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Jacques Le Pendu

Jacques Le Pendu

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Microbiology

D-Index
52
Citations
10884
World Ranking
4183
National Ranking
243

Overview

Jacques Le Pendu is affiliated with the University of Nantes in France and focuses their research on the intersections of medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work notably spans subfields such as infectious diseases, genetics, hematology, immunology, and animal science and zoology.

Their scholarly contributions cover a range of topics including viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, diabetes and associated disorders, blood groups and transfusion, virus-based gene therapy research, animal virus infections studies, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, and immunotherapy and immune responses.

Le Pendu has published in various scientific journals with a concentration of work appearing in Frontiers in Microbiology and Viruses. Other venues include Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd, PLoS Pathogens, and the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Le Pendu include Adrien Breiman, Nathalie Ruvoën-Clouet, Béatrice Le Moullac-Vaidye, Jézabel Rocher, and Marie Deleers.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Le Pendu are:

  • ABO Blood Types and COVID-19: Spurious, Anecdotal, or Truly Important Relationships? A Reasoned Review of Available Data, 2021, Viruses
  • Harnessing the natural anti-glycan immune response to limit the transmission of enveloped viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, 2020, PLoS Pathogens
  • Covid-19 and blood groups: ABO antibody levels may also matter, 2020, International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • ABO Blood Group Incompatibility Protects Against SARS-CoV-2 Transmission, 2022, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • FUT2, Secretor Status and FUT3 Polymorphisms of Children with Acute Diarrhea Infected with Rotavirus and Norovirus in Brazil, 2020, Viruses

Best Publications

  • Norwalk Virus: How Infectious Is It?

    Peter F.M. Teunis;Christine L. Moe;Pengbo Liu;Sara E. Miller

  • Norwalk Virus Binds to Histo-Blood Group Antigens Present on Gastroduodenal Epithelial Cells of Secretor Individuals

    Severine Marionneau;Nathalie Ruvoën;Nathalie Ruvoën;Beatrice Le Moullac–Vaidye;Monique Clement

  • Rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD) and rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV): a review.

    Joana Abrantes;Joana Abrantes;Wessel van der Loo;Jacques Le Pendu;Pedro J Esteves

  • Inhibition of the interaction between the SARS-CoV Spike protein and its cellular receptor by anti-histo-blood group antibodies

    Patrice Guillon;Monique Clément;Véronique Sébille;Jean Gérard Rivain

  • ABH and Lewis histo-blood group antigens, a model for the meaning of oligosaccharide diversity in the face of a changing world

    Séverine Marionneau;Anne Cailleau-Thomas;Jézabel Rocher;Béatrice Le Moullac-Vaidye

  • Cell attachment protein VP8* of a human rotavirus specifically interacts with A-type histo-blood group antigen

    Liya Hu;Sue E. Crawford;Rita Czako;Nicolas W. Cortes-Penfield

  • Norwalk virus-specific binding to oyster digestive tissues.

    Françoise S. Le Guyader;Fabienne Loisy;Robert L. Atmar;Anne M. Hutson

  • ABH and Lewis histo‐blood group antigens in cancer

    Jacques Le Pendu;Séverine Marionneau;Anne Cailleau-Thomas;Jézabel Rocher

  • Transmission of viruses through shellfish : when specific ligands come into play

    Françoise S Le Guyader;Robert L Atmar;Jacques Le Pendu

  • Mendelian resistance to human norovirus infections.

    Jacques Le Pendu;Nathalie Ruvoën-Clouet;Elin Kindberg;Lennart Svensson

  • Proposal for a unified classification system and nomenclature of lagoviruses.

    Jacques Le Pendu;Joana Abrantes;Stéphane Bertagnoli;Jean Sébastien Guitton

  • Distribution in tissue and seasonal variation of norovirus genogroup I and II ligands in oysters.

    Haifa Maalouf;Maha Zakhour;Jacques Le Pendu;Jean-Claude Le Saux

  • The wide utility of rabbits as models of human diseases

    Pedro J. Esteves;Joana Abrantes;Hanna Mari Baldauf;Lbachir BenMohamed

  • A FUT2 Gene Common Polymorphism Determines Resistance to Rotavirus A of the P[8] Genotype

    Berthe-Marie Imbert-Marcille;Laure Barbé;Mathilde Dupé;Béatrice Le Moullac-Vaidye

  • Strain-Dependent Norovirus Bioaccumulation in Oysters

    Haifa Maalouf;Julien Schaeffer;Sylvain Parnaudeau;Jacques Le Pendu

  • Influence of the Combined ABO, FUT2 and FUT3 Polymorphism on Susceptibility to Norwalk Virus Attachment

    Séverine Marionneau;Fabrice Airaud;Nicolai V. Bovin;Jacques Le Pendu

  • Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the binding of GII.4 norovirus variants onto human blood group antigens.

    A. de Rougemont;N. Ruvoen-Clouet;B. Simon;M. Estienney

  • Histo-blood group antigen and human milk oligosaccharides: genetic polymorphism and risk of infectious diseases.

    Jacques Le Pendu

  • Histo-blood group antigens act as attachment factors of rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus infection in a virus strain-dependent manner.

    Kristina Nyström;Ghislaine Le Gall-Reculé;Paola Grassi;Joana Abrantes

  • Fut2-null mice display an altered glycosylation profile and impaired BabA-mediated Helicobacter pylori adhesion to gastric mucosa

    Ana Magalhães;Joana Gomes;Mohd Nazri Ismail;Stuart M Haslam

  • Harnessing the natural anti-glycan immune response to limit the transmission of enveloped viruses such as SARS-CoV-2.

    Adrien Breiman;Nathalie Ruvën-Clouet;Nathalie Ruvën-Clouet;Jacques Le Pendu

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicolai V. Bovin
Nicolai V. Bovin Russian Academy of Sciences
Celso A. Reis
Celso A. Reis University of Porto
Laura E. Via
Laura E. Via National Institutes of Health
Göran Larson
Göran Larson University of Gothenburg
Anne Imberty
Anne Imberty Grenoble Alpes University
Lennart Svensson
Lennart Svensson Karolinska Institute
Sue E. Crawford
Sue E. Crawford Baylor College of Medicine
Mary K. Estes
Mary K. Estes Baylor College of Medicine
Anne Dell
Anne Dell Imperial College London
Antonio Lavazza
Antonio Lavazza Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna "Bruno Ubertini"

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