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Francesco Zorzato

Francesco Zorzato

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
48
Citations
12050
World Ranking
18243
National Ranking
583

Overview

Francesco Zorzato is affiliated with the University of Ferrara in Italy and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on muscle physiology and related disorders. Their work spans several intersecting fields including molecular biology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, cell biology, genetics, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist's research topics prominently include muscle physiology and disorders, ion channel regulation and function, cardiomyopathy and myosin studies, neurogenetic and muscular disorders research, cellular transport and secretion, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, as well as adipose tissue and metabolism.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Susan Treves
  • Alexis Ruiz
  • Sofia Benucci
  • Christoph Bachmann
  • Martina Franchini

Zorzato's work has been published in multiple venues with repeated contributions to:

  • Neuromuscular Disorders
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Human Molecular Genetics
  • The Journal of General Physiology

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Zorzato include:

  • Rapid subcellular calcium responses and dynamics by calcium sensor G-CatchER+, 2021, iScience
  • Quantitative proteomic analysis of skeletal muscles from wild-type and transgenic mice carrying recessive Ryr1 mutations linked to congenital myopathies, 2023, eLife
  • Improvement of muscle strength in a mouse model for congenital myopathy treated with HDAC and DNA methyltransferase inhibitors, 2022, eLife
  • Molecular basis of impaired extraocular muscle function in a mouse model of congenital myopathy due to compound heterozygous Ryr1 mutations, 2020, Human Molecular Genetics
  • Bi-allelic expression of the RyR1 p.A4329D mutation decreases muscle strength in slow-twitch muscles in mice, 2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry

Best Publications

  • Identification of a mutation in porcine ryanodine receptor associated with malignant hyperthermia

    J Fujii;K Otsu;F Zorzato;S de Leon

  • Molecular cloning of cDNA encoding the Ca2+ release channel (ryanodine receptor) of rabbit cardiac muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum.

    K Otsu;H F Willard;V K Khanna;F Zorzato

  • Molecular cloning of cDNA encoding human and rabbit forms of the Ca2+ release channel (ryanodine receptor) of skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum.

    F Zorzato;J Fujii;K Otsu;M Phillips

  • Skeletal Muscle-Specific Ablation of raptor, but Not of rictor, Causes Metabolic Changes and Results in Muscle Dystrophy

    C. Florian Bentzinger;Klaas Romanino;Dimitri Cloëtta;Shuo Lin

  • Ryanodine receptor gene is a candidate for predisposition to malignant hyperthermia

    D H MacLennan;C Duff;F Zorzato;J Fujii

  • 'Calciosome', a cytoplasmic organelle: The inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate-sensitive Ca2+ store of nonmuscle cells?

    Pompeo Volpe;Karl-Heinz Krause;Sadamitsu Hashimoto;Francesco Zorzato

  • Cardiac Raptor Ablation Impairs Adaptive Hypertrophy, Alters Metabolic Gene Expression, and Causes Heart Failure in Mice

    Pankaj Shende;Isabelle Plaisance;Christian Morandi;Corinne Pellieux

  • Congenital myopathies: disorders of excitation–contraction coupling and muscle contraction

    Heinz Jungbluth;Heinz Jungbluth;Heinz Jungbluth;Susan Treves;Susan Treves;Francesco Zorzato;Francesco Zorzato;Anna Sarkozy

  • Identification of four novel mutations in the C-terminal membrane spanning domain of the ryanodine receptor 1: association with central core disease and alteration of calcium homeostasis

    Nikola Tilgen;Francesco Zorzato;Birgit Halliger-Keller;Francesco Muntoni

  • Congenital muscle disorders with cores: the ryanodine receptor calcium channel paradigm.

    Susan Treves;Heinz Jungbluth;Francesco Muntoni;Francesco Zorzato;Francesco Zorzato

  • Ryanodine receptor 1 mutations, dysregulation of calcium homeostasis and neuromuscular disorders.

    Susan Treves;Ayuk A. Anderson;Sylvie Ducreux;Alexandra Divet

  • Chlorocresol: an activator of ryanodine receptor-mediated Ca2+ release.

    Francesco Zorzato;Erica Scutari;Vincenzo Tegazzin;Emilio Clementi

  • Interaction of S100A1 with the Ca2+ release channel (ryanodine receptor) of skeletal muscle.

    Susan Treves;Erica Scutari;Mylène Robert;Séverine Groh

  • Autoantibodies in Thymoma-Associated Myasthenia Gravis With Myositis or Neuromyotonia

    Åse Mygland;Angela Vincent;John Newsom-Davis;Henry Kaminski

  • Junctate is a key element in calcium entry induced by activation of InsP3 receptors and/or calcium store depletion

    Susan Treves;Clara Franzini-Armstrong;Luca Moccagatta;Christophe Arnoult

  • Doxorubicin induces calcium release from terminal cisternae of skeletal muscle. A study on isolated sarcoplasmic reticulum and chemically skinned fibers.

    F Zorzato;G Salviati;T Facchinetti;P Volpe

  • Effect of Ryanodine Receptor Mutations on Interleukin-6 Release and Intracellular Calcium Homeostasis in Human Myotubes from Malignant Hyperthermia-susceptible Individuals and Patients Affected by Central Core Disease *

    Sylvie Ducreux;Francesco Zorzato;Clemens Müller;Caroline Sewry

  • Molecular cloning, expression, functional characterization, chromosomal localization, and gene structure of junctate, a novel integral calcium binding protein of sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum membrane.

    Susan Treves;Giordana Feriotto;Luca Moccagatta;Roberto Gambari

  • Intracellular calcium homeostasis in human primary muscle cells from malignant hyperthermia-susceptible and normal individuals. Effect Of overexpression of recombinant wild-type and Arg163Cys mutated ryanodine receptors.

    K Censier;A Urwyler;F Zorzato;S Treves

  • Characterization of recessive RYR1 mutations in core myopathies

    Haiyan Zhou;Naohiro Yamaguchi;Le Xu;Ying Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Treves
Susan Treves University Hospital of Basel
Francesco Muntoni
Francesco Muntoni University College London
Pompeo Volpe
Pompeo Volpe University of Padua
Hiroshi Takeshima
Hiroshi Takeshima Kyoto University
Roberto Gambari
Roberto Gambari University of Ferrara
Miyuki Nishi
Miyuki Nishi Kyoto University
Feliciano Protasi
Feliciano Protasi University of Chieti-Pescara
Tullio Pozzan
Tullio Pozzan University of Padua
Gerhard Meissner
Gerhard Meissner University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Christoph Handschin
Christoph Handschin University of Basel

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