Alejandro Vaquero

7.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
67 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Alejandro Vaquero is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Geriatrics and Gerontology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alejandro Vaquero has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Molecular Biology, 35 papers in Geriatrics and Gerontology and 21 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Alejandro Vaquero's work include Sirtuins and Resveratrol in Medicine (35 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (18 papers) and Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (18 papers). Alejandro Vaquero is often cited by papers focused on Sirtuins and Resveratrol in Medicine (35 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (18 papers) and Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (18 papers). Alejandro Vaquero collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Germany. Alejandro Vaquero's co-authors include Danny Reinberg, Michael Scher, Laia Bosch‐Presegué, Paul Tempst, Hediye Erdjument‐Bromage, Lourdes Serrano, Donghoon Lee, Rolf Sternglanz, Paloma Martínez‐Redondo and Fernando Azorı́n and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alejandro Vaquero

63 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Human SirT1 Interacts with Histone H1 and Promotes Formation of Facultative Heterochromatin

2004 730 citations Alejandro Vaquero, Michael Scher et al. profile →
SirT2 is a histone deacetylase with preference for histone H4 Lys 16 during mitosis

2006 509 citations Alejandro Vaquero, Michael Scher et al. Genes & Development profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alejandro Vaquero Spain	36	3.4k	2.5k	1.4k	971	705	67	5.7k
Bjoern Schwer United States	26	3.4k 1.0×	3.1k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	2.2k 2.3×	782 1.1×	33	6.5k
Hwei-Ling Cheng United States	15	3.0k 0.9×	2.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	1.4k 1.4×	750 1.1×	23	5.4k
Tej K. Pandita United States	36	5.2k 1.5×	1.4k 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	1.8k 2.6×	70	7.1k
Eriko Michishita Japan	13	1.7k 0.5×	2.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.3×	500 0.7×	17	3.6k
Carlos Sebastián United States	21	1.6k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	824 0.6×	735 0.8×	584 0.8×	35	3.3k
Debra Toiber Israel	21	2.3k 0.7×	965 0.4×	503 0.4×	607 0.6×	301 0.4×	38	3.5k
Jakob D. Wikström Sweden	27	4.1k 1.2×	605 0.2×	1.9k 1.4×	1.5k 1.6×	154 0.2×	40	6.1k
Eun Seong Hwang South Korea	28	1.7k 0.5×	421 0.2×	854 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	430 0.6×	49	3.4k
Giulio Magni Italy	34	2.0k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	495 0.4×	319 0.3×	805 1.1×	97	3.6k
Shouqing Luo United Kingdom	30	3.4k 1.0×	262 0.1×	3.6k 2.6×	800 0.8×	261 0.4×	52	6.4k

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Weiss, Felix D., Anne-Katrine Frank, Yi-Fang Wang, et al.. (2025). Mutant CEBPA promotes tolerance to inflammatory stress through deficient AP-1 activation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3492–3492. 1 indexed citations

Ianni, Alessandro, et al.. (2024). SIRT7: a novel molecular target for personalized cancer treatment?. Oncogene. 43(14). 993–1006. 15 indexed citations

Kumari, Poonam, et al.. (2024). The SIRT7-nucleolus connection in cancer: ARF enters the fray. Molecular & Cellular Oncology. 11(1). 2381287–2381287.

Bueno-Costa, Alberto, Elisenda Alari‐Pahissa, Anna Marazuela-Duque, et al.. (2024). A SIRT7-dependent acetylation switch regulates early B cell differentiation and lineage commitment through Pax5. Nature Immunology. 25(12). 2308–2319. 5 indexed citations

Latorre, Jèssica, Núria de Vera, Tomàs Santalucı́a, et al.. (2024). Lack of the Histone Deacetylase SIRT1 Leads to Protection against Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress through the Upregulation of Heat Shock Proteins. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(5). 2856–2856. 2 indexed citations

Kumari, Poonam, Meilin Wang, Stefan Günther, et al.. (2024). SIRT7 promotes lung cancer progression by destabilizing the tumor suppressor ARF. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(25). e2409269121–e2409269121. 9 indexed citations

Launay, Nathalie, Edgard Verdura, Gorka Fernández‐Eulate, et al.. (2024). Altered tubulin detyrosination due to SVBP malfunction induces cytokinesis failure and senescence, underlying a complex hereditary spastic paraplegia. Aging Cell. 24(1). e14355–e14355.

González, Jéssica, Laia Bosch‐Presegué, Anna Marazuela-Duque, et al.. (2023). A complex interplay between H2A.Z and HP1 isoforms regulates pericentric heterochromatin. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 11. 1293122–1293122. 4 indexed citations

Simonet, Nicolás G., Joshua K. Thackray, Berta N. Vázquez, et al.. (2020). SirT7 auto-ADP-ribosylation regulates glucose starvation response through mH2A1. Science Advances. 6(30). eaaz2590–eaaz2590. 42 indexed citations

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Vázquez, Berta N., Joshua K. Thackray, Nicolás G. Simonet, et al.. (2019). SIRT7 mediates L1 elements transcriptional repression and their association with the nuclear lamina. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(15). 7870–7885. 57 indexed citations

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Serrano, Lourdes, Paloma Martínez‐Redondo, Anna Marazuela-Duque, et al.. (2013). The tumor suppressor SirT2 regulates cell cycle progression and genome stability by modulating the mitotic deposition of H4K20 methylation. Genes & Development. 27(6). 639–653. 224 indexed citations

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Martínez‐Redondo, Paloma & Alejandro Vaquero. (2013). The Diversity of Histone Versus Nonhistone Sirtuin Substrates. Genes & Cancer. 4(3-4). 148–163. 118 indexed citations

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Martínez‐Redondo, Paloma, et al.. (2012). A Big Step for SIRT7, One Giant Leap for Sirtuins… in Cancer. Cancer Cell. 22(2). 278–278.

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Bosch‐Presegué, Laia & Alejandro Vaquero. (2011). The Dual Role of Sirtuins in Cancer. Genes & Cancer. 2(6). 648–662. 268 indexed citations

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Mostoslavsky, Raúl, Manel Esteller, & Alejandro Vaquero. (2010). At the crossroad of lifespan, calorie restriction, chromatin and disease: Meeting on sirtuins. Cell Cycle. 9(10). 1907–1912. 17 indexed citations

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Trojer, Patrick, Guohong Li, Robert J. Sims, et al.. (2007). L3MBTL1, a Histone-Methylation-Dependent Chromatin Lock. Cell. 129(5). 915–928. 267 indexed citations

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Vaquero, Alejandro, Michael Scher, Hediye Erdjument‐Bromage, et al.. (2007). SIRT1 regulates the histone methyl-transferase SUV39H1 during heterochromatin formation. Nature. 450(7168). 440–444. 344 indexed citations

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Vaquero, Alejandro, et al.. (1999). Bisanthracycline WP631 inhibits basal and Sp1-activated transcription initiation in vitro. Nucleic Acids Research. 27(17). 3402–3409. 55 indexed citations

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Vaquero, Alejandro, Maria Lluı̈sa Espinás, Robert Soliva, et al.. (1998). The GAGA Factor of Drosophila Binds Triple-stranded DNA. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273(38). 24640–24648. 43 indexed citations

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Vaquero, Alejandro & José Portugal. (1997). Small ligands that neither bind to nor alter the structure of d(GA·TC)_n sequences in DNA. FEBS Letters. 420(2-3). 156–160. 3 indexed citations

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