Sara Polletti

3.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
27 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Sara Polletti is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Polletti has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Oncology and 8 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Sara Polletti's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (5 papers). Sara Polletti is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (5 papers). Sara Polletti collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and United States. Sara Polletti's co-authors include Gioacchino Natoli, Iros Barozzi, Serena Ghisletti, Jiannis Ragoussis, Flore Mietton, Francesca De Santa, Chia‐Lin Wei, Elena Prosperini, Heiko Müller and Betsabeh Khoramian Tusi and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Sara Polletti

23 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

A Large Fraction of Extragenic RNA Pol II Transcription Sites Overlap Enhancers

2010 666 citations Francesca De Santa, Iros Barozzi et al. profile →
Latent Enhancers Activated by Stimulation in Differentiated Cells

2013 602 citations Renato Ostuni, Viviana Piccolo et al. Cell profile →
Identification and Characterization of Enhancers Controlling the Inflammatory Gene Expression Program in Macrophages

2010 515 citations Serena Ghisletti, Iros Barozzi et al. Immunity profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara Polletti Italy	17	1.6k	952	548	274	138	27	2.4k
Alexis Vandenbon Japan	17	1.3k 0.8×	1.4k 1.4×	417 0.8×	301 1.1×	112 0.8×	43	2.5k
Samuele Notarbartolo Italy	8	1.0k 0.6×	659 0.7×	198 0.4×	135 0.5×	133 1.0×	13	1.6k
Jean Lozach United States	14	1.2k 0.8×	531 0.6×	322 0.6×	277 1.0×	213 1.5×	15	1.9k
Snezana Milutinovic Canada	14	1.5k 0.9×	641 0.7×	366 0.7×	421 1.5×	216 1.6×	18	2.0k
Elena Prosperini Italy	19	2.8k 1.7×	982 1.0×	455 0.8×	855 3.1×	297 2.2×	26	3.7k
Conor Mc Guire Belgium	15	538 0.3×	677 0.7×	459 0.8×	200 0.7×	133 1.0×	16	1.3k
Ali A. Zarrin United States	20	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	173 0.3×	404 1.5×	148 1.1×	30	2.4k
Salvatore Spicuglia France	30	2.1k 1.3×	674 0.7×	505 0.9×	272 1.0×	241 1.7×	83	2.9k
Joshua N. Finger United States	15	1.4k 0.8×	719 0.8×	315 0.6×	149 0.5×	189 1.4×	18	2.1k
Yasuhiro Murakawa Japan	23	2.5k 1.5×	320 0.3×	559 1.0×	314 1.1×	154 1.1×	51	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Sara Polletti

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sara Polletti

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Polletti

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sara Polletti. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sara Polletti 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 Sara Polletti. Sara Polletti 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

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Russo, Marta, Sara Polletti, Elena Prosperini, et al.. (2026). Sequence-specific RNA recognition drives Restrictor-mediated termination of extragenic transcription. Molecular Cell. 86(6). 1046–1060.e10.

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Polletti, Sara, Matteo Pecoraro, Antonino Cassotta, et al.. (2025). FCRL3 is an immunoregulatory receptor that restrains the activation of human memory T lymphocytes. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 223(1).

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Polletti, Sara, Clément Léna, Viviana Piccolo, et al.. (2025). Control of myeloid lineage fidelity and response to stimuli by ISWI-enforced nucleosome phasing. Immunity. 58(10). 2402–2418.e8.

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Gualdrini, Francesco, et al.. (2024). An integrative epigenome-based strategy for unbiased functional profiling of clinical kinase inhibitors. Molecular Systems Biology. 20(6). 626–650. 1 indexed citations

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Brandini, Stefania, Sara Polletti, Andrea Palamidessi, et al.. (2024). Mapping functional to morphological variation reveals the basis of regional extracellular matrix subversion and nerve invasion in pancreatic cancer. Pancreatology. 24. e5–e6.

