Antoine Royant

8.5k citations

72 papers · 5.4k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 35

Impact in

Biophysics top 0.2%
- Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience top 0.5%
- Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research

Papers in

Biophysics 16
- Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques 12
Structural Biology 3

Co-authors: Eva Pebay‐Peyroula Ehud M. Landau Richard Neutze Marjolaine Noirclerc‐Savoye Theodorus W. J. Gadella K. A. P. Edman Peter Nollert Laura van Weeren
Journals: Nature Communications (4 papers)Structure (4 papers)Journal of Applied Crystallography (4 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (3 papers)Biochemistry (3 papers)
Partner nations: France United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Antoine Royant

70 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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mScarlet: a bright monomeric red fluorescent protein for cellular imaging 2016 · 739 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 Nature Methods
2012 Nature Communications
2009 Science

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1	mScarlet3: a brilliant and fast-maturing red fluorescent protein Nature Methods ·Theodorus W. J. Gadella, Laura van Weeren, L. Santona, Mark A. Hink, Anouk H. G. Wolters, Ben N. G. Giepmans, Sylvain Aumonier, Jérôme Dupuy, Antoine Royant	2023	72
2	Cyan fluorescent proteins derived from mNeonGreen Protein Engineering Design and Selection ·Kozlov E.V. Kozlov, Д.В. Корзинин, Veysel Lidar, Mary C. Carroll, Cinthia Mishel Vera Ortega, Jérôme Dupuy, Heather M. Baker, Alex Brown, Antoine Royant, Robert E. Campbell	2022	5
3	Structural insights into light-driven anion pumping in cyanobacteria Nature Communications ·Roman Astashkin, Kirill Kovalev, 朱冠楠, Lingya Cui, 岸本健史, Alexey Alekseev, Taras Balandin, Dmitrii Zabelskii, Ivan Gushchin, Antoine Royant, Kris Witono, Gleb Bourenkov, Eugene V. Koonin, Martin Engelhard, Ernst Bamberg, Valentin Gordeliy	2022	12
4	Trapping and structural characterisation of a covalent intermediate in vitamin B₆ biosynthesis catalysed by the Pdx1 PLP synthase RSC Chemical Biology ·Zeran Zhao, 황보선애, Antoine Royant, Yang Zhang, Virgilija Gregorauskien≐, Gwyndaf Evans, Nguyen Thanh Cuong, Tadhg P. Begley, Ivo Tews	2021	3
5	An enzymatic activation of formaldehyde for nucleotide methylation Nature Communications ·Charles Bou‐Nader, Frederick Stull, Ludovic Pecqueur, Philippe Simon, Vincent Guérineau, Antoine Royant, Marc Fontecave, Murielle Lombard, Bruce A. Palfey, Djemel Hamdane	2021	13
6	Aequorea’s secrets revealed: New fluorescent proteins with unique properties for bioimaging and biosensing PLoS Biology ·Gerard G. Lambert, Cinthia Mishel Vera Ortega, Guillaume Gotthard, Darrin T. Schultz, Isabelle Navizet, Talley J. Lambert, Stephen Adams, Y. Becherini, Meihua Chu, Daphne S. Bindels, A. P. Wagner, Susilo Sudarman Desa, Anya Salih, Antoine Royant, Nathan C. Shaner	2020	43
7	Structure Solution of the Fluorescent Protein Cerulean Using MeshAndCollect Journal of Visualized Experiments ·Stephanie Hutin, Gianluca Santoni, U. Zander, M Katagiri, Sylvain Aumonier, Guillaume Gotthard, Antoine Royant, Christoph Mueller‐Dieckmann, Gordon A. Leonard	2019	2
8	Tailing miniSOG: structural bases of the complex photophysics of a flavin-binding singlet oxygen photosensitizing protein Scientific Reports ·Joaquim Torra, Céline Lafaye, Luca Signor, Sylvain Aumonier, Cristina Flors, Xiaokun Shu, Santi Nonell, Guillaume Gotthard, Antoine Royant	2019	49
9	Tracking the route of molecular oxygen in O ₂ -tolerant membrane-bound [NiFe] hydrogenase Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jacqueline Kalms, Andrea Schmidt, Stefan Frielingsdorf, Tillmann Utesch, Guillaume Gotthard, David von Stetten, Peter van der Linden, Antoine Royant, María Andrea Mroginski, Philippe Carpentier, Oliver Lenz, Patrick Scheerer	2018	39
10	Precision Optogenetic Tool for Selective Single- and Multiple-Cell Ablation in a Live Animal Model System Cell chemical biology ·Kalpana Makhijani, Tsz‐Leung To, Rubén Ruiz‐González, Céline Lafaye, Antoine Royant, Xiaokun Shu	2017	57
