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Microbiology

D-Index
52
Citations
8561
World Ranking
4238
National Ranking
1639

Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Best Publications

  • Ergosterol Biosynthesis Inhibitors Become Fungicidal when Combined with Calcineurin Inhibitors against Candida albicans, Candida glabrata, and Candida krusei

    Chiatogu Onyewu;Jill R. Blankenship;Maurizio Del Poeta;Joseph Heitman

  • Structure-In Vitro Activity Relationships of Pentamidine Analogues and Dication-Substituted Bis-Benzimidazoles as New Antifungal Agents

    Maurizio Del Poeta;Wiley A. Schell;Christine C. Dykstra;Susan Jones

  • Synergistic Antifungal Activities of Bafilomycin A1, Fluconazole, and the Pneumocandin MK-0991/Caspofungin Acetate (L-743,873) with Calcineurin Inhibitors FK506 and L-685,818 against Cryptococcus neoformans

    M Del Poeta;M C Cruz;M E Cardenas;J R Perfect

  • Role of Sphingolipids in Microbial Pathogenesis

    Unknown

  • In vitro antifungal activity of pneumocandin L-743,872 against a variety of clinically important molds.

    M Del Poeta;W A Schell;J R Perfect

  • Immunosuppressive and Nonimmunosuppressive Cyclosporine Analogs Are Toxic to the Opportunistic Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans via Cyclophilin-Dependent Inhibition of Calcineurin

    M. C. Cruz;M. Del Poeta;Ping Wang;R. Wenger

  • Rapamycin and less immunosuppressive analogs are toxic to Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans via FKBP12-dependent inhibition of TOR.

    M. Cristina Cruz;Alan L. Goldstein;Jill Blankenship;Maurizio Del Poeta

  • The immunosuppressant FK506 and its nonimmunosuppressive analog L-685,818 are toxic to Cryptococcus neoformans by inhibition of a common target protein.

    A Odom;M Del Poeta;J Perfect;J Heitman

  • Roles for inositol-phosphoryl ceramide synthase 1 (IPC1) in pathogenesis of C. neoformans

    Chiara Luberto;Dena L. Toffaletti;Elizabeth A. Wills;Stephanie C. Tucker

  • Identification of App1 as a regulator of phagocytosis and virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans

    Chiara Luberto;Beatriz Martinez-Mariño;Daniel Taraskiewicz;Benjamin Bolaños

  • Role of phagocytosis in the virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans.

    Unknown

  • Depletion of alveolar macrophages decreases the dissemination of a glucosylceramide-deficient mutant of Cryptococcus neoformans in immunodeficient mice.

    Unknown

  • Antifungal Activities of Antineoplastic Agents:Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a Model System To Study Drug Action

    Maria E. Cardenas;M. Cristina Cruz;Maurizio Del Poeta;Namjin Chung

  • The Cryptococcal Enzyme Inositol Phosphosphingolipid-Phospholipase C Confers Resistance to the Antifungal Effects of Macrophages and Promotes Fungal Dissemination to the Central Nervous System

    Unknown

  • Plasma membrane lipids and their role in fungal virulence

    Unknown

  • Identification of a New Class of Antifungals Targeting the Synthesis of Fungal Sphingolipids

    Visesato Mor;Antonella Rella;Amir M. Farnoud;Ashutosh Singh

  • Potential Roles of Fungal Extracellular Vesicles during Infection.

    Luna S. Joffe;Luna S. Joffe;Leonardo Nimrichter;Marcio L. Rodrigues;Marcio L. Rodrigues;Maurizio Del Poeta;Maurizio Del Poeta

  • Sphingomyelin synthases regulate production of diacylglycerol at the Golgi.

    Unknown

  • In Vitro Antifungal Activities of a Series of Dication-Substituted Carbazoles, Furans, and Benzimidazoles

    Maurizio Del Poeta;Wiley A. Schell;Christine C. Dykstra;Susan K. Jones

  • Synthesis and Biological Properties of Fungal Glucosylceramide

    Maurizio Del Poeta;Leonardo Nimrichter;Marcio L. Rodrigues;Chiara Luberto

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcio L. Rodrigues
Marcio L. Rodrigues Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
John R. Perfect
John R. Perfect Duke University
Iwao Ojima
Iwao Ojima Stony Brook University
Leonardo Nimrichter
Leonardo Nimrichter Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Yusuf A. Hannun
Yusuf A. Hannun Stony Brook University
Joseph Heitman
Joseph Heitman Duke University
Arturo Casadevall
Arturo Casadevall Johns Hopkins University
Gustavo H. Goldman
Gustavo H. Goldman Universidade de São Paulo
Erwin London
Erwin London Stony Brook University
Giulia Morace
Giulia Morace University of Milan

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