Benoı̂t Viollet

54.3k citations

344 papers · 42.4k indexed · 15 hit papers · h-index 98

Geriatrics and Gerontology top 0.05%
Physiology top 0.05%
- Adipose Tissue and Metabolism 57
- Diet and metabolism studies 17
Molecular Biology top 0.05%
- Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer 253
- PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling in cancer 21
Aging top 0.2%
Physiology top 0.05%
- Adipose Tissue and Metabolism 57
- Diet and metabolism studies 17
Surgery
- Pancreatic function and diabetes 161
Epidemiology
- Autophagy in Disease and Therapy 37
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
- Diabetes Treatment and Management 33
Cancer Research
- Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism 32

Co-authors: Marc Foretz Mondira Kundu Kun‐Liang Guan Joungmok Kim Bruno Guigas Fabrizio Andréelli Jocelyne Leclerc Luc Bertrand
Cited by: Geriatrics and Gerontology Physiology Molecular Biology
Journals: Journal of Biological Chemistry (26 papers)Diabetes (23 papers)PLoS ONE (14 papers)
Partner nations: France United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Benoı̂t Viollet

339 papers receiving 42.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

2023 Nature Reviews Endocrinology
2019 Nature Reviews Endocrinology
2017 The FASEB Journal
2016 Circulation Research
2015 Immunity
2014 Cell Metabolism
2013 Nature
2012 Cell Metabolism
2011 Nature Cell Biology
2011 Clinical Science
2010 Cell Metabolism
2010 Journal of Clinical Investigation
2010 Science
2009 Diabetes
2007 Cancer Research

