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Claudio Toniolo

Claudio Toniolo

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Chemistry
Italy
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
84
Citations
27824
World Ranking
2790
National Ranking
46

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Claudio Toniolo is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy and has contributed to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology through a range of publications focusing on molecular and materials chemistry as well as biophysics. Their research encompasses a diverse set of topics centered on chemical synthesis, protein dynamics, and supramolecular assemblies.

Their recent work includes studies on peptide self-assembled nanostructures, electron transfer mechanisms in peptides, and structural analyses of peptide assemblies. Notable papers include:

  • Peptide Self-Assembled Nanostructures: From Models to Therapeutic Peptides (2022, Nanomaterials)
  • Insights into the Distance Dependence of Electron Transfer through Conformationally Constrained Peptides (2020, ChemElectroChem)
  • Probing the E/K Peptide Coiled-Coil Assembly by Double Electron-Electron Resonance and Circular Dichroism (2020, Biochemistry)
  • Cα-Methyl-l-valine: A Preferential Choice over α-Aminoisobutyric Acid for Designing Right-Handed α-Helical Scaffolds (2021, Biochemistry)
  • Isolated α-turns in peptides: a selected literature survey (2023, Journal of Peptide Science)

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Fernando Formaggio
  • Barbara Biondi
  • Cristina Peggion
  • Marco Crisma
  • Emanuela Gatto

Claudio Toniolo's publications have appeared mostly in journals well-regarded in the peptide and biochemical sciences such as the Journal of Peptide Science, Peptide Science, Biochemistry, Nanomaterials, and ChemElectroChem.

The scientist's principal research themes span:

  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms
  • Electron Spin Resonance Studies
  • Magnetism in Coordination Complexes
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities

Their subfields of study primarily include Molecular Biology, but extend to Biophysics, Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, as well as Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

Best Publications

  • Control of peptide conformation by the Thorpe-Ingold effect (C alpha-tetrasubstitution).

    Claudio Toniolo;Marco Crisma;Fernando Formaggio;Cristina Peggion

  • Structures of polypeptides from α-amino acids disubstituted at the α-carbon

    Claudio Toniolo;Ettore Benedetti

  • Intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded peptide conformations.

    Toniolo C

  • Circular Dichroism Spectrum of a Peptide 310-Helix

    Claudio Toniolo;Alessandra Polese;Fernando Formaggio;Marco Crisma

  • Conformationally restricted peptides through short-range cyclizations.

    C. Toniolo

  • Structures of peptides from alpha-amino acids methylated at the alpha-carbon.

    C Toniolo;M Crisma;F Formaggio;G Valle

  • Preferred conformations of peptides containing α,α‐disubstituted α‐amino acids

    Claudio Toniolo;Gian Maria Bonora;Alfonso Bavoso;Ettore Benedetti

  • Conformational analysis of linear peptides. 3. Temperature dependence of NH chemical shifts in chloroform

    E. S. Stevens;N. Sugawara;G. M. Bonora;C. Toniolo

  • Conformation of pleionomers of .alpha.-aminoisobutyric acid

    Claudio Toniolo;Gian Maria Bonora;Vincenzo Barone;Alfonso Bavoso

  • PREFERRED CONFORMATION OF THE tert‐BUTOXYCARBONYLAMINO GROUP IN PEPTIDES

    Ettore Benedetti;Carlo Pedone;Claudio Toniolo;George Némethy

  • Studies of peptides forming 3(10)- and alpha-helices and beta-bend ribbon structures in organic solution and in model biomembranes by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.

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  • Peptaibol antibiotics: a study on the helical structure of the 2-9 sequence of emerimicins III and IV.

    E Benedetti;A Bavoso;B Di Blasio;V Pavone

  • Energy transport in peptide helices

    Virgiliu Botan;Ellen H. G. Backus;Rolf Pfister;Alessandro Moretto

  • Linear oligopeptides. 81. Solid-state and solution conformation of homooligo(.alpha.-aminoisobutyric acids) from tripeptide to pentapeptide: evidence for a 310 helix

    E. Benedetti;Alfonso Bavoso;B. Di Blasio;V. Pavone

  • SENSITIVE CRITERIA FOR THE CRITICAL SIZE FOR HELIX FORMATION IN OLIGOPEPTIDES

    Murray Goodman;Antonio S. Verdini;Claudio Toniolo;William D. Phillips

  • Stereochemically constrained peptides. Theoretical and experimental studies on the conformations of peptides containing 1-aminocyclohexanecarboxylic acid

    Pkc Paul;M Sukumar;R Bardi;AM Piazzesi

  • Conformational Characterization of Terminally Blocked l-(αMe)Val Homopeptides Using Vibrational and Electronic Circular Dichroism. 310-Helical Stabilization by Peptide−Peptide Interaction

    Gorm Yoder;Alessandra Polese;R. A. G. D. Silva;Fernando Formaggio

  • Dinuclear Zn(2+) complexes of synthetic heptapeptides as artificial nucleases.

    Claudia Sissi;Paola Rossi;Fulvia Felluga;Fernando Formaggio

  • Lipopeptaibols, a novel family of membrane active, antimicrobial peptides.

    C Toniolo;M Crisma;F Formaggio;C Peggion

  • Synthesis, Chiroptical Properties, and Configurational Assignment of Fulleroproline Derivatives and Peptides

    Alberto Bianco;Michele Maggini;Gianfranco Scorrano;Claudio Toniolo

  • Solid-state infrared absorption spectra and chain arrangement in some synthetic homooligopeptides in the intermolecularly hydrogen-bonded pleated-sheet β-conformation

    Claudio Toniolo;Manlio Palumbo

  • Synthesis of Peptides and Peptidomimetics

    Murray Goodman;Arthur Felix;Luis Moroder;Claudio Toniolo

Frequent Co-Authors

Fernando Formaggio
Fernando Formaggio University of Padua
Marco Crisma
Marco Crisma University of Padua
Luis Moroder
Luis Moroder Max Planck Society
Ettore Benedetti
Ettore Benedetti University of Naples Federico II
Carlo Pedone
Carlo Pedone University of Naples Federico II
Vincenzo Pavone
Vincenzo Pavone University of Naples Federico II
Michele Maggini
Michele Maggini University of Padua
Hans E. Schoemaker
Hans E. Schoemaker DSM (Netherlands)
Timothy A. Keiderling
Timothy A. Keiderling University of Illinois at Chicago
Padmanabhan Balaram
Padmanabhan Balaram Indian Institute of Science

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