| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Toxic metal accumulation, responses to exposure and mechanisms of tolerance in plants | Biochimie | 2006 | 1,584 |
| 2 | WWW-query: An on-line retrieval system for biological sequence banks | Biochimie | 1996 | 1,386 |
| 3 | SREBP transcription factors: master regulators of lipid homeostasis | Biochimie | 2004 | 1,191 |
| 4 | Bacteriocins of lactic acid bacteria | Biochimie | 1988 | 1,176 |
| 5 | Fatty acid biosynthesis in microorganisms being used for Single Cell Oil production | Biochimie | 2004 | 962 |
| 6 | Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species in cell death signaling | Biochimie | 2002 | 925 |
| 7 | Cadmium: cellular effects, modifications of biomolecules, modulation of DNA repair and genotoxic consequences (a review) | Biochimie | 2006 | 802 |
| 8 | Degradation of oxidized proteins by the 20S proteasome | Biochimie | 2001 | 788 |
| 9 | Positive and negative regulation of insulin signaling through IRS-1 phosphorylation | Biochimie | 2005 | 742 |
| 10 | Kinetic amplification of enzyme discrimination | Biochimie | 1975 | 709 |
| 11 | Molecular mechanisms of neurotoxin action on voltage-gated sodium channels | Biochimie | 2000 | 656 |
| 12 | The permeability transition pore complex: another view | Biochimie | 2002 | 650 |
| 13 | Plant ‘pathogenesis-related’ proteins and their role in defense against pathogens | Biochimie | 1993 | 623 |
| 14 | Polyunsaturated fatty acids and inflammatory processes: New twists in an old tale | Biochimie | 2009 | 609 |
| 15 | The expanding snoRNA world | Biochimie | 2002 | 596 |
| 16 | The dsRNA protein kinase PKR: Virus and cell control | Biochimie | 2007 | 552 |
| 17 | Targeting telomeres and telomerase | Biochimie | 2008 | 538 |
| 18 | Comparison of fungal mitochondrial introns reveals extensive homologies in RNA secondary structure | Biochimie | 1982 | 528 |
| 19 | Exosome lipidomics unravels lipid sorting at the level of multivesicular bodies | Biochimie | 2007 | 485 |
| 20 | The role of MAPKs in adipocyte differentiation and obesity | Biochimie | 2005 | 477 |
| 21 | The human sialyltransferase family | Biochimie | 2001 | 474 |
| 22 | Apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF): a novel caspase-independent death effector released from mitochondria | Biochimie | 2002 | 472 |
| 23 | Snake venom metalloproteinases:Their role in the pathogenesis of local tissue damage | Biochimie | 2000 | 469 |
| 24 | Regulation of macroautophagy by mTOR and Beclin 1 complexes | Biochimie | 2008 | 460 |
| 25 | The pyocins of Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Biochimie | 2002 | 459 |
| 26 | DNA repair-deficient diseases, xeroderma pigmentosum, Cockayne syndrome and trichothiodystrophy | Biochimie | 2003 | 446 |
| 27 | The human colon carcinoma cell lines HT-29 and Caco-2: Two in vitro models for the study of intestinal differentiation | Biochimie | 1986 | 438 |
| 28 | Construction of a vector plasmid family and its use for molecular cloning in Streptococcus lactis | Biochimie | 1988 | 426 |
| 29 | How botulinum and tetanus neurotoxins block neurotransmitter release**This paper is dedicated to the memory of Heiner Niemann. | Biochimie | 2000 | 422 |
| 30 | The family of subtilisin/kexin like pro-protein and pro-hormone convertases: Divergent or shared functions | Biochimie | 1994 | 417 |
| 31 | Structures, folding patterns, and functions of intramolecular DNA G-quadruplexes found in eukaryotic promoter regions | Biochimie | 2008 | 415 |
| 32 | Neutrophil elastase, proteinase 3 and cathepsin G: Physicochemical properties, activity and physiopathological functions | Biochimie | 2008 | 405 |
| 33 | Potential role and therapeutic interests of myo-inositol in metabolic diseases | Biochimie | 2013 | 404 |
| 34 | Antimicrobial properties of lactoferrin | Biochimie | 2009 | 392 |
| 35 | PML and PML nuclear bodies: Implications in antiviral defence | Biochimie | 2007 | 390 |
| 36 | Polymorphism of human telomeric quadruplex structures | Biochimie | 2008 | 382 |
| 37 | The Apaf-1 apoptosome: a large caspase-activating complex | Biochimie | 2002 | 379 |
| 38 | Galectins as modulators of cell adhesion | Biochimie | 2001 | 370 |
| 39 | The CRISPR-Cas immune system: Biology, mechanisms and applications | Biochimie | 2015 | 367 |
| 40 | Characterization of differentiated and dedifferentiated clones from a rat hepatoma | Biochimie | 1975 | 363 |
| 41 | The human adipose tissue is a source of multipotent stem cells | Biochimie | 2005 | 360 |
| 42 | Chloramphenicol, erythromycin, carbomycin and vernamycin B protect overlapping sites in the peptidyl transferase region of 23S ribosomal RNA | Biochimie | 1987 | 349 |
| 43 | The role of Ca2+-dependent proteases (calpains) in post mortem proteolysis and meat tenderness | Biochimie | 1992 | 347 |
| 44 | The glycation of albumin: Structural and functional impacts | Biochimie | 2011 | 347 |
| 45 | Cysteine cathepsins: Cellular roadmap to different functions | Biochimie | 2008 | 341 |
| 46 | Genome-wide transcriptome profiling of the early cadmium response of Arabidopsis roots and shoots | Biochimie | 2006 | 335 |
| 47 | Potential of bacteriocin-producing lactic acid bacteria for improvements in food safety and quality | Biochimie | 2002 | 333 |
| 48 | Repair of DNA double strand breaks by non-homologous end joining | Biochimie | 2003 | 330 |
| 49 | Cellular and molecular mechanisms of senescent erythrocyte phagocytosis by macrophages. A review | Biochimie | 1998 | 325 |
| 50 | Hydrophobic cluster analysis: procedures to derive structural and functional information from 2-D-representation of protein sequences | Biochimie | 1990 | 322 |
