2026 Michael Nilges: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	78	1056	937	31	24	275	44901

Overview

Michael Nilges is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, authoring 61 publications in these areas.

Their subfield expertise includes:

Molecular Biology
Genetics
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Ecology

Michael Nilges' main research topics focus on:

Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
Computational Drug Discovery Methods
Protein Structure and Dynamics
Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

Frequent publication venues include:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Biophysical Journal
Bioinformatics
Nature

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael Nilges are:

Bat coronaviruses related to SARS-CoV-2 and infectious for human cells, 2022, Nature
The iPPI-DB initiative: a community-centered database of protein-protein interaction modulators, 2020, Bioinformatics
ARIAweb: a server for automated NMR structure calculation, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
Bayesian inference of chromatin structure ensembles from population-averaged contact data, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Structural determination of Streptococcus pyogenes M1 protein interactions with human immunoglobulin G using integrative structural biology, 2021, PLoS Computational Biology

The list of frequent co-authors collaborating with Michael Nilges includes:

Yasaman Karami
Benjamin Bardiaux
Nadia Izadi-Pruneyre
Olivier Spérandio
Alexandra Moine-Franel

Best Publications

MODBASE, a database of annotated comparative protein structure models, and associated resources

Ursula Pieper;Narayanan Eswar;Ben M. Webb;David Eramian;David Eramian

1032
Citations
Automated NOESY interpretation with ambiguous distance restraints: the refined NMR solution structure of the pleckstrin homology domain from beta-spectrin.

Michael Nilges;Maria J Macias;Séan I O’Donoghue;Hartmut Oschkinat

542
Citations
ARIA: automated NOE assignment and NMR structure calculation.

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474
Citations
Architecture of the RNA polymerase II–TFIIF complex revealed by cross-linking and mass spectrometry

Zhuo Angel Chen;Anass Jawhari;Lutz Fischer;Claudia Buchen

466
Citations
Structure of the binding site for inositol phosphates in a PH domain.

M Hyvonen;M.J Macias;M Nilges;H Oschkinat

416
Citations
Three−dimensional structure and stability of the KH domain: molecular insights into the fragile X syndrome

Giovanna Musco;Gunter Stier;Catherine Joseph;Maria Antonietta Castiglione Morelli

381
Citations
Structure of the dsRNA binding domain of E. coli RNase III.

Abelhakim Kharrat;M. J. Macias;T. J. Gibson;M. Nilges

367
Citations
INTERNAL REPEATS IN THE BRCA2 PROTEIN SEQUENCE

Peer Bork;Peer Bork;Niklas Blomberg;Michael Nilges

246
Citations
Functional Analysis of Early Secreted Antigenic Target-6, the Dominant T-cell Antigen of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Reveals Key Residues Involved in Secretion, Complex Formation, Virulence, and Immunogenicity

Priscille Brodin;Marien I. de Jonge;Laleh Majlessi;Claude Leclerc

242
Citations
The structure of a novel insecticidal neurotoxin, omega-atracotoxin-HV1, from the venom of an Australian funnel web spider.

Jamie I. Fletcher;Ross Smith;Séan I. O'Donoghue;Michael Nilges

231
Citations
Computational challenges for macromolecular structure determination by X-ray crystallography and solution NMRspectroscopy

Axel T. Brünger;Michael Nilges

229
Citations
Complementarity of structure ensembles in protein-protein binding.

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224
Citations
SNARE Protein Mimicry by an Intracellular Bacterium

Cédric Delevoye;Michael Nilges;Pierre Dehoux;Fabienne Paumet

210
Citations
Posttranslational Modification of Pili upon Cell Contact Triggers N. meningitidis Dissemination

Julia Chamot-Rooke;Julia Chamot-Rooke;Guillain Mikaty;Guillain Mikaty;Christian Malosse;Christian Malosse;Magali Soyer;Magali Soyer

210
Citations
Outcome of the First wwPDB Hybrid/Integrative Methods Task Force Workshop

Andrej Sali;Helen M. Berman;Torsten Schwede;Jill Trewhella

199
Citations
Structural Biology by NMR: Structure, Dynamics, and Interactions

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186
Citations
Visualization of macromolecular structures

Seán I O'Donoghue;David S Goodsell;Achilleas S Frangakis;Fabrice Jossinet

186
Citations
The three-dimensional structure of the HRDC domain and implications for the Werner and Bloom syndrome proteins.

Z. Liu;Maria J. Macias;Matthew James Bottomley;Gunter Stier

184
Citations
Flexibility and Conformational Entropy in Protein-Protein Binding

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173
Citations
The CCPN project: an interim report on a data model for the NMR community.

Rasmus Fogh;John Ionides;Eldon Ulrich;Wayne Boucher

147
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Angela M. Gronenborn University of Pittsburgh

Hartmut Oschkinat Freie Universität Berlin

Andrej Sali University of California, San Francisco

Wim F. Vranken Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Michael Sattler Technical University of Munich

G. Marius Clore National Institutes of Health

Axel T. Brunger Stanford University

Matti Saraste European Bioinformatics Institute

Juri Rappsilber Technical University of Berlin

Edward H. Egelman University of Virginia

External Links

Personal website of Michael Nilges

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