Ignace Lasters

4.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
68 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Ignace Lasters is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ignace Lasters has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 14 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ignace Lasters's work include Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (20 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (20 papers) and Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (19 papers). Ignace Lasters is often cited by papers focused on Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (20 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (20 papers) and Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (19 papers). Ignace Lasters collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and France. Ignace Lasters's co-authors include Johan Desmet, Marc De Maeyer, Bart Hazes, Lode Wyns, Ivo Van Walle, Shoshana J. Wodak, Philippe Alard, Eric Van Cutsem, Laurent Jespers and Serge Muyldermans and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Ignace Lasters

68 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Heterosubtypic Neutralizing Monoclonal Antibodies Cross-Protective against H5N1 and H1N1 Recovered from Human IgM+ Memory B Cells

2008 596 citations Philippe Alard, Ignace Lasters et al. profile →
The dead-end elimination theorem and its use in protein side-chain positioning

1992 544 citations Johan Desmet, Marc De Maeyer et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ignace Lasters Belgium	29	2.3k	807	634	517	453	68	3.4k
G.A. Bentley France	32	2.2k 0.9×	494 0.6×	1.1k 1.8×	291 0.6×	1.1k 2.5×	92	3.9k
Marc De Maeyer Belgium	34	2.5k 1.1×	557 0.7×	313 0.5×	156 0.3×	199 0.4×	101	3.9k
David S. Moss United Kingdom	26	2.7k 1.1×	728 0.9×	173 0.3×	220 0.4×	487 1.1×	68	3.8k
Masazumi Matsumura United States	26	2.4k 1.1×	544 0.7×	698 1.1×	156 0.3×	1.3k 2.9×	35	4.1k
Mike Carson United States	22	2.3k 1.0×	425 0.5×	196 0.3×	262 0.5×	354 0.8×	34	3.1k
Enrique Querol Spain	32	2.5k 1.1×	503 0.6×	130 0.2×	282 0.5×	238 0.5×	155	3.7k
Alain Chaffotte France	27	2.1k 0.9×	605 0.7×	661 1.0×	126 0.2×	379 0.8×	67	3.1k
David E. Kim United States	31	5.5k 2.4×	1.8k 2.2×	446 0.7×	268 0.5×	356 0.8×	58	6.6k
W.P. Burmeister France	32	1.9k 0.8×	379 0.5×	560 0.9×	956 1.8×	539 1.2×	63	3.5k
Klaus Fütterer United Kingdom	27	1.5k 0.6×	321 0.4×	114 0.2×	313 0.6×	252 0.6×	55	2.6k

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Desmet, Johan, Tim Pieters, Marnik Vuylsteke, et al.. (2021). Cell-penetrating Alphabody protein scaffolds for intracellular drug targeting. Science Advances. 7(13). 6 indexed citations

Rose, Rebecca, Aran F. Labrijn, Ewald T.J. van den Bremer, et al.. (2011). Quantitative Analysis of the Interaction Strength and Dynamics of Human IgG4 Half Molecules by Native Mass Spectrometry. Structure. 19(9). 1274–1282. 72 indexed citations

Loverix, Stefan, et al.. (2007). Non-immunized natural human heavy chain CDR3 repertoires allow the isolation of high affinity peptides mimicking a human influenza hemagglutinin epitope. Molecular Immunology. 45(5). 1366–1373. 10 indexed citations

Stoop, A. Allart, Laurent Jespers, Ignace Lasters, Eric Eldering, & Hans Pannekoek. (2000). High-density mutagenesis by combined DNA shuffling and phage display to assign essential amino acid residues in protein-protein interactions: application to study structure-function of plasminogen activation inhibitor 1 (PAI-I). Journal of Molecular Biology. 301(5). 1135–1147. 41 indexed citations

Vanwetswinkel, Sophie, Stéphane Plaisance, Zhiyong Zhang, et al.. (2000). Pharmacokinetic and thrombolytic properties of cysteine-linked polyethylene glycol derivatives of staphylokinase. Blood. 95(3). 936–942. 33 indexed citations

Hauwaert, Marie-Louise Van, Ather H. Siddiqi, Ignace Lasters, et al.. (1997). Trematode Myoglobins, Functional Molecules with a Distal Tyrosine. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272(5). 2992–2999. 36 indexed citations

Lasters, Ignace, et al.. (1997). Enzymatic Properties of Phage‐Displayed Fragments of Human Plasminogen. European Journal of Biochemistry. 244(3). 946–952. 9 indexed citations

Lijnen, H.R., Ignace Lasters, Margot F. K. Verstreken, D Collen, & Laurent Jespers. (1997). Screening Panels of Monoclonal Antibodies Using Phage-Displayed Antigen. Analytical Biochemistry. 248(2). 211–215. 4 indexed citations

Maeyer, Marc De, Johan Desmet, & Ignace Lasters. (1997). All in one: a highly detailed rotamer library improves both accuracy and speed in the modelling of sidechains by dead-end elimination. PubMed. 2(1). 53–66. 108 indexed citations

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Lasters, Ignace, Marc De Maeyer, & Johan Desmet. (1995). Enhanced dead-end elimination in the search for the global minimum energy conformation of a collection of protein side chains. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 8(8). 815–822. 72 indexed citations

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Desmet, Johan, Marc De Maeyer, Bart Hazes, & Ignace Lasters. (1992). The dead-end elimination theorem and its use in protein side-chain positioning. Nature. 356(6369). 539–542. 544 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jenkins, John A., Joël Janin, F.A. Rey, et al.. (1992). Protein engineering of xylose (glucose) isomerase from Actinoplanes missouriensis. 1. Crystallography and site-directed mutagenesis of metal binding sites. Biochemistry. 31(24). 5449–5458. 115 indexed citations

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Lasters, Ignace, et al.. (1990). Basic design features of the parallel αβ barrel, a ubiquitous protein-folding motif. Biochemical Society Symposia. 57. 99–121. 4 indexed citations

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Lasters, Ignace. (1990). Estimating the twist of β-strands embedded within a regular parallel β-barrel structure. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 4(2). 133–135. 5 indexed citations

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Wodak, Shoshana J., et al.. (1990). Basic design features of the parallel alpha beta barrel, a ubiquitous protein-folding motif.. PubMed. 57. 99–121. 3 indexed citations

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Cutsem, Eric Van, et al.. (1989). Modelling the polypeptide backbone with ‘spare parts’ from known protein structures. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 2(5). 335–345. 145 indexed citations

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Tavernier, Jan, Xaveer Van Ostade, T. Prangé, et al.. (1989). Conserved residues of tumour necrosis factor and lymphotoxin constitute the framework of the trimeric structure. FEBS Letters. 257(2). 315–318. 10 indexed citations

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Lasters, Ignace, et al.. (1988). Explanation of Benveniste. Nature. 334(6180). 285–286. 7 indexed citations

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Muyldermans, Serge, Ignace Lasters, & L. Wyns. (1980). Histone H1 can be removed selectively from chicken erythrocyte chromatin at near physiological conditions.. PubMed. 8(4). 731–9. 29 indexed citations

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Ham, P. Van & Ignace Lasters. (1978). Reduction methods for logical control networks. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 72(2). 269–281. 3 indexed citations

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