Christian Dölle

3.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
35 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Christian Dölle is a scholar working on Physiology, Molecular Biology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Dölle has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Physiology, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 14 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Christian Dölle's work include Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism (16 papers), Sirtuins and Resveratrol in Medicine (14 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (12 papers). Christian Dölle is often cited by papers focused on Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism (16 papers), Sirtuins and Resveratrol in Medicine (14 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (12 papers). Christian Dölle collaborates with scholars based in Norway, United Kingdom and Italy. Christian Dölle's co-authors include Mathias Ziegler, Nadine Pollak, Alberto Chiarugi, Roberta Felici, Marc Niere, Andrey Nikiforov, Charalampos Tzoulis, Kristoffer Haugarvoll, Ole‐Bjørn Tysnes and Gonzalo S. Nido and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Christian Dölle

33 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The power to reduce: pyridine nucleotides – small molecules with a multitude of functions

2007 572 citations Christian Dölle, Mathias Ziegler et al. profile →
The NAD metabolome — a key determinant of cancer cell biology

2012 505 citations Alberto Chiarugi, Christian Dölle et al. profile →
The NADPARK study: A randomized phase I trial of nicotinamide riboside supplementation in Parkinson’s disease

2022 186 citations Brage Brakedal, Christian Dölle et al. Cell Metabolism profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian Dölle Norway	20	1.4k	803	672	645	398	35	2.8k
Alessia Grozio Italy	19	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	796 1.2×	536 0.8×	69 0.2×	29	2.9k
Philip Redpath United Kingdom	14	983 0.7×	1.4k 1.7×	912 1.4×	820 1.3×	59 0.1×	17	2.7k
Basil P. Hubbard Canada	19	2.0k 1.4×	1.2k 1.5×	333 0.5×	608 0.9×	51 0.1×	40	4.1k
Tianle Yang United States	8	851 0.6×	1.3k 1.6×	451 0.7×	448 0.7×	33 0.1×	11	2.2k
Donald S. Backos United States	30	2.3k 1.7×	326 0.4×	116 0.2×	603 0.9×	73 0.2×	68	4.2k
Andrea Lapucci Italy	24	1.1k 0.8×	198 0.2×	137 0.2×	378 0.6×	75 0.2×	54	1.7k
Laura Formentini Spain	22	1.3k 0.9×	212 0.3×	201 0.3×	418 0.6×	35 0.1×	33	1.9k
Tohru Yamamori Japan	26	1.4k 1.0×	496 0.6×	113 0.2×	252 0.4×	46 0.1×	58	2.8k
Mariana Pehar United States	33	1.5k 1.0×	135 0.2×	117 0.2×	194 0.3×	1.1k 2.8×	50	3.4k
M. Gertz Germany	16	974 0.7×	1.1k 1.4×	285 0.4×	219 0.3×	25 0.1×	19	2.0k

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Brischigliaro, Michele, Brage Brakedal, Irene H. Flønes, et al.. (2025). Mitochondrial complex I deficiency occurs in skeletal muscle of a subgroup of individuals with Parkinson’s disease. Communications Medicine. 5(1). 141–141.

Dölle, Christian & Charalampos Tzoulis. (2025). NAD augmentation as a disease-modifying strategy for neurodegeneration. Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism. 36(12). 1072–1083. 3 indexed citations

Nido, Gonzalo S., Anna Rubiolo, Guido Alves, et al.. (2024). Single-nucleus transcriptomics reveals disease- and pathology-specific signatures in α-synucleinopathies. Brain. 148(5). 1588–1603.

