Xavier Deupí

8.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
79 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Xavier Deupí is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Xavier Deupí has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Molecular Biology, 47 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 13 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Xavier Deupí's work include Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (63 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (21 papers) and Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (21 papers). Xavier Deupí is often cited by papers focused on Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (63 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (21 papers) and Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (21 papers). Xavier Deupí collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Spain. Xavier Deupí's co-authors include Brian K. Kobilka, Gebhard F. X. Schertler, Christopher G. Tate, M. Madan Babu, AJ Venkatakrishnan, Guillaume Lebon, Leonardo Pardo, Jörg Standfuss, Mireia Olivella and Gayathri Swaminath and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Xavier Deupí

77 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

Molecular signatures of G-protein-coupled receptors

2013 1.2k citations Xavier Deupí, Christopher G. Tate et al. profile →
Conformational complexity of G-protein-coupled receptors

2007 543 citations Brian K. Kobilka, Xavier Deupí profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xavier Deupí Switzerland	39	5.5k	3.4k	857	526	503	79	6.2k
Arun K. Shukla India	37	5.3k 1.0×	3.1k 0.9×	738 0.9×	619 1.2×	601 1.2×	101	6.1k
Brian T. DeVree United States	13	5.4k 1.0×	3.0k 0.9×	1.0k 1.2×	487 0.9×	514 1.0×	17	5.8k
Isolde Le Trong United States	30	5.8k 1.1×	3.3k 1.0×	752 0.9×	308 0.6×	390 0.8×	55	7.4k
Craig A. Behnke United States	19	5.8k 1.1×	3.4k 1.0×	575 0.7×	284 0.5×	397 0.8×	26	6.8k
Daniel H. Arlow United States	17	5.4k 1.0×	2.2k 0.7×	657 0.8×	550 1.0×	720 1.4×	20	6.1k
Ellen Y. T. Chien United States	16	5.0k 0.9×	2.4k 0.7×	952 1.1×	447 0.8×	614 1.2×	20	5.9k
Jesper Mosolff Mathiesen Denmark	24	4.6k 0.8×	3.0k 0.9×	694 0.8×	362 0.7×	421 0.8×	45	5.2k
Hee‐Jung Choi South Korea	30	9.2k 1.7×	4.2k 1.3×	1.5k 1.7×	659 1.3×	944 1.9×	96	10.4k
David E. Gloriam Denmark	38	6.9k 1.3×	3.7k 1.1×	1.0k 1.2×	592 1.1×	1.2k 2.4×	107	8.6k
Francesca Fanelli Italy	39	4.6k 0.9×	2.5k 0.7×	530 0.6×	310 0.6×	722 1.4×	164	6.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xavier Deupí

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Sen, Saumik, Makoto Iwasaki, Gebhard F. X. Schertler, et al.. (2025). Coral anthozoan-specific opsins employ a novel chloride counterion for spectral tuning. eLife. 14.

Guixà-González, Ramón, Lukas Grätz, Michael Hennig, et al.. (2025). Cyclic peptide inhibitors function as molecular glues to stabilize Gq/11 heterotrimers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(19). e2418398122–e2418398122. 1 indexed citations

Sen, Saumik, Makoto Iwasaki, Gebhard F. X. Schertler, et al.. (2025). Coral anthozoan-specific opsins employ a novel chloride counterion for spectral tuning. eLife. 14. 1 indexed citations

Pamula, Filip, Mitsumasa Koyanagi, Takashi Nagata, et al.. (2024). Active state structures of a bistable visual opsin bound to G proteins. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8928–8928. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Jinling, Roger Benoit, Xavier Deupí, et al.. (2024). Development of radiofluorinated MLN-4760 derivatives for PET imaging of the SARS-CoV-2 entry receptor ACE2. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 52(1). 9–21. 5 indexed citations

Tsai, Ching‐Ju, Filip Pamula, Kenneth N. Goldie, et al.. (2021). Structural basis of the activation of the CC chemokine receptor 5 by a chemokine agonist. Science Advances. 7(25). 46 indexed citations

Wilhelm, Patrick, Cornelia Walther, Roger Schibli, et al.. (2020). Distance-Dependent Cellular Uptake of Oligoproline-Based Homobivalent Ligands Targeting GPCRs—An Experimental and Computational Analysis. Bioconjugate Chemistry. 31(10). 2431–2438. 4 indexed citations

Munk, Christian, Eshita Mutt, Vignir Ísberg, et al.. (2019). An online resource for GPCR structure determination and analysis. Nature Methods. 16(2). 151–162. 98 indexed citations

Nagata, Takashi, Mitsumasa Koyanagi, Hisao Tsukamoto, et al.. (2019). The counterion–retinylidene Schiff base interaction of an invertebrate rhodopsin rearranges upon light activation. Communications Biology. 2(1). 180–180. 32 indexed citations

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Varma, Niranjan, Eshita Mutt, Valérie Panneels, et al.. (2019). Crystal structure of jumping spider rhodopsin-1 as a light sensitive GPCR. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(29). 14547–14556. 48 indexed citations

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Mayer, Daniel, Fred F. Damberger, Ziva Vuckovic, et al.. (2019). Distinct G protein-coupled receptor phosphorylation motifs modulate arrestin affinity and activation and global conformation. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1261–1261. 81 indexed citations

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Tsai, Ching‐Ju, Filip Pamula, Rony Nehmé, et al.. (2018). Crystal structure of rhodopsin in complex with a mini-G_osheds light on the principles of G protein selectivity. Science Advances. 4(9). eaat7052–eaat7052. 52 indexed citations

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Olivella, Mireia, Marlous Hoogstraat, Ángel González, et al.. (2018). GPCR-SAS: A web application for statistical analyses on G protein-coupled receptors sequences. PLoS ONE. 13(7). e0199843–e0199843. 5 indexed citations

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Singhal, Ankita, Ying Guo, Milos Matkovic, et al.. (2016). Structural role of the T94I rhodopsin mutation in congenital stationary night blindness. EMBO Reports. 17(10). 1431–1440. 30 indexed citations

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Wu, Wenting, Przemysław Nogły, Jan Rheinberger, et al.. (2015). Batch crystallization of rhodopsin for structural dynamics using an X-ray free-electron laser. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology Communications. 71(7). 856–860. 13 indexed citations

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Jaussi, Rolf, et al.. (2014). Functional map of arrestin-1 at single amino acid resolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(5). 1825–1830. 49 indexed citations

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Nakaie, Clóvis R., et al.. (2008). Characterization of a conformationally sensitive TOAC spin-labeled substance P. Peptides. 29(11). 1919–1929. 9 indexed citations

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Swaminath, Gayathri, Xavier Deupí, Tae Weon Lee, et al.. (2005). Probing the β2 Adrenoceptor Binding Site with Catechol Reveals Differences in Binding and Activation by Agonists and Partial Agonists. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(23). 22165–22171. 223 indexed citations

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Deupí, Xavier, Mireia Olivella, Cédric Govaerts, et al.. (2004). Ser and Thr Residues Modulate the Conformation of Pro-Kinked Transmembrane α-Helices. Biophysical Journal. 86(1). 105–115. 76 indexed citations

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Ballesteros‐Cánovas, Juan Antonio, Xavier Deupí, Mireia Olivella, Eric Haaksma, & Leonardo Pardo. (2000). Serine and Threonine Residues Bend α-Helices in the χ1=g− Conformation. Biophysical Journal. 79(5). 2754–2760. 153 indexed citations

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