Olivier Espéli

2.9k total citations
43 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Olivier Espéli is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Olivier Espéli has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Molecular Biology, 29 papers in Genetics and 21 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Olivier Espéli's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (28 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (21 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (13 papers). Olivier Espéli is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (28 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (21 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (13 papers). Olivier Espéli collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Spain. Olivier Espéli's co-authors include Frédéric Boccard, Romain Mercier, Kenneth J. Marians, Chong Lee, Romain Koszul, Cindy Levine, P. Dupaigne, Julien Mozziconacci, M. Valens and Marie‐Agnès Petit and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Olivier Espéli

40 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Olivier Espéli France 24 1.7k 1.4k 790 240 225 43 2.1k
Xindan Wang United States 24 1.8k 1.1× 1.4k 1.0× 820 1.0× 159 0.7× 181 0.8× 52 2.3k
Jean‐Yves Bouet France 22 889 0.5× 944 0.7× 616 0.8× 212 0.9× 283 1.3× 45 1.4k
François‐Xavier Barre France 27 1.5k 0.9× 1.1k 0.8× 662 0.8× 524 2.2× 174 0.8× 50 2.2k
David M. Raskin United States 9 1.2k 0.7× 985 0.7× 423 0.5× 227 0.9× 118 0.5× 20 1.6k
Gregory T. Marczynski Canada 23 1.6k 0.9× 1.4k 1.0× 595 0.8× 231 1.0× 295 1.3× 38 2.0k
Meriem El Karoui France 19 1.1k 0.6× 791 0.6× 402 0.5× 146 0.6× 94 0.4× 34 1.4k
Sébastien Pichoff United States 20 1.5k 0.9× 1.5k 1.1× 775 1.0× 265 1.1× 178 0.8× 24 2.0k
Cynthia A. Hale United States 14 1.4k 0.8× 1.4k 1.0× 662 0.8× 222 0.9× 108 0.5× 16 1.9k
Gitte Ebersbach Denmark 11 737 0.4× 813 0.6× 409 0.5× 169 0.7× 174 0.8× 11 1.1k
Barbara E. Funnell Canada 29 2.3k 1.3× 2.3k 1.7× 873 1.1× 308 1.3× 513 2.3× 42 3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Olivier Espéli

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Fields of papers citing papers by Olivier Espéli

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Olivier Espéli

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Olivier Espéli. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Olivier Espéli 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 Olivier Espéli. Olivier Espéli is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Takács, Mária, et al.. (2025). DNA topoisomerase I acts as supercoiling sensor for bacterial transcription elongation. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 33(1). 134–144.
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Cockram, Charlotte, Eric Allemand, Agnès Thierry, et al.. (2024). Transcription-induced domains form the elementary constraining building blocks of bacterial chromosomes. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 31(3). 489–497. 21 indexed citations
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Junier, Ivan, et al.. (2023). DNA supercoiling in bacteria: state of play and challenges from a viewpoint of physics based modeling. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1192831–1192831. 19 indexed citations
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Espinosa, Elena, et al.. (2023). The SMC-like RecN protein is at the crossroads of several genotoxic stress responses in Escherichia coli. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1146496–1146496. 1 indexed citations
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Demarre, Gaëlle, Emilie Vazeille, Maxime Wéry, et al.. (2021). The Crohn’s disease-related bacterial strain LF82 assembles biofilm-like communities to protect itself from phagolysosomal attack. Communications Biology. 4(1). 627–627. 34 indexed citations
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Wang, Weian, Yohan Guyodo, Jean‐Michel Guigner, et al.. (2020). Engineering E. coli for Magnetic Control and the Spatial Localization of Functions. ACS Synthetic Biology. 9(11). 3030–3041. 25 indexed citations
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Pons�, M., Patricia Siguier, Catherine Guynet, et al.. (2020). Intracellular Positioning Systems Limit the Entropic Eviction of Secondary Replicons Toward the Nucleoid Edges in Bacterial Cells. Journal of Molecular Biology. 432(3). 745–761. 17 indexed citations
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Muller, Héloïse, Vittore F. Scolari, Nicolas Agier, et al.. (2018). Characterizing meiotic chromosomes' structure and pairing using a designer sequence optimized for Hi‐C. Molecular Systems Biology. 14(7). e8293–e8293. 45 indexed citations
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Lioy, Virginia S., Axel Cournac, Martial Marbouty, et al.. (2018). Multiscale Structuring of the E. coli Chromosome by Nucleoid-Associated and Condensin Proteins. Cell. 172(4). 771–783.e18. 234 indexed citations
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Cockram, Charlotte, et al.. (2017). Management of E. coli sister chromatid cohesion in response to genotoxic stress. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14618–14618. 37 indexed citations
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Demarre, Gaëlle, et al.. (2017). Imaging the Cell Cycle of Pathogen E. coli During Growth in Macrophage. Methods in molecular biology. 1624. 227–236. 4 indexed citations
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Chat, Ludovic Le, et al.. (2016). Mapping Topoisomerase IV Binding and Activity Sites on the E. coli Genome. PLoS Genetics. 12(5). e1006025–e1006025. 42 indexed citations
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Junier, Ivan, Frédéric Boccard, & Olivier Espéli. (2013). Polymer modeling of the E. coli genome reveals the involvement of locus positioning and macrodomain structuring for the control of chromosome conformation and segregation. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(3). 1461–1473. 48 indexed citations
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Dupaigne, P., Nam K. Tonthat, Olivier Espéli, et al.. (2012). Molecular Basis for a Protein-Mediated DNA-Bridging Mechanism that Functions in Condensation of the E. coli Chromosome. Molecular Cell. 48(4). 560–571. 83 indexed citations
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Lesterlin, Christian, et al.. (2012). Sister chromatid interactions in bacteria revealed by a site‐specific recombination assay. The EMBO Journal. 31(16). 3468–3479. 52 indexed citations
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Valens, M., et al.. (2007). Chromosome Structuring Limits Genome Plasticity in Escherichia coli. PLoS Genetics. 3(12). e226–e226. 98 indexed citations
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Espéli, Olivier & Frédéric Boccard. (2006). Organization of the Escherichia coli chromosome into macrodomains and its possible functional implications. Journal of Structural Biology. 156(2). 304–310. 41 indexed citations
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Espéli, Olivier, et al.. (2003). Temporal Regulation of Topoisomerase IV Activity in E. coli. Molecular Cell. 11(1). 189–201. 92 indexed citations
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Espéli, Olivier, Chong Lee, & Kenneth J. Marians. (2003). A Physical and Functional Interaction between Escherichia coli FtsK and Topoisomerase IV. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(45). 44639–44644. 98 indexed citations
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Espéli, Olivier, Laurent Moulin, & Frédéric Boccard. (2001). Transcription attenuation associated with bacterial repetitive extragenic BIME elements 1 1Edited by I. B. Holland. Journal of Molecular Biology. 314(3). 375–386. 71 indexed citations

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