Benjamin Bourgeois

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 973 citations indexed

About

Benjamin Bourgeois is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Neurology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Bourgeois has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 973 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Neurology and 3 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Bourgeois's work include RNA Research and Splicing (13 papers), Nuclear Structure and Function (6 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (4 papers). Benjamin Bourgeois is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (13 papers), Nuclear Structure and Function (6 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (4 papers). Benjamin Bourgeois collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United States. Benjamin Bourgeois's co-authors include Tobias Madl, Dorothee Dormann, Saskia Hutten, Mario Hofweber, Emil Spreitzer, Marc‐David Ruepp, Mikael Simons, Dierk Niessing, Martina Schifferer and Sinem Usluer and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Bourgeois

22 papers receiving 967 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.

Phase Separation of FUS Is Suppressed by Its Nuclear Import Receptor and Arginine Methylation

2018 497 citations Mario Hofweber, Saskia Hutten et al. Cell profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin Bourgeois Austria	14	876	198	128	72	50	24	973
Mario Hofweber Germany	7	887 1.0×	201 1.0×	128 1.0×	70 1.0×	64 1.3×	8	971
Ho Yee Joyce Fung United States	10	728 0.8×	198 1.0×	130 1.0×	75 1.0×	20 0.4×	22	843
Zachary Monahan United States	7	706 0.8×	219 1.1×	123 1.0×	75 1.0×	65 1.3×	7	808
Shannon N. Rhoads United States	6	910 1.0×	268 1.4×	141 1.1×	74 1.0×	91 1.8×	8	1.0k
Emil Spreitzer Austria	7	587 0.7×	120 0.6×	76 0.6×	45 0.6×	40 0.8×	12	639
En‐Ching Luo United States	8	807 0.9×	139 0.7×	80 0.6×	159 2.2×	31 0.6×	9	940
Charlotte M. Fare United States	11	547 0.6×	138 0.7×	71 0.6×	43 0.6×	24 0.5×	16	619
Edgar E. Boczek Germany	7	519 0.6×	79 0.4×	43 0.3×	136 1.9×	36 0.7×	9	603
Christy L. Rhine United States	8	888 1.0×	67 0.3×	56 0.4×	35 0.5×	63 1.3×	9	987
Laura Mediani Italy	13	809 0.9×	135 0.7×	133 1.0×	237 3.3×	21 0.4×	22	1.0k

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Sagmeister, Theo, Saskia Hutten, Benjamin Bourgeois, et al.. (2025). Structural basis of phosphorylation-independent nuclear import of CIRBP by TNPO3. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4456–4456.

Gottschalk, Benjamin, Benjamin Bourgeois, Hansjörg Habisch, et al.. (2024). Hexokinase 1 forms rings that regulate mitochondrial fission during energy stress. Molecular Cell. 84(14). 2732–2746.e5. 18 indexed citations

Zhang, Fangrong, Helmut Bischof, Sandra Burgstaller, et al.. (2024). Genetically encoded fluorescent sensor to monitor intracellular arginine methylation. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B Biology. 252. 112867–112867.

Bourgeois, Benjamin, et al.. (2023). Targeted perturbation of signaling-driven condensates. Molecular Cell. 83(22). 4141–4157.e11. 16 indexed citations

Usluer, Sinem, et al.. (2023). Disordered regions mediate the interaction of p53 and MRE11. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1871(2). 119654–119654. 6 indexed citations

Alderson, T. Reid, et al.. (2022). The LEF-1 high-mobility group box adopts residual structure in its DNA-free form. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 12-13. 100074–100074. 1 indexed citations

Peters, Carsten, Benjamin Bourgeois, Bettina Richter, et al.. (2021). Imbalances in the eye lens proteome are linked to cataract formation. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 28(2). 143–151. 34 indexed citations

Hutten, Saskia, Sinem Usluer, Fangrong Zhang, et al.. (2021). Phosphorylation Regulates CIRBP Arginine Methylation, Transportin-1 Binding and Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 8. 689687–689687. 25 indexed citations

Bourgeois, Benjamin, Henry G. Hocking, Gesa Richter, et al.. (2021). Multiple regulatory intrinsically disordered motifs control FOXO4 transcription factor binding and function. Cell Reports. 36(4). 109446–109446. 32 indexed citations

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Usluer, Sinem, et al.. (2021). ATP regulates RNA‐driven cold inducible RNA binding protein phase separation. Protein Science. 30(7). 1438–1453. 27 indexed citations

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Usluer, Sinem, Emil Spreitzer, Benjamin Bourgeois, & Tobias Madl. (2021). p53 Transactivation Domain Mediates Binding and Phase Separation with Poly-PR/GR. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(21). 11431–11431. 13 indexed citations

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Bourgeois, Benjamin, Saskia Hutten, Benjamin Gottschalk, et al.. (2020). Nonclassical nuclear localization signals mediate nuclear import of CIRBP. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(15). 8503–8514. 46 indexed citations

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Bourgeois, Benjamin, Henry G. Hocking, Gesa Richter, et al.. (2020). Multiple Regulatory Intrinsically Disordered Motifs Control FOXO4 Transcription Factor Binding and Function. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Hutten, Saskia, Sinem Usluer, Benjamin Bourgeois, et al.. (2020). Nuclear Import Receptors Directly Bind to Arginine-Rich Dipeptide Repeat Proteins and Suppress Their Pathological Interactions. Cell Reports. 33(12). 108538–108538. 66 indexed citations

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Duchardt‐Ferner, Elke, Michael Andreas Juen, Benjamin Bourgeois, et al.. (2019). Structure of an RNA aptamer in complex with the fluorophore tetramethylrhodamine. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(2). 949–961. 22 indexed citations

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Hofweber, Mario, Saskia Hutten, Benjamin Bourgeois, et al.. (2018). Phase Separation of FUS Is Suppressed by Its Nuclear Import Receptor and Arginine Methylation. Cell. 173(3). 706–719.e13. 497 indexed citations breakdown →

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Suárez‐Calvet, Marc, Manuela Neumann, Thomas Arzberger, et al.. (2016). Monomethylated and unmethylated FUS exhibit increased binding to Transportin and distinguish FTLD-FUS from ALS-FUS. Acta Neuropathologica. 131(4). 587–604. 68 indexed citations

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Herrada, Isaline, et al.. (2015). Purification and Structural Analysis of LEM-Domain Proteins. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 569. 43–61. 7 indexed citations

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Bourgeois, Benjamin, Carine Tellier-Lebègue, Wei Wu, et al.. (2010). Structural Analysis of the Smad2−MAN1 Interaction That Regulates Transforming Growth Factor-β Signaling at the Inner Nuclear Membrane. Biochemistry. 49(37). 8020–8032. 28 indexed citations

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Bourgeois, Benjamin, et al.. (2008). Water Separation From Wellstream in Inclined Separation Tube With Distributed Tapping. 3(1). 1–11. 4 indexed citations

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