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Antonio Molinaro is affiliated with the University of Naples Federico II in Italy and has a research focus primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans 132 publications within this field, with significant contributions to related subfields such as Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry, Immunology, Plant Science, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's research topics cover areas including Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research, Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis, Immune Response and Inflammation, Gut Microbiota and Health, Bacteriophages and Microbial Interactions, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, and Probiotics and Fermented Foods.

Antonio Molinaro has coauthored numerous publications with several frequent collaborators. These include Alba Silipo, Flaviana Di Lorenzo, Cristina De Castro, Roberta Marchetti, and Cristina Di Carluccio.

They have published extensively in a variety of scientific venues. The most frequent outlets for their work include Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Angewandte Chemie, Carbohydrate Polymers, Carbohydrate Research, and JACS Au.

Among their recent papers are:

  • A Journey from Structure to Function of Bacterial Lipopolysaccharides, 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • Liquid-state NMR spectroscopy for complex carbohydrate structural analysis: A hitchhiker's guide, 2021, Carbohydrate Polymers
  • Chemical synthesis of glycans up to a 128-mer relevant to the O-antigen of Bacteroides vulgatus, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Pairing Bacteroides vulgatus LPS Structure with Its Immunomodulatory Effects on Human Cellular Models, 2020, ACS Central Science
  • Novel ACE2-Independent Carbohydrate-Binding of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein to Host Lectins and Lung Microbiota, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • European consensus conference on faecal microbiota transplantation in clinical practice

    Giovanni Cammarota;Gianluca Ianiro;Herbert Tilg;Mirjana Rajilić-Stojanović

  • Microbially Produced Imidazole Propionate Impairs Insulin Signaling through mTORC1.

    Ara Koh;Antonio Molinaro;Marcus Ståhlman;Muhammad Tanweer Khan

  • Multivalent glycoconjugates as anti-pathogenic agents

    Anna Bernardi;Jesus Jimenez-Barbero;Alessandro Casnati;Christina De Castro

  • Arabidopsis lysin-motif proteins LYM1 LYM3 CERK1 mediate bacterial peptidoglycan sensing and immunity to bacterial infection

    Roland Willmann;Heini M. Lajunen;Gitte Erbs;Mari Anne Newman

  • Microbiota-induced obesity requires farnesoid X receptor

    Ava Parséus;Nina Sommer;Felix Sommer;Robert Caesar

  • Chitin-induced activation of immune signaling by the rice receptor CEBiP relies on a unique sandwich-type dimerization.

    Masahiro Hayafune;Rita Berisio;Roberta Marchetti;Alba Silipo

  • Role of Bile Acids in Metabolic Control

    Antonio Molinaro;Annika Wahlström;Hanns-Ulrich Marschall

  • Bacterial polysaccharides suppress induced innate immunity by calcium chelation.

    Shazia N. Aslam;Mari-Anne Newman;Gitte Erbs;Kate L. Morrissey

  • Functional Analysis of the Protein Machinery Required for Transport of Lipopolysaccharide to the Outer Membrane of Escherichia Coli

    Paola Sperandeo;Fion K. Lau;Andrea Carpentieri;Cristina De Castro

  • Chemistry of Lipid A: At the Heart of Innate Immunity

    Antonio Molinaro;Otto Holst;Flaviana Di Lorenzo;Maire Callaghan

  • Cell surface polysaccharides of Bifidobacterium bifidum induce the generation of Foxp3+ regulatory T cells

    Ravi Verma;Changhon Lee;Eun-Ji Jeun;Jaeu Yi

  • The Elicitation of Plant Innate Immunity by Lipooligosaccharide of Xanthomonas campestris

    Alba Silipo;Antonio Molinaro;Luisa Sturiale;J. Maxwell Dow

  • Glyco-conjugates as elicitors or suppressors of plant innate immunity.

    Alba Silipo;Gitte Erbs;Gitte Erbs;Tomonori Shinya;J. M. Maxwell Dow

  • Priming, induction and modulation of plant defence responses by bacterial lipopolysaccharides.

    Mari-Anne Newman;J. Maxwell Dow;Antonio Molinaro;Michelangelo Parrilli

  • Peptidoglycan and muropeptides from pathogens Agrobacterium and Xanthomonas elicit plant innate immunity: structure and activity.

    Gitte Erbs;Alba Silipo;Shazia Aslam;Cristina De Castro

  • Microbe-associated molecular patterns in innate immunity: Extraction and chemical analysis of gram-negative bacterial lipopolysaccharides.

    Cristina De Castro;Michelangelo Parrilli;Otto Holst;Antonio Molinaro

  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa exploits lipid A and muropeptides modification as a strategy to lower innate immunity during cystic fibrosis lung infection.

    Cristina Cigana;Laura Curcurù;Maria Rosaria Leone;Teresa Ieranò

  • Imidazole propionate is increased in diabetes and associated with dietary patterns and altered microbial ecology

    Antonio Molinaro;Antonio Molinaro;Pierre Bel Lassen;Marcus Henricsson;Hao Wu

  • Hopanoid lipids: from membranes to plant-bacteria interactions.

    Brittany J. Belin;Nicolas Busset;Eric Giraud;Antonio Molinaro

  • PNPLA3 Gene Polymorphism Is Associated With Predisposition to and Severity of Alcoholic Liver Disease

    Habeeb Salameh;Evan Raff;Angelika Erwin;Devanshi Seth;Devanshi Seth;Devanshi Seth

Frequent Co-Authors

Otto Holst
Otto Holst Research Center Borstel - Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences
Manuela Merli
Manuela Merli Sapienza University of Rome
Antonio Evidente
Antonio Evidente University of Naples Federico II
Fredrik Bäckhed
Fredrik Bäckhed University of Gothenburg
Mari-Anne Newman
Mari-Anne Newman University of Copenhagen
Miguel A. Valvano
Miguel A. Valvano Queen's University Belfast
Mikael Skurnik
Mikael Skurnik University of Helsinki
Koichi Fukase
Koichi Fukase Osaka University
Elena P. Ivanova
Elena P. Ivanova RMIT University
Peter R. Reeves
Peter R. Reeves University of Sydney

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