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Benito Casu was affiliated with the Istituto G. Ronzoni in Italy. Throughout their career, they contributed to the scientific community primarily through their institutional connection.

No specific recent papers, co-authors, or publication venues are documented in the available data for Benito Casu. There are also no recorded publications in books, main fields of study, subfields, or main topics of their work.

There is no information on awards received by Benito Casu.

The absence of detailed records on research topics, publications, and collaborations limits a comprehensive overview of their scientific contributions. Nevertheless, their professional association with the Istituto G. Ronzoni situates them within an established Italian research environment.

Best Publications

  • Structure-activity relationship in heparin : a synthetic pentasaccharide with high affinity for antithrombin III and eliciting high anti-factor Xa activity

    J. Choay;M. Petitou;J.C. Lormeau;P. Sinaÿ

  • Oversulfated chondroitin sulfate is a contaminant in heparin associated with adverse clinical events.

    Marco Guerrini;Daniela Beccati;Zachary Shriver;Annamaria Naggi

  • Structure and biological activity of heparin

    Benito Casu

  • Structure and biological interactions of heparin and heparan sulfate.

    Benito Casu;Ulf Lindahl

  • The structure of heparin oligosaccharide fragments with high anti-(factor Xa) activity containing the minimal antithrombin III-binding sequence. Chemical and 13C nuclear-magnetic-resonance studies.

    B Casu;P Oreste;G Torri;G Zoppetti

  • Conformational flexibility: a new concept for explaining binding and biological properties of iduronic acid-containing glycosaminoglycans

    B. Casu;M. Petitou;M. Provasoli;P. Sinaÿ

  • Heparanase: structure, biological functions, and inhibition by heparin-derived mimetics of heparan sulfate.

    Israel Vlodavsky;Neta Ilan;Annamaria Naggi;Benito Casu

  • Configurational and conformational influences on the carbon-13 chemical shifts of some carbohydrates

    A. S. Perlin;B. Casu;H. J. Koch

  • 1976-1983, a critical period in the history of heparin: the discovery of the antithrombin binding site.

    Maurice Petitou;Benito Casu;Ulf Lindahl

  • Conformer populations of L-iduronic acid residues in glycosaminoglycan sequences.

    Dino R. Ferro;Augusto Provasoli;Massimo Ragazzi;Benito Casu

  • SST0001, a chemically modified heparin, inhibits myeloma growth and angiogenesis via disruption of the heparanase/ syndecan-1 axis

    Joseph P. Ritchie;Vishnu C. Ramani;Yongsheng Ren;Annamaria Naggi

  • Modulation of the heparanase-inhibiting activity of heparin through selective desulfation, graded N-acetylation, and glycol splitting.

    Annamaria Naggi;Benito Casu;Marta Perez;Giangiacomo Torri

  • Evidence for conformational equilibrium of the sulfated L-iduronate residue in heparin and in synthetic heparin mono- and oligo-saccharides: NMR and force-field studies

    Dino R. Ferro;Augusto. Provasoli;Massimo. Ragazzi;Giangiacomo. Torri

  • Non-Anticoagulant Heparins and Inhibition of Cancer

    Benito Casu;Israel Vlodavsky;Ralph D. Sanderson

  • Hydrogen bonding and conformation of glucose and polyglucoses in dimethyl-sulphoxide solution

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  • 1H and 13C NMR spectral assignments of the major sequences of twelve systematically modified heparin derivatives.

    Edwin A. Yates;Francesco Santini;Marco Guerrini;Annamaria Naggi

  • A conductimetric method for the determination of sulphate and carboxyl groups in heparin and other mucopolysaccharides.

    Benito Casu;Ugo Gennaro

  • Carbon-13 and proton magnetic resonance spectra of D-glucose-13C

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  • Generation of “Neoheparin” from E. coli K5 Capsular Polysaccharide

    Ulf Lindahl;Jin-Ping Li;Marion Kusche-Gullberg;Markku Salmivirta

  • Re-visiting the structure of heparin.

    Benito Casu;Annamaria Naggi;Giangiacomo Torri

  • Infrared absorption and raman scattering of sulfate groups of heparin and related glycosaminoglycans in aqueous solution

    Franco Cabassi;Benito Casu;Arthur S. Perlin

  • Studies on the Conformation of Heparin by 1H and 13C NMR Spectroscopy

    G. Gatti;B. Casu;G. K. Hamer;A. S. Perlin

  • The syndecan-1 heparan sulfate proteoglycan is a viable target for myeloma therapy.

    Yang Yang;Veronica MacLeod;Yuemeng Dai;Yekaterina Khotskaya-Sample

Frequent Co-Authors

Giangiacomo Torri
Giangiacomo Torri Istituto di Ricerche Chimiche e Biochimiche G. Ronzoni
Annamaria Naggi
Annamaria Naggi University of Brescia
Marco Guerrini
Marco Guerrini Istituto G. Ronzoni
Israel Vlodavsky
Israel Vlodavsky Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Maurice Petitou
Maurice Petitou University of Cambridge
Ralph D. Sanderson
Ralph D. Sanderson University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ulf Lindahl
Ulf Lindahl Uppsala University
Pierre Sinaÿ
Pierre Sinaÿ École Normale Supérieure
Jean Choay
Jean Choay Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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