2026 Sonia Longhi: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	64	9799	9044	350	323	211	12836

Overview

Sonia Longhi is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France and has contributed extensively to research within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their work primarily focuses on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Ecology, Materials Chemistry, and Infectious Diseases, encompassing a total of 65 publications in the broad domain of Biochemistry and related fields.

The scientist's research delves deeply into topics such as Protein Structure and Dynamics, Virology and Viral Diseases, and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions. Additional research themes include mechanisms of RNA and protein synthesis, Enzyme Structure and Function, RNA Research and Splicing, and Viral Infections and Vectors.

Sonia Longhi has authored papers published in several notable venues, including:

International Journal of Molecular Sciences
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Biomolecules
Nucleic Acids Research
Biophysical Journal

Among recent publications are:

"Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation by Intrinsically Disordered Protein Regions of Viruses: Roles in Viral Life Cycle and Control of Virus-Host Interactions", 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
"DisProt in 2022: improved quality and accessibility of protein intrinsic disorder annotation", 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
"PED in 2021: a major update of the protein ensemble database for intrinsically disordered proteins", 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
"DisProt in 2024: improving function annotation of intrinsically disordered proteins", 2023, Nucleic Acids Research
"Structural and dynamics analysis of intrinsically disordered proteins by high-speed atomic force microscopy", 2020, Nature Nanotechnology

The scientist collaborates frequently with several researchers including Christophe Bignon, Frank Gondelaud, Stefania Brocca, Giulia Pesce, and Edoardo Salladini. Collaboration counts with these co-authors range from 9 to 19 joint publications.

Best Publications

Introducing Protein Intrinsic Disorder.

Johnny Habchi;Peter Tompa;Peter Tompa;Sonia Longhi;Sonia Longhi;Vladimir N. Uversky;Vladimir N. Uversky

754
Citations
Assessing protein disorder and induced folding.

Véronique Receveur-Bréchot;Jean-Marie Bourhis;Vladimir N Uversky;Vladimir N Uversky;Bruno Canard

502
Citations
The severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus replicative protein nsp9 is a single-stranded RNA-binding subunit unique in the RNA virus world

Marie Pierre Egloff;François Ferron;Valérie Campanacci;Sonia Longhi

349
Citations
A Practical Overview of Protein Disorder Prediction Methods

François Ferron;Sonia Longhi;Bruno Canard;David Karlin

339
Citations
The C-terminal Domain of the Measles Virus Nucleoprotein Is Intrinsically Disordered and Folds upon Binding to the C-terminal Moiety of the Phosphoprotein

Sonia Longhi;Véronique Receveur-Bréchot;David Karlin;Kenth Johansson

337
Citations
DisProt 7.0: a major update of the database of disordered proteins.

Damiano Piovesan;Francesco Tabaro;Francesco Tabaro;Ivan Micetic;Marco Necci

337
Citations
What's in a name? Why these proteins are intrinsically disordered: Why these proteins are intrinsically disordered.

A Keith Dunker;M Madan Babu;Elisar Barbar;Martin Blackledge

319
Citations
Atomic resolution (1.0 A) crystal structure of Fusarium solani cutinase: stereochemical analysis.

Sonia Longhi;Mirjam Czjzek;Victor Lamzin;Anne Nicolas

292
Citations
Cytosolic 5′-Triphosphate Ended Viral Leader Transcript of Measles Virus as Activator of the RIG I-Mediated Interferon Response

Sébastien Plumet;Florence Herschke;Jean-Marie Bourhis;Hélène Valentin

253
Citations
Exploring hydrophobic sites in proteins with xenon or krypton.

Thierry Prangé;Marc Schiltz;Lucile Pernot;Nathalie Colloc'h

232
Citations
Structural disorder in viral proteins.

Bin Xue;David Blocquel;David Blocquel;Johnny Habchi;Johnny Habchi;Alexey V Uversky

217
Citations
Intrinsic disorder in measles virus nucleocapsids

Malene Ringkjøbing Jensen;Guillaume Communie;Euripedes Almeida Ribeiro;Nicolas Martinez

208
Citations
Structural disorder and modular organization in Paramyxovirinae N and P

David Karlin;François Ferron;Bruno Canard;Sonia Longhi

198
Citations
The C-terminal domain of measles virus nucleoprotein belongs to the class of intrinsically disordered proteins that fold upon binding to their physiological partner ☆

Jean Marie Bourhis;Kenth Johansson;Véronique Receveur-Bréchot;Christopher J. Oldfield

194
Citations
The intrinsically disordered C-terminal domain of the measles virus nucleoprotein interacts with the C-terminal domain of the phosphoprotein via two distinct sites and remains predominantly unfolded.

Jean-Marie Bourhis;Véronique Receveur-Bréchot;Michael Oglesbee;Xinsheng Zhang

193
Citations
Crystal structure of the measles virus phosphoprotein domain responsible for the induced folding of the C-terminal domain of the nucleoprotein.

Kenth Johansson;Jean-Marie Bourhis;Valerie Campanacci;Christian Cambillau

190
Citations
Molecular cloning of the cDNA encoding laccase from Pycnoporus cinnabarinus I-937 and expression in Pichia pastoris.

Ludovic Otterbein;Eric Record;Sonia Longhi;Marcel Asther

185
Citations
Structure-activity of cutinase, a small lipolytic enzyme.

Sonia Longhi;Christian Cambillau

176
Citations
Rules Governing Selective Protein Carbonylation

Etienne Maisonneuve;Adrien Ducret;Pierre Khoueiry;Sabrina Lignon

169
Citations
Cloning and analysis of Candida cylindracea lipase sequences.

Marina Lotti;Rita Grandori;Fabrizia Fusetti;Sonia Longhi

161
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