Nele Festjens

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Nele Festjens is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Nele Festjens has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Immunology and 8 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Nele Festjens's work include Cell death mechanisms and regulation (14 papers), Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (6 papers) and interferon and immune responses (5 papers). Nele Festjens is often cited by papers focused on Cell death mechanisms and regulation (14 papers), Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (6 papers) and interferon and immune responses (5 papers). Nele Festjens collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, France and United Kingdom. Nele Festjens's co-authors include Peter Vandenabeele, Tom Vanden Berghe, Xavier Saelens, Geert Loo, Wim Declercq, Lieselotte Vande Walle, Sigrid Cornelis, Nele Vanlangenakker, Mohamed Lamkanfi and Eef Parthoens and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Communications and The Journal of Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Nele Festjens

31 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Toxic proteins released from mitochondria in cell death

2004 719 citations Xavier Saelens, Nele Festjens et al. Oncogene profile →
Necrosis, a well-orchestrated form of cell demise: Signalling cascades, important mediators and concomitant immune response

2006 520 citations Nele Festjens, Tom Vanden Berghe et al. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Exploration of Synergistic Action of Cell Wall-Degrading Enzymes against Mycobacterium tuberculosis 2021 ·Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy ·Loes van Schie, (unknown), (unknown), Evelyn Plets, Marnik Vuylsteke, Petra Tiels, Nele Festjens, Nico Callewaert	8
2	SapM mutation to improve the BCG vaccine: Genomic, transcriptomic and preclinical safety characterization 2019 ·Vaccine ·Nele Festjens, (unknown), Erica Houthuys, Evelyn Plets, Dieter Vanderschaeghe, (unknown), Annelies Van Hecke, Petra Tiels, Nico Callewaert	11
3	Reference genome and comparative genome analysis for the WHO reference strain for Mycobacterium bovis BCG Danish, the present tuberculosis vaccine 2019 ·BMC Genomics ·(unknown), (unknown), Po‐Xing Zheng, Petra Tiels, Annelies Van Hecke, Evelyn Plets, (unknown), Nele Festjens, Nico Callewaert, Yao‐Cheng Lin	15
4	Characterization of genome-wide ordered sequence-tagged Mycobacterium mutant libraries by Cartesian Pooling-Coordinate Sequencing 2015 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Nele Festjens, Evelyn Plets, Marnik Vuylsteke, Yvan Saeys, Nico Callewaert	22
5	GlycoDelete engineering of mammalian cells simplifies N-glycosylation of recombinant proteins 2014 ·Nature Biotechnology ·Leander Meuris, (unknown), Greg Elson, Nele Festjens, Morgane Boone, (unknown), Simon Devos, François Rousseau, Evelyn Plets, Erica Houthuys, Pauline Malinge, Giovanni Magistrelli, Laura Cons, Laurence Chatel, Bart Devreese, Nico Callewaert	116
6	Intermediate Domain of Receptor-interacting Protein Kinase 1 (RIPK1) Determines Switch between Necroptosis and RIPK1 Kinase-dependent Apoptosis 2012 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Linde Duprez, Mathieu J.M. Bertrand, Tom Vanden Berghe, Yves Dondelinger, Nele Festjens, Peter Vandenabeele	33
7	Disruption of the SapM locus in Mycobacterium bovis BCG improves its protective efficacy as a vaccine against M. tuberculosis 2011 ·EMBO Molecular Medicine ·Nele Festjens, Pieter Bogaert, (unknown), Erica Houthuys, Evelyn Plets, Dieter Vanderschaeghe, Bram Laukens, Bob Asselbergh, Eef Parthoens, Riet De Rycke, Monique Willart, Peggy Jacques, Dirk Elewaut, Peter Brouckaert, Bart N. Lambrecht, Kris Huygen, Nico Callewaert	37
8	Fed-batch fermentation of GM-CSF-producing glycoengineered Pichia pastoris under controlled specific growth rate 2010 ·Microbial Cell Factories ·Pieter P. Jacobs, Mehmet İnan, Nele Festjens, Jurgen Haustraete, Annelies Van Hecke, Michael M. Meagher, Roland Contreras, Nico Callewaert	46
9	The mitochondrial serine protease HtrA2/Omi cleaves RIP1 during apoptosis of Ba/F3 cells induced by growth factor withdrawal 2010 ·Cell Research ·Lieselotte Vande Walle, Ellen Wirawan, Mohamed Lamkanfi, Nele Festjens, (unknown), Xavier Saelens, Tom Vanden Berghe, Peter Vandenabeele	21
10	Tumor necrosis factor-mediated cell death: to break or to burst, that’s the question 2010 ·Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences ·Franky Van Herreweghe, Nele Festjens, Wim Declercq, Peter Vandenabeele	168
11	Necroptosis, necrosis and secondary necrosis converge on similar cellular disintegration features 2009 ·Cell Death and Differentiation ·Tom Vanden Berghe, Nele Vanlangenakker, Eef Parthoens, Wies Deckers, Michaël Devos, Nele Festjens, Christopher J. Guérin, Ulf T. Brunk, Wim Declercq, Peter Vandenabeele	464
12	Molecular Mechanisms and Pathophysiology of Necrotic Cell Death 2008 ·Current Molecular Medicine ·Nele Vanlangenakker, Tom Vanden Berghe, Dmitri V. Krysko, Nele Festjens, Peter Vandenabeele	256
13	RIP1, a kinase on the crossroads of a cell's decision to live or die 2007 ·Cell Death and Differentiation ·Nele Festjens, Tom Vanden Berghe, Sigrid Cornelis, Peter Vandenabeele	365
14	The caspase-generated fragments of PKR cooperate to activate full-length PKR and inhibit translation 2007 ·Cell Death and Differentiation ·Michaël Kalai, Vanessa Suin, Nele Festjens, (unknown), (unknown), Xiaomin Wang, Xavier Saelens, Peter Vandenabeele	17
15	Necrosis, a well-orchestrated form of cell demise: Signalling cascades, important mediators and concomitant immune response breakdown → 2006 ·Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics ·Nele Festjens, Tom Vanden Berghe, Peter Vandenabeele	520
16	Caspases in cell survival, proliferation and differentiation 2006 ·Cell Death and Differentiation ·Mohamed Lamkanfi, Nele Festjens, Wim Declercq, Tom Vanden Berghe, Peter Vandenabeele	442
17	Mitochondria: Breathe or die 2005 ·APOPTOSIS ·Lieselotte Vande Walle, Nele Festjens, Xavier Saelens, Peter Vandenabeele	1
18	Protein synthesis persists during necrotic cell death 2005 ·The Journal of Cell Biology ·Xavier Saelens, Nele Festjens, Eef Parthoens, (unknown), Michaël Kalai, Frank J. M. van Kuppeveld, Peter Vandenabeele	58
19	Toxic proteins released from mitochondria in cell death breakdown → 2004 ·Oncogene ·Xavier Saelens, Nele Festjens, Lieselotte Vande Walle, (unknown), Geert Loo, Peter Vandenabeele	719
20	Mitochondrial intermembrane proteins in cell death 2003 ·Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ·(unknown), Nele Festjens, Geert Loo, Xavier Saelens, Peter Vandenabeele	324

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