Damien D’Amours

6.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Damien D’Amours is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Damien D’Amours has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Cell Biology and 10 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Damien D’Amours's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (27 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (22 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (19 papers). Damien D’Amours is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (27 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (22 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (19 papers). Damien D’Amours collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Damien D’Amours's co-authors include Guy G. Poirier, Stephen P. Jackson, Icy D’Silva, Serge Desnoyers, Vishva M. Dixit, Angelika Amon, Guy S. Salvesen, Frank Stegmeier, El Bachir Affar and Marc Germain and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Damien D’Amours

48 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation reactions in the regulation of nuclear functions

1999 1.5k citations Damien D’Amours, Guy G. Poirier et al. profile →
The MRE11 complex: at the crossroads of DNA repair and checkpoint signalling

2002 680 citations Damien D’Amours, Stephen P. Jackson Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Damien D’Amours Canada	25	4.0k	2.1k	693	490	487	49	4.9k
Josiane Ménissier‐de Murcia France	34	5.2k 1.3×	4.4k 2.1×	240 0.3×	513 1.0×	432 0.9×	42	7.2k
W. Tempel Canada	35	3.6k 0.9×	407 0.2×	388 0.6×	452 0.9×	242 0.5×	84	4.4k
Brendan D. Price United States	43	6.0k 1.5×	2.0k 1.0×	786 1.1×	1.1k 2.2×	300 0.6×	86	7.3k
Sydney Shall United Kingdom	36	4.0k 1.0×	2.9k 1.4×	175 0.3×	322 0.7×	356 0.7×	132	5.6k
Vicente Notario United States	31	2.4k 0.6×	913 0.4×	351 0.5×	583 1.2×	239 0.5×	106	3.8k
Petra Beli Germany	32	3.8k 1.0×	907 0.4×	770 1.1×	475 1.0×	114 0.2×	71	4.7k
Michèle Rouleau Canada	23	2.3k 0.6×	2.0k 0.9×	74 0.1×	259 0.5×	420 0.9×	47	3.5k
Anna Sablina Belgium	29	2.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	462 0.7×	717 1.5×	141 0.3×	51	3.6k
Yongjun Dang China	33	3.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	496 0.7×	724 1.5×	180 0.4×	101	5.2k
Éric Bonneil Canada	40	3.4k 0.9×	798 0.4×	447 0.6×	336 0.7×	206 0.4×	104	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Damien D’Amours

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Damien D’Amours

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20 of 20 papers shown

D’Amours, Damien, et al.. (2025). Protocol for detecting interactions between intrinsically disordered proteins and long DNA substrates by electrophoretic mobility shift assay. STAR Protocols. 6(3). 103968–103968.

Mer, Arvind Singh, et al.. (2023). Large-scale phenogenomic analysis of human cancers uncovers frequent alterations affecting SMC5/6 complex components in breast cancer. NAR Cancer. 5(3). zcad047–zcad047. 5 indexed citations

Burgener, Justin, et al.. (2021). Dynamic sumoylation of promoter-bound general transcription factors facilitates transcription by RNA polymerase II. PLoS Genetics. 17(9). e1009828–e1009828. 10 indexed citations

Boulton, Stephen, et al.. (2020). Distinct surfaces on Cdc5/PLK Polo-box domain orchestrate combinatorial substrate recognition during cell division. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 3379–3379. 10 indexed citations

Mishra, Prashant, Lars Boeckmann, Richard E. Baker, et al.. (2019). Cell cycle–dependent association of polo kinase Cdc5 with CENP-A contributes to faithful chromosome segregation in budding yeast. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 30(8). 1020–1036. 16 indexed citations

Vogel, Jackie, et al.. (2019). Interphase Microtubules Safeguard Mitotic Progression by Suppressing an Aurora B-Dependent Arrest Induced by DNA Replication Stress. Cell Reports. 26(11). 2875–2889.e3. 9 indexed citations

Tollis, Sylvain, et al.. (2018). Cdc48/VCP Promotes Chromosome Morphogenesis by Releasing Condensin from Self-Entrapment in Chromatin. Molecular Cell. 69(4). 664–676.e5. 35 indexed citations

Tyers, Mike, et al.. (2018). Condensin ATPase motifs contribute differentially to the maintenance of chromosome morphology and genome stability. PLoS Biology. 16(6). e2003980–e2003980. 18 indexed citations

Kanshin, Evgeny, et al.. (2015). Phosphoproteome dynamics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae under heat shock and cold stress. Molecular Systems Biology. 11(6). 813–813. 48 indexed citations

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Simoneau, Antoine, et al.. (2014). Cdk1-dependent regulation of the Mre11 complex couples DNA repair pathways to cell cycle progression. Cell Cycle. 13(7). 1078–1090. 17 indexed citations

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Serrano, Diego & Damien D’Amours. (2014). When genome integrity and cell cycle decisions collide: roles of polo kinases in cellular adaptation to DNA damage. PubMed. 8(3). 195–203. 19 indexed citations

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Roy, Marc‐André, Nadeem Siddiqui, & Damien D’Amours. (2011). Dynamic and selective DNA-binding activity of Smc5, a core component of the Smc5-Smc6 complex. Cell Cycle. 10(4). 690–700. 31 indexed citations

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Roy, Marc‐André & Damien D’Amours. (2011). DNA-binding properties of Smc6, a core component of the Smc5–6 DNA repair complex. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 416(1-2). 80–85. 20 indexed citations

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Tomson, Brett N., et al.. (2006). Ribosomal DNA Transcription-Dependent Processes Interfere with Chromosome Segregation. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 26(16). 6239–6247. 34 indexed citations

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D’Amours, Damien, Frank Stegmeier, & Angelika Amon. (2004). Cdc14 and Condensin Control the Dissolution of Cohesin-Independent Chromosome Linkages at Repeated DNA. Cell. 117(4). 455–469. 232 indexed citations

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D’Amours, Damien & Stephen P. Jackson. (2002). The MRE11 complex: at the crossroads of DNA repair and checkpoint signalling. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 3(5). 317–327. 680 indexed citations breakdown →

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D’Amours, Damien & Stephen P. Jackson. (2001). The yeast Xrs2 complex functions in S phase checkpoint regulation. Genes & Development. 15(17). 2238–2249. 176 indexed citations

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Germain, Marc, El Bachir Affar, Damien D’Amours, et al.. (1999). Cleavage of Automodified Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase during Apoptosis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(40). 28379–28384. 399 indexed citations

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D’Amours, Damien, Patrick J. Duriez, Kim Orth, et al.. (1997). Purification of the Death Substrate Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase. Analytical Biochemistry. 249(1). 106–108. 7 indexed citations

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Froelich, Christopher J., William Hanna, Guy G. Poirier, et al.. (1996). Granzyme B/Perforin-Mediated Apoptosis of Jurkat Cells Results in Cleavage of Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase to the 89-kDa Apoptotic Fragment and Less Abundant 64-kDa Fragment. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 227(3). 658–665. 90 indexed citations

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