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Richard C. Scarpulla

Richard C. Scarpulla

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
50
Citations
23720
World Ranking
2525
National Ranking
1245

Overview

Richard C. Scarpulla is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Immunology and Microbiology, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these broader areas, they focus on subfields such as Immunology, Cancer Research, and Oncology.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Immune Response and Inflammation
  • NF-κB Signaling Pathways
  • Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions

One recent publication authored by Scarpulla is titled "The regulatory role of PGC1α-related coactivator in response to drug-induced liver injury," published in 2020 in the journal FASEB BioAdvances.

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Marcin Buler
  • Thomas Naessens
  • Johan Mattsson
  • Yannick Morias
  • Magnus Söderberg

In terms of research dissemination, FASEB BioAdvances is among the known venues where Scarpulla has published work.

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms Controlling Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Respiration through the Thermogenic Coactivator PGC-1

    Zhidan Wu;Pere Puigserver;Ulf Andersson;Chenyu Zhang

  • Transcriptional Paradigms in Mammalian Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Function

    Richard C. Scarpulla

  • Metabolic control of mitochondrial biogenesis through the PGC-1 family regulatory network.

    Richard C. Scarpulla

  • Transcriptional regulatory circuits controlling mitochondrial biogenesis and function

    Daniel P. Kelly;Richard C. Scarpulla

  • Activation of the human mitochondrial transcription factor A gene by nuclear respiratory factors: a potential regulatory link between nuclear and mitochondrial gene expression in organelle biogenesis.

    Joseph V. Virbasius;Richard C. Scarpulla

  • Oxygen sensing requires mitochondrial ROS but not oxidative phosphorylation

    Joslyn K. Brunelle;Eric L. Bell;Nancy M. Quesada;Kristel Vercauteren

  • Nuclear activators and coactivators in mammalian mitochondrial biogenesis

    Richard C Scarpulla

  • Control of Mitochondrial Transcription Specificity Factors (TFB1M and TFB2M) by Nuclear Respiratory Factors (NRF-1 and NRF-2) and PGC-1 Family Coactivators

    Natalie Gleyzer;Kristel Vercauteren;Richard C. Scarpulla

  • Transcriptional integration of mitochondrial biogenesis.

    Richard C. Scarpulla;Rick B. Vega;Daniel P. Kelly

  • Nuclear control of respiratory gene expression in mammalian cells.

    Richard C. Scarpulla

  • NRF-1: a trans-activator of nuclear-encoded respiratory genes in animal cells.

    Mark J. Evans;Richard Scarpulla

  • Pgc-1-related coactivator, a novel, serum-inducible coactivator of nuclear respiratory factor 1-dependent transcription in mammalian cells.

    Ulf Andersson;Richard C. Scarpulla

  • Nuclear Control of Respiratory Chain Expression by Nuclear Respiratory Factors and PGC-1-Related Coactivator

    Richard C. Scarpulla

  • Transcriptional activators and coactivators in the nuclear control of mitochondrial function in mammalian cells.

    Richard C. Scarpulla

  • NRF-1, an activator involved in nuclear-mitochondrial interactions, utilizes a new DNA-binding domain conserved in a family of developmental regulators.

    C.-M. A. Virbasius;J. V. Virbasius;R. C. Scarpulla

  • A Common Set of Gene Regulatory Networks Links Metabolism and Growth Inhibition

    Hugh Cam;Egle Balciunaite;Alexandre Blais;Alexander Spektor

  • NUCLEAR CONTROL OF RESPIRATORY CHAIN EXPRESSION IN MAMMALIAN CELLS

    Richard C. Scarpulla

  • Interaction of nuclear factors with multiple sites in the somatic cytochrome c promoter. Characterization of upstream NRF-1, ATF, and intron Sp1 recognition sequences.

    M J Evans;R C Scarpulla

  • Identity of GABP with NRF-2, a multisubunit activator of cytochrome oxidase expression, reveals a cellular role for an ETS domain activator of viral promoters

    J. V. Virbasius;C.-M. A. Virbasius;R. C. Scarpulla

  • Mitochondrial DNA Instability and Peri-Implantation Lethality Associated with Targeted Disruption of Nuclear Respiratory Factor 1 in Mice

    Lei Huo;Richard C. Scarpulla

Frequent Co-Authors

Ray Wu
Ray Wu Cornell University
Daniel P. Kelly
Daniel P. Kelly University of Pennsylvania
Yang Xia
Yang Xia The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Pere Puigserver
Pere Puigserver Harvard University
Bradford B. Lowell
Bradford B. Lowell Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Valeria Tiranti
Valeria Tiranti Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
Chung-I Wu
Chung-I Wu Sun Yat-sen University
Vamsi K. Mootha
Vamsi K. Mootha Harvard Medical School
Wen-Hsiung Li
Wen-Hsiung Li Academia Sinica
Massimo Zeviani
Massimo Zeviani University of Padua

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