Alain Boussac

8.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
156 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Alain Boussac is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alain Boussac has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 131 papers in Molecular Biology, 80 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 67 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Alain Boussac's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (126 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (80 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (67 papers). Alain Boussac is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (126 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (80 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (67 papers). Alain Boussac collaborates with scholars based in France, Japan and Germany. Alain Boussac's co-authors include A. William Rutherford, Miwa Sugiura, Fabrice Rappaport, Nicholas J. Cox, Wolfgang Lubitz, Frank Neese, Catherine Berthomieu, Dimitrios A. Pantazis, Jean‐Jacques Girerd and Marius Retegan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alain Boussac

156 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Electronic structure of the oxygen-evolving complex in photosystem II prior to O-O bond formation
    2014 397 citations Nicholas J. Cox, Marius Retegan et al. Science profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alain Boussac France 48 5.6k 2.7k 2.3k 1.8k 1.4k 156 6.8k
Athina Zouni Germany 37 6.6k 1.2× 2.5k 0.9× 2.2k 1.0× 1.7k 0.9× 2.0k 1.5× 98 8.3k
Richard J. Debus United States 44 5.4k 1.0× 2.2k 0.8× 2.1k 0.9× 1.5k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 89 5.8k
Jan Kern United States 34 5.9k 1.1× 2.3k 0.9× 1.9k 0.8× 1.8k 1.0× 2.1k 1.5× 87 8.0k
John H. Golbeck United States 54 7.8k 1.4× 2.4k 0.9× 3.0k 1.3× 1.1k 0.6× 2.7k 2.0× 252 9.6k
Takumi Noguchi Japan 50 5.1k 0.9× 2.6k 1.0× 2.3k 1.0× 880 0.5× 954 0.7× 186 6.2k
M. Y. Okamura United States 47 6.3k 1.1× 3.0k 1.1× 2.0k 0.9× 595 0.3× 1.0k 0.7× 117 7.3k
Charles F. Yocum United States 43 8.1k 1.4× 3.1k 1.1× 3.2k 1.4× 1.3k 0.7× 1.4k 1.0× 133 9.3k
Christopher C. Moser United States 41 5.8k 1.1× 1.4k 0.5× 1.3k 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 2.1k 1.5× 95 9.2k
Keisuke Kawakami Japan 26 4.0k 0.7× 1.8k 0.7× 1.4k 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 1.8k 1.3× 68 5.6k
Yorinao Inoue Japan 55 7.9k 1.4× 2.2k 0.8× 2.8k 1.2× 903 0.5× 1.6k 1.1× 228 8.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Boussac, Alain, Julien Sellés, & Miwa Sugiura. (2025). Kinetics of reformation of the S0 state capable of progressing to the S1 state after the O2 release by photosystem II. Photosynthesis Research. 163(1). 5–5. 1 indexed citations
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Boussac, Alain, Julien Sellés, Miwa Sugiura, & Robert L. Burnap. (2025). New insights into the involvement of residue D1/V185 in photosystem II function in Synechocystis 6803 and Thermosynechococcus vestitus. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1866(2). 149550–149550. 1 indexed citations
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Boussac, Alain, Miwa Sugiura, Makoto Nakamura, et al.. (2023). Absorption changes in Photosystem II in the Soret band region upon the formation of the chlorophyll cation radical [PD1PD2]+. Photosynthesis Research. 162(2-3). 211–223. 1 indexed citations
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Sugiura, Miwa, et al.. (2023). Tuning of the ChlD1 and ChlD2 properties in photosystem II by site-directed mutagenesis of neighbouring amino acids. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1865(1). 149013–149013. 3 indexed citations
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Boussac, Alain, Frédéric Banse, Yasmina Mekmouche, et al.. (2022). Photocatalytic generation of a non-heme Fe(iii)-hydroperoxo species with O2 in water for the oxygen atom transfer reaction. Chemical Science. 13(42). 12332–12339. 5 indexed citations
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Viola, Stefania, Stefano Santabarbara, Dennis J. Nürnberg, et al.. (2022). Impact of energy limitations on function and resilience in long-wavelength Photosystem II. eLife. 11. 23 indexed citations
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Boussac, Alain, Julien Sellés, & Miwa Sugiura. (2020). What can we still learn from the electrochromic band-shifts in Photosystem II?. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1861(5-6). 148176–148176. 7 indexed citations
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Nakamura, Makoto, Shin Nakamura, Takumi Noguchi, et al.. (2019). New insights on ChlD1 function in Photosystem II from site-directed mutants of D1/T179 in Thermosynechococcus elongatus. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1860(4). 297–309. 12 indexed citations
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Sugiura, Miwa, et al.. (2018). Probing the role of Valine 185 of the D1 protein in the Photosystem II oxygen evolution. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1859(12). 1259–1273. 15 indexed citations
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Nürnberg, Dennis J., Stefano Santabarbara, Alison Telfer, et al.. (2018). Photochemistry beyond the red limit in chlorophyll f–containing photosystems. Science. 360(6394). 1210–1213. 198 indexed citations
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Sugiura, Miwa, et al.. (2014). The D1-173 amino acid is a structural determinant of the critical interaction between D1-Tyr161 (TyrZ) and D1-His190 in Photosystem II. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1837(12). 1922–1931. 16 indexed citations
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Sugiura, Miwa & Alain Boussac. (2014). Some Photosystem II properties depending on the D1 protein variants in Thermosynechococcus elongatus. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1837(9). 1427–1434. 15 indexed citations
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Lohmiller, Thomas, Vera Krewald, Marius Retegan, et al.. (2014). Structure, ligands and substrate coordination of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II in the S2 state: a combined EPR and DFT study. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 16(24). 11877–11877. 74 indexed citations
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Sugiura, Miwa, et al.. (2012). Environment of TyrZ in Photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus elongatus in which PsbA2 Is the D1 Protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(16). 13336–13347. 21 indexed citations
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Sugiura, Miwa, Yuki Kato, Ryouta Takahashi, et al.. (2010). Energetics in Photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus elongatus with a D1 protein encoded by either the psbA or psbA gene. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1797(8). 1491–1499. 42 indexed citations
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Hughes, Joseph L., Nicholas J. Cox, A. William Rutherford, et al.. (2009). D1 protein variants in Photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus elongatus studied by low temperature optical spectroscopy. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1797(1). 11–19. 20 indexed citations
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Sugiura, Miwa, Alain Boussac, Takumi Noguchi, & Fabrice Rappaport. (2008). Thermosynechococcus elongatusにおける光化学系IIの第一次電子供与体P 680 の特性に及ぼすD1サブユニットのヒスチジン198の影響. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 1777(4). 331–342. 43 indexed citations
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Picciocchi, Antoine, Cyril Saguez, Alain Boussac, Corinne Cassier‐Chauvat, & Franck Chauvat. (2007). CGFS-Type Monothiol Glutaredoxins from the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803 and Other Evolutionary Distant Model Organisms Possess a Glutathione-Ligated [2Fe-2S] Cluster. Biochemistry. 46(51). 15018–15026. 114 indexed citations
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Boussac, Alain, et al.. (1986). Effect of potassium iridic chloride on the electron donation by Mn2+ to Photosystem II particles. Photobiochemistry and photobiophysics.. 10(4). 201–211. 8 indexed citations

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