Fabiana Perocchi

7.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
44 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Fabiana Perocchi is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Clinical Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Fabiana Perocchi has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 7 papers in Clinical Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Fabiana Perocchi's work include Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (29 papers), ATP Synthase and ATPases Research (12 papers) and Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (7 papers). Fabiana Perocchi is often cited by papers focused on Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (29 papers), ATP Synthase and ATPases Research (12 papers) and Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (7 papers). Fabiana Perocchi collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Fabiana Perocchi's co-authors include Vamsi K. Mootha, Xiaoyan Bao, Hany S. Girgis, Roman L. Bogorad, Yasemin Sancak, Victor Koteliansky, Lars M. Steinmetz, Vishal M. Gohil, Molly Plovanich and Olga Goldberger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Fabiana Perocchi

44 papers receiving 5.3k 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.

Integrative genomics identifies MCU as an essential component of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter

2011 1.5k citations Fabiana Perocchi, Vamsi K. Mootha et al. profile →
Bidirectional promoters generate pervasive transcription in yeast

2009 735 citations Fabiana Perocchi, Lars M. Steinmetz et al. profile →
MICU1 encodes a mitochondrial EF hand protein required for Ca2+ uptake

2010 702 citations Fabiana Perocchi, Vishal M. Gohil et al. profile →
Oxeiptosis, a ROS-induced caspase-independent apoptosis-like cell-death pathway

2017 338 citations Chloé Michaudel, Claire Mackowiak et al. Nature Immunology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fabiana Perocchi Germany	26	4.5k	791	637	475	421	44	5.3k
Vito De Pinto Italy	43	4.5k 1.0×	755 1.0×	661 1.0×	765 1.6×	294 0.7×	118	5.5k
Marta Giacomello Italy	27	3.8k 0.8×	914 1.2×	852 1.3×	519 1.1×	706 1.7×	58	4.9k
César Cárdenas Chile	29	3.0k 0.7×	759 1.0×	869 1.4×	209 0.4×	633 1.5×	66	4.1k
Angela Messina Italy	34	2.7k 0.6×	542 0.7×	814 1.3×	421 0.9×	241 0.6×	84	3.8k
Angela Bononi Italy	25	3.7k 0.8×	496 0.6×	570 0.9×	276 0.6×	731 1.7×	27	5.4k
Takahiro Taira Japan	37	2.9k 0.6×	1.5k 1.9×	835 1.3×	230 0.5×	442 1.0×	80	5.8k
Sanae M.M. Iguchi‐Ariga Japan	40	3.5k 0.8×	1.4k 1.8×	787 1.2×	256 0.5×	499 1.2×	115	6.3k
Brett H. Graham United States	36	3.3k 0.7×	525 0.7×	835 1.3×	1.0k 2.2×	257 0.6×	91	4.6k
Julien Prudent United Kingdom	26	2.9k 0.6×	280 0.4×	495 0.8×	539 1.1×	598 1.4×	52	3.7k
Luca Pellegrini Canada	28	2.9k 0.6×	376 0.5×	800 1.3×	426 0.9×	419 1.0×	39	3.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fabiana Perocchi

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Reane, Denis Vecellio, Ryan R. Cupo, James Shorter, et al.. (2025). Dependence of mitochondrial calcium signalling and dynamics on the disaggregase, CLPB. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2810–2810. 2 indexed citations

Höring, Marcus, Gerhard Liebisch, Sabine Schweizer, et al.. (2024). Mitochondrial lipidomes are tissue specific – low cholesterol contents relate to UCP1 activity. Life Science Alliance. 7(8). e202402828–e202402828. 3 indexed citations

Keipert, Susanne, Maria Kutschke, Michaela Keuper, et al.. (2024). Two-stage evolution of mammalian adipose tissue thermogenesis. Science. 384(6700). 1111–1117. 12 indexed citations

