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Molecular Biology
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2023

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
153
Citations
75143
World Ranking
76
National Ranking
48

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Paolo Sassone-Corsi was affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research spanned multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on neuroscience, medicine, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. They contributed extensively to subfields such as physiology, endocrine and autonomic systems, aging, molecular biology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Their scientific work covered a range of topics with notable emphasis on circadian rhythm and melatonin, genetics, aging, and longevity in model organisms. Their research also encompassed dietary effects on health, diet and metabolism studies, adipose tissue and metabolism, spaceflight effects on biology, and photoreceptor and optogenetics research.

Paolo Sassone-Corsi published frequently in several key scientific venues. These included bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Cell Reports, Science Advances, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Their recent papers included the following:

  • Communicating clocks shape circadian homeostasis, 2021, Science
  • Atlas of exercise metabolism reveals time-dependent signatures of metabolic homeostasis, 2022, Cell Metabolism
  • Chrono-nutrition for the prevention and treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes: from mice to men, 2020, Diabetologia
  • Time-restricted feeding alters lipid and amino acid metabolite rhythmicity without perturbing clock gene expression, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Ketogenesis impact on liver metabolism revealed by proteomics of lysine β-hydroxybutyrylation, 2021, Cell Reports

Among frequent collaborators were Kevin B. Koronowski, Carolina M. Greco, Jacob G. Smith, Pierre Baldi, and Paul Petrus.

Paolo Sassone-Corsi received recognition including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2014 and membership in the European Molecular Biology Organization.

Best Publications

  • The NAD+-Dependent Deacetylase SIRT1 Modulates CLOCK-Mediated Chromatin Remodeling and Circadian Control

    Yasukazu Nakahata;Milota Kaluzova;Benedetto Grimaldi;Saurabh Sahar

  • Signaling to Chromatin through Histone Modifications

    Peter Cheung;C.David Allis;Paolo Sassone-Corsi

  • Promoter sequences of eukaryotic protein-coding genes

    J Corden;B Wasylyk;A Buchwalder;P Sassone-Corsi

  • Circadian Regulator CLOCK Is a Histone Acetyltransferase

    Masao Doi;Jun Hirayama;Paolo Sassone-Corsi

  • An unusual member of the nuclear hormone receptor superfamily responsible for X-linked adrenal hypoplasia congenita

    Elena Zanaria;Françoise Muscatelli;Barbara Bardoni;Tim M. Strom

  • Synergistic coupling of histone H3 phosphorylation and acetylation in response to epidermal growth factor stimulation.

    Peter Cheung;Kirk G Tanner;Wang L Cheung;Paolo Sassone-Corsi

  • A reliable method for the recovery of DNA fragments from agarose and acrylamide gels

    G. Dretzen;M. Bellard;P. Sassone-Corsi;P. Chambon

  • Impairing follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) signaling in vivo: Targeted disruption of the FSH receptor leads to aberrant gametogenesis and hormonal imbalance

    Andrée Dierich;M. Ram Sairam;Lucia Monaco;Gian Maria Fimia

  • ATF4 Is a Substrate of RSK2 and an Essential Regulator of Osteoblast Biology: Implication for Coffin-Lowry Syndrome

    Xiangli Yang;Koichi Matsuda;Peter Bialek;Sylvie Jacquot

  • A web of circadian pacemakers.

    Ueli Schibler;Paolo Sassone-Corsi

  • CREM gene: use of alternative DNA-binding domains generates multiple antagonists of cAMP-induced transcription.

    Nicholas S. Foulkes;Emiliana Borrelli;Paolo Sassone-Corsi

  • Induction of proto-oncogene JUN /AP-1 by serum and TPA

    William W. Lamph;Penny Wamsley;Paolo Sassone-Corsi;Inder M. Verma

  • Mitotic phosphorylation of histone H3: spatio-temporal regulation by mammalian Aurora kinases.

    Claudia Crosio;Gian Maria Fimia;Romain Loury;Masashi Kimura

  • Time for Food: The Intimate Interplay between Nutrition, Metabolism, and the Circadian Clock

    Gad Asher;Paolo Sassone-Corsi

  • Inducibility and negative autoregulation of CREM: an alternative promoter directs the expression of ICER, an early response repressor.

    Carlos A. Molina;Nicholas S. Foulkes;Enzo Lalli;Paolo Sassone-Corsi

  • Reprogramming of the circadian clock by nutritional challenge.

    Kristin L. Eckel-Mahan;Vishal R. Patel;Sara de Mateo;Ricardo Orozco-Solis

  • Metabolism and cancer: the circadian clock connection

    Saurabh Sahar;Paolo Sassone-Corsi

  • Transcriptional autoregulation of the proto-oncogene fos.

    Paolo Sassone-Corsi;John C. Sisson;Inder M. Verma

  • Spermiogenesis deficiency and germ-cell apoptosis in CREM-mutant mice

    François Nantel;Lucia Monaco;Nicholas S. Foulkes;Denis Masquilier

  • CircadiOmics: integrating circadian genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics

    Vishal R Patel;Kristin Eckel-Mahan;Paolo Sassone-Corsi;Pierre Baldi

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas S. Foulkes
Nicholas S. Foulkes Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Enzo Lalli
Enzo Lalli Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Pierre Baldi
Pierre Baldi University of California, Irvine
Inder M. Verma
Inder M. Verma Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Nicolas Cermakian
Nicolas Cermakian McGill University
Pierre Chambon
Pierre Chambon Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology
Gian Maria Fimia
Gian Maria Fimia Sapienza University of Rome
Martti Parvinen
Martti Parvinen University of Turku
Irwin Davidson
Irwin Davidson Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology
Juleen R. Zierath
Juleen R. Zierath Karolinska Institute

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