Nabil G. Seidah

56.5k total citations · 11 hit papers
706 papers, 41.6k citations indexed

About

Nabil G. Seidah is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Nabil G. Seidah has authored 706 papers receiving a total of 41.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 354 papers in Molecular Biology, 176 papers in Cell Biology and 175 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Nabil G. Seidah's work include Cellular transport and secretion (119 papers), Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (118 papers) and Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (106 papers). Nabil G. Seidah is often cited by papers focused on Cellular transport and secretion (119 papers), Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (118 papers) and Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (106 papers). Nabil G. Seidah collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Nabil G. Seidah's co-authors include Michel Chrétien, Suzanne Benjannet, Annik Prat, Claude Lazure, Robert Day, Majambu Mbikay, Josée Hamelin, Ajoy Basak, Jadwiga Marcinkiewicz and Étienne Decroly and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nabil G. Seidah

694 papers receiving 40.4k citations

Hit Papers

Chloroquine is a potent i... 1991 2026 2002 2014 2005 2020 2003 1999 2012 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. Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread
    2005 1.3k citations Suzanne Benjannet, Nabil G. Seidah et al. profile →
  2. The spike glycoprotein of the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV contains a furin-like cleavage site absent in CoV of the same clade
    2020 1.2k citations Bruno Coutard, Nabil G. Seidah et al. profile →
  3. The secretory proprotein convertase neural apoptosis-regulated convertase 1 (NARC-1): Liver regeneration and neuronal differentiation
    2003 953 citations Nabil G. Seidah, Suzanne Benjannet et al. profile →
  4. Proprotein and prohormone convertases: a family of subtilases generating diverse bioactive polypeptides1Published on the World Wide Web on 17 August 1999.1
    1999 641 citations Nabil G. Seidah, Michel Chrétien profile →
  5. The biology and therapeutic targeting of the proprotein convertases
    2012 622 citations Nabil G. Seidah, Annik Prat profile →
  6. The Notch1 receptor is cleaved constitutively by a furin-like convertase
    1998 569 citations Nabil G. Seidah et al. profile →
  7. NARC-1/PCSK9 and Its Natural Mutants
    2004 532 citations Suzanne Benjannet, Rachid Essalmani et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
  8. PC1 and PC2 are proprotein convertases capable of cleaving proopiomelanocortin at distinct pairs of basic residues.
    1991 522 citations Suzanne Benjannet, Michel Chrétien et al. profile →
  9. Statins Upregulate PCSK9 , the Gene Encoding the Proprotein Convertase Neural Apoptosis-Regulated Convertase-1 Implicated in Familial Hypercholesterolemia
    2004 518 citations Geneviève Dubuc, Hanny Wassef et al. profile →
  10. PCSK9
    2014 449 citations Nabil G. Seidah, Zuhier Awan et al. profile →
  11. Efficient in vivo base editing via single adeno-associated viruses with size-optimized genomes encoding compact adenine base editors
    2022 117 citations Jessie R. Davis, Xiao Wang et al. Nature Biomedical Engineering profile →

