Étienne Decroly

13.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
126 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Étienne Decroly is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Virology. According to data from OpenAlex, Étienne Decroly has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Infectious Diseases, 48 papers in Molecular Biology and 46 papers in Virology. Recurrent topics in Étienne Decroly's work include HIV Research and Treatment (46 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (29 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (23 papers). Étienne Decroly is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (46 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (29 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (23 papers). Étienne Decroly collaborates with scholars based in France, Belgium and Netherlands. Étienne Decroly's co-authors include Bruno Canard, Bruno Coutard, Eric J. Snijder, Nabil G. Seidah, Isabelle Imbert, François Ferrón, Xavier de Lamballerie, Barbara Selisko, Coralie Valle and Lorenzo Subissi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Étienne Decroly

124 papers receiving 8.5k 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.

The spike glycoprotein of the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV contains a furin-like cleavage site absent in CoV of the same clade

2020 1.2k citations Bruno Coutard, Bruno Canard et al. Antiviral Research profile →
One severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus protein complex integrates processive RNA polymerase and exonuclease activities

2014 414 citations Lorenzo Subissi, Étienne Decroly et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The Nonstructural Proteins Directing Coronavirus RNA Synthesis and Processing

2016 404 citations Étienne Decroly et al. profile →
Structural and molecular basis of mismatch correction and ribavirin excision from coronavirus RNA

2017 267 citations François Ferrón, Lorenzo Subissi et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Étienne Decroly	5.3k	2.9k	1.1k	1.0k	1.0k	126	8.7k
Deyin Guo	4.3k 0.8×	3.1k 1.1×	555 0.5×	403 0.4×	1.3k 1.3×	192	8.9k
Bruno Coutard	3.9k 0.7×	1.8k 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	357 0.3×	654 0.6×	124	6.3k
Stephan Becker	8.7k 1.6×	2.3k 0.8×	696 0.6×	313 0.3×	1.2k 1.2×	174	12.0k
Julien Lescar	3.0k 0.6×	2.9k 1.0×	3.4k 3.1×	867 0.8×	784 0.8×	149	7.6k
Yuxian He	9.0k 1.7×	2.4k 0.8×	533 0.5×	3.0k 2.9×	2.2k 2.1×	153	11.9k
Sina Bavari	7.6k 1.4×	3.8k 1.3×	1.3k 1.2×	823 0.8×	2.3k 2.3×	292	13.6k
Yi Shi	4.1k 0.8×	2.8k 1.0×	1.5k 1.3×	274 0.3×	1.5k 1.5×	199	9.8k
Gary R. Whittaker	6.9k 1.3×	3.7k 1.3×	512 0.5×	350 0.3×	1.9k 1.9×	167	12.4k
Jesse D. Bloom	5.7k 1.1×	6.9k 2.4×	376 0.3×	429 0.4×	1.3k 1.3×	148	13.1k
Jinghua Yan	5.7k 1.1×	2.7k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	184 0.2×	1.6k 1.6×	175	10.1k

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Sutto‐Ortiz, Priscila, Barbara Selisko, François Ferrón, et al.. (2025). Mapping the impact of 1′-, 2′- and 4′-nucleotide modifications on the Respiratory Syncytial Virus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. Antiviral Research. 244. 106298–106298. 1 indexed citations

Caval, Vincent, Valérie Vivet‐Boudou, Emma L. Davies, et al.. (2024). A specific domain within the 3′ untranslated region of Usutu virus confers resistance to the exonuclease ISG20. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8528–8528. 6 indexed citations

Delpal, Adrien, et al.. (2024). Synthesis of acyclic analogues of adenosine sulfonamides and their activity against RNA cap guanine N7-methyltransferase of SARS-CoV-2. New Journal of Chemistry. 48(41). 17692–17695. 1 indexed citations

Sutto‐Ortiz, Priscila, Adrien Delpal, Bruno Canard, et al.. (2023). 5′-cap RNA/SAM mimetic conjugates as bisubstrate inhibitors of viral RNA cap 2′-O-methyltransferases. Bioorganic Chemistry. 143. 107035–107035. 3 indexed citations

