Aaron Bensimon

10.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
65 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Aaron Bensimon is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron Bensimon has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Aaron Bensimon's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (24 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (23 papers) and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (12 papers). Aaron Bensimon is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (24 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (23 papers) and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (12 papers). Aaron Bensimon collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Israel. Aaron Bensimon's co-authors include David Bensimon, Vincent Croquette, Jean‐François Allemand, Terence R. Strick, Catherine Schurra, Adam Simon, John H. Herrick, F. Heslot, Massimiliano Garrè and Angelo Cicalese and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Aaron Bensimon

65 papers receiving 7.8k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Oncogene-induced senescence is a DNA damage response triggered by DNA hyper-replication

2006 1.4k citations Raffaella Di Micco, Marzia Fumagalli et al. Nature profile →
The Elasticity of a Single Supercoiled DNA Molecule

1996 1000 citations Jean‐François Allemand, David Bensimon et al. profile →
Alignment and Sensitive Detection of DNA by a Moving Interface

1994 658 citations Aaron Bensimon, Vincent Croquette et al. profile →
Nucleotide Deficiency Promotes Genomic Instability in Early Stages of Cancer Development

2011 635 citations Assaf C. Bester, Maayan Roniger et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aaron Bensimon France	34	6.1k	1.1k	1.0k	954	794	65	8.0k
David G. Myszka United States	62	9.1k 1.5×	1.7k 1.5×	938 0.9×	699 0.7×	1.4k 1.7×	133	13.2k
Stephen J. Kron United States	44	5.8k 0.9×	869 0.8×	904 0.9×	266 0.3×	1.6k 2.0×	151	8.4k
Michelle A. Digman United States	54	5.0k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	511 0.5×	363 0.4×	1.2k 1.5×	163	8.3k
Andriy Shevchenko Finland	31	4.2k 0.7×	829 0.7×	443 0.4×	515 0.5×	1.2k 1.5×	150	7.1k
Jan Pieter Abrahams Netherlands	44	6.1k 1.0×	359 0.3×	463 0.5×	757 0.8×	749 0.9×	138	9.3k
Timothy R. Dafforn United Kingdom	50	5.0k 0.8×	602 0.5×	612 0.6×	477 0.5×	1.0k 1.3×	152	7.4k
James G. McNally United States	55	7.6k 1.2×	573 0.5×	751 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	1.7k 2.1×	134	10.3k
Paul A. Wiggins United States	35	3.6k 0.6×	566 0.5×	758 0.8×	1.0k 1.1×	324 0.4×	69	5.8k
Daniel Franke Germany	28	4.8k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	378 0.4×	652 0.7×	637 0.8×	51	8.5k
Philippe I. H. Bastiaens Germany	56	8.5k 1.4×	808 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	386 0.4×	2.9k 3.7×	138	11.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Bester, Assaf C., Maayan Roniger, Yifat S. Oren, et al.. (2011). Nucleotide Deficiency Promotes Genomic Instability in Early Stages of Cancer Development. Cell. 145(3). 435–446. 635 indexed citations breakdown →

Nguyen, Karine, Pierre Walrafen, Rafaëlle Bernard, et al.. (2011). Molecular combing reveals allelic combinations in facioscapulohumeral dystrophy. Annals of Neurology. 70(4). 627–633. 36 indexed citations

Rimmelé, Pauline, Jun Komatsu, Philippe Hupé, et al.. (2010). Spi-1/PU.1 Oncogene Accelerates DNA Replication Fork Elongation and Promotes Genetic Instability in the Absence of DNA Breakage. Cancer Research. 70(17). 6757–6766. 26 indexed citations

Rao, V. Ashutosh, Chiara Conti, Josée Guirouilh‐Barbat, et al.. (2007). Endogenous γ-H2AX-ATM-Chk2 Checkpoint Activation in Bloom's Syndrome Helicase–Deficient Cells Is Related to DNA Replication Arrested Forks. Molecular Cancer Research. 5(7). 713–724. 76 indexed citations

