Andrea Testa

4.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
41 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Andrea Testa is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Hematology. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrea Testa has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Oncology and 10 papers in Hematology. Recurrent topics in Andrea Testa's work include Protein Degradation and Inhibitors (25 papers), Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (24 papers) and Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (15 papers). Andrea Testa is often cited by papers focused on Protein Degradation and Inhibitors (25 papers), Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (24 papers) and Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (15 papers). Andrea Testa collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and Switzerland. Andrea Testa's co-authors include Alessio Ciulli, Kwok-Ho Chan, Michael Zengerle, Xavier Lucas, Scott J. Hughes, Douglas J. Lamont, Wenzhang Chen, Morgan S. Gadd, Chiara Maniaci and Jane E. Wright and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Andrea Testa

41 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Structural basis of PROTAC cooperative recognition for selective protein degradation

2017 826 citations Morgan S. Gadd, Andrea Testa et al. Nature Chemical Biology profile →
Trivalent PROTACs enhance protein degradation via combined avidity and cooperativity

2021 168 citations Satomi Imaide, Kristin M. Riching et al. Nature Chemical Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrea Testa United Kingdom	21	2.7k	1.1k	725	180	75	41	2.9k
Andrew P. Crew United States	21	3.1k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	967 1.3×	357 2.0×	66 0.9×	37	3.5k
Kwok-Ho Chan United Kingdom	14	2.4k 0.9×	920 0.8×	723 1.0×	122 0.7×	55 0.7×	17	2.5k
Momar Toure United States	14	2.0k 0.8×	889 0.8×	658 0.9×	178 1.0×	48 0.6×	18	2.2k
Saul Jaime‐Figueroa United States	20	2.7k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	814 1.1×	480 2.7×	63 0.8×	27	3.2k
George M. Burslem United States	20	2.8k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	699 1.0×	425 2.4×	128 1.7×	54	3.2k
Michael Zengerle United Kingdom	16	2.1k 0.8×	747 0.7×	657 0.9×	313 1.7×	43 0.6×	16	2.4k
Radosław P. Nowak United States	28	3.2k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	672 0.9×	210 1.2×	71 0.9×	69	3.7k
Brian E. Cathers United States	17	2.2k 0.8×	619 0.5×	904 1.2×	121 0.7×	33 0.4×	31	2.6k
Yanke Liang United States	16	1.3k 0.5×	646 0.6×	222 0.3×	181 1.0×	24 0.3×	23	1.7k
Adam Siddiqui-Jain United States	17	4.2k 1.6×	563 0.5×	157 0.2×	347 1.9×	32 0.4×	41	4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Andrea Testa

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrea Testa

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jambon-Puillet, Etienne, Andrea Testa, Charlotta Lorenz, et al.. (2024). Phase-separated droplets swim to their dissolution. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3919–3919. 27 indexed citations

Ciulli, Alessio, Chun‐wa Chung, Ingo V. Hartung, et al.. (2023). The 17^th EFMC Short Course on Medicinal Chemistry on Small Molecule Protein Degraders. ChemMedChem. 18(20). e202300464–e202300464. 7 indexed citations

Makukhin, Nikolai, Kevin Haubrich, Manjula Nagala, et al.. (2023). Structure-based design of a phosphotyrosine-masked covalent ligand targeting the E3 ligase SOCS2. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6345–6345. 21 indexed citations

Testa, Andrea. (2023). Affinity for both sides. Nature Chemical Biology. 20(2). 134–135. 1 indexed citations

Hanzl, Alexander, Ryan Casement, Hana Imrichová, et al.. (2022). Functional E3 ligase hotspots and resistance mechanisms to small-molecule degraders. Nature Chemical Biology. 19(3). 323–333. 67 indexed citations

