2026 Jean-François Collet: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	52	16764	15393	282	252	163	8905

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Current World Ranking

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Biology and Biochemistry

16764

15393

282

252

163

8905

Biology and Biochemistry

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Citations

8905

World Ranking

16764

National Ranking

282

Overview

Jean-François Collet is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Ecology among other related subfields.

Their scientific work spans various topics, including:

Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
Enzyme Structure and Function
Heat shock proteins research

Jean-François Collet has published multiple recent papers in well-regarded journals. Some notable publications include:

Lipoprotein Lpp regulates the mechanical properties of the E. coli cell envelope, 2020, Nature Communications
Lipoproteins in Gram-negative bacteria: new insights into their biogenesis, subcellular targeting and functional roles, 2021, Current Opinion in Microbiology
The importance of naturally attenuated SARS-CoV-2 in the fight against COVID-19, 2020, Environmental Microbiology
β-Barrels covalently link peptidoglycan and the outer membrane in the α-proteobacterium Brucella abortus, 2020, Nature Microbiology
Structural insight into the formation of lipoprotein-β-barrel complexes, 2020, Nature Chemical Biology

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. The most common coauthors include:

Camille Goemans
Bogdan I. Iorga
Seung-Hyun Cho
Han Remaut
Didier Vertommen

Their work is also regularly published in specific venues, with repeated contributions to:

Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Current Opinion in Microbiology
Nature Communications
Nature Microbiology

Best Publications

Oxidative stress, protein damage and repair in bacteria

Benjamin Ezraty;Alexandra Gennaris;Frédéric Barras;Jean-François Collet

983
Citations
Structure, function and mechanism of thioredoxin proteins

Jean François Collet;Joris Messens;Joris Messens

445
Citations
A new class of phosphotransferases phosphorylated on an aspartate residue in an amino-terminal DXDX(T/V) motif.

Jean-François Collet;Vincent Stroobant;Michel Pirard;Ghislain Delpierre

308
Citations
Oxidative protein folding in bacteria

Jean Francois Collet;James C A Bardwell

282
Citations
Sequence of a putative glucose 6‐phosphate translocase, mutated in glycogen storage disease type Ib

Isabelle Gerin;Maria Veiga-Da-Cunha;Younes Achouri;Jean François Collet

246
Citations
Pathways of disulfide bond formation in Escherichia coli

Joris Messens;Jean François Collet

214
Citations
A Periplasmic Reducing System Protects Single Cysteine Residues from Oxidation

Matthieu Depuydt;Stephen E. Leonard;Didier Vertommen;Katleen Denoncin

214
Citations
Detecting Envelope Stress by Monitoring β-Barrel Assembly

Seung-Hyun Cho;Joanna Szewczyk;Christina Pesavento;Matylda Zietek

207
Citations
How Proteins Form Disulfide Bonds

Matthieu Depuydt;Joris Messens;Joris Messens;Jean François Collet

203
Citations
Repairing oxidized proteins in the bacterial envelope using respiratory chain electrons

Alexandra Gennaris;Benjamin Ezraty;Camille Henry;Rym Agrebi

188
Citations
Copper Stress Causes an in Vivo Requirement for the Escherichia coli Disulfide Isomerase DsbC

Annie Hiniker;Jean Francois Collet;James C A Bardwell

178
Citations
Characterization of the role of the Escherichia coli periplasmic chaperone SurA using differential proteomics

Didier Vertommen;Natividad Ruiz;Pauline Leverrier;Thomas J. Silhavy

176
Citations
Folding mechanisms of periplasmic proteins

Camille Goemans;Katleen Denoncin;Jean-François Collet

154
Citations
Mechanistic studies of phosphoserine phosphatase, an enzyme related to P-type ATPases.

Jean-François Collet;Vincent Stroobant;Emile Van Schaftingen

144
Citations
Polycomb repressive complex 2 and H3K27me3 cooperate with H3K9 methylation to maintain heterochromatin protein 1α at chromatin.

Joanna Boros;Nausica Arnoult;Vincent Stroobant;Jean-François Collet

140
Citations
Disulfide bond formation in the bacterial periplasm: major achievements and challenges ahead.

Katleen Denoncin;Jean-François Collet

138
Citations
Communication across the bacterial cell envelope depends on the size of the periplasm.

Abir T. Asmar;Josie L. Ferreira;Eli J. Cohen;Seung Hyun Cho

130
Citations
Reconstitution of a Disulfide Isomerization System

Jean François Collet;Jean François Collet;Jan Riemer;Martin W. Bader;James C A Bardwell

126
Citations
Isolation of bacteria envelope proteins

Shu Quan;Annie Hiniker;Jean François Collet;James C A Bardwell

120
Citations
Lpp, the Braun lipoprotein, turns 50-major achievements and remaining issues.

Abir T Asmar;Jean-François Collet

116
Citations