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Guy G. Poirier

Guy G. Poirier

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Biology and Biochemistry
Canada
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
103
Citations
50506
World Ranking
1292
National Ranking
35

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Guy G. Poirier is affiliated with Université Laval in Canada and works primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their research spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Oncology, Physiology, Immunology, and Cell Biology.

The scientist's work addresses a range of main topics including PARP inhibition in cancer therapy, DNA repair mechanisms, calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism, CRISPR and genetic engineering, integrated circuits and semiconductor failure analysis, nuclear structure and function, and microtubule and mitosis dynamics.

Recent publications by Guy G. Poirier include:

  • ADP-ribosyltransferases, an update on function and nomenclature (2021), published in FEBS Journal
  • The SARS-CoV-2 Conserved Macrodomain Is a Mono-ADP-Ribosylhydrolase (2020), published in Journal of Virology
  • Platelets release mitochondrial antigens in systemic lupus erythematosus (2021), published in Science Translational Medicine
  • CARM1 regulates replication fork speed and stress response by stimulating PARP1 (2021), published in Molecular Cell
  • PARP1 associates with R-loops to promote their resolution and genome stability (2023), published in Nucleic Acids Research

The scientist has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, notably Jean-Philippe Gagné with 24 joint works, Jean-Yves Masson with 7, Valina L. Dawson with 5, Louis Nonfoux with 4, and Ted M. Dawson with 4 co-authored publications.

Guy G. Poirier's research appears regularly in certain publication venues, with the most frequent being bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) where they have 7 publications, followed by Nucleic Acids Research with 5 publications. Other venues include Journal of Visualized Experiments and Nature Communications, each with 2 publications, and FEBS Journal with 1 publication.

Best Publications

  • Cleavage of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase by a proteinase with properties like ICE

    Y. A. Lazebnik;S. H. Kaufmann;S. Desnoyers;G. G. Poirier

  • Yama/CPP32β, a mammalian homolog of CED-3, is a CrmA-inhibitable protease that cleaves the death substrate poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase

    Muneesh Tewari;Long T Quan;Karen O'Rourke;Serge Desnoyers

  • Specific Proteolytic Cleavage of Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase: An Early Marker of Chemotherapy-induced Apoptosis

    Scott H. Kaufmann;Serge Desnoyers;Yvonne Ottaviano;Nancy E. Davidson

  • POLY(ADP-RIBOSYL)ATION REACTIONS IN THE REGULATION OF NUCLEAR FUNCTIONS

    Damien d'AMOURS;Serge Desnoyers;Icy d'SILVA;Guy G. Poirier

  • Mediation of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1-dependent cell death by apoptosis-inducing factor.

    Seong Woon Yu;Hongmin Wang;Marc F. Poitras;Carmen Coombs

  • PARP inhibition: PARP1 and beyond

    Michèle Rouleau;Anand Patel;Michael J. Hendzel;Scott H. Kaufmann

  • Apoptosis-inducing factor mediates poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) polymer-induced cell death

    Seong-Woon Yu;Shaida A. Andrabi;Hongmin Wang;Hongmin Wang;No Soo Kim

  • Post-translational modification of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase induced by DNA strand breaks.

    Tomas Lindahl;Masahiko S. Satoh;Guy G. Poirier;Arne Klungland

  • Molecular ordering of the cell death pathway. Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL function upstream of the CED-3-like apoptotic proteases.

    Arul M. Chinnaiyan;Kim A Orth;Karen O'Rourke;Hangjun Duan

  • Poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) polymer is a death signal

    Shaida A. Andrabi;No Soo Kim;Seong-Woon Yu;Seong-Woon Yu;Hongmin Wang;Hongmin Wang

  • Studies of the lamin proteinase reveal multiple parallel biochemical pathways during apoptotic execution

    Yuri A. Lazebnik;Atsushi Takahashi;Robert D. Moir;Robert D. Goldman

  • PARP1-dependent Kinetics of Recruitment of MRE11 and NBS1 Proteins to Multiple DNA Damage Sites

    Jean-François Haince;Darin McDonald;Amélie Rodrigue;Ugo Déry

  • Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation of polynucleosomes causes relaxation of chromatin structure.

    G G Poirier;G de Murcia;J Jongstra-Bilen;C Niedergang

  • Cleavage of lamin A by Mch2 alpha but not CPP32: multiple interleukin 1 beta-converting enzyme-related proteases with distinct substrate recognition properties are active in apoptosis.

    Atsushi Takahashi;Emad S. Alnemri;Yuri A. Lazebnik;Yuri A. Lazebnik;Teresa Fernandes-Alnemri

  • Zinc is a potent inhibitor of the apoptotic protease, caspase-3. A novel target for zinc in the inhibition of apoptosis.

    David K. Perry;Mirrian J. Smyth;Mirrian J. Smyth;Henning R. Stennicke;Guy S. Salvesen

  • Cleavage of automodified poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase during apoptosis. Evidence for involvement of caspase-7.

    Marc Germain;El Bachir Affar;Damien D'Amours;Vishva M. Dixit

  • ATM‐dependent telomere loss in aging human diploid fibroblasts and DNA damage lead to the post‐translational activation of p53 protein involving poly(ADP‐ribose) polymerase

    Homayoun Vaziri;Michael D. West;Richard C. Allsopp;Timothy S. Davison

  • The Baculovirus p35 Protein Inhibits Fas- and Tumor Necrosis Factor-induced Apoptosis

    David R. Beidler;Muneesh Tewari;Paul D. Friesen;Guy Poirier

  • Systematic Analysis of the Protein Interaction Network for the Human Transcription Machinery Reveals the Identity of the 7SK Capping Enzyme

    Célia Jeronimo;Diane Forget;Annie Bouchard;Qintong Li

  • PARP-1, a determinant of cell survival in response to DNA damage

    Véronique J. Bouchard;Michèle Rouleau;Guy G. Poirier

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Hendzel
Michael J. Hendzel University of Alberta
Valina L. Dawson
Valina L. Dawson Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Ted M. Dawson
Ted M. Dawson Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Jean-Yves Masson
Jean-Yves Masson Université Laval
William C. Earnshaw
William C. Earnshaw University of Edinburgh
Fang-Xiang Wu
Fang-Xiang Wu University of Saskatchewan
Claude Prigent
Claude Prigent University of Rennes
Fernand Labrie
Fernand Labrie Université Laval

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