Danny Incarnato

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Danny Incarnato is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Danny Incarnato has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Cancer Research and 3 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Danny Incarnato's work include RNA modifications and cancer (29 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (28 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (20 papers). Danny Incarnato is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (29 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (28 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (20 papers). Danny Incarnato collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Netherlands and United States. Danny Incarnato's co-authors include Salvatore Oliviero, Francesco Neri, Caterina Parlato, Francesca Anselmi, Anna Křepelová, Stefania Rapelli, Mara Maldotti, Giulia Basile, Edoardo Morandi and Robert C. Spitale and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Danny Incarnato

58 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

Intragenic DNA methylation prevents spurious transcription initiation

2017 499 citations Francesco Neri, Stefania Rapelli et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Danny Incarnato Italy	27	2.8k	673	276	155	155	61	3.2k
Naoyuki Kataoka Japan	28	4.3k 1.5×	382 0.6×	255 0.9×	149 1.0×	204 1.3×	65	4.8k
Tien Hsu United States	31	2.0k 0.7×	414 0.6×	420 1.5×	284 1.8×	281 1.8×	72	2.7k
Isabelle Behm‐Ansmant France	24	3.9k 1.4×	1.2k 1.8×	176 0.6×	122 0.8×	187 1.2×	41	4.2k
Keith A. Spriggs United Kingdom	22	2.5k 0.9×	470 0.7×	149 0.5×	242 1.6×	194 1.3×	36	3.0k
Aleyde Van Eynde Belgium	27	3.3k 1.2×	472 0.7×	397 1.4×	317 2.0×	212 1.4×	52	3.9k
Bing Zhou China	28	2.0k 0.7×	463 0.7×	160 0.6×	210 1.4×	200 1.3×	85	2.9k
Haidi Zhang China	15	1.8k 0.6×	908 1.3×	159 0.6×	93 0.6×	243 1.6×	34	2.3k
Thomas F. Duchaîne Canada	28	3.0k 1.1×	1.2k 1.8×	167 0.6×	97 0.6×	184 1.2×	52	3.6k
Shawn M. Lyons United States	23	2.8k 1.0×	558 0.8×	69 0.3×	60 0.4×	153 1.0×	44	3.1k
Joshua Babiarz United States	23	3.2k 1.1×	2.0k 2.9×	427 1.5×	174 1.1×	323 2.1×	38	4.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Danny Incarnato

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhang, Chundan, et al.. (2025). Identification of conserved RNA regulatory switches in living cells using RNA secondary structure ensemble mapping and covariation analysis. Nature Biotechnology. 1 indexed citations

Karollus, Alexander, et al.. (2025). Nucleotide dependency analysis of genomic language models detects functional elements. Nature Genetics. 57(10). 2589–2602.

Incarnato, Danny, et al.. (2025). Site‐Selective Ligand Selection by Mutational Profiling for Covalent RNA Targeting. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 65(6). e17243–e17243.

Incarnato, Danny, et al.. (2025). Low butyrate concentrations exert anti-inflammatory and high concentrations exert pro-inflammatory effects on macrophages. The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry. 144. 109962–109962. 3 indexed citations

Bonilla, Steve, Alisha Jones, & Danny Incarnato. (2024). Structural and biophysical dissection of RNA conformational ensembles. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 88. 102908–102908. 4 indexed citations

Calabrese, David, Liang Xiao, Ronald J. Holewinski, et al.. (2023). Investigating the NRAS 5′ UTR as a target for small molecules. Cell chemical biology. 30(6). 643–657.e8. 21 indexed citations

Proserpio, Valentina, Stefania Rapelli, Mara Maldotti, et al.. (2023). DNMT3B supports meso-endoderm differentiation from mouse embryonic stem cells. Nature Communications. 14(1). 11 indexed citations

Chiariello, Andrea M., Andrea Esposito, Pietro Zoppoli, et al.. (2022). Hmga2 protein loss alters nuclear envelope and 3D chromatin structure. BMC Biology. 20(1). 171–171. 10 indexed citations

Maldotti, Mara, Francesca Anselmi, Ivan Molineris, et al.. (2022). The acetyltransferase p300 is recruited in trans to multiple enhancer sites by lncSmad7. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(5). 2587–2602. 13 indexed citations

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Spitale, Robert C. & Danny Incarnato. (2022). Probing the dynamic RNA structurome and its functions. Nature Reviews Genetics. 24(3). 178–196. 112 indexed citations

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Avalle, Lidia, Emanuele Monteleone, Aurora Savino, et al.. (2022). STAT3 induces breast cancer growth via ANGPTL4, MMP13 and STC1 secretion by cancer associated fibroblasts. Oncogene. 41(10). 1456–1467. 62 indexed citations

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Rhodes, Curran A., Desta Doro Bume, Colleen M. Connelly, et al.. (2021). A chemical probe based on the PreQ1 metabolite enables transcriptome-wide mapping of binding sites. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5856–5856. 35 indexed citations

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Morandi, Edoardo, et al.. (2021). Genome-scale deconvolution of RNA structure ensembles. Nature Methods. 18(3). 249–252. 82 indexed citations

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Marinus, Tycho, Adam B. Fessler, Craig A. Ogle, & Danny Incarnato. (2020). A novel SHAPE reagent enables the analysis of RNA structure in living cells with unprecedented accuracy. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(6). e34–e34. 61 indexed citations

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Nithin, Chandran, Almudena Ponce-Salvatierra, Pritha Ghosh, et al.. (2020). Genome-wide mapping of SARS-CoV-2 RNA structures identifies therapeutically-relevant elements. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(22). 12436–12452. 189 indexed citations

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Pellegrini, Marco, Danny Incarnato, Mara Maldotti, et al.. (2020). The transcriptional regulator ZNF398 mediates pluripotency and epithelial character downstream of TGF-beta in human PSCs. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2364–2364. 24 indexed citations

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Managò, Antonella, Valentina Audrito, Francesca Mazzola, et al.. (2019). Extracellular nicotinate phosphoribosyltransferase binds Toll like receptor 4 and mediates inflammation. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4116–4116. 55 indexed citations

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Morandi, Edoardo, Matteo Cereda, Danny Incarnato, et al.. (2019). HaTSPiL: A modular pipeline for high-throughput sequencing data analysis. PLoS ONE. 14(10). e0222512–e0222512. 3 indexed citations

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Neri, Francesco, Danny Incarnato, Anna Křepelová, Caterina Parlato, & Salvatore Oliviero. (2016). Methylation-assisted bisulfite sequencing to simultaneously map 5fC and 5caC on a genome-wide scale for DNA demethylation analysis. Nature Protocols. 11(7). 1191–1205. 28 indexed citations

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Diamanti, Daniela, et al.. (2013). Whole gene expression profile in blood reveals multiple pathways deregulation in R6/2 mouse model. Biomarker Research. 1(1). 28–28. 11 indexed citations

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