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Fabrizio Manetti

Fabrizio Manetti

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57
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8088
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11414
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366

Overview

Fabrizio Manetti is affiliated with the University of Siena in Italy, where they contribute extensively to research in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans several specialized subfields, including molecular biology, organic chemistry, infectious diseases, pharmacology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist's research topics focus on areas such as synthesis and biological activity, cannabis and cannabinoid research, receptor mechanisms and signaling, tuberculosis research and epidemiology, hedgehog signaling pathway studies, cancer therapeutics and mechanisms, and pancreatic function and diabetes.

Frequent publication venues for Fabrizio Manetti include ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters and European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, each hosting four of their works. Other notable venues where Manetti has published are Phytotherapy Research, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry, all with three publications each.

Manetti's five recent papers cover a range of significant biomedical topics:

  • ST3GAL1 is a target of the SOX2-GLI1 transcriptional complex and promotes melanoma metastasis through AXL (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Proteomic analysis identifies the RNA helicase DDX3X as a host target against SARS-CoV-2 infection (2021, Antiviral Research)
  • Survey on the Recent Advances in 4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate Dioxygenase (HPPD) Inhibition by Diketone and Triketone Derivatives and Congeneric Compounds: Structural Analysis of HPPD/Inhibitor Complexes and Structure-Activity Relationship Considerations (2022, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry)
  • Cannabidiol Isolated From Cannabis sativa L. Protects Intestinal Barrier From In Vitro Inflammation and Oxidative Stress (2021, Frontiers in Pharmacology)
  • Targeting non-canonical activation of GLI1 by the SOX2-BRD4 transcriptional complex improves the efficacy of HEDGEHOG pathway inhibition in melanoma (2021, Oncogene)

Manetti collaborates regularly with several researchers. Frequent co-authors include Paolo Governa, Elena Petricci, Vittoria Borgonetti, Marco Biagi, and Nicoletta Galeotti.

Best Publications

  • MmpL3 Is the Cellular Target of the Antitubercular Pyrrole Derivative BM212

    Valentina La Rosa;Giovanna Poce;Julio Ortiz Canseco;Silvia Buroni

  • Synthesis, biological evaluation, and SAR study of novel pyrazole analogues as inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: part 2. Synthesis of rigid pyrazolones.

    Daniele Castagnolo;Fabrizio Manetti;Marco Radi;Beatrice Bechi

  • Synthesis, biological evaluation, and pharmacophore generation of new pyridazinone derivatives with affinity toward alpha(1)- and alpha(2)-adrenoceptors.

    Roberta Barbaro;Laura Betti;Maurizio Botta;Federico Corelli

  • Synthesis, biological evaluation and SAR study of novel pyrazole analogues as inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Daniele Castagnolo;Alessandro De Logu;Marco Radi;Beatrice Bechi

  • Antimycobacterial agents. Novel diarylpyrrole derivatives of BM212 endowed with high activity toward Mycobacterium tuberculosis and low cytotoxicity.

    Mariangela Biava;Giulio Cesare Porretta;Giovanna Poce;Sibilla Supino

  • LIM kinases are attractive targets with many macromolecular partners and only a few small molecule regulators

    Fabrizio Manetti

  • Antimycobacterial compounds. New pyrrole derivatives of BM212

    Mariangela Biava;Giulio Cesare Porretta;Delia Deidda;Raffaello Pompei

  • Fibroblast growth factors and their inhibitors.

    Fabrizio Manetti;Federico Corelli;Maurizio Botta

  • Improved BM212 MmpL3 inhibitor analogue shows efficacy in acute murine model of tuberculosis infection.

    Giovanna Poce;Robert H. Bates;Salvatore Alfonso;Martina Cocozza

  • New pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines endowed with A431 antiproliferative activity and inhibitory properties of Src phosphorylation

    Silvia Schenone;Olga Bruno;Angelo Ranise;Francesco Bondavalli

  • Pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines as potent antiproliferative and proapoptotic agents toward A431 and 8701-BC cells in culture via inhibition of c-Src phosphorylation.

    Fabio Carraro;Antonella Naldini;Annalisa Pucci;Giada A. Locatelli

  • Importance of the thiomorpholine introduction in new pyrrole derivatives as antimycobacterial agents analogues of BM 212.

    Mariangela Biava;Giulio Cesare Porretta;Delia Deidda;Raffaello Pompei

  • 1,5-Diphenylpyrrole derivatives as antimycobacterial agents. Probing the influence on antimycobacterial activity of lipophilic substituents at the phenyl rings.

    Mariangela Biava;Giulio Cesare Porretta;Giovanna Poce;Alessandro De Logu

  • Toward the discovery of novel anti-HIV drugs. Second-generation inhibitors of the cellular ATPase DDX3 with improved anti-HIV activity: synthesis, structure-activity relationship analysis, cytotoxicity studies, and target validation.

    Giovanni Maga;Federico Falchi;Marco Radi;Lorenzo Botta

  • Acylthiourea, acylurea, and acylguanidine derivatives with potent hedgehog inhibiting activity.

    Antonio Solinas;Hélène Faure;Hermine Roudaut;Elisabeth Traiffort

  • Identification of a novel pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidine able to inhibit cell proliferation of a human osteogenic sarcoma in vitro and in a xenograft model in mice.

    Fabrizio Manetti;Annalisa Santucci;Giada A. Locatelli;Giovanni Maga

  • Antifungal agents. 10. New derivatives of 1-[(aryl)[4-aryl-1H-pyrrol-3-yl]methyl]-1H-imidazole, synthesis, anti-candida activity, and quantitative structure-analysis relationship studies.

    Andrea Tafi;Roberta Costi;Maurizio Botta;Roberto Di Santo

  • Synthesis and evaluation of new Hsp90 inhibitors based on a 1,4,5-trisubstituted 1,2,3-triazole scaffold

    Maurizio Taddei;Serena Ferrini;Luca Giannotti;Massimo Corsi

  • Computational comparison of microtubule-stabilising agents laulimalide and peloruside with taxol and colchicine.

    Oriol Pineda;Jaume Farràs;Laura Maccari;Fabrizio Manetti

  • 4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate Dioxygenase and Its Inhibition in Plants and Animals: Small Molecules as Herbicides and Agents for the Treatment of Human Inherited Diseases

    Annalisa Santucci;Giulia Bernardini;Daniela Braconi;Elena Petricci

  • Discovery of the first small molecule inhibitor of human DDX3 specifically designed to target the RNA binding site: Towards the next generation HIV-1 inhibitors

    Marco Radi;Federico Falchi;Anna Garbelli;Alberta Samuele

  • Synthesis, biological evaluation and docking studies of 4-amino substituted 1H-pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines.

    Silvia Schenone;Chiara Brullo;Olga Bruno;Francesco Bondavalli

Frequent Co-Authors

Maurizio Botta
Maurizio Botta University of Siena
Silvia Schenone
Silvia Schenone University of Genoa
Giovanni Maga
Giovanni Maga National Research Council (CNR)
Maurizio Taddei
Maurizio Taddei University of Siena
Martial Ruat
Martial Ruat Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Annalisa Santucci
Annalisa Santucci University of Siena
José A. Esté
José A. Esté Autonomous University of Barcelona
Elisabeth Traiffort
Elisabeth Traiffort Inserm : Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
Lidia Sautebin
Lidia Sautebin University of Naples Federico II
Claudia Martini
Claudia Martini University of Pisa

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