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1	Direct pharmacological AMPK activation inhibits mucosal SARS-CoV-2 infection by reducing lipid metabolism, restoring autophagy flux and the type I IFN response Journal of Virology ·Yuanhao Huang,Tatuya Tomioka,April C. Murphy,Sandrine Belouzard,Jean Dubuisson,Daniela Tudor,Benoı̂t Viollet,Morgane Bomsel	2025	0
2	Myeloid AMPK signaling restricts fibrosis but is not required for metformin improvements during CDAHFD-induced NASH in mice Journal of Lipid Research ·Abderrahim Benjeddi,Conor O’Dwyer,Olivia Cukier,Luciana Sanches,M Martinez,Yi-Tsung Lin,Richard Prianggono,Benoı̂t Viollet,Marc Foretz,Morgan D. Fullerton	2024	3
3	Exercise training adaptations in liver glycogen and glycerolipids require hepatic AMP-activated protein kinase in mice American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism ·Curtis C. Hughey,Deanna P. Bracy,Zongcheng Wang,Malik Halabiya,E. Patrick Donahue,Benoı̂t Viollet,Marc Foretz,David H. Wasserman	2023	5
4	Modulation of cardiac cAMP signaling by AMPK and its adjustments in pressure overload-induced myocardial dysfunction in rat and mouse PLoS ONE ·Anne Garnier,Jérôme Leroy,Claudine Deloménie,Philippe Matéo,Benoı̂t Viollet,Vladimir Veksler,Mathias Mericskay,Renée Ventura‐Clapier,Jérôme Piquereau	2023	5
5	Metformin directly targets the H3K27me3 demethylase KDM6A/UTX Aging Cell ·Elisabet Cuyàs,Sara Verdura,Laura Llorach-Parés,Salvador Fernández‐Arroyo,Fedra Luciano‐Mateo,Noemí Cabré,Jan Štursa,Lukáš Werner,Begoña Martı́n-Castillo,Benoı̂t Viollet,Jiřı́ Neužil,Jorge Joven,Alfons Nonell‐Canals,Melchor Sánchez-Martínez,Javier A. Menéndez	2018	64
6	Loss of AMPKα2 Impairs Hedgehog-Driven Medulloblastoma Tumorigenesis International Journal of Molecular Sciences ·Honglai Zhang,Rork Kuick,Sung Soo Park,Ma. Elena Castro,Ludvig Andén,William Bowtell,Junying Wang,Dafydd G. Thomas,Benoı̂t Viollet,Ken Inoki,Sandra Camelo‐Piragua,Jean‐François Rual	2018	6
7	Autophagy is required for endothelial cell alignment and atheroprotection under physiological blood flow Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Anne-Clémence Vion,Marouane Kheloufi,Adel Hammoutène,Johanne Poisson,Juliette Lasselin,Cécile Devue,Isabelle Pic,Nicolas Dupont,Johanna Busse,Konstantin Stark,Julie Lafaurie-Janvore,Abdul I. Barakat,Xavier Loyer,Michèle Souyri,Benoı̂t Viollet,Pierre Julia,Alain Tedgui,Patrice Codogno,Chantal M. Boulanger,Pierre‐Emmanuel Rautou	2017	176
8	AMPK α1‐ LDH pathway regulates muscle stem cell self‐renewal by controlling metabolic homeostasis The EMBO Journal ·Marine Théret,M. J. Felkovich,Bethany E. Schaffer,Gaëtan Juban,Sabrina Ben Larbi,Michèle Weiss‐Gayet,Laurent Bultot,Caterina Collodet,Marc Foretz,D. Desplanches,Pascual Sanz,Camilo Márquez Villegas,Lin Yang,Guillaume Vial,Benoı̂t Viollet,Kei Sakamoto,Anne Brunet,Bénédicte Chazaud,Rémi Mounier	2017	95
9	GFAT1 phosphorylation by AMPK promotes VEGF-induced angiogenesis Biochemical Journal ·Darya Zibrova,Franck Vandermoere,Olga Göransson,Mark Peggie,Karina V. Mariño,Makoto OHSUMII,Katrin Spengler,Cora Weigert,Benoı̂t Viollet,Nicholas A. Morrice,Kei Sakamoto,Regine Heller	2016	86
10	AMP-activated Protein Kinase Up-regulates Mitogen-activated Protein (MAP) Kinase-interacting Serine/Threonine Kinase 1a-dependent Phosphorylation of Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factor 4E Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Xiaoqing Zhu,Vivian E.H. Dahlmans,Ramon F. Thali,Christian Preisinger,Benoı̂t Viollet,Jan Willem Voncken,Dietbert Neumann	2016	10
11	AMP-Activated Protein Kinase Suppresses Autoimmune Central Nervous System Disease by Regulating M1-Type Macrophage–Th17 Axis The Journal of Immunology ·Ashutosh K. Mangalam,Ramandeep Rattan,Hamid Suhail,Jaspreet Singh,Md Nasrul Hoda,Mandar Deshpande,Sadanand Fulzele,Aleksandar Đenić,Viji Shridhar,Ashok Kumar,Benoı̂t Viollet,Moses Rodriguez,Shailendra Giri	2016	29