Wang, Mengzhe, Nayana Gaur, Yiming Cheng, et al.. (2022). Age-dependent increase of cytoskeletal components in sensory axons in human skin. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 10. 965382–965382. 5 indexed citations

Arduíno, Daniela M., et al.. (2021). Drug Discovery Assay to Identify Modulators of the Mitochondrial Ca2+ Uniporter. Methods in molecular biology. 2277. 69–89. 2 indexed citations

Kostić, Marko, Essam A. Assali, Yael Amitai, et al.. (2021). Aberrant activity of mitochondrial NCLX is linked to impaired synaptic transmission and is associated with mental retardation. Communications Biology. 4(1). 666–666. 33 indexed citations

Kostić, Marko, Essam A. Assali, Yael Amitai, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Aberrant activity of mitochondrial NCLX is linked to impaired synaptic transmission and is associated with mental retardation. Communications Biology. 4(1). 755–755. 2 indexed citations

Cheng, Yiming, et al.. (2021). Towards a systems-level understanding of mitochondrial biology. Cell Calcium. 95. 102364–102364. 4 indexed citations

Arduíno, Daniela M., et al.. (2020). Novel Mitochondrial Ca2+ Uptake Enhancers for the Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmia. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 256a–256a. 1 indexed citations

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Pittis, Alexandros A., et al.. (2020). Discovery of EMRE in fungi resolves the true evolutionary history of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4031–4031. 20 indexed citations

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Fecher, Caroline, Laura Trovò, Stephan A. Müller, et al.. (2019). Cell-type-specific profiling of brain mitochondria reveals functional and molecular diversity. Nature Neuroscience. 22(10). 1731–1742. 205 indexed citations

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Yim, Annie, Prasanna S. Koti, Milena Dürrbaum, et al.. (2019). mitoXplorer, a visual data mining platform to systematically analyze and visualize mitochondrial expression dynamics and mutations. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(2). 605–632. 44 indexed citations

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Cheng, Yiming, Jiang Li, Susanne Keipert, et al.. (2018). Prediction of Adipose Browning Capacity by Systematic Integration of Transcriptional Profiles. Cell Reports. 23(10). 3112–3125. 40 indexed citations

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Tkatch, Tatiana, Elisa Greotti, Gytis Baranauskas, et al.. (2017). Optogenetic control of mitochondrial metabolism and Ca ²⁺ signaling by mitochondria-targeted opsins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(26). E5167–E5176. 50 indexed citations

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Honrath, Birgit, Lina A. Matschke, Fabiana Perocchi, et al.. (2017). SK2 channels regulate mitochondrial respiration and mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake. Cell Death and Differentiation. 24(5). 761–773. 1 indexed citations

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Michaudel, Chloé, Claire Mackowiak, Darya A. Haas, et al.. (2017). Oxeiptosis, a ROS-induced caspase-independent apoptosis-like cell-death pathway. Nature Immunology. 19(2). 130–140. 338 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cheng, Yiming & Fabiana Perocchi. (2015). Prediction of Mitochondrial Protein Function by Comparative Physiology and Phylogenetic Profiling. Methods in molecular biology. 1264. 321–329. 2 indexed citations

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Dolga, Amalia M., Michael F. Netter, Fabiana Perocchi, et al.. (2013). Mitochondrial Small Conductance SK2 Channels Prevent Glutamate-induced Oxytosis and Mitochondrial Dysfunction. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(15). 10792–10804. 83 indexed citations

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Gohil, Vishal M., Sunil A. Sheth, Roland Nilsson, et al.. (2010). Nutrient-sensitized screening for drugs that shift energy metabolism from mitochondrial respiration to glycolysis. Nature Biotechnology. 28(3). 249–255. 264 indexed citations

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Perocchi, Fabiana, Eugenio Mancera, & Lars M. Steinmetz. (2007). Systematic screens for human disease genes, from yeast to human and back. Molecular BioSystems. 4(1). 18–29. 39 indexed citations

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