2026 Peter W. Gunning: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	75	1191	1063	30	29	271	20193

Overview

Peter W. Gunning is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to Medicine as well.

Their work focuses on subfields such as Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Oncology, and Immunology and Allergy.

Key research topics addressed by Peter W. Gunning include:

Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
Cellular transport and secretion
Cell Adhesion Molecules Research
Cancer-related Molecular Pathways
RNA Research and Splicing

Peter W. Gunning has co-authored frequently with several researchers including:

Edna C. Hardeman
Nicole S. Bryce
María Lastra Cagigas
Nicholas Ariotti
James Rae

They have published extensively in a range of scientific venues, notably:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Cytoskeleton
Nature Communications
Nature Materials
Current Biology

Selected recent publications include:

Focal adhesions contain three specialized actin nanoscale layers, 2024, Nature Communications
Correlative cryo-ET identifies actin/tropomyosin filaments that mediate cell-substrate adhesion in cancer cells and mechanosensitivity of cell proliferation, 2021, Nature Materials
Tropomodulins Control the Balance between Protrusive and Contractile Structures by Stabilizing Actin-Tropomyosin Filaments, 2020, Current Biology
Tropomyosin Tpm3.1 Is Required to Maintain the Structure and Function of the Axon Initial Segment, 2020, iScience
A robust method for particulate detection of a genetic tag for 3D electron microscopy, 2021, eLife

Best Publications

Isolation and characterization of full-length cDNA clones for human alpha-, beta-, and gamma-actin mRNAs: skeletal but not cytoplasmic actins have an amino-terminal cysteine that is subsequently removed.

P Gunning;P Ponte;H Okayama;J Engel

1750
Citations
Evolutionary conservation in the untranslated regions of actin mRNAs: DNA sequence of a human beta-actin cDNA

Phyllis Ponte;Sun-Yu Ng;Joanne Engel;Peter Gunning

1108
Citations
A human beta-actin expression vector system directs high-level accumulation of antisense transcripts

Peter Gunning;John Leavitt;George Muscat;Sun-Yu Ng

954
Citations
Tropomyosin-Based Regulation of the Actin Cytoskeleton in Time and Space

Peter Gunning;Geraldine O’neill;Edna Hardeman

542
Citations
Human actin genes are single copy for alpha-skeletal and alpha-cardiac actin but multicopy for beta- and gamma-cytoskeletal genes: 3' untranslated regions are isotype specific but are conserved in evolution.

P Ponte;P Gunning;H Blau;L Kedes

526
Citations
Evolution of the functional human beta-actin gene and its multi-pseudogene family: conservation of noncoding regions and chromosomal dispersion of pseudogenes.

Sun-Yu Ng;P. Gunning;R. Eddy;P. Ponte

488
Citations
Loss of ACTN3 gene function alters mouse muscle metabolism and shows evidence of positive selection in humans.

Daniel MacArthur;Jane T Seto;Jane T Seto;Joanna M Raftery;Kate G Quinlan;Kate G Quinlan

386
Citations
Tropomyosin isoforms: divining rods for actin cytoskeleton function.

Peter W. Gunning;Galina Schevzov;Anthony J. Kee;Edna C. Hardeman

378
Citations
The evolution of compositionally and functionally distinct actin filaments

Peter W. Gunning;Umesh Ghoshdastider;Shane Whitaker;David Popp

375
Citations
An Actn3 knockout mouse provides mechanistic insights into the association between α-actinin-3 deficiency and human athletic performance

Daniel G. MacArthur;Jane T. Seto;Stephen Chan;Kate G.R. Quinlan

367
Citations
A molecular pathway for myosin II recruitment to stress fibers.

Sari Tojkander;Gergana Gateva;Galina Schevzov;Pirta Hotulainen

307
Citations
The actin cytoskeleton as a sensor and mediator of apoptosis.

Desouza M;Gunning Pw;Stehn

296
Citations
Specification of Actin Filament Function and Molecular Composition by Tropomyosin Isoforms

Nicole S. Bryce;Galina Schevzov;Vicki Ferguson;Justin M. Percival

289
Citations
Differential and synergistic actions of nerve growth factor and cyclic AMP in PC12 cells.

P W Gunning;G E Landreth;M A Bothwell;E M Shooter

288
Citations
Tropomyosin – master regulator of actin filament function in the cytoskeleton

Peter W. Gunning;Edna C. Hardeman;Pekka Lappalainen;Daniel P. Mulvihill

283
Citations
Parkinsonism and impaired axonal transport in a mouse model of frontotemporal dementia.

Lars M. Ittner;Thomas Fath;Yazi D. Ke;Mian Bi

249
Citations
Beta and gamma actin mRNAs are differentially located within myoblasts

Mark A. Hill;Peter Gunning

226
Citations
Primary support cultures of hippocampal and substantia nigra neurons

Thomas Fath;Yazi D Ke;Peter Gunning;Jürgen Götz

225
Citations
Structure, chromosome location, and expression of the human gamma-actin gene: differential evolution, location, and expression of the cytoskeletal beta- and gamma-actin genes.

H P Erba;R Eddy;T Shows;L Kedes

213
Citations
2012 Landes Bioscience. Do not distribute. The actin cytoskeleton as a sensor and mediator of apoptosis

Melissa Desouza;Peter W. Gunning;Justine R. Stehn

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Edna C. Hardeman University of New South Wales

Larry Kedes University of Southern California

Kathryn N. North University of Melbourne

Eric M. Shooter Stanford University

Wolfgang Weninger Medical University of Vienna

Adam McCluskey University of Newcastle Australia

Jim J.-C. Lin University of Iowa

Ian E. Alexander University of Sydney

Nikolas K. Haass University of Queensland

Pekka Lappalainen University of Helsinki

External Links

Personal website of Peter W. Gunning

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