Leonard Guarente

10.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
45 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Leonard Guarente is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Aging and Geriatrics and Gerontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Leonard Guarente has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Aging and 9 papers in Geriatrics and Gerontology. Recurrent topics in Leonard Guarente's work include Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (12 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (12 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers). Leonard Guarente is often cited by papers focused on Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (12 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (12 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers). Leonard Guarente collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and South Korea. Leonard Guarente's co-authors include Cynthia Kenyon, Shin‐ichiro Imai, Phillip A. Sharp, Steven Hahn, Stephen Buratowski, Su-Ju Lin, Eric Alani, Beth A. Lalonde, Ethan Ford and Marcia C. Haigis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Leonard Guarente

45 papers receiving 8.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Genetic pathways that regulate ageing in model organisms

2000 1.1k citations Leonard Guarente, Cynthia Kenyon Nature profile →
[10] Yeast promoters and lacZ fusions designed to study expression of cloned genes in yeast

1983 1.0k citations Leonard Guarente Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology profile →
NAD+ and sirtuins in aging and disease

2014 1.0k citations Shin‐ichiro Imai, Leonard Guarente Trends in Cell Biology profile →
Five intermediate complexes in transcription initiation by RNA polymerase II

1989 921 citations Stephen Buratowski, Steven Hahn et al. Cell profile →
Calorie restriction extends yeast life span by lowering the level of NADH

2004 528 citations Leonard Guarente et al. profile →

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This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Leonard Guarente. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Leonard Guarente based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Leonard Guarente. Leonard Guarente is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Metabolic control of primed human pluripotent stem cell fate and function by the miR-200c–SIRT2 axis 2017 ·Nature Cell Biology ·Young Cha, Min-Joon Han, Hyuk‐Jin Cha, Janet Zoldan, Alison Burkart, Jin Hyuk Jung, Yongwoo Jang, Chun‐Hyung Kim, Ho‐Chang Jeong, Byung‐Gyu Kim, Róbert Langer, C. Ronald Kahn, Leonard Guarente, Kwang‐Soo Kim	136
2	NAD+ and sirtuins in aging and disease breakdown → 2014 ·Trends in Cell Biology ·Shin‐ichiro Imai, Leonard Guarente	1034
3	2 Sirtuins: A Universal Link between NAD, Metabolism, and Aging 2008 ·Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Shin‐ichiro Imai, Leonard Guarente	9
4	Separation of mother and daughter cells 2002 ·Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Peter U. Park, Mitch McVey, Leonard Guarente	47
5	Genetic pathways that regulate ageing in model organisms breakdown → 2000 ·Nature ·Leonard Guarente, Cynthia Kenyon	1074
6	Structure of HAP1-18-DNA implicates direct allosteric effect of protein-DNA interactions on transcriptional activation. 1999 ·Nature Structural Biology ·(unknown), Daniel King, Zhang Li, Leonard Guarente	25
7	Telomeres, the nucleolus and aging 1998 ·Current Opinion in Cell Biology ·F Brad Johnson, Robert A. Marciniak, Leonard Guarente	57
8	Genetic and biochemical probes for protein—protein interactions 1996 ·Current Opinion in Biotechnology ·David S. McNabb, Leonard Guarente	12
9	Transcriptional coactivators in yeast and beyond 1995 ·Trends in Biochemical Sciences ·Leonard Guarente	126
10	Multiple domains mediate heme control of the yeast activator HAP1 1995 ·Molecular and General Genetics MGG ·Maryann Haldi, Leonard Guarente	18
11	Synthetic enhancement in gene interaction: a genetic tool come of age 1993 ·Trends in Genetics ·Leonard Guarente	191
12	2 Messenger RNA Transcription and Its Control in Saccharomyces cerevisiae 1992 ·Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Leonard Guarente	4
13	38 Mechanism and Regulation of Transcriptional Activation in Eukaryotes: Conserved Features from Yeasts to Humans 1992 ·Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Leonard Guarente	9
14	Conservation and evolution of transcriptional mechanisms in eukaryotes 1992 ·Trends in Genetics ·Leonard Guarente, Olivia Bermingham‐McDonogh	51
15	[25] Vectors for expression of cloned genes in yeast: Regulation, overproduction, and underproduction 1991 ·Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Jane C. Schneider, Leonard Guarente	122
16	Five intermediate complexes in transcription initiation by RNA polymerase II breakdown → 1989 ·Cell ·Stephen Buratowski, Steven Hahn, Leonard Guarente, Phillip A. Sharp	921
17	Isolation of the gene encoding the yeast TATA binding protein TFIID: A gene identical to the SPT15 suppressor of Ty element insertions 1989 ·Cell ·Steven Hahn, Stephen Buratowski, Phillip A. Sharp, Leonard Guarente	227
18	[10] Yeast promoters and lacZ fusions designed to study expression of cloned genes in yeast breakdown → 1983 ·Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Leonard Guarente	1044
19	Genetic Fusions of the lac Operon: A New Approach to the Study of Biological Processes 1980 ·Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·(unknown), Jonathan Beckwith, Michael L. Berman, Edith Brickman, M J Casadaban, Leonard Guarente, Isabelle Saint‐Girons, Aparna V. Sarthy, Maxime Schwartz, Howard A. Shuman, Thomas J. Silhavy	47
20	A mutation distal to the messenger RNA endpoint reduces transcription termination in the tryptophan operon in Escherichia coli 1979 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Leonard Guarente, (unknown), Anna M. Wu, Terry Platt	19

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