Abdenour Soufi

2.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Abdenour Soufi is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Abdenour Soufi has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Genetics and 1 paper in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Abdenour Soufi's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (8 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (8 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (7 papers). Abdenour Soufi is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (8 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (8 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (7 papers). Abdenour Soufi collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Abdenour Soufi's co-authors include Kenneth S. Zaret, Greg Donahue, Matteo Pellegrini, Nebiyu Osman, Artur Jaroszewicz, Meilín Fernández García, Stephen Dalton, Padma-Sheela Jayaraman, Kevin Gaston and Charles A.C. Williams and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nucleic Acids Research and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Abdenour Soufi

17 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Facilitators and Impediments of the Pluripotency Reprogramming Factors' Initial Engagement with the Genome

2012 667 citations Abdenour Soufi, Greg Donahue et al. Cell profile →
Pioneer Transcription Factors Target Partial DNA Motifs on Nucleosomes to Initiate Reprogramming

2015 547 citations Abdenour Soufi, Meilín Fernández García et al. Cell profile →

Peers

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Makiko Iwafuchi United States

Nicola Festuccia France

Helene Kretzmer Germany

Constantinos Chronis United States

Jan Christian Bryne Norway

Hatice S Kaya-Okur United States

Eric M. Mendenhall United States

Jennifer N. Cech United States

Kelly P. Smith United States

Makiko Iwafuchi United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Abdenour Soufi

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Abdenour Soufi. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Abdenour Soufi based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Abdenour Soufi. Abdenour Soufi is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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18 of 18 papers shown

Williams, Charles A.C., Dounia Djeghloul, Nicolás Veland, et al.. (2025). SOX2 phosphorylation during mitosis limits genomic damage. Genes & Development. 40(3-4). 185–198.

Link, Jason M., Brittany L. Allen-Petersen, Brett C. Sheppard, et al.. (2024). Sendai virus is robust and consistent in delivering genes into human pancreatic cancer cells. Heliyon. 10(5). e27221–e27221. 3 indexed citations

Powell, Lynn M., et al.. (2022). Repurposing the lineage-determining transcription factor Atoh1 without redistributing its genomic binding sites. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 10. 1016367–1016367. 3 indexed citations

Roberts, Gareth A., et al.. (2021). Dissecting OCT4 defines the role of nucleosome binding in pluripotency. Nature Cell Biology. 23(8). 834–845. 34 indexed citations

Anderson, Richard A., et al.. (2021). miR-130b and miR-128a are essential lineage-specific codrivers of t(4;11) MLL-AF4 acute leukemia. Blood. 138(21). 2066–2092. 24 indexed citations

Daniëls, Mark A., et al.. (2019). Ramified rolling circle amplification for synthesis of nucleosomal DNA sequences. Analytical Biochemistry. 588. 113469–113469. 14 indexed citations

Williams, Charles A.C., Abdenour Soufi, & Steven M. Pollard. (2019). Post-translational modification of SOX family proteins: Key biochemical targets in cancer?. Seminars in Cancer Biology. 67(Pt 1). 30–38. 39 indexed citations

Fu, Kai, Constantinos Chronis, Abdenour Soufi, et al.. (2018). Comparison of reprogramming factor targets reveals both species-specific and conserved mechanisms in early iPSC reprogramming. BMC Genomics. 19(1). 956–956. 17 indexed citations

Soufi, Abdenour & Stephen Dalton. (2016). Cycling through developmental decisions: how cell cycle dynamics control pluripotency, differentiation and reprogramming. Development. 143(23). 4301–4311. 123 indexed citations

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Soufi, Abdenour, Meilín Fernández García, Artur Jaroszewicz, et al.. (2015). Pioneer Transcription Factors Target Partial DNA Motifs on Nucleosomes to Initiate Reprogramming. Cell. 161(3). 555–568. 547 indexed citations breakdown →

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Soufi, Abdenour. (2014). Mechanisms for enhancing cellular reprogramming. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 25. 101–109. 12 indexed citations

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Soufi, Abdenour & Kenneth S. Zaret. (2013). Understanding impediments to cellular conversion to pluripotency by assessing the earliest events in ectopic transcription factor binding to the genome. Cell Cycle. 12(10). 1487–1491. 12 indexed citations

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Soufi, Abdenour, Greg Donahue, & Kenneth S. Zaret. (2012). Facilitators and Impediments of the Pluripotency Reprogramming Factors' Initial Engagement with the Genome. Cell. 151(5). 994–1004. 667 indexed citations breakdown →

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Soufi, Abdenour, Alok Kumar Shukla, Peter J. Noy, et al.. (2010). DNA compaction by the higher-order assembly of PRH/Hex homeodomain protein oligomers. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(21). 7513–7525. 5 indexed citations

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Soufi, Abdenour, et al.. (2009). CK2 phosphorylation of the PRH/Hex homeodomain functions as a reversible switch for DNA binding. Nucleic Acids Research. 37(10). 3288–3300. 32 indexed citations

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Soufi, Abdenour & Padma-Sheela Jayaraman. (2008). PRH/Hex: an oligomeric transcription factor and multifunctional regulator of cell fate. Biochemical Journal. 412(3). 399–413. 55 indexed citations

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Soufi, Abdenour, Kevin Gaston, & Padma-Sheela Jayaraman. (2006). Purification and characterisation of the PRH homeodomain: Removal of the N-terminal domain of PRH increases the PRH homeodomain–DNA interaction. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 39(1-3). 45–50. 8 indexed citations

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Soufi, Abdenour, Corinne J. Smith, Anthony R. Clarke, Kevin Gaston, & Padma-Sheela Jayaraman. (2006). Oligomerisation of the Developmental Regulator Proline Rich Homeodomain (PRH/Hex) is Mediated by a Novel Proline-rich Dimerisation Domain. Journal of Molecular Biology. 358(4). 943–962. 24 indexed citations

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