Éric Massé

7.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
84 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Éric Massé is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Éric Massé has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Molecular Biology, 41 papers in Genetics and 23 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Éric Massé's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (55 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (40 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (22 papers). Éric Massé is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (55 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (40 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (22 papers). Éric Massé collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Éric Massé's co-authors include Susan Gottesman, Guillaume Desnoyers, Freddy E. Escorcia, Marc Drolet, Karine Prévost, David Lalaouna, Hubert Salvail, Carin K. Vanderpool, Daniel A. Lafontaine and Mélina Arguin and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Éric Massé

82 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

A small RNA regulates the expression of genes involved in iron metabolism in Escherichia coli

2002 906 citations Éric Massé, Susan Gottesman Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Coupled degradation of a small regulatory RNA and its mRNA targets in Escherichia coli

2003 586 citations Éric Massé, Susan Gottesman et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Éric Massé Canada	37	4.2k	2.9k	1.6k	515	302	84	5.5k
Steven E. Finkel United States	31	2.6k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	928 0.6×	377 0.7×	249 0.8×	63	4.3k
Yoshinori Akiyama Japan	47	4.4k 1.0×	2.9k 1.0×	937 0.6×	547 1.1×	262 0.9×	168	6.0k
Bauke Oudega Netherlands	42	3.5k 0.8×	2.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 2.2×	285 0.9×	114	5.1k
Rajeev Misra United States	35	2.4k 0.6×	2.8k 1.0×	570 0.4×	680 1.3×	335 1.1×	72	4.7k
Satish Raina Switzerland	37	3.9k 0.9×	2.2k 0.8×	705 0.4×	884 1.7×	356 1.2×	67	6.0k
Felipe Moreno Spain	46	4.2k 1.0×	1.7k 0.6×	869 0.5×	302 0.6×	199 0.7×	131	6.3k
Han Remaut Belgium	39	2.7k 0.6×	1.1k 0.4×	674 0.4×	970 1.9×	216 0.7×	93	4.6k
Linda J. Kenney United States	36	2.1k 0.5×	1.7k 0.6×	915 0.6×	931 1.8×	161 0.5×	79	3.7k
Robert W. Simons United States	30	3.5k 0.8×	2.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	410 0.8×	343 1.1×	49	4.4k
Paul Babitzke United States	51	6.5k 1.6×	5.1k 1.8×	2.3k 1.4×	1.4k 2.8×	542 1.8×	119	8.3k

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Bohn, Bruno, Myriam Doyon, Luigi Bouchard, et al.. (2025). Gut microbiota and microbial metabolites are associated with body composition in 5‐year‐old children: A cross‐sectional study in the Gen3G cohort. Pediatric Obesity. 20(6). e70007–e70007. 1 indexed citations

Mahdavi, Manijeh, Karine Prévost, Valérie Gagné‐Ouellet, et al.. (2025). Influence of CTG repeats from the human DM1 locus on murine gut microbiota. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 27. 733–743.

Chauvier, Adrien, Patrick St-Pierre, Jean‐Paul Moreau, et al.. (2024). Insights into the cotranscriptional and translational control mechanisms of the Escherichia coli tbpA thiamin pyrophosphate riboswitch. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1345–1345. 1 indexed citations

Bohn, Bruno, Myriam Doyon, Luigi Bouchard, et al.. (2024). Associations of gut microbiota features and circulating metabolites with systemic inflammation in children. BMJ Open Gastroenterology. 11(1). e001470–e001470. 2 indexed citations

Ho, Jeffrey, et al.. (2022). A tRNA-derived fragment present in E. coli OMVs regulates host cell gene expression and proliferation. PLoS Pathogens. 18(9). e1010827–e1010827. 26 indexed citations

Prévost, Karine, David Lalaouna, Odile Valette, et al.. (2022). The noncoding RNA CcnA modulates the master cell cycle regulators CtrA and GcrA in Caulobacter crescentus. PLoS Biology. 20(2). e3001528–e3001528. 9 indexed citations

Pokharel, Pravil, Merve Kulbay, Sébastien Houle, et al.. (2021). The RyfA small RNA regulates oxidative and osmotic stress responses and virulence in uropathogenic Escherichia coli. PLoS Pathogens. 17(5). e1009617–e1009617. 21 indexed citations

Beaudoin, Jude, Vincent Normant, François Bachand, et al.. (2021). Fission yeast RNA‐binding proteins Puf2 and Puf4 are involved in repression of ferrireductase Frp1 expression in response to iron. Molecular Microbiology. 116(5). 1361–1377. 2 indexed citations

Massé, Éric, et al.. (2019). RNA-Dependent Regulation of Virulence in Pathogenic Bacteria. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 9. 337–337. 53 indexed citations

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Carrier, Marie‐Claude, et al.. (2018). Identification of New Bacterial Small RNA Targets Using MS2 Affinity Purification Coupled to RNA Sequencing. Methods in molecular biology. 1737. 77–88. 8 indexed citations

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Lalaouna, David & Éric Massé. (2015). The spectrum of activity of the small RNA DsrA: not so narrow after all. Current Genetics. 62(2). 261–264. 13 indexed citations

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Lalaouna, David, Marie‐Claude Carrier, & Éric Massé. (2015). Every little piece counts: the many faces of tRNA transcripts. Transcription. 6(4). 74–77. 11 indexed citations

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Lalaouna, David, et al.. (2013). Regulatory RNAs and target mRNA decay in prokaryotes. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. 1829(6-7). 742–747. 119 indexed citations

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Bastet, Laurène, et al.. (2012). Dual-acting riboswitch control of translation initiation and mRNA decay. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(50). E3444–53. 131 indexed citations

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Salvail, Hubert & Éric Massé. (2011). Regulating iron storage and metabolism with RNA: an overview of posttranscriptional controls of intracellular iron homeostasis. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews - RNA. 3(1). 26–36. 76 indexed citations

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Salvail, Hubert, Mélissa Caza, François Lépine, et al.. (2010). A small RNA promotes siderophore production through transcriptional and metabolic remodeling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(34). 15223–15228. 76 indexed citations

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Lafontaine, Daniel A., et al.. (2010). Small RNA-mediated regulation at the level of transcript stability. RNA Biology. 7(2). 140–144. 66 indexed citations

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Mitarai, Namiko, et al.. (2009). Dynamic features of gene expression control by small regulatory RNAs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(26). 10655–10659. 61 indexed citations

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Prévost, Karine, et al.. (2007). The small RNA RyhB activates the translation of shiA mRNA encoding a permease of shikimate, a compound involved in siderophore synthesis. Molecular Microbiology. 64(5). 1260–1273. 175 indexed citations

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Massé, Éric & Susan Gottesman. (2002). A small RNA regulates the expression of genes involved in iron metabolism in Escherichia coli. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(7). 4620–4625. 906 indexed citations breakdown →

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