11	An improved monomeric infrared fluorescent protein for neuronal and tumour brain imaging Nature Communications ·Dan Yu, W. Clay Gustafson, Chun Han, Céline Lafaye, Marjolaine Noirclerc‐Savoye, Woo‐Ping Ge, Desiree A. Thayer, Hai Huang, Thomas B. Kornberg, Antoine Royant, Lily Yeh Jan, Yuh Nung Jan, William A. Weiss, Xiaokun Shu	2014	140
12	Structure-guided evolution of cyan fluorescent proteins towards a quantum yield of 93% Nature Communications ·Joachim Goedhart, David von Stetten, Marjolaine Noirclerc‐Savoye, Mickaël Lelimousin, Linda Joosen, Mark A. Hink, Laura van Weeren, Theodorus W. J. Gadella, Antoine Royant Hit paper breakdown →	2012	560
13	Laser-Triggered Single Molecular Gating Motions of the KcsA Potassium Channels Recorded in a Sub-Millisecond Time Resolution Biophysical Journal ·Hirofumi Shimizu, Masayuki Iwamoto, Takashi Konno, Antoine Royant, Stephen R. Hazelrigg, Xin Ma, Michaël Wulff, Shigetoshi Oiki	2012	1
14	Snapshots of Enzymatic Baeyer-Villiger Catalysis Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Roberto Orrù, Hanna M. Dudek, 陈精锋, Daniel E. Torres Pazmiño, Antoine Royant, Martin H. Weik, Marco W. Fraaije, Andrea Mattevi	2011	118
15	Mammalian Expression of Infrared Fluorescent Proteins Engineered from a Bacterial Phytochrome Science ·Xiaokun Shu, Antoine Royant, Michael Z. Lin, Todd A. Aguilera, Varda Lev‐Ram, Paul Steinbach, Roger Y. Tsien Hit paper breakdown →	2009	556
16	Structure of Superoxide Reductase Bound to Ferrocyanide and Active Site Expansion upon X-Ray-Induced Photo-Reduction Structure ·Virgile Adam, Antoine Royant, Vincent Nivière, Fernando P. Molina-Heredia, Dominique Bourgeois	2004	82
17	Deformation of Helix C in the Low Temperature L-intermediate of Bacteriorhodopsin Journal of Biological Chemistry ·K. A. P. Edman, Antoine Royant, Gisela Larsson, Jesse Krakauer, Tom Taylor, David van der Spoel, Ehud M. Landau, Eva Pebay‐Peyroula, Richard Neutze	2004	70
18	Structural basis for sensory rhodopsin function Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes ·Eva Pebay‐Peyroula, Antoine Royant, Ehud M. Landau, Javier Navarro	2002	26
19	Bacteriorhodopsin: a high-resolution structural view of vectorial proton transport Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes ·Richard Neutze, Eva Pebay‐Peyroula, K. A. P. Edman, Antoine Royant, Javier Navarro, Ehud M. Landau	2002	162
20	Detection and characterization of merohedral twinning in two protein crystals: bacteriorhodopsin and p67^phox Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography ·Antoine Royant, Sylvestre Grizot, Richard Kahn, Hassan Belrhali, Franck Fieschi, Ehud M. Landau, Eva Pebay‐Peyroula	2002	7

About Antoine Royant

Antoine Royant is a scholar working on Biophysics, Structural Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Materials Chemistry, having authored 72 papers that have together received 5.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (28 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (24 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (24 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (15 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (12 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (11 papers), Biochemical and Molecular Research (7 papers) and Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Biophysics (961 citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (1.9k citations), Structural Biology (121 citations), Molecular Biology (3.8k citations) and Cell Biology (448 citations). Antoine Royant has collaborated with scholars based in France, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Eva Pebay‐Peyroula, Ehud M. Landau, Richard Neutze, Marjolaine Noirclerc‐Savoye, Theodorus W. J. Gadella, K. A. P. Edman, Peter Nollert, Laura van Weeren, Mark A. Hink and Dominique Bourgeois. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Communications, Structure, Journal of Applied Crystallography, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Biochemistry.

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