Donald Defranco

11.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
165 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

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Donald Defranco is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Donald Defranco has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Molecular Biology, 55 papers in Genetics and 38 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Donald Defranco's work include Estrogen and related hormone effects (53 papers), Heat shock proteins research (24 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (24 papers). Donald Defranco is often cited by papers focused on Estrogen and related hormone effects (53 papers), Heat shock proteins research (24 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (24 papers). Donald Defranco collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Japan. Donald Defranco's co-authors include Jun Yang, Keith R. Yamamoto, Dieter Söll, Jimin Liu, David J. Levinthal, Marjet D. Heitzer, Harry T. Orr, Michael A. Mancini, Christopher J. Cummings and Huda Y. Zoghbi and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Donald Defranco

162 papers receiving 8.9k citations

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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.

Chaperone suppression of aggregation and altered subcellular proteasome localization imply protein misfolding in SCA1

1998 635 citations Donald Defranco et al. profile →
Sequence-specific binding of glucocorticoid receptor to MTV DNA at sites within and upstream of the transcribed region

1983 611 citations Donald Defranco et al. profile →

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	ZC3H4, a novel regulator of mitochondrial complex I, impacts prostate stromal cell senescence, attachment, adhesion and anoikis resistance 2025 ·Cell Death and Disease ·Teresa T. Liu, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ian Sipula, Alexander Chang, (unknown), Ailing Liu, (unknown), Uma Chandran, Michael J. Jurczak, William A. Ricke, Donald Defranco, Laura E. Pascal	0
2	Age-Dependent Effects of Voluntary Wheel Running Exercise on Voiding Behavior and Potential Age-Related Molecular Mechanisms in Mice 2024 ·The Journals of Gerontology Series A ·Teresa T. Liu, Laura E. Pascal, Scott R. Bauer, (unknown), Jules B. Panksepp, Granville L. Lloyd, Lingjun Li, Donald Defranco, William A. Ricke	3
3	Genomic glucocorticoid action in embryonic mouse neural stem cells 2023 ·Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology ·(unknown), Uma Chandran, (unknown), (unknown), Tianluo Lei, (unknown), Silvia K. Nicolis, (unknown), Inez Rogatsky, Donald Defranco	1
4	Bladder overactivity and afferent hyperexcitability induced by prostate‐to‐bladder cross‐sensitization in rats with prostatic inflammation 2019 ·The Journal of Physiology ·Yasuhito Funahashi, Ryosuke Takahashi, (unknown), Takahisa Suzuki, Eiichiro Takaoka, (unknown), Zhou Wang, Donald Defranco, William C. de Groat, Pradeep Tyagi, Naoki Yoshimura	41
5	Opposing Effects of Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) on Estrogen Receptor β (ERβ) Response to 5α-Reductase Inhibition in Prostate Epithelial Cells 2016 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Teresa T. Liu, Melanie Grubisha, (unknown), Stacy G. Wendell, Jiayan Liu, William A. Ricke, Richard J. Auchus, Donald Defranco	8
6	VDR Activity Is Differentially Affected by Hic-5 in Prostate Cancer and Stromal Cells 2014 ·Molecular Cancer Research ·(unknown), Marjet D. Heitzer, Teresa T. Liu, Jan H. Beumer, Robert A. Parise, Daniel P. Normolle, Damien A. Leach, Grant Buchanan, Donald Defranco	14
7	Transient muscarinic and glutamatergic stimulation of neural stem cells triggers acute and persistent changes in differentiation 2014 ·Neurobiology of Disease ·Ranmal A. Samarasinghe, (unknown), J. Timothy Greenamyre, Donald Defranco, Roberto Di Maio	9
8	Reduced Glucocorticoid Receptor Protein Expression in Children with Critical Illness 2013 ·Hormone Research in Paediatrics ·Justin A. Indyk, (unknown), Irene M. Wolf, Shekhar T. Venkataraman, Ricardo Muñoz, Richard A. Saladino, Selma F. Witchel, Donald Defranco	29
9	Altered transcription factor trafficking in oxidatively-stressed neuronal cells 2012 ·Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease ·Vivek P. Patel, Donald Defranco, Charleen T. Chu	14
10	Paxillin Regulates Androgen- and Epidermal Growth Factor-induced MAPK Signaling and Cell Proliferation in Prostate Cancer Cells 2010 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Aritro Sen, Katherine J. O’Malley, Zhou Wang, Ganesh V. Raj, Donald Defranco, Stephen R. Hammes	77
11	Glucocorticoids Antagonize Estrogens by Glucocorticoid Receptor–Mediated Activation of Estrogen Sulfotransferase 2008 ·Cancer Research ·Haibiao Gong, Michael J. Jarzynka, Tim Cole, Jeong Hoon Lee, Taira Wada, Bin Zhang, Jie Gao, Wen‐Chao Song, Donald Defranco, Shi‐Yuan Cheng, Wen Xie	130
12	Hic-5/ARA55 a prostate stroma-specific AR coactivator 2006 ·Steroids ·Marjet D. Heitzer, Donald Defranco	23
13	Role of hsp90 and the hsp90-binding immunophilins in signalling protein movement 2004 ·Cellular Signalling ·William B. Pratt, Mario D. Galigniana, Jennifer M. Harrell, Donald Defranco	220
14	Proteasomal Inhibition Enhances Glucocorticoid Receptor Transactivation and Alters Its Subnuclear Trafficking 2002 ·Molecular and Cellular Biology ·Bonnie J. Deroo, Claudia Rentsch, (unknown), (unknown), Donald Defranco, Trevor Archer	130
15	Interaction of the τ2 Transcriptional Activation Domain of Glucocorticoid Receptor with a Novel Steroid Receptor Coactivator, Hic-5, Which Localizes to Both Focal Adhesions and the Nuclear Matrix 2000 ·Molecular Biology of the Cell ·Lan Yang, (unknown), Heng Hong, Donald Defranco, Michael R. Stallcup	113
16	Regulation of gonadotropin-releasing hormone gene transcription 1999 ·Behavioural Brain Research ·Uma Chandran, Donald Defranco	21
17	Glucocorticoid repression of gonadotropin-releasing hormone gene expression and secretion in morphologically distinct subpopulations of GT1-7 cells 1997 ·Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology ·Barbara Attardi, Toshihiko Tsujii, Robert Friedman, (unknown), James L. Roberts, Tammy Dellovade, Donald W. Pfaff, Uma Chandran, Michael Sullivan, Donald Defranco	35
18	Internuclear migration of chicken progesterone receptor, but not simian virus-40 large tumor antigen, in transient heterokaryons. 1992 ·Molecular Endocrinology ·Uma Chandran, Donald Defranco	40
19	Effects of deletions in mouse chromosome 7 on expression of genes encoding the urea-cycle enzymes and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (GTP) in liver, kidney, and intestine 1988 ·Biochemical Genetics ·Sidney M. Morris, Carole L. Moncman, (unknown), Vicki L. Nebes, Warren F. Diven, George J. Dizikes, Stephen D. Cederbaum, Donald Defranco	23
20	Arrangement and Transcription of Drosophila tRNA Genes 1980 ·Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Bernd Hovemann, Otto Schmidt, Hirotomo Yamada, Sanford J. Silverman, Jen‐i Mao, Donald Defranco, Dieter Söll	2

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