François Dehez

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

François Dehez is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, François Dehez has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 18 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in François Dehez's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (21 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (16 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (14 papers). François Dehez is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (21 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (16 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (14 papers). François Dehez collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and United Kingdom. François Dehez's co-authors include Francesco Zerbetto, Jenny K. Y. Wong, David A. Leigh, Christophe Chipot, Eva Pebay‐Peyroula, Wensheng Cai, Giovanni Bottari, Catherine Humeau, Mohamed Ghoul and Mounir Tarek and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

François Dehez

84 papers receiving 3.3k citations

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Unidirectional rotation in a mechanically interlocked molecular rotor

2003 781 citations David A. Leigh, Jenny K. Y. Wong et al. Nature profile →

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Orlando Crescenzi Italy

J. Shim South Korea

Fengyi Liu China

Araz Jakalian Canada

Eva Darian United States

Anselm H. C. Horn Germany

Felice C. Lightstone United States

Ranieri Bizzarri Italy

Paul H. Axelsen United States

Orlando Crescenzi Italy

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of François Dehez

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of François Dehez. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of François Dehez based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with François Dehez. François Dehez is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zarkadas, Eleftherios, et al.. (2026). Structures of the honeybee GABAA RDL receptor illuminate allosteric modulation. Neuron.

Tessier, Christian, François Dehez, Eleftherios Zarkadas, et al.. (2025). Asynchronous subunit transitions prime acetylcholine receptor activation. Science. 391(6780). eadw1264–eadw1264. 2 indexed citations

López-Sánchez, Uriel, Céline Juillan‐Binard, Sarah C. R. Lummis, et al.. (2024). Structural determinants for activity of the antidepressant vortioxetine at human and rodent 5-HT3 receptors. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 31(8). 1232–1242. 6 indexed citations

Dehez, François, et al.. (2024). State-dependent binding of cholesterol and an anionic lipid to the muscle-type Torpedo nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. Communications Biology. 7(1). 437–437. 2 indexed citations

Tour, Claire Bouthier de la, Salvatore De Bonis, Cécilia Hognon, et al.. (2022). Structural and functional characterization of DdrC, a novel DNA damage-induced nucleoid associated protein involved in DNA compaction. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(13). 7680–7696. 9 indexed citations

Zarkadas, Eleftherios, Eva Pebay‐Peyroula, Guy Schoehn, et al.. (2022). Conformational transitions and ligand-binding to a muscle-type nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. Neuron. 110(8). 1358–1370.e5. 50 indexed citations

Jiao, Fang, François Dehez, Tao Ni, et al.. (2022). Perforin-2 clockwise hand-over-hand pre-pore to pore transition mechanism. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5039–5039. 14 indexed citations

Caillat, Christophe, Delphine Guilligay, Nikolas Friedrich, et al.. (2021). Structure of HIV-1 gp41 with its membrane anchors targeted by neutralizing antibodies. eLife. 10. 22 indexed citations

Kunji, Edmund R.S., et al.. (2021). Structure, substrate binding, and symmetry of the mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier in its matrix-open state. Biophysical Journal. 120(23). 5187–5195. 6 indexed citations

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Pieri, Elisa, et al.. (2019). CpHMD-Then-QM/MM Identification of the Amino Acids Responsible for the Anabaena Sensory Rhodopsin pH-Dependent Electronic Absorption Spectrum. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 15(8). 4535–4546. 16 indexed citations

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Gupta, Chitrak, et al.. (2019). Chemomechanical Coupling of Mitochondrial Complex I. Biophysical Journal. 116(3). 155a–155a. 1 indexed citations

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Chipot, Chris, et al.. (2019). Hepatitis C virus sequence divergence preserves p7 viroporin structural and dynamic features. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 8383–8383. 12 indexed citations

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Stelter, Meike, Salvatore De Bonis, Cécilia Hognon, et al.. (2019). The three Endonuclease III variants of Deinococcus radiodurans possess distinct and complementary DNA repair activities. DNA repair. 78. 45–59. 16 indexed citations

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Hassaı̈ne, Ghérici, Emmanuelle Neumann, Anders A. Jensen, et al.. (2018). Conformational transitions of the serotonin 5-HT3 receptor. Nature. 563(7730). 275–279. 113 indexed citations

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Dehez, François, Paul Schanda, Martin King, Edmund R.S. Kunji, & Christophe Chipot. (2017). Mitochondrial ADP/ATP Carrier in Dodecylphosphocholine Binds Cardiolipins with Non-native Affinity. Biophysical Journal. 113(11). 2311–2315. 12 indexed citations

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Ravaud, Stéphanie, Eva‐Maria Krammer, Chris Chipot, et al.. (2012). The substrate specificity of the human ADP/ATP carrier AAC1. Molecular Membrane Biology. 30(2). 160–168. 47 indexed citations

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Dehez, François, et al.. (2008). An ab initio strategy for handling induction phenomena in metal ion complexes. Molecular Physics. 106(12-13). 1685–1696. 3 indexed citations

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Bottari, Giovanni, François Dehez, David A. Leigh, et al.. (2003). Entropy‐Driven Translational Isomerism: A Tristable Molecular Shuttle. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 42(47). 5886–5889. 98 indexed citations

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Dehez, François, et al.. (2000). Comportement mecanique et environnemental de deux chaussees anciennes realisees avec des machefers d'incineration d'ordures menageres. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 5 indexed citations

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Brevet, Pierre‐François, et al.. (1980). FACTEURS D'INTENSITE DE CONTRAINTE ET FORCE D'EXTENSION DE FISSURE DANS LE CAS D'UNE FISSURE TRANSVERSALE DANS UN FIL CYLINDRIQUE. BULL LIAISON LAB PONTS CHAUSS. 3 indexed citations

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