Hugues Driguez

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
117 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Hugues Driguez is a scholar working on Biotechnology, Organic Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hugues Driguez has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Biotechnology, 56 papers in Organic Chemistry and 54 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Hugues Driguez's work include Enzyme Production and Characterization (56 papers), Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (49 papers) and Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology (24 papers). Hugues Driguez is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Production and Characterization (56 papers), Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (49 papers) and Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology (24 papers). Hugues Driguez collaborates with scholars based in France, Denmark and Spain. Hugues Driguez's co-authors include R. U. Lemieux, Bernard Henrissat, Sylvain Cottaz, Eric Samain, Sophie Drouillard, Jacques Defaye, G.J. Davies, Martin Schülein, J. Defaye and Gerlind Sulzenbacher and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Hugues Driguez

117 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

Synergism of Cellulases from Trichoderma reesei in the De... 1985 2026 1998 2012 1985 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Synergism of Cellulases from Trichoderma reesei in the Degradation of Cellulose
    1985 388 citations Bernard Henrissat, Hugues Driguez et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hugues Driguez France 32 2.1k 1.7k 1.5k 1.2k 814 117 3.8k
Antoni Planas Spain 37 2.7k 1.2× 1.5k 0.9× 2.0k 1.3× 1.0k 0.8× 785 1.0× 145 4.3k
Martin Schülein Denmark 31 1.6k 0.7× 593 0.3× 1.6k 1.1× 1.5k 1.2× 795 1.0× 61 3.0k
Simon J. Charnock United Kingdom 34 2.1k 1.0× 1.0k 0.6× 1.0k 0.7× 1.0k 0.9× 723 0.9× 79 3.4k
T.M. Gloster United Kingdom 35 2.9k 1.4× 1.8k 1.1× 1.2k 0.8× 699 0.6× 471 0.6× 72 3.9k
Joachim Thiem Germany 35 3.7k 1.7× 4.2k 2.4× 871 0.6× 292 0.2× 523 0.6× 328 5.7k
Takeshi Takaha Japan 34 1.3k 0.6× 626 0.4× 1.8k 1.2× 693 0.6× 822 1.0× 70 3.8k
J. Sanz‐Aparicio Spain 34 1.6k 0.8× 765 0.4× 883 0.6× 604 0.5× 359 0.4× 152 3.1k
Marc Claeyssens Belgium 49 3.8k 1.8× 724 0.4× 4.1k 2.8× 4.9k 4.1× 1.7k 2.1× 140 7.1k
Sylvain Cottaz France 25 1.1k 0.5× 636 0.4× 667 0.4× 405 0.3× 947 1.2× 74 2.2k
John H. Pazur United States 30 1.5k 0.7× 473 0.3× 1.1k 0.8× 539 0.4× 509 0.6× 107 2.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hugues Driguez

