Francesco Villa
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Recent Articles
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Philip A, Oueslati S, Villa F, Pannetier C, Cattoir V, Duranteau J, et al.
J Antimicrob Chemother
. 2024 Mar;
79(5):997-1005.
PMID: 38501366
Background: VRE are increasingly described worldwide. Screening of hospitalized patients at risk for VRE carriage is mandatory to control their dissemination. Here, we have developed the Bfast [VRE Panel] PCR...
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Panel N, Villa F, Opuu V, Mignon D, Simonson T
Methods Mol Biol
. 2021 May;
2256:237-255.
PMID: 34014526
This chapter describes two computational methods for PDZ-peptide binding: high-throughput computational protein design (CPD) and a medium-throughput approach combining molecular dynamics for conformational sampling with a Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) Linear Interaction...
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Hall A, Fontelonga T, Wright A, Bugda Gwilt K, Widrick J, Pasut A, et al.
Skelet Muscle
. 2020 Nov;
10(1):34.
PMID: 33243288
Background: Tetraspanins are a family of proteins known to assemble protein complexes at the cell membrane. They are thought to play diverse cellular functions in tissues by modifying protein-binding partners,...
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Mignon D, Druart K, Michael E, Opuu V, Polydorides S, Villa F, et al.
J Phys Chem A
. 2020 Nov;
124(51):10637-10648.
PMID: 33170681
We describe methods for physics-based protein design and some recent applications from our work. We present the physical interpretation of a MC simulation in sequence space and show that sequences...
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Di Pardo A, Ciaglia E, Cattaneo M, Maciag A, Montella F, Lopardo V, et al.
Cell Death Dis
. 2020 Jul;
11(7):546.
PMID: 32683420
The longevity-associated variant (LAV) of the bactericidal/permeability-increasing fold-containing family B member 4 (BPIFB4) has been found significantly enriched in long-living individuals. Neuroinflammation is a key player in Huntington's disease (HD),...
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Malavolta M, Dato S, Villa F, De Rango F, Iannone F, Ferrario A, et al.
Aging (Albany NY)
. 2019 Nov;
11(20):9220.
PMID: 31682235
No abstract available.
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Malavolta M, Dato S, Villa F, De Rango F, Iannone F, Ferrario A, et al.
Aging (Albany NY)
. 2019 Aug;
11(16):6555-6568.
PMID: 31461407
Background: There is an increasing concern about age-related frailty because of the growing number of elderly people in the general population. The Longevity-Associated Variant (LAV) of the human gene was...
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Puca A, Carrizzo A, Spinelli C, Damato A, Ambrosio M, Villa F, et al.
Eur Heart J
. 2019 Jul;
41(26):2487-2497.
PMID: 31289820
Aims: Here, we aimed to determine the therapeutic effect of longevity-associated variant (LAV)-BPIFB4 gene therapy on atherosclerosis. Methods And Results: ApoE knockout mice (ApoE-/-) fed a high-fat diet were randomly...
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Vecchione C, Villa F, Carrizzo A, Spinelli C, Damato A, Ambrosio M, et al.
Sci Rep
. 2019 Jun;
9(1):9574.
PMID: 31249326
A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has been fixed in the paper.
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Ciaglia E, Montella F, Maciag A, Scala P, Ferrario A, Banco C, et al.
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci
. 2019 May;
74(Suppl_1):S38-S44.
PMID: 31074771
One of the basis of exceptional longevity is the maintaining of the balance between inflammatory and anti-inflammatory networks. The monocyte-macrophages activation plays a major role in tuning the immune responses,...