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Theo Rein
Theo Rein Max Planck Society
Marcus Ising
Marcus Ising Max Planck Society

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