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Christian Steinkühler

Christian Steinkühler

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
55
Citations
10792
World Ranking
15065
National Ranking
466

Overview

Christian Steinkühler is affiliated with Exiris in Italy and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Oncology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Immunology, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

Their work addresses diverse scientific topics, with a notable focus on Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research, Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis, and Protein Degradation and Inhibitors. Additional topics of interest include Muscle Physiology and Disorders, Immune cells in cancer, Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Advances, and Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies.

Steinkühler has published frequently in a variety of scientific venues. The most common publication venues include Cancer Research, Frontiers in Immunology, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Circulation, and Cancers.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Gianluca Fossati, Chiara Ripamonti, Andrea Stevenazzi, Giovanni Sandrone, and Barbara Vergani.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Steinkühler are:

  • HDAC Inhibition Reverses Preexisting Diastolic Dysfunction and Blocks Covert Extracellular Matrix Remodeling, 2021, Circulation
  • The pan HDAC inhibitor Givinostat improves muscle function and histological parameters in two Duchenne muscular dystrophy murine models expressing different haplotypes of the LTBP4 gene, 2021, Skeletal Muscle
  • HDAC Inhibition as Potential Therapeutic Strategy to Restore the Deregulated Immune Response in Severe COVID-19, 2022, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Difluoromethyl-1,3,4-oxadiazoles are slow-binding substrate analog inhibitors of histone deacetylase 6 with unprecedented isotype selectivity, 2022, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Acute Kidney Injury Results in Long-Term Diastolic Dysfunction That Is Prevented by Histone Deacetylase Inhibition, 2021, JACC Basic to Translational Science

Best Publications

  • Crystal structure of a eukaryotic zinc-dependent histone deacetylase, human HDAC8, complexed with a hydroxamic acid inhibitor

    Alessandro Vannini;Cinzia Volpari;Gessica Filocamo;Elena Caroli Casavola

  • HDACs, histone deacetylation and gene transcription: from molecular biology to cancer therapeutics.

    Paola Gallinari;Stefania Di Marco;Phillip Jones;Michele Pallaoro

  • Unraveling the hidden catalytic activity of vertebrate class IIa histone deacetylases.

    A. Lahm;C. Paolini;M. Pallaoro;M. C. Nardi

  • Structural and Functional Analysis of the Human HDAC4 Catalytic Domain Reveals a Regulatory Structural Zinc-binding Domain

    Matthew J. Bottomley;Paola Lo Surdo;Paolo Di Giovine;Agostino Cirillo

  • Histone deacetylase and Cullin3-REN(KCTD11) ubiquitin ligase interplay regulates Hedgehog signalling through Gli acetylation

    Gianluca Canettieri;Lucia Di Marcotullio;Azzura Greco;Sonia Coni

  • Functional and morphological recovery of dystrophic muscles in mice treated with deacetylase inhibitors.

    G C Minetti;C Colussi;R Adami;C Serra

  • Product inhibition of the hepatitis C virus NS3 protease.

    Christian Steinkühler;Gabriella Biasiol;Mirko Brunetti;Andrea Urbani

  • Substrate binding to histone deacetylases as shown by the crystal structure of the HDAC8-substrate complex.

    Alessandro Vannini;Cinzia Volpari;Paola Gallinari;Philip Jones

  • HDAC2 blockade by nitric oxide and histone deacetylase inhibitors reveals a common target in Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment

    Claudia Colussi;Chiara Mozzetta;Aymone Gurtner;Barbara Illi

  • Potent peptide inhibitors of human hepatitis C virus NS3 protease are obtained by optimizing the cleavage products.

    P Ingallinella;S Altamura;E Bianchi;M Taliani

  • Multiple Enzymatic Activities Associated with Recombinant NS3 Protein of Hepatitis C Virus

    Paola Gallinari;Debra Brennan;Chiara Nardi;Mirko Brunetti

  • A designed P1 cysteine mimetic for covalent and non-covalent inhibitors of HCV NS3 protease.

    Frank Narjes;Konrad F Koehler;Uwe Koch;Benjamin Gerlach

  • Activity of purified hepatitis C virus protease NS3 on peptide substrates.

    C Steinkühler;A Urbani;L Tomei;G Biasiol

  • A continuous assay of hepatitis C virus protease based on resonance energy transfer depsipeptide substrates.

    Marina Taliani;Elisabetta Bianchi;Frank Narjes;Marco Fossatelli

  • Inhibition of class I histone deacetylase with an apicidin derivative prevents cardiac hypertrophy and failure

    Pasquale Gallo;Michael V G Latronico;Paolo Gallo;Paolo Gallo;Serena Grimaldi

  • The solution structure of the N-terminal proteinase domain of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS3 protein provides new insights into its activation and catalytic mechanism.

    G Barbato;D.O Cicero;M.C Nardi;C Steinkuhler

  • In vitro selection and characterization of hepatitis C virus serine protease variants resistant to an active-site peptide inhibitor

    Caterina Trozzi;Linda Bartholomew;Alessandra Ceccacci;Gabriella Biasiol

  • PP2A regulates HDAC4 nuclear import.

    Gabriela Paroni;Gabriela Paroni;Nadia Cernotta;Claudio Dello Russo;Paola Gallinari

  • Affinity selection of a camelized V(H) domain antibody inhibitor of hepatitis C virus NS3 protease.

    F Martin;C Volpari;C Steinkuhler;N Dimasi

  • Structure and function of the hepatitis C virus NS3-NS4A serine proteinase

    R. De Francesco;C. Steinkühler

Frequent Co-Authors

Raffaele De Francesco
Raffaele De Francesco University of Milan
Elisabetta Bianchi
Elisabetta Bianchi Institut Pasteur
Michael Rowley
Michael Rowley Pharmaron (United Kingdom)
Antonello Pessi
Antonello Pessi Schering-Plough
Andrea Carfi
Andrea Carfi Novartis (Switzerland)
Andrea Urbani
Andrea Urbani University of Padua
Giuseppe Rotilio
Giuseppe Rotilio University of Rome Tor Vergata
Ulrich Weser
Ulrich Weser University of Tübingen
Anna Tramontano
Anna Tramontano Sapienza University of Rome
Antonello Mai
Antonello Mai Sapienza University of Rome

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