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  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Claudio Scazzocchio is a researcher affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their work is primarily situated within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions in Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Ecology, Plant Science, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's research focuses on several key topics including:

  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases

Recent papers authored with Claudio Scazzocchio cover various aspects of molecular biology and microbial genetics:

  • Ichthyosporea: a window into the origin of animals, 2024, Communications Biology
  • A complete nicotinate degradation pathway in the microbial eukaryote Aspergillus nidulans, 2022, Communications Biology
  • Genome organization and evolution of a eukaryotic nicotinate co-inducible pathway, 2021, Open Biology
  • De novo germline mutation in the dual specificity phosphatase 10 gene accelerates autoimmune diabetes, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • In Kluyveromyces lactis a Pair of Paralogous Isozymes Catalyze the First Committed Step of Leucine Biosynthesis in Either the Mitochondria or the Cytosol, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology

Claudio has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, with the most prolific partnerships including:

  • Michel Flipphi
  • Zsuzsanna Hamari
  • Eszter Bokor
  • Judit Ámon
  • Csaba Vágvölgyi

Their publications appear regularly in several key scientific venues, such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Communications Biology
  • Journal of Fungi
  • Open Biology
  • Royal Society Open Science

Claudio Scazzocchio's research is noted for its interdisciplinary approach connecting genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology, and microbial systems. The work covers fundamental biological processes, including enzymatic pathways and genetic evolution, with applied aspects in microbial metabolic engineering and natural product biosynthesis.

Among the distinctions received, Claudio Scazzocchio is recognized as a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Sequencing of Aspergillus nidulans and comparative analysis with A. fumigatus and A. oryzae

    James E. Galagan;Sarah E. Calvo;Christina Cuomo;Li Jun Ma

  • Double-joint PCR: a PCR-based molecular tool for gene manipulations in filamentous fungi.

    Jae Hyuk Yu;Zsuzsanna Hamari;Kap Hoon Han;Jeong Ah Seo

  • Transformation by integration in Aspergillus nidulans.

    J Tilburn;C Scazzocchio;G G Taylor;J H Zabicky-Zissman

  • Making ends meet: a model for RNA splicing in fungal mitochondria

    R. Wayne Davies;Richard B. Waring;John A. Ray;Terence A. Brown

  • Comparative genomics reveals high biological diversity and specific adaptations in the industrially and medically important fungal genus Aspergillus

    Ronald P. de Vries;Robert Riley;Ad Wiebenga;Guillermo Aguilar-Osorio

  • Two different, adjacent and divergent zinc finger binding sites are necessary for CREA-mediated carbon catabolite repression in the proline gene cluster of Aspergillus nidulans.

    B Cubero;C Scazzocchio

  • Heterochromatic marks are associated with the repression of secondary metabolism clusters in Aspergillus nidulans

    Yazmid Reyes-Dominguez;Jin Woo Bok;Harald Berger;E Keats Shwab

  • The fungal GATA factors.

    Claudio Scazzocchio

  • Metabolic Gene Clusters in Eukaryotes.

    Hans Wilhelm Nützmann;Hans Wilhelm Nützmann;Claudio Scazzocchio;Anne Osbourn

  • Subtle hydrophobic interactions between the seventh residue of the zinc finger loop and the first base of an HGATAR sequence determine promoter-specific recognition by the Aspergillus nidulans GATA factor AreA

    Adriana Ravagnani;Lisette Gorfinkiel;Lisette Gorfinkiel;Timothy Langdon;George Diallinas

  • Cloning and characterization of the ethanol utilization regulon in Aspergillus nidulans

    Robin A. Lockington;H.M. Scaly-Lewis;C. Scazzocchio;R.Wayne Davies

  • Cloning of the nitrate reductase gene (niaD) of Aspergillus nidulans and its use for transformation of Fusarium oxysporum.

    Laurence Malardier;Marie J. Daboussi;Jacqueline Julien;Francine Roussel

  • The GATA factor AreA is essential for chromatin remodelling in a eukaryotic bidirectional promoter

    MIsabel Muro‐Pastor;Ramon Gonzalez;Joseph Strauss;Frank Narendja

  • nirA, the pathway-specific regulatory gene of nitrate assimilation in Aspergillus nidulans, encodes a putative GAL4-type zinc finger protein and contains four introns in highly conserved regions.

    G Burger;J Strauss;C Scazzocchio;B F Lang

  • Comparison of the cis-acting control regions of two coordinately controlled genes involved in ethanol utilization in Aspergillus nidulans.

    David I. Gwynne;Frank P. Buxton;Susan Sibley;R.Wayne Davies

  • The intergenic region between the divergently transcribed niiA and niaD genes of Aspergillus nidulans contains multiple NirA binding sites which act bidirectionally.

    P.J. Punt;J. Strauss;R. Smit;J.R. Kinghorn

  • The absence of molybdenum cofactor sulfuration is the primary cause of the flacca phenotype in tomato plants.

    Moshe Sagi;Claudio Scazzocchio;Robert Fluhr

  • Close relationship between certain nuclear and mitochondrial introns. Implications for the mechanism of RNA splicing.

    R.B. Waring;C. Scazzocchio;T.A. Brown;R.W. Davies

  • Genetic and Molecular Characterization of a Gene Encoding a Wide Specificity Purine Permease of Aspergillus nidulans Reveals a Novel Family of Transporters Conserved in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes

    Diallinas G;Gorfinkiel L;Gorfinkiel L;Arst Hn;Cecchetto G;Cecchetto G

  • Internal structure of a mitochondrial intron of Aspergillus nidulans

    R B Waring;R W Davies;C Scazzocchio;T A Brown

  • Additional file 8: of Comparative genomics reveals high biological diversity and specific adaptations in the industrially and medically important fungal genus Aspergillus

    Ronald de Vries;Robert Riley;Ad Wiebenga;Guillermo Aguilar-Osorio

Frequent Co-Authors

Jae-Hyuk Yu
Jae-Hyuk Yu University of Wisconsin–Madison
Gustavo C. Cerqueira
Gustavo C. Cerqueira Broad Institute
Bernard Henrissat
Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark
Berl R. Oakley
Berl R. Oakley University of Kansas
Jennifer R. Wortman
Jennifer R. Wortman Broad Institute
Alla Lapidus
Alla Lapidus Saint Petersburg State University
Axel A. Brakhage
Axel A. Brakhage Leibniz Association
Gerhard H. Braus
Gerhard H. Braus University of Göttingen
Gustavo H. Goldman
Gustavo H. Goldman Universidade de São Paulo
David B. Archer
David B. Archer University of Nottingham

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