Dimitri Krainc

24.6k total citations · 10 hit papers
135 papers, 15.5k citations indexed

About

Dimitri Krainc is a scholar working on Neurology, Molecular Biology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dimitri Krainc has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 15.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Neurology, 61 papers in Molecular Biology and 51 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Dimitri Krainc's work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (62 papers), Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research (43 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (40 papers). Dimitri Krainc is often cited by papers focused on Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (62 papers), Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research (43 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (40 papers). Dimitri Krainc collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Dimitri Krainc's co-authors include Yvette C. Wong, Stuart A. Lipton, Joseph R. Mazzulli, Pierluigi Nicotera, Emanuela Bonfoco, Maria Ankarcrona, Daniel Ysselstein, Hyunkyung Jeong, Libin Cui and Naoko Tanese and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Dimitri Krainc

134 papers receiving 15.3k citations

Hit Papers

Apoptosis and necrosis: two distinct events induced, resp... 1995 2026 2005 2015 1995 2011 2006 2017 2018 500 1000 1.5k
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  1. Apoptosis and necrosis: two distinct events induced, respectively, by mild and intense insults with N-methyl-D-aspartate or nitric oxide/superoxide in cortical cell cultures.
    1995 1.7k citations Dimitri Krainc, Stuart A. Lipton et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Gaucher Disease Glucocerebrosidase and α-Synuclein Form a Bidirectional Pathogenic Loop in Synucleinopathies
    2011 1.0k citations Joseph R. Mazzulli, Dimitri Krainc et al. profile →
  3. Transcriptional Repression of PGC-1α by Mutant Huntingtin Leads to Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Neurodegeneration
    2006 833 citations Hyunkyung Jeong, Dimitri Krainc et al. profile →
  4. α-synuclein toxicity in neurodegeneration: mechanism and therapeutic strategies
    2017 651 citations Yvette C. Wong, Dimitri Krainc profile →
  5. Mitochondria–lysosome contacts regulate mitochondrial fission via RAB7 GTP hydrolysis
    2018 641 citations Yvette C. Wong, Daniel Ysselstein et al. profile →
  6. Dopamine oxidation mediates mitochondrial and lysosomal dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease
    2017 625 citations Lena F. Burbulla, Pingping Song et al. Science profile →
  7. Sp1 and TAFII130 Transcriptional Activity Disrupted in Early Huntington's Disease
    2002 568 citations Hyunkyung Jeong, Dimitri Krainc et al. Science profile →
  8. Human iPSC-Based Modeling of Late-Onset Disease via Progerin-Induced Aging
    2013 549 citations Dimitri Krainc et al. profile →
  9. Functional Impairment in Miro Degradation and Mitophagy Is a Shared Feature in Familial and Sporadic Parkinson’s Disease
    2016 361 citations Lena F. Burbulla, Dimitri Krainc et al. profile →
  10. Mitochondria-lysosome contacts regulate mitochondrial Ca2+dynamics via lysosomal TRPML1
    2020 221 citations Wesley Peng, Yvette C. Wong et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dimitri Krainc United States 57 8.3k 5.0k 4.8k 4.5k 2.4k 135 15.5k
Jie Shen United States 50 6.5k 0.8× 6.8k 1.3× 5.0k 1.0× 4.8k 1.1× 1.9k 0.8× 112 14.7k
Tiago F. Outeiro Germany 71 6.4k 0.8× 8.3k 1.6× 4.6k 0.9× 5.3k 1.2× 2.0k 0.8× 341 16.9k
Mel Β. Feany United States 54 5.4k 0.7× 5.2k 1.0× 4.8k 1.0× 4.8k 1.1× 2.0k 0.8× 106 13.4k
Leonidas Stefanis Greece 55 4.8k 0.6× 7.4k 1.5× 3.6k 0.7× 3.6k 0.8× 2.1k 0.9× 277 13.4k
Nobuyuki Nukina Japan 62 9.1k 1.1× 3.4k 0.7× 4.9k 1.0× 4.3k 1.0× 2.3k 1.0× 206 14.6k
Pamela J. McLean United States 55 4.3k 0.5× 6.4k 1.3× 3.7k 0.8× 4.3k 1.0× 2.2k 0.9× 112 12.0k
Veerle Baekelandt Belgium 58 5.3k 0.6× 4.7k 0.9× 3.4k 0.7× 2.7k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 218 11.7k
Richard Wade‐Martins United Kingdom 55 4.4k 0.5× 4.6k 0.9× 3.1k 0.6× 2.5k 0.6× 908 0.4× 161 10.5k
Mark Cookson United States 81 11.6k 1.4× 13.5k 2.7× 6.4k 1.3× 6.2k 1.4× 3.4k 1.4× 258 24.9k
Philipp J. Kahle Germany 56 5.0k 0.6× 6.9k 1.4× 3.7k 0.8× 3.0k 0.7× 1.2k 0.5× 124 11.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Krainc, Dimitri, et al.. (2024). Diverse Functions of Parkin in Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons. Movement Disorders. 39(8). 1282–1288. 3 indexed citations
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Peng, Wesley, et al.. (2024). VPS13C regulates phospho-Rab10-mediated lysosomal function in human dopaminergic neurons. The Journal of Cell Biology. 223(5). 10 indexed citations
