Làszlò Tora

21.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
186 papers, 17.0k citations indexed

About

Làszlò Tora is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Làszlò Tora has authored 186 papers receiving a total of 17.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 178 papers in Molecular Biology, 30 papers in Genetics and 11 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Làszlò Tora's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (115 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (71 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (37 papers). Làszlò Tora is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (115 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (71 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (37 papers). Làszlò Tora collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and United Kingdom. Làszlò Tora's co-authors include Pierre Chambon, Elisabeth Scheer, Hinrich Gronemeyer, Bernard Turcotte, Yves Lutz, Didier Devys, Christel Brou, Irwin Davidson, Anne Helmrich and Monica Ballarino and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Làszlò Tora

185 papers receiving 16.8k citations

Hit Papers

Two distinct estrogen-regulated promoters generate transc... 1989 2026 2001 2013 1990 1989 1995 1995 400 800 1.2k
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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. Two distinct estrogen-regulated promoters generate transcripts encoding the two functionally different human progesterone receptor forms A and B.
    1990 1.3k citations Làszlò Tora, Pierre Chambon et al. The EMBO Journal profile →
  2. The human estrogen receptor has two independent nonacidic transcriptional activation functions
    1989 904 citations Làszlò Tora, Christel Brou et al. profile →
  3. The N-terminal part of TIF1, a putative mediator of the ligand-dependent activation function (AF-2) of nuclear receptors, is fused to B-raf in the oncogenic protein T18.
    1995 549 citations Làszlò Tora et al. The EMBO Journal profile →
  4. Polyglutamine expansion as a pathological epitope in Huntington's disease and four dominant cerebellar ataxias
    1995 540 citations Didier Devys, Làszlò Tora 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
Làszlò Tora France 70 13.7k 4.8k 1.6k 1.5k 1.4k 186 17.0k
Masami Muramatsu Japan 74 12.9k 0.9× 5.3k 1.1× 2.2k 1.4× 1.7k 1.1× 722 0.5× 321 18.7k
David W. Rose United States 58 14.8k 1.1× 5.6k 1.2× 3.1k 1.9× 2.2k 1.5× 1.4k 1.0× 91 19.5k
Frank J. Rauscher United States 71 15.4k 1.1× 2.8k 0.6× 2.9k 1.9× 2.2k 1.4× 1.1k 0.8× 178 19.9k
Henry H. Heng United States 60 7.0k 0.5× 2.9k 0.6× 989 0.6× 779 0.5× 1.2k 0.9× 202 11.8k
Pierre Chambon France 70 13.9k 1.0× 5.4k 1.1× 3.4k 2.1× 1.6k 1.0× 811 0.6× 123 18.3k
Carolyn L. Smith United States 40 10.4k 0.8× 2.9k 0.6× 1.3k 0.8× 953 0.6× 1.5k 1.1× 75 13.9k
Gordon L. Hager United States 80 14.4k 1.1× 6.2k 1.3× 2.1k 1.3× 3.3k 2.2× 555 0.4× 276 20.4k
Jiemin Wong United States 62 11.2k 0.8× 3.5k 0.7× 1.9k 1.2× 891 0.6× 438 0.3× 150 13.8k
Paul A. Krieg United States 46 12.3k 0.9× 2.9k 0.6× 822 0.5× 1.4k 0.9× 2.2k 1.5× 115 16.9k
Howard Cedar Israel 75 18.5k 1.4× 6.0k 1.2× 1.0k 0.6× 1.8k 1.2× 923 0.6× 162 22.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Làszlò Tora

