Luka Mesin

5.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Luka Mesin is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Luka Mesin has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Immunology, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Luka Mesin's work include T-cell and B-cell Immunology (22 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (17 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (6 papers). Luka Mesin is often cited by papers focused on T-cell and B-cell Immunology (22 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (17 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (6 papers). Luka Mesin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Norway and Germany. Luka Mesin's co-authors include Gabriel D. Victora, Jonatan Ersching, Johanne T. Jacobsen, Ariën Schiepers, Ludvig M. Sollid, Giulia Pasqual, Michael Meyer‐Hermann, Tiago B. R. Castro, Knut E. A. Lundin and Roberto Di Niro and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Luka Mesin

32 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Germinal Center B Cell Dynamics

2016 654 citations Luka Mesin, Jonatan Ersching et al. Immunity profile →
Class-Switch Recombination Occurs Infrequently in Germinal Centers

2019 335 citations Jonathan A. Roco, Luka Mesin et al. Immunity profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luka Mesin United States	24	2.2k	744	353	351	343	32	3.1k
Arnold Han United States	18	1.6k 0.7×	1.1k 1.4×	148 0.4×	201 0.6×	251 0.7×	24	2.6k
Dominique Gatto Australia	17	2.0k 0.9×	681 0.9×	306 0.9×	178 0.5×	222 0.6×	20	2.8k
Ramit Mehr Israel	29	2.1k 1.0×	677 0.9×	218 0.6×	444 1.3×	221 0.6×	96	2.9k
Kristin Ladell United Kingdom	33	2.5k 1.2×	648 0.9×	254 0.7×	138 0.4×	605 1.8×	97	3.5k
Adrien Six France	29	2.2k 1.0×	576 0.8×	121 0.3×	149 0.4×	343 1.0×	73	3.3k
Makoto Tsuiji Japan	21	2.2k 1.0×	749 1.0×	378 1.1×	795 2.3×	357 1.0×	39	3.2k
António Bandeira France	35	3.9k 1.8×	595 0.8×	163 0.5×	429 1.2×	262 0.8×	96	4.7k
Eric Butz United States	20	3.4k 1.6×	638 0.9×	135 0.4×	81 0.2×	495 1.4×	30	4.0k
John I. Bell United Kingdom	24	3.0k 1.4×	874 1.2×	130 0.4×	209 0.6×	479 1.4×	36	4.4k
Nicholas S. Wilson United States	31	4.2k 1.9×	1.5k 2.0×	147 0.4×	385 1.1×	433 1.3×	52	5.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Luka Mesin

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luka Mesin

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pae, Juhee, William S. DeWitt, Juliana Bortolatto, et al.. (2025). Transient silencing of hypermutation preserves B cell affinity during clonal bursting. Nature. 641(8062). 486–494. 7 indexed citations

Chudnovskiy, Aleksey, Tiago B. R. Castro, Sandra Nakandakari-Higa, et al.. (2024). Proximity-dependent labeling identifies dendritic cells that drive the tumor-specific CD4 ⁺ T cell response. Science Immunology. 9(100). eadq8843–eadq8843. 9 indexed citations

Schiepers, Ariën, Allison J. Greaney, Trinity Zang, et al.. (2023). Molecular fate-mapping of serum antibody responses to repeat immunization. Nature. 615(7952). 482–489. 72 indexed citations

Carvalho, Robson Amparo de, Jonatan Ersching, Alexandru Barbulescu, et al.. (2022). Clonal replacement sustains long-lived germinal centers primed by respiratory viruses. Cell. 186(1). 131–146.e13. 41 indexed citations

Jacobsen, Johanne T., Wei Hu, Tiago B. R. Castro, et al.. (2021). Expression of Foxp3 by T follicular helper cells in end-stage germinal centers. Science. 373(6552). 71 indexed citations

Cavazzoni, Cecília B., Luka Mesin, Ariën Schiepers, et al.. (2021). The immunodominant antibody response to Zika virus NS1 protein is characterized by cross-reactivity to self. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 218(9). 17 indexed citations

Pae, Juhee, Jonatan Ersching, Tiago B. R. Castro, et al.. (2020). Cyclin D3 drives inertial cell cycling in dark zone germinal center B cells. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 218(4). 45 indexed citations

Nowosad, Carla R., Luka Mesin, Tiago B. R. Castro, et al.. (2020). Tunable dynamics of B cell selection in gut germinal centres. Nature. 588(7837). 321–326. 69 indexed citations

Bilate, Angelina M., Mariya London, Tiago B. R. Castro, et al.. (2020). T Cell Receptor Is Required for Differentiation, but Not Maintenance, of Intestinal CD4+ Intraepithelial Lymphocytes. Immunity. 53(5). 1001–1014.e20. 54 indexed citations

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Mesin, Luka, Ariën Schiepers, Jonatan Ersching, et al.. (2019). Restricted Clonality and Limited Germinal Center Reentry Characterize Memory B Cell Reactivation by Boosting. Cell. 180(1). 92–106.e11. 188 indexed citations

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Roco, Jonathan A., Luka Mesin, Sebastian Binder, et al.. (2019). Class-Switch Recombination Occurs Infrequently in Germinal Centers. Immunity. 51(2). 337–350.e7. 335 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jacobsen, Johanne T., Luka Mesin, Styliani Markoulaki, et al.. (2018). One-step generation of monoclonal B cell receptor mice capable of isotype switching and somatic hypermutation. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 215(10). 2686–2695. 9 indexed citations

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Degn, Søren E., Cees E. van der Poel, Daniel J. Firl, et al.. (2017). Clonal Evolution of Autoreactive Germinal Centers. Cell. 170(5). 913–926.e19. 91 indexed citations

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Amitai, Assaf, Luka Mesin, Gabriel D. Victora, Mehran Kardar, & Arup K. Chakraborty. (2017). A Population Dynamics Model for Clonal Diversity in a Germinal Center. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 1693–1693. 28 indexed citations

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Ersching, Jonatan, Alejo Efeyan, Luka Mesin, et al.. (2017). Germinal Center Selection and Affinity Maturation Require Dynamic Regulation of mTORC1 Kinase. Immunity. 46(6). 1045–1058.e6. 225 indexed citations

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Mesin, Luka, Giulia Pasqual, Sasha Targ, et al.. (2016). Visualizing antibody affinity maturation in germinal centers. Science. 351(6277). 1048–1054. 313 indexed citations

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Mesin, Luka, Jonatan Ersching, & Gabriel D. Victora. (2016). Germinal Center B Cell Dynamics. Immunity. 45(3). 471–482. 654 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dunand, Carole J. Henry, Min Huang, Luka Mesin, et al.. (2014). Restricted VH/VL usage and limited mutations in gluten-specific IgA of coeliac disease lesion plasma cells. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4041–4041. 47 indexed citations

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Mesin, Luka, Ludvig M. Sollid, & Roberto Di Niro. (2012). The intestinal B-cell response in celiac disease. Frontiers in Immunology. 3. 313–313. 31 indexed citations

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Niro, Roberto Di, Luka Mesin, Nai‐Ying Zheng, et al.. (2012). High abundance of plasma cells secreting transglutaminase 2–specific IgA autoantibodies with limited somatic hypermutation in celiac disease intestinal lesions. Nature Medicine. 18(3). 441–445. 156 indexed citations

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