Sandrine Sagan

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
120 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Sandrine Sagan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Microbiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sandrine Sagan has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 112 papers in Molecular Biology, 32 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 31 papers in Microbiology. Recurrent topics in Sandrine Sagan's work include RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (56 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (46 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (32 papers). Sandrine Sagan is often cited by papers focused on RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (56 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (46 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (32 papers). Sandrine Sagan collaborates with scholars based in France, Burundi and United States. Sandrine Sagan's co-authors include Chérine Bechara, Gérard Chassaing, Fabienne Burlina, Isabel D. Alves, Solange Lavielle, Astrid Walrant, Gérard Bolbach, Chenyu Jiao, Diane Delaroche and Pierre Nicolas and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Sandrine Sagan

119 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sandrine Sagan France	37	3.8k	998	765	441	426	120	4.8k
Kalina Hristova United States	47	6.4k 1.7×	1.5k 1.5×	937 1.2×	596 1.4×	531 1.2×	188	8.1k
Alexey S. Ladokhin United States	36	4.0k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	278 0.4×	244 0.6×	374 0.9×	117	4.9k
Enríque Pérez‐Payá Spain	41	3.3k 0.9×	756 0.8×	405 0.5×	791 1.8×	525 1.2×	151	5.3k
Toshihide Takeuchi Japan	34	4.3k 1.1×	630 0.6×	236 0.3×	562 1.3×	428 1.0×	62	5.4k
Gérard Chassaing France	40	6.7k 1.8×	1.4k 1.4×	1.1k 1.4×	516 1.2×	1.2k 2.8×	165	8.2k
F. Heitz France	46	6.5k 1.7×	915 0.9×	337 0.4×	736 1.7×	388 0.9×	142	7.5k
Isabel D. Alves France	33	2.3k 0.6×	567 0.6×	379 0.5×	247 0.6×	177 0.4×	86	2.9k
Durba Sengupta India	27	2.6k 0.7×	555 0.6×	440 0.6×	198 0.4×	349 0.8×	88	3.4k
Makoto Demura Japan	37	2.0k 0.5×	479 0.5×	1.3k 1.7×	1.1k 2.6×	143 0.3×	180	4.0k
May C. Morris France	36	5.2k 1.4×	586 0.6×	169 0.2×	536 1.2×	327 0.8×	104	6.3k

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Bauzá, Antonio, et al.. (2025). Hydrophobic and Polarized Aromatic Residues Promote Internalization of Arg‐Rich Cell‐Penetrating Peptides through Ionpair‐π Interactions. Chemistry - A European Journal. 31(41). e202501138–e202501138. 2 indexed citations

Marquant, Rodrigue, Françoise Illien, Delphine Ravault, et al.. (2025). Translocation of penetratin-like peptides involving calcium-dependent interactions between glycosaminoglycans and phosphocholine headgroups of the membrane lipid bilayer. RSC Chemical Biology. 6(9). 1391–1402.

Walrant, Astrid, et al.. (2025). Molecular aspects of cell-penetrating peptides: key amino acids, membrane partners, and non-covalent interactions. Comptes Rendus Chimie. 28(G1). 37–51. 4 indexed citations

Aubry, S., et al.. (2024). 36th European Peptide Symposium. Journal of Peptide Science. 30(S1). 1 indexed citations

Walrant, Astrid, Delphine Ravault, Sylvie Noinville, et al.. (2024). Incorporation of CF₃-pseudoprolines into polyproline type II foldamers confers promising biophysical features. Chemical Communications. 60(65). 8609–8612. 3 indexed citations

Bolbach, Gérard, Chrystel Lopin‐Bon, Jean‐Claude Jacquinet, et al.. (2023). A cationic motif upstream Engrailed2 homeodomain controls cell internalization through selective interaction with heparan sulfates. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1998–1998. 5 indexed citations

Walrant, Astrid, et al.. (2022). Tryptophan, more than just an interfacial amino acid in the membrane activity of cationic cell-penetrating and antimicrobial peptides. Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics. 55. e10–e10. 42 indexed citations

Ravault, Delphine, Françoise Illien, Sandrine Sagan, et al.. (2022). Structural Bases for the Involvement of Phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate in the Internalization of the Cell-Penetrating Peptide Penetratin. ACS Chemical Biology. 17(6). 1427–1439. 9 indexed citations

Szabó, Ildikò, Françoise Illien, Gabriella Tóth, et al.. (2022). Cell-Penetrating Dabcyl-Containing Tetraarginines with Backbone Aromatics as Uptake Enhancers. Pharmaceutics. 15(1). 141–141. 8 indexed citations

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Szabó, Ildikò, Beáta Biri‐Kovács, Bálint Szeder, et al.. (2021). Modification of Short Non‐Permeable Peptides to Increase Cellular Uptake and Cytostatic Activity of Their Conjugates. ChemistrySelect. 6(38). 10111–10120. 7 indexed citations

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Sachon, Emmanuelle, Astrid Walrant, Sandrine Sagan, Sophie Cribier, & Nicolás Rodríguez. (2021). Binding and crossing: Methods for the characterization of membrane-active peptides interactions with membranes at the molecular level. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 699. 108751–108751. 2 indexed citations

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Masuda, Toshihiro, H. Hirose, Astrid Walrant, et al.. (2020). An Artificial Amphiphilic Peptide Promotes Endocytic Uptake by Inducing Membrane Curvature. Bioconjugate Chemistry. 31(6). 1611–1615. 10 indexed citations

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Trichet, Michaël, Rosamaria Lappano, Isabel D. Alves, et al.. (2020). Interaction of the Anti-Proliferative GPER Inverse Agonist ERα17p with the Breast Cancer Cell Plasma Membrane: From Biophysics to Biology. Cells. 9(2). 447–447. 7 indexed citations

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Illien, Françoise, et al.. (2019). Head to tail cyclisation of cell-penetrating peptides: impact on GAG-dependent internalisation and direct translocation. Chemical Communications. 55(31). 4566–4569. 21 indexed citations

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Kirschbaum, Carla, Gilles Clodic, Lucrèce Mathéron, et al.. (2019). Benzophenone Photoreactivity in a Lipid Bilayer To Probe Peptide/Membrane Interactions: Simple System, Complex Information. Analytical Chemistry. 91(14). 9102–9110. 9 indexed citations

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Brisse, Romain, Dominique Guianvarc’h, Christelle Mansuy, et al.. (2018). Probing the in-air growth of large area of 3D functional structures into a 2D supramolecular nanoporous network. Chemical Communications. 54(72). 10068–10071. 8 indexed citations

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Bolbach, Gérard, et al.. (2014). Label-free measurement of histone lysine methyltransferases activity by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Analytical Biochemistry. 456. 25–31. 17 indexed citations

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Sagan, Sandrine, et al.. (2004). N- and Cα-Methylation in Biologically Active Peptides: Synthesis, Structural and Functional Aspects. Current Medicinal Chemistry. 11(21). 2799–2822. 80 indexed citations

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Sagan, Sandrine, et al.. (1991). Dermenkephalin and deltorphin I reveal similarities within ligand-binding domains of μ- and δ-opioid receptors and an additional address subsite on the δ-receptor. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 179(3). 1161–1168. 30 indexed citations

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Sagan, Sandrine, et al.. (1989). Differential contribution of C-terminal regions of dermorphin and dermenkephalin to opioid-sites selection and binding potency. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 163(2). 726–732. 55 indexed citations

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