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Bustos, Bernabé I., Sara Bandrés‐Ciga, Thiago Peixoto Leal, et al.. (2024). Genome-wide epistasis analysis reveals significant epistatic signals associated with Parkinson’s disease risk. Brain. 148(6). 2060–2074. 1 indexed citations
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Peng, Wesley, et al.. (2023). Parkin regulates amino acid homeostasis at mitochondria-lysosome (M/L) contact sites in Parkinson’s disease. Science Advances. 9(29). eadh3347–eadh3347. 47 indexed citations
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Shum, Andrew, Sofia Zaichick, Gregory S. McElroy, et al.. (2023). Octopamine metabolically reprograms astrocytes to confer neuroprotection against α-synuclein. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(17). e2217396120–e2217396120. 10 indexed citations
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Song, Pingping, Wesley Peng, Véronique Sauvé, et al.. (2023). Parkinson’s disease-linked parkin mutation disrupts recycling of synaptic vesicles in human dopaminergic neurons. Neuron. 111(23). 3775–3788.e7. 29 indexed citations
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Krainc, Dimitri, et al.. (2022). Expanding the spectrum of KCNJ6 ‐related disorders: Milder phenotype with pathological startle responses. Clinical Genetics. 103(1). 103–108. 2 indexed citations
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Bustos, Bernabé I., Kimberley J. Billingsley, Cornelis Blauwendraat, et al.. (2022). Genome-wide contribution of common short-tandem repeats to Parkinson’s disease genetic risk. Brain. 146(1). 65–74. 20 indexed citations
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Ysselstein, Daniel, Tiffany Young, Maria Nguyen, et al.. (2021). Evaluation of Strategies for Measuring Lysosomal Glucocerebrosidase Activity. Movement Disorders. 36(12). 2719–2730. 29 indexed citations
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Burbulla, Lena F., et al.. (2021). Identification of ASCL1 as a determinant for human iPSC-derived dopaminergic neurons. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 22257–22257. 7 indexed citations
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Kim, Soojin, Yvette C. Wong, Fanding Gao, & Dimitri Krainc. (2021). Dysregulation of mitochondria-lysosome contacts by GBA1 dysfunction in dopaminergic neuronal models of Parkinson’s disease. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1807–1807. 128 indexed citations
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Peng, Wesley, Yvette C. Wong, & Dimitri Krainc. (2020). Mitochondria-lysosome contacts regulate mitochondrial Ca2+dynamics via lysosomal TRPML1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(32). 19266–19275. 221 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bustos, Bernabé I., Sara Bandrés‐Ciga, J. Raphael Gibbs, et al.. (2020). Replication assessment of NUS1 variants in Parkinson's disease. Neurobiology of Aging. 101. 300.e1–300.e3. 7 indexed citations
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Burbulla, Lena F., Sohee Jeon, Jianbin Zheng, et al.. (2019). A modulator of wild-type glucocerebrosidase improves pathogenic phenotypes in dopaminergic neuronal models of Parkinson’s disease. Science Translational Medicine. 11(514). 84 indexed citations
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Graves, Steven M., Zhong Xie, Kristen A. Stout, et al.. (2019). Dopamine metabolism by a monoamine oxidase mitochondrial shuttle activates the electron transport chain. Nature Neuroscience. 23(1). 15–20. 121 indexed citations
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Čaušević, Mirsada, Martina Pigoni, Alessio Colombo, et al.. (2018). BACE1-cleavage of Sez6 and Sez6L is elevated in Niemann-Pick type C disease mouse brains. PLoS ONE. 13(7). e0200344–e0200344. 13 indexed citations
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Al‐Ramahi, Ismael, Sai Srinivas Panapakkam Giridharan, Yu‐Chi Chen, et al.. (2017). Inhibition of PIP4Kγ ameliorates the pathological effects of mutant huntingtin protein. eLife. 6. 51 indexed citations
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Burbulla, Lena F., Pingping Song, Joseph R. Mazzulli, et al.. (2017). Dopamine oxidation mediates mitochondrial and lysosomal dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease. Science. 357(6357). 1255–1261. 625 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lim, Maria, Mary Selak, Z. Xiang, et al.. (2012). Reduced Activity of AMP-Activated Protein Kinase Protects against Genetic Models of Motor Neuron Disease. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(3). 1123–1141. 84 indexed citations
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McDermott, John C., M. Cristina Cardoso, Yie‐Teh Yu, et al.. (1993). hMEF2C Gene Encodes Skeletal Muscle- and Brain-Specific Transcription Factors. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 13(4). 2564–2577. 66 indexed citations

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