• Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari

Publications 2004

Corbo RM; Ulizzi L; Scacchi R; Martínez-Labarga C; De Stefano GF.
Apolipoprotein E (APOE) polymorphism and fertility: a study in pre-industrial populations.
Molecular human reproduction (Print);10: 617-620

Cruciani F, La Fratta R, Santolamazza P, Sellitto D, Pascone R, Moral P, Watson E, Guida V, Colomb EB, Zaharova B, Lavinha J, Vona G, Aman R, Cali F, Akar N, Richards M, Torroni A, Novelletto A, Scozzari R.
Phylogeographic analysis of haplogroup E3b (E-M215) Y chromosomes reveals multiple migratory events within and out of Africa.
American journal of human genetics;74: 1014-1022

Degrassi F1, Fiore M1, Palitti F2.
Chromosomal aberrations and genomic instability induced by topoisomerase-targeted antitumour drugs.
Current medicinal chemistry;4: 317-326

Gandhi R, Bonaccorsi S, Wentworth D, Doxsey S, Gatti M, Pereira A.
The Drosophila kinesin-like protein KLP67A is essential for mitotic and male meiotic spindle assembly.
Molecular biology of the cell;15: 121-131

Giansanti MG, Farkas RM, Bonaccorsi S , Lindsley DL, Wakimoto B, Fuller MT, Gatti M.
Genetic dissection of meiotic cytokinesis in Drosophila males.
Molecular biology of the cell;154: 23-34

Lucarelli P , Piciullo A, Palmarino M, Verdecchia M, Saccucci P, Arpino C, Curatolo P.
Association between presenilin-1 -48C/T polymorphism and Down's syndrome.
Neuroscience letters (Print);367: 88-91

Lombaert N, De Boeck M, Decordier I, Cundari E, Lison D, Kirsch-Volders M.
Evaluation of the Apoptogenic Potential of Hard Metal Dust (Wc-Co), Tungsten Carbide and Metallic Cobalt.
Toxicology letters;154: 23-34

Naim V, Imarisio S, Di Cunto F, Gatti M, Bonaccorsi S.
Drosophila Citron kinase is required for the final steps of cytokinesis.
Molecular biology of the cell;15: 5053-5063

Piergentili R, Bonaccorsi S, Raffa GD, Pisano C,Hackstein JHP, Mencarelli C.
Autosomal control of the Y chromosome kl-3 loop of Drosophila melanogaster.
Chromosoma (Berl., Print);113: 188-196

Piersanti S; Cherubini G; Martina Y; Salone B; Avitabile D; Grosso F; Cundari E; Di Zenzo G; Saggio I.
Mammalian cell transduction and internalization properties of lambda phages displaying the full-length adenoviral penton base or its central domain.
Journal of molecular medicine (Berl., Print);82: 467-476

Saccucci P, Verdecchia M, Piciullo A, Bottini N, Rizzo R, Gloria-Bottini F, Lucarelli P, Curatolo P.
Convulsive disorder and genetic polymorphism. Association of idiopathic generalized epilepsy with haptoglobin polymorphism.
Neurogenetics (Oxf., Print);5: 245-248

Scacchi R; Gambina G; Broggio E; Moretto G; Ruggeri M; Corbo RM.
The H+ allele of the lipoprotein lipase (LPL) HindIII intronic polymorphism and the risk for sporadic late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Neuroscience letters (Print);367: 177-180

Tritarelli A, Oricchio E, Ciciarello M, Mangiacasale R, Palena A, Lavia P, Soddu S, Cundari E.
p53 Localization at Centrosomes during Mitosis and Postmitotic Checkpoint are ATM-Dependent and Require Serine 15 Phosphorylation.
Molecular biology of the cell;15: 3751-3757

F. Vernì; M.P. Somma; K.C. Gunsalus; S. Bonaccorsi; G. Belloni;  M.L. Goldberg; M. Gatti.  
Feo, the Drosophila homolog of PRC1, is required for central spindle formation and cytokinesis.
Current biology;14: 1569-1575

J. Yu; S.L. Fleming; B. Williams; E.V. Williams; Z. Li; P. Somma; C.L. Rieder; M.L. Goldberg.  
Greatwall kinase: a nuclear protein required for proper chromosome condensation and mitotic progression in Drosophila.
The Journal of cell biology;164: 487-492

Agricola E, Verdone L, Xella B, Di Mauro E, Caserta M.
Common chromatin architecture, common chromatin remodeling and common transcription kinetics of Adr1-dependent genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Biochemistry (Easton);43: 8878-8884

Ambra R, Grimaldi B, Zamboni S, Filetici P, Macino G, Ballario P.
Photomorphogenesis in the hypogeous fungus Tuber borchii: isolation and characterization of Tbwc-1, the homologue of the blue-light photoreceptor of Neurospora crassa.
Fungal genetics and biology (Print);41: 688-697

