Nicolas Lacoste

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Nicolas Lacoste is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Neurology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolas Lacoste has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Neurology and 3 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Nicolas Lacoste's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (18 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (14 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (6 papers). Nicolas Lacoste is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (18 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (14 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (6 papers). Nicolas Lacoste collaborates with scholars based in France, Canada and United States. Nicolas Lacoste's co-authors include Jacques Côté, Geneviève Almouzni, Rhea T. Utley, Dominique Ray-Gallet, Yoshihiro Nakatani, Yusuke Nakamura, Elaine M. Dunleavy, Yataro Daigo, Danièle Roche and Hideaki Tagami and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Lacoste

27 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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HJURP Is a Cell-Cycle-Dependent Maintenance and Deposition Factor of CENP-A at Centromeres

2009 489 citations Elaine M. Dunleavy, Danièle Roche et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicolas Lacoste France	16	2.5k	749	286	237	97	28	2.6k
Emmanuelle Martini France	16	1.7k 0.7×	311 0.4×	213 0.7×	142 0.6×	151 1.6×	25	1.8k
M. Mitchell Smith United States	17	2.0k 0.8×	372 0.5×	136 0.5×	159 0.7×	146 1.5×	17	2.1k
Adam Burton United Kingdom	14	1.3k 0.5×	214 0.3×	162 0.6×	200 0.8×	87 0.9×	18	1.6k
Tamaki Suganuma United States	17	2.3k 0.9×	273 0.4×	201 0.7×	73 0.3×	119 1.2×	30	2.5k
Matthew J. Neale United Kingdom	21	3.0k 1.2×	581 0.8×	304 1.1×	398 1.7×	516 5.3×	33	3.2k
Simona Giunta Italy	13	819 0.3×	259 0.3×	167 0.6×	189 0.8×	146 1.5×	26	1.0k
Stéphane Marcand France	19	1.8k 0.8×	436 0.6×	95 0.3×	99 0.4×	105 1.1×	29	2.1k
Armelle Lengronne France	20	2.2k 0.9×	371 0.5×	214 0.7×	458 1.9×	168 1.7×	26	2.2k
Petros Kolovos Netherlands	21	1.7k 0.7×	374 0.5×	255 0.9×	60 0.3×	97 1.0×	40	2.0k
Nabieh Ayoub Israel	23	2.1k 0.8×	413 0.6×	253 0.9×	88 0.4×	326 3.4×	37	2.2k

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Fontaine, Fanny, Audrey Labalme, Chloé Laurencin, et al.. (2025). Homozygous COQ9 mutation: a new cause of potentially treatable hereditary spastic paraplegia. European Journal of Human Genetics. 33(8). 997–1005.

Lacoste, Nicolas, Valérie Risson, Fabien Le Grand, et al.. (2024). LSD1 controls a nuclear checkpoint in Wnt/β-Catenin signaling to regulate muscle stem cell self-renewal. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(7). 3667–3681. 12 indexed citations

Belotti, Edwige, Nicolas Lacoste, Thomas Simonet, et al.. (2024). H2A.Z is involved in premature aging and DSB repair initiation in muscle fibers. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(6). 3031–3049. 9 indexed citations

Jacquier, Arnaud, Fanny Fontaine, Nicolas Lacoste, et al.. (2022). Homozygous COQ7 mutation: a new cause of potentially treatable distal hereditary motor neuropathy. Brain. 146(8). 3470–3483. 11 indexed citations

Jacquier, Arnaud, Nicolas Lacoste, Valérie Risson, et al.. (2022). Expanding the phenotypic variability of MORC2 gene mutations: From Charcot‐Marie‐Tooth disease to late‐onset pure motor neuropathy. Human Mutation. 43(12). 1898–1908. 6 indexed citations

Belotti, Edwige, Nicolas Lacoste, Thomas Simonet, et al.. (2020). H2A.Z is dispensable for both basal and activated transcription in post-mitotic mouse muscles. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(9). 4601–4613. 21 indexed citations

