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Jean-Pierre de Villartay

Jean-Pierre de Villartay

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Immunology

D-Index
60
Citations
13892
World Ranking
3318
National Ranking
156

Molecular Biology

D-Index
59
Citations
13726
World Ranking
2015
National Ranking
71

Overview

Jean-Pierre de Villartay is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their research primarily spans Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Immunology and Microbiology. The subfields they focus on include Molecular Biology, Immunology, Genetics, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Physiology.

Their work addresses several main topics, such as Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders, DNA Repair Mechanisms, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, Blood disorders and treatments, Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence, Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances, and RNA modifications and cancer.

Recent publications by Jean-Pierre de Villartay include:

  • Somatic genetic rescue of a germline ribosome assembly defect, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Base-editing-mediated dissection of a γ-globin cis-regulatory element for the therapeutic reactivation of fetal hemoglobin expression, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Impaired lymphocyte function and differentiation in CTPS1-deficient patients result from a hypomorphic homozygous mutation, 2020, JCI Insight
  • NHP2 deficiency impairs rRNA biogenesis and causes pulmonary fibrosis and Høyeraal-Hreidarsson syndrome, 2020, Human Molecular Genetics
  • Somatic reversion of pathogenic DOCK8 variants alters lymphocyte differentiation and function to effectively cure DOCK8 deficiency, 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation

Jean-Pierre de Villartay frequently publishes in several scientific venues, including:

  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Human Molecular Genetics
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Blood

The scientist collaborates regularly with several co-authors, notably Isabelle Callebaut, Patrick Revy, Despina Moshous, Capucine Pïcard, and Laëtitia Kermasson.

Best Publications

  • Sustained Correction of X-Linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency by ex Vivo Gene Therapy

    Salima Hacein-Bey-Abina;Françoise Le Deist;Frédérique Carlier;Cécile Bouneaud

  • Artemis, a Novel DNA Double-Strand Break Repair/V(D)J Recombination Protein, Is Mutated in Human Severe Combined Immune Deficiency

    Despina Moshous;Isabelle Callebaut;Régina de Chasseval;Barbara Corneo

  • Cernunnos, a novel nonhomologous end-joining factor, is mutated in human immunodeficiency with microcephaly.

    Dietke Buck;Laurent Malivert;Régina de Chasseval;Anne Barraud

  • Impairment of immunity to Candida and Mycobacterium in humans with bi-allelic RORC mutations

    Satoshi Okada;Satoshi Okada;Janet G Markle;Elissa K Deenick;Elissa K Deenick;Federico Mele

  • Metallo-β-lactamase fold within nucleic acids processing enzymes: the β-CASP family

    Isabelle Callebaut;Despina Moshous;Jean‐Paul Mornon;Jean‐Pierre de Villartay

  • Severe combined immunodeficiency. A model disease for molecular immunology and therapy.

    Alain Fischer;Françoise Le Deist;Salima Hacein-Bey-Abina;Isabelle André-Schmutz

  • Partial T and B lymphocyte immunodeficiency and predisposition to lymphoma in patients with hypomorphic mutations in Artemis

    Despina Moshous;Christophe Pannetier;Régina de Chasseval;Françoise le Deist

  • Identical mutations in RAG1 or RAG2 genes leading to defective V(D)J recombinase activity can cause either T-B-severe combined immune deficiency or Omenn syndrome.

    Barbara Corneo;Despina Moshous;Tayfun Güngör;Nicolas Wulffraat

  • Severe combined immunodeficiency and microcephaly in siblings with hypomorphic mutations in DNA ligase IV.

    Dietke Buck;Despina Moshous;Régina de Chasseval;Yunmei Ma

  • Long-term outcome after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation of a single-center cohort of 90 patients with severe combined immunodeficiency

    Bénédicte Neven;Bénédicte Neven;Sandrine Leroy;Sandrine Leroy;Hélène Decaluwe;Francoise Le Deist

  • Defect in Rearrangement of the Most 5′ TCR–Jα Following Targeted Deletion of T Early α (TEA): Implications for TCR α Locus Accessibility

    Isabelle Villey;Danielle Caillol;Françoise Selz;Pierre Ferrier

  • Severe cutaneous papillomavirus disease after haemopoietic stem-cell transplantation in patients with severe combined immune deficiency caused by common γc cytokine receptor subunit or JAK-3 deficiency

    Caroline Laffort;Françoise Le Deist;Françoise Le Deist;Michel Favre;Sophie Caillat-Zucman

  • A human severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) condition with increased sensitivity to ionizing radiations and impaired V(D)J rearrangements defines a new DNA recombination/repair deficiency.

    Nathalie Nicolas;Despina Moshous;Marina Cavazzana-Calvo;Dora Papadopoulo

  • Human RTEL1 deficiency causes Hoyeraal–Hreidarsson syndrome with short telomeres and genome instability

    Tangui Le Guen;Tangui Le Guen;Laurent Jullien;Laurent Jullien;Fabien Touzot;Fabien Touzot;Michael Schertzer

  • A novel immunodeficiency associated with hypomorphic RAG1 mutations and CMV infection.

    Jean-Pierre de Villartay;Annick Lim;Hamoud Al-Mousa;Sophie Dupont

  • JAK2 stimulates homologous recombination and genetic instability: potential implication in the heterogeneity of myeloproliferative disorders.

    Isabelle Plo;Isabelle Plo;Mayuka Nakatake;Mayuka Nakatake;Laurent Malivert;Jean-Pierre de Villartay

  • A Founder Mutation in Artemis, an SNM1-Like Protein, Causes SCID in Athabascan-Speaking Native Americans

    Lanying Li;Despina Moshous;Yungui Zhou;Junhua Wang

  • Role for DNA repair factor XRCC4 in immunoglobulin class switch recombination.

    Pauline Soulas-Sprauel;Pauline Soulas-Sprauel;Gwenaël Le Guyader;Gwenaël Le Guyader;Paola Rivera-Munoz;Paola Rivera-Munoz;Vincent Abramowski;Vincent Abramowski

  • SCID patients with ARTEMIS vs RAG deficiencies following HCT: increased risk of late toxicity in ARTEMIS-deficient SCID.

    Catharina Schuetz;Benedicte Neven;Benedicte Neven;Christopher C. Dvorak;Sandrine Leroy

  • Whole-exome sequencing identifies Coronin-1A deficiency in 3 siblings with immunodeficiency and EBV-associated B-cell lymphoproliferation

    Despina Moshous;Despina Moshous;Despina Moshous;Emmanuel Martin;Emmanuel Martin;Wassila Carpentier;Annick Lim

Frequent Co-Authors

Alain Fischer
Alain Fischer Collège de France
Despina Moshous
Despina Moshous Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital
Françoise Le Deist
Françoise Le Deist University of Montreal
Marina Cavazzana-Calvo
Marina Cavazzana-Calvo Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital
Capucine Picard
Capucine Picard Université Paris Cité
Isabelle Callebaut
Isabelle Callebaut Sorbonne University
Sylvain Latour
Sylvain Latour Institut Imagine
Jean-Laurent Casanova
Jean-Laurent Casanova The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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