Gianfranco Distefano

893 total citations
13 papers, 682 citations indexed

About

Gianfranco Distefano is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Gianfranco Distefano has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 682 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Genetics, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Gianfranco Distefano's work include Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases (10 papers), Biomedical Research and Pathophysiology (5 papers) and Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (3 papers). Gianfranco Distefano is often cited by papers focused on Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases (10 papers), Biomedical Research and Pathophysiology (5 papers) and Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (3 papers). Gianfranco Distefano collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and United Kingdom. Gianfranco Distefano's co-authors include Alessandra Boletta, Manila Boca, Gregory G. Germino, Isaline Rowe, Claas Wodarczyk, Klaus Piontek, Pier Paolo Pandolfi, Feng Qian, Li Ma and Marco Chiaravalli and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Molecular and Cellular Biology.

In The Last Decade

Gianfranco Distefano

13 papers receiving 674 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gianfranco Distefano Italy	12	491	482	165	94	54	13	682
Sambuddho Mukherjee United States	12	354 0.7×	365 0.8×	142 0.9×	68 0.7×	43 0.8×	21	752
Elena Schnabel‐Besson Germany	8	348 0.7×	110 0.2×	29 0.2×	69 0.7×	288 5.3×	17	582
Patricia Outeda United States	11	448 0.9×	472 1.0×	145 0.9×	79 0.8×	59 1.1×	20	672
Maria Giovanna De Leo Switzerland	8	219 0.4×	47 0.1×	85 0.5×	230 2.4×	15 0.3×	9	460
Anirudh Sethi United States	8	292 0.6×	63 0.1×	47 0.3×	77 0.8×	10 0.2×	10	516
Sika Ristevski Australia	11	359 0.7×	135 0.3×	24 0.1×	31 0.3×	6 0.1×	15	541
Valérie Boitez France	7	173 0.4×	101 0.2×	22 0.1×	47 0.5×	45 0.8×	8	314
Jorge Oliveira Portugal	15	436 0.9×	219 0.5×	27 0.2×	53 0.6×	4 0.1×	56	694

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13 of 13 papers shown

Podrini, Christine, Davide Stefanoni, Gianfranco Distefano, et al.. (2024). Inhibition of asparagine synthetase effectively retards polycystic kidney disease progression. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 16(6). 1379–1403. 5 indexed citations

Nigro, Elisa Agnese, Laura Cassina, Christine Podrini, et al.. (2023). Primary cilia sense glutamine availability and respond via asparagine synthetase. Nature Metabolism. 5(3). 385–397. 20 indexed citations

Nigro, Elisa Agnese, Gianfranco Distefano, Marco Chiaravalli, et al.. (2019). Polycystin-1 Regulates Actomyosin Contraction and the Cellular Response to Extracellular Stiffness. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 16640–16640. 27 indexed citations

Podrini, Christine, Isaline Rowe, Ana S.H. Costa, et al.. (2018). Dissection of metabolic reprogramming in polycystic kidney disease reveals coordinated rewiring of bioenergetic pathways. Communications Biology. 1(1). 194–194. 70 indexed citations

Pascalis, Chiara De, et al.. (2015). Regulation of the microtubular cytoskeleton by Polycystin-1 favors focal adhesions turnover to modulate cell adhesion and migration. BMC Cell Biology. 16(1). 15–15. 31 indexed citations

Boca, Manila, Marco Chiaravalli, Harini Ramalingam, et al.. (2013). Polycystin-1 binds Par3/aPKC and controls convergent extension during renal tubular morphogenesis. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2658–2658. 44 indexed citations

Wodarczyk, Claas, Gianfranco Distefano, Isaline Rowe, et al.. (2010). Nephrocystin-1 Forms a Complex with Polycystin-1 via a Polyproline Motif/SH3 Domain Interaction and Regulates the Apoptotic Response in Mammals. PLoS ONE. 5(9). e12719–e12719. 24 indexed citations

Distefano, Gianfranco, Manila Boca, Isaline Rowe, et al.. (2009). Polycystin-1 Regulates Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase-Dependent Phosphorylation of Tuberin To Control Cell Size through mTOR and Its Downstream Effectors S6K and 4EBP1. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 29(9). 2359–2371. 164 indexed citations

Boca, Manila, Lisa D’Amato, Gianfranco Distefano, et al.. (2007). Polycystin-1 Induces Cell Migration by Regulating Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-dependent Cytoskeletal Rearrangements and GSK3β-dependent Cell–Cell Mechanical Adhesion. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 18(10). 4050–4061. 91 indexed citations

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Boca, Manila, Gianfranco Distefano, Feng Qian, et al.. (2006). Polycystin-1 Induces Resistance to Apoptosis through the Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase/Akt Signaling Pathway. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 17(3). 637–647. 75 indexed citations

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Bragonzi, Alessandra, Gianfranco Distefano, Lorraine D. Buckberry, et al.. (2000). A new Chinese hamster ovary cell line expressing α2,6-sialyltransferase used as universal host for the production of human-like sialylated recombinant glycoproteins. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects. 1474(3). 273–282. 62 indexed citations

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Monaco, Lucía, Annie Marc, Alex Eon‐Duval, et al.. (1996). Genetic engineering of ?2,6-sialyltransferase in recombinant CHO cells and its effects on the sialylation of recombinant interferon-?. Cytotechnology. 22(1-3). 197–203. 28 indexed citations

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Gherzi, Roberto, Giovanni Melioli, Michele De Luca, et al.. (1992). “HepG2/erythroid/brain” type glucose transporter (GLUT1) is highly expressed in human epidermis: Keratinocyte differentiation affects glut1 levels in reconstituted epidermis. Journal of Cellular Physiology. 150(3). 463–474. 41 indexed citations

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