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D-Index
73
Citations
16327
World Ranking
1696
National Ranking
123

Otto Holst 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 Otto Holst sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 286 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Otto Holst 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 Otto Holst sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Otto Holst is affiliated with the Research Center Borstel - Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields within the biological and chemical sciences.

The primary fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

The listed subfields of study are:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Plant Science
  • Pharmacology
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Genetics

Holst's published research covers a variety of topics, such as:

  • Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls
  • Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research
  • Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Microbial Metabolism and Applications

Recent academic papers authored or co-authored include:

  • "Total Synthesis of a Partial Structure from Arabinogalactan and Its Application for Allergy Prevention," 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • "The Lipid A from the Lipopolysaccharide of the Phototrophic Bacterium Rhodomicrobium vannielii ATCC 17100 Revisited," 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • "Structural analysis of the core and polysaccharide from the lipopolysaccharide produced by Chromobacterium violaceum strain ATCC 12472 (NCTC 9757)," 2020, Carbohydrate Research
  • "Cover Feature: Total Synthesis of a Partial Structure from Arabinogalactan and Its Application for Allergy Prevention (Chem. Eur. J. 3/2021)," 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal

Otto Holst frequently collaborates with several researchers including:

  • Matthias Krumb
  • Maximilian Jäger
  • Alice Voss
  • Loreen Immig
  • Karin Peters

The recurring publication venues in which their work appears are:

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Carbohydrate Research

Best Publications

  • The bacterial cell wall

    Guntram Seltmann;Otto Holst

  • CHARMM-GUI Membrane Builder for Complex Biological Membrane Simulations with Glycolipids and Lipoglycans.

    Jumin Lee;Dhilon S Patel;Jonas Ståhle;Sang-Jun Park

  • Bacterial endotoxin: Chemical constitution, biological recognition, host response, and immunological detoxification.

    E. T. Rietschel;H. Brade;O. Holst;L. Brade

  • Host-response patterns of intramammary infections in dairy cows

    Ynte H. Schukken;J. Günther;J. L. Fitzpatrick;Michael C. Fontaine

  • Maternal TLR signaling is required for prenatal asthma protection by the nonpathogenic microbe Acinetobacter lwoffii F78.

    Melanie L. Conrad;Ruth Ferstl;René Teich;Stephanie Brand

  • Acinetobacter lwoffii and Lactococcus lactis strains isolated from farm cowsheds possess strong allergy-protective properties

    Jennifer Debarry;Holger Garn;Anna Hanuszkiewicz;Nina Dickgreber

  • The chemical structure of bacterial endotoxin in relation to bioactivity.

    Ernst Th. Rietschel;Teruo Kirikae;F. Ulrich Schade;Artur J. Ulmer

  • Alanine esters of enterococcal lipoteichoic acid play a role in biofilm formation and resistance to antimicrobial peptides.

    Francesca Fabretti;Christian Theilacker;Lucilla Baldassarri;Zbigniew Kaczynski

  • Biochemistry and cell biology of bacterial endotoxins.

    Otto Holst;Artur J. Ulmer;Helmut Brade;Hans-Dieter Flad

  • Microbial exposure of rural school children, as assessed by levels of N-acetyl-muramic acid in mattress dust, and its association with respiratory health.

    Robert Theodoor van Strien;Regina Engel;Otto Holst;Albrecht Bufe

  • A conserved structural motif for lipopolysaccharide recognition by procaryotic and eucaryotic proteins

    Andrew D Ferguson;Andrew D Ferguson;Wolfram Welte;Eckhard Hofmann;Buko Lindner

  • Chemistry of Lipid A: At the Heart of Innate Immunity

    Antonio Molinaro;Otto Holst;Flaviana Di Lorenzo;Maire Callaghan

  • Folding and Insertion of the Outer Membrane Protein OmpA Is Assisted by the Chaperone Skp and by Lipopolysaccharide

    Paula Vasilichia Bulieris;Susanne Behrens;Otto Holst;Jörg H. Kleinschmidt

  • Microbe-associated molecular patterns in innate immunity: Extraction and chemical analysis of gram-negative bacterial lipopolysaccharides.

    Cristina De Castro;Michelangelo Parrilli;Otto Holst;Antonio Molinaro

  • Identification of novel immune phenotypes for allergic and nonallergic childhood asthma

    Diana Raedler;Nikolaus Ballenberger;Elisabeth Klucker;Andreas Böck

  • Tertiary Structure of Staphylococcus aureus Cell Wall Murein

    Boris A. Dmitriev;Filip V. Toukach;O. Holst;E. T. Rietschel

  • The structures of core regions from enterobacterial lipopolysaccharides – an update

    Otto Holst

  • Deletion of the heptosyltransferase genes rfaC and rfaF in Escherichia coli K-12 results in an Re-type lipopolysaccharide with a high degree of 2-aminoethanol phosphate substitution.

    Werner Brabetz;Sven Muller-Loennies;Otto Holst;Helmut Brade

  • Glycosylation of Wall Teichoic Acid in Staphylococcus aureus by TarM

    Guoqing Xia;Lisa Maier;Patricia Sanchez-Carballo;Min Li

  • Lack of O‐antigen is essential for plasminogen activation by Yersinia pestis and Salmonella enterica

    Maini Kukkonen;Marjo Suomalainen;Päivi Kyllönen;Kaarina Lähteenmäki

  • Temperature-dependent variations and intraspecies diversity of the structure of the lipopolysaccharide of Yersinia pestis.

    Yuriy A. Knirel;Buko Lindner;Evgeny V. Vinogradov;Nina A. Kocharova

  • Microbial Glycobiology: Structures, Relevance and Applications

    Anthony Patrick Moran;Otto Holst;Patrick J. Brennan;Mark von Itzstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Buko Lindner
Buko Lindner Research Center Borstel - Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences
Helmut Brade
Helmut Brade BOKU University
Mikael Skurnik
Mikael Skurnik University of Helsinki
Antonio Molinaro
Antonio Molinaro University of Naples Federico II
Albrecht Bufe
Albrecht Bufe Ruhr University Bochum
Evgeny Vinogradov
Evgeny Vinogradov National Research Council Canada
Holger Heine
Holger Heine Hannover Medical School
Erika von Mutius
Erika von Mutius Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jane Thomas-Oates
Jane Thomas-Oates University of York
Peter R. Reeves
Peter R. Reeves University of Sydney

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