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2023
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Microbiology
Netherlands
2022

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Microbiology

D-Index
112
Citations
53194
World Ranking
222
National Ranking
13

Molecular Biology

D-Index
110
Citations
48865
World Ranking
369
National Ranking
13

Medicine

D-Index
112
Citations
53115
World Ranking
5103
National Ranking
195

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Microbiology in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Ben Berkhout is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research focuses primarily on Medicine, with significant contributions in Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Virology, Immunology, and Epidemiology.

The main topics covered in their body of work include:

  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
  • RNA Research and Splicing

Ben Berkhout has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent venues include:

  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Viruses
  • Journal of Virology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ben Berkhout are:

  • Lila M. Gierasch
  • F. Peter Guengerich
  • Ruma Banerjee
  • Roger Colbran
  • Peter Cresswell

Notable recent publications include:

  • Extinction of all infectious HIV in cell culture by the CRISPR-Cas12a system with only a single crRNA, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Cell-associated HIV-1 RNA predicts viral rebound and disease progression after discontinuation of temporary early ART, 2020, JCI Insight
  • A highly virulent variant of HIV-1 circulating in the Netherlands, 2022, Science
  • SARS-CoV-2 Evolution: On the Sudden Appearance of the Omicron Variant, 2022, Journal of Virology
  • A CRISPR-Cas Cure for HIV/AIDS, 2023, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Identification of a new human coronavirus

    Lia van der Hoek;Krzysztof Pyrc;Maarten F Jebbink;Wilma Vermeulen-Oost

  • Human coronavirus NL63 employs the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus receptor for cellular entry

    Heike Hofmann;Krzysztof Pyrc;Lia van der Hoek;Martina Geier

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Tat trans-activates the human immunodeficiency virus through a nascent RNA target

    Ben Berkhout;Robert H. Silverman;Kuan-Teh Jeang

  • Stabilization of the Soluble, Cleaved, Trimeric Form of the Envelope Glycoprotein Complex of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1

    Rogier W. Sanders;Mika Vesanen;Norbert Schuelke;Aditi Master

  • Towards an HIV cure: a global scientific strategy

    Steven G Deeks;Brigitte Autran;Ben Berkhout;Monsef Benkirane

  • Reduced replication of 3TC-resistant HIV-1 variants in primary cells due to a processivity defect of the reverse transcriptase enzyme.

    N K Back;M Nijhuis;W Keulen;C A Boucher

  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Escapes from RNA Interference-Mediated Inhibition

    Atze T. Das;Thijn R. Brummelkamp;Ellen M. Westerhout;Monique Vink

  • HIV-1 can escape from RNA interference by evolving an alternative structure in its RNA genome

    Ellen M. Westerhout;Marcel Ooms;Monique Vink;Atze T. Das

  • Characterization of a human TAR RNA-binding protein that activates the HIV-1 LTR.

    Anne Gatignol;Alicia Buckler-White;Ben Berkhout;Kuan-Teh Jeang

  • Tet-On Systems For Doxycycline-inducible Gene Expression.

    Atze T. Das;Liliane Tenenbaum;Ben Berkhout

  • The Ebola Virus VP35 Protein Is a Suppressor of RNA Silencing

    Joost Haasnoot;Walter de Vries;Ernst-Jan Geutjes;Marcel Prins

  • Suppression of RNA Interference by Adenovirus Virus-Associated RNA

    M. Gunnar Andersson;P. C. Joost Haasnoot;Ning Xu;Saideh Berenjian

  • Silencing of HIV-1 with RNA Interference: a Multiple shRNA Approach

    Olivier ter Brake;Pavlina Konstantinova;Mustafa Ceylan;Ben Berkhout

  • Croup is associated with the novel coronavirus NL63.

    Lia van der Hoek;Klaus Sure;Gabriele Ihorst;Alexander Stang

  • RNA interference against viruses: strike and counterstrike

    Joost Haasnoot;Ellen M Westerhout;Ben Berkhout

  • Functional differences between the long terminal repeat transcriptional promoters of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 subtypes A through G.

    R. E. Jeeninga;M. Hoogenkamp;M. Armand-Ugon;M. de Baar

  • Immunogenicity of Stabilized HIV-1 Envelope Trimers with Reduced Exposure of Non-neutralizing Epitopes

    Steven W. de Taeye;Gabriel Ozorowski;Alba Torrents de la Peña;Miklos Guttman

  • Functional roles for the TATA promoter and enhancers in basal and Tat-induced expression of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 long terminal repeat.

    B. Berkhout;Kuan-Teh Jeang

Frequent Co-Authors

Rogier W. Sanders
Rogier W. Sanders University of Amsterdam
Suzanne Jurriaans
Suzanne Jurriaans University of Amsterdam
Lia van der Hoek
Lia van der Hoek University of Amsterdam
Krzysztof Pyrc
Krzysztof Pyrc Jagiellonian University
William A. Paxton
William A. Paxton University of Liverpool
Georgios Pollakis
Georgios Pollakis University of Liverpool
Jan M. Prins
Jan M. Prins University of Amsterdam
Kuan-Teh Jeang
Kuan-Teh Jeang National Institutes of Health
John P. Moore
John P. Moore Cornell University
Carine Van Lint
Carine Van Lint Université Libre de Bruxelles

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