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Roberta Pierattelli

Roberta Pierattelli

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Chemistry

D-Index
50
Citations
8069
World Ranking
14488
National Ranking
502

Overview

Roberta Pierattelli is affiliated with the University of Florence in Italy. Their research predominantly focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a specialization in molecular biology, spectroscopy, and materials chemistry, alongside work in infectious diseases and biophysics.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, including:

  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Electron Spin Resonance Studies
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods

Roberta Pierattelli has published extensively in several notable scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Biomolecules
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Scientific Reports

Their recent papers demonstrate a range of biochemistry and structural biology topics. Selected recent publications are:

  • Small-molecule sequestration of amyloid-β as a drug discovery strategy for Alzheimer's disease, 2020, Science Advances
  • 13C Direct Detected NMR for Challenging Systems, 2022, Chemical Reviews
  • PED in 2024: improving the community deposition of structural ensembles for intrinsically disordered proteins, 2023, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Large-Scale Recombinant Production of the SARS-CoV-2 Proteome for High-Throughput and Structural Biology Applications, 2021, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
  • Picometer Resolution Structure of the Coordination Sphere in the Metal-Binding Site in a Metalloprotein by NMR, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Collaboration is a significant component of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Isabella C. Felli
  • Marco Schiavina
  • Letizia Pontoriero
  • Maria Grazia Murrali
  • Sonia Longhi

Best Publications

  • NMR spectroscopy of paramagnetic metalloproteins.

    Ivano Bertini;Claudio Luchinat;Giacomo Parigi;Roberta Pierattelli

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

    Jens Danielsson;Roberta Pierattelli;Lucia Banci;Astrid Gräslund

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

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

  • pE-DB: a database of structural ensembles of intrinsically disordered and of unfolded proteins

    Mihaly Varadi;Simone Kosol;Pierre Lebrun;Erica Valentini

  • 13C-detected protonless NMR spectroscopy of proteins in solution

    Wolfgang Bermel;Ivano Bertini;Isabella C. Felli;Mario Piccioli

  • Protonless NMR experiments for sequence-specific assignment of backbone nuclei in unfolded proteins.

    Wolfgang Bermel;Ivano Bertini;Isabella C. Felli;‡ Yong-Min Lee

  • Structure and backbone dynamics of a microcrystalline metalloprotein by solid-state NMR

    Michael J. Knight;Andrew J. Pell;Ivano Bertini;Isabella C. Felli

  • Fast Resonance Assignment and Fold Determination of Human Superoxide Dismutase by High-Resolution Proton-Detected Solid-State MAS NMR Spectroscopy†

    Michael J. Knight;Amy L. Webber;Andrew J. Pell;Paul Guerry

  • Complete Assignment of Heteronuclear Protein Resonances by Protonless NMR Spectroscopy

    Wolfgang Bermel;Ivano Bertini;Luminita Duma;Isabella C. Felli

  • Small-molecule sequestration of amyloid-β as a drug discovery strategy for Alzheimer's disease

    Gabriella T. Heller;Francesco A. Aprile;Francesco A. Aprile;Thomas C. T. Michaels;Thomas C. T. Michaels;Ryan Limbocker

  • Conformational Space of Flexible Biological Macromolecules from Average Data

    Ivano Bertini;Andrea Giachetti;Claudio Luchinat;Giacomo Parigi

  • Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors. Part 37. Novel classes of isozyme I and II inhibitors and their mechanism of action. Kinetic and spectroscopic investigations on native and cobalt-substituted enzymes#

    F Briganti;R Pierattelli;A Scozzafava;CT Supuran

  • Perspectives in paramagnetic NMR of metalloproteins

    Ivano Bertini;Claudio Luchinat;Giacomo Parigi;Roberta Pierattelli

  • 13C direct detection experiments on the paramagnetic oxidized monomeric copper, zinc superoxide dismutase.

    Wolfgang Bermel;Ivano Bertini;Isabella C Felli;Rainer Kümmerle

  • Fast acquisition of multi-dimensional spectra in solid-state NMR enabled by ultra-fast MAS.

    Ségolène Laage;Joseph R. Sachleben;Stefan Steuernagel;Roberta Pierattelli

  • Novel 13C direct detection experiments, including extension to the third dimension, to perform the complete assignment of proteins

    Wolfgang Bermel;Ivano Bertini;Isabella C. Felli;Rainer Kümmerle

  • The crowd you're in with: effects of different types of crowding agents on protein aggregation.

    Leonid Breydo;Krishna D. Reddy;Alessandro Piai;Isabella C. Felli

  • Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy of a Paramagnetic Protein: Assignment and Study of Human Dimeric Oxidized CuII–ZnII Superoxide Dismutase (SOD)

    Guido Pintacuda;Nicolas Giraud;Roberta Pierattelli;Anja Böckmann

  • THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE IN SOLUTION OF THE PARAMAGNETIC HIGH-POTENTIAL IRON-SULFUR PROTEIN I FROM ECTOTHIORHODOSPIRA HALOPHILA THROUGH NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE

    Lucia Banci;Ivano Bertini;Lindsay D. Eltis;Isabella Caterina Felli

  • Side chain to main chain hydrogen bonds stabilize a polyglutamine helix in a transcription factor.

    Albert Escobedo;Busra Topal;Micha B.A. Kunze;Juan Aranda

  • Structural Information through NMR Hyperfine Shifts in Blue Copper Proteins

    Ivano Bertini;Claudio O. Fernández;B. Göran Karlsson;Johan Leckner

Frequent Co-Authors

Isabella C. Felli
Isabella C. Felli University of Florence
Ivano Bertini
Ivano Bertini University of Florence
Wolfgang Bermel
Wolfgang Bermel University of Florence
Lucia Banci
Lucia Banci University of Florence
Claudio Luchinat
Claudio Luchinat University of Florence
Lyndon Emsley
Lyndon Emsley École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Guido Pintacuda
Guido Pintacuda École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Peter Tompa
Peter Tompa Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Giacomo Parigi
Giacomo Parigi University of Florence
Vladimir N. Uversky
Vladimir N. Uversky University of South Florida

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