Monsef Benkirane

11.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
77 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Monsef Benkirane is a scholar working on Virology, Molecular Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Monsef Benkirane has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Virology, 44 papers in Molecular Biology and 33 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Monsef Benkirane's work include HIV Research and Treatment (45 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (20 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (16 papers). Monsef Benkirane is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (45 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (20 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (16 papers). Monsef Benkirane collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Japan. Monsef Benkirane's co-authors include Nadine Laguette, Christine Chable-Bessia, Bijan Sobhian, Ahmad Yatim, Stéphane Emiliani, Olivier Schwartz, Rosemary Kiernan, Kuan‐Teh Jeang, Yamina Bennasser and Emmanuel Ségéral and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Monsef Benkirane

76 papers receiving 8.3k 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.

SAMHD1 is the dendritic- and myeloid-cell-specific HIV-1 restriction factor counteracted by Vpx

2011 1.2k citations Nadine Laguette, Bijan Sobhian et al. Nature profile →
Suppression of MicroRNA-Silencing Pathway by HIV-1 During Virus Replication

2007 516 citations Robinson Triboulet, Bernard Mari et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Monsef Benkirane France	46	4.4k	4.0k	3.1k	1.6k	1.4k	77	8.4k
Carine Van Lint Belgium	43	3.8k 0.8×	4.3k 1.1×	2.6k 0.8×	2.6k 1.6×	912 0.6×	139	8.0k
Stéphane Emiliani France	32	4.3k 1.0×	3.4k 0.9×	1.7k 0.6×	2.0k 1.2×	882 0.6×	57	7.0k
Kuan‐Teh Jeang United States	64	7.2k 1.6×	3.2k 0.8×	4.8k 1.5×	1.7k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	213	13.3k
Hal P. Bogerd United States	47	4.8k 1.1×	2.2k 0.5×	1.8k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	78	7.3k
Richard Bénarous France	43	3.7k 0.8×	3.3k 0.8×	1.5k 0.5×	1.8k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	88	6.8k
Vicente Planelles United States	51	3.3k 0.7×	5.3k 1.3×	2.9k 0.9×	2.9k 1.8×	1.4k 1.0×	159	8.0k
Wilfried Ellmeier Austria	39	2.7k 0.6×	2.6k 0.6×	4.6k 1.5×	1.1k 0.7×	660 0.5×	95	8.0k
Paul Jolicoeur Canada	50	3.3k 0.7×	2.4k 0.6×	2.6k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	910 0.6×	174	7.6k
B. Matija Peterlin United States	72	8.3k 1.9×	7.8k 1.9×	5.1k 1.7×	3.6k 2.2×	2.1k 1.5×	188	15.8k
Nan Yan United States	34	3.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.3×	4.0k 1.3×	1.9k 1.2×	927 0.7×	74	6.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Monsef Benkirane

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Bonnet‐Madin, Lucie, et al.. (2025). Unintegrated HIV-1 DNA recruits cGAS via its histone-binding domain to escape innate immunity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(11). e2424465122–e2424465122. 1 indexed citations

Machida, Shinichi, et al.. (2023). POLE3 is a repressor of unintegrated HIV-1 DNA required for efficient virus integration and escape from innate immune sensing. Science Advances. 9(44). eadh3642–eadh3642. 7 indexed citations

Gharu, Lavina, Anna Kula, Alexander Pasternak, et al.. (2018). Posttranscriptional Regulation of HIV-1 Gene Expression during Replication and Reactivation from Latency by Nuclear Matrix Protein MATR3. mBio. 9(6). 30 indexed citations

Cribier, Alexandra, Raoul Raffel, Sonia Amraoui, et al.. (2017). HEXIM1 and NEAT1 Long Non-coding RNA Form a Multi-subunit Complex that Regulates DNA-Mediated Innate Immune Response. Molecular Cell. 67(3). 387–399.e5. 181 indexed citations

Wittmann, Sabine, Rayk Behrendt, Dominique Thomas, et al.. (2015). Phosphorylation of murine SAMHD1 regulates its antiretroviral activity. Retrovirology. 12(1). 103–103. 37 indexed citations