Cheng, Xue, Olivier Jobin‐Robitaille, Pierre Billon, et al.. (2018). Phospho-dependent recruitment of the yeast NuA4 acetyltransferase complex by MRX at DNA breaks regulates RPA dynamics during resection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(40). 10028–10033. 21 indexed citations

Steunou, Anne‐Lise, Maria J. Aristizabal, Nicolas Lacoste, et al.. (2016). Combined Action of Histone Reader Modules Regulates NuA4 Local Acetyltransferase Function but Not Its Recruitment on the Genome. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 36(22). 2768–2781. 24 indexed citations

Wang, Alice Y., Anne‐Lise Steunou, Nicolas Lacoste, et al.. (2014). Eaf5/7/3 form a functionally independent NuA4 submodule linked to RNA polymerase II ‐coupled nucleosome recycling. The EMBO Journal. 33(12). 1397–1415. 40 indexed citations

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Müller, Sebastian, Rocío Montes de, Nicolas Lacoste, et al.. (2014). Phosphorylation and DNA Binding of HJURP Determine Its Centromeric Recruitment and Function in CenH3CENP-A Loading. Cell Reports. 8(1). 190–203. 66 indexed citations

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Lacoste, Nicolas, Adam Woolfe, Hiroaki Tachiwana, et al.. (2014). Mislocalization of the Centromeric Histone Variant CenH3/CENP-A in Human Cells Depends on the Chaperone DAXX. Molecular Cell. 53(4). 631–644. 195 indexed citations

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Szenker‐Ravi, Emmanuelle, Nicolas Lacoste, & Geneviève Almouzni. (2012). A Developmental Requirement for HIRA-Dependent H3.3 Deposition Revealed at Gastrulation in Xenopus. Cell Reports. 1(6). 730–740. 79 indexed citations

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Ray-Gallet, Dominique, Adam Woolfe, Isabelle Vassias, et al.. (2011). Dynamics of Histone H3 Deposition In Vivo Reveal a Nucleosome Gap-Filling Mechanism for H3.3 to Maintain Chromatin Integrity. Molecular Cell. 44(6). 928–941. 295 indexed citations

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Dunleavy, Elaine M., Danièle Roche, Hideaki Tagami, et al.. (2009). HJURP Is a Cell-Cycle-Dependent Maintenance and Deposition Factor of CENP-A at Centromeres. Cell. 137(3). 485–497. 489 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hájková, Petra, Katia Ancelin, Tanja Waldmann, et al.. (2008). Chromatin dynamics during epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line. Nature. 452(7189). 877–881. 472 indexed citations

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Altaf, Mohammad, Rhea T. Utley, Nicolas Lacoste, et al.. (2007). Interplay of Chromatin Modifiers on a Short Basic Patch of Histone H4 Tail Defines the Boundary of Telomeric Heterochromatin. Molecular Cell. 28(6). 1002–1014. 158 indexed citations

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Lacoste, Nicolas & Jacques Côté. (2003). Le code épigénétique des histones. médecine/sciences. 19(10). 955–959. 3 indexed citations

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Boudreault, Alexandre A., William Selleck, Nicolas Lacoste, et al.. (2003). Yeast Enhancer of Polycomb defines global Esa1-dependent acetylation of chromatin. Genes & Development. 17(11). 1415–1428. 168 indexed citations

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Lacoste, Nicolas, Rhea T. Utley, Joanna M. Hunter, Guy G. Poirier, & Jacques Côté. (2002). Disruptor of Telomeric Silencing-1 Is a Chromatin-specific Histone H3 Methyltransferase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(34). 30421–30424. 240 indexed citations

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Marraccini, Pierre, et al.. (2001). Molecular and biochemical characterization of endo-β-mannanases from germinating coffee (Coffea arabica) grains. Planta. 213(2). 296–308. 54 indexed citations

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