Atzorn V; Fragapane P; Kiss T.  
U17/snR30 is a ubiquitous snoRNA with two conserved sequence motifs essential for 18S rRNA production.
Molecular and cellular biology (Print);24: 1769-1778

Ballarino M, Fruscalzo A, Marchioni M, Carnevali F.
Identification of positive and negative regulatory regions controlling expression of the Xenopus laevis betaTrCP gene.
Gene (Amst.);336: 275-285

Bianchi MM, Costanzo G , Chelstowska A, Grabowska D, Mazzoni C, Piccinni E, Cavalli A, Ciceroni F, Rytka J, Slonimski PP, Frontali L, Negri R.
The bromodomain-containing protein Bdf1p acts as a phenotypic and transcriptional multicopy suppressor of YAF9 deletion in yeast.
Molecular microbiology (Print);53: 953-968

Cecchetti V; Pomponi M; Altamura MM; Pezzotti M; Marsilio S; D'Angeli S; Tornielli GB; Costantino P; Cardarelli M.
Expression of rolB in Tobacco Flowers affects the Coordinated Processes of Anther Dehiscence and Style Elongation.
Plant journal (Print);38: 512-525

Frezza D, Giambra V, Cianci R, Fruscalzo A , Giufre M, Cammarota G, Martinez-Labarga C, Rickards O, Scibilia G, Sferlazzas C, Bartolozzi F, Starnino S, Magazzu G, Gasbarrini GB, Pandolfi F.
Increased frequency of the immunoglobulin enhancer HS1,2 allele 2 in coeliac disease.
Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology (Trykt utg.);39: 1083-1087

Krol S, Diaspro A, Magrassi R, Ballario P, Grimaldi B, Filetici P, Ornaghi P, Ramoino P, Gliozzi A.
Nanocapsules: coating for living cells. .
IEEE transactions on nanobioscience;3: 32-38

Morlando M; Ballarino M; Greco P; Caffarelli E; Dichtl B; Bozzoni I.
Coupling between snoRNP assembly and 3' processing controls box C/D snoRNA biosynthesis in yeast.
EMBO journal (Print);23: 2392-2401

Nasi Sergio.  
From databases to modelling of functional pathways.
Comparative and functional genomics;5: 179-183

Gianni Prosseda; Maurizio Falconi; Mara Giangrossi; Claudio O. Gualerzi; Gioacchino Micheli; Bianca Colonna.  
The virF promoter in Shigella: more than just a curved DNA stretch.
Molecular microbiology (Print);51: 523-537

Saladino R, Crestini C, Ciambecchini U, Ciciriello F, Costanzo G, Di Mauro E.
Synthesis and Degradation of Nucleobases and Nucleic Acids by  Formamide in the Presence of  Montmorillonites.
ChemBioChem (Print);5: 1558-1566

Saladino R, Crestini C, Costanzo G, Di Mauro E.
Advances in the prebiotic synthesis of nucleic acids bases. Implications for the origin of life.
Current organic chemistry;8: 1425-1443

Soucek L, Nasi S, Evan G.
Omomyc expression in skin prevents Myc-induced papillomatosis.
Cell death and differentiation;11: 1038-1045

Ciciarello M, Mangiacasale R, Thibier C, Guarguaglini G, Marchetti E, Di Fiore B, Lavia P.
Importin beta is transported to spindle poles during mitosis and regulates Ran-dependent spindle assembly factors in mammalian cells.
Journal of cell science;117: 6511-6522

Bottini N, Gloria-Bottini F, Borgiani P, Antonacci E, Lucarelli P, Bottini E.
Type 2 diabetes and the genetics of signal transduction: a study of interaction between adenosine deaminase and acid phosphatase locus 1 polymorphisms.
995-1001

Bottini N, Musumeci L, Alonso A, Rahmouni S, Nika K, Rostamkhani M, MacMurray J, Meloni GF, Lucarelli P, Pellecchia M, Eisenbarth GS, Comings D, Mustelin T.
A functional variant of lymphoid tyrosine phosphatase is associated with type I diabetes.
Nature genetics (Print);36: 336-338

Corbo RM; Scacchi R; Cresta M.
Differential reproductive efficiency associated with common apolipoprotein e alleles in postreproductive-aged subjects.
Fertility and sterility;81: 104-107

Corbi N; Libri V; Onori A; Passananti C.
Synthetic zinc finger peptides: old and novel applications.
Biochemistry and cell biology (Print);82: 428-436

