Sigrid Nachtergaele

10.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Sigrid Nachtergaele is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sigrid Nachtergaele has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Cancer Research and 2 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Sigrid Nachtergaele's work include RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers), Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies (6 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers). Sigrid Nachtergaele is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers), Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies (6 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers). Sigrid Nachtergaele collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Taiwan. Sigrid Nachtergaele's co-authors include Chuan He, Rajat Rohatgi, Douglas F. Covey, Christian Siebold, Qing Dai, Kathiresan Krishnan, Giovanni Luchetti, Zhike Lu, Siqing Wang and Yang Shi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Sigrid Nachtergaele

17 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

The dynamic N1-methyladenosine methylome in eukaryotic me... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 2017 250 500 750
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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.

  1. The dynamic N1-methyladenosine methylome in eukaryotic messenger RNA
    2016 766 citations Dan Dominissini, Sigrid Nachtergaele et al. Nature profile →
  2. RNA m6A methylation regulates the ultraviolet-induced DNA damage response
    2017 683 citations Yang Xiang, Benoît Laurent et al. Nature profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sigrid Nachtergaele United States 16 2.8k 967 227 214 203 18 3.0k
Qing Lin United States 23 1.9k 0.7× 200 0.2× 373 1.6× 141 0.7× 121 0.6× 42 2.4k
Pritha Ray India 26 1.8k 0.6× 285 0.3× 482 2.1× 256 1.2× 450 2.2× 78 2.8k
Fabio Cerignoli United States 22 1.1k 0.4× 231 0.2× 95 0.4× 145 0.7× 293 1.4× 30 1.6k
Xin Ye China 18 2.4k 0.9× 857 0.9× 54 0.2× 64 0.3× 249 1.2× 50 3.5k
Kim De Keersmaecker Belgium 32 1.9k 0.7× 601 0.6× 131 0.6× 56 0.3× 491 2.4× 67 3.1k
Xinlin Du United States 15 2.6k 1.0× 751 0.8× 118 0.5× 93 0.4× 205 1.0× 21 3.2k
Taranjit S. Gujral United States 22 1.0k 0.4× 218 0.2× 82 0.4× 98 0.5× 462 2.3× 58 1.9k
Haiquan Lu United States 19 1.9k 0.7× 1.3k 1.4× 57 0.3× 100 0.5× 660 3.3× 52 2.7k
Wanglai Hu China 18 1.1k 0.4× 681 0.7× 45 0.2× 57 0.3× 372 1.8× 42 1.6k
Dan Dominissini Israel 24 8.4k 3.1× 3.9k 4.0× 124 0.5× 251 1.2× 468 2.3× 39 8.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sigrid Nachtergaele

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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Nachtergaele, Sigrid, et al.. (2024). A user guide to RT-based mapping of RNA modifications. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 705. 51–79.
2.
Gilbert, Wendy V. & Sigrid Nachtergaele. (2023). mRNA Regulation by RNA Modifications. Annual Review of Biochemistry. 92(1). 175–198. 74 indexed citations
3.
Kinnebrew, Maia, Rachel E. Woolley, T. Bertie Ansell, et al.. (2022). Patched 1 regulates Smoothened by controlling sterol binding to its extracellular cysteine-rich domain. Science Advances. 8(22). eabm5563–eabm5563. 31 indexed citations
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Schaening-Burgos, Cassandra, María F. Rojas-Durán, Loren C. Wilson, et al.. (2022). Transcriptome-wide mapping reveals a diverse dihydrouridine landscape including mRNA. PLoS Biology. 20(5). e3001622–e3001622. 29 indexed citations
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Nachtergaele, Sigrid & Yamuna Krishnan. (2021). New Vistas for Cell-Surface GlycoRNAs. New England Journal of Medicine. 385(7). 658–660. 12 indexed citations
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Zhou, Huiqing, Simone Rauch, Qing Dai, et al.. (2019). Evolution of a reverse transcriptase to map N1-methyladenosine in human messenger RNA. Nature Methods. 16(12). 1281–1288. 142 indexed citations
7.
Nachtergaele, Sigrid & Chuan He. (2018). Chemical Modifications in the Life of an mRNA Transcript. Annual Review of Genetics. 52(1). 349–372. 155 indexed citations
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Xiang, Yang, Benoît Laurent, Chih-Hung Hsu, et al.. (2017). RNA m6A methylation regulates the ultraviolet-induced DNA damage response. Nature. 543(7646). 573–576. 683 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nachtergaele, Sigrid & Chuan He. (2016). The emerging biology of RNA post-transcriptional modifications. RNA Biology. 14(2). 156–163. 167 indexed citations
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Byrne, Eamon F.X., Ria Sircar, Paul S. Miller, et al.. (2016). Structural basis of Smoothened regulation by its extracellular domains. Nature. 535(7613). 517–522. 268 indexed citations
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Dominissini, Dan, Sigrid Nachtergaele, Sharon Moshitch-Moshkovitz, et al.. (2016). The dynamic N1-methyladenosine methylome in eukaryotic messenger RNA. Nature. 530(7591). 441–446. 766 indexed citations breakdown →
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Luchetti, Giovanni, Ria Sircar, Jennifer H. Kong, et al.. (2016). Cholesterol activates the G-protein coupled receptor Smoothened to promote Hedgehog signaling. eLife. 5. 191 indexed citations
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Marada, Suresh, Gemma Navarro, Daniel P. Stewart, et al.. (2015). Functional Divergence in the Role of N-Linked Glycosylation in Smoothened Signaling. PLoS Genetics. 11(8). e1005473–e1005473. 39 indexed citations
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Peyrot, Sara M., Sigrid Nachtergaele, Giovanni Luchetti, et al.. (2014). Tracking the Subcellular Fate of 20(S)-Hydroxycholesterol with Click Chemistry Reveals a Transport Pathway to the Golgi. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(16). 11095–11110. 20 indexed citations
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Nachtergaele, Sigrid, Daniel M. Whalen, Laurel K. Mydock, et al.. (2013). Structure and function of the Smoothened extracellular domain in vertebrate Hedgehog signaling. eLife. 2. e01340–e01340. 124 indexed citations
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Nachtergaele, Sigrid, Laurel K. Mydock, Kathiresan Krishnan, et al.. (2012). Oxysterols are allosteric activators of the oncoprotein Smoothened. Nature Chemical Biology. 8(2). 211–220. 211 indexed citations
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Bodnarchuk, Maryna I., Liang Li, Alice Fok, et al.. (2011). Three-Dimensional Nanocrystal Superlattices Grown in Nanoliter Microfluidic Plugs. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 133(23). 8956–8960. 54 indexed citations
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Li, Liang, Sigrid Nachtergaele, Annela M. Seddon, et al.. (2008). Simple Host−Guest Chemistry To Modulate the Process of Concentration and Crystallization of Membrane Proteins by Detergent Capture in a Microfluidic Device. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130(43). 14324–14328. 24 indexed citations

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