Simon Alberti

33.7k total citations · 18 hit papers
106 papers, 19.7k citations indexed

About

Simon Alberti is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Alberti has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 19.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Molecular Biology, 32 papers in Cell Biology and 5 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Simon Alberti's work include RNA Research and Splicing (53 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (24 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (23 papers). Simon Alberti is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (53 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (24 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (23 papers). Simon Alberti collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Italy. Simon Alberti's co-authors include Anthony A. Hyman, Tanja Mittag, Amy Gladfelter, Titus M. Franzmann, Shovamayee Maharana, Susan Lindquist, Marcus Jahnel, Ina Poser, Dorothee Dormann and Liliana Malinovska and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Simon Alberti

104 papers receiving 19.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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 Liquid-to-Solid Phase Transition of the ALS Protein FUS Accelerated by Disease Mutation

2015 2.1k citations Avinash Patel, Hyun O. Lee et al. Cell profile →
Considerations and Challenges in Studying Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation and Biomolecular Condensates

2019 1.9k citations Simon Alberti et al. Cell profile →
Protein Phase Separation: A New Phase in Cell Biology

2018 1.4k citations Simon Alberti et al. profile →
A Molecular Grammar Governing the Driving Forces for Phase Separation of Prion-like RNA Binding Proteins

2018 1.4k citations Jie Wang, Alex S. Holehouse et al. Cell profile →
A Systematic Survey Identifies Prions and Illuminates Sequence Features of Prionogenic Proteins

2009 785 citations Simon Alberti, Randal Halfmann et al. Cell profile →
RNA buffers the phase separation behavior of prion-like RNA binding proteins

2018 771 citations Shovamayee Maharana, Jie Wang et al. Science profile →
Biomolecular condensates at the nexus of cellular stress, protein aggregation disease and ageing

2021 698 citations Simon Alberti, Anthony A. Hyman profile →
ATP as a biological hydrotrope

2017 677 citations Avinash Patel, Liliana Malinovska et al. Science profile →
Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation in Disease

2019 620 citations Simon Alberti et al. profile →
Phase separation of a yeast prion protein promotes cellular fitness

2018 516 citations Titus M. Franzmann, Marcus Jahnel et al. Science profile →
Phase separation in biology

2017 507 citations Simon Alberti profile →
Promiscuous interactions and protein disaggregases determine the material state of stress-inducible RNP granules

2015 421 citations Shovamayee Maharana, Liliana Malinovska et al. eLife profile →
An aberrant phase transition of stress granules triggered by misfolded protein and prevented by chaperone function

2017 345 citations Titus M. Franzmann, Avinash Patel et al. The EMBO Journal profile →
Reentrant liquid condensate phase of proteins is stabilized by hydrophobic and non-ionic interactions

2021 339 citations Georg Krainer, Timothy J. Welsh et al. Nature Communications profile →
A pH-driven transition of the cytoplasm from a fluid- to a solid-like state promotes entry into dormancy

2016 317 citations Titus M. Franzmann, Elisabeth Nüske et al. eLife profile →
Phase-separating RNA-binding proteins form heterogeneous distributions of clusters in subsaturated solutions

2022 170 citations Mrityunjoy Kar, Timothy J. Welsh et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
PARP1-DNA co-condensation drives DNA repair site assembly to prevent disjunction of broken DNA ends

2024 74 citations Stoyno Stoynov, Marcus Jahnel et al. Cell profile →
Molecular determinants of condensate composition

