Sandro Montefusco

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Sandro Montefusco is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sandro Montefusco has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Epidemiology and 4 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Sandro Montefusco's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (6 papers), Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism (4 papers) and Trace Elements in Health (3 papers). Sandro Montefusco is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (6 papers), Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism (4 papers) and Trace Elements in Health (3 papers). Sandro Montefusco collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Switzerland. Sandro Montefusco's co-authors include Diego L. Medina, Andrea Ballabio, Maria Antonietta De Matteis, Carmine Settembre, Alison Forrester, Rossella Venditti, Simone Di Paola, Anna Scotto Rosato, Ivana Peluso and Rosario Rizzuto and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sandro Montefusco

21 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Lysosomal calcium signalling regulates autophagy through calcineurin and TFEB

2015 1.1k citations Diego L. Medina, Simone Di Paola et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sandro Montefusco Italy	14	826	704	545	431	361	21	1.8k
Alison Forrester Italy	8	846 1.0×	630 0.9×	475 0.9×	455 1.1×	326 0.9×	13	1.6k
Jean-Paul Decuypere Belgium	18	783 0.9×	922 1.3×	273 0.5×	376 0.9×	258 0.7×	28	1.9k
Simone Di Paola Italy	10	693 0.8×	577 0.8×	649 1.2×	324 0.8×	280 0.8×	15	1.5k
Anna Scotto Rosato Germany	11	708 0.9×	554 0.8×	768 1.4×	364 0.8×	297 0.8×	12	1.6k
Heba I. Diab United States	12	630 0.8×	795 1.1×	288 0.5×	358 0.8×	224 0.6×	12	1.5k
Gustavo J.S. Pereira Brazil	21	389 0.5×	497 0.7×	212 0.4×	150 0.3×	230 0.6×	63	1.4k
Vinicia Assunta Polito Italy	10	1.9k 2.3×	1.4k 2.0×	502 0.9×	625 1.5×	812 2.2×	11	3.3k
Sebastian Alers Germany	10	1.2k 1.5×	995 1.4×	222 0.4×	302 0.7×	193 0.5×	10	1.9k
Alberto di Ronza United States	14	1.9k 2.3×	1.5k 2.2×	848 1.6×	1.0k 2.3×	1.2k 3.3×	16	3.7k
George G. Rodney United States	28	374 0.5×	1.8k 2.6×	169 0.3×	393 0.9×	444 1.2×	62	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Sandro Montefusco

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sandro Montefusco

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sandro Montefusco. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sandro Montefusco 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 Sandro Montefusco. Sandro Montefusco is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pirone, Daniele, Sandro Montefusco, Lisa Miccio, et al.. (2025). Drug-Induced Reversible Lysosomal Changes Tracked in Live Cells by Holo-Tomographic Flow Cytometry. ACS Nano. 19(32). 29601–29615. 1 indexed citations

Pirone, Daniele, Vittorio Bianco, Sandro Montefusco, et al.. (2024). Investigation on lysosomal accumulation by a quantitative analysis of 2D phase‐maps in digital holography microscopy. Cytometry Part A. 105(5). 323–331. 2 indexed citations

Montefusco, Sandro, Edoardo Nusco, Antonella Capuozzo, et al.. (2024). TRPML-1 Dysfunction and Renal Tubulopathy in Mucolipidosis Type IV. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 36(4). 587–601. 1 indexed citations

Leonibus, Chiara De, Rosa Ferriero, Roberta Besio, et al.. (2024). Sestrin2 drives ER-phagy in response to protein misfolding. Developmental Cell. 59(16). 2035–2052.e10. 17 indexed citations

Capuozzo, Antonella, Sandro Montefusco, Alessandra Esposito, et al.. (2022). Fluoxetine ameliorates mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIA. Molecular Therapy. 30(4). 1432–1450. 17 indexed citations

