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List of works by Paolo Tortora

1H-NMR and photo-CIDNP spectroscopies show a possible role for Trp23 and Phe31 in nucleic acid binding by P2 ribonuclease from the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus.

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A High Sensitivity Biosensor to detect the presence of perfluorinated compounds in environment.

scientific article published on 21 October 2017

A Major Role for Side-Chain Polyglutamine Hydrogen Bonding in Irreversible Ataxin-3 Aggregation

scientific article published on April 13, 2011

A conserved loop in polynucleotide phosphorylase (PNPase) essential for both RNA and ADP/phosphate binding

scientific article published on 26 September 2013

A hydrophobic gold surface triggers misfolding and aggregation of the amyloidogenic Josephin domain in monomeric form, while leaving the oligomers unaffected

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A mutation in polynucleotide phosphorylase from Escherichia coli impairing RNA binding and degradosome stability

scientific article published on 12 February 2004

A single-point mutation in the extreme heat- and pressure-resistant sso7d protein from sulfolobus solfataricus leads to a major rearrangement of the hydrophobic core

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Analysis of the Escherichia coli RNA degradosome composition by a proteomic approach.

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Ataxin-3 is subject to autolytic cleavage.

scientific article published in September 2006

Avidin decorated core-shell nanoparticles for biorecognition studies by elastic light scattering.

scientific article published in June 2007

Biotechnological approaches toward nanoparticle biofunctionalization

scientific article published on 30 October 2013

Dependence of mitochondrial protein synthesis initiation on formylation of the initiator methionyl-tRNAf.

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Dependence on cyclic AMP of glucose-induced inactivation of yeast gluconeogenetic enzymes

scientific article published on 01 May 1983

Destabilization of non-pathological variants of ataxin-3 by metal ions results in aggregation/fibrillogenesis

scientific article published on 20 January 2007

Different ataxin-3 amyloid aggregates induce intracellular Ca(2+) deregulation by different mechanisms in cerebellar granule cells

scientific article published on 11 September 2013

Differential scanning calorimetry study of the thermodynamic stability of some mutants of Sso7d from Sulfolobus solfataricus.

scientific article published in July 1998

Direct activation of cardiac pacemaker channels by intracellular cyclic AMP.

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Effect of caffeine on glucose-induced inactivation of gluconeogenetic enzymes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. A possible role of cyclic AMP

scientific article published on 01 September 1982

Epigallocatechin-3-gallate and related phenol compounds redirect the amyloidogenic aggregation pathway of ataxin-3 towards non-toxic aggregates and prevent toxicity in neural cells and Caenorhabditis elegans animal model

scientific article published on 15 June 2017

Epigallocatechin-3-gallate and tetracycline differently affect ataxin-3 fibrillogenesis and reduce toxicity in spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 model.

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Expression of a synthetic gene encoding P2 ribonuclease from the extreme thermoacidophilic archaebacterium Sulfolobus solfataricus in mesophylic hosts

scientific article published on 01 February 1995

Extreme heat- and pressure-resistant 7-kDa protein P2 from the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus is dramatically destabilized by a single-point amino acid substitution

scientific article published on November 1, 1997

Fourteen novel mucopolysaccharidosis IVA producing mutations in GALNS gene

scientific article published on 01 January 1997

Genetic analysis of polynucleotide phosphorylase structure and functions

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Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in Italian blood donors: prevalence and molecular defect characterization.

scientific article published on 18 October 2013

Glucose-dependent metabolic interconversion of fructose-1, 6-bisphosphatase in yeast

scientific article published on 01 May 1981

Glucose-induced degradation of yeast fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase requires additional triggering events besides protein phosphorylation

scientific article published on 01 June 1987

Guanidine-induced unfolding of the Sso7d protein from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus.

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Highly efficient production of anti-HER2 scFv antibody variant for targeting breast cancer cells.

scientific article published on 3 May 2011

How Epigallocatechin-3-gallate and Tetracycline Interact with the Josephin Domain of Ataxin-3 and Alter Its Aggregation Mode

scientific article published on 5 November 2015

Hsp70 oligomerization is mediated by an interaction between the interdomain linker and the substrate-binding domain

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Identification of a phosphorylated form of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

scientific article published on 01 September 1987

Immobilization of carboxypeptidase from Sulfolobus solfataricus on magnetic nanoparticles improves enzyme stability and functionality in organic media

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Inhibition of α-Synuclein Fibril Elongation by Hsp70 Is Governed by a Kinetic Binding Competition between α-Synuclein Species

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

Interaction of selected divalent metal ions with human ataxin-3 Q36.

scientific article published on 4 July 2009

Interactions of ataxin-3 with its molecular partners in the protein machinery that sorts protein aggregates to the aggresome

scientific article published on 28 March 2014

Investigating the structural biofunctionality of antibodies conjugated to magnetic nanoparticles

scientific article published on 29 September 2010

Metabolic effects of benzoate and sorbate in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae at neutral pH

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

Molecular cloning, nucleotide sequence and expression of a Sulfolobus solfataricus gene encoding a class II fumarase.

scientific article published in February 1994

Multiple Presentation of Scfv800E6 on Silica Nanospheres Enhances Targeting Efficiency Toward HER-2 Receptor in Breast Cancer Cells

scientific article published on October 31, 2011

Negatively charged silver nanoparticles with potent antibacterial activity and reduced toxicity for pharmaceutical preparations.