Cribier, Alexandra, Benjamin Descours, Ana Luiza Chaves Valadão, Nadine Laguette, & Monsef Benkirane. (2013). Phosphorylation of SAMHD1 by Cyclin A2/CDK1 Regulates Its Restriction Activity toward HIV-1. Cell Reports. 3(4). 1036–1043. 313 indexed citations

Contreras, Xavier, Monsef Benkirane, & Rosemary Kiernan. (2013). Premature termination of transcription by RNAP II. Transcription. 4(2). 72–76. 8 indexed citations

Yatim, Ahmad, Clarisse Benne, Bijan Sobhian, et al.. (2012). NOTCH1 Nuclear Interactome Reveals Key Regulators of Its Transcriptional Activity and Oncogenic Function. Molecular Cell. 48(3). 445–458. 154 indexed citations

Laguette, Nadine, Bijan Sobhian, Nicoletta Casartelli, et al.. (2011). SAMHD1 is the dendritic- and myeloid-cell-specific HIV-1 restriction factor counteracted by Vpx. Nature. 474(7353). 654–657. 1155 indexed citations breakdown →

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Triboulet, Robinson, Bernard Mari, Yea‐Lih Lin, et al.. (2007). Suppression of MicroRNA-Silencing Pathway by HIV-1 During Virus Replication. Science. 315(5818). 1579–1582. 516 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lassot, Irina, Daniel Latreille, Marion Sourisseau, et al.. (2007). The Proteasome Regulates HIV-1 Transcription by Both Proteolytic and Nonproteolytic Mechanisms. Molecular Cell. 25(3). 369–383. 72 indexed citations

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Garaude, Johan, Sandra Kaminski, Christine Chable-Bessia, et al.. (2006). ERK5 Activates NF-κB in Leukemic T Cells and Is Essential for Their Growth In Vivo. The Journal of Immunology. 177(11). 7607–7617. 59 indexed citations

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Bennasser, Yamina, Shu‐Yun Le, Monsef Benkirane, & Kuan‐Teh Jeang. (2005). Evidence that HIV-1 Encodes an siRNA and a Suppressor of RNA Silencing. Immunity. 22(6). 773–773. 15 indexed citations

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Méjean, Catherine, Brigitte Moniot, Nathalie Bonneaud, et al.. (2004). Regulation of human SRY subcellular distribution by its acetylation/deacetylation. The EMBO Journal. 23(16). 3336–3345. 92 indexed citations

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Brès, Vanessa, Rosemary Kiernan, Laëtitia K. Linares, et al.. (2003). A non-proteolytic role for ubiquitin in Tat-mediated transactivation of the HIV-1 promoter. Nature Cell Biology. 5(8). 754–761. 152 indexed citations

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Kiernan, Rosemary, Stéphane Emiliani, Keiko Nakayama, et al.. (2001). Interaction between Cyclin T1 and SCF ^SKP2 Targets CDK9 for Ubiquitination and Degradation by the Proteasome. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 21(23). 7956–7970. 81 indexed citations

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Benkirane, Monsef. (1997). Oncogenic potential of TAR RNA binding protein TRBP and its regulatory interaction with RNA-dependent protein kinase PKR. The EMBO Journal. 16(3). 611–624. 205 indexed citations

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Blair, Edward D., et al.. (1995). Expression of TAR RNA-binding protein in baculovirus and co-immunoprecipitation with insect cell protein kinase. Journal of Biomedical Science. 2(4). 322–329. 14 indexed citations

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Favero, Jean, Pierre Corbeau, M. Nicolas, et al.. (1993). Inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus infection by the lectin jacalin and by a derived peptide showing a sequence similarity with gp120. European Journal of Immunology. 23(1). 179–185. 54 indexed citations

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Devaux, Christian, José Boucraut, Gary R. Poirier, et al.. (1990). Anti-β2-microglobulin monoclonal antibodies mediate a delay in HIV1 cytopathic effect on MT4 cells. Research in Immunology. 141(4). 357–372. 14 indexed citations

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