Francesco Tombola

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Francesco Tombola is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Tombola has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 14 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Francesco Tombola's work include Ion channel regulation and function (31 papers), Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (14 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (10 papers). Francesco Tombola is often cited by papers focused on Ion channel regulation and function (31 papers), Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (14 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (10 papers). Francesco Tombola collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and France. Francesco Tombola's co-authors include Medha M. Pathak, Ehud Y. Isacoff, Mario Zoratti, Maximilian H. Ulbrich, Lisa A. Flanagan, Jamison L. Nourse, Janahan Arulmoli, Ildikò Szabó, Liang Hong and Susy C. Kohout and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Tombola

56 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Stretch-activated ion channel Piezo1 directs lineage choice in human neural stem cells

2014 469 citations Medha M. Pathak, Jamison L. Nourse et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesco Tombola United States	28	2.3k	1.1k	722	509	427	57	3.4k
Evelyn Fein Germany	9	1.7k 0.7×	688 0.6×	339 0.5×	349 0.7×	302 0.7×	10	3.6k
Makoto Inui Japan	33	3.1k 1.3×	990 0.9×	1.6k 2.3×	318 0.6×	562 1.3×	86	4.2k
Ravshan Z. Sabirov Japan	32	2.1k 0.9×	744 0.7×	335 0.5×	364 0.7×	139 0.3×	79	3.1k
Charles F. Louis United States	39	3.5k 1.5×	892 0.8×	1.2k 1.6×	483 0.9×	407 1.0×	130	4.5k
Huanghe Yang United States	25	2.2k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	846 1.2×	381 0.7×	157 0.4×	70	3.2k
Frank Schwede Germany	38	4.3k 1.8×	930 0.8×	474 0.7×	450 0.9×	352 0.8×	101	5.9k
Edwin D.W. Moore Canada	30	1.8k 0.8×	582 0.5×	1.1k 1.5×	226 0.4×	299 0.7×	73	2.7k
Scott John United States	32	2.6k 1.1×	615 0.5×	785 1.1×	292 0.6×	210 0.5×	70	3.3k
Judith A. Airey United States	30	2.1k 0.9×	991 0.9×	667 0.9×	182 0.4×	257 0.6×	44	2.8k
Alessio Accardi United States	31	2.9k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	585 0.8×	341 0.7×	360 0.8×	58	3.4k

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Angeli, Alexis De, et al.. (2023). Mechanically-primed voltage-gated proton channels from angiosperm plants. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7515–7515. 1 indexed citations

Kautz, Rylan, Long Phan, Janahan Arulmoli, et al.. (2020). Growth and Spatial Control of Murine Neural Stem Cells on Reflectin Films. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. 6(3). 1311–1320. 3 indexed citations

Hong, Liang, et al.. (2020). Voltage-dependent structural models of the human Hv1 proton channel from long-timescale molecular dynamics simulations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(24). 13490–13498. 27 indexed citations

Lim, Victoria T., J. Alfredo Freites, Francesco Tombola, & Douglas J. Tobias. (2020). Thermodynamics and Mechanism of the Membrane Permeation of Hv1 Channel Blockers. The Journal of Membrane Biology. 254(1). 5–16. 7 indexed citations

Hong, Liang, Saleh Riahi, Jason D. Galpin, et al.. (2020). Rationally Designed Proton Channel Inhibitors Reveal a Druggable Pocket in a Voltage-sensing Domain. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 111a–111a. 1 indexed citations

Arulmoli, Janahan, Medha M. Pathak, Jamison L. Nourse, et al.. (2015). Static stretch affects neural stem cell differentiation in an extracellular matrix-dependent manner. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 8499–8499. 71 indexed citations

Phan, Long, Rylan Kautz, Janahan Arulmoli, et al.. (2015). Reflectin as a Material for Neural Stem Cell Growth. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 8(1). 278–284. 21 indexed citations

Hong, Liang, Vikrant Singh, Heike Wulff, & Francesco Tombola. (2015). Interrogation of the intersubunit interface of the open Hv1 proton channel with a probe of allosteric coupling. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 14077–14077. 24 indexed citations

Hevezi, Peter, Csaba Varga, Medha M. Pathak, et al.. (2014). Evidence for Functional Diversity between the Voltage-Gated Proton Channel Hv1 and Its Closest Related Protein HVRP1. PLoS ONE. 9(8). e105926–e105926. 15 indexed citations

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Hong, Liang, et al.. (2013). Voltage-Sensing Domain of Voltage-Gated Proton Channel Hv1 Shares Mechanism of Block with Pore Domains. Neuron. 77(2). 274–287. 80 indexed citations

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Liang, Hong, et al.. (2013). Voltage-Sensing Domain of Voltage-Gated Proton Channel Hv1 Shares Mechanism of Block with Pore Domains. Neuron. 79(1). 202–202. 1 indexed citations

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Tombola, Francesco, Maximilian H. Ulbrich, & Ehud Y. Isacoff. (2008). The Voltage-Gated Proton Channel Hv1 Has Two Pores, Each Controlled by One Voltage Sensor. Neuron. 58(4). 546–556. 193 indexed citations

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Tombola, Francesco, Medha M. Pathak, & Ehud Y. Isacoff. (2006). How Does Voltage Open an Ion Channel?. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. 22(1). 23–52. 232 indexed citations

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Campello, Silvia, Umberto De Marchi, Ildikò Szabó, et al.. (2005). The properties of the mitochondrial megachannel in mitoplasts from human colon carcinoma cells are not influenced by Bax. FEBS Letters. 579(17). 3695–3700. 24 indexed citations

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Tombola, Francesco, Silvia Campello, Laura De Luca, et al.. (2003). Plant polyphenols inhibit VacA, a toxin secreted by the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori. FEBS Letters. 543(1-3). 184–189. 74 indexed citations

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Szabó, Ildikò, et al.. (2002). DNA Interacts With <i>Bacillus Subtilis</i> Mechano-sensitive Channels in Native Membrane Patches. Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry. 12(2-3). 127–134. 6 indexed citations

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Tombola, Francesco, Laura Morbiato, Giuseppe Del Giudice, et al.. (2001). The Helicobacter pylori VacA toxin is a urea permease that promotes urea diffusion across epithelia. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 108(6). 929–937. 79 indexed citations

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Szabó, Ildikò, et al.. (2000). Ca²⁺‐reversible inhibition of the mitochondrial megachannel by ubiquinone analogues. FEBS Letters. 480(2-3). 89–94. 24 indexed citations

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Tombola, Francesco, Ildikò Szabó, Marina de Bernard, et al.. (1999). Helicobacter pylori Vacuolating Toxin Forms Anion-Selective Channels in Planar Lipid Bilayers: Possible Implications for the Mechanism of Cellular Vacuolation. Biophysical Journal. 76(3). 1401–1409. 125 indexed citations

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Szabó, Ildikò, et al.. (1997). DNA Translocation Across Planar Bilayers Containing Bacillus subtilis Ion Channels. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272(40). 25275–25282. 50 indexed citations

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