Marc Delarue

11.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
134 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Marc Delarue is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Marc Delarue has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Molecular Biology, 32 papers in Materials Chemistry and 20 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Marc Delarue's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (34 papers), Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study (33 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (32 papers). Marc Delarue is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (34 papers), Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study (33 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (32 papers). Marc Delarue collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Sweden. Marc Delarue's co-authors include Olivier Poch, Patrice Koehl, Dino Moras, Noël Tordo, Pierre‐Jean Corringer, Gilbert Eriani, Jean Gangloff, Jean‐Pierre Changeux, Marc Baaden and Hugues Nury and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Marc Delarue

132 papers receiving 9.2k 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.

Partition of tRNA synthetases into two classes based on mutually exclusive sets of sequence motifs

1990 1.2k citations Marc Delarue, Dino Moras et al. profile →
Identification of four conserved motifs among the RNA-dependent polymerase encoding elements.

1989 998 citations Marc Delarue et al. The EMBO Journal profile →
X-ray structure of a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel in an apparently open conformation

2008 578 citations Hugues Nury, Marc Baaden et al. profile →
An attempt to unify the structure of polymerases

1990 553 citations Marc Delarue, Dino Moras et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marc Delarue France	44	7.5k	1.1k	1.1k	1.0k	940	134	9.4k
Ben Webb United States	12	6.9k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	746 0.7×	899 0.9×	679 0.7×	13	9.5k
Narayanan Eswar United States	25	8.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	775 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	704 0.7×	52	11.2k
Min‐Yi Shen United States	14	7.6k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	827 0.8×	941 0.9×	845 0.9×	20	10.4k
M. S. Madhusudhan India	28	6.6k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	687 0.6×	838 0.8×	595 0.6×	67	9.2k
David Sept United States	41	6.7k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	453 0.4×	862 0.8×	636 0.7×	110	11.2k
Takanori Nakane Japan	32	6.1k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	720 0.7×	506 0.5×	57	8.7k
Nir Ben‐Tal Israel	57	11.8k 1.6×	1.8k 1.6×	801 0.8×	1.8k 1.8×	720 0.8×	186	15.7k
Rodolfo Ghirlando United States	68	9.9k 1.3×	965 0.9×	939 0.9×	1.5k 1.5×	332 0.4×	213	12.4k
Judith Frydman United States	68	12.9k 1.7×	2.5k 2.2×	778 0.7×	932 0.9×	1.4k 1.5×	157	15.8k
E.A. Merritt United States	41	8.3k 1.1×	2.6k 2.3×	801 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	417 0.4×	96	12.1k

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Delarue, Marc, et al.. (2025). Discovering cryptic pocket opening and binding of a stimulant derivative in a vestibular site of the 5-HT _3A receptor. Science Advances. 11(15). eadr0797–eadr0797. 1 indexed citations

Hollenstein, Marcel, Yannick Rondelez, Ludovic Sauguet, et al.. (2025). Crystal structures of monomeric BsmI restriction endonuclease reveal coordinated sequential cleavage of two DNA strands. Communications Biology. 8(1). 387–387. 1 indexed citations

Koehl, Patrice, et al.. (2024). MinActionPath2: path generation between different conformations of large macromolecular assemblies by action minimization. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(W1). W256–W263. 1 indexed citations

Delarue, Marc, et al.. (2023). Analyzing the Geometry and Dynamics of Viral Structures: A Review of Computational Approaches Based on Alpha Shape Theory, Normal Mode Analysis, and Poisson–Boltzmann Theories. Viruses. 15(6). 1366–1366. 3 indexed citations

Koehl, Patrice, Marc Delarue, & Henri Orland. (2023). Computing the Gromov-Wasserstein Distance between Two Surface Meshes Using Optimal Transport. Algorithms. 16(3). 131–131. 2 indexed citations

Koehl, Patrice, Henri Orland, & Marc Delarue. (2021). Parameterizing elastic network models to capture the dynamics of proteins. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 42(23). 1643–1661. 10 indexed citations

Koehl, Patrice, Marc Delarue, & Henri Orland. (2021). Physics approach to the variable-mass optimal-transport problem. Physical review. E. 103(1). 12113–12113. 8 indexed citations

Tekpinar, Mustafa, et al.. (2019). Structural evidence for an in trans base selection mechanism involving Loop1 in polymerase μ at an NHEJ double-strand break junction. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(27). 10579–10595. 10 indexed citations

Koehl, Patrice & Marc Delarue. (2018). Coarse-grained dynamics of supramolecules: Conformational changes in outer shells of Dengue viruses. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 143. 20–37. 3 indexed citations

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Lev, Bogdan, Samuel Murail, Frédéric Poitevin, et al.. (2017). String method solution of the gating pathways for a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(21). E4158–E4167. 53 indexed citations

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Delarue, Marc, Patrice Koehl, & Henri Orland. (2017). Ab initio sampling of transition paths by conditioned Langevin dynamics. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 147(15). 152703–152703. 17 indexed citations

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Nemecz, Ákos, Haidai Hu, Zaineb Fourati, et al.. (2017). Full mutational mapping of titratable residues helps to identify proton-sensors involved in the control of channel gating in the Gloeobacter violaceus pentameric ligand-gated ion channel. PLoS Biology. 15(12). e2004470–e2004470. 21 indexed citations

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Menny, Anaïs, S. Lefebvre, Philipp A. M. Schmidpeter, et al.. (2017). Identification of a pre-active conformation of a pentameric channel receptor. eLife. 6. 31 indexed citations

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Koehl, Patrice, et al.. (2017). The Renormalization Group and Its Applications to Generating Coarse-Grained Models of Large Biological Molecular Systems. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 13(3). 1424–1438. 15 indexed citations

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Weinreb, Violetta, Li Li, Srinivas Niranj Chandrasekaran, et al.. (2014). Enhanced Amino Acid Selection in Fully Evolved Tryptophanyl-tRNA Synthetase, Relative to Its Urzyme, Requires Domain Motion Sensed by the D1 Switch, a Remote Dynamic Packing Motif. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(7). 4367–4376. 30 indexed citations

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Sauguet, Ludovic, Azadeh Shahsavar, Frédéric Poitevin, et al.. (2013). Crystal structures of a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel provide a mechanism for activation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(3). 966–971. 155 indexed citations

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Sauguet, Ludovic, et al.. (2013). Structural basis for potentiation by alcohols and anaesthetics in a ligand-gated ion channel. Nature Communications. 4(1). 1697–1697. 117 indexed citations

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Nury, Hugues, Frédéric Poitevin, Catherine Van Renterghem, et al.. (2010). One-microsecond molecular dynamics simulation of channel gating in a nicotinic receptor homologue. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(14). 6275–6280. 133 indexed citations

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Manallack, David T., William R. Pitt, Piet Herdewijn, et al.. (2002). Database Searching for Thymidine and Thymidylate Kinase Inhibitors Using Three-dimensional Structure-based Methods. Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry. 17(3). 167–174. 5 indexed citations

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Delarue, Marc, et al.. (1994). Crystal structure of a prokaryotic aspartyl tRNA-synthetase.. The EMBO Journal. 13(14). 3219–3229. 86 indexed citations

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