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Dominique Weil

Dominique Weil

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Genetics

D-Index
67
Citations
16461
World Ranking
2529
National Ranking
115

Overview

Dominique Weil is affiliated with the Institut Pasteur in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology. Their research spans several subfields including Cell Biology, Immunology, Biophysics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their research topics mainly cover RNA modifications and cancer, RNA research and splicing, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, genomics and chromatin dynamics, genomics and phylogenetic studies, protein structure and dynamics, as well as microtubule and mitosis dynamics.

The most frequent publication venues for Dominique Weil include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Molecular Cell

Recent significant papers published by Dominique Weil are:

  • "Inherited deficiency of stress granule ZNFX1 in patients with monocytosis and mycobacterial disease" (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "RNA at the surface of phase-separated condensates impacts their size and number" (2022), Biophysical Journal
  • "Cell-cycle-dependent mRNA localization in P-bodies" (2024), Molecular Cell
  • "Evolution is not Uniform Along Coding Sequences" (2023), Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • "Condensate functionalization with microtubule motors directs their nucleation in space and allows manipulating RNA localization" (2023), The EMBO Journal

Dominique Weil has collaborated frequently with the following coauthors:

  • Adham Safieddine
  • Marie-Noëlle Benassy
  • Audrey Cochard
  • Michel Kress
  • Zoher Gueroui

Best Publications

  • Prelingual Deafness: High Prevalence of a 30delG Mutation in the Connexin 26 Gene

    Françoise Denoyelle;Dominique Weil;Marion A. Maw;Stephen A. Wilcox

  • A human homologue of the Drosophila eyes absent gene underlies Branchio-Oto-Renal (BOR) syndrome and identifies a novel gene family

    Abdelhak S;Kalatzis;Heilig R;Compain S

  • P-Body Purification Reveals the Condensation of Repressed mRNA Regulons

    Arnaud Hubstenberger;Arnaud Hubstenberger;Maïté Courel;Marianne Bénard;Sylvie Souquere

  • Clinical features of the prevalent form of childhood deafness, DFNB1, due to a connexin-26 gene defect: implications for genetic counselling.

    Francoise Denoyelle;Sandrine Marlin;Dominique Weil;Lucien Moatti

  • The autosomal recessive isolated deafness, DFNB2, and the Usher 1B syndrome are allelic defects of the myosin-VIIA gene.

    Dominique Weil;Polonca Küssel;Stéphane Blanchard;Gallia Lévy

  • SIX1 mutations cause branchio-oto-renal syndrome by disruption of EYA1-SIX1-DNA complexes.

    Rainer G. Ruf;Pin-Xian Xu;Derek Silvius;Edgar A. Otto

  • A novel deletion involving the connexin-30 gene, del(GJB6-d13s1854), found in trans with mutations in the GJB2 gene (connexin-26) in subjects with DFNB1 non-syndromic hearing impairment

    F. J. Del Castillo;M. Rodriguez-Ballesteros;A. Alvarez;T. Hutchin

  • Mutations in the gene encoding pejvakin, a newly identified protein of the afferent auditory pathway, cause DFNB59 auditory neuropathy

    Sedigheh Delmaghani;Francisco J del Castillo;Vincent Michel;Michel Leibovici

  • Connexin 26 gene linked to a dominant deafness

    Françoise Denoyelle;Genevieve Lina-Granade;Henri Plauchu;Roberto Bruzzone

  • Usher syndrome type I G (USH1G) is caused by mutations in the gene encoding SANS, a protein that associates with the USH1C protein, harmonin

    Dominique Weil;Aziz El-Amraoui;Saber Masmoudi;Mirna Mustapha

  • Defects in whirlin, a PDZ domain molecule involved in stereocilia elongation, cause deafness in the whirler mouse and families with DFNB31.

    Philomena Mburu;Mirna Mustapha;Anabel Varela;Dominique Weil

  • A core cochlear phenotype in USH1 mouse mutants implicates fibrous links of the hair bundle in its cohesion, orientation and differential growth

    Gaelle Lefèvre;Vincent Michel;Dominique Weil;Léa Lepelletier

  • Clustering of mutations responsible for branchio-oto-renal (BOR) syndrome in the eyes absent homologous region (eyaHR) of EYA1

    Sonia Abdelhak;Vasiliki Kalatzis;Roland Heilig;Sylvie Compain

  • Interactions in the network of Usher syndrome type 1 proteins

    Avital Adato;Vincent Michel;Yoshiaki Kikkawa;Jan Reiners

  • Translationally Repressed mRNA Transiently Cycles through Stress Granules during Stress

    Stephanie Mollet;Nicolas Cougot;Ania Wilczynska;François Dautry

  • An α-Tectorin Gene Defect Causes a Newly Identified Autosomal Recessive Form of Sensorineural Pre-Lingual Non-Syndromic Deafness, DFNB21

    Mirna Mustapha;Dominique Weil;Sébastien Chardenoux;Sanaa Elias

  • Transcription Factor SIX5 Is Mutated in Patients with Branchio-Oto-Renal Syndrome

    Bethan E. Hoskins;Carl H. Cramer;Derek Silvius;Dan Zou

  • Molecular Characterization of the Ankle-Link Complex in Cochlear Hair Cells and Its Role in the Hair Bundle Functioning

    Nicolas Michalski;Vincent Michel;Amel Bahloul;Gaëlle Lefèvre

  • Unravelling the ultrastructure of stress granules and associated P-bodies in human cells

    Sylvie Souquere;Stéphanie Mollet;Michel Kress;François Dautry

  • P-Bodies: Cytosolic Droplets for Coordinated mRNA Storage.

    Nancy Standart;Dominique Weil

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine Petit
Christine Petit Université Paris Cité
Claudine Junien
Claudine Junien INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Christine Petit
Christine Petit Institut Pasteur
Mon-Li Chu
Mon-Li Chu Thomas Jefferson University
Frédéric Gottrand
Frédéric Gottrand University of Lille
Richard J.H. Smith
Richard J.H. Smith University of Iowa
André Mégarbané
André Mégarbané Lebanese American University
Robert Williamson
Robert Williamson University of Melbourne
Jean Weissenbach
Jean Weissenbach Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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