2026 Eckhard Boles: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	66	8722	8048	638	604	168	14592

Overview

Eckhard Boles is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology, Plant Science, and Biotechnology.

The main topics of their work include:

Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
Fungal and yeast genetics research
Biofuel production and bioconversion
Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer
Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease

They have published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

FEMS Yeast Research
Scientific Reports
Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts
ACS Synthetic Biology
Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Some of Eckhard Boles' recent papers are:

"Artificial ER-Derived Vesicles as Synthetic Organelles for in Vivo Compartmentalization of Biochemical Pathways" (2020), ACS Synthetic Biology
"Production of octanoic acid in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Investigation of new precursor supply engineering strategies and intrinsic limitations" (2021), Biotechnology and Bioengineering
"Identification of a glucose-insensitive variant of Gal2 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae exhibiting a high pentose transport capacity" (2021), Scientific Reports
"An optimized reverse β-oxidation pathway to produce selected medium-chain fatty acids in Saccharomyces cerevisiae" (2023), Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts
"Fusing α and β subunits of the fungal fatty acid synthase leads to improved production of fatty acids" (2020), Scientific Reports

Collaborations form a significant part of their research output. Frequent co-authors have included:

Mislav Oreb
Leonie Baumann
Sebastián Rojas
Joanna Tripp
Florian Wernig

Best Publications

Concurrent knock‐out of at least 20 transporter genes is required to block uptake of hexoses in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Roman Wieczorke;Stefanie Krampe;Thomas Weierstall;Kerstin Freidel

721
Citations
The Dual Function of Sugar Carriers: Transport and Sugar Sensing

Sylvie Lalonde;Eckhard Boles;Hanjo Hellmann;Laurence Barker

585
Citations
The molecular genetics of hexose transport in yeasts

Eckhard Boles;Cornelis P Hollenberg

530
Citations
Kinetic characterization of individual hexose transporters of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and their relation to the triggering mechanisms of glucose repression.

Elke Reifenberger;Eckhard Boles;Michael Ciriacy

487
Citations
Development of a D-xylose fermenting and inhibitor tolerant industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain with high performance in lignocellulose hydrolysates using metabolic and evolutionary engineering

Mekonnen M Demeke;Heiko Dietz;Yingying Li;María R Foulquié-Moreno

411
Citations
Trends and challenges in the microbial production of lignocellulosic bioalcohol fuels

Christian Weber;Alexander Farwick;Feline Benisch;Dawid Brat

395
Citations
K+ channel interactions detected by a genetic system optimized for systematic studies of membrane protein interactions

Petr Obrdlik;Mohamed El-Bakkoury;Tanja Hamacher;Corinna Cappellaro

384
Citations
Amino Acid Signaling in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a Permease-Like Sensor of External Amino Acids and F-Box Protein Grr1p Are Required for Transcriptional Induction of the AGP1 Gene, Which Encodes a Broad-Specificity Amino Acid Permease

Ismaïl Iraqui;Stephan Vissers;Florent Bernard;Johan-Owen de Craene

383
Citations
Characterization of the xylose-transporting properties of yeast hexose transporters and their influence on xylose utilization.

Tanja Hamacher;Jessica Becker;Márk Gárdonyi;Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal

375
Citations
Functional expression of a bacterial xylose isomerase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Dawid Brat;Eckhard Boles;Beate Wiedemann

357
Citations
A modified Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain that consumes L-arabinose and produces ethanol.

Jessica Becker;Eckhard Boles

343
Citations
Engineering of yeast hexose transporters to transport d-xylose without inhibition by d-glucose

Alexander Farwick;Stefan Bruder;Virginia Schadeweg;Mislav Oreb

313
Citations
Glucose‐induced cAMP signalling in yeast requires both a G‐protein coupled receptor system for extracellular glucose detection and a separable hexose kinase‐dependent sensing process

Filip Rolland;Johannes H. de Winde;Katleen Lemaire;Eckhard Boles

307
Citations
Complete DNA sequence of yeast chromosome II

H. Feldmann;M. Aigle;G. Aljinovic;B. André

295
Citations
Switching the mode of metabolism in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Karin Otterstedt;Christer Larsson;Roslyn M Bill;Anders Ståhlberg

269
Citations
Biosynthesis of cis,cis-Muconic Acid and Its Aromatic Precursors, Catechol and Protocatechuic Acid, from Renewable Feedstocks by Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Christian Weber;Christine Brückner;Sheila Weinreb;Claudia Lehr

241
Citations
Characterization of a glucose-repressed pyruvate kinase (Pyk2p) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae that is catalytically insensitive to fructose-1,6-bisphosphate.

E Boles;F Schulte;T Miosga;K Freidel

227
Citations
Identification and Characterization of MAE1, the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Structural Gene Encoding Mitochondrial Malic Enzyme

Eckhard Boles;Patricia de Jong-Gubbels;Jack T. Pronk

204
Citations
Homo- and hetero-oligomerization of ammonium transporter-1 NH4 uniporters.

Uwe Ludewig;Stephanie Wilken;Binghua Wu;Wolfgang Jost

198
Citations
Characterisation of glucose transport in Saccharomyces cerevisiae with plasma membrane vesicles (countertransport) and intact cells (initial uptake) with single Hxt1, Hxt2, Hxt3, Hxt4, Hxt6, Hxt7 or Gal2 transporters.

Andreas Maier;Bernhard Völker;Eckhard Boles;Günter Fred Fuhrmann

194
Citations