Cesare Montecucco

32.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
361 papers, 25.1k citations indexed

About

Cesare Montecucco is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Neurology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Cesare Montecucco has authored 361 papers receiving a total of 25.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 165 papers in Molecular Biology, 147 papers in Neurology and 88 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Cesare Montecucco's work include Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders (143 papers), Neurological disorders and treatments (60 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (58 papers). Cesare Montecucco is often cited by papers focused on Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders (143 papers), Neurological disorders and treatments (60 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (58 papers). Cesare Montecucco collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and France. Cesare Montecucco's co-authors include Giampietro Schiavo, Ornella Rossetto, Rino Rappuoli, Emanuele Papini, Marco Pirazzini, Bibhuti R. DasGupta, Michela Matteoli, Fabio Benfenati, Marina de Bernard and Bernard Poulain and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Cesare Montecucco

357 papers receiving 24.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Tetanus and botulinum-B neurotoxins block neurotransmitter release by proteolytic cleavage of synaptobrevin

1992 1.4k citations Giampietro Schiavo, Ornella Rossetto et al. profile →
Neurotoxins Affecting Neuroexocytosis

2000 993 citations Giampietro Schiavo, Cesare Montecucco et al. profile →
Botulinum Neurotoxins: Biology, Pharmacology, and Toxicology

2017 519 citations Marco Pirazzini, Ornella Rossetto et al. profile →
Botulinum neurotoxins: genetic, structural and mechanistic insights

2014 440 citations Ornella Rossetto, Marco Pirazzini et al. profile →
Lymphocyte membrane potential assessed with fluorescent probes

1980 308 citations Cesare Montecucco et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cesare Montecucco Italy	83	10.5k	9.9k	6.6k	4.6k	4.4k	361	25.1k
David E. Housman United States	104	32.2k 3.1×	2.7k 0.3×	7.4k 1.1×	3.0k 0.7×	2.7k 0.6×	329	47.8k
Giampietro Schiavo United Kingdom	76	9.6k 0.9×	8.0k 0.8×	7.0k 1.1×	1.8k 0.4×	6.2k 1.4×	260	19.7k
Heiner Niemann Germany	67	9.8k 0.9×	2.8k 0.3×	2.7k 0.4×	1.1k 0.2×	3.8k 0.9×	384	17.9k
Adriano Aguzzi Switzerland	105	28.1k 2.7×	2.9k 0.3×	4.4k 0.7×	4.5k 1.0×	2.1k 0.5×	546	41.5k
Shöichiro Tsukita Japan	100	25.8k 2.5×	2.3k 0.2×	2.3k 0.4×	2.3k 0.5×	11.1k 2.5×	212	43.1k
Klaus Aktories Germany	89	13.4k 1.3×	1.5k 0.2×	2.2k 0.3×	9.0k 2.0×	3.9k 0.9×	457	26.9k
Paul Säftig Germany	104	18.9k 1.8×	1.8k 0.2×	3.7k 0.6×	4.8k 1.0×	7.9k 1.8×	333	39.2k
Ron R. Kopito United States	67	14.6k 1.4×	2.5k 0.2×	3.9k 0.6×	1.2k 0.3×	7.3k 1.6×	136	22.6k
Elisabeth Kremmer Germany	96	14.5k 1.4×	3.2k 0.3×	1.5k 0.2×	8.1k 1.8×	1.7k 0.4×	428	28.9k
Akitsugu Yamamoto Japan	76	14.1k 1.3×	1.6k 0.2×	2.1k 0.3×	3.0k 0.7×	7.9k 1.8×	210	29.5k

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Fabris, F, Ivica Matak, Matteo Caleo, et al.. (2023). Facial neuromuscular junctions and brainstem nuclei are the target of tetanus neurotoxin in cephalic tetanus. JCI Insight. 8(11). 4 indexed citations

Megighian, Aram, Samuele Negro, Davide Lonati, et al.. (2023). An agonist of CXCR4 induces a rapid recovery from the neurotoxic effects of Vipera ammodytes and Vipera aspis venoms. Journal of Neurochemistry. 168(4). 428–440. 2 indexed citations

Negro, Samuele, Aram Megighian, Florigio Lista, et al.. (2022). Latrotoxin-Induced Neuromuscular Junction Degeneration Reveals Urocortin 2 as a Critical Contributor to Motor Axon Terminal Regeneration. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(3). 1186–1186. 4 indexed citations

