Jonathan Maelfait

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

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Jonathan Maelfait is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan Maelfait has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Immunology, 19 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Jonathan Maelfait's work include interferon and immune responses (24 papers), Immune Response and Inflammation (9 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (7 papers). Jonathan Maelfait is often cited by papers focused on interferon and immune responses (24 papers), Immune Response and Inflammation (9 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (7 papers). Jonathan Maelfait collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United Kingdom and Germany. Jonathan Maelfait's co-authors include Rudi Beyaert, Jan Rehwinkel, Anne Bridgeman, Layal Liverpool, Geert Loo, Peter Vandenabeele, Stefan Magez, Sophie Janssens, Peter Schotte and Mira Haegman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan Maelfait

30 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

ADAR1 prevents autoinflammation by suppressing spontaneous ZBP1 activation

2022 159 citations Richard de Reuver, Evelien Dierick et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jonathan Maelfait Belgium	21	1.4k	1.3k	350	274	259	31	2.1k
Brad R. Rosenberg United States	20	1.4k 1.0×	742 0.6×	333 1.0×	295 1.1×	470 1.8×	36	2.5k
Sinéad E. Keating Ireland	15	1.0k 0.7×	2.1k 1.7×	536 1.5×	308 1.1×	336 1.3×	18	2.7k
Aiping Mao China	24	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	300 0.9×	381 1.4×	362 1.4×	55	2.4k
Takeo Nakaya Japan	11	691 0.5×	1.6k 1.2×	416 1.2×	306 1.1×	307 1.2×	30	2.3k
Tatsukata Kawagoe Japan	17	859 0.6×	1.7k 1.4×	257 0.7×	412 1.5×	157 0.6×	39	2.6k
Yasutaka Okabe Japan	12	901 0.7×	1.8k 1.4×	252 0.7×	170 0.6×	173 0.7×	18	2.4k
Joanne Trgovcich United States	21	640 0.5×	734 0.6×	865 2.5×	461 1.7×	198 0.8×	28	1.9k
Alexiane Decout Switzerland	6	1.5k 1.1×	1.9k 1.5×	254 0.7×	196 0.7×	666 2.6×	6	2.6k
Prafullakumar Tailor United States	19	692 0.5×	1.9k 1.5×	268 0.8×	231 0.8×	207 0.8×	32	2.4k

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Kolman, R., Slađana Bursać, Richard de Reuver, et al.. (2025). ADAR1 p150 prevents HSV-1 from triggering PKR/eIF2α-mediated translational arrest and is required for efficient viral replication. PLoS Pathogens. 21(4). e1012452–e1012452. 2 indexed citations

Priem, Dario, Barbara Gilbert, Tom Delanghe, et al.. (2025). ATG9A-mediated autophagy prevents inflammatory skin disease by limiting TNFR1-driven STING activation and ZBP1-dependent cell death. Immunity. 58(12). 2972–2988.e6.

Karna, Keshab Kumar, Joanne A. O’Donnell, Lucio H. Castilla, et al.. (2024). ZBP1 activation triggers hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell death resulting in bone marrow failure in mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(4). e2309628121–e2309628121. 3 indexed citations

Verstraeten, Bruno, Tatyana Divert, Nozomi Takahashi, et al.. (2024). RIPK1 protects naive and regulatory T cells from TNFR1-induced apoptosis. Cell Death and Differentiation. 31(6). 820–832. 8 indexed citations

Maelfait, Jonathan & Jan Rehwinkel. (2023). The Z-nucleic acid sensor ZBP1 in health and disease. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 220(8). 40 indexed citations

Reuver, Richard de & Jonathan Maelfait. (2023). Novel insights into double-stranded RNA-mediated immunopathology. Nature reviews. Immunology. 24(4). 235–249. 28 indexed citations

Wang, Chris Kedong, Xuan Wang‐Kan, Manja Idorn, et al.. (2022). Human ZBP1 induces cell death‐independent inflammatory signaling via RIPK3 and RIPK1. EMBO Reports. 23(12). e55839–e55839. 47 indexed citations

Ibañez, Lorena Itatí, Tatyana Divert, Tine Ysenbaert, et al.. (2022). Reduced protection of RIPK3-deficient mice against influenza by matrix protein 2 ectodomain targeted active and passive vaccination strategies. Cell Death and Disease. 13(3). 280–280. 1 indexed citations

San, Emily Van, Tatyana Divert, Tom Vanden Berghe, et al.. (2021). Viral dosing of influenza A infection reveals involvement of RIPK3 and FADD, but not MLKL. Cell Death and Disease. 12(5). 471–471. 16 indexed citations

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Reuver, Richard de, Evelien Dierick, Bartosz Wiernicki, et al.. (2021). ADAR1 interaction with Z-RNA promotes editing of endogenous double-stranded RNA and prevents MDA5-dependent immune activation. Cell Reports. 36(6). 109500–109500. 78 indexed citations

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Devos, Michaël, Barbara Gilbert, Evelien Dierick, et al.. (2020). Sensing of endogenous nucleic acids by ZBP1 induces keratinocyte necroptosis and skin inflammation. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 217(7). 90 indexed citations

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Martens, Arne, Dario Priem, Esther Hoste, et al.. (2020). OTULIN Prevents Liver Inflammation and Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Inhibiting FADD- and RIPK1 Kinase-Mediated Hepatocyte Apoptosis. Cell Reports. 30(7). 2237–2247.e6. 42 indexed citations

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Maelfait, Jonathan, Layal Liverpool, & Jan Rehwinkel. (2019). Nucleic Acid Sensors and Programmed Cell Death. Journal of Molecular Biology. 432(2). 552–568. 57 indexed citations

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Maelfait, Jonathan, Layal Liverpool, Anne Bridgeman, et al.. (2017). Sensing of viral and endogenous RNA by ZBP 1/ DAI induces necroptosis. The EMBO Journal. 36(17). 2529–2543. 187 indexed citations

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Mayer, Alice, Jonathan Maelfait, Anne Bridgeman, & Jan Rehwinkel. (2017). Purification of Cyclic GMP-AMP from Viruses and Measurement of Its Activity in Cell Culture. Methods in molecular biology. 1656. 143–152. 2 indexed citations

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Maelfait, Jonathan, et al.. (2016). Restriction by SAMHD1 Limits cGAS/STING-Dependent Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses to HIV-1. Cell Reports. 16(6). 1492–1501. 85 indexed citations

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Rehwinkel, Jan, Jonathan Maelfait, Anne Bridgeman, et al.. (2013). SAMHD1‐dependent retroviral control and escape in mice. The EMBO Journal. 32(18). 2454–2462. 123 indexed citations

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Maelfait, Jonathan, Kenny Roose, Pieter Bogaert, et al.. (2012). Correction: A20 (Tnfaip3) Deficiency in Myeloid Cells Protects against Influenza A Virus Infection. PLoS Pathogens. 8(4). 9 indexed citations

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Bloor, Stuart, et al.. (2010). Endoplasmic reticulum chaperone gp96 is essential for infection with vesicular stomatitis virus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(15). 6970–6975. 37 indexed citations

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Maelfait, Jonathan & Rudi Beyaert. (2008). Non-apoptotic functions of caspase-8. Biochemical Pharmacology. 76(11). 1365–1373. 91 indexed citations

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