Alfonso Cayota

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

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Alfonso Cayota is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alfonso Cayota has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Immunology and 14 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Alfonso Cayota's work include RNA modifications and cancer (16 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (12 papers) and Trypanosoma species research and implications (11 papers). Alfonso Cayota is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (16 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (12 papers) and Trypanosoma species research and implications (11 papers). Alfonso Cayota collaborates with scholars based in Uruguay, France and United States. Alfonso Cayota's co-authors include Juan Pablo Tosar, Rafael Radí, Mercedes Naviliat, Gonzalo Peluffo, María Noel Álvarez, Françoise Vuillier, Kenneth W. Witwer, María Rosa García-Silva, Carlos Robello and Guillaume Dighiero and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Alfonso Cayota

56 papers receiving 3.1k citations

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Unraveling peroxynitrite formation in biological systems

2001 645 citations Rafael Radí, Gonzalo Peluffo et al. Free Radical Biology and Medicine profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Tetraspanin Positivity as a Function of Extracellular Vesicle Size Measured by a Modified Immuno-TEM Protocol 2025 ·ACS Applied Bio Materials ·Pablo Fagúndez, (unknown), Олеся Гололобова, (unknown), Alfonso Cayota, Kenneth W. Witwer, Eduardo Méndez, Juan Pablo Tosar	0
2	Integration of NGS and CNV analysis in prognostic evaluation of MDS in a resource-limited country: insights from Uruguay 2025 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Alfonso Cayota, Daniela Lens, Sofía Grille	1
3	piRNA pathway evolution beyond gonad context: Perspectives from apicomplexa and trypanosomatids 2023 ·Frontiers in Genetics ·(unknown), (unknown), María E. Francia, Alfonso Cayota, María Rosa García-Silva	1
4	Small RNA structural biochemistry in a post-sequencing era 2023 ·Nature Protocols ·Juan Pablo Tosar, (unknown), (unknown), Alfonso Cayota	8
5	Exomeres and supermeres: Monolithic or diverse? 2022 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Juan Pablo Tosar, Alfonso Cayota, Kenneth W. Witwer	38
6	RI-SEC-seq: Comprehensive Profiling of Nonvesicular Extracellular RNAs with Different Stabilities 2021 ·BIO-PROTOCOL ·Juan Pablo Tosar, Fabiana Gámbaro, (unknown), Alfonso Cayota	3
7	Fragmentation of extracellular ribosomes and tRNAs shapes the extracellular RNAome 2020 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Juan Pablo Tosar, Mercedes Segovia, (unknown), Fabiana Gámbaro, Yasutoshi Akiyama, Pablo Fagúndez, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Marcelo Hill, Pavel Ivanov, Alfonso Cayota	74
8	Circulating SNORD57 rather than piR-54265 is a promising biomarker for colorectal cancer: common pitfalls in the study of somatic piRNAs in cancer 2020 ·RNA ·Juan Pablo Tosar, María Rosa García-Silva, Alfonso Cayota	27
9	Assessment of small RNA sorting into different extracellular fractions revealed by high-throughput sequencing of breast cell lines 2015 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Juan Pablo Tosar, Giovanni Gambaro, (unknown), Braulio Bonilla, Kenneth W. Witwer, Alfonso Cayota	169
10	Profiling of small RNA cargo of extracellular vesicles shed by Trypanosoma cruzi reveals a specific extracellular signature 2015 ·Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology ·Tamara Fernández-Calero, (unknown), Álvaro Peña‐Neira, Carlos Robello, Helena Persson, Carlos Rovira, Hugo Naya, Alfonso Cayota	48
11	A population of tRNA-derived small RNAs is actively produced in Trypanosoma cruzi and recruited to specific cytoplasmic granules 2010 ·Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology ·María Rosa García-Silva, Magali Frugier, Juan Pablo Tosar, (unknown), Lysangela R. Alves, Adriana Parodi‐Talice, Carlos Rovira, Carlos Robello, Samuel Goldenberg, Alfonso Cayota	90
12	Small RNAs analysis in CLL reveals a deregulation of miRNA expression and novel miRNA candidates of putative relevance in CLL pathogenesis 2007 ·Leukemia ·Soledad Marton, (unknown), Carlos Robello, Helena Persson, Felipe Trajtenberg, Otto Pritsch, Carlos Rovira, Hugo Naya, G Dighiero, Alfonso Cayota	144
13	Proteomic analysis of metacyclic trypomastigotes undergoing Trypanosoma cruzi metacyclogenesis 2007 ·Journal of Mass Spectrometry ·Adriana Parodi‐Talice, (unknown), (unknown), Andréa Rodrigues Ávila, Rosario Durán, Alejandro Correa, Bruno Dallagiovanna, Alfonso Cayota, Marco Aurélio Krieger, Samuel Goldenberg, Carlos Robello	84
14	Crystal structure of the tryparedoxin peroxidase from the human parasite 2005 ·Journal of Structural Biology ·Marı́a Dolores Piñeyro, J.C. Pizarro, (unknown), Otto Pritsch, Alfonso Cayota, G.A. Bentley, Carlos Robello	58
15	Somatic mutations can lead to a loss of superantigenic and polyreactive binding 2004 ·European Journal of Immunology ·Pablo Oppezzo, Gérard Dumas, Jean‐Pierre Bouvet, Carlos Robello, Alfonso Cayota, J.C. Pizarro, Guillaume Dighiero, Otto Pritsch	13
16	Proteome analysis of the causative agent of Chagas disease: Trypanosoma cruzi 2004 ·International Journal for Parasitology ·Adriana Parodi‐Talice, Rosario Durán, (unknown), (unknown), Marı́a Dolores Piñeyro, Otto Pritsch, Alfonso Cayota, Carlos Červeñanský, Carlos Robello	55
17	Unraveling peroxynitrite formation in biological systems breakdown → 2001 ·Free Radical Biology and Medicine ·Rafael Radí, Gonzalo Peluffo, María Noel Álvarez, Mercedes Naviliat, Alfonso Cayota	645
18	Nitric Oxide and Peroxynitrite-Dependent Aconitase Inactivation and Iron-Regulatory Protein-1 Activation in Mammalian Fibroblasts 1998 ·Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics ·Laura Castro, (unknown), Alfonso Cayota, Rogério Meneghini, Rafael Radí	77
19	Defective protein tyrosine phosphorylation and altered levels of p59^fyn and p56^ick in CD4 T cells from HIV-1 infected patients 1994 ·International Immunology ·Alfonso Cayota, Françoise Vuillier, Julio C. Siciliano, (unknown)	49
20	In vitro non-productive infection of purified natural killer cells by the BRU isolate of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 1993 ·Journal of General Virology ·Daniel Scott‐Algara, Françoise Vuillier, Alfonso Cayota, (unknown), Denise Guétard, Maurice L.J. Moncany, (unknown), C. Dauguet, Guillaume Dighiero	13

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