12	LKB1 and AMPKα1 are required in pancreatic alpha cells for the normal regulation of glucagon secretion and responses to hypoglycemia Molecular Metabolism ·Gao Sun,Gabriela da Silva Xavier,Tracy Gorman,Michael Unverricht,韩永利,David J. Hodson,Marc Foretz,Benoı̂t Viollet,Pedro L. Herrera,Helen Parker,Frank Reimann,Fiona M. Gribble,Stéphanie Migrenne,Chr̀istophe Magnan,Anna E. Marley,Guy A. Rutter	2015	22
13	Direct Binding of Arsenic Trioxide to AMPK and Generation of Inhibitory Effects on Acute Myeloid Leukemia Precursors Molecular Cancer Therapeutics ·Elspeth M. Beauchamp,Ewa M. Kościuczuk,CA Benzo,Dhaval Nanavati,Elden P. Swindell,Benoı̂t Viollet,Thomas V. O’Halloran,Jessica K. Altman,Leonidas C. Platanias	2014	24
14	5-Aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide-1-β-d-ribofuranoside (AICAR) Effect on Glucose Production, but Not Energy Metabolism, Is Independent of Hepatic AMPK in Vivo Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Clinton M. Hasenour,浩鉉南,Curtis C. Hughey,Freyja D. James,E. Patrick Donahue,Jane Shearer,Benoı̂t Viollet,Marc Foretz,David H. Wasserman	2014	57
15	AMPK Activation by Oncogenesis Is Required to Maintain Cancer Cell Proliferation in Astrocytic Tumors Cancer Research ·Marcos Ríos García,Marc Foretz,Benoı̂t Viollet,Tunku Muzafar Shah,Máximo Fraga,José A. Costoya,Rosa Señarı́s	2013	104
16	Metformin Reduces Endogenous Reactive Oxygen Species and Associated DNA Damage Cancer Prevention Research ·Carolyn Algire,Olga Moiseeva,Xavier Deschênes‐Simard,Lilian Amrein,Luca A. Petruccelli,Elena Birman,Benoı̂t Viollet,Gerardo Ferbeyre,Michaël Pollak	2012	288
17	Mice lacking AMP-activated protein kinase α1 catalytic subunit have increased bone remodelling and modified skeletal responses to hormonal challenges induced by ovariectomy and intermittent PTH treatment Journal of Endocrinology ·Jeshmi Jeyabalan,Mittal Shah,Benoı̂t Viollet,Jean‐Paul Roux,Pascale Chavassieux,Márta Korbonits,Chantal Chenu	2012	22
18	Signaling Kinase AMPK Activates Stress-Promoted Transcription via Histone H2B Phosphorylation Science ·David Bungard,Giovana Barbosa,Ping-Yao Zeng,Brandon Faubert,Nancy L. Maas,Benoı̂t Viollet,David Carling,Craig B. Thompson,Russell G. Jones,Shelley L. Berger	2010	290
19	Phosphorylation of ULK1 (hATG1) by AMP-Activated Protein Kinase Connects Energy Sensing to Mitophagybreakdown → Science ·Emad El Din M. El Gemai,David B. Shackelford,Maria M. Mihaylova,Sara Gelino,Rebecca A. Kohnz,William B. Mair,Debbie S. Vasquez,Aashish Joshi,Dana M. Gwinn,Rebecca C. Taylor,John M. Asara,James A. J. Fitzpatrick,Andrew Dillin,Benoı̂t Viollet,Mondira Kundu,Malene Hansen,Reuben J. Shaw	2010	2048
20	Systemic Treatment with the Antidiabetic Drug Metformin Selectively Impairs p53-Deficient Tumor Cell Growthbreakdown → Cancer Research ·Monica Buzzai,Russell G. Jones,Ravi K. Amaravadi,Julian J. Lum,Ralph J. DeBerardinis,Fangping Zhao,Benoı̂t Viollet,Craig B. Thompson	2007	756

About Benoı̂t Viollet

Benoı̂t Viollet is a scholar working on Physiology, Molecular Biology and Surgery, having authored 344 papers that have together received 42.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (253 papers), Pancreatic function and diabetes (161 papers), Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (57 papers), Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (37 papers), Diabetes Treatment and Management (33 papers), Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (32 papers), PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling in cancer (21 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (17 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Geriatrics and Gerontology (2.3k citations), Physiology (2.2k citations) and Molecular Biology (27.2k citations). Benoı̂t Viollet has collaborated with scholars based in France, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Marc Foretz, Mondira Kundu, Kun‐Liang Guan, Joungmok Kim, Bruno Guigas, Fabrizio Andréelli, Jocelyne Leclerc, Luc Bertrand, Kei Sakamoto and Jørgen F. P. Wojtaszewski. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Diabetes, PLoS ONE, Cell Metabolism and The FASEB Journal.

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