Artur Scherf

12.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
161 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Artur Scherf is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Immunology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Artur Scherf has authored 161 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 134 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 61 papers in Immunology and 47 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Artur Scherf's work include Malaria Research and Control (130 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (51 papers) and Complement system in diseases (31 papers). Artur Scherf is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (130 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (51 papers) and Complement system in diseases (31 papers). Artur Scherf collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Germany. Artur Scherf's co-authors include José-Juan Lopez-Rubio, Denise Mattei, Jürg Gysin, Liliana Mâncio-Silva, Rosaura Hernández‐Rivas, Stuart A. Ralph, Bruno Pouvelle, Cameron Ross MacPherson, Loïc Rivière and Emmanuel Bottius and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Artur Scherf

159 papers receiving 8.9k citations

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Genome editing in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum using the CRISPR-Cas9 system

2014 459 citations Mehdi Ghorbal, Cameron Ross MacPherson et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Artur Scherf

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Ectopic overexpression of Plasmodium falciparum DNA-/RNA-binding Alba proteins misregulates virulence gene homeostasis during asexual blood development 2025 ·Microbiology Spectrum ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Cameron Ross MacPherson, Artur Scherf, Shruthi Sridhar Vembar	0
2	An all-in-one pipeline for the in vitro discovery and in vivo testing of Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission blocking drugs 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Nicolas M. B. Brancucci, (unknown), Geert‐Jan van Gemert, Yu Xiao, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Marc Chambon, Gerardo Turcatti, Ludovic Halby, Benjamin Blasco, Maëlle Duffey, Paola B. Arimondo, Teun Bousema, Artur Scherf, Didier Leroy, Taco W. A. Kooij, Matthias Rottmann, Till S. Voss	1
3	Deciphering the Plasmodium falciparum perinuclear var gene expression site 2024 ·Trends in Parasitology ·(unknown), Artur Scherf	1
4	RNA polymerase III is involved in regulating Plasmodium falciparum virulence 2024 ·eLife ·(unknown), Aurélie Claës, (unknown), (unknown), Florent Dingli, (unknown), Damarys Loew, Antoine Claessens, Artur Scherf	3
5	Cohesin contributes to transcriptional repression of stage‐specific genes in the human malaria parasite 2023 ·EMBO Reports ·(unknown), (unknown), Patty Chen, Ameya Sinha, Aurélie Claës, Peter R. Preiser, Peter C. Dedon, Sebastian Baumgarten, Artur Scherf, Jessica M. Bryant	4
6	Humanized mice for investigating sustained Plasmodium vivax blood-stage infections and transmission 2022 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Sabine Thiberge, (unknown), (unknown), Aurélie Claës, Vanessa C. Nicolete, Pierre‐Henri Commère, Liliana Mâncio-Silva, Marcelo U. Ferreira, Artur Scherf, Sylvie Garcia	13
7	Functional Characterization of the m ⁶ A-Dependent Translational Modulator PfYTH.2 in the Human Malaria Parasite 2021 ·mBio ·Ameya Sinha, Sebastian Baumgarten, (unknown), Emma McHugh, Patty Chen, Meetali Singh, Jessica M. Bryant, Jiaqi Liang, Germano Cecere, Peter C. Dedon, Peter R. Preiser, Stuart A. Ralph, Artur Scherf	18
