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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Piero A. Temussi is affiliated with the University of Naples Federico II in Italy. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology, and Physiology. Temussi's work focuses on key topics such as Protein Structure and Dynamics, Enzyme Structure and Function, Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, RNA Research and Splicing, Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research, and Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications.

Temussi's recent publications include:

  • Molecular Crowding: The History and Development of a Scientific Paradigm, 2024, Chemical Reviews
  • The Wide World of Coacervates: From the Sea to Neurodegeneration, 2020, Trends in Biochemical Sciences
  • Why does the Aβ peptide of Alzheimer share structural similarity with antimicrobial peptides?, 2020, Communications Biology
  • RNA as the stone guest of protein aggregation, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Quantifying the thermodynamics of protein unfolding using 2D NMR spectroscopy, 2020, Communications Chemistry

Frequent co-authors with whom Temussi has collaborated include Annalisa Pastore, Rita Puglisi, Caterina Alfano, Stephen R. Martin, and Lawrence Rajendran.

Temussi's works have been published repeatedly in several key venues, including Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Chemical Reviews, Communications Chemistry, and the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In addition to journal articles, Temussi contributed to book publications, notably a work titled Insights in Structural Biology: 2021, published by Frontiers Media in 2022.

The scientific contributions of Temussi have been recognized by being elected as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Solution structure of the Alzheimer amyloid beta-peptide (1-42) in an apolar microenvironment. Similarity with a virus fusion domain.

    Orlando Crescenzi;Simona Tomaselli;Remo Guerrini;Severo Salvadori

  • The α-to-β Conformational Transition of Alzheimer's Aβ-(1–42) Peptide in Aqueous Media is Reversible: A Step by Step Conformational Analysis Suggests the Location of β Conformation Seeding

    Simona Tomaselli;Veronica Esposito;Paolo Vangone;Nico A. J. van Nuland;Nico A. J. van Nuland

  • Address and message sequences for the nociceptin receptor: a structure-activity study of nociceptin-(1-13)-peptide amide.

    Remo Guerrini;Girolamo Calo;Anna Rizzi;Clementina Bianchi

  • From Alzheimer to Huntington: why is a structural understanding so difficult?

    Piero Andrea Temussi;Laura Masino;Annalisa Pastore

  • Unbiased Cold Denaturation: Low- and High-Temperature Unfolding of Yeast Frataxin under Physiological Conditions

    Annalisa Pastore;Stephen R. Martin;Anastasia Politou;Kalyan C. Kondapalli

  • Why are sweet proteins sweet? Interaction of brazzein, monellin and thaumatin with the T1R2-T1R3 receptor

    Piero Andrea Temussi

  • The good taste of peptides

    Piero A. Temussi

  • From Small Sweeteners to Sweet Proteins: Anatomy of the Binding Sites of the Human T1R2_T1R3 Receptor

    Gabriella Morini;and Angela Bassoli;Piero A. Temussi

  • Crystal structure of syndiotactic polypropylene

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  • Delta opioidmimetic antagonists: prototypes for designing a new generation of ultraselective opioid peptides.

    S Salvadori;M Attila;G Balboni;C Bianchi

  • Solution structure of the bacterial frataxin ortholog, CyaY: mapping the iron binding sites.

    Margie Nair;Salvatore Adinolfi;Chiara Pastore;Geoff Kelly

  • Sweet, bitter and umami receptors: a complex relationship.

    Piero Andrea Temussi

  • Molecular Crowding: The History and Development of a Scientific Paradigm

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  • Selective Opioid Dipeptides

    P.A. Temussi;S. Salvadori;P. Amodeo;C. Bianchi

  • Natural sweet macromolecules: how sweet proteins work.

    P. A. Temussi

  • THREE-DIMENSIONAL MAPPING OF THE SWEET TASTE RECEPTOR SITE

    P. A. Temussi;F. Lelj;T. Tancredi

  • Three-dimensional mapping of the sweet taste receptor site.

    Piero A. Temussi;Francesco Lelj;Teodorico Tancredi

  • NMR Studies of Prebiotic Polypeptides

    Salvatore Andini;Ettore Benedetti;Luciano Ferrara;Livio Paolillo

  • Protein stability in nanocages: a novel approach for influencing protein stability by molecular confinement.

    Dimos Bolis;Anastasia S. Politou;Geoff Kelly;Annalisa Pastore

  • Macromolecular crowding: chemistry and physics meet biology (Ascona, Switzerland, 10-14 June 2012).

    G Foffi;A Pastore;F Piazza;P A Temussi

  • Cold Denaturation of Yeast Frataxin Offers the Clue to Understand the Effect of Alcohols on Protein Stability

    Stephen R. Martin;Veronica Esposito;Paolo De Los Rios;Annalisa Pastore

  • Conformational preferences of [Leu5]enkephalin in biomimetic media. Investigation by 1H NMR.

    Delia Picone;Annamaria D'ursi;Andrea Motta;Teodorico Tancredi

  • Bioactive peptides: solid-state and solution conformation of cyclolinopeptide A

    Benedetto Di Blasio;Filomena Rossi;Ettore Benedetti;Vincenzo Pavone

  • Interaction of sweet proteins with their receptor. A conformational study of peptides corresponding to loops of brazzein, monellin and thaumatin.

    Teodorico Tancredi;Annalisa Pastore;Severo Salvadori;Veronica Esposito

Frequent Co-Authors

Annalisa Pastore
Annalisa Pastore King's College London
Severo Salvadori
Severo Salvadori University of Ferrara
Remo Guerrini
Remo Guerrini University of Ferrara
Andrea Motta
Andrea Motta National Research Council (CNR)
Lawrence H. Lazarus
Lawrence H. Lazarus National Institutes of Health
Clemente Capasso
Clemente Capasso National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Stephen R. Martin
Stephen R. Martin The Francis Crick Institute
Ettore Benedetti
Ettore Benedetti University of Naples Federico II
Claudio Toniolo
Claudio Toniolo University of Padua
Gian Gaetano Tartaglia
Gian Gaetano Tartaglia Italian Institute of Technology

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