Didier Mazel

14.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
155 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

Didier Mazel is a scholar working on Endocrinology, Molecular Biology and Molecular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Didier Mazel has authored 155 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Endocrinology, 63 papers in Molecular Biology and 62 papers in Molecular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Didier Mazel's work include Vibrio bacteria research studies (70 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (62 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (48 papers). Didier Mazel is often cited by papers focused on Vibrio bacteria research studies (70 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (62 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (48 papers). Didier Mazel collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Spain. Didier Mazel's co-authors include Zeynep Baharoglu, Anne-Marie Guérout, Dean A. Rowe‐Magnus, Guillaume Cambray, Philippe Marlière, Julian Davies, David Bikard, Vera Webb, J. Davies and Céline Loot and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Didier Mazel

150 papers receiving 10.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Integrons: agents of bacterial evolution

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Didier Mazel France	53	4.6k	4.2k	3.8k	2.4k	2.4k	155	10.4k
Fernando de la Cruz Spain	63	6.8k 1.5×	5.0k 1.2×	3.0k 0.8×	4.4k 1.8×	5.1k 2.2×	237	13.9k
Herbert P. Schweizer United States	57	9.1k 2.0×	4.1k 1.0×	2.3k 0.6×	2.2k 0.9×	4.9k 2.1×	201	15.5k
Keith Poole Canada	69	7.9k 1.7×	8.2k 1.9×	2.4k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	4.2k 1.8×	150	15.2k
Thomas Sicheritz‐Pontén Denmark	38	5.2k 1.1×	1.4k 0.3×	1.1k 0.3×	2.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	95	9.8k
Eduardo P. C. Rocha France	76	10.8k 2.3×	2.6k 0.6×	2.6k 0.7×	6.3k 2.6×	4.6k 1.9×	223	18.0k
Valérie Barbe France	56	5.1k 1.1×	1.4k 0.3×	1.3k 0.3×	2.3k 1.0×	1.5k 0.6×	155	11.3k
Mark J. Pallen United Kingdom	62	5.2k 1.1×	1.4k 0.3×	2.9k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	2.3k 1.0×	192	11.4k
Roger C. Lévesque Canada	47	3.7k 0.8×	2.5k 0.6×	1.3k 0.3×	1.5k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	211	7.4k
Jorge H. Crosa United States	54	8.1k 1.8×	1.9k 0.5×	4.1k 1.1×	2.8k 1.2×	5.7k 2.4×	159	14.5k
Michael L. Vasil United States	65	7.8k 1.7×	2.2k 0.5×	1.8k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	3.6k 1.5×	137	12.1k

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Cam, Éric Le, Sonia Baconnais, Ole Skovgaard, et al.. (2025). Dynamic transitions of initiator binding coordinate the replication of the two chromosomes in Vibrio cholerae. Nature Communications. 16(1). 485–485. 1 indexed citations

Bos, Julia, P.A. Kaminski, Florence Depardieu, et al.. (2025). Sedentary chromosomal integrons as biobanks of bacterial antiphage defense systems. Science. 388(6747). eads0768–eads0768. 6 indexed citations

Bos, Julia, Magalie Duchateau, Mariette Matondo, et al.. (2025). Beyond RNA modification: a novel role for tRNA modifying enzyme in oxidative stress response and metabolism. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(22).

Loot, Céline, et al.. (2024). The recombination efficiency of the bacterial integron depends on the mechanical stability of the synaptic complex. Science Advances. 10(50). eadp8756–eadp8756. 1 indexed citations

Espinosa, Elena, Christophe Possoz, Marie‐Eve Val, et al.. (2024). MatP local enrichment delays segregation independently of tetramer formation and septal anchoring in Vibrio cholerae. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9893–9893.

Bos, Julia, Geneviève Garriss, Delphine Lapaillerie, et al.. (2024). Cassette recombination dynamics within chromosomal integrons are regulated by toxin-antitoxin systems. Science Advances. 10(2). eadj3498–eadj3498. 8 indexed citations

Blanco, Paula, Lucía García-Pastor, Niccolò Caselli, et al.. (2024). Chromosomal integrons are genetically and functionally isolated units of genomes. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(20). 12565–12581. 3 indexed citations

Babosan, Anamaria, Blaise Li, Magalie Duchateau, et al.. (2024). Aminoglycoside tolerance in Vibrio cholerae engages translational reprogramming associated with queuosine tRNA modification. eLife. 13. 4 indexed citations

Millot, Gaël A., Thomas Cokelaer, Jan Engelstädter, et al.. (2024). Belt and braces: Two escape ways to maintain the cassette reservoir of large chromosomal integrons. PLoS Genetics. 20(4). e1011231–e1011231.

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Loot, Céline, Gaël A. Millot, Frédéric Lemoine, et al.. (2024). Integron cassettes integrate into bacterial genomes via widespread non-classical attG sites. Nature Microbiology. 9(1). 228–240. 12 indexed citations

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Herencias, Cristina, et al.. (2024). A plasmid-chromosome crosstalk in multidrug resistant enterobacteria. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10859–10859. 6 indexed citations

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Czarnecki, Jakub, et al.. (2023). Cell cycle-coordinated maintenance of the Vibrio bipartite genome. EcoSal Plus. 11(1). eesp00082022–eesp00082022. 2 indexed citations

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Krin, Evelyne, et al.. (2023). RavA‐ViaA antibiotic response is linked to Cpx and Zra2 envelope stress systems in Vibrio cholerae. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(6). e0173023–e0173023. 6 indexed citations

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López‐Igual, Rocío, et al.. (2023). Increasing the Scalability of Toxin–Intein Orthogonal Combinations. ACS Synthetic Biology. 12(2). 618–623. 3 indexed citations

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Babosan, Anamaria, et al.. (2022). Nonessential tRNA and rRNA modifications impact the bacterial response to sub-MIC antibiotic stress. PubMed. 3. uqac019–uqac019. 30 indexed citations

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Czarnecki, Jakub, et al.. (2021). The coordinated replication of Vibrio cholerae ’s two chromosomes required the acquisition of a unique domain by the RctB initiator. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(19). 11119–11133. 8 indexed citations

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Escudero, José Antonio, Aleksandra Nivina, Harry Kemble, et al.. (2020). Primary and promiscuous functions coexist during evolutionary innovation through whole protein domain acquisitions. eLife. 9. 7 indexed citations

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Nivina, Aleksandra, Céline Loot, David Bikard, et al.. (2020). Structure-specific DNA recombination sites: Design, validation, and machine learning–based refinement. Science Advances. 6(30). eaay2922–eaay2922. 16 indexed citations

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Baharoglu, Zeynep, Evelyne Krin, & Didier Mazel. (2013). RpoS Plays a Central Role in the SOS Induction by Sub-Lethal Aminoglycoside Concentrations in Vibrio cholerae. PLoS Genetics. 9(4). e1003421–e1003421. 90 indexed citations

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Roux, Frédérique Le, Yannick Labreuche, Brigid M. Davis, et al.. (2010). Virulence of an emerging pathogenic lineage of Vibrio nigripulchritudo is dependent on two plasmids. Environmental Microbiology. 13(2). 296–306. 29 indexed citations

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