8	Procainamide–SAHA Fused Inhibitors of hHDAC6 Tackle Multidrug-Resistant Malaria Parasites 2021 ·Journal of Medicinal Chemistry ·(unknown), Ludovic Halby, (unknown), (unknown), Corentin Bon, Aurélie Claës, (unknown), (unknown), Camille Roesch, Elie Hammam, (unknown), (unknown), Roger Péronet, Salaheddine Mécheri, Benoît Witkowski, Artur Scherf, Paola B. Arimondo	14
9	Exploring the virulence gene interactome with CRISPR / dC as9 in the human malaria parasite 2020 ·Molecular Systems Biology ·Jessica M. Bryant, Sebastian Baumgarten, Florent Dingli, Damarys Loew, Ameya Sinha, Aurélie Claës, Peter R. Preiser, Peter C. Dedon, Artur Scherf	37
10	Phosphorylation of the VAR2CSA extracellular region is associated with enhanced adhesive properties to the placental receptor CSA 2019 ·PLoS Biology ·Dominique Dorin‐Semblat, (unknown), Aurélie Claës, Jean‐Philippe Semblat, Sébastien Dechavanne, Zaineb Fourati, Romain Hamelin, Florence Armand, (unknown), (unknown), Anand Srivastava, Stéphane Gangnard, José-Juan Lopez-Rubio, Marc Moniatte, Christian Doerig, Artur Scherf, Benoît Gamain	13
11	Modifications at K31 on the lateral surface of histone H4 contribute to genome structure and expression in apicomplexan parasites 2017 ·eLife ·Fabien Sindikubwabo, Shuai Ding, Tahir Hussain, Philippe Ortet, Mohamed Barakat, Sebastian Baumgarten, Dominique Cannella, Andrés Palencia, Alexandre Bougdour, Lucid Belmudes, Yohann Couté, Isabelle Tardieux, Cyrille Y. Botté, Artur Scherf, Mohamed‐Ali Hakimi	35
12	First efficient CRISPR-Cas9-mediated genome editing in L eishmania parasites 2015 ·Cellular Microbiology ·Lauriane Sollelis, Mehdi Ghorbal, Cameron Ross MacPherson, Rafael M. Martins, Nada Kuk, Lucien Crobu, Patrick Bastien, Artur Scherf, José-Juan Lopez-Rubio, Yvon Sterkers	92
13	Sir2a regulates rDNA transcription and multiplication rate in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum 2013 ·Nature Communications ·Liliana Mâncio-Silva, José-Juan Lopez-Rubio, Aurélie Claës, Artur Scherf	53
14	clag9 Is Not Essential for PfEMP1 Surface Expression in Non-Cytoadherent Plasmodium falciparum Parasites with a Chromosome 9 Deletion 2011 ·PLoS ONE ·Adéla Nacer, (unknown), Sébastien Pomel, Christine Scheidig‐Benatar, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Frank Lafont, Artur Scherf, Denise Mattei	16
15	Plasmodium falciparum heterochromatin protein 1 binds to tri-methylated histone 3 lysine 9 and is linked to mutually exclusive expression of var genes 2009 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·(unknown), (unknown), Liliana Mâncio-Silva, (unknown), Dulce Marı́a Delgadillo, Miguel Vargas, Santiago Martı́nez-Calvillo, Artur Scherf, Rosaura Hernández‐Rivas	131
16	5′ flanking region of var genes nucleate histone modification patterns linked to phenotypic inheritance of virulence traits in malaria parasites 2007 ·Molecular Microbiology ·José-Juan Lopez-Rubio, Alisson M. Gontijo, Marta C. Nunes, (unknown), (unknown), Artur Scherf	183
17	A Greedy Promoter Controls Malarial Var-iations 2006 ·Cell ·Artur Scherf	8
18	Transcriptional analysis in Plasmodium falciparum 2000 ·Trends in Microbiology ·Alister Craig, Artur Scherf, (unknown)	5
19	Antigenic variation in malaria: in situ switching, relaxed and mutually exclusive transcription of var genes during intra-erythrocytic development in Plasmodium falciparum 1998 ·The EMBO Journal ·Artur Scherf, Rosaura Hernández‐Rivas, Pierre Buffet, Emmanuel Bottius, (unknown), Bruno Pouvelle, Jürg Gysin, Michael Lanzer	448
20	A versatile phage lambda expression vector system for cloning in Escherichia coli 1989 ·Gene ·(unknown), Jürgen F. J. Kun, (unknown), Artur Scherf, Benno Müller‐Hill	16

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