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Armand, Sylvie, Bernard Priem, Julio Reyes‐Leyva, et al.. (2015). Chemoenzymatic Syntheses of Sialylated Oligosaccharides Containing C5‐Modified Neuraminic Acids for Dual Inhibition of Hemagglutinins and Neuraminidases. Chemistry - A European Journal. 21(30). 10903–10912. 5 indexed citations
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Halila, Sami, et al.. (2013). CGTase‐Catalysed cis‐Glucosylation of L‐Rhamnosides for the Preparation of Shigella flexneri 2a and 3a Haptens. ChemBioChem. 15(2). 293–300. 6 indexed citations
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Hrmová, Mária, et al.. (2009). A Chemoenzymatic Route to Conjugatable ß(1?3)-Glucan Oligosaccharides*. Australian Journal of Chemistry. 62(6). 575–584. 7 indexed citations
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Fauré, Régis, Christophe M. Courtin, Jan A. Delcour, et al.. (2009). A Brief and Informationally Rich Naming System for Oligosaccharide Motifs of Heteroxylans Found in Plant Cell Walls*. Australian Journal of Chemistry. 62(6). 533–537. 93 indexed citations
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Piens, Kathleen, Régis Fauré, Martin Baumann, et al.. (2008). Mechanism-based Labeling Defines the Free Energy Change for Formation of the Covalent Glycosyl-enzyme Intermediate in a Xyloglucan endo-Transglycosylase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(32). 21864–21872. 16 indexed citations
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Blanchard, Scott C., Sylvie Armand, Shamkant Patkar, et al.. (2006). Unexpected regioselectivity of Humicola insolens Cel7B glycosynthase mutants. Carbohydrate Research. 342(5). 710–716. 12 indexed citations
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Fort, Sébastien, et al.. (2005). Biosynthesis of conjugatable saccharidic moieties of GM2 and GM3 gangliosides by engineered E. coli. Chemical Communications. 2558–2558. 32 indexed citations
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Ossowski, Ingemar von, Jerry Ståhlberg, Anu Koivula, et al.. (2003). Engineering the Exo-loop of Cellobiohydrolase, Cel7A. A comparison with Cel7D. University of Huddersfield Repository (University of Huddersfield). 2 indexed citations
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Fairweather, Jon K., et al.. (2003). Synthesis of Complex Oligosaccharides by Using a Mutated (1,3)‐β‐D‐Glucan Endohydrolase from Barley. Chemistry - A European Journal. 9(11). 2603–2610. 17 indexed citations
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Fairweather, Jon K., Magda Faijes, Hugues Driguez, & Antoni Planas. (2002). Specificity Studies of Bacillus 1,3-1,4-- Glucanases and Application to Glycosynthase-Catalyzed Transglycosylation. ChemBioChem. 3(9). 866–873. 30 indexed citations
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Varrot, Annabelle, Torben P. Frandsen, Hugues Driguez, & G.J. Davies. (2002). Structure of theHumicola insolenscellobiohydrolase Cel6A D416A mutant in complex with a non-hydrolysable substrate analogue, methyl cellobiosyl-4-thio-β-cellobioside, at 1.9 Å. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 58(12). 2201–2204. 24 indexed citations
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Faijes, Magda, Jon K. Fairweather, Hugues Driguez, & Antoni Planas. (2001). Oligosaccharide Synthesis by Coupledendo-Glycosynthases of Different Specificity: A Straightforward Preparation of Two Mixed-Linkage Hexasaccharide Substrates of 1,3/1,4-β-Glucanases. Chemistry - A European Journal. 7(21). 4651–4655. 28 indexed citations
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Zou, Jinyu, Gerard J. Kleywegt, Jerry Ståhlberg, et al.. (1999). Crystallographic evidence for substrate ring distortion and protein conformational changes during catalysis in cellobiohydrolase Ce16A from Trichoderma reesei. Structure. 7(9). 1035–1045. 137 indexed citations
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Cottaz, Sylvain, Claire Boisset, Rédouane Borsali, et al.. (1999). Dynamic Light Scattering Evidence for a Ligand-Induced Motion between the Two Domains of Glucoamylase G1 ofAspergillus niger with Heterobivalent Substrate Analogues. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 38(7). 974–977. 8 indexed citations
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Armand, Sylvie, et al.. (1997). A Bifunctionalized Fluorogenic Tetrasaccharide as a Substrate to Study Cellulases. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272(5). 2709–2713. 65 indexed citations
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Driguez, Hugues, Joachim Thiem, & Jean‐Marie Beau. (1997). Synthesis of substrate analogs and mimetics. Springer eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Samain, Eric, et al.. (1995). Sucrose analogues modified at position 3: chemoenzymatic synthesis and inhibition studies of dextransucrases. Carbohydrate Research. 267(1). 1–15. 19 indexed citations
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Cottaz, Sylvain, et al.. (1992). Chemoenzymatic synthesis of modified maltooligosaccharides from cyclodextrin derivatives. Biochimie. 74(1). 75–79. 9 indexed citations

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