scientific article published on 31 March 2017

Occurrence of two phosphorylated forms of yeast fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase with different isoelectric points

scientific article published on 01 December 1988

Orientation-controlled conjugation of haloalkane dehalogenase fused homing peptides to multifunctional nanoparticles for the specific recognition of cancer cells.

scientific article published on 5 February 2013

Peptide-nanoparticle ligation mediated by cutinase fusion for the development of cancer cell-targeted nanoconjugates

scientific article published on 13 March 2015

Photometric Assay for Polynucleotide Phosphorylase

scientific article published in 1999

Polynucleotide phosphorylase-based photometric assay for inorganic phosphate

scientific article published in April 2004

Properties of recombinant human cytosolic sialidase HsNEU2. The enzyme hydrolyzes monomerically dispersed GM1 ganglioside molecules

scientific article published on 12 November 2003

Protein Environment: A Crucial Triggering Factor in Josephin Domain Aggregation: The Role of 2,2,2-Trifluoroethanol

scientific article published on 24 July 2018

Protein nanocages for self-triggered nuclear delivery of DNA-targeted chemotherapeutics in Cancer Cells

scientific article published on 13 October 2014

Purification and characterization of a thermostable carboxypeptidase from the extreme thermophilic archaebacterium Sulfolobus solfataricus

scientific article published on June 1, 1992

Purification of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and its use for bicarbonate assay

scientific article published on 01 January 1985

Reactivation of yeast glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase denaturated by saturated fatty acids.

scientific article published in April 1982

Regulation of Escherichia coli polynucleotide phosphorylase by ATP.

scientific article published on 23 July 2008

Regulation of maltose utilization in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by genes of the RAS/protein kinase A pathway

scientific article published on 01 February 1997

Ribonucleases from the extreme thermophilic archaebacterium S. solfataricus.

scientific article published in January 1993

Selective denaturation of several yeast enzymes by free fatty acids

scientific article published on August 7, 1978

Single-domain protein A-engineered magnetic nanoparticles: toward a universal strategy to site-specific labeling of antibodies for targeted detection of tumor cells

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Site-Specific Mutation of Staphylococcus aureus VraS Reveals a Crucial Role for the VraR-VraS Sensor in the Emergence of Glycopeptide Resistance

scientific article published on December 20, 2010

Site-specific conjugation of ScFvs antibodies to nanoparticles by bioorthogonal strain-promoted alkyne-nitrone cycloaddition

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Structural features responsible for kinetic thermal stability of a carboxypeptidase from the archaebacterium Sulfolobus solfataricus.

scientific article published on November 1993

Structure prediction and functional analysis of KdsD, an enzyme involved in lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis.

scientific article published on 5 August 2009

Studies on glucose-induced inactivation of gluconeogenetic enzymes in adenylate cyclase and cAMP-dependent protein kinase yeast mutants

scientific article published on 01 December 1984

Studies on the degradative mechanism of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase from yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

scientific article published on 01 November 1989

Susceptibility to proteinases of yeast enzymes selectively modified by fatty acids.

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Targeting Amyloid Aggregation: An Overview of Strategies and Mechanisms

scholarly article by Sofia Giorgetti published in September 2018

Temperature profoundly affects ataxin-3 fibrillogenesis

scientific article published on January 9, 2012

Temperature-dependent, irreversible formation of amyloid fibrils by a soluble human ataxin-3 carrying a moderately expanded polyglutamine stretch (Q36).

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The KH and S1 domains of Escherichia coli polynucleotide phosphorylase are necessary for autoregulation and growth at low temperature.

scientific article published on 4 February 2007

The Sso7d DNA-binding protein from Sulfolobus solfataricus has ribonuclease activity

scientific article published on 01 May 2001

The Toxic Effects of Pathogenic Ataxin-3 Variants in a Yeast Cellular Model

scientific article published on 8 June 2015

The conformational ensemble of the disordered and aggregation-protective 182-291 region of ataxin-3.

scientific article published on 25 July 2013

The mechanism of the polynucleotide phosphorylase-catalyzed arsenolysis of ADP.

scientific article published on 3 December 2010

The polyglutamine protein ataxin-3 enables normal growth under heat shock conditions in the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris

scientific article published on 17 October 2017

The powerful high pressure tool for protein conformational studies

scientific article published on 30 July 2005

The relationship between aggregation and toxicity of polyglutamine-containing ataxin-3 in the intracellular environment of Escherichia coli

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The role of phenylalanine 31 in maintaining the conformational stability of ribonuclease P2 from Sulfolobus solfataricus under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure.

scientific article published in July 1997

The role of the central flexible region on the aggregation and conformational properties of human ataxin-3

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Thermal stability and DNA binding activity of a variant form of the Sso7d protein from the archeon Sulfolobus solfataricus truncated at leucine 54.

scientific article published in July 2003

Transcriptional and post-transcriptional control of polynucleotide phosphorylase during cold acclimation in Escherichia coli

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

Uniform lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-loaded magnetic nanoparticles for the investigation of LPS-TLR4 signaling.

scientific article published on 9 November 2010

Various Cells Retrovirally Transduced withN-Acetylgalactosoamine-6-Sulfate Sulfatase Correct Morquio Skin FibroblastsIn Vitro

scientific article published on November 1, 2001