Bond, Adam G., Conner Craigon, Kwok-Ho Chan, et al.. (2021). Development of BromoTag: A “Bump-and-Hole”–PROTAC System to Induce Potent, Rapid, and Selective Degradation of Tagged Target Proteins. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 64(20). 15477–15502. 63 indexed citations

Imaide, Satomi, Kristin M. Riching, Nikolai Makukhin, et al.. (2021). Trivalent PROTACs enhance protein degradation via combined avidity and cooperativity. Nature Chemical Biology. 17(11). 1157–1167. 168 indexed citations breakdown →

Testa, Andrea, Mirco Dindo, Aleksander A. Rebane, et al.. (2021). Sustained enzymatic activity and flow in crowded protein droplets. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6293–6293. 95 indexed citations

Hughes, Scott J., Andrea Testa, Nicola Thompson, & Ian Churcher. (2021). The rise and rise of protein degradation: Opportunities and challenges ahead. Drug Discovery Today. 26(12). 2889–2897. 57 indexed citations

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Macartney, Thomas, Luke J. Fulcher, Sascha Röth, et al.. (2020). Inducible Degradation of Target Proteins through a Tractable Affinity-Directed Protein Missile System. Cell chemical biology. 27(9). 1164–1180.e5. 52 indexed citations

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Macartney, Thomas, Luke J. Fulcher, Andrea Testa, et al.. (2020). Inducible Degradation of Target Proteins Through a Tractable Affinity-Directed PROtein Missile (AdPROM) System. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Testa, Andrea, Scott J. Hughes, Xavier Lucas, Jane E. Wright, & Alessio Ciulli. (2019). Structure‐Based Design of a Macrocyclic PROTAC. Angewandte Chemie. 132(4). 1744–1751. 19 indexed citations

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Testa, Andrea, Scott J. Hughes, Xavier Lucas, Jane E. Wright, & Alessio Ciulli. (2019). Structure‐Based Design of a Macrocyclic PROTAC. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(4). 1727–1734. 172 indexed citations

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Maniaci, Chiara, et al.. (2019). Cereblon versus VHL: Hijacking E3 ligases against each other using PROTACs. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 27(12). 2466–2479. 106 indexed citations

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Tovell, Hannah, Andrea Testa, Chiara Maniaci, et al.. (2019). Rapid and Reversible Knockdown of Endogenously Tagged Endosomal Proteins via an Optimized HaloPROTAC Degrader. ACS Chemical Biology. 14(5). 882–892. 97 indexed citations

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Testa, Andrea, Sergio Dall’Angelo, Andrea Augello, et al.. (2018). Preclinical Evaluation of [¹⁸F]LCATD as a PET Tracer to Study Drug-Drug Interactions Caused by Inhibition of Hepatic Transporters. Contrast Media & Molecular Imaging. 2018. 1–10. 1 indexed citations

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Gadd, Morgan S., Andrea Testa, Xavier Lucas, et al.. (2017). Structural basis of PROTAC cooperative recognition for selective protein degradation. Nature Chemical Biology. 13(5). 514–521. 826 indexed citations breakdown →

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Maniaci, Chiara, Scott J. Hughes, Andrea Testa, et al.. (2017). Homo-PROTACs: bivalent small-molecule dimerizers of the VHL E3 ubiquitin ligase to induce self-degradation. Nature Communications. 8(1). 830–830. 188 indexed citations

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Testa, Andrea, Sergio Dall’Angelo, Andrea Augello, et al.. (2016). Design, synthesis, in vitro characterization and preliminary imaging studies on fluorinated bile acid derivatives as PET tracers to study hepatic transporters. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 25(3). 963–976. 20 indexed citations

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Penso, Michele, Francesca Foschi, Sara Pellegrino, Andrea Testa, & Maria Luisa Gelmi. (2012). Diastereoselective Protocols for the Synthesis of 2,3-trans- and 2,3-cis-6-Methoxy-morpholine-2-carboxylic Acid Derivatives. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 77(7). 3454–3461. 19 indexed citations

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