Alessandro Borgia

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Alessandro Borgia is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandro Borgia has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Materials Chemistry and 10 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Alessandro Borgia's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (20 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (10 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (7 papers). Alessandro Borgia is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (20 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (10 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (7 papers). Alessandro Borgia collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Alessandro Borgia's co-authors include Benjamin Schuler, Daniel Nettels, Jane Clarke, Andrea Soranno, Robert B. Best, Madeleine B. Borgia, Philip M. Williams, Klaus Gast, Hagen Hofmann and Karin Buholzer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alessandro Borgia

27 papers receiving 2.5k citations

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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.

Extreme disorder in an ultrahigh-affinity protein complex

2018 488 citations Alessandro Borgia, Madeleine B. Borgia et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alessandro Borgia Switzerland	21	2.1k	805	470	295	284	27	2.5k
Hagen Hofmann Switzerland	23	2.5k 1.2×	1.1k 1.4×	451 1.0×	428 1.5×	307 1.1×	44	3.0k
Elisha Haas Israel	28	1.9k 0.9×	757 0.9×	337 0.7×	332 1.1×	217 0.8×	70	2.4k
Lisa J. Lapidus United States	27	2.2k 1.0×	990 1.2×	544 1.2×	173 0.6×	238 0.8×	56	2.9k
Gouri S. Jas United States	23	1.7k 0.8×	801 1.0×	500 1.1×	92 0.3×	153 0.5×	58	2.2k
Vu Thai United States	7	2.0k 0.9×	866 1.1×	275 0.6×	131 0.4×	306 1.1×	8	2.2k
Andrea Soranno United States	24	3.9k 1.9×	1.3k 1.6×	445 0.9×	467 1.6×	391 1.4×	50	4.8k
Hannes Neuweiler Germany	25	1.7k 0.8×	634 0.8×	297 0.6×	484 1.6×	128 0.5×	42	2.3k
Margaret S. Cheung United States	29	2.8k 1.3×	1.5k 1.9×	581 1.2×	131 0.4×	479 1.7×	100	3.6k
William E. Meador United States	14	1.9k 0.9×	821 1.0×	150 0.3×	132 0.4×	282 1.0×	29	2.6k
Silvia Cavagnero United States	25	1.4k 0.6×	811 1.0×	326 0.7×	218 0.7×	255 0.9×	81	2.1k

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Chowdhury, Aritra, Alessandro Borgia, Andrea Sottini, et al.. (2023). Driving forces of the complex formation between highly charged disordered proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(41). 34 indexed citations

Asher, Wesley B., Daniel S. Terry, G. Glenn Gregorio, et al.. (2022). GPCR-mediated β-arrestin activation deconvoluted with single-molecule precision. Cell. 185(10). 1661–1675.e16. 57 indexed citations

Heidarsson, Pétur O., Davide Mercadante, Andrea Sottini, et al.. (2022). Release of linker histone from the nucleosome driven by polyelectrolyte competition with a disordered protein. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 46 indexed citations

Chowdhury, Aritra, Andrea Sottini, Alessandro Borgia, et al.. (2020). Thermodynamics of the Interaction between Biological Polyelectrolyte-Like Disordered Proteins: From Binary Complexes to Oligomers. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 215a–215a. 2 indexed citations

Sottini, Andrea, Alessandro Borgia, Madeleine B. Borgia, et al.. (2020). Polyelectrolyte interactions enable rapid association and dissociation in high-affinity disordered protein complexes. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5736–5736. 79 indexed citations

Borgia, Alessandro, Madeleine B. Borgia, Alain Scaiola, Robert B. Best, & Benjamin Schuler. (2019). Highly Disordered 10:1 Complex of Two Anti-Apoptotic, Chromatin-Remodelling Intrinsically Disordered Proteins. Biophysical Journal. 116(3). 453a–453a. 1 indexed citations

Schuler, Benjamin, Alessandro Borgia, Madeleine B. Borgia, et al.. (2019). Binding without folding – the biomolecular function of disordered polyelectrolyte complexes. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 60. 66–76. 65 indexed citations

Zheng, Wenwei, Gül H. Zerze, Alessandro Borgia, et al.. (2018). Inferring Properties of Disordered Chains From FRET Transfer Efficiencies. Biophysical Journal. 114(3). 367a–367a. 7 indexed citations

Borgia, Alessandro, Madeleine B. Borgia, Katrine Bugge, et al.. (2018). Extreme disorder in an ultrahigh-affinity protein complex. Nature. 555(7694). 61–66. 488 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zheng, Wenwei, Alessandro Borgia, Alexander Grishaev, Benjamin Schuler, & Robert B. Best. (2017). Resolving the Controversy between SAXS and FRET Measurements on Unfolded Proteins. Biophysical Journal. 112(3). 315a–315a. 1 indexed citations

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Borgia, Alessandro, Madeleine B. Borgia, Andrea Soranno, et al.. (2015). Transient misfolding dominates multidomain protein folding. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8861–8861. 94 indexed citations

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Borgia, Alessandro, Beth G. Wensley, Andrea Soranno, et al.. (2012). Localizing internal friction along the reaction coordinate of protein folding by combining ensemble and single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy. Nature Communications. 3(1). 1195–1195. 111 indexed citations

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Hofmann, Hagen, Andrea Soranno, Alessandro Borgia, et al.. (2012). Polymer scaling laws of unfolded and intrinsically disordered proteins quantified with single-molecule spectroscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(40). 16155–16160. 360 indexed citations

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Hoffmann, Armin, Daniel Nettels, Alessandro Borgia, et al.. (2011). Quantifying heterogeneity and conformational dynamics from single molecule FRET of diffusing molecules: recurrence analysis of single particles (RASP). Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 13(5). 1857–1857. 99 indexed citations

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Borgia, Madeleine B., Alessandro Borgia, Robert B. Best, et al.. (2011). Single-molecule fluorescence reveals sequence-specific misfolding in multidomain proteins. Nature. 474(7353). 662–665. 143 indexed citations

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Wensley, Beth G., et al.. (2010). Experimental evidence for a frustrated energy landscape in a three-helix-bundle protein family. Nature. 463(7281). 685–688. 129 indexed citations

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Borgia, Alessandro, Annette Steward, & Jane Clarke. (2008). An Effective Strategy for the Design of Proteins with Enhanced Mechanical Stability. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 47(36). 6900–6903. 22 indexed citations

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Borgia, Alessandro, Stefano Gianni, Maurizio Brunori, & Carlo Travaglini‐Allocatelli. (2008). Fast folding kinetics and stabilization of apo‐cytochrome c. FEBS Letters. 582(6). 1003–1007. 7 indexed citations

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Borgia, Alessandro, Daniele Bonivento, Carlo Travaglini‐Allocatelli, Adele Di Matteo, & Maurizio Brunori. (2006). Unveiling a Hidden Folding Intermediate in c-Type Cytochromes by Protein Engineering. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(14). 9331–9336. 27 indexed citations

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Travaglini‐Allocatelli, Carlo, Stefano Gianni, Vikash Kumar Dubey, et al.. (2005). An Obligatory Intermediate in the Folding Pathway of Cytochromec552 from Hydrogenobacterthermophilus. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(27). 25729–25734. 65 indexed citations

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