| The last universal common ancestor: emergence, constitution and genetic legacy of an elusive forerunner N Glansdorff, Y Xu, B Labedan Biology direct 3, 1-35, 2008 | 340 | 2008 |
| Evolution of glutamate dehydrogenase genes: evidence for two paralogous protein families and unusual branching patterns of the archaebacteria in the universal tree of life N Benachenhou-Lahfa, P Forterre, B Labedan Journal of Molecular Evolution 36, 335-346, 1993 | 180 | 1993 |
| Protein evolution viewed through Escherichia coli protein sequences: introducing the notion of a structural segment of homology, the module M Riley, B Labedan Journal of molecular biology 268 (5), 857-868, 1997 | 152 | 1997 |
| The nature of the last universal ancestor and the root of the tree of life, still open questions P Forterre, N Benachenhou-Lahfa, F Confalonieri, M Duguet, C Elie, ... Biosystems 28 (1-3), 15-32, 1992 | 151 | 1992 |
| Surprising arginine biosynthesis: a reappraisal of the enzymology and evolution of the pathway in microorganisms Y Xu, B Labedan, N Glansdorff Microbiology and molecular biology reviews 71 (1), 36-47, 2007 | 131 | 2007 |
| Requirement for membrane potential in injection of phage T4 DNA. B Labedan, EB Goldberg Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 76 (9), 4669-4673, 1979 | 108 | 1979 |
| E. coli gene products: physiological functions and common ancestries M Riley, B Labedan Escherichia coli and Salmonella: cellular and molecular biology, 2118-2202, 1996 | 87 | 1996 |
| The evolutionary history of carbamoyltransferases: a complex set of paralogous genes was already present in the last universal common ancestor B Labedan, A Boyen, M Baetens, D Charlier, P Chen, R Cunin, V Durbeco, ... Journal of molecular evolution 49, 461-473, 1999 | 77 | 1999 |
| Membrane potential changes during the first steps of coliphage infection. B Labedan, L Letellier Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 78 (1), 215-219, 1981 | 62 | 1981 |
| Retrieving sequences of enzymes experimentally characterized but erroneously annotated: the case of the putrescine carbamoyltransferase DG Naumoff, Y Xu, N Glansdorff, B Labedan BMC genomics 5, 1-8, 2004 | 59 | 2004 |
| Host cell metabolic energy is not required for injection of bacteriophage T5 DNA A Filali Maltouf, B Labedan Journal of Bacteriology 153 (1), 124-133, 1983 | 59 | 1983 |
| Widespread protein sequence similarities: origins of Escherichia coli genes B Labedan, M Riley Journal of bacteriology 177 (6), 1585-1588, 1995 | 58 | 1995 |
| FUNGIpath: a tool to assess fungal metabolic pathways predicted by orthology S Grossetête, B Labedan, O Lespinet BMC genomics 11, 1-15, 2010 | 56 | 2010 |
| Probes of membrane potential in Escherichia coli cells A Ghazi, E Schechter, L Letellier, B Labedan FEBS letters 125 (2), 197-200, 1981 | 55 | 1981 |
| Assessing the evolutionary rate of positional orthologous genes in prokaryotes using synteny data F Lemoine, O Lespinet, B Labedan BMC evolutionary biology 7, 1-18, 2007 | 54 | 2007 |
| Physiological genomics of Escherichia coli protein families P Liang, B Labedan, M Riley Physiological Genomics 9 (1), 15-26, 2002 | 51 | 2002 |
| A membrane potential threshold for phage T4 DNA injection B Labedan, KB Heller, AA Jasaitis, TH Wilson, EB Goldberg Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 93 (2), 625-630, 1980 | 50 | 1980 |
| Location of the first step transfer fragment and single-strand interruptions in T5st0 bacteriophage DNA B Labedan, M Crochet, J Legault-Demare, BJ Stevens Journal of molecular biology 75 (2), 213-234, 1973 | 50 | 1973 |
| Orphan enzymes? O Lespinet, B Labedan Science 307 (5706), 42-42, 2005 | 49 | 2005 |
| Gene products of Escherichia coli: sequence comparisons and common ancestries. B Labedan, M Riley Molecular biology and evolution 12 (6), 980-987, 1995 | 48 | 1995 |