Bellomo, Francesco, Anna Taranta, Laura Giaquinto, et al.. (2021). Drug Repurposing in Rare Diseases: An Integrative Study of Drug Screening and Transcriptomic Analysis in Nephropathic Cystinosis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(23). 12829–12829. 15 indexed citations

Slavin, Ileana, Sandro Montefusco, Jair L. Siqueira-Neto, et al.. (2021). Human iPSC-Derived 2D and 3D Platforms for Rapidly Assessing Developmental, Functional, and Terminal Toxicities in Neural Cells. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(4). 1908–1908. 8 indexed citations

Rosato, Anna Scotto, Sandro Montefusco, Chiara Soldati, et al.. (2019). TRPML1 links lysosomal calcium to autophagosome biogenesis through the activation of the CaMKKβ/VPS34 pathway. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5630–5630. 139 indexed citations

Aguiar, Pedro Henrique Nascimento de, Brian M. Suzuki, Sandro Montefusco, et al.. (2019). Multi-center screening of the Pathogen Box collection for schistosomiasis drug discovery. Parasites & Vectors. 12(1). 493–493. 19 indexed citations

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Maddalena, Andrea, Pia Giovannelli, Paola Tiberi, et al.. (2018). High-Throughput Screening Identifies Kinase Inhibitors That Increase Dual Adeno-Associated Viral Vector Transduction In Vitro and in Mouse Retina. Human Gene Therapy. 29(8). 886–901. 11 indexed citations

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Rega, Laura Rita, Elena Polishchuk, Sandro Montefusco, et al.. (2016). Activation of the transcription factor EB rescues lysosomal abnormalities in cystinotic kidney cells. Kidney International. 89(4). 862–873. 79 indexed citations

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Medina, Diego L., Simone Di Paola, Ivana Peluso, et al.. (2015). Lysosomal calcium signalling regulates autophagy through calcineurin and TFEB. Nature Cell Biology. 17(3). 288–299. 1060 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gambardella, Gennaro, Ivana Peluso, Sandro Montefusco, et al.. (2015). A reverse-engineering approach to dissect post-translational modulators of transcription factor’s activity from transcriptional data. BMC Bioinformatics. 16(1). 279–279. 6 indexed citations

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Cinque, Laura, Alison Forrester, Rosa Bartolomeo, et al.. (2015). FGF signalling regulates bone growth through autophagy. Nature. 528(7581). 272–275. 163 indexed citations

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Chesi, Giancarlo, Simona Iacobacci, Mafalda Concilli, et al.. (2015). Identification of p38 MAPK and JNK as new targets for correction of Wilson disease‐causing ATP7B mutants. Hepatology. 63(6). 1842–1859. 38 indexed citations

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Moskot, Marta, Sandro Montefusco, Joanna Jakóbkiewicz‐Banecka, et al.. (2014). The Phytoestrogen Genistein Modulates Lysosomal Metabolism and Transcription Factor EB (TFEB) Activation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(24). 17054–17069. 110 indexed citations

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Esposito, Roberta, Sandro Montefusco, Maria Chiara Monti, et al.. (2014). Trefoil Factor 1 is involved in gastric cell copper homeostasis. The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology. 59. 30–40. 5 indexed citations

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Montefusco, Sandro, Roberta Esposito, Luca Domenico D’Andrea, et al.. (2013). Copper Promotes TFF1-Mediated Helicobacter pylori Colonization. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e79455–e79455. 24 indexed citations

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Tosco, Alessandra, Maria Chiara Monti, Bianca Fontanella, et al.. (2010). Copper binds the carboxy-terminus of trefoil protein 1 (TFF1), favoring its homodimerization and motogenic activity. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 67(11). 1943–1955. 17 indexed citations

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Gargiulo, Annagiusi, Ciro Bonetti, Sandro Montefusco, et al.. (2009). AAV-mediated Tyrosinase Gene Transfer Restores Melanogenesis and Retinal Function in a Model of Oculo-cutaneous Albinism Type I (OCA1). Molecular Therapy. 17(8). 1347–1354. 41 indexed citations

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