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55
Citations
9746
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3855
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271

Knut Ohlsen publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Knut Ohlsen sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 133 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Knut Ohlsen D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Knut Ohlsen sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Knut Ohlsen is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany and is engaged in research primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Immunology and Microbiology. Their scholarly output reflects a focus on topics related to antimicrobial peptides and activities, antimicrobial resistance specifically in Staphylococcus species, and broader issues in antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

Ohlsen's research interests extend into immune response and inflammation, RNA interference and gene delivery, bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, and chemical synthesis and analysis. The subfields represented in their work include Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Organic Chemistry, and Immunology, with a particular emphasis on understanding microbial mechanisms and host interactions.

Among their recent publications are several papers that demonstrate active engagement with contemporary scientific challenges:

  • "Vancomycin Resistance Is Overcome by Conjugation of Polycationic Peptides," 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Lymphatic migration of unconventional T cells promotes site-specific immunity in distinct lymph nodes," 2022, Immunity
  • "The induction of natural competence adapts staphylococcal metabolism to infection," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Intracellular Staphylococcus aureus employs the cysteine protease staphopain A to induce host cell death in epithelial cells," 2021, PLoS Pathogens
  • "Overcoming the Mucosal Barrier: Tetraether Lipid-Stabilized Liposomal Nanocarriers Decorated with Cell-Penetrating Peptides Enable Oral Delivery of Vancomycin," 2021, Advanced Therapeutics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Knut Ohlsen include Tobias Hertlein, Florian Umstätter, Eric Mühlberg, Barbro Beijer, and Philipp Uhl. This pattern of collaboration indicates a consistent network of researchers working on related scientific topics.

Ohlsen's work has been published regularly in several notable scientific journals. Venues with frequent publications include Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Advanced Therapeutics, Pharmaceuticals, Angewandte Chemie, and Frontiers in Immunology. These journals collectively reflect a mix of chemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, and immunology contexts.

Best Publications

  • Repair of global regulators in Staphylococcus aureus 8325 and comparative analysis with other clinical isolates

    Silvia Herbert;Anne-Kathrin Ziebandt;Knut Ohlsen;Tina Schäfer

  • Effect of Subinhibitory Antibiotic Concentrations on Polysaccharide Intercellular Adhesin Expression in Biofilm-Forming Staphylococcus epidermidis

    Shwan Rachid;Knut Ohlsen;Wolfgang Witte;Jörg Hacker

  • Quaternary Ammonium Salts and Their Antimicrobial Potential: Targets or Nonspecific Interactions?

    Maximilian Tischer;Gabriele Pradel;Knut Ohlsen;Ulrike Holzgrabe

  • Emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in different animal species

    Christiane Cuny;Alexander Friedrich;Svetlana Kozytska;Franziska Layer

  • Alternative transcription factor sigma(B) is involved in regulation of biofilm expression in a Staphylococcus aureus mucosal isolate.

    Shwan Rachid;Knut Ohlsen;Ursula Wallner;Jörg Hacker

  • Effects of subinhibitory concentrations of antibiotics on alpha-toxin (hla) gene expression of methicillin-sensitive and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates.

    Knut Ohlsen;Wilma Ziebuhr;Klaus-Peter Koller;Wolfgang Hell

  • Real-time in vivo imaging of invasive- and biomaterial-associated bacterial infections using fluorescently labelled vancomycin

    Marleen van Oosten;Marleen van Oosten;Tina Schäfer;Joost A C Gazendam;Knut Ohlsen

  • Sticky connections: extracellular matrix protein recognition and integrin-mediated cellular invasion by Staphylococcus aureus.

    Christof R Hauck;Knut Ohlsen

  • Global Regulatory Impact of ClpP Protease of Staphylococcus aureus on Regulons Involved in Virulence, Oxidative Stress Response, Autolysis, and DNA Repair

    Antje Michel;Franziska Agerer;Christof R. Hauck;Mathias Herrmann

  • Cellular invasion by Staphylococcus aureus reveals a functional link between focal adhesion kinase and cortactin in integrin-mediated internalisation

    Franziska Agerer;Sigrid Lux;Antje Michel;Manfred Rohde

  • Evolution of Resistance to a Last-Resort Antibiotic in Staphylococcus aureus via Bacterial Competition

    Gudrun Koch;Ana Yepes;Konrad U. Förstner;Charlotte Wermser

  • Regulation of sigmaB-dependent transcription of sigB and asp23 in two different Staphylococcus aureus strains.

    S. Gertz;S. Engelmann;R. Schmid;K. Ohlsen

  • Cytoplasmic replication of Staphylococcus aureus upon phagosomal escape triggered by phenol-soluble modulin α

    Magdalena Grosz;Julia Kolter;Kerstin Paprotka;Ann-Cathrin Winkler

  • Environmental induction of white-opaque switching in Candida albicans.

    Bernardo Ramírez-Zavala;Oliver Reuß;Yang-Nim Park;Knut Ohlsen

  • Integrin-mediated Invasion of Staphylococcus aureus into Human Cells Requires Src Family Protein-tyrosine Kinases

    Franziska Agerer;Antje Michel;Knut Ohlsen;Christof R. Hauck

  • The influence of agr and σB in growth phase dependent regulation of virulence factors in Staphylococcus aureus

    Anne-Kathrin Ziebandt;Dörte Becher;Knut Ohlsen;Jörg Hacker

  • Impact of antibiotics on conjugational resistance gene transfer in Staphylococcus aureus in sewage

    Knut Ohlsen;Thomas Ternes;Guido Werner;Ursula Wallner

  • Clonal analysis of Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates carrying or lacking biofilm-mediating genes by multilocus sequence typing.

    Svetlana Kozitskaya;Michael E. Olson;Paul D. Fey;Wolfgang Witte

  • Role of the (p)ppGpp synthase RSH, a RelA/SpoT homolog, in stringent response and virulence of Staphylococcus aureus.

    Tobias Geiger;Christiane Goerke;Michaela Fritz;Tina Schäfer

  • Trapping and proteomic identification of cellular substrates of the ClpP protease in Staphylococcus aureus.

    Jingyuan Feng;Stephan Michalik;Anders N. Varming;Julie H. Andersen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jörg Hacker
Jörg Hacker University of Würzburg
Michael Hecker
Michael Hecker University of Greifswald
Susanne Engelmann
Susanne Engelmann Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Michael Lalk
Michael Lalk University of Greifswald
Walter Mier
Walter Mier University Hospital Heidelberg
Uwe Haberkorn
Uwe Haberkorn Heidelberg University
Christof R. Hauck
Christof R. Hauck University of Konstanz
Friedrich Götz
Friedrich Götz University of Tübingen
Barbara M. Bröker
Barbara M. Bröker Greifswald University Hospital
Wolfgang Witte
Wolfgang Witte Robert Koch Institute

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