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Artur Scherf

Artur Scherf

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Genetics
France
2024

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Genetics

D-Index
66
Citations
14838
World Ranking
2623
National Ranking
121

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in France Leader Award
  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Artur Scherf is affiliated with the Institut Pasteur in France. Their research spans several fields including Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Immunology and Microbiology. The subfields of their work involve Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Parasitology, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's publication record includes contributions to a variety of topics, prominently in Malaria Research and Control, Mosquito-borne diseases and control, Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Complement system in diseases, HIV Research and Treatment, and RNA modifications and cancer.

Artur Scherf has published frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), mBio, Nature Communications, eLife, and Current Opinion in Microbiology. Their recent papers include:

  • Exploring the virulence gene interactome with CRISPR / dC as9 in the human malaria parasite, 2020, Molecular Systems Biology
  • CRISPR Interference of a Clonally Variant GC-Rich Noncoding RNA Family Leads to General Repression of var Genes in Plasmodium falciparum, 2020, mBio
  • Procainamide-SAHA Fused Inhibitors of hHDAC6 Tackle Multidrug-Resistant Malaria Parasites, 2021, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • Repurposing of Plasmodium falciparum var genes beyond the blood stage, 2022, Current Opinion in Microbiology
  • Functional Characterization of the m 6 A-Dependent Translational Modulator PfYTH.2 in the Human Malaria Parasite, 2021, mBio

The scientist collaborates with several frequent co-authors including Flore Nardella, Aurélie Claës, Paola B. Arimondo, Jessica M. Bryant, and Sebastian Baumgarten.

Artur Scherf is a member of prestigious scientific organizations. They have been recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea since 2012 and hold membership with the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Antigenic variation in malaria: in situ switching, relaxed and mutually exclusive transcription of var genes during intra‐erythrocytic development in Plasmodium falciparum

    A. Scherf;R. Hernandez‐Rivas;P. Buffet;E. Bottius

  • Genome editing in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum using the CRISPR-Cas9 system

    Mehdi Ghorbal;Molly Gorman;Cameron Ross Macpherson;Rafael Miyazawa Martins

  • Frequent ectopic recombination of virulence factor genes in telomeric chromosome clusters of P. falciparum

    Lúcio H. Freitas-Junior;Emmanuel Bottius;Lindsay A. Pirrit;Kirk W. Deitsch

  • Telomeric Heterochromatin Propagation and Histone Acetylation Control Mutually Exclusive Expression of Antigenic Variation Genes in Malaria Parasites

    Lucio H. Freitas-Junior;Rosaura Hernandez-Rivas;Stuart A. Ralph;Dvorak Montiel-Condado

  • Heterochromatin Silencing and Locus Repositioning Linked to Regulation of Virulence Genes in Plasmodium falciparum

    Manoj T. Duraisingh;Till S. Voss;Allison J. Marty;Allison J. Marty;Michael F. Duffy

  • Antigenic Variation in Plasmodium falciparum

    Artur Scherf;Jose Juan Lopez-Rubio;Loïc Riviere

  • Genome-wide Analysis of Heterochromatin Associates Clonally Variant Gene Regulation with Perinuclear Repressive Centers in Malaria Parasites

    Jose Juan Lopez-Rubio;Liliana Mancio-Silva;Artur Scherf

  • Plasmodium falciparum domain mediating adhesion to chondroitin sulfate A: A receptor for human placental infection

    Pierre A. Buffet;Benoit Gamain;Christine Scheidig;Dror Baruch

  • Molecules on the surface of the Plasmodium falciparum infected erythrocyte and their role in malaria pathogenesis and immune evasion.

    Alister Craig;Artur Scherf

  • Sir2 paralogues cooperate to regulate virulence genes and antigenic variation in Plasmodium falciparum.

    Christopher J Tonkin;Céline K Carret;Céline K Carret;Manoj T Duraisingh;Manoj T Duraisingh;Till S Voss

  • 5′ flanking region of var genes nucleate histone modification patterns linked to phenotypic inheritance of virulence traits in malaria parasites

    Jose Juan Lopez-Rubio;Alisson M. Gontijo;Marta C. Nunes;Neha Issar

  • PfSETvs methylation of histone H3K36 represses virulence genes in Plasmodium falciparum

    Lubin Jiang;Jianbing Mu;Qingfeng Zhang;Qingfeng Zhang;Qingfeng Zhang;Ting Ni

  • Antigenic variation in Plasmodium falciparum is associated with movement of var loci between subnuclear locations

    Stuart A. Ralph;Christine Scheidig-Benatar;Artur Scherf

  • METHODS IN MALARIA RESEARCH

    Artur Scherf;Mats Wahlgren

  • A single member of the Plasmodium falciparum var multigene family determines cytoadhesion to the placental receptor chondroitin sulphate A

    Nicola K Viebig;Benoit Gamain;Christine Scheidig;Catherine Lépolard

  • Persistence and activation of malaria hypnozoites in long-term primary hepatocyte cultures

    Laurent Dembélé;Jean-François Franetich;Audrey Lorthiois;Audrey Gego

  • Silence, activate, poise and switch! Mechanisms of antigenic variation in Plasmodium falciparum

    Julien Guizetti;Artur Scherf

  • Plasmodium falciparum heterochromatin protein 1 binds to tri-methylated histone 3 lysine 9 and is linked to mutually exclusive expression of var genes

    Karla Pérez-Toledo;Ana Paola Rojas-Meza;Liliana Mancio-Silva;Nora Adriana Hernández-Cuevas

  • Full-length extracellular region of the var2CSA variant of PfEMP1 is required for specific, high-affinity binding to CSA

    Anand Srivastava;Stéphane Gangnard;Adam Round;Sébastien Dechavanne

  • Identification of Multiple Chondroitin Sulfate A (CSA)–Binding Domains in the var2CSA Gene Transcribed in CSA-Binding Parasites

    Benoit Gamain;Adama R. Trimnell;Christine Scheidig;Artur Scherf

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter R. Preiser
Peter R. Preiser Nanyang Technological University
Joseph D. Smith
Joseph D. Smith University of Washington
Stuart A. Ralph
Stuart A. Ralph University of Melbourne
Matthew J. Fuchter
Matthew J. Fuchter Imperial College London
Christian Doerig
Christian Doerig RMIT University
Michael Lanzer
Michael Lanzer University Hospital Heidelberg
Dominique Mazier
Dominique Mazier Sorbonne University
Manoj T. Duraisingh
Manoj T. Duraisingh Harvard University
Jean-Yves Coppée
Jean-Yves Coppée Institut Pasteur

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