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Veit Hornung

Active 1997–2025

158
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56,847
Citations
95
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Citations

Citations per year for Veit Hornung1970: 1 citations1991: 1 citations1999: 3 citations2000: 1 citations2001: 6 citations2002: 78 citations2003: 125 citations2004: 156 citations2005: 222 citations2006: 222 citations2007: 286 citations2008: 368 citations2009: 606 citations2010: 739 citations2011: 865 citations2012: 876 citations2013: 1,008 citations2014: 862 citations2015: 939 citations2016: 884 citations2017: 1,045 citations2018: 934 citations2019: 2,342 citations2020: 2,793 citations2021: 2,806 citations2022: 2,576 citations2023: 2,114 citations2024: 2,904 citations2025: 1,491 citations2026: 31 citations1971–1990: no citations, so these years are not shown1992–1998: no citations, so these years are not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 7,040 citing papers, 26% of this breakdownChina: 5,100 citing papers, 18.9% of this breakdownGermany: 2,029 citing papers, 7.5% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 1,339 citing papers, 4.9% of this breakdownFrance: 980 citing papers, 3.6% of this breakdownJapan: 954 citing papers, 3.5% of this breakdownCanada: 775 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownItaly: 751 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownAustralia: 746 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 544 citing papers, 2% of this breakdownNetherlands: 518 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdownSouth Korea: 452 citing papers, 1.7% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology42.4%
  • Immunology and Microbiology30.2%
  • Medicine20.5%
  • Neuroscience3.4%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences1%
  • Environmental Science0.5%
  • Other2%

Topics

  • Inflammasome and immune disorders10.5%
  • interferon and immune responses8.2%
  • Immune Response and Inflammation5.2%
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation2.7%
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction2.7%
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses2.1%
  • Other68.6%

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  1. Molecular mechanisms and cellular functions of cGAS–STING signalling

    Authors: Karl‐Peter Hopfner, Veit Hornung - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 2020 cited by 1,926

  2. NLRP3 inflammasomes are required for atherogenesis and activated by cholesterol crystals

    Authors: Peter Duewell, Hajime Kono, Katey J. Rayner, Cherilyn M. Sirois, Gregory I. Vladimer, Franz Bauernfeind, George S. Abela, Luigi Franchi, Gabriel Nuñez, Max Schnurr, Terje Espevik, Egil Lien, Katherine A. Fitzgerald, Kenneth L. Rock, Kathryn J. Moore, Samuel D. Wright, Veit Hornung, Eicke Latz - Nature 2010 cited by 3,992

  3. Cutting Edge: NF-κB Activating Pattern Recognition and Cytokine Receptors License NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation by Regulating NLRP3 Expression

    Authors: Franz Bauernfeind, Gábor Horváth, Andrea Stutz, Emad S. Alnemri, Kelly L. MacDonald, David P. Speert, Teresa Fernandes‐Alnemri, Jianghong Wu, Brian G. Monks, Katherine A. Fitzgerald, Veit Hornung, Eicke Latz - The Journal of Immunology 2009 cited by 2,899

  4. cGAS produces a 2′-5′-linked cyclic dinucleotide second messenger that activates STING

    Authors: Andrea Ablasser, Marion Goldeck, Taner Cavlar, Tobias Deimling, Gregor Witte, Ingo Röhl, Karl‐Peter Hopfner, János Ludwig, Veit Hornung - Nature 2013 cited by 1,682

  5. AIM2 recognizes cytosolic dsDNA and forms a caspase-1-activating inflammasome with ASC

    Authors: Veit Hornung, Andrea Ablasser, Marie Charrel-Dennis, Franz Bauernfeind, Gábor Horváth, Daniel R. Caffrey, Eicke Latz, Katherine A. Fitzgerald - Nature 2009 cited by 2,610

  6. The NALP3 inflammasome is involved in the innate immune response to amyloid-β

    Authors: Annett Halle, Veit Hornung, Gabor C. Petzold, Cameron R. Stewart, Brian G. Monks, Thomas Reinheckel, Katherine A. Fitzgerald, Eicke Latz, Kathryn J. Moore, Douglas T. Golenbock - Nature Immunology 2008 cited by 2,403

