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Overview

Clemencia Pinilla is affiliated with Florida International University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields of study, with a primary focus on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work also frequently addresses subfields including Molecular Biology, Immunology, Organic Chemistry, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, as well as Endocrine and Autonomic Systems.

Pinilla's scientific contributions cover a variety of topics, particularly in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis, Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research, Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research, Regulation of Appetite and Obesity, Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, and Immune Cell Function and Interaction.

Their publication record includes several papers, with notable recent works as follows:

  • "The value of antimicrobial peptides in the age of resistance," 2020, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • "CD4+ T cells in the lungs of acute sarcoidosis patients recognize an Aspergillus nidulans epitope," 2021, The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • "Ag-driven CD8+ T cell clonal expansion is a prominent feature of MASH in humans and mice," 2024, Hepatology
  • "Restoring susceptibility to aminoglycosides: identifying small molecule inhibitors of enzymatic inactivation," 2023, RSC Medicinal Chemistry
  • "Beryllium-specific CD4+ T cells induced by chemokine neoantigens perpetuate inflammation," 2021, Journal of Clinical Investigation

Clemencia Pinilla has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, including Radleigh G. Santos, Marc A. Giulianotti, Travis LaVoi, Haley M. Donow, and Richard A. Houghten.

The venues where Pinilla regularly publishes research include:

  • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • Hepatology

Best Publications

  • Generation and use of synthetic peptide combinatorial libraries for basic research and drug discovery

    Richard A. Houghten;Clemencia Pinilla;Sylvie E. Blondelle;Jon R. Appel

  • The value of antimicrobial peptides in the age of resistance

    Maria Magana;Muthuirulan Pushpanathan;Ana L Santos;Leon Leanse

  • Small-molecule antagonists of apoptosis suppressor XIAP exhibit broad antitumor activity.

    Aaron D. Schimmer;Kate Welsh;Clemencia Pinilla;Zhiliang Wang

  • Decreased specific CD8+ T cell cross‐reactivity of antigen recognition following vaccination with Melan‐A peptide

    Victor Appay;Victor Appay;Daniel E. Speiser;Nathalie Rufer;Severine Reynard

  • Memory B Cells Activate Brain-Homing, Autoreactive CD4+ T Cells in Multiple Sclerosis.

    Ivan Jelcic;Faiez Al Nimer;Faiez Al Nimer;Jian Wang;Verena Lentsch

  • Rapid identification of high affinity peptide ligands using positional scanning synthetic peptide combinatorial libraries.

    C Pinilla;J R Appel;P Blanc;R A Houghten

  • A conformational transition at the N terminus of the prion protein features in formation of the scrapie isoform.

    D Peretz;R A Williamson;Y Matsunaga;H Serban

  • How the T cell repertoire becomes peptide and MHC specific.

    Eric S. Huseby;Janice White;Frances Crawford;Tibor Vass

  • Quantitative peptide binding motifs for 19 human and mouse MHC class I molecules derived using positional scanning combinatorial peptide libraries.

    John Sidney;Erika Assarsson;Carrie Moore;Sandy Ngo

  • The use of synthetic peptide combinatorial libraries for the identification of bioactive peptides.

    Houghten Ra;Appel;Blondelle Se;Cuervo Jh

  • Mapping the Prion Protein Using Recombinant Antibodies

    R. Anthony Williamson;David Peretz;Clemencia Pinilla;Hadyn Ball

  • Increased expression of apoptosis inhibitor protein XIAP contributes to anoikis resistance of circulating human prostate cancer metastasis precursor cells.

    Olga Berezovskaya;Aaron D. Schimmer;Anna B. Glinskii;Clemencia Pinilla

  • Mixture-based synthetic combinatorial libraries.

    Richard A. Houghten;Clemencia Pinilla;Jon R. Appel;Sylvie E. Blondelle

  • Towards a consensus on datasets and evaluation metrics for developing B-cell epitope prediction tools

    Jason A. Greenbaum;Pernille Haste Andersen;Martin Blythe;Huynh-Hoa Bui

  • Identification of MHC class II-restricted peptide ligands, including a glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 sequence, that stimulate diabetogenic T cells from transgenic BDC2.5 nonobese diabetic mice.

    Valeria Judkowski;Clemencia Pinilla;Kim Schroder;Lee Tucker

  • Identification of candidate T-cell epitopes and molecular mimics in chronic Lyme disease.

    Bernhard Hemmer;Bruno Gran;Yingdong Zhao;Adriana Marques

  • Polyspecificity of T cell and B cell receptor recognition

    Kai W. Wucherpfennig;Paul M. Allen;Franco Celada;Irun R. Cohen

  • Derivation of an amino acid similarity matrix for peptide:MHC binding and its application as a Bayesian prior

    Yohan Kim;John Sidney;Clemencia Pinilla;Alessandro Sette

  • A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Phase II Trial of Dendritic Cell Vaccine ICT-107 in Newly Diagnosed Patients with Glioblastoma.

    Patrick Y. Wen;David A. Reardon;Terri S. Armstrong;Surasak Phuphanich

  • Probing degeneracy in T-cell recognition using peptide combinatorial libraries

    Bernhard Hemmer;Marco Vergelli;Clemencia Pinilla;Richard Houghten

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard A. Houghten
Richard A. Houghten Florida International University
Roland Martin
Roland Martin University of Zurich
Richard Simon
Richard Simon University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John C. Reed
John C. Reed Johnson & Johnson (United States)
Bernhard Hemmer
Bernhard Hemmer Technical University of Munich
Darcy B. Wilson
Darcy B. Wilson Torrey Pines Institute For Molecular Studies
José L. Medina-Franco
José L. Medina-Franco National Autonomous University of Mexico
Bruno Gran
Bruno Gran University of Nottingham
Danila Valmori
Danila Valmori University of Nantes
John Yu
John Yu Memorial Hospital of South Bend

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