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2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
98
Citations
30303
World Ranking
1414
National Ranking
25

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Italy Leader Award
  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 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

Lucia Banci is affiliated with the University of Florence in Italy and focuses on research primarily within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their scholarly work includes 89 publications in this main discipline and spans several subfields such as Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Spectroscopy, Materials Chemistry, and Inorganic Chemistry.

Their research encompasses multiple topics with particular emphasis on Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins, Protein Structure and Dynamics, Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications, Enzyme Structure and Function, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, ATP Synthase and ATPases Research, and Enzyme function and inhibition.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Enrico Luchinat, Letizia Barbieri, Francesca Cantini, Francesca Camponeschi, and Simone Ciofi-Baffoni.

Banci's work has been published in various scientific venues, with repeated appearances in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Biomolecular NMR Assignments, Journal of Biomolecular NMR, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Lucia Banci are:

  • Protein in-cell NMR spectroscopy at 1.2 GHz, 2021, Journal of Biomolecular NMR
  • Drug Screening in Human Cells by NMR Spectroscopy Allows the Early Assessment of Drug Potency, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Real-Time Quantitative In-Cell NMR: Ligand Binding and Protein Oxidation Monitored in Human Cells Using Multivariate Curve Resolution, 2020, Analytical Chemistry
  • Direct Expression of Fluorinated Proteins in Human Cells for 19F In-Cell NMR Spectroscopy, 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The FDA-Approved Antiviral Raltegravir Inhibits Fascin1-Dependent Invasion of Colorectal Tumor Cells In Vitro and In Vivo, 2021, Cancers

Lucia Banci has been recognized as a member of Academia Europaea since 2014 and holds membership in the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Counting the zinc-proteins encoded in the human genome.

    Claudia Andreini;Lucia Banci;Ivano Bertini;Antonio Rosato

  • Zinc through the three domains of life.

    Claudia Andreini;Lucia Banci;Ivano Bertini;Antonio Rosato

  • Opposing cardioprotective actions and parallel hypertrophic effects of δPKC and ɛPKC

    Leon Chen;Harvey Hahn;Guangyu Wu;Che Hong Chen

  • Nuclear and Electron Relaxation: The Magnetic Nucleus-Unpaired Electron Coupling in Solution

    Lucia Banci;Ivano Bertini;Claudio Luchinat

  • Affinity gradients drive copper to cellular destinations

    Lucia Banci;Ivano Bertini;Simone Ciofi-Baffoni;Tatiana Kozyreva

  • Faster superoxide dismutase mutants designed by enhancing electrostatic guidance

    Elizabeth D. Getzoff;Diane E. Cabelli;Cindy L. Fisher;Hans E. Parge

  • Metallochaperones and metal-transporting ATPases: a comparative analysis of sequences and structures.

    Fabio Arnesano;Lucia Banci;Ivano Bertini;Simone Ciofi-Baffoni

  • The Unusually Stable Quaternary Structure of Human Cu,Zn-Superoxide Dismutase 1 Is Controlled by Both Metal Occupancy and Disulfide Status

    Fabio Arnesano;Lucia Banci;Ivano Bertini;Manuele Martinelli

  • Solution structure of oxidized horse heart cytochrome c.

    Lucia Banci;Ivano Bertini;Harry B. Gray;Claudio Luchinat

  • High-resolution NMR studies of the zinc-binding site of the Alzheimer's amyloid β-peptide

    Jens Danielsson;Roberta Pierattelli;Lucia Banci;Astrid Gräslund

  • MIA40 is an oxidoreductase that catalyzes oxidative protein folding in mitochondria

    Lucia Banci;Ivano Bertini;Chiara Cefaro;Simone Ciofi-Baffoni

  • Structural properties of peroxidases

    Lucia Banci

  • Metal-free superoxide dismutase forms soluble oligomers under physiological conditions: A possible general mechanism for familial ALS

    Lucia Banci;Ivano Bertini;Armando Durazo;Stefania Girotto

  • MetalPDB in 2018: a database of metal sites in biological macromolecular structures

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  • Spectral-structural correlations in high-spin cobalt(II) complexes

    Lucia Banci;Alessandro Bencini;Cristiano Benelli;Dante Gatteschi

  • SOD1 and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Mutations and Oligomerization

    Lucia Banci;Ivano Bertini;Mirela Boca;Stefania Girotto

  • Occurrence of Copper Proteins through the Three Domains of Life: A Bioinformatic Approach

    Claudia Andreini;Lucia Banci;Ivano Bertini;Antonio Rosato

  • The Atx1-Ccc2 complex is a metal-mediated protein-protein interaction.

    Lucia Banci;Ivano Bertini;Francesca Cantini;Isabella C Felli

  • Atomic-resolution monitoring of protein maturation in live human cells by NMR

    Lucia Banci;Letizia Barbieri;Ivano Bertini;Enrico Luchinat

  • Nuclear and electron relaxation

    L. Banci

  • SOLUTION STRUCTURE OF OXIDIZED HORSE HEART CYTOCHROME C, NMR, MINIMIZED AVERAGE STRUCTURE

    L. Banci;I. Bertini;H.B. Gray;C. Luchinat

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivano Bertini
Ivano Bertini University of Florence
Simone Ciofi-Baffoni
Simone Ciofi-Baffoni University of Florence
Claudio Luchinat
Claudio Luchinat University of Florence
Paola Turano
Paola Turano University of Florence
Dante Gatteschi
Dante Gatteschi University of Florence
Roberta Pierattelli
Roberta Pierattelli University of Florence
Stefano Mangani
Stefano Mangani University of Siena
Isabella C. Felli
Isabella C. Felli University of Florence
Cristiano Benelli
Cristiano Benelli University of Florence
Ming Tien
Ming Tien Pennsylvania State University

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