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  • 2007 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Sándor Pongor is affiliated with Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Hungary. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. The scientist's work addresses various subfields, including molecular biology, infectious diseases, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, biotechnology, and molecular medicine.

Their research topics prominently feature:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
  • Vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research
  • Exercise and Physiological Responses

Sándor Pongor has published in several scientific venues including Database, Scientific Reports, Genes, Frontiers in Chemistry, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Their recent papers include:

  • "COVIDOUTCOME-estimating COVID severity based on mutation signatures in the SARS-CoV-2 genome," 2021, Database
  • "The influence of antibiotics on transitory resistome during gut colonization with CTX-M-15 and OXA-162 producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST15," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "COVID-19 Infection Alters the Microbiome: Elite Athletes and Sedentary Patients Have Similar Bacterial Flora," 2021, Genes
  • "Structure and Oxidative Folding of AAI, the Major Alfa-Amylase Inhibitor From Amaranth Seeds," 2020, Frontiers in Chemistry
  • "COVIDOUTCOME - Estimating COVID Severity Based on Mutation Signatures in the SARS-CoV-2 Genome," 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Balázs Ligeti, Ádám Nagy, János Szebeni, Balázs Győrffy, and János Juhász. These coauthors have contributed multiple times to projects and publications alongside Sándor Pongor.

The scientist has been recognized with membership in Academia Europaea since 2007, indicating a standing within the European academic community. Their work integrates computational approaches and experimental studies, particularly in efforts to understand infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and antibiotic resistance mechanisms in bacteria.

Best Publications

  • The efficiency of multi-target drugs: the network approach might help drug design.

    Péter Csermely;Vilmos Ágoston;Sándor Pongor

  • Aging of proteins: isolation and identification of a fluorescent chromophore from the reaction of polypeptides with glucose.

    S Pongor;P C Ulrich;F A Bencsath;A Cerami

  • A normalized root-mean-spuare distance for comparing protein three-dimensional structures

    Oliviero Carugo;Sándor Pongor

  • Sequence-dependent bending propensity of DNA as revealed by DNase I: parameters for trinucleotides.

    I Brukner;R Sánchez;D Suck;S Pongor

  • Nuclear architecture dictates HIV-1 integration site selection

    Bruna Marini;Attila Kertesz-Farkas;Hashim Ali;Bojana Lucic;Bojana Lucic

  • The quest for orthologs: finding the corresponding gene across genomes.

    Arnold Kuzniar;Roeland C.H.J. van Ham;Sándor Pongor;Jack A.M. Leunissen

  • Cell cycle phase specificity of putative cyclin-dependent kinase variants in synchronized alfalfa cells.

    Zoltan Magyar;Tamas Meszaros;Pal Miskolczi;Maria Deak

  • Exercise and probiotics attenuate the development of Alzheimer's disease in transgenic mice: Role of microbiome

    Dora Abraham;Janos Feher;Gian Luca Scuderi;Dora Szabo

  • Plant growth-promoting Pseudomonas putida WCS358 produces and secretes four cyclic dipeptides: cross-talk with quorum sensing bacterial sensors.

    Giuliano Degrassi;Claudio Aguilar;Marco Bosco;Sotir Zahariev

  • Covalent attachment of soluble proteins by nonenzymatically glycosylated collagen. Role in the in situ formation of immune complexes.

    Michael Brownlee;Sandor Pongor;Anthony Cerami

  • Sharing of quorum-sensing signals and role of interspecies communities in a bacterial plant disease

    Taha Hosni;Chiaraluce Moretti;Giulia Devescovi;Zulma Rocio Suarez-Moreno

  • CX, an algorithm that identifies protruding atoms in proteins.

    Alessandro Pintar;Oliviero Carugo;Sándor Pongor

  • DNA analysis servers: plot.it, bend.it, model.it and IS

    Kristian Vlahoviček;László Kaján;Sándor Pongor

  • Rod models of DNA: sequence-dependent anisotropic elastic modelling of local bending phenomena

    Mircea G. Munteanu;Kristian Vlahovicek;Subbiah Parthasarathy;István Simon

  • Physiological concentration of magnesium ions induces a strong macroscopic curvature in GGGCCC-containing DNA.

    Ivan Brukner;Slavoljub Susic;Mensur Dlakic;Ana Savic

  • ROC analysis

    Paolo Sonego;András Kocsor;Sándor Pongor

  • Different mutations in SARS-CoV-2 associate with severe and mild outcome.

    Ádám Nagy;Sándor Pongor;Balázs Győrffy

  • Multiple weak hits confuse complex systems: a transcriptional regulatory network as an example.

    Vilmos Agoston;Péter Csermely;Sándor Pongor

  • Fragmentation pathways of NG-methylated and unmodified arginine residues in peptides studied by ESI-MS/MS and MALDI-MS

    Peter M. Gehrig;Peter E. Hunziker;Sotir Zahariev;Sándor Pongor

  • A novel alpha-amylase inhibitor from amaranth (Amaranthus hypocondriacus) seeds.

    Alicia Chagolla-Lopez;Alejandro Blanco-Labra;A. Pátthy;Roberto Sánchez

Frequent Co-Authors

Vittorio Venturi
Vittorio Venturi International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
Frank Eisenhaber
Frank Eisenhaber Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Anthony Cerami
Anthony Cerami Araim Pharmaceuticals (United States)
András Perczel
András Perczel Eötvös Loránd University
M. Michael Gromiha
M. Michael Gromiha Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Tamas Bartfai
Tamas Bartfai Stockholm University
Alessandro Tossi
Alessandro Tossi University of Trieste
Péter Csermely
Péter Csermely Semmelweis University
István Simon
István Simon Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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