Rafael Casellas

18.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
81 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Rafael Casellas is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rafael Casellas has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Molecular Biology, 41 papers in Immunology and 15 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Rafael Casellas's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (26 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (26 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (19 papers). Rafael Casellas is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (26 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (26 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (19 papers). Rafael Casellas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Rafael Casellas's co-authors include Michel C. Nussenzweig, Arito Yamane, Wolfgang Resch, André Nussenzweig, Davide F. Robbiani, Mila Janković, F. Nina Papavasiliou, David Levens, Thiago Y. Oliveira and Eric Meffre and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Rafael Casellas

81 papers receiving 8.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

c-Myc Is a Universal Amplifier of Expressed Genes in Lymphocytes and Embryonic Stem Cells

2012 792 citations Zuqin Nie, Gangqing Hu et al. Cell profile →
AID is required to initiate Nbs1/γ-H2AX focus formation and mutations at sites of class switching

2001 409 citations Rafael Casellas, Michel C. Nussenzweig et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rafael Casellas United States	49	5.6k	3.6k	1.3k	1.0k	638	81	8.7k
Mark S. Schlissel United States	49	4.1k 0.7×	5.2k 1.4×	1.3k 1.0×	746 0.7×	710 1.1×	87	8.5k
Jayanta Chaudhuri United States	37	3.8k 0.7×	2.6k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	497 0.5×	385 0.6×	84	6.0k
Cristina Rada United Kingdom	38	3.2k 0.6×	2.6k 0.7×	534 0.4×	863 0.8×	457 0.7×	57	5.3k
Richard J. Bram United States	35	2.7k 0.5×	3.2k 0.9×	899 0.7×	520 0.5×	775 1.2×	76	6.2k
Katherine L. B. Borden Canada	53	6.6k 1.2×	1.2k 0.3×	930 0.7×	750 0.7×	666 1.0×	118	8.2k
Dale A. Ramsden United States	47	6.5k 1.2×	1.6k 0.5×	1.7k 1.4×	1.1k 1.0×	727 1.1×	106	7.7k
Susanne M.A. Lens Netherlands	47	5.1k 0.9×	2.2k 0.6×	1.9k 1.5×	801 0.8×	333 0.5×	74	8.0k
Bernardo Reina‐San‐Martin France	33	3.5k 0.6×	2.1k 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	677 0.6×	295 0.5×	57	5.2k
Dipanjan Chowdhury United States	49	7.3k 1.3×	1.7k 0.5×	2.5k 1.9×	2.6k 2.5×	864 1.4×	104	9.7k
Jean‐Pierre de Villartay France	48	5.1k 0.9×	4.2k 1.2×	2.3k 1.8×	779 0.7×	1.9k 3.0×	160	9.0k

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Zhao, Haiyan, Natalie Young, Jens Kalchschmidt, et al.. (2021). Structure of mammalian Mediator complex reveals Tail module architecture and interaction with a conserved core. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1355–1355. 36 indexed citations

Dai, Hai‐Qiang, Hongli Hu, Jiangman Lou, et al.. (2021). Loop extrusion mediates physiological Igh locus contraction for RAG scanning. Nature. 590(7845). 338–343. 62 indexed citations

Ye, Xiaofei, Weicheng Ren, Dongbing Liu, et al.. (2020). Genome-wide mutational signatures revealed distinct developmental paths for human B cell lymphomas. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 218(2). 24 indexed citations

Petermann, Franziska, Aleksandra Pękowska, Dragana Janković, et al.. (2019). The Magnitude of IFN-γ Responses Is Fine-Tuned by DNA Architecture and the Non-coding Transcript of Ifng-as1. Molecular Cell. 75(6). 1229–1242.e5. 53 indexed citations

Pękowska, Aleksandra, Bernd Klaus, Nathalie Daigle, et al.. (2018). Gain of CTCF-Anchored Chromatin Loops Marks the Exit from Naive Pluripotency. Cell Systems. 7(5). 482–495.e10. 57 indexed citations

Wang, Qiao, Anna Gazumyan, Joy A. Pai, et al.. (2018). The Chromatin Reader ZMYND8 Regulates Igh Enhancers to Promote Immunoglobulin Class Switch Recombination. Molecular Cell. 72(4). 636–649.e8. 26 indexed citations

Casellas, Rafael, Uttiya Basu, William T. Yewdell, et al.. (2016). Mutations, kataegis and translocations in B cells: understanding AID promiscuous activity. Nature reviews. Immunology. 16(3). 164–176. 131 indexed citations

Aiden, Erez Lieberman & Rafael Casellas. (2015). Somatic Rearrangement in B Cells: It’s (Mostly) Nuclear Physics. Cell. 162(4). 708–711. 11 indexed citations

Teng, Grace, Yaakov Maman, Wolfgang Resch, et al.. (2015). RAG Represents a Widespread Threat to the Lymphocyte Genome. Cell. 162(4). 751–765. 85 indexed citations

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Virgilio, Michela Di, Elsa Callén, Arito Yamane, et al.. (2013). Rif1 Prevents Resection of DNA Breaks and Promotes Immunoglobulin Class Switching. Science. 339(6120). 711–715. 309 indexed citations

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Nie, Zuqin, Gangqing Hu, Gang Wei, et al.. (2012). c-Myc Is a Universal Amplifier of Expressed Genes in Lymphocytes and Embryonic Stem Cells. Cell. 151(1). 68–79. 792 indexed citations breakdown →

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Oliveira, Thiago Y., Wolfgang Resch, Mila Janković, et al.. (2011). Translocation capture sequencing: A method for high throughput mapping of chromosomal rearrangements. Journal of Immunological Methods. 375(1-2). 176–181. 22 indexed citations

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Daniel, J., Margarida A. Santos, Zhibin Wang, et al.. (2010). PTIP Promotes Chromatin Changes Critical for Immunoglobulin Class Switch Recombination. Science. 329(5994). 917–923. 115 indexed citations

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Aiba, Yuichi, Kohei Kometani, Saya Moriyama, et al.. (2010). Preferential localization of IgG memory B cells adjacent to contracted germinal centers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(27). 12192–12197. 98 indexed citations

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Yamane, Arito, Wolfgang Resch, Stefan Kuchen, et al.. (2010). Deep-sequencing identification of the genomic targets of the cytidine deaminase AID and its cofactor RPA in B lymphocytes. Nature Immunology. 12(1). 62–69. 222 indexed citations

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Ji, Yanhong, Wolfgang Resch, Elizabeth Corbett, et al.. (2010). The In Vivo Pattern of Binding of RAG1 and RAG2 to Antigen Receptor Loci. Cell. 141(3). 419–431. 220 indexed citations

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Takizawa, Makiko, Zhiyu Li, Wendy Dubois, et al.. (2008). AID expression levels determine the extent of cMyc oncogenic translocations and the incidence of B cell tumor development. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 205(9). 1949–1957. 108 indexed citations

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Furumoto, Yasuko, Ana Olivera, Yasuomi Takagi, et al.. (2006). Cutting Edge: Lentiviral Short Hairpin RNA Silencing of PTEN in Human Mast Cells Reveals Constitutive Signals That Promote Cytokine Secretion and Cell Survival. The Journal of Immunology. 176(9). 5167–5171. 65 indexed citations

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Nagaoka, Hitoshi, Ziva Misulovin, Eric Meffre, et al.. (1999). RAG Expression in B Cells in Secondary Lymphoid Tissues. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 64(0). 207–210. 9 indexed citations

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Casellas, Rafael & Ali H. Brivanlou. (1998). Xenopus Smad7 inhibits both the activin and BMP pathways and acts as a neural inducer. Developmental Biology. 198(1). 1–12. 10 indexed citations

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