2026 Emanuele Buratti: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	78	1690	1608	29	27	238	26274

Overview

Emanuele Buratti is affiliated with the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Italy. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with a strong emphasis on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their work spans several subfields, including neurology, molecular biology, genetics, physiology, and radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging.

Key research topics associated with Emanuele Buratti include:

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research
RNA Research and Splicing
Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments
Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding
Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research

Emanuele Buratti has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed journals with frequent publications in the following venues:

Journal of Biological Chemistry
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Brain
Brain Communications
International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Several of their recent papers include:

"TDP-43 loss and ALS-risk SNPs drive mis-splicing and depletion of UNC13A" (2022), published in Nature
"TDP-43 real-time quaking induced conversion reaction optimization and detection of seeding activity in CSF of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia patients" (2020), published in Brain Communications
"Sirtuin-1 sensitive lysine-136 acetylation drives phase separation and pathological aggregation of TDP-43" (2022), published in Nature Communications
"Cell environment shapes TDP-43 function with implications in neuronal and muscle disease" (2022), published in Communications Biology
"HnRNP K mislocalisation is a novel protein pathology of frontotemporal lobar degeneration and ageing and leads to cryptic splicing" (2021), published in Acta Neuropathologica

Emanuele Buratti has also contributed to book publications, including one titled Frontotemporal Dementias, published by Springer Nature in 2021.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Emanuele Buratti include:

Cristiana Stuani
Sara Cappelli
Maurizio Romano
Barbara Borroni
Lila M. Gierasch

Best Publications

TDP-43 Mutations in Familial and Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Jemeen Sreedharan;Ian P. Blair;Vineeta B. Tripathi;Xun Hu

2948
Citations
Phosphorylated TDP-43 in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Masato Hasegawa;Tetsuaki Arai;Takashi Nonaka;Fuyuki Kametani

778
Citations
Characterization and functional implications of the RNA binding properties of nuclear factor TDP-43, a novel splicing regulator of CFTR exon 9.

Emanuele Buratti;Francisco E. Baralle

777
Citations
Nuclear factor TDP‐43 and SR proteins promote in vitro and in vivo CFTR exon 9 skipping

Emanuele Buratti;Thilo Dörk;Elisabetta Zuccato;Franco Pagani

751
Citations
Structural determinants of the cellular localization and shuttling of TDP-43

Youhna M. Ayala;Paola Zago;Andrea D'Ambrogio;Ya Fei Xu

734
Citations
Aberrant Cleavage of TDP-43 Enhances Aggregation and Cellular Toxicity

Yong Jie Zhang;Ya Fei Xu;Casey Cook;Tania F. Gendron

720
Citations
TDP-43 regulates its mRNA levels through a negative feedback loop

Youhna M Ayala;Laura De Conti;S Eréndira Avendaño-Vázquez;Ashish Dhir

650
Citations
TDP-43 binds heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A/B through its C-terminal tail: an important region for the inhibition of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator exon 9 splicing

Emanuele Buratti;Antonia Brindisi;Maurizio Giombi;Sergio G. Tisminetzky

637
Citations
TDP-43 is recruited to stress granules in conditions of oxidative insult.

Claudia Colombrita;Eleonora Zennaro;Claudia Fallini;Claudia Fallini;Markus Weber

589
Citations
Multiple roles of TDP-43 in gene expression, splicing regulation, and human disease

Emanuele Buratti;Francisco E Baralle

575
Citations
Influence of RNA Secondary Structure on the Pre-mRNA Splicing Process

Emanuele Buratti;Francisco E. Baralle

500
Citations
Progranulin Mediates Caspase-Dependent Cleavage of TAR DNA Binding Protein-43

Yong Jie Zhang;Ya Fei Xu;Chad A. Dickey;Emanuele Buratti

438
Citations
Human, Drosophila, and C.elegans TDP43: nucleic acid binding properties and splicing regulatory function.

Youhna M. Ayala;Sergio Pantano;Andrea D'Ambrogio;Emanuele Buratti

421
Citations
Physiological functions and pathobiology of TDP-43 and FUS/TLS proteins

Antonia Ratti;Emanuele Buratti

381
Citations
Exon and intron definition in pre-mRNA splicing

Laura De Conti;Marco Baralle;Emanuele Buratti

364
Citations
Molecular basis of UG-rich RNA recognition by the human splicing factor TDP-43

Peter J Lukavsky;Dalia Daujotyte;Dalia Daujotyte;James R Tollervey;James R Tollervey;Jernej Ule;Jernej Ule

362
Citations
The multiple roles of TDP-43 in pre-mRNA processing and gene expression regulation.

Emanuele Buratti;Francisco Ernesto Baralle

341
Citations
TDP-43 and FUS RNA-binding Proteins Bind Distinct Sets of Cytoplasmic Messenger RNAs and Differently Regulate Their Post-transcriptional Fate in Motoneuron-like Cells

Claudia Colombrita;Elisa Onesto;Francesca Megiorni;Antonio Pizzuti

311
Citations
Mutation within TARDBP leads to frontotemporal dementia without motor neuron disease.

Barbara Borroni;C. Bonvicini;A. Alberici;E. Buratti

298
Citations
Nuclear factor TDP-43 can affect selected microRNA levels.

Emanuele Buratti;Laura De Conti;Cristiana Stuani;Maurizio Romano

296
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Francisco E. Baralle International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Diana Baralle University of Southampton

Barbara Borroni University of Brescia

Alessandro Padovani University of Brescia

Leonard Petrucelli Mayo Clinic

Masato Hasegawa Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science

Takashi Nonaka Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science

Jernej Ule The Francis Crick Institute

Elizabeth M. C. Fisher University College London

Vincent Plagnol University College London

External Links

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