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D-Index
92
Citations
28942
World Ranking
1893
National Ranking
31

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Italy Leader Award
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1998 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Maurizio Brunori is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with an emphasis also on Medicine. Their publications demonstrate a focus on Molecular Biology, Rheumatology, Cell Biology, Physiology, and Materials Chemistry as subfields of study.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Hemoglobin structure and function
  • Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Spondyloarthritis Studies and Treatments
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide

Recent papers published by Maurizio Brunori include:

  • "Templated folding of intrinsically disordered proteins," 2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • "Hidden kinetic traps in multidomain folding highlight the presence of a misfolded but functionally competent intermediate," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Modulation of Allosteric Control and Evolution of Hemoglobin," 2023, Biomolecules
  • "From Kuru to Alzheimer: A personal outlook," 2021, Protein Science
  • "Control of Oxygen Affinity in Mammalian Hemoglobins: Implications for a System Biology Description of the Respiratory Properties of the Red Blood Cell," 2020, Current Protein and Peptide Science

Frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated extensively include:

  • Stefano Gianni
  • Angelo Toto
  • Francesca Malagrinò
  • Sven Richter
  • Laura C. Coates

The venues where Maurizio Brunori has most frequently published are:

  • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Biology Direct
  • Molecular Aspects of Medicine
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Biomolecules

Maurizio Brunori has been recognized through election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006 and membership in Academia Europaea since 1998.

Best Publications

  • Nitric oxide moves myoglobin centre stage.

    Maurizio Brunori

  • Neuroglobin, nitric oxide, and oxygen: Functional pathways and conformational changes

    Maurizio Brunori;Alessandro Giuffrè;Karin Nienhaus;G. Ulrich Nienhaus

  • Molecular adaptation to physiological requirements: the hemoglobin system of trout.

    Maurizio Brunori;Maurizio Brunori

  • Studies on the functional properties of fish hemoglobins: II. The oxygen equilibrium of the isolated hemoglobin components from trout blood

    I Binotti;S Giovenco;Bruno Giardina;E Antonini

  • Stereochemistry of cooperative effects in fish and amphibian haemoglobins

    M. F. Perutz;M. Brunori

  • Nitric oxide, cytochrome-c oxidase and myoglobin

    Maurizio Brunori

  • Inhibition of Schistosoma mansoni thioredoxin-glutathione reductase by auranofin: structural and kinetic aspects.

    Francesco Angelucci;Ahmed A. Sayed;David L. Williams;David L. Williams;Giovanna Boumis

  • Involvement of the hydrophobic patch of azurin in the electron‐transfer reactions with cytochrome c551 and nitrite reductase

    Mart van de Kamp;Maria Chiara Silvestrini;Maurizio Brunori;Jozef Van Beeumen

  • Complex landscape of protein structural dynamics unveiled by nanosecond Laue crystallography.

    Dominique Bourgeois;Beatrice Vallone;Friederich Schotte;Alessandro Arcovito

  • Cavities and packing defects in the structural dynamics of myoglobin

    Maurizio Brunori;Quentin H Gibson

  • Oxygen "pulsed" cytochrome c oxidase: functional properties and catalytic relevance

    Eraldo Antonini;Maurizio Brunori;Alfredo Colosimo;Colin Greenwood

  • A Novel Type of Nitric-oxide Reductase ESCHERICHIA COLI FLAVORUBREDOXIN

    Cláudio M. Gomes;Alessandro Giuffrè;Elena Forte;João B. Vicente

  • The structure of murine neuroglobin: Novel pathways for ligand migration and binding

    Beatrice Vallone;Karin Nienhaus;Maurizio Brunori;G. Ulrich Nienhaus;G. Ulrich Nienhaus

  • The Structure of Carbonmonoxy Neuroglobin Reveals a Heme-Sliding Mechanism for Control of Ligand Affinity

    Beatrice Vallone;Karin Nienhaus;Annemarie Matthes;Maurizio Brunori

  • A re-examination of the reactions of cyanide with cytochrome c oxidase

    M G Jones;D Bickar;M T Wilson;M Brunori

  • STUDIES ON THE OXIDATION-REDUCTION POTENTIALS OF HEME PROTEINS. I. HUMAN HEMOGLOBIN.

    Eraldo Antonini;Jeffries Wyman;Maurizio Brunori;John Fuller Taylor

  • Studies on the Relations between Molecular and Functional Properties of Hemoglobin V. THE INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE ON THE BOHR EFFECT IN HUMAN AND IN HORSE HEMOGLOBIN

    Eraldo Antonini;Jeffries Wyman;Maurizio Brunori;Clara Fronticelli

  • STUDIES ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN MOLECULAR AND FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF HEMOGLOBIN. IV. THE BOHR EFFECT IN HUMAN HEMOGLOBIN MEASURED BY PROTON BINDING.

    Eraldo Antonini;Jeffries Wyman;Maurizio Brunori;Enrico Bucci

  • The heme-copper oxidases of Thermus thermophilus catalyze the reduction of nitric oxide: Evolutionary implications

    Alessandro Giuffrè;Gottfried Stubauer;Paolo Sarti;Maurizio Brunori

  • Formation of Superoxide in the Autoxidation of the Isolated α and β Chains of Human Hemoglobin and Its Involvement in Hemichrome Precipitation

    Maurizio Brunori;Giancarlo Falcioni;Evandro Fioretti;Bruno Giardina

  • Hemoglobin: Structure, function, evolution, and pathology: by R. E. Dickerson and I. Geis, The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, 1983. $29.95 (viii + 176) ISBN 0 805 32411 9

    Maurizio Brunori

Frequent Co-Authors

Eraldo Antonini
Eraldo Antonini Sapienza University of Rome
Paolo Sarti
Paolo Sarti Sapienza University of Rome
Jeffries Wyman
Jeffries Wyman Sapienza University of Rome
Stefano Gianni
Stefano Gianni Sapienza University of Rome
Paolo Ascenzi
Paolo Ascenzi Roma Tre University
Bruno Giardina
Bruno Giardina Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Joseph Bonaventura
Joseph Bonaventura Duke University
Michael T. Wilson
Michael T. Wilson University of Essex
Massimo Coletta
Massimo Coletta University of Rome Tor Vergata
Martino Bolognesi
Martino Bolognesi University of Milan

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