Giuseppe Legname

12.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
209 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Giuseppe Legname is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Neurology and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Giuseppe Legname has authored 209 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 177 papers in Molecular Biology, 69 papers in Neurology and 69 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Giuseppe Legname's work include Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (153 papers), Trace Elements in Health (69 papers) and Neurological diseases and metabolism (67 papers). Giuseppe Legname is often cited by papers focused on Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (153 papers), Trace Elements in Health (69 papers) and Neurological diseases and metabolism (67 papers). Giuseppe Legname collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Germany. Giuseppe Legname's co-authors include Stanley B. Prusiner, Fred E. Cohen, Stephen J. DeArmond, Ilia V. Baskakov, Hoang-Oanh B. Nguyen, Detlev Riesner, Gabriele Giachin, David Peretz, Michael A. Baldwin and Federico Benetti and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Giuseppe Legname

207 papers receiving 9.9k 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.

Synthetic Mammalian Prions

2004 807 citations Giuseppe Legname, Ilia V. Baskakov et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Giuseppe Legname Italy	50	7.8k	3.7k	2.8k	1.9k	1.1k	209	10.0k
David Westaway Canada	61	11.7k 1.5×	6.4k 1.7×	4.9k 1.8×	4.5k 2.3×	1.2k 1.1×	188	16.3k
David A. Harris United States	57	9.4k 1.2×	4.5k 1.2×	3.5k 1.3×	1.7k 0.9×	397 0.4×	172	10.5k
Holger Wille United States	42	6.4k 0.8×	2.7k 0.7×	2.3k 0.8×	1.9k 1.0×	453 0.4×	121	7.5k
Byron Caughey United States	76	17.4k 2.2×	8.8k 2.4×	6.3k 2.3×	4.2k 2.2×	2.8k 2.6×	244	20.4k
Paul E. Fraser Canada	62	8.6k 1.1×	1.7k 0.5×	1.6k 0.6×	7.4k 3.8×	1.1k 1.0×	153	13.7k
Jack Nguyen United States	27	3.8k 0.5×	1.1k 0.3×	1.0k 0.4×	1.3k 0.7×	268 0.2×	45	5.0k
Rubén Vidal United States	45	3.9k 0.5×	1.5k 0.4×	566 0.2×	3.9k 2.0×	1.3k 1.2×	134	7.3k
Jiri Safar United States	40	6.0k 0.8×	3.0k 0.8×	2.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	655 0.6×	107	7.0k
Konstanze F. Winklhofer Germany	43	4.5k 0.6×	1.3k 0.4×	561 0.2×	1.5k 0.8×	2.4k 2.2×	108	7.1k
Miguel Calero Spain	39	2.9k 0.4×	1.3k 0.4×	406 0.1×	3.3k 1.7×	759 0.7×	132	6.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giuseppe Legname

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Vacchi, Elena, Sandra Pinton, Andrea Raimondi, et al.. (2024). Tau seeding activity in skin biopsy differentiates tauopathies from synucleinopathies. npj Parkinson s Disease. 10(1). 116–116. 13 indexed citations

Cecco, Elena De, Marco Fantuz, Federico Angelo Cazzaniga, et al.. (2023). Different tau fibril types reduce prion level in chronically and de novo infected cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 299(8). 105054–105054.

Gonçalves, Ana Elisa, Claudia Albertini, Jana Janočková, et al.. (2022). Discovery of Dual Aβ/Tau Inhibitors and Evaluation of Their Therapeutic Effect on a Drosophila Model of Alzheimer’s Disease. ACS Chemical Neuroscience. 13(23). 3314–3329. 12 indexed citations

Russo, L., Giulia Salzano, Edoardo Bistaffa, et al.. (2022). Structural and dynamical determinants of a β-sheet-enriched intermediate involved in amyloid fibrillar assembly of human prion protein. Chemical Science. 13(35). 10406–10427. 2 indexed citations