2025 23 citations Alex S. Holehouse, Simon Alberti profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Biomolecular condensates sustain pH gradients at equilibrium through charge neutralization 2026 ·Nature Chemistry ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Daoyuan Qian, (unknown), (unknown), Kadi L. Saar, (unknown), (unknown), Georg Krainer, Titus M. Franzmann, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Anthony A. Hyman, Simon Alberti, (unknown), (unknown)	0
2	Quantifying collective interactions in biomolecular phase separation 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Hannes Ausserwӧger, Ella de Csilléry, Daoyuan Qian, Georg Krainer, Timothy J. Welsh, Tomas Šneideris, Titus M. Franzmann, Seema Qamar, Nadia A. Erkamp, Jonathon Nixon‐Abell, Mrityunjoy Kar, Peter St George‐Hyslop, Anthony A. Hyman, Simon Alberti, Rohit V. Pappu, Tuomas P. J. Knowles	3
3	Protocol to reconstitute translationally arrested heat shock mRNPs and condensates in vitro 2024 ·STAR Protocols ·(unknown), Simon Alberti	1
4	Single-molecule digital sizing of proteins in solution 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Georg Krainer, (unknown), Matthias M. Schneider, Timothy J. Welsh, (unknown), Quentin Peter, (unknown), (unknown), Magdalena A. Czekalska, (unknown), Linjiang Chai, William E. Arter, Kadi L. Saar, Therese W. Herling, Titus M. Franzmann, Vasilis Kosmoliaptsis, Simon Alberti, F. Ulrich Hartl, Steven F. Lee, Tuomas P. J. Knowles	5
5	Correlative all-optical quantification of mass density and mechanics of subcellular compartments with fluorescence specificity 2022 ·eLife ·Raimund Schlüßler, Kyoohyun Kim, (unknown), Anna Taubenberger, Shada Abuhattum, Timon Beck, Paul Müller, Shovamayee Maharana, Gheorghe Cojoc, Salvatore Girardo, Andreas Hermann, Simon Alberti, Jochen Guck	57
6	Biomolecular condensate phase diagrams with a combinatorial microdroplet platform 2022 ·Nature Communications ·William E. Arter, Runzhang Qi, Nadia A. Erkamp, Georg Krainer, Kieran Didi, Timothy J. Welsh, Julia Acker, Jonathon Nixon‐Abell, Seema Qamar, Jordina Guillén‐Boixet, Titus M. Franzmann, David Kuster, Anthony A. Hyman, Alexander Borodavka, Peter St George‐Hyslop, Simon Alberti, Tuomas P. J. Knowles	53
7	Cytosolic stress granules relieve the ubiquitin‐proteasome system in the nuclear compartment 2022 ·The EMBO Journal ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ina Poser, Simon Alberti, Florian A. Salomons, Nico P. Dantuma	14
8	Adaptable P body physical states differentially regulate bicoid mRNA storage during early Drosophila development 2021 ·Developmental Cell ·Mugesh Sankaranarayanan, Ryan J. Emenecker, (unknown), Marcus Jahnel, (unknown), Matthew T. Wayland, Simon Alberti, Alex S. Holehouse, Timothy T Weil	33
9	Protein products of nonstop mRNA disrupt nucleolar homeostasis 2021 ·Cell Stress and Chaperones ·Zoe H. Davis, Laura Mediani, (unknown), Jonathan Vinet, Shuangxi Li, Simon Alberti, Bingwei Lu, Alex S. Holehouse, Serena Carra, Onn Brandman	5
10	Reentrant liquid condensate phase of proteins is stabilized by hydrophobic and non-ionic interactions breakdown → 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Georg Krainer, Timothy J. Welsh, Jerelle A. Joseph, Jorge R. Espinosa, Sina Wittmann, Ella de Csilléry, Akshay Sridhar, Zenon Toprakcioglu, (unknown), Magdalena A. Czekalska, William E. Arter, Jordina Guillén‐Boixet, Titus M. Franzmann, Seema Qamar, Peter St George‐Hyslop, Anthony A. Hyman, Rosana Collepardo‐Guevara, Simon Alberti, Tuomas P. J. Knowles	339
11	Reentrant Liquid Condensate Phase of Proteins is Stabilized by Hydrophobic and Non-Ionic interactions 2021 ·Biophysical Journal ·Georg Krainer, Timothy J. Welsh, Jerelle A. Joseph, Peter St George‐Hyslop, Anthony A. Hyman, Rosana Collepardo‐Guevara, Simon Alberti, Tuomas P. J. Knowles	19
12	Condensation of Ded1p Promotes a Translational Switch from Housekeeping to Stress Protein Production 2020 ·Cell ·Christiane Iserman, (unknown), (unknown), Ulrike Friedrich, Taraneh Zarin, Anatol W. Fritsch, Matthäus Mittasch, António Miguel de Jesus Domingues, Lena Hersemann, Marcus Jahnel, Doris Richter, Ulf‐Peter Guenther, Matthias W. Hentze, Alan M Moses, Anthony A. Hyman, Günter Krämer, Moritz Kreysing, Titus M. Franzmann, Simon Alberti	156
13	Proteome-wide signatures of function in highly diverged intrinsically disordered regions 2019 ·eLife ·Taraneh Zarin, Bob Strome, Alex N. Nguyen Ba, Simon Alberti, Julie D. Forman‐Kay, Alan M Moses	116
14	Phase separation of a yeast prion protein promotes cellular fitness breakdown → 2018 ·Science ·Titus M. Franzmann, Marcus Jahnel, Andrei Pozniakovsky, Julia Mahamid, Alex S. Holehouse, Elisabeth Nüske, Doris Richter, Wolfgang Baumeister, Stephan W. Grill, Rohit V. Pappu, Anthony A. Hyman, Simon Alberti	516
15	RNA buffers the phase separation behavior of prion-like RNA binding proteins breakdown → 2018 ·Science ·Shovamayee Maharana, Jie Wang, Dimitrios K. Papadopoulos, Doris Richter, (unknown), Ina Poser, Marc Bickle, Sandra Rizk, Jordina Guillén‐Boixet, Titus M. Franzmann, Marcus Jahnel, Lara Marrone, Young‐Tae Chang, Jared Sterneckert, Pavel Tomančák, Anthony A. Hyman, Simon Alberti	771
16	ATP as a biological hydrotrope breakdown → 2017 ·Science ·Avinash Patel, Liliana Malinovska, Shambaditya Saha, Jie Wang, Simon Alberti, Yamuna Krishnan, Anthony A. Hyman	677
17	Dictyostelium discoideum has a highly Q/N-rich proteome and shows an unusual resilience to protein aggregation 2015 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Liliana Malinovska, (unknown), Kimberley Gibson, Jean‐Marc Verbavatz, Simon Alberti	62
18	A Liquid-to-Solid Phase Transition of the ALS Protein FUS Accelerated by Disease Mutation breakdown → 2015 ·Cell ·Avinash Patel, Hyun O. Lee, Louise Jawerth, Shovamayee Maharana, Marcus Jahnel, Marco Y. Hein, Stoyno Stoynov, Julia Mahamid, Shambaditya Saha, Titus M. Franzmann, (unknown), Ina Poser, Nicola Maghelli, Löıc A. Royer, Martin Weigert, Eugene W. Myers, Stephan W. Grill, David Drechsel, Anthony A. Hyman, Simon Alberti	2097
19	Biochemical, Cell Biological, and Genetic Assays to Analyze Amyloid and Prion Aggregation in Yeast 2010 ·Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Simon Alberti, Randal Halfmann, Susan Lindquist	63
20	BAG-2 Acts as an Inhibitor of the Chaperone-associated Ubiquitin Ligase CHIP 2005 ·Molecular Biology of the Cell ·Verena Arndt, (unknown), Wolfgang Nastainczyk, Simon Alberti, Jörg Höhfeld	150

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