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Brandini, Stefania, Sara Polletti, Andrea Palamidessi, et al.. (2024). Mapping functional to morphological variation reveals the basis of regional extracellular matrix subversion and nerve invasion in pancreatic cancer. Cancer Cell. 42(4). 662–681.e10. 35 indexed citations

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Gualdrini, Francesco, et al.. (2022). H3K9 trimethylation in active chromatin restricts the usage of functional CTCF sites in SINE B2 repeats. Genes & Development. 36(7-8). 414–432. 17 indexed citations

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Audano, Matteo, Chiara Balestrieri, Sara Polletti, et al.. (2022). Interferon regulatory factor 1 (IRF1) controls the metabolic programmes of low-grade pancreatic cancer cells. Gut. 72(1). 109–128. 8 indexed citations

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Audano, Matteo, Silvia Pedretti, Francesco Gualdrini, et al.. (2021). Zc3h10 regulates adipogenesis by controlling translation and F-actin/mitochondria interaction. The Journal of Cell Biology. 220(3). 23 indexed citations

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Tamassia, Nicola, Francisco M. Bianchetto-Aguilera, Sara Gasperini, et al.. (2021). Induction of OCT2 contributes to regulate the gene expression program in human neutrophils activated via TLR8. Cell Reports. 35(7). 109143–109143. 16 indexed citations

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Austenaa, Liv, Viviana Piccolo, Marta Russo, et al.. (2021). A first exon termination checkpoint preferentially suppresses extragenic transcription. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 28(4). 337–346. 39 indexed citations

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Polletti, Sara, Chiara Balestrieri, Cristina Leoni, et al.. (2020). A molecular network regulating the proinflammatory phenotype of human memory T lymphocytes. Nature Immunology. 21(4). 388–399. 50 indexed citations

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Balestrieri, Chiara, Sara Polletti, Elena Prosperini, et al.. (2020). Pancreatic Cancer Cells Require the Transcription Factor MYRF to Maintain ER Homeostasis. Developmental Cell. 55(4). 398–412.e7. 19 indexed citations

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Balestrieri, Chiara, Sara Polletti, Elena Prosperini, et al.. (2019). FOXA 2 controls the cis ‐regulatory networks of pancreatic cancer cells in a differentiation grade‐specific manner. The EMBO Journal. 38(20). e102161–e102161. 27 indexed citations

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Comoglio, Federico, Marta Simonatto, Sara Polletti, et al.. (2019). Dissection of acute stimulus-inducible nucleosome remodeling in mammalian cells. Genes & Development. 33(17-18). 1159–1174. 28 indexed citations

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Collino, Agnese, Alberto Termanini, Paola Nicoli, et al.. (2018). Sustained activation of detoxification pathways promotes liver carcinogenesis in response to chronic bile acid-mediated damage. PLoS Genetics. 14(5). e1007380–e1007380. 8 indexed citations

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Pilipow, Karolina, Eloise Scamardella, Simone Puccio, et al.. (2018). Antioxidant metabolism regulates CD8+ T memory stem cell formation and antitumor immunity. JCI Insight. 3(18). 96 indexed citations

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Termanini, Alberto, Iros Barozzi, Elena Prosperini, et al.. (2017). High constitutive activity of a broad panel of housekeeping and tissue-specific cis-regulatory elements depends on a subset of ETS proteins. Genes & Development. 31(4). 399–412. 38 indexed citations

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Ostuni, Renato, Viviana Piccolo, Iros Barozzi, et al.. (2013). Latent Enhancers Activated by Stimulation in Differentiated Cells. Cell. 152(1-2). 157–171. 602 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ghisletti, Serena, Iros Barozzi, Flore Mietton, et al.. (2010). Identification and Characterization of Enhancers Controlling the Inflammatory Gene Expression Program in Macrophages. Immunity. 32(3). 317–328. 515 indexed citations breakdown →

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