Hervé Le Hir

9.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
68 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Hervé Le Hir is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Hervé Le Hir has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Immunology and 3 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Hervé Le Hir's work include RNA Research and Splicing (57 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (46 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (37 papers). Hervé Le Hir is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (57 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (46 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (37 papers). Hervé Le Hir collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Germany. Hervé Le Hir's co-authors include Melissa J. Moore, Bertrand Séraphin, Lionel Ballut, Zhen Wang, Jérôme Saulière, Hala Chamieh, Fabien Bonneau, Francesca Fiorini, Lynne E. Maquat and G.R. Andersen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Hervé Le Hir

66 papers receiving 6.9k 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 spliceosome deposits multiple proteins 20-24 nucleotides upstream of mRNA exon-exon junctions

2000 761 citations Hervé Le Hir The EMBO Journal profile →
The exon-exon junction complex provides a binding platform for factors involved in mRNA export and nonsense-mediated mRNA decay

2001 648 citations Hervé Le Hir The EMBO Journal profile →
How introns influence and enhance eukaryotic gene expression

2003 599 citations Hervé Le Hir et al. profile →
Exclusion of m6A from splice-site proximal regions by the exon junction complex dictates m6A topologies and mRNA stability

2023 123 citations Oh Sung Kwon, Isabelle Barbosa et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hervé Le Hir France	39	6.4k	395	383	380	310	68	6.9k
Oliver Mühlemann Switzerland	37	4.5k 0.7×	276 0.7×	217 0.6×	362 1.0×	408 1.3×	69	5.2k
Richard J Maraia United States	47	4.9k 0.8×	401 1.0×	582 1.5×	354 0.9×	328 1.1×	112	5.4k
Claire Moore United States	42	6.8k 1.1×	330 0.8×	424 1.1×	642 1.7×	187 0.6×	93	7.4k
Elmar Wahle Germany	48	7.0k 1.1×	391 1.0×	421 1.1×	732 1.9×	213 0.7×	88	7.6k
Jens Lykke‐Andersen United States	40	7.1k 1.1×	974 2.5×	286 0.7×	405 1.1×	323 1.0×	61	7.8k
Jamal Tazi France	43	5.3k 0.8×	511 1.3×	259 0.7×	457 1.2×	187 0.6×	87	6.0k
Giuseppe Biamonti Italy	47	5.5k 0.9×	688 1.7×	457 1.2×	445 1.2×	287 0.9×	114	6.3k
Maria M. Konarska United States	36	5.5k 0.9×	181 0.5×	350 0.9×	408 1.1×	531 1.7×	61	6.2k
Richard A. Padgett United States	38	6.9k 1.1×	421 1.1×	476 1.2×	758 2.0×	408 1.3×	72	7.9k
Fátima Gebauer Spain	34	3.5k 0.6×	577 1.5×	209 0.5×	634 1.7×	374 1.2×	76	4.7k

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Safieddine, Adham, et al.. (2025). Polysome sorting controls mRNA localization and protein fate. Trends in Cell Biology. 36(3). 200–213.

Barbosa, Isabelle, et al.. (2025). A low-level Cdkn1c/p57kip2 expression in spinal progenitors drives the transition from proliferative to neurogenic modes of division. EMBO Reports. 27(2). 433–470.

Saveanu, Cosmin, et al.. (2025). RNA anchoring of Upf1 facilitates recruitment of Dcp2 in the NMD decapping complex. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(5). 1 indexed citations

Bensaude, Olivier, et al.. (2024). Exon-junction complex association with stalled ribosomes and slow translation-independent disassembly. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4209–4209. 5 indexed citations

Safieddine, Adham, Emeline Coleno, Arthur Imbert, et al.. (2021). A choreography of centrosomal mRNAs reveals a conserved localization mechanism involving active polysome transport. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1352–1352. 59 indexed citations

Kwon, Oh Sung, Rahul Mishra, Adham Safieddine, et al.. (2021). Exon junction complex dependent mRNA localization is linked to centrosome organization during ciliogenesis. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1351–1351. 35 indexed citations

Barbosa, Isabelle, Hua Jiang, Kelly R. Molloy, et al.. (2020). NCBP3 positively impacts mRNA biogenesis. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(18). 10413–10427. 30 indexed citations

Bahin, Mathieu, Benoît Noël, Valentine Murigneux, et al.. (2019). ALFA: annotation landscape for aligned reads. BMC Genomics. 20(1). 250–250. 7 indexed citations

Decourty, Laurence, Abdelkader Namane, Caroline Proux, et al.. (2018). Nonsense‐mediated mRNA decay involves two distinct Upf1‐bound complexes. The EMBO Journal. 37(21). 34 indexed citations

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Decourty, Laurence, et al.. (2018). UPF1-like helicase grip on nucleic acids dictates processivity. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3752–3752. 38 indexed citations

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Fiorini, Francesca, Debjani Bagchi, Hervé Le Hir, & Vincent Croquette. (2015). Human Upf1 is a highly processive RNA helicase and translocase with RNP remodelling activities. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7581–7581. 109 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhen, Valentine Murigneux, & Hervé Le Hir. (2014). Transcriptome-wide modulation of splicing by the exon junction complex. Genome biology. 15(12). 551–551. 74 indexed citations

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Daguenet, Élisabeth, Corinne Wendling, Nathalie Ulryck, et al.. (2013). EJC core component MLN51 interacts with eIF3 and activates translation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(15). 5903–5908. 59 indexed citations

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Barbosa, Isabelle, Nazmul Haque, Francesca Fiorini, et al.. (2012). Human CWC22 escorts the helicase eIF4AIII to spliceosomes and promotes exon junction complex assembly. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 19(10). 983–990. 91 indexed citations

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Saulière, Jérôme, et al.. (2010). The exon junction complex differentially marks spliced junctions. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 17(10). 1269–1271. 53 indexed citations

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Chan, Wai-Kin, Angela D. Bhalla, Hervé Le Hir, et al.. (2009). A UPF3-mediated regulatory switch that maintains RNA surveillance. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 16(7). 747–753. 94 indexed citations

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Buchet-Poyau, Karine, Julien Courchet, Hervé Le Hir, et al.. (2007). Identification and characterization of human Mex-3 proteins, a novel family of evolutionarily conserved RNA-binding proteins differentially localized to processing bodies. Nucleic Acids Research. 35(4). 1289–1300. 123 indexed citations

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Andersen, Christian Brix Folsted, Lionel Ballut, Jesper Johansen, et al.. (2006). Structure of the Exon Junction Core Complex with a Trapped DEAD-Box ATPase Bound to RNA. Science. 313(5795). 1968–1972. 336 indexed citations

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Gatfield, David, Hervé Le Hir, Isabelle C. Kos‐Braun, et al.. (2001). The DExH/D box protein HEL/UAP56 is essential for mRNA nuclear export in Drosophila. Current Biology. 11(21). 1716–1721. 193 indexed citations

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Hir, Hervé Le, et al.. (1996). A Novel Rat Tyrosine Hydroxylase mRNA Species Generated by Alternative Splicing. Journal of Neurochemistry. 66(5). 1819–1825. 19 indexed citations

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