Conte, Maria, Valentina Medici, Davide Malagoli, et al.. (2021). Expression pattern of perilipins in human brain during aging and in Alzheimer's disease. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology. 48(1). e12756–e12756. 34 indexed citations

Luca, Chiara Maria Giulia De, Alessandra Consonni, Federico Angelo Cazzaniga, et al.. (2021). The Alpha-Synuclein RT-QuIC Products Generated by the Olfactory Mucosa of Patients with Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple System Atrophy Induce Inflammatory Responses in SH-SY5Y Cells. Cells. 11(1). 87–87. 6 indexed citations

D’Arrigo, Giulia, Martina Gabrielli, Paolo Swuec, et al.. (2021). Astrocytes‐derived extracellular vesicles in motion at the neuron surface: Involvement of the prion protein. Journal of Extracellular Vesicles. 10(9). e12114–e12114. 30 indexed citations

Cecco, Elena De, Erika Ponzini, Pierluigi Mauri, et al.. (2021). Profiling Dopamine-Induced Oxidized Proteoforms of β-synuclein by Top-Down Mass Spectrometry. Antioxidants. 10(6). 893–893. 2 indexed citations

Bistaffa, Edoardo, Alba Marín‐Moreno, Juan Carlos Espinosa, et al.. (2021). PMCA-generated prions from the olfactory mucosa of patients with Fatal Familial Insomnia cause prion disease in mice. eLife. 10. 4 indexed citations

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Cecco, Elena De, Silvia Vanni, Micaela Grandolfo, et al.. (2020). The uptake of tau amyloid fibrils is facilitated by the cellular prion protein and hampers prion propagation in cultured cells. Journal of Neurochemistry. 155(5). 577–591. 34 indexed citations

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Salzano, Giulia, Martha Brennich, Giordano Mancini, et al.. (2020). Deciphering Copper Coordination in the Mammalian Prion Protein Amyloidogenic Domain. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 676–687. 11 indexed citations

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Stani, Chiaramaria, Elena De Cecco, Lisa Vaccari, et al.. (2020). Iron-mediated interaction of alpha synuclein with lipid raft model membranes. Nanoscale. 12(14). 7631–7640. 19 indexed citations

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Salzano, Giulia, Gabriele Giachin, & Giuseppe Legname. (2019). Structural Consequences of Copper Binding to the Prion Protein. Cells. 8(8). 770–770. 44 indexed citations

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Salerno, Domenico, Stefania Brocca, Antonino Natalello, et al.. (2019). Depicting Conformational Ensembles of α-Synuclein by Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy and Native Mass Spectroscopy. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 20(20). 5181–5181. 7 indexed citations

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Ponzini, Erika, Antonella De Palma, Antonino Natalello, et al.. (2019). Methionine oxidation in α-synuclein inhibits its propensity for ordered secondary structure. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(14). 5657–5665. 31 indexed citations

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Benetti, Federico, Michael D. Geschwind, & Giuseppe Legname. (2010). De novo prions. F1000 Biology Reports. 2. 2 indexed citations

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Franciotta, Diego, Angela Bachi, Elisabetta Zardini, et al.. (2009). Correction: Prion Protein Paralog Doppel Protein Interacts with Alpha-2-Macroglobulin: A Plausible Mechanism for Doppel-Mediated Neurodegeneration. PLoS ONE. 4(8). 1 indexed citations

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Legname, Giuseppe, Ilia V. Baskakov, Hoang-Oanh B. Nguyen, et al.. (2004). Synthetic Mammalian Prions. Science. 305(5684). 673–676. 807 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bosque, Patrick J., Chongsuk Ryou, Glenn C. Telling, et al.. (2002). Prions in skeletal muscle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(6). 3812–3817. 121 indexed citations

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Legname, Giuseppe, Gianluca Fossati, Nicoletta Monzini, et al.. (1995). Heterologous expression, purification, activity and conformational studies of different forms of dianthin 30.. PubMed. 1(2). 61–8. 8 indexed citations

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