Francesco Neri

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Francesco Neri is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Neri has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Cancer Research and 9 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Francesco Neri's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (24 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (12 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (10 papers). Francesco Neri is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (24 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (12 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (10 papers). Francesco Neri collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and United States. Francesco Neri's co-authors include Salvatore Oliviero, Danny Incarnato, Anna Křepelová, Caterina Parlato, Stefania Rapelli, Francesca Anselmi, Mara Maldotti, Giulia Basile, Alessandro Ori‬‬ and K. Lenhard Rudolph and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Neri

62 papers receiving 2.8k citations

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Intragenic DNA methylation prevents spurious transcription initiation

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesco Neri Italy	24	2.4k	547	284	240	215	63	2.9k
Giuseppina Caretti Italy	27	2.4k 1.0×	555 1.0×	286 1.0×	265 1.1×	144 0.7×	42	2.8k
Marjorie Brand Canada	33	3.1k 1.3×	324 0.6×	303 1.1×	202 0.8×	228 1.1×	65	3.5k
Maria Paola Paronetto Italy	35	3.0k 1.3×	682 1.2×	361 1.3×	231 1.0×	268 1.2×	83	3.8k
Karl Agger Denmark	19	3.9k 1.7×	484 0.9×	551 1.9×	328 1.4×	246 1.1×	25	4.4k
Rachel Deplus Belgium	14	3.1k 1.3×	522 1.0×	571 2.0×	256 1.1×	268 1.2×	18	3.6k
Yulan Piao United States	31	2.4k 1.0×	499 0.9×	312 1.1×	138 0.6×	325 1.5×	64	3.1k
Manuel Rodríguez‐Paredes Germany	18	1.5k 0.6×	381 0.7×	229 0.8×	290 1.2×	225 1.0×	24	2.1k
Li Tan China	25	2.5k 1.1×	800 1.5×	253 0.9×	265 1.1×	222 1.0×	93	3.3k
Luke B. Hesson Australia	29	2.4k 1.0×	494 0.9×	284 1.0×	402 1.7×	173 0.8×	66	3.0k
Regina Grillari‐Voglauer Austria	27	1.8k 0.7×	666 1.2×	169 0.6×	162 0.7×	213 1.0×	56	2.5k

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Křepelová, Anna, Jing Lü, Omid Omrani, et al.. (2025). Iron homeostasis and cell clonality drive cancer-associated intestinal DNA methylation drift in aging. Nature Aging. 5(12). 2432–2448.

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

Molineris, Ivan, Giovanna Gambarotta, Francesco Neri, et al.. (2023). NR2F1 shapes mitochondria in the mouse brain, providing new insights into Bosch-Boonstra-Schaaf optic atrophy syndrome. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 16(6). 5 indexed citations

Omrani, Omid, Anna Křepelová, Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Rasa, et al.. (2023). IFNγ-Stat1 axis drives aging-associated loss of intestinal tissue homeostasis and regeneration. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6109–6109. 27 indexed citations

Křepelová, Anna & Francesco Neri. (2023). DNA methylation controls hematopoietic stem cell aging. Nature Aging. 3(11). 1320–1322. 1 indexed citations

Kallenbach, Julia, et al.. (2022). Androgen-Induced MIG6 Regulates Phosphorylation of Retinoblastoma Protein and AKT to Counteract Non-Genomic AR Signaling in Prostate Cancer Cells. Biomolecules. 12(8). 1048–1048. 3 indexed citations

Omrani, Omid, et al.. (2022). Single-cell atlas of the aging mouse colon. iScience. 25(5). 104202–104202. 20 indexed citations

Astanina, Elena, Gabriella Doronzo, Davide Corà, et al.. (2022). The TFEB-TGIF1 axis regulates EMT in mouse epicardial cells. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5191–5191. 12 indexed citations

Bartsch, Sophie, Mohsen Esmaeili, Thanakorn Pungsrinont, et al.. (2021). Antithetic hTERT Regulation by Androgens in Prostate Cancer Cells: hTERT Inhibition Is Mediated by the ING1 and ING2 Tumor Suppressors. Cancers. 13(16). 4025–4025. 15 indexed citations

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Rasa, Seyed Mohammad Mahdi, Emilio Cirri, Alessandro Ori‬‬, et al.. (2021). Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Carrying 5-Fluorouracil in Combination with Magnetic Hyperthermia Induce Thrombogenic Collagen Fibers, Cellular Stress, and Immune Responses in Heterotopic Human Colon Cancer in Mice. Pharmaceutics. 13(10). 1625–1625. 21 indexed citations

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Nunna, Suneetha, et al.. (2021). Characterization of Novel α-Mangostin and Paeonol Derivatives With Cancer-Selective Cytotoxicity. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 21(2). 257–270. 10 indexed citations

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Kallenbach, Julia, Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Rasa, Martin Ungelenk, et al.. (2021). The androgen receptor—lncRNASAT1-AKT-p15 axis mediates androgen-induced cellular senescence in prostate cancer cells. Oncogene. 41(7). 943–959. 30 indexed citations

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Babaei, Esmaeil, et al.. (2021). Anti-proliferative and apoptotic effect of gemini curcumin in p53-wild type and p53-mutant colorectal cancer cell lines. International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 601. 120592–120592. 21 indexed citations

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Ermolaeva, Maria, Francesco Neri, Alessandro Ori‬‬, & K. Lenhard Rudolph. (2018). Cellular and epigenetic drivers of stem cell ageing. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 19(9). 594–610. 179 indexed citations

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Saoncella, Stefania, Francesco Neri, Ugo Ala, et al.. (2017). Rictor/mTORC2 deficiency enhances keratinocyte stress tolerance via mitohormesis. Cell Death and Differentiation. 24(4). 731–746. 23 indexed citations

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Bruno, Stefania, Marta Tapparo, Federica Collino, et al.. (2017). Renal Regenerative Potential of Different Extracellular Vesicle Populations Derived from Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stromal Cells. Tissue Engineering Part A. 23(21-22). 1262–1273. 153 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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Maldotti, Mara, Danny Incarnato, Francesco Neri, et al.. (2016). The long intergenic non-coding RNA CCR492 functions as a let-7 competitive endogenous RNA to regulate c-Myc expression. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. 1859(10). 1322–1332. 20 indexed citations

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Fiorito, Veronica, Francesco Neri, Lorenzo Silengo, et al.. (2014). Hypoxia controls Flvcr1 gene expression in Caco2 cells through HIF2α and ETS1. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. 1839(4). 259–264. 14 indexed citations

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Incarnato, Danny, Francesco Neri, Francesca Anselmi, & Salvatore Oliviero. (2014). Genome-wide profiling of mouse RNA secondary structures reveals key features of the mammalian transcriptome. Genome biology. 15(10). 491–491. 101 indexed citations

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