Furtado, Nathália Dias, André S. Godoy, G.D. Noske, et al.. (2023). Amino Acid Polymorphisms on the Brazilian Strain of Yellow Fever Virus Methyltransferase Are Related to the Host’s Immune Evasion Mediated by Type I Interferon. Viruses. 15(1). 191–191. 2 indexed citations

Decroly, Étienne, et al.. (2023). Interplay of RNA 2′-O-methylations with viral replication. Current Opinion in Virology. 59. 101302–101302. 9 indexed citations

Delpal, Adrien, Sarah Barelier, Bruno Canard, et al.. (2023). Structure-guided optimization of adenosine mimetics as selective and potent inhibitors of coronavirus nsp14 N7-methyltransferases. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 256. 115474–115474. 14 indexed citations

Delpal, Adrien, Bruno Canard, Jean‐Jacques Vasseur, et al.. (2022). Facile access to 4′-(N-acylsulfonamide) modified nucleosides and evaluation of their inhibitory activity against SARS-CoV-2 RNA cap N7-guanine-methyltransferase nsp14. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 20(38). 7582–7586. 11 indexed citations

Essalmani, Rachid, Jaspreet Jain, Delia Susan‐Resiga, et al.. (2022). Distinctive Roles of Furin and TMPRSS2 in SARS-CoV-2 Infectivity. Journal of Virology. 96(8). e0012822–e0012822. 113 indexed citations

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Hurdiss, Daniel L., Lisa Bauer, Nicolas Papageorgiou, et al.. (2022). Fluoxetine targets an allosteric site in the enterovirus 2C AAA+ ATPase and stabilizes a ring-shaped hexameric complex. Science Advances. 8(1). eabj7615–eabj7615. 18 indexed citations

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Graner, François, Virginie Courtier‐Orgogozo, Étienne Decroly, et al.. (2021). Comment of a critical review about the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Sutto‐Ortiz, Priscila, Sergey Tcherniuk, Pravien Abeywickrema, et al.. (2021). The methyltransferase domain of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus L protein catalyzes cap N7 and 2’-O-methylation. PLoS Pathogens. 17(5). e1009562–e1009562. 20 indexed citations

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Shannon, Ashleigh, Barbara Selisko, Thi-Tuyet-Nhung Le, et al.. (2020). Rapid incorporation of Favipiravir by the fast and permissive viral RNA polymerase complex results in SARS-CoV-2 lethal mutagenesis. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4682–4682. 199 indexed citations

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Sutto‐Ortiz, Priscila, et al.. (2020). Synthesis of adenine dinucleosides SAM analogs as specific inhibitors of SARS-CoV nsp14 RNA cap guanine-N7-methyltransferase. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 201. 112557–112557. 51 indexed citations

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Sutto‐Ortiz, Priscila, et al.. (2019). Synthesis of Adenine Dinucleosides 2′,5′‐Bridged by Sulfur‐Containing Linkers as Bisubstrate SAM Analogues for Viral RNA 2′‐O‐Methyltransferases. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2019(38). 6486–6495. 5 indexed citations

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Jaïs, Philippe, Étienne Decroly, Eric Jacquet, et al.. (2019). C3P3-G1: first generation of a eukaryotic artificial cytoplasmic expression system. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(5). 2681–2698. 22 indexed citations

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Ferrón, François, Humberto Debat, Ashleigh Shannon, Étienne Decroly, & Bruno Canard. (2019). A N7-guanine RNA cap methyltransferase signature-sequence as a genetic marker of large genome, non-mammalian Tobaniviridae. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 2(1). lqz022–lqz022. 9 indexed citations

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Martin, Baptiste, Olivier Reynard, Viktor E. Volchkov, & Étienne Decroly. (2018). Filovirus proteins for antiviral drug discovery: Structure/function of proteins involved in assembly and budding. Antiviral Research. 150. 183–192. 17 indexed citations

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Eydoux, Cécilia, Bruno Coutard, Baptiste Martin, et al.. (2017). Toward the identification of viral cap-methyltransferase inhibitors by fluorescence screening assay. Antiviral Research. 144. 330–339. 37 indexed citations

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Bouvet, Mickaël, Isabelle Imbert, Lorenzo Subissi, et al.. (2012). RNA 3'-end mismatch excision by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus nonstructural protein nsp10/nsp14 exoribonuclease complex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(24). 9372–9377. 245 indexed citations

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