Cosimo Commisso

4.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Cosimo Commisso is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Cosimo Commisso has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Cell Biology, 16 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Cosimo Commisso's work include Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (11 papers), Caveolin-1 and cellular processes (9 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (7 papers). Cosimo Commisso is often cited by papers focused on Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (11 papers), Caveolin-1 and cellular processes (9 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (7 papers). Cosimo Commisso collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Switzerland. Cosimo Commisso's co-authors include Dafna Bar‐Sagi, Elda Grabocka, Sean R. Hackett, Michel Nofal, Jeffrey A. Drebin, Matthew G. Vander Heiden, Jurre J. Kamphorst, Joshua D. Rabinowitz, Craig B. Thompson and M. Victoria Recouvreux and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Cosimo Commisso

27 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Macropinocytosis of protein is an amino acid supply route in Ras-transformed cells

2013 1.3k citations Cosimo Commisso, Shawn M. Davidson et al. Nature profile →
Human Pancreatic Cancer Tumors Are Nutrient Poor and Tumor Cells Actively Scavenge Extracellular Protein

2015 644 citations Jurre J. Kamphorst, Michel Nofal et al. Cancer Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cosimo Commisso United States	16	1.9k	1.1k	765	680	288	31	3.0k
Elda Grabocka United States	13	2.6k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.4×	621 0.9×	303 1.1×	20	3.8k
Sean R. Hackett United States	10	1.6k 0.8×	849 0.8×	537 0.7×	381 0.6×	213 0.7×	13	2.4k
Darren N. Saunders Australia	32	2.1k 1.1×	825 0.7×	715 0.9×	350 0.5×	236 0.8×	69	3.3k
Michel Nofal United States	6	1.3k 0.7×	877 0.8×	549 0.7×	369 0.5×	186 0.6×	7	2.1k
Sara Zanivan United Kingdom	27	2.7k 1.4×	678 0.6×	703 0.9×	940 1.4×	385 1.3×	83	4.1k
Volker Ehemann Germany	33	2.3k 1.2×	798 0.7×	889 1.2×	452 0.7×	483 1.7×	96	3.5k
Letizia Lanzetti Italy	26	2.2k 1.1×	443 0.4×	658 0.9×	1.4k 2.1×	362 1.3×	39	3.6k
Alexander H. Stegh United States	29	3.3k 1.7×	1.4k 1.2×	957 1.3×	427 0.6×	496 1.7×	42	5.0k
Ilya G. Serebriiskii United States	33	2.5k 1.3×	488 0.4×	1.0k 1.3×	730 1.1×	191 0.7×	97	3.8k
Kristiina Iljin Finland	30	2.1k 1.1×	763 0.7×	767 1.0×	341 0.5×	197 0.7×	56	3.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cosimo Commisso

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Gupta, Priyanka, Rabi Murad, Yijuan Zhang, et al.. (2025). The Aging Microenvironment Is a Determinant of Immune Exclusion and Metastatic Fate in Pancreatic Cancer. Cancer Research. 86(4). 909–924.

Zhang, Yijuan, Ling Li, Rabi Murad, et al.. (2025). Macropinocytosis maintains CAF subtype identity under metabolic stress in pancreatic cancer. Cancer Cell. 43(9). 1677–1696.e15. 1 indexed citations

Duong‐Polk, Karen, Pedro Aza‐Blanc, Anagha Deshpande, et al.. (2024). Cell polarity proteins promote macropinocytosis in response to metabolic stress. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10541–10541. 4 indexed citations

Commisso, Cosimo, et al.. (2024). A hormetic response model for glutamine stress in cancer. Trends in cancer. 11(3). 196–203.

Recouvreux, M. Victoria, Yijuan Zhang, Karen Duong‐Polk, et al.. (2023). Glutamine mimicry suppresses tumor progression through asparagine metabolism in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Nature Cancer. 5(1). 100–113. 38 indexed citations

Commisso, Cosimo, et al.. (2022). Macropinocytosis and Cancer: From Tumor Stress to Signaling Pathways. Sub-cellular biochemistry. 98. 15–40. 25 indexed citations

Zhang, Yijuan, M. Victoria Recouvreux, Michael Jung, et al.. (2021). Macropinocytosis in Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Is Dependent on CaMKK2/ARHGEF2 Signaling and Functions to Support Tumor and Stromal Cell Fitness. Cancer Discovery. 11(7). 1808–1825. 76 indexed citations

Galenkamp, Koen M.O., Paulina Sosicka, Michael Jung, et al.. (2020). Golgi Acidification by NHE7 Regulates Cytosolic pH Homeostasis in Pancreatic Cancer Cells. Cancer Discovery. 10(6). 822–835. 39 indexed citations

Commisso, Cosimo, et al.. (2020). Metabolic regulation of EGFR effector and feedback signaling in pancreatic cancer cells requires K-Ras. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 533(3). 424–428. 4 indexed citations

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Commisso, Cosimo, et al.. (2020). Rac1 and EGFR cooperate to activate Pak in response to nutrient stress. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 533(3). 437–441. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yijuan, et al.. (2019). EGFR-Pak Signaling Selectively Regulates Glutamine Deprivation-Induced Macropinocytosis. Developmental Cell. 50(3). 381–392.e5. 121 indexed citations

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Recouvreux, M. Victoria & Cosimo Commisso. (2017). Macropinocytosis: A Metabolic Adaptation to Nutrient Stress in Cancer. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 8. 261–261. 154 indexed citations

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Kamphorst, Jurre J., Michel Nofal, Cosimo Commisso, et al.. (2015). Human Pancreatic Cancer Tumors Are Nutrient Poor and Tumor Cells Actively Scavenge Extracellular Protein. Cancer Research. 75(3). 544–553. 644 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fennell, Myles, et al.. (2015). High-Content, Full Genome siRNA Screen for Regulators of Oncogenic HRAS -Driven Macropinocytosis. Assay and Drug Development Technologies. 13(7). 347–355. 11 indexed citations

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Commisso, Cosimo, Shawn M. Davidson, Seth J. Parker, et al.. (2013). Macropinocytosis of protein is an amino acid supply route in Ras-transformed cells. Nature. 497(7451). 633–637. 1250 indexed citations breakdown →

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Commisso, Cosimo & Gabrielle L. Boulianne. (2007). The Neuralized Homology Repeat 1 Domain of Drosophila Neuralized Mediates Nuclear Envelope Association and Delta-dependent Inhibition of Nuclear Import. Journal of Molecular Biology. 375(4). 1125–1140. 6 indexed citations

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Commisso, Cosimo, et al.. (2007). Neuralized Contains a Phosphoinositide-Binding Motif Required Downstream of Ubiquitination for Delta Endocytosis and Notch Signaling. Developmental Cell. 13(6). 783–795. 27 indexed citations

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Commisso, Cosimo & Gabrielle L. Boulianne. (2006). The NHR1 Domain of Neuralized Binds Delta and Mediates Delta Trafficking and Notch Signaling. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 18(1). 1–13. 35 indexed citations

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Rothfels, Karen, et al.. (2005). Components of the ESCRT Pathway, DFG16 , and YGR122w Are Required for Rim101 To Act as a Corepressor with Nrg1 at the Negative Regulatory Element of the DIT1 Gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 25(15). 6772–6788. 70 indexed citations

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Yeh, Edward T.H., et al.. (2001). Neuralized functions as an E3 ubiquitin ligase during Drosophila development. Current Biology. 11(21). 1675–1679. 126 indexed citations

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