Conti, Chiara, Barbara Saccà, John H. Herrick, et al.. (2007). Replication Fork Velocities at Adjacent Replication Origins Are Coordinately Modified during DNA Replication in Human Cells. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 18(8). 3059–3067. 175 indexed citations

Pillaire, Marie‐Jeanne, Rémy Betous, Chiara Conti, et al.. (2007). Upregulation of Error-Prone DNA Polymerases Beta and Kappa Slows Down Fork Progression Without Activating the Replication Checkpoint. Cell Cycle. 6(4). 471–477. 42 indexed citations

Conti, Chiara, John H. Herrick, & Aaron Bensimon. (2007). Unscheduled DNA replication origin activation at inserted HPV 18 sequences in a HPV‐18/MYC amplicon. Genes Chromosomes and Cancer. 46(8). 724–734. 11 indexed citations

Lebofsky, Ronald, Roland Heilig, Max Sonnleitner, Jean Weissenbach, & Aaron Bensimon. (2006). DNA Replication Origin Interference Increases the Spacing between Initiation Events in Human Cells. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 17(12). 5337–5345. 112 indexed citations

Micco, Raffaella Di, Marzia Fumagalli, Angelo Cicalese, et al.. (2006). Oncogene-induced senescence is a DNA damage response triggered by DNA hyper-replication. Nature. 444(7119). 638–642. 1393 indexed citations breakdown →

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Arcangioli, Benoı̂t, et al.. (2005). DNA Replication Origins Fire Stochastically in Fission Yeast. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 17(1). 308–316. 153 indexed citations

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Lebofsky, Ronald & Aaron Bensimon. (2005). DNA Replication Origin Plasticity and Perturbed Fork Progression in Human Inverted Repeats. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 25(15). 6789–6797. 51 indexed citations

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Anglana, Mauro, Françoise Apiou, Aaron Bensimon, & Michelle Debatisse. (2003). Dynamics of DNA Replication in Mammalian Somatic Cells. Cell. 114(3). 385–394. 264 indexed citations

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Pasero, Philippe, Aaron Bensimon, & Étienne Schwob. (2002). Single-molecule analysis reveals clustering and epigenetic regulation of replication origins at the yeast rDNA locus. Genes & Development. 16(19). 2479–2484. 192 indexed citations

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Devault, Alain, et al.. (2002). Identification of Tah11/Sid2 as the Ortholog of the Replication Licensing Factor Cdt1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Current Biology. 12(8). 689–694. 55 indexed citations

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Herrick, John H., et al.. (2000). Replication fork density increases during DNA synthesis in X. laevis egg extracts11Edited by M. Yaniv. Journal of Molecular Biology. 300(5). 1133–1142. 94 indexed citations

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Herrick, John H. & Aaron Bensimon. (1999). Invited Review. Imaging of Single DNA Molecule: Applications to High-Resolution Genomic Studies. Chromosome Research. 7(6). 409–423. 45 indexed citations

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Monier, Karine, Xavier Michalet, Jérôme Lamartine, et al.. (1998). High-resolution mapping of the X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome region by FISH on combed DNA. Cytogenetic and Genome Research. 81(3-4). 259–264. 5 indexed citations

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Kraus, Jürgen, Ruthild G. Weber, Marion Cremer, et al.. (1997). High-resolution comparative hybridization to combed DNA fibers. Human Genetics. 99(3). 374–380. 13 indexed citations

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Allemand, Jean‐François, David Bensimon, Ludovic Jullien, Aaron Bensimon, & Vincent Croquette. (1997). pH-dependent specific binding and combing of DNA. Biophysical Journal. 73(4). 2064–2070. 228 indexed citations

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Daniel, Violet, Ronit Sharon, & Aaron Bensimon. (1989). Regulatory Elements Controlling the Basal and Drug-Inducible Expression of Glutathione S-Transferase Ya Subunit Gene. DNA. 8(6). 399–408. 26 indexed citations

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