Marco Tigano

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 764 citations indexed

About

Marco Tigano is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Clinical Biochemistry and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marco Tigano has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 764 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Clinical Biochemistry and 2 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Marco Tigano's work include Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (8 papers), Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (4 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers). Marco Tigano is often cited by papers focused on Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (8 papers), Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (4 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (3 papers). Marco Tigano collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and France. Marco Tigano's co-authors include Agnel Sfeir, Yi Fu, Samuel Tremblay‐Belzile, Alessia Ciarrocchi, Mila Gugnoni, Ione Tamagnini, Moira Ragazzi, Greta Gandolfi, Valentina Sancisi and Simonetta Piana and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Marco Tigano

13 papers receiving 760 citations

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Nuclear sensing of breaks in mitochondrial DNA enhances immune surveillance

2021 231 citations Marco Tigano, Samuel Tremblay‐Belzile et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marco Tigano United States	8	594	137	133	105	102	14	764
Rie Kinoshita Japan	13	311 0.5×	143 1.0×	39 0.3×	38 0.4×	68 0.7×	37	506
Longzhen Piao China	17	450 0.8×	95 0.7×	28 0.2×	57 0.5×	126 1.2×	33	674
Charles B Phillips United States	6	828 1.4×	55 0.4×	35 0.3×	57 0.5×	64 0.6×	6	896
Pushpankur Ghoshal United States	15	289 0.5×	84 0.6×	40 0.3×	29 0.3×	88 0.9×	23	520
Lisa Heiserich Germany	6	508 0.9×	75 0.5×	28 0.2×	122 1.2×	296 2.9×	8	730
Da‐Qing Yang United States	18	804 1.4×	66 0.5×	41 0.3×	32 0.3×	175 1.7×	23	962
Takao Toyomura Japan	9	745 1.3×	71 0.5×	39 0.3×	36 0.3×	40 0.4×	18	907
Shilpa Gandre-Babbe United States	7	1.1k 1.8×	58 0.4×	322 2.4×	182 1.7×	78 0.8×	7	1.2k
Yuannyu Zhang United States	17	1.2k 2.0×	140 1.0×	29 0.2×	75 0.7×	201 2.0×	29	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marco Tigano

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14 of 14 papers shown

Miyake, Tsuyoshi, et al.. (2025). Co-option of mitochondrial nucleic acid–sensing pathways by HSV-1 UL12.5 for reactivation from latent infection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(4). e2413965122–e2413965122. 2 indexed citations

Fung, Tak Shun, Zuzana Nichtová, Marco Tigano, et al.. (2025). Peri-mitochondrial actin filaments inhibit Parkin assembly by disrupting ER-mitochondria contacts. EMBO Reports. 26(20). 4977–5008.

Gugnoni, Mila, Veronica Manicardi, Federica Torricelli, et al.. (2025). RUNX2 cooperates with SREBP1 to rewire cancer metabolism and promote aggressiveness. Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research. 44(1). 298–298. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Chenxiao, et al.. (2024). Molecular and cellular consequences of mitochondrial DNA double-stranded breaks. Human Molecular Genetics. 33(R1). R12–R18. 3 indexed citations

Tigano, Marco, et al.. (2021). Nuclear sensing of breaks in mitochondrial DNA enhances immune surveillance. Nature. 591(7850). 477–481. 231 indexed citations breakdown →

Fu, Yi, Marco Tigano, & Agnel Sfeir. (2020). Safeguarding mitochondrial genomes in higher eukaryotes. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 27(8). 687–695. 40 indexed citations

Tigano, Marco, et al.. (2019). Single-molecule analysis of mtDNA replication with high resolution. Methods in cell biology. 155. 401–414. 3 indexed citations

Tigano, Marco, Sonia M. Dubois, Loélia Babin, et al.. (2017). Single-Molecule Analysis of mtDNA Replication Uncovers the Basis of the Common Deletion. Molecular Cell. 65(3). 527–538.e6. 99 indexed citations

Gugnoni, Mila, Valentina Sancisi, Greta Gandolfi, et al.. (2016). Cadherin-6 promotes EMT and cancer metastasis by restraining autophagy. Oncogene. 36(5). 667–677. 161 indexed citations

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Tigano, Marco, Roberta Ruotolo, Cristina Dallabona, et al.. (2015). Elongator-dependent modification of cytoplasmic tRNA^Lys_UUUis required for mitochondrial function under stress conditions. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(17). 8368–8380. 25 indexed citations

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Frazzi, Raffaele & Marco Tigano. (2014). The Multiple Mechanisms of Cell Death Triggered by Resveratrol in Lymphoma and Leukemia. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 15(3). 4977–4993. 26 indexed citations

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Frazzi, Raffaele, Marco Tigano, Riccardo Valli, et al.. (2014). SIRT1 Expression Is Higher in Human Follicular Lymphoma and Correlates with Ki67 and Bcl-6 Overexpression. Blood. 124(21). 1649–1649. 2 indexed citations

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Invernizzi, Federica, Marco Tigano, Cristina Dallabona, et al.. (2013). A Homozygous Mutation inLYRM7/MZM1LAssociated with Early Onset Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Severe Reduction of Mitochondrial ComplexIIIActivity. Human Mutation. 34(12). 1619–1622. 57 indexed citations

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Fonzo, Alessio Di, Dario Ronchi, Tiziana Lodi, et al.. (2009). The Mitochondrial Disulfide Relay System Protein GFER Is Mutated in Autosomal-Recessive Myopathy with Cataract and Combined Respiratory-Chain Deficiency. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 84(5). 594–604. 114 indexed citations

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