Michel Frey

6.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
52 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Michel Frey is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Michel Frey has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Materials Chemistry, 25 papers in Molecular Biology and 17 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Michel Frey's work include Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins (17 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (16 papers) and Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (11 papers). Michel Frey is often cited by papers focused on Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins (17 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (16 papers) and Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (11 papers). Michel Frey collaborates with scholars based in France, Spain and United States. Michel Frey's co-authors include Anne Volbeda, E. Claude Hatchikian, Juan C. Fontecilla‐Camps, C. Piras, Marie‐Hélène Charon, Elsa D. Garcin, António L. De Lacey, Vı́ctor M. Fernández, M. S. Lehmann and Walter C. Hamilton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Michel Frey

51 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Crystal structure of the nickel–iron hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio gigas

1995 1.3k citations Anne Volbeda, Marie‐Hélène Charon et al. Nature profile →
Hydrogenases: Hydrogen-Activating Enzymes

2002 696 citations Michel Frey ChemBioChem profile →
Structure of the [NiFe] Hydrogenase Active Site: Evidence for Biologically Uncommon Fe Ligands

1996 539 citations Anne Volbeda, Elsa D. Garcin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michel Frey France	25	3.1k	1.4k	1.3k	970	641	52	4.9k
Elinor T. Adman United States	41	1.3k 0.4×	3.1k 2.2×	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.3×	400 0.6×	78	5.3k
Anne Volbeda France	40	5.3k 1.7×	2.2k 1.5×	1.9k 1.5×	1.5k 1.5×	1.2k 1.9×	83	8.1k
Noritake Yasuoka Japan	35	948 0.3×	1.8k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	892 0.9×	498 0.8×	189	4.7k
Simone Raugei United States	46	3.1k 1.0×	813 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	985 1.5×	143	5.5k
Shinnichiro Suzuki Japan	32	584 0.2×	1.7k 1.1×	579 0.4×	810 0.8×	509 0.8×	176	3.5k
Kara L. Bren United States	37	2.3k 0.8×	1.9k 1.3×	1.8k 1.4×	477 0.5×	659 1.0×	101	5.4k
Mark J. Nilges United States	40	812 0.3×	1.4k 0.9×	892 0.7×	993 1.0×	304 0.5×	101	3.8k
Larry C. Sieker United States	43	1.1k 0.4×	3.2k 2.2×	1.7k 1.3×	1.6k 1.6×	153 0.2×	101	5.3k
Susana L. A. Andrade Germany	25	2.3k 0.8×	936 0.6×	933 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	95 0.1×	52	4.0k
Richard W. Strange United Kingdom	40	561 0.2×	2.0k 1.4×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	166 0.3×	115	4.6k

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Frey, Michel. (2002). Hydrogenases: Hydrogen-Activating Enzymes. ChemBioChem. 3(2-3). 153–160. 696 indexed citations breakdown →

Lipsker, Dan, Yves Hansmann, F. X. Limbach, et al.. (2001). Disease Expression of Lyme Borreliosis in Northeastern France. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. 20(4). 225–230. 26 indexed citations

Morales, Renaud, Г.С. Качалова, F.M.D. Vellieux, Marie‐Hélène Charon, & Michel Frey. (2000). Crystallographic studies of the interaction between the ferredoxin-NADP⁺reductase and ferredoxin from the cyanobacteriumAnabaena: looking for the elusive ferredoxin molecule. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 56(11). 1408–1412. 36 indexed citations

Morales, Renaud, Marie‐Hélène Charon, Г.С. Качалова, et al.. (2000). A redox‐dependent interaction between two electron‐transfer partners involved in photosynthesis. EMBO Reports. 1(3). 271–276. 104 indexed citations

Frey, Michel, B. Jaulhac, Y. Piémont, et al.. (1998). Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi DNA in Muscle of Patients with Chronic Myalgia Related to Lyme Disease. The American Journal of Medicine. 104(6). 591–594. 49 indexed citations

Fontecilla‐Camps, Juan C., Michel Frey, Elsa D. Garcin, et al.. (1997). Hydrogenase: A hydrogen-metabolizing enzyme. What do the crystal structures tell us about its mode of action?. Biochimie. 79(11). 661–666. 56 indexed citations

Serre, Laurence, F.M.D. Vellieux, Milagros Medina, et al.. (1996). X-ray Structure of the Ferredoxin:NADP+Reductase from the CyanobacteriumAnabaenaPCC 7119 at 1.8 Å Resolution, and Crystallographic Studies of NADP+Binding at 2.25 Å Resolution. Journal of Molecular Biology. 263(1). 20–39. 133 indexed citations

Volbeda, Anne, Juan C. Fontecilla‐Camps, & Michel Frey. (1996). Novel metal sites in protein structures. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 6(6). 804–812. 14 indexed citations

Volbeda, Anne, Marie‐Hélène Charon, C. Piras, et al.. (1995). Crystal structure of the nickel–iron hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio gigas. Nature. 373(6515). 580–587. 1265 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stern, W. B., et al.. (1994). Determination of white K-mica polytype ratios; comparison of different XRD methods. Clay Minerals. 29(5). 717–726. 22 indexed citations

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Frey, Michel. (1994). Water structure associated with proteins and its role in crystallization. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 50(4). 663–666. 29 indexed citations

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Housset, Dominique, et al.. (1994). Crystal Structure of the Ferredoxin I from Desulfovibrio africanus at 2.3-.ANG. Resolution. Biochemistry. 33(51). 15408–15417. 41 indexed citations

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Bruschi, Mireille, J. Bonicel, E. Claude Hatchikian, et al.. (1991). Amino acid sequence and molecular modelling of a thermostable two (4Fe-4S) ferredoxin from the archaebacterium Methanococcus thermolithotrophicus. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology. 1076(1). 79–85. 8 indexed citations

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Serre, Laurence, Milagros Medina, Carlos Gómez‐Moreno, Juan C. Fontecilla‐Camps, & Michel Frey. (1991). Crystals of Anabaena PCC 7119 ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase. Journal of Molecular Biology. 218(2). 271–272. 7 indexed citations

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Bourne, Yves, Chantal Abergel, Christian Cambillau, et al.. (1990). X-ray crystal structure determination and refinement at 1.9 Å resolution of isolectin I from the seeds of Lathyrus ochrus. Journal of Molecular Biology. 214(2). 571–584. 77 indexed citations

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Bourne, Yves, et al.. (1990). Three‐Dimensionnal structures of complexes of Lathyrus ochrus isolectin I with glucose and mannose: Fine specificity of the monosaccharide‐binding site. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 8(4). 365–376. 105 indexed citations

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Cambillau, Christian, et al.. (1988). Model of a complex between the tetrahemic cytochrome c3 and the ferredoxin I from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans (Norway strain). Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 4(1). 63–70. 69 indexed citations

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Frey, Michel, et al.. (1988). Application of the periodic bond chain (PBC) theory to the analysis of the molecular packing in protein crystals. Journal of Crystal Growth. 90(1-3). 245–258. 16 indexed citations

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Nivière, Vincent, Claude E. Hatchikian, Christian Cambillau, & Michel Frey. (1987). Crystallization, preliminary X-ray study and crystal activity of the hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio gigas. Journal of Molecular Biology. 195(4). 969–971. 13 indexed citations

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Frey, Michel, Larry C. Sieker, F. Payan, et al.. (1987). Rubredoxin from Desulfovibrio gigas. Journal of Molecular Biology. 197(3). 525–541. 95 indexed citations

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