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Alberto Di Donato

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Donadio G, Martino R, Oliva R, Petraccone L, Del Vecchio P, Luccia B, et al.
J Mater Chem B . 2020 Apr; 4(43):6979-6988. PMID: 32263564
A novel metal ion-sensitive fluorescent peptidyl-probe has been designed based on the most common five-residue repeat in mammalian histidine rich glycoproteins (HRGs). A dansyl-amide moiety at the N-terminus and a...
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Bosso A, Di Maro A, Cafaro V, Di Donato A, Notomista E, Pizzo E
Curr Top Med Chem . 2020 Apr; 20(14):1310-1323. PMID: 32223733
Host defence peptides (HDPs) are powerful modulators of cellular responses to various types of insults caused by pathogen agents. To date, a wide range of HDPs, from species of different...
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De Lise F, Mensitieri F, Rusciano G, Dal Piaz F, Forte G, Di Lorenzo F, et al.
J Microbiol . 2019 May; 57(6):498-508. PMID: 31054137
Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) are nanostructures of 20-200 nm diameter deriving from the surface of several Gram-negative bacteria. OMVs are emerging as shuttles involved in several mechanisms of communication and...
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Pane K, Cafaro V, Avitabile A, Torres M, Vollaro A, De Gregorio E, et al.
ACS Synth Biol . 2018 Aug; 7(9):2105-2115. PMID: 30124040
Novel approaches are needed to combat antibiotic resistance. Here, we describe a computational-experimental framework for the discovery of novel cryptic antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). The computational platform, based on previously validated...
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Pizzo E, Pane K, Bosso A, Landi N, Ragucci S, Russo R, et al.
Biochim Biophys Acta Biomembr . 2018 Apr; 1860(7):1425-1435. PMID: 29684330
Antimicrobial peptides, also called Host Defence Peptides (HDPs), are effectors of innate immune response found in all living organisms. In a previous report, we have identified by chemical fragmentation, and...
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Mensitieri F, De Lise F, Strazzulli A, Moracci M, Notomista E, Cafaro V, et al.
Arch Biochem Biophys . 2018 Apr; 648:1-11. PMID: 29678627
α-L-Rhamnosidases (α-RHAs, EC 3.2.1.40) are glycosyl hydrolases (GHs) hydrolyzing terminal α-l-rhamnose residues from different substrates such as heteropolysaccharides, glycosylated proteins and natural flavonoids. Although the possibility to hydrolyze rhamnose from...
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Pizzo E, Cafaro V, Di Donato A, Notomista E
Curr Pharm Des . 2018 Mar; 24(10):1054-1066. PMID: 29589536
Cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAMPs), also known as host defence peptides (HDPs), are essential evolutionarily conserved components of innate immunity, constitutively or inducibly expressed in response to invasion by pathogens. In...
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Pane K, Verrillo M, Avitabile A, Pizzo E, Varcamonti M, Zanfardino A, et al.
Bioconjug Chem . 2018 Mar; 29(4):1373-1383. PMID: 29528625
Peptides with an N-terminal cysteine residue allow site-specific modification of proteins and peptides and chemical synthesis of proteins. They have been widely used to develop new strategies for imaging, drug...
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Pane K, Durante L, Crescenzi O, Cafaro V, Pizzo E, Varcamonti M, et al.
J Theor Biol . 2017 Feb; 419:254-265. PMID: 28216428
Cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAMPs) are essential components of innate immunity. Here we show that antimicrobial potency of CAMPs is linearly correlated to the product CHL where C is the net...
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Pane K, Sgambati V, Zanfardino A, Smaldone G, Cafaro V, Angrisano T, et al.
FEBS J . 2016 Mar; 283(11):2115-31. PMID: 27028511
Cationic antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) possess fast and broad-spectrum activity against both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, as well as fungi. It has become increasingly evident that many AMPs, including those that...