Mark Fortini

8.5k citations

43 papers · 5.5k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 28

Impact in

Aging top 0.5%
- Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
Cell Biology top 1%
- Cellular transport and secretion

Papers in

Aging 5
- Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms 5
Cell Biology 18
- Cellular transport and secretion 14
- Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease 4

Co-authors: Spyros Artavanis‐Tsakonas Kenji Matsuno Yihong Ye Nina Lukinova Gerald M. Rubin David Bilder Zhi-Chun Lai Nancy M. Bonini
Journals: Mechanisms of Development (4 papers)The Journal of Cell Biology (4 papers)Nature (3 papers)Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology (3 papers)Genetics (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Switzerland Czechia

In The Last Decade

Mark Fortini

43 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Notch Signaling: The Core Pathway and Its Posttranslational Regulation 2009 · 588 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2009 Developmental Cell
2002 Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
1995 Science

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All Works

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1	Therapeutic approaches to modulating Notch signaling: Current challenges and future prospects Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology ·Casper Groth, Mark Fortini	2012	92
2	Pharmacological Analysis of Drosophila melanogaster γ-Secretase with Respect to Differential Proteolysis of Notch and APP Molecular Pharmacology ·Casper Groth, W. Gregory Alvord, Octavio A. Quiñones, Mark Fortini	2010	18
3	Inheritance of susceptibility to induction of nephroblastomas in the Noble rat Differentiation ·Bhalchandra A. Diwan, Olga Timofeeva, Jerry M. Rice, Yili Yang, Nirmala Sharma, Mark Fortini, Honghe Wang, Alan O. Perantoni	2009	3
4	Notch Signaling: The Core Pathway and Its Posttranslational Regulation Developmental Cell ·Mark Fortini Hit paper breakdown →	2009	588
5	Endosomal entry regulates Notch receptor activation in Drosophila melanogaster The Journal of Cell Biology ·Thomas Vaccari, Han Lü, Ritu Kanwar, Mark Fortini, David Bilder	2008	217
6	Drosophilaas a Model for Human Diseases IRB & ICREA, Barcelona, Spain, October 5-7, 2006 Fly ·Nikolaos Tountas, Mark Fortini	2007	2
7	Modeling Clinically Heterogeneous Presenilin Mutations with Transgenic Drosophila Current Biology ·Glen Seidner, Yihong Ye, Martha M. Faraday, W. Gregory Alvord, Mark Fortini	2006	35
8	Functional reconstitution of γ‐secretase through coordinated expression of presenilin, nicastrin, Aph‐1, and Pen‐2 Journal of Neuroscience Research ·Goran Periz, Mark Fortini	2004	56
9	Nicastrin Is Required for γ-Secretase Cleavage of the Drosophila Notch Receptor Developmental Cell ·Angelica Ojinnaka‐Psillakis, Yihong Ye, Mark Fortini	2002	149
10	γ-Secretase-mediated proteolysis in cell-surface-receptor signalling Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology ·Mark Fortini Hit paper breakdown →	2002	682
11	Applications of the Drosophila Retina to Human Disease Modeling Results and problems in cell differentiation ·Nancy M. Bonini, Mark Fortini	2002	6
12	Identification and characterization of the Drosophila tau homolog Mechanisms of Development ·Gena Heidary, Mark Fortini	2001	96
13	Proteolysis and developmental signal transduction Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology ·Yihong Ye, Mark Fortini	2000	19
14	Surviving Drosophila eye development: integrating cell death with differentiation during formation of a neural structure BioEssays ·Nancy M. Bonini, Mark Fortini	1999	28
15	Neurogenic phenotypes and altered Notch processing in Drosophila Presenilin mutants Nature ·Yihong Ye, Nina Lukinova, Mark Fortini	1999	423
16	Analysis of Dominant Enhancers and Suppressors of Activated Notch in Drosophila Genetics ·Esther M. Verheyen, Karen Purcell, Mark Fortini, Spyros Artavanis‐Tsakonas	1996	79
17	Notch: Neurogenesis is only part of the picture Cell ·Mark Fortini, Spyros Artavanis‐Tsakonas	1993	121
18	An activated Notch receptor blocks cell-fate commitment in the developing Drosophila eye Nature ·Mark Fortini, Ilaria Rebay, Katie E. Vann, Spyros Artavanis‐Tsakonas	1993	266
19	The embryonic expression patterns of zfh-1 and zfh-2, two Drosophila genes encoding novel zinc-finger homeodomain proteins Mechanisms of Development ·Zhi-Chun Lai, Mark Fortini, Gerald M. Rubin	1991	153
20	The Drosophila zfh-1 and zfh-2 genes encode novel proteins containing both zinc-finger and homeodomain motifs Mechanisms of Development ·Mark Fortini, Zhi-Chun Lai, Gerald M. Rubin	1991	141

About Mark Fortini

Mark Fortini is a scholar working on Aging, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Physiology, having authored 43 papers that have together received 5.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (19 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (14 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (9 papers), Retinal Development and Disorders (8 papers), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (5 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (4 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (4 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Aging (304 citations), Cell Biology (1.1k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (1.1k citations), Molecular Biology (3.8k citations) and Developmental Neuroscience (224 citations). Mark Fortini has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Czechia. Frequent co-authors include Spyros Artavanis‐Tsakonas, Kenji Matsuno, Yihong Ye, Nina Lukinova, Gerald M. Rubin, David Bilder, Zhi-Chun Lai, Nancy M. Bonini, Ilaria Rebay and Casper Groth. Their work appears in journals such as Mechanisms of Development, The Journal of Cell Biology, Nature, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology and Genetics.

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