Fabris, F, Ivica Matak, Thomas Binz, et al.. (2022). Detection of VAMP Proteolysis by Tetanus and Botulinum Neurotoxin Type B In Vivo with a Cleavage-Specific Antibody. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(8). 4355–4355. 8 indexed citations

Zanetti, Giulia, Andrea Mattarei, Florigio Lista, et al.. (2021). Novel Small Molecule Inhibitors That Prevent the Neuroparalysis of Tetanus Neurotoxin. Pharmaceuticals. 14(11). 1134–1134. 3 indexed citations

Negro, Samuele, Giulia Zanetti, Andrea Mattarei, et al.. (2019). An Agonist of the CXCR4 Receptor Strongly Promotes Regeneration of Degenerated Motor Axon Terminals. Cells. 8(10). 1183–1183. 15 indexed citations

Zanetti, Giulia, Samuele Negro, Aram Megighian, et al.. (2019). A CXCR4 receptor agonist strongly stimulates axonal regeneration after damage. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. 6(12). 2395–2402. 20 indexed citations

Doxey, Andrew C., Michael J. Mansfield, & Cesare Montecucco. (2018). Discovery of novel bacterial toxins by genomics and computational biology. Toxicon. 147. 2–12. 39 indexed citations

Negro, Samuele, Marta Marchioretto, Toma Tebaldi, et al.. (2018). Hydrogen peroxide is a neuronal alarmin that triggers specific RNAs, local translation of Annexin A2, and cytoskeletal remodeling in Schwann cells. RNA. 24(7). 915–925. 14 indexed citations

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Bano, Luca, et al.. (2018). Detection of Clostridium tetani Neurotoxins Inhibited In Vivo by Botulinum Antitoxin B: Potential for Misleading Mouse Test Results in Food Controls. Toxins. 10(6). 248–248. 3 indexed citations

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Pirazzini, Marco, Domenico Azarnia Tehran, Giulia Zanetti, Ornella Rossetto, & Cesare Montecucco. (2017). Hsp90 and Thioredoxin-Thioredoxin Reductase enable the catalytic activity of Clostridial neurotoxins inside nerve terminals. Toxicon. 147. 32–37. 22 indexed citations

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Pirazzini, Marco, et al.. (2017). High Conservation of Tetanus and Botulinum Neurotoxins Cleavage Sites on Human SNARE Proteins Suggests That These Pathogens Exerted Little or No Evolutionary Pressure on Humans. Toxins. 9(12). 404–404. 7 indexed citations

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Duregotti, Elisa, Giulia Zanetti, Michele Scorzeto, et al.. (2015). Snake and Spider Toxins Induce a Rapid Recovery of Function of Botulinum Neurotoxin Paralysed Neuromuscular Junction. Toxins. 7(12). 5322–5336. 23 indexed citations

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Zanetti, Giulia, Domenico Azarnia Tehran, Marco Pirazzini, et al.. (2015). Inhibition of botulinum neurotoxins interchain disulfide bond reduction prevents the peripheral neuroparalysis of botulism. Biochemical Pharmacology. 98(3). 522–530. 28 indexed citations

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Paccani, Silvia Rossi, Fiorella Tonello, Raffaella Ghittoni, et al.. (2005). Anthrax toxins suppress T lymphocyte activation by disrupting antigen receptor signaling. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 201(3). 325–331. 131 indexed citations

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Tournier, Jean‐Nicolas, Anne Quesnel‐Hellmann, Jacques Mathieu, et al.. (2005). Anthrax Edema Toxin Cooperates with Lethal Toxin to Impair Cytokine Secretion during Infection of Dendritic Cells. The Journal of Immunology. 174(8). 4934–4941. 111 indexed citations

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Gouraud, Sabine S., Giuseppe Calamita, Ornella Rossetto, et al.. (2001). Functional involvement of the SNARE machinery in cAMP-induced aquaporin-2 targeting to the apical plasma membrane in renal epithelial cells. 57. 1 indexed citations

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Montecucco, Cesare, Emanuele Papini, & Giampietro Schiavo. (1994). BACTERIAL PROTEIN TOXINS PENETRATE CELLS VIA A 4-STEP MECHANISM. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Kochi, Sims K., et al.. (1994). Zinc content of theBacillus anthracislethal factor. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 124(3). 343–348. 40 indexed citations

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Montecucco, Cesare. (1992). Ion channel and membrane translocation of diphtheria toxin. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 105(1-3). 101–111. 1 indexed citations

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