Di Modugno F, Bronzi G, Scanlan MJ, Del Bello D, Cascioli S, Venturo I, Botti C, Nicotra MR, Mottolese M, Natali PG, Santoni A, Jager E, Nisticò P.
The human Mena protein, a SEREX-defined antigen overexpressed in breast cancer eliciting both humoral and CD8+ T cell immune response.
International journal of cancer (Print);109: 909-918

Libri V;  Onori A; Fanciulli M; Passananti C; Corbi N.
The artificial zinc finger protein 'Blues' binds the enhancer of the fibroblast growth factor 4 and represses transcription.
FEBS letters (Print);560: 75-80

Spinella F, Rosano L, Di Castro V, Nicotra MR, Natali PG, Bagnato A.
Inhibition of cyclooxygenase-1 and -2 expression by targeting the endothelin a receptor in human ovarian carcinoma cells.
Clinical cancer research (Print);10: 4670-4679

Theodoropoulou M, Arzberger T, Gruebler Y, Jaffrain-Rea ML, Schlegel J, Schaaf L, Petrangeli E, Losa M, Stalla GK, Pagotto U.
Expression of epidermal growth factor receptor in neoplastic pituitary cells: evidence for a role in corticotropinoma cells.
Journal of Endocrinology;183: 385-394

Boffi A, Chiancone E.
Evaluating cooperativity in dimeric hemoglobins.
Methods in enzymology (Print);379: 55-64

Borisov VB; Forte E; Konstantinov AA; Poole RK; Sarti P; Giuffrè A.
Interaction of the bacterial terminal oxidase cytochrome bd with nitric oxide.
FEBS letters (Print);576: 201-204

Brunori M; Giuffrè A; Forte E; Mastronicola D; Barone MC; Sarti P.
Control of cytochrome c oxidase activity by nitric oxide.
Biochimica et biophysica acta. Bioenergetics;1655: 365-371

Ceci P, Cellai S, Falvo E, Rivetti C, Rossi GL, Chiancone E.
DNA condensation and self-aggregation of Escherichia coli Dps are coupled phenomena related to the properties of the N-terminus.
Nucleic acids research;32: 5935-5944

Chiancone E, Ceci P, Ilari A, Ribacchi F, Stefanini S.
Iron and proteins for iron storage and detoxification.
BioMetals (Oxf.);17: 197-202

D'Angelo P, Lucarelli D, della Longa S, Benfatto M, Hazemann JL, Feis A, Smulevich G, Ilari A, Bonamore A, Boffi A.
Unusual heme iron-lipid acyl chain coordination in Escherichia coli flavohemoglobin.
Biophysical journal (Print);86: 3882-3892

De Marco F; Foppoli C; Coccia R; Blarzino C; Perluigi M; Cini C; Marcante ML.  
Ectopic deposition of melanin pigments as detoxifying mechanism: a paradigm for basal nuclei pigmentation.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications (Print);314: 631-637

Forte E; Scandurra FM; Richter OM; D'Itri E; Sarti P; Brunori M; Ludwig B; Giuffrè A.
Proton uptake upon anaerobic reduction of the Paracoccus denitrificans cytochrome c oxidase: a kinetic investigation of the K354M and D124N mutants.
Biochemistry (Easton);43: 2957-2963

Ilari A, Angelaccio S, Fiorillo A, Florio R, Consalvi V, Chiaraluce R.
Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of the laminarinase endo-ß-1,3-glucanase from Pyrococcus furiosus.
2394-2395

Macone A, Matarese RM, Gentili V, Antonucci A, Duprè S, Nardini M.
Effect of aminoethylcysteine ketimine decarboxylated dimer, a natural sulfur compound present in human plasma, on tert-butyl hydroperoxide-induced oxidative stress in human monocytic U937 cells.
Free radical research;38: 705-714

Sarti P; Fiori PL; Forte E; Rappelli P; Teixeira M; Mastronicola D; Sanciu G; Giuffrè A; Brunori M.
Trichomonas vaginalis degrades nitric oxide and expresses a flavorubredoxin-like protein: a new pathogenic mechanism?.
Cellular and molecular life sciences (Print. ed.);61: 618-623

Bordi L, Amendola A, Ciccosanti F, Abbate I, Camilloni G, Capobianchi MR.
Expression of Werner and Bloom syndrome genes is differentially regulated by in vitro HIV-1 infection of peripheral blood mononuclear cells.
Clinical and experimental immunology (Print);138: 251-258