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Nabil G. Seidah 17.2k 11.3k 7.5k 6.6k 4.7k 706 41.6k
Robert E. Hammer 27.2k 1.6× 12.0k 1.1× 6.6k 0.9× 5.8k 0.9× 4.6k 1.0× 290 52.9k
William J. Rutter 35.4k 2.1× 8.1k 0.7× 5.4k 0.7× 4.0k 0.6× 3.6k 0.8× 311 56.7k
Jun‐ichi Miyazaki 19.4k 1.1× 7.4k 0.7× 3.0k 0.4× 4.0k 0.6× 1.7k 0.4× 498 36.0k
Joachim Herz 15.9k 0.9× 6.2k 0.5× 4.8k 0.6× 5.2k 0.8× 5.4k 1.1× 284 35.7k
Michel Chrétien 10.7k 0.6× 4.6k 0.4× 4.5k 0.6× 5.0k 0.8× 2.2k 0.5× 483 22.8k
Stefan Offermanns 18.1k 1.1× 3.2k 0.3× 2.8k 0.4× 5.1k 0.8× 2.0k 0.4× 376 31.8k
Randal J. Kaufman 42.0k 2.4× 10.3k 0.9× 39.1k 5.2× 3.0k 0.5× 3.8k 0.8× 466 82.2k
Shuh Narumiya 28.8k 1.7× 3.6k 0.3× 12.0k 1.6× 8.3k 1.3× 3.5k 0.7× 556 60.6k
David E. Housman 32.2k 1.9× 3.0k 0.3× 2.7k 0.4× 7.4k 1.1× 3.8k 0.8× 329 47.8k
Yoshimi Takai 40.5k 2.4× 3.8k 0.3× 20.2k 2.7× 8.2k 1.2× 2.3k 0.5× 629 57.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Roubtsova, Anna, Hadi Bayat, Alexandra Evagelidis, et al.. (2025). Blockade of colon cancer metastasis via single and double silencing of PCSK7/PCSK9: enhanced T cells cytotoxicity in mouse and human. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. 13(6). e011364–e011364.
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Platko, Khrystyna, Paul Lebeau, Melissa E. MacDonald, et al.. (2024). GDF10 is a negative regulator of vascular calcification. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(11). 107805–107805. 1 indexed citations
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Bost, Caroline, Vinícius Pinho dos Reis, Thomas Strecker, et al.. (2023). The proprotein convertase SKI-1/S1P is a critical host factor for Nairobi sheep disease virus infectivity. Virus Research. 329. 199099–199099. 1 indexed citations
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Davis, Jessie R., Xiao Wang, Isaac P. Witte, et al.. (2022). Efficient in vivo base editing via single adeno-associated viruses with size-optimized genomes encoding compact adenine base editors. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 6(11). 1272–1283. 117 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lebeau, Paul, Jae Hyun Byun, Khrystyna Platko, et al.. (2022). Caffeine blocks SREBP2-induced hepatic PCSK9 expression to enhance LDLR-mediated cholesterol clearance. Nature Communications. 13(1). 770–770. 64 indexed citations
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Essalmani, Rachid, Jaspreet Jain, Delia Susan‐Resiga, et al.. (2022). Distinctive Roles of Furin and TMPRSS2 in SARS-CoV-2 Infectivity. Journal of Virology. 96(8). e0012822–e0012822. 113 indexed citations
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Byun, Jae Hyun, Paul Lebeau, Khrystyna Platko, et al.. (2022). Inhibitory Antibodies against PCSK9 Reduce Surface CD36 and Mitigate Diet-Induced Renal Lipotoxicity. Kidney360. 3(8). 1394–1410. 23 indexed citations
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Moreau, F., Aurélie Thedrez, Audrey Ayer, et al.. (2021). PCSK9 is not secreted from mature differentiated intestinal cells. Journal of Lipid Research. 62. 100096–100096. 6 indexed citations
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Lebeau, Paul, Hanny Wassef, Jae Hyun Byun, et al.. (2020). The loss-of-function PCSK9Q152H variant increases ER chaperones GRP78 and GRP94 and protects against liver injury. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 131(2). 30 indexed citations
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Löw, Karin, Kornelia Hardes, Chiara Fedeli, et al.. (2019). A novel cell‐based sensor detecting the activity of individual basic proprotein convertases. FEBS Journal. 286(22). 4597–4620. 4 indexed citations
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Elbitar, Sandy, Delia Susan‐Resiga, Youmna Ghaleb, et al.. (2018). New Sequencing technologies help revealing unexpected mutations in Autosomal Dominant Hypercholesterolemia. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 1943–1943. 25 indexed citations
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Elbitar, Sandy, Petra El Khoury, Youmna Ghaleb, et al.. (2016). Proprotein convertase subtilisin / kexin 9 (PCSK9) inhibitors and the future of dyslipidemia therapy: an updated patent review (2011-2015). Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patents. 26(12). 1377–1392. 20 indexed citations
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Awan, Zuhier, Geneviève Dubuc, May Faraj, et al.. (2014). The effect of insulin on circulating PCSK9 in postmenopausal obese women. Clinical Biochemistry. 47(12). 1033–1039. 47 indexed citations
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Rousselet, Estelle, Jasna Križ, & Nabil G. Seidah. (2012). Mouse Model of Intraluminal MCAO: Cerebral Infarct Evaluation by Cresyl Violet Staining. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 23 indexed citations
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Seidah, Nabil G., et al.. (2010). Modern views on aetiology and pathogenesis of tumor growths and benign ovarian tumors. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.
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Vetrivel, Kulandaivelu S., Xavier Meckler, Ying Chen, et al.. (2008). Alzheimer Disease Aβ Production in the Absence of S-Palmitoylation-dependent Targeting of BACE1 to Lipid Rafts. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(6). 3793–3803. 129 indexed citations
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Scamuffa, Nathalie, Nabil G. Seidah, Ajoy Basak, Fabien Calvo, & Abdel‐Majid Khatib. (2006). Inactivation of furin by its naturally occurring inhibitor pro-furin abolish breast cancer cells malignant phenotypes and tumorigenecity in mice.. Cancer Research. 66. 1235–1236. 1 indexed citations
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Eder, Ursula, et al.. (1995). Processing of secretogranin II by prohormone convertases: Importance ofPC1 in generation of secretoneurin. FEBS Letters. 360(3). 294–298. 78 indexed citations
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Seidah, Nabil G., Majambu Mbikay, Josée Hamelin, et al.. (1989). The cDNA Structure of Rat Plasma Kallikrein. DNA. 8(8). 563–574. 18 indexed citations
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Mbikay, Majambu, Serge Nolet, Sylvie Fournier, et al.. (1987). Molecular Cloning and Sequence of the cDNA for a 94-Amino-Acid Seminal Plasma Protein Secreted by the Human Prostate. DNA. 6(1). 23–29. 61 indexed citations

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