Paul Lebeau

838 total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 586 citations indexed

About

Paul Lebeau is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Surgery and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Lebeau has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 586 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Cell Biology, 9 papers in Surgery and 9 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Paul Lebeau's work include Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (10 papers), Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (7 papers) and Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (4 papers). Paul Lebeau is often cited by papers focused on Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (10 papers), Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (7 papers) and Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (4 papers). Paul Lebeau collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Italy. Paul Lebeau's co-authors include Richard C. Austin, Jae Hyun Byun, Khrystyna Platko, Nabil G. Seidah, Melissa E. MacDonald, Šárka Lhoták, Ali Al‐Hashimi, Bernardo L. Trigatti, Suleiman A. Igdoura and Annik Prat and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Paul Lebeau

25 papers receiving 583 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.

Endoplasmic reticulum stress as a driver and therapeutic target for kidney disease

2025 16 citations Jae Hyun Byun, Paul Lebeau et al. Nature Reviews Nephrology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul Lebeau Canada	17	212	208	159	138	107	26	586
Jae Hyun Byun Canada	15	184 0.9×	190 0.9×	147 0.9×	128 0.9×	88 0.8×	29	541
Khrystyna Platko Canada	14	172 0.8×	253 1.2×	137 0.9×	87 0.6×	89 0.8×	19	561
Ali Al‐Hashimi Canada	11	129 0.6×	207 1.0×	141 0.9×	154 1.1×	92 0.9×	20	472
Melissa E. MacDonald Canada	13	176 0.8×	172 0.8×	134 0.8×	48 0.3×	92 0.9×	22	528
Boris B. Boyanovsky United States	14	234 1.1×	461 2.2×	105 0.7×	95 0.7×	152 1.4×	24	786
Wenquan Hu China	16	228 1.1×	356 1.7×	119 0.7×	50 0.4×	117 1.1×	33	702
Vicenta Llorente‐Cortés Spain	10	176 0.8×	154 0.7×	61 0.4×	71 0.5×	136 1.3×	22	472
Hailing Liao United States	14	283 1.3×	417 2.0×	108 0.7×	94 0.7×	161 1.5×	18	811
Elena Arriazu Spain	13	107 0.5×	281 1.4×	313 2.0×	77 0.6×	72 0.7×	16	816
José Alfón Spain	10	163 0.8×	119 0.6×	91 0.6×	44 0.3×	99 0.9×	28	490

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Byun, Jae Hyun, Paul Lebeau, Nikhil Uppal, et al.. (2025). Endoplasmic reticulum stress as a driver and therapeutic target for kidney disease. Nature Reviews Nephrology. 21(5). 299–313. 16 indexed citations breakdown →

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

Platko, Khrystyna, Paul Lebeau, Joshua P. Nederveen, et al.. (2023). A Metabolic Enhancer Protects against Diet-Induced Obesity and Liver Steatosis and Corrects a Pro-Atherogenic Serum Profile in Mice. Nutrients. 15(10). 2410–2410. 3 indexed citations

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

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

Lebeau, Paul, Khrystyna Platko, Jae Hyun Byun, & Richard C. Austin. (2021). Calcium as a reliable marker for the quantitative assessment of endoplasmic reticulum stress in live cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 296. 100779–100779. 39 indexed citations

Susan‐Resiga, Delia, Rachid Essalmani, Anna Roubtsova, et al.. (2021). Asialoglycoprotein receptor 1 is a novel PCSK9-independent ligand of liver LDLR cleaved by furin. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 297(4). 101177–101177. 19 indexed citations

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

Platko, Khrystyna, Paul Lebeau, Šárka Lhoták, et al.. (2020). TDAG51 (T-Cell Death-Associated Gene 51) Is a Key Modulator of Vascular Calcification and Osteogenic Transdifferentiation of Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells. Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. 40(7). 1664–1679. 12 indexed citations

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Platko, Khrystyna, Paul Lebeau, Jae Hyun Byun, et al.. (2019). GDF10 blocks hepatic PPARγ activation to protect against diet-induced liver injury. Molecular Metabolism. 27. 62–74. 21 indexed citations

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Lebeau, Paul, Jae Hyun Byun, Khrystyna Platko, et al.. (2019). Diet-induced hepatic steatosis abrogates cell-surface LDLR by inducing de novo PCSK9 expression in mice. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(23). 9037–9047. 49 indexed citations

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Lebeau, Paul, et al.. (2019). The trypan blue cellular debris assay: a novel low-cost method for the rapid quantification of cell death. MethodsX. 6. 1174–1180. 25 indexed citations

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Lebeau, Paul, Jae Hyun Byun, Khrystyna Platko, et al.. (2019). Pcsk9 knockout exacerbates diet-induced non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, fibrosis and liver injury in mice. JHEP Reports. 1(6). 418–429. 67 indexed citations

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Al‐Hashimi, Ali, Edward G. Lynn, Šárka Lhoták, et al.. (2018). Anti-GRP78 autoantibodies induce endothelial cell activation and accelerate the development of atherosclerotic lesions. JCI Insight. 3(24). 36 indexed citations

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Lebeau, Paul, et al.. (2018). Pharmacologic inhibition of S1P attenuates ATF6 expression, causes ER stress and contributes to apoptotic cell death. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. 349. 1–7. 24 indexed citations

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Lebeau, Paul, Khrystyna Platko, Ali Al‐Hashimi, et al.. (2018). Loss-of-function PCSK9 mutants evade the unfolded protein response sensor GRP78 and fail to induce endoplasmic reticulum stress when retained. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 293(19). 7329–7343. 30 indexed citations

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Platko, Khrystyna, Paul Lebeau, & Richard C. Austin. (2018). MAPping the kinase landscape of macrophage activation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 293(25). 9910–9911. 3 indexed citations

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Al‐Hashimi, Ali, Paul Lebeau, Šárka Lhoták, et al.. (2017). Autoantibodies against the cell surface–associated chaperone GRP78 stimulate tumor growth via tissue factor. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 292(51). 21180–21192. 18 indexed citations

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Lebeau, Paul, Ali Al‐Hashimi, Sudesh K. Sood, et al.. (2016). Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Ca2+ Depletion Differentially Modulate the Sterol Regulatory Protein PCSK9 to Control Lipid Metabolism. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 292(4). 1510–1523. 38 indexed citations

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Lebeau, Paul. (2007). J.-Cl. Guillebaud : « Comment je suis redevenu chrétien ». Cairn.info. Tome 129(4). 626–630.

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