Brunelli S, Tagliafico E, De Angelis FG, Tonlorenzi R, Baesso S, Ferrari S, Niinobe M, Yoshikawa K, Bozzoni I, Ferrari S, Cossu G.
Msx2 and Necdin combined activities are required for smooth muscle differentiation in mesoangioblast stem cells.
Circulation research;94: 1571-1578

de Turris V, Di Leva G, Caldarola S, Loreni F, Amaldi F, Bozzoni I.
TOP-promoter elements control the relative ratio of intron-encoded snoRNA versus spliced mRNA biosynthesis.
Journal of Molecular Biology;344: 383-394

del Vescovo V, de Sanctis V, Bianchi A, Shore D, Di Mauro E, Negri R.
Distinct DNA elements contribute to Rap1p affinity for its binding sites.
Journal of Molecular Biology;338: 877-893

Denti MA, Rosa A, Sthandier O, De Angelis G, Bozzoni I.
A novel vector for siRNA expression in mammalian cells that relies on polII-dependent transcription.
Molecular therapy (Print);10: 191-199

Mechelli R, Anselmi C, Cacchione S, De Santis P, Savino M.
Organization of telomeric nucleosomes: atomic force microscopy imaging and theoretical modeling.
FEBS letters (Print);566: 131-135

Ciapponi L; Cenci G; Ducau J; Flores C; Johnson-Schlitz D; Gorski MM; Engels WR; Gatti M.
The Drosophila Mre11/Rad50 Complex is required to prevent both telomeric fusion and chromosome breakage.
Current biology;14: 1360-1366

Bellelli A, Cavallo S, Nicolini L, Cervelli M, Bianchi M, Mariottini P, Zelli M, Federico R.
Mouse spermine oxidase: a model of the catalytic cycle and its inhibition by N,N1-bis(2,3-butadienyl)-1,4-butanediamine.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications (Print);322: 1-8

Ciaccio C, De Sanctis G, Marini S, Sinibaldi F, Santucci R, Arcovito A, Bellelli A, Ghibaudi E, Ferrari Rosa P, Coletta M.
Proton linkage for CO binding and redox properties of bovine lactoperoxidase.
Biophysical journal (Print);86: 448-454

Eufemi M, Coppari S, Altieri F, Grillo C, Ferraro A, Turano C.
ERp57 is present in STAT3-DNA complexes.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications (Print);323: 1306-1312

Fontana M, Pecci L, Duprè S, Cavallini D.
Antioxidant properties of sulfinates: protective effect of hypotaurine on peroxynitrite-dependent damage.
Neurochemical research;29: 111-116

Mangoni ML, Papo N, Barra D, Simmaco M, Bozzi A, Di Giulio A, Rinaldi AC.
Effects of the antimicrobial peptide temporin L on cell morphology, membrane permeability and viability of Escherichia coli.
Biochemical journal (Lond., 1984);380: 859-865

Travaglini-Allocatelli C, Gianni S, Brunori M.
A common folding mechanism in the cytochrome c family.
Trends in biochemical sciences (Regul. ed.);29: 535-541

Vandegriff KD, Bellelli A, Samaja M, Malavalli A, Brunori M, Winslow RM.
Kinetics of NO and O2 binding to a maleimide poly(ethylene glycol)-conjugated human haemoglobin.
Biochemical journal (Lond., 1984);382: 183-189

Loredana Verdone,1,4; Silvia Galardi,2,4; David Page,3; and Jean D. Beggs*.  
Lsm Proteins Promote Regeneration of Pre-mRNA Splicing Activity.
Current biology;14: 1487-1491

Savino C., Federici L., Johnson K. A., Vallone B., Nastopoulos V., Rossi M., Pisani F.M., Tsernoglou D.
Insights into DNA replication: the crystal structure of DNA polymerase B1 from the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus.
Structure (Lond.);12: 2001-2008

Daniela Canzoniere,1; Stefano Farioli-Vecchioli,1; Filippo Conti,1; Maria Teresa Ciotti,1; Ada Maria Tata,3; Gabriella Augusti-Tocco,3; Elisabetta Mattei,2; Madepalli K. Lakshmana,1; Valery Krizhanovsky,4; Steven A. Reeves,5;  Roberto Giovannoni,6; Francesca Castano,6; Antonio Servadio,6; Nissim Ben-Arie,4 and Felice Tirone1.  
Dual control of Neurogenesis by PC3 through cell cycle inhibition and induction of Math1.
The Journal of neuroscience;24: 3355-3369

Angelucci F, Johnson KA, Baiocco P, Miele AE, Brunori M, Valle C, Vigorosi F, Troiani AR, Liberti P, Cioli D, Klinkert MQ, Bellelli A.
Schistosoma mansoni fatty acid binding protein: specificity and functional control as revealed by crystallographic structure.
Biochemistry (Easton);43: 13000-13011

Giansanti MG;Farkas RM;Bonaccorsi S; Lindsley DL; Wakimoto BT; Fuller MT; Gatti M.
Genetic dissection of meiotic cytokinesis in Drosophila males.
Molecular biology of the cell;15: 2509-2522