Nicole Christ

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
13 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Nicole Christ is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicole Christ has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Genetics and 1 paper in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in Nicole Christ's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (9 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (9 papers) and BRCA gene mutations in cancer (4 papers). Nicole Christ is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (9 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (9 papers) and BRCA gene mutations in cancer (4 papers). Nicole Christ collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Nicole Christ's co-authors include Maria Jasin, Nicolas Siaud, Katharina Schlacher, Akinori Egashira, Hong Wu, Bing Xia, Jianmin Wu, Xinggang Liu, Fergus J. Couch and David M. Livingston and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nicole Christ

13 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Double-Strand Break Repair-Independent Role for BRCA2 in ... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2011 2006 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

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. Double-Strand Break Repair-Independent Role for BRCA2 in Blocking Stalled Replication Fork Degradation by MRE11
    2011 968 citations Katharina Schlacher, Nicole Christ et al. Cell profile →
  2. Control of BRCA2 Cellular and Clinical Functions by a Nuclear Partner, PALB2
    2006 635 citations Bing Xia, Qing Sheng et al. Molecular Cell profile →

Peers

Nicole Christ
Michael J. McIlwraith United Kingdom
Shin‐ichiro Kanno Japan
Arno F. Alpi United Kingdom
Laura Magnaghi-Jaulin France
Jeffrey Winston United States
Saskia J.E. Suijkerbuijk Netherlands
Mitsuo Wakasugi Japan
Shusuke Tada Japan
Gretchen Poortinga Australia
Daniela S. Dimitrova United States
Michael J. McIlwraith United Kingdom
Nicole Christ
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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicole Christ

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicole Christ

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nicole Christ. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nicole Christ based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Nicole Christ. Nicole Christ is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Schlacher, Katharina, Nicole Christ, Nicolas Siaud, et al.. (2011). Double-Strand Break Repair-Independent Role for BRCA2 in Blocking Stalled Replication Fork Degradation by MRE11. Cell. 145(4). 529–542. 968 indexed citations breakdown →
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Siaud, Nicolas, Akinori Egashira, Isabel Lam, et al.. (2011). Plasticity of BRCA2 Function in Homologous Recombination: Genetic Interactions of the PALB2 and DNA Binding Domains. PLoS Genetics. 7(12). e1002409–e1002409. 62 indexed citations
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Schlacher, Katharina, Nicole Christ, Nicolas Siaud, et al.. (2011). Double-Strand Break Repair-Independent Role for BRCA2 in Blocking Stalled Replication Fork Degradation by MRE11. Cell. 145(6). 993–993. 13 indexed citations
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Xia, Bing, Qing Sheng, Koji Nakanishi, et al.. (2006). Control of BRCA2 Cellular and Clinical Functions by a Nuclear Partner, PALB2. Molecular Cell. 22(6). 719–729. 635 indexed citations breakdown →
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Saeki, Hiroshi, Nicolas Siaud, Nicole Christ, et al.. (2006). Suppression of the DNA repair defects of BRCA2-deficient cells with heterologous protein fusions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(23). 8768–8773. 78 indexed citations
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Esashi, Fumiko, Nicole Christ, Julian Gannon, et al.. (2005). CDK-dependent phosphorylation of BRCA2 as a regulatory mechanism for recombinational repair. Nature. 434(7033). 598–604. 351 indexed citations
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Christ, Nicole, et al.. (2004). Single-chain integration host factors as probes for high-precision nucleoprotein complex formation. Gene. 343(1). 99–106. 9 indexed citations
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Christ, Nicole, et al.. (2003). Hyperphagia, not hypometabolism, causes early onset obesity in melanocortin-4 receptor knockout mice. Physiological Genomics. 13(1). 47–56. 60 indexed citations
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Christ, Nicole, Teresa Corona, & Peter Dröge. (2002). Site-specific Recombination in Eukaryotic Cells Mediated by Mutant λ Integrases: Implications for Synaptic Complex Formation and the Reactivity of Episomal DNA Segments. Journal of Molecular Biology. 319(2). 305–314. 22 indexed citations
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Christ, Nicole & Peter Dröge. (2002). Genetic manipulation of mouse embryonic stem cells by mutant λ integrase. genesis. 32(3). 203–208. 37 indexed citations
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Aranda, Manuel, Chryssa Kanellopoulou, Nicole Christ, et al.. (2001). Altered directionality in the cre- loxP site-specific recombination pathway 1 1Edited by M. Yaniv. Journal of Molecular Biology. 311(3). 453–459. 18 indexed citations
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Christ, Nicole & Peter Dröge. (1999). Alterations in the directionality of λ site-specific recombination catalyzed by mutant integrases in vivo. Journal of Molecular Biology. 288(5). 825–836. 11 indexed citations

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