Alessandro Vannini

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Alessandro Vannini is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandro Vannini has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Cell Biology and 4 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Alessandro Vannini's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (18 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (16 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (11 papers). Alessandro Vannini is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (18 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (16 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (11 papers). Alessandro Vannini collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Germany. Alessandro Vannini's co-authors include Patrick Cramer, Stefania Di Marco, Christian Steinkühler, Cinzia Volpari, Raffaele De Francesco, Paola Gallinari, Mirko Brunetti, Marco Mattu, Gessica Filocamo and Prasun K. Chakravarty and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alessandro Vannini

39 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Crystal structure of a eukaryotic zinc-dependent histone deacetylase, human HDAC8, complexed with a hydroxamic acid inhibitor

2004 526 citations Alessandro Vannini, Cinzia Volpari et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alessandro Vannini Italy	23	2.6k	365	331	240	205	40	2.8k
Achim Dickmanns Germany	33	2.4k 1.0×	388 1.1×	375 1.1×	205 0.9×	231 1.1×	70	3.1k
Heinz Neumann Germany	26	3.4k 1.3×	356 1.0×	446 1.3×	175 0.7×	295 1.4×	45	3.9k
Mario Lebendiker Israel	25	1.5k 0.6×	587 1.6×	359 1.1×	104 0.4×	186 0.9×	61	2.3k
Emmanuel Skordalakes United States	29	2.1k 0.8×	193 0.5×	282 0.9×	163 0.7×	161 0.8×	58	2.9k
Alexey Bochkarev Canada	28	2.2k 0.9×	751 2.1×	521 1.6×	204 0.8×	123 0.6×	42	3.1k
Michael W. Van Dyke United States	30	2.9k 1.1×	312 0.9×	506 1.5×	132 0.6×	112 0.5×	69	3.3k
Christophe Romier France	37	3.6k 1.4×	628 1.7×	323 1.0×	461 1.9×	107 0.5×	90	4.2k
J. Cavarelli France	27	2.3k 0.9×	239 0.7×	300 0.9×	117 0.5×	92 0.4×	62	2.9k
Scott Cherry United States	21	1.8k 0.7×	263 0.7×	573 1.7×	115 0.5×	260 1.3×	39	2.5k
Darcie J. Miller United States	23	1.6k 0.6×	442 1.2×	252 0.8×	78 0.3×	233 1.1×	48	2.0k

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Graziadei, Andrea, et al.. (2025). Structural insights into distinct mechanisms of RNA polymerase II and III recruitment to snRNA promoters. Nature Communications. 16(1). 141–141. 2 indexed citations

Rengachari, Srinivasan, S. Schilbach, Jérôme Gouge, et al.. (2022). Structural basis of SNAPc-dependent snRNA transcription initiation by RNA polymerase II. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 29(12). 1159–1169. 10 indexed citations

Cutts, Erin, et al.. (2021). Linker histone H1.8 inhibits chromatin binding of condensins and DNA topoisomerase II to tune chromosome length and individualization. eLife. 10. 27 indexed citations

Abascal-Palacios, Guillermo, et al.. (2021). Structural basis of Ty3 retrotransposon integration at RNA Polymerase III-transcribed genes. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6992–6992. 8 indexed citations

Cutts, Erin & Alessandro Vannini. (2020). Condensin complexes: understanding loop extrusion one conformational change at a time. Biochemical Society Transactions. 48(5). 2089–2100. 15 indexed citations

Kong, Muwen, Erin Cutts, Dongqing Pan, et al.. (2020). Human Condensin I and II Drive Extensive ATP-Dependent Compaction of Nucleosome-Bound DNA. Molecular Cell. 79(1). 99–114.e9. 111 indexed citations

Kramm, Kevin, Tim Schröder, Jérôme Gouge, et al.. (2020). DNA origami-based single-molecule force spectroscopy elucidates RNA Polymerase III pre-initiation complex stability. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2828–2828. 36 indexed citations

Abascal-Palacios, Guillermo, Helen King, Jérôme Gouge, et al.. (2020). Structure of human RNA polymerase III. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6409–6409. 50 indexed citations

Ferrari, Roberto, Chiara Di Vona, Enrique Vidal, et al.. (2019). TFIIIC Binding to Alu Elements Controls Gene Expression via Chromatin Looping and Histone Acetylation. Molecular Cell. 77(3). 475–487.e11. 58 indexed citations

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Abascal-Palacios, Guillermo, et al.. (2018). Structural basis of RNA polymerase III transcription initiation. Nature. 553(7688). 301–306. 104 indexed citations

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Dergai, Oleksandr, Pascal Cousin, Jérôme Gouge, et al.. (2018). Mechanism of selective recruitment of RNA polymerases II and III to snRNA gene promoters. Genes & Development. 32(9-10). 711–722. 19 indexed citations

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Gouge, Jérôme, Andrew Thompson, Pascal Cousin, et al.. (2015). Redox Signaling by the RNA Polymerase III TFIIB-Related Factor Brf2. Cell. 163(6). 1375–1387. 79 indexed citations

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Vannini, Alessandro. (2012). A structural perspective on RNA polymerase I and RNA polymerase III transcription machineries. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. 1829(3-4). 258–264. 22 indexed citations

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Vannini, Alessandro, et al.. (2010). The archaeo-eukaryotic primase of plasmid pRN1 requires a helix bundle domain for faithful primer synthesis. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(19). 6707–6718. 25 indexed citations

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Cramer, Patrick, Karim‐Jean Armache, Sonja Baumli, et al.. (2008). Structure of Eukaryotic RNA Polymerases. Annual Review of Biophysics. 37(1). 337–352. 222 indexed citations

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Vannini, Alessandro, Cinzia Volpari, Gessica Filocamo, et al.. (2004). Crystal structure of a eukaryotic zinc-dependent histone deacetylase, human HDAC8, complexed with a hydroxamic acid inhibitor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(42). 15064–15069. 526 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vannini, Alessandro, Cinzia Volpari, & Stefania Di Marco. (2003). Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of the quorum-sensing regulator TraM fromAgrobacterium tumefaciens. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 60(1). 146–148. 2 indexed citations

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Vannini, Alessandro, Cinzia Volpari, Cesare Gargioli, et al.. (2002). Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of the transcriptional regulator TraR bound to its cofactor and to a specific DNA sequence. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 58(8). 1362–1364. 4 indexed citations

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Orsatti, Laura, Stefania Di Marco, Cinzia Volpari, et al.. (2002). Determination of the stoichiometry of noncovalent complexes using reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with electrospray ion trap mass spectrometry. Analytical Biochemistry. 309(1). 11–18. 3 indexed citations

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Baroni, Simona, Marco Mattu, Alessandro Vannini, et al.. (2001). Effect of ibuprofen and warfarin on the allosteric properties of haem–human serum albumin. European Journal of Biochemistry. 268(23). 6214–6220. 118 indexed citations

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