Antonio Molinaro

13.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
353 papers, 9.7k citations indexed

About

Antonio Molinaro is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Antonio Molinaro has authored 353 papers receiving a total of 9.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 173 papers in Molecular Biology, 118 papers in Plant Science and 96 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Antonio Molinaro's work include Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (91 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (83 papers) and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (64 papers). Antonio Molinaro is often cited by papers focused on Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (91 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (83 papers) and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (64 papers). Antonio Molinaro collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and United Kingdom. Antonio Molinaro's co-authors include Alba Silipo, Rosa Lanzetta, Cristina De Castro, Michelangelo Parrilli, Flaviana Di Lorenzo, Mari‐Anne Newman, Roberta Marchetti, Luisa Sturiale, Gitte Erbs and Domenico Garozzo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Antonio Molinaro

343 papers receiving 9.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Arabidopsis lysin-motif proteins LYM1 LYM3 CERK1 mediate bacterial peptidoglycan sensing and immunity to bacterial infection

2011 380 citations Roland Willmann, Gitte Erbs et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The lipooligosaccharide of the gut symbiont Akkermansia muciniphila exhibits a remarkable structure and TLR signaling capacity

2024 36 citations Pilar García-Vello, Hanne L. P. Tytgat et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Antonio Molinaro	4.5k	3.2k	1.5k	1.4k	910	353	9.7k
Russell W. Carlson	3.1k 0.7×	3.6k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	767 0.5×	553 0.6×	166	8.6k
Manfred Nimtz	7.1k 1.6×	1.8k 0.6×	725 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	984 1.1×	251	11.4k
Octávio Luiz Franco	10.0k 2.2×	2.9k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	1.7k 1.9×	529	16.9k
David Mirelman	3.7k 0.8×	2.9k 0.9×	724 0.5×	631 0.4×	740 0.8×	223	10.9k
Alba Silipo	2.7k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	978 0.7×	506 0.6×	209	5.7k
Parastoo Azadi	4.4k 1.0×	1.3k 0.4×	1.2k 0.8×	940 0.7×	594 0.7×	254	8.6k
Rosa Lanzetta	2.6k 0.6×	1.9k 0.6×	674 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	722 0.8×	250	6.0k
Cristina De Castro	2.4k 0.5×	1.3k 0.4×	524 0.4×	926 0.7×	686 0.8×	202	5.5k
Shunmugiah Karutha Pandian	5.6k 1.3×	2.0k 0.6×	672 0.5×	773 0.5×	2.6k 2.9×	310	11.4k
Otto Holst	3.2k 0.7×	738 0.2×	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	734 0.8×	179	7.4k

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Romanenko, Lyudmila A., et al.. (2025). Signals from the sea: the structural peculiarity of lipid A and weak immunostimulatory lipopolysaccharide from Rheinheimera japonica. RSC Chemical Biology. 6(9). 1414–1425. 1 indexed citations

Notaro, Anna, et al.. (2025). Identification of the D-glucuronyl C5-epimerase that introduces iduronic acid into N-linked glycans decorating archaeal glycoproteins. Communications Biology. 8(1). 1591–1591.

Vitiello, Giuseppe, Luke A. Clifton, María Asunción Campanero‐Rhodes, et al.. (2025). Structure of the Lipopolysaccharide from Paenalcaligenes hominis: A Chemical Perspective on Immune Recognition. JACS Au. 5(7). 3311–3327. 2 indexed citations

García-Vello, Pilar, Hanne L. P. Tytgat, Janneke Elzinga, et al.. (2024). The lipooligosaccharide of the gut symbiont Akkermansia muciniphila exhibits a remarkable structure and TLR signaling capacity. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8411–8411. 36 indexed citations breakdown →

Lenza, María Pia, et al.. (2024). Computational toolbox for the analysis of protein–glycan interactions. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 20. 2084–2107. 7 indexed citations

Olszak, Tomasz, Daria Augustyniak, Inmaculada García‐Romero, et al.. (2024). Phage treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa yields a phage