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Làszlò Tora. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Làszlò Tora 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 Làszlò Tora. Làszlò Tora is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Moreno, David F., Damien Plassard, Audrey Furst, et al.. (2025). Gene-specific transcript buffering revealed by perturbation of coactivator complexes. Science Advances. 11(12). eadr1492–eadr1492.
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Bernardini, Andrea, Matthieu Stierlé, Claire Richard, et al.. (2024). RNA polymerase II transcription initiation in holo-TFIID-depleted mouse embryonic stem cells. Cell Reports. 43(10). 114791–114791. 1 indexed citations
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Roozbahani, Golbarg M., Attila Oravecz, Elena M. Sorokina, et al.. (2024). Piggybacking functionalized DNA nanostructures into live-cell nuclei. Science Advances. 10(27). eadn9423–eadn9423. 8 indexed citations
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Bernardini, Andrea, et al.. (2023). Transcription factor IID parks and drives preinitiation complexes at sharp or broad promoters. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 48(10). 839–848. 5 indexed citations
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Scheer, Elisabeth, Bastien Morlet, Damien Plassard, et al.. (2022). SUPT3H-less SAGA coactivator can assemble and function without significantly perturbing RNA polymerase II transcription in mammalian cells. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(14). 7972–7990. 2 indexed citations
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Domingues, Ana Filipa, George Giotopoulos, Aditya Chandru, et al.. (2021). KAT2A complexes ATAC and SAGA play unique roles in cell maintenance and identity in hematopoiesis and leukemia. Blood Advances. 6(1). 165–180. 10 indexed citations
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Cvetešić, Nevena, Kapil Gupta, Tao Ye, et al.. (2020). TBPL2/TFIIA complex establishes the maternal transcriptome through oocyte-specific promoter usage. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6439–6439. 23 indexed citations
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Hadzhiev, Yavor, Lucy Wheatley, Aleksandra Jasiulewicz, et al.. (2019). A cell cycle-coordinated Polymerase II transcription compartment encompasses gene expression before global genome activation. Nature Communications. 10(1). 691–691. 209 indexed citations
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Vincent, Stéphane D., Marjorie Fournier, Alexis Hubaud, et al.. (2017). The TAF10-containing TFIID and SAGA transcriptional complexes are dispensable for early somitogenesis in the mouse embryo. Development. 144(20). 3808–3818. 15 indexed citations
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Koch, Marc, et al.. (2017). Coactivators and general transcription factors have two distinct dynamic populations dependent on transcription. The EMBO Journal. 36(18). 2710–2725. 19 indexed citations
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Mi, Wenyi, Haipeng Guan, Jie Lyu, et al.. (2017). YEATS2 links histone acetylation to tumorigenesis of non-small cell lung cancer. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1088–1088. 103 indexed citations
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Ye, Tao, Arnaud Krebs, Mohamed-Amin Choukrallah, et al.. (2010). seqMINER: an integrated ChIP-seq data interpretation platform. Nucleic Acids Research. 39(6). e35–e35. 317 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yue, Guillaume Lang, Saya Ito, et al.. (2008). A TFTC/STAGA Module Mediates Histone H2A and H2B Deubiquitination, Coactivates Nuclear Receptors, and Counteracts Heterochromatin Silencing. Molecular Cell. 29(1). 92–101. 290 indexed citations
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Krebs, Arnaud, Mattia Frontini, & Làszlò Tora. (2008). GPAT: Retrieval of genomic annotation from large genomic position datasets. BMC Bioinformatics. 9(1). 533–533. 24 indexed citations
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Barlev, Nickolai A., Alexander Emelyanov, Paola A. Castagnino, et al.. (2003). A Novel Human Ada2 Homologue Functions with Gcn5 or Brg1 To Coactivate Transcription. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 23(19). 6944–6957. 49 indexed citations
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Muratoglu, Selen C., С. Г. Георгиева, Gábor Pápai, et al.. (2002). Two Different Drosophila ADA2 Homologues Are Present in Distinct GCN5 Histone Acetyltransferase-Containing Complexes. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 23(1). 306–321. 75 indexed citations
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Gangloff, Yann‐Gaël, Jean‐Christophe Pointud, Sylvie Thuault, et al.. (2001). The TFIID Components Human TAF II 140 and Drosophila BIP2 (TAF II 155) Are Novel Metazoan Homologues of Yeast TAF II 47 Containing a Histone Fold and a PHD Finger. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 21(15). 5109–5121. 61 indexed citations
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Bertolotti, Anne, Thomas Melot, Joël Acker, et al.. (1998). EWS, but Not EWS-FLI-1, Is Associated with Both TFIID and RNA Polymerase II: Interactions between Two Members of the TET Family, EWS and hTAF II 68, and Subunits of TFIID and RNA Polymerase II Complexes. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 18(3). 1489–1497. 219 indexed citations
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Chaudhary, Sneha Ghosh, Christel Brou, Nicolas P. Burton, et al.. (1994). A Cell-Specific Factor Represses Stimulation of Transcription In Vitro by Transcriptional Enhancer Factor 1. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 14(8). 5290–5299. 7 indexed citations

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