Flønes, Irene H., Lilah Toker, Erika Fernández‐Vizarra, et al.. (2024). Mitochondrial complex I deficiency stratifies idiopathic Parkinson’s disease. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3631–3631. 19 indexed citations

Tysnes, Ole‐Bjørn, et al.. (2024). Brain Proteome Profiling Reveals Common and Divergent Signatures in Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple System Atrophy, and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. Molecular Neurobiology. 62(3). 2801–2816. 7 indexed citations

Haugarvoll, Kristoffer, et al.. (2023). NR-SAFE: a randomized, double-blind safety trial of high dose nicotinamide riboside in Parkinson’s disease. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7793–7793. 35 indexed citations

Brakedal, Brage, Christian Dölle, Frank Riemer, et al.. (2022). The NADPARK study: A randomized phase I trial of nicotinamide riboside supplementation in Parkinson’s disease. Cell Metabolism. 34(3). 396–407.e6. 186 indexed citations breakdown →

Toker, Lilah, Gia Tuong Tran, Janani Sundaresan, et al.. (2021). Genome-wide histone acetylation analysis reveals altered transcriptional regulation in the Parkinson’s disease brain. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 16(1). 31–31. 84 indexed citations

Flønes, Irene H., Gerda Ricken, Sigrid Klotz, et al.. (2020). Mitochondrial respiratory chain deficiency correlates with the severity of neuropathology in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 8(1). 50–50. 14 indexed citations

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Nido, Gonzalo S., et al.. (2020). Differential transcript usage in the Parkinson’s disease brain. PLoS Genetics. 16(11). e1009182–e1009182. 13 indexed citations

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Dölle, Christian, et al.. (2019). Poly-ADP-ribose assisted protein localization resolves that DJ-1, but not LRRK2 or α-synuclein, is localized to the mitochondrial matrix. PLoS ONE. 14(7). e0219909–e0219909. 6 indexed citations

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Buonvicino, Daniela, Francesca Mazzola, Federica Zamporlini, et al.. (2018). Identification of the Nicotinamide Salvage Pathway as a New Toxification Route for Antimetabolites. Cell chemical biology. 25(4). 471–482.e7. 52 indexed citations

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Flønes, Irene H., Erika Fernández‐Vizarra, Brage Brakedal, et al.. (2017). Neuronal complex I deficiency occurs throughout the Parkinson’s disease brain, but is not associated with neurodegeneration or mitochondrial DNA damage. Acta Neuropathologica. 135(3). 409–425. 88 indexed citations

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Dölle, Christian, Irene H. Flønes, Gonzalo S. Nido, et al.. (2016). Defective mitochondrial DNA homeostasis in the substantia nigra in Parkinson disease. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13548–13548. 196 indexed citations

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Flønes, Irene H., Paweł Sztromwasser, Kristoffer Haugarvoll, et al.. (2016). Novel SLC19A3 Promoter Deletion and Allelic Silencing in Biotin-Thiamine-Responsive Basal Ganglia Encephalopathy. PLoS ONE. 11(2). e0149055–e0149055. 18 indexed citations

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Dölle, Christian, et al.. (2013). NAD Biosynthesis in Humans - Enzymes, Metabolites and Therapeutic Aspects. Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. 13(23). 2907–2917. 62 indexed citations

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Niere, Marc, Masato Mashimo, Christian Dölle, et al.. (2012). ADP-ribosylhydrolase 3 (ARH3), Not Poly(ADP-ribose) Glycohydrolase (PARG) Isoforms, Is Responsible for Degradation of Mitochondrial Matrix-associated Poly(ADP-ribose). Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(20). 16088–16102. 90 indexed citations

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Nikiforov, Andrey, Christian Dölle, Marc Niere, & Mathias Ziegler. (2011). Pathways and Subcellular Compartmentation of NAD Biosynthesis in Human Cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(24). 21767–21778. 272 indexed citations

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Lau, Corinna, et al.. (2010). Isoform-specific Targeting and Interaction Domains in Human Nicotinamide Mononucleotide Adenylyltransferases. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(24). 18868–18876. 53 indexed citations

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Dölle, Christian & Mathias Ziegler. (2008). Application of a coupled enzyme assay to characterize nicotinamide riboside kinases. Analytical Biochemistry. 385(2). 377–379. 18 indexed citations

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