  7. Silica crystals and aluminum salts activate the NALP3 inflammasome through phagosomal destabilization

    Authors: Veit Hornung, Franz Bauernfeind, Annett Halle, Eivind Ottersen Samstad, Hajime Kono, Kenneth L. Rock, Katherine A. Fitzgerald, Eicke Latz - Nature Immunology 2008 cited by 3,017

  8. Structural mechanism of cytosolic DNA sensing by cGAS

    Authors: Filiz Çivril, Tobias Deimling, Carina C. de Oliveira Mann, Andrea Ablasser, Manuela Moldt, Gregor Witte, Veit Hornung, Karl‐Peter Hopfner - Nature 2013 cited by 897

  9. The DNA Inflammasome in Human Myeloid Cells Is Initiated by a STING-Cell Death Program Upstream of NLRP3

    Authors: Moritz M. Gaidt, Thomas S. Ebert, Dhruv Chauhan, Katharina Ramshorn, Francesca Pinci, Sarah P Zuber, Fionan O’Duill, Jonathan L. Schmid‐Burgk, Florian Hoß, Raymund Buhmann, G. Wittmann, Eicke Latz, Marion Subklewe, Veit Hornung - Cell 2017 cited by 649

  10. cGAS senses long and HMGB/TFAM-bound U-turn DNA by forming protein–DNA ladders

    Authors: Liudmila Andreeva, Björn Hiller, Dirk Kostrewa, Charlotte Lässig, Carina C. de Oliveira Mann, David Drexler, Andreas Maiser, Moritz M. Gaidt, Heinrich Leonhardt, Veit Hornung, Karl‐Peter Hopfner - Nature 2017 cited by 502

  11. 5'-Triphosphate RNA Is the Ligand for RIG-I

    Authors: Veit Hornung, Jana M. Ellegast, Sarah Kim-Hellmuth, Krzysztof Brzózka, Andreas Jung, Hiroki Kato, Hendrik Poeck, Shizuo Akira, Karl‐Klaus Conzelmann, Martin Schlee, Stefan Endres, Gunther Hartmann - Science 2006 cited by 2,453

  12. Cell intrinsic immunity spreads to bystander cells via the intercellular transfer of cGAMP

    Authors: Andrea Ablasser, Jonathan L. Schmid‐Burgk, Inga Hemmerling, Gábor Horváth, Tobias Schmidt, Eicke Latz, Veit Hornung - Nature 2013 cited by 653

  13. Human Monocytes Engage an Alternative Inflammasome Pathway

    Authors: Moritz M. Gaidt, Thomas S. Ebert, Dhruv Chauhan, Tobias Schmidt, Jonathan L. Schmid‐Burgk, Francesca Rapino, Avril A. B. Robertson, Matthew A. Cooper, Thomas Graf, Veit Hornung - Immunity 2016 cited by 760

  14. The AIM2 inflammasome is essential for host defense against cytosolic bacteria and DNA viruses

    Authors: Vijay Rathinam, Zhaozhao Jiang, Stephen N. Waggoner, Shruti Sharma, Leah E. Cole, Lisa Waggoner, Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja, Brian G. Monks, Sandhya Ganesan, Eicke Latz, Veit Hornung, Stefanie N. Vogel, Eva Szomolanyi‐Tsuda, Katherine A. Fitzgerald - Nature Immunology 2010 cited by 1,300

  15. A Mammalian microRNA Expression Atlas Based on Small RNA Library Sequencing

    Authors: Pablo Landgraf, Mirabela Rusu, Robert P. Sheridan, Alain Sewer, Nicola Iovino, Alexei A. Aravin, Sébastien Pfeffer, Amanda Rice, Alice O. Kamphorst, Markus Landthaler, Carolina Lin, Nicholas D. Socci, Leandro C. Hermida, Valerio Fulci, Sabina Chiaretti, Robin Foà, Julia Schliwka, Uta Fuchs, Astrid Novosel, Roman‐Ulrich Müller, Bernhard Schermer, Ute Bissels, Jason Inman, Quang N. Phan, Minchen Chien, David B. Weir, Ruchi Choksi, Gabriella De Vita, Daniela Frezzetti, Hans‐Ingo Trompeter, Veit Hornung, Grace Teng, Gunther Hartmann, Miklós Palkovits, Roberto Di Lauro, Peter Wernet, Giuseppe Macino, Charles E. Rogler, James W. Nagle, Jingyue Ju, F. Nina Papavasiliou, Thomas Benzing, Peter Lichter, Wayne Tam, Michael Brownstein, Andreas Bosio, Arndt Borkhardt, James J. Russo, Chris Sander, Mihaela Zavolan, Thomas Tuschl - Cell 2007 cited by 3,687

  16. Recognition of Endogenous Nucleic Acids by the Innate Immune System

    Authors: Axel Roers, Björn Hiller, Veit Hornung - Immunity 2016 cited by 532

  17. Human NLRP1 is a sensor for double-stranded RNA

    Authors: Stefan Bauernfried, Matthias J Scherr, Andreas Pichlmair, Karl E. Duderstadt, Veit Hornung - Science 2020 cited by 300

  18. ZAKα-driven ribotoxic stress response activates the human NLRP1 inflammasome

    Authors: Kim S. Robinson, Gee Ann Toh, Pritisha Rozario, Rae Chua, Stefan Bauernfried, Zijin Sun, Muhammad Jasrie Firdaus, Shima Bayat, Rhea Nadkarni, Zhi Sheng Poh, Khek‐Chian Tham, Cassandra R. Harapas, Chrissie Lim, Werncui Chu, Celest W. S. Tay, Kiat Yi Tan, Tianyun Zhao, Carine Bonnard, Radoslaw M. Sobota, John E. Connolly, John Common, Seth L. Masters, Kaiwen Chen, Lena Ho, Bin Wu, Veit Hornung, Franklin L. Zhong - Science 2022 cited by 167

  19. A Genome-wide CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) Screen Identifies NEK7 as an Essential Component of NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation

    Authors: Jonathan L. Schmid‐Burgk, Dhruv Chauhan, Tobias Schmidt, Thomas S. Ebert, Julia Reinhardt, Elmar Endl, Veit Hornung - Journal of Biological Chemistry 2015 cited by 447

  20. Structural basis for sequestration and autoinhibition of cGAS by chromatin

    Authors: Sebastian Michalski, Carina C. de Oliveira Mann, Che A. Stafford, Gregor Witte, J.D. Bartho, Katja Lammens, Veit Hornung, Karl‐Peter Hopfner - Nature 2020 cited by 240

  21. Structures of the HIN Domain:DNA Complexes Reveal Ligand Binding and Activation Mechanisms of the AIM2 Inflammasome and IFI16 Receptor

    Authors: Tengchuan Jin, Andrew Perry, Jiansheng Jiang, Patrick Smith, James A. Curry, Leonie Unterholzner, Zhaozhao Jiang, Gábor Horváth, Vijay Rathinam, Ricky W. Johnstone, Veit Hornung, Eicke Latz, Andrew Bowie, Katherine A. Fitzgerald, Tsan Sam Xiao - Immunity 2012 cited by 560

  22. IKKβ primes inflammasome formation by recruiting NLRP3 to the trans-Golgi network

    Authors: Niklas A. Schmacke, Fionan O’Duill, Moritz M. Gaidt, Inga Szymanska, Julia M. Kamper, Jonathan L. Schmid‐Burgk, Sophia C. Mädler, Timur Mackens‐Kiani, Tatsuya Kozaki, Dhruv Chauhan, Dennis Nagl, Che A. Stafford, Hartmann Harz, Adrian Fröhlich, Francesca Pinci, Florent Ginhoux, Roland Beckmann, Matthias Mann, Heinrich Leonhardt, Veit Hornung - Immunity 2022 cited by 130

  23. Cutting Edge: Reactive Oxygen Species Inhibitors Block Priming, but Not Activation, of the NLRP3 Inflammasome

    Authors: Franz Bauernfeind, Eva Bartok, Anna Rieger, Luigi Franchi, Gabriel Núñez, Veit Hornung - The Journal of Immunology 2011 cited by 612

  24. Cytosolic RNA:DNA hybrids activate the cGAS–STING axis

    Authors: Arun K. Mankan, Tobias Schmidt, Dhruv Chauhan, Marion Goldeck, Klara Höning, Moritz M. Gaidt, A. V. Kubarenko, Liudmila Andreeva, Karl‐Peter Hopfner, Veit Hornung - The EMBO Journal 2014 cited by 352