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Christophe d'Enfert

Christophe d'Enfert

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Microbiology

D-Index
75
Citations
24909
World Ranking
1480
National Ranking
83

Overview

Christophe d'Enfert is affiliated with the Institut Pasteur in France and specializes in medical research focusing on infectious diseases. Their work extensively covers antifungal resistance and susceptibility, fungal infections and studies, and related aspects of molecular biology and immunology.

Their research spans multiple fields with primary focus areas including:

  • Medicine
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Epidemiology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Food Science
  • Immunology

Within these disciplines, Christophe d'Enfert's key research topics include:

  • Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • Fungal Infections and Studies
  • Probiotics and Fermented Foods
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls
  • Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment

The scientist has contributed to various recent publications, notable among these are:

  • "A SARS-CoV-2-Human Protein-Protein Interaction Map Reveals Drug Targets and Potential Drug-Repurposing" (2020), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "The impact of the Fungus-Host-Microbiota interplay upon Candida albicans infections: current knowledge and new perspectives" (2020), published in FEMS Microbiology Reviews
  • "Smoking changes adaptive immunity with persistent effects" (2024), published in Nature
  • "Candidalysins Are a New Family of Cytolytic Fungal Peptide Toxins" (2022), published in mBio
  • "Candida albicans commensalism in the oral mucosa is favoured by limited virulence and metabolic adaptation" (2022), published in PLoS Pathogens

Christophe d'Enfert frequently collaborates with a group of coauthors, among whom the most consistent contributors are:

  • Sophie Bachellier-Bassi
  • Corinne Maufrais
  • Marie-Elisabeth Bougnoux
  • Mélanie Legrand
  • Murielle Chauvel

Their research has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, with multiple articles published in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • mBio
  • Medical Mycology
  • Gut Microbes
  • Research in Microbiology

Best Publications

  • A SARS-CoV-2 protein interaction map reveals targets for drug repurposing.

    David E. Gordon;Gwendolyn M. Jang;Mehdi Bouhaddou;Jiewei Xu

  • Sequencing of Aspergillus nidulans and comparative analysis with A. fumigatus and A. oryzae

    James E. Galagan;Sarah E. Calvo;Christina Cuomo;Li Jun Ma

  • Genome sequencing and analysis of the versatile cell factory Aspergillus niger CBS 513.88

    Herman J. Pel;Johannes H. De Winde;Johannes H. De Winde;David B. Archer;Paul S. Dyer

  • Autoantibodies neutralizing type I IFNs are present in ~ 4% of uninfected individuals over 70 years old and account for ~ 20% of COVID-19 deaths.

    Paul Bastard;Adrian Gervais;Adrian Gervais;Tom Le Voyer;Tom Le Voyer;Jérémie Rosain;Jérémie Rosain

  • A rapid method for efficient gene replacement in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans

    Marie-Kim Chaveroche;Jean-Marc Ghigo;Christophe d’Enfert

  • NRG1 represses yeast–hypha morphogenesis and hypha‐specific gene expression in Candida albicans

    A.Munir A. Murad;Ping Leng;Melissa Straffon;Jill Wishart

  • Candida albicans biofilms: a developmental state associated with specific and stable gene expression patterns.

    Susana García-Sánchez;Sylvie Aubert;Ismaïl Iraqui;Guilhem Janbon

  • A Human-Curated Annotation of the Candida albicans Genome

    Burkhard R Braun;Marco van het Hoog;Christophe d'Enfert;Mikhail Martchenko

  • Genotypic Evolution of Azole Resistance Mechanisms in Sequential Candida albicans Isolates

    Alix Coste;Anna Selmecki;Anja Forche;Dorothée Diogo

  • Molecular phylogenetics of Candida albicans.

    Frank C. Odds;Marie-Elisabeth Bougnoux;Marie-Elisabeth Bougnoux;Duncan J. Shaw;Judith M. Bain

  • The impact of the Fungus-Host-Microbiota interplay upon Candida albicans infections: current knowledge and new perspectives

    Christophe d'Enfert;Ann-Kristin Kaune;Leovigildo-Rey Alaban;Sayoni Chakraborty;Sayoni Chakraborty

  • Cloning and expression in Escherichia coli of the Klebsiella pneumoniae genes for production, surface localization and secretion of the lipoprotein pullulanase.

    C d'Enfert;A Ryter;A P Pugsley

  • Candidemia and candiduria in critically ill patients admitted to intensive care units in France: incidence, molecular diversity, management and outcome

    Marie-Elisabeth Bougnoux;Guillaume Kac;Philippe Aegerter;Christophe d’Enfert

  • Stage-specific gene expression of Candida albicans in human blood.

    Chantal Fradin;Marianne Kretschmar;Thomas Nichterlein;Claude Gaillardin

  • Transcript profiling in Candida albicans reveals new cellular functions for the transcriptional repressors CaTup1, CaMig1 and CaNrg1.

    A. Munir A. Murad;Christophe D'Enfert;Claude Gaillardin;Helene Tournu

  • Usefulness of Multilocus Sequence Typing for Characterization of Clinical Isolates of Candida albicans

    M.-E. Bougnoux;M.-E. Bougnoux;S. Morand;C. d'Enfert

  • Fungal Spore Germination: Insights from the Molecular Genetics ofAspergillus nidulansandNeurospora crassa

    Christophe d'Enfert

  • Development of a homologous transformation system for the human pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus based on the pyrG gene encoding orotidine 5'-monophosphate decarboxylase.

    Gerhard Weidner;Christophe d'Enfert;Andreas Koch;Pieternella C. Mol

  • Purification and characterization of SAR1p, a small GTP-binding protein required for transport vesicle formation from the endoplasmic reticulum.

    C Barlowe;C d'Enfert;R Schekman

  • Trehalose is required for the acquisition of tolerance to a variety of stresses in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans.

    Sabine Fillinger;Marie-Kim Chaveroche;Patrick van Dijck;Ronald de Vries

  • Collaborative Consensus for Optimized Multilocus Sequence Typing of Candida albicans

    M. E. Bougnoux;Arianna Tavanti;C. Bouchier;Neil Andrew Robert Gow

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernhard Hube
Bernhard Hube Leibniz Association
Carol A. Munro
Carol A. Munro University of Aberdeen
Guilhem Janbon
Guilhem Janbon Institut Pasteur
Christiane Bouchier
Christiane Bouchier Institut Pasteur
Anthony P. Pugsley
Anthony P. Pugsley Institut Pasteur
Alistair J. P. Brown
Alistair J. P. Brown University of Exeter
Dominique Sanglard
Dominique Sanglard University of Lausanne
Ilse D. Jacobsen
Ilse D. Jacobsen Leibniz Association
Judith Berman
Judith Berman Tel Aviv University

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