Sacha Lucchini

7.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
42 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Sacha Lucchini is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sacha Lucchini has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Ecology and 22 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Sacha Lucchini's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (22 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (22 papers) and Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (16 papers). Sacha Lucchini is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (22 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (22 papers) and Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (16 papers). Sacha Lucchini collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and Ireland. Sacha Lucchini's co-authors include Jay C. D. Hinton, Arthur R. Thompson, Kai Papenfort, Jörg Vogel, Frank Desiere, Harald Brüssow, Sofia Eriksson, Mikael Rhen, Verena Pfeiffer and Gary Rowley and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Sacha Lucchini

42 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Unravelling the biology of macrophage infection by gene expression profiling of intracellular Salmonella enterica

2002 696 citations Sofia Eriksson, Sacha Lucchini et al. Molecular Microbiology profile →
Lag Phase Is a Distinct Growth Phase That Prepares Bacteria for Exponential Growth and Involves Transient Metal Accumulation

2011 499 citations Matthew D. Rolfe, Christopher J. Rice et al. Journal of Bacteriology profile →
Deep Sequencing Analysis of Small Noncoding RNA and mRNA Targets of the Global Post-Transcriptional Regulator, Hfq

2008 447 citations Sacha Lucchini, Kai Papenfort et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sacha Lucchini United Kingdom	36	3.0k	2.1k	1.9k	1.2k	1.1k	42	5.3k
James M. Slauch United States	42	1.9k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	1.7k 0.9×	2.1k 1.7×	2.0k 1.8×	76	5.6k
Kai Papenfort Germany	37	5.3k 1.7×	2.5k 1.2×	3.3k 1.7×	575 0.5×	1.3k 1.2×	66	7.0k
Stephen J. Libby United States	42	2.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	1.7k 0.9×	2.3k 1.9×	2.0k 1.8×	68	5.8k
Frank Kunst France	44	3.6k 1.2×	1.5k 0.7×	2.5k 1.3×	800 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	76	7.4k
E. Fidelma Boyd United States	42	2.0k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	785 0.4×	1.7k 1.4×	2.8k 2.5×	97	5.1k
Donald G. Guiney United States	39	1.8k 0.6×	848 0.4×	968 0.5×	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	73	5.0k
Mickaël Desvaux France	40	3.2k 1.0×	901 0.4×	961 0.5×	1.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	102	6.3k
R. Martin Roop United States	37	3.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	1.5k 1.4×	81	7.6k
Claus Sternberg Denmark	31	5.0k 1.7×	1.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	406 0.3×	1.1k 1.0×	55	7.1k
Marie Touchon France	42	4.4k 1.4×	2.9k 1.4×	1.4k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	76	7.3k

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Rolfe, Matthew D., Christopher J. Rice, Sacha Lucchini, et al.. (2011). Lag Phase Is a Distinct Growth Phase That Prepares Bacteria for Exponential Growth and Involves Transient Metal Accumulation. Journal of Bacteriology. 194(3). 686–701. 499 indexed citations breakdown →

Alston, Mark, et al.. (2010). BABAR: an R package to simplify the normalisation of common reference design microarray-based transcriptomic datasets. BMC Bioinformatics. 11(1). 73–73. 10 indexed citations

King, Thea, Sacha Lucchini, Jay C. D. Hinton, & Kari S. Gobius. (2010). Transcriptomic Analysis of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and K-12 Cultures Exposed to Inorganic and Organic Acids in Stationary Phase Reveals Acidulant- and Strain-Specific Acid Tolerance Responses. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 76(19). 6514–6528. 82 indexed citations

Hamilton, Shea, Roy J. Bongaerts, Francis Mulholland, et al.. (2009). The transcriptional programme of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium reveals a key role for tryptophan metabolism in biofilms. BMC Genomics. 10(1). 599–599. 103 indexed citations

Lucchini, Sacha, Paul J. McDermott, Arthur R. Thompson, & Jay C. D. Hinton. (2009). The H‐NS‐like protein StpA represses the RpoS (σ ³⁸ ) regulon during exponential growth of Salmonella Typhimurium. Molecular Microbiology. 74(5). 1169–1186. 45 indexed citations

Pfeiffer, Verena, Kai Papenfort, Sacha Lucchini, Jay C. D. Hinton, & Jörg Vogel. (2009). Coding sequence targeting by MicC RNA reveals bacterial mRNA silencing downstream of translational initiation. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 16(8). 840–846. 240 indexed citations

Papenfort, Kai, Nelly Said, Tim Welsink, et al.. (2009). Specific and pleiotropic patterns of mRNA regulation by ArcZ, a conserved, Hfq‐dependent small RNA. Molecular Microbiology. 74(1). 139–158. 178 indexed citations

Lucchini, Sacha, Karyn P. Ridgway, Udo Wegmann, et al.. (2008). A short-oligonucleotide microarray that allows improved detection of gastrointestinal tract microbial communities. BMC Microbiology. 8(1). 195–195. 15 indexed citations

Lucchini, Sacha, Gary Rowley, Martin Goldberg, et al.. (2006). H-NS Mediates the Silencing of Laterally Acquired Genes in Bacteria. PLoS Pathogens. 2(8). e81–e81. 445 indexed citations

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Papenfort, Kai, Verena Pfeiffer, Franziska Mika, et al.. (2006). σ^E‐dependent small RNAs of Salmonella respond to membrane stress by accelerating global omp mRNA decay. Molecular Microbiology. 62(6). 1674–1688. 295 indexed citations

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Lucchini, Sacha, Liu Hong, Qi Jin, Jay C. D. Hinton, & Jun Yu. (2004). Transcriptional Adaptation ofShigella flexneriduring Infection of Macrophages and Epithelial Cells: Insights into the Strategies of a Cytosolic Bacterial Pathogen. Infection and Immunity. 73(1). 88–102. 136 indexed citations

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Clements, Mark O., Sofia Eriksson, Arthur R. Thompson, et al.. (2002). Polynucleotide phosphorylase is a global regulator of virulence and persistency in Salmonella enterica. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(13). 8784–8789. 143 indexed citations

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Thompson, Arthur R., Sacha Lucchini, & Jay C. D. Hinton. (2001). It's easy to build your own microarrayer!. Trends in Microbiology. 9(4). 154–156. 17 indexed citations

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Desiere, Frank, Sacha Lucchini, & Harald Brüssow. (1999). Comparative Sequence Analysis of the DNA Packaging, Head, and Tail Morphogenesis Modules in the Temperate cos-Site Streptococcus thermophilus Bacteriophage Sfi21. Virology. 260(2). 244–253. 51 indexed citations

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Lucchini, Sacha, et al.. (1999). Similarly Organized Lysogeny Modules in Temperate Siphoviridae from Low GC Content Gram-Positive Bacteria. Virology. 263(2). 427–435. 70 indexed citations

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Lucchini, Sacha, Frank Desiere, & Harald Brüssow. (1999). The Genetic Relationship between Virulent and Temperate Streptococcus thermophilus Bacteriophages: Whole Genome Comparison of cos-Site Phages Sfi19 and Sfi21. Virology. 260(2). 232–243. 49 indexed citations

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Lucchini, Sacha, Frank Desiere, & Harald Brüssow. (1998). The Structural Gene Module inStreptococcus thermophilusBacteriophage φSfi11 Shows a Hierarchy of Relatedness to Siphoviridae from a Wide Range of Bacterial Hosts. Virology. 246(1). 63–73. 52 indexed citations

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Foley, Sophie, et al.. (1998). A Short Noncoding Viral DNA Element Showing Characteristics of a Replication Origin Confers Bacteriophage Resistance toStreptococcus thermophilus. Virology. 250(2). 377–387. 55 indexed citations

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Desiere, Frank, Sacha Lucchini, Anne Bruttin, Marie-Camille Zwahlen, & Harald Brüssow. (1997). A Highly Conserved DNA Replication Module fromStreptococcus thermophilusPhages Is Similar in Sequence and Topology to a Module fromLactococcus lactisPhages. Virology. 234(2). 372–382. 38 indexed citations

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Bruttin, Anne, Frank Desiere, Sacha Lucchini, Sophie Foley, & Harald Brüssow. (1997). Characterization of the Lysogeny DNA Module from the TemperateStreptococcus thermophilusBacteriophage φSfi21. Virology. 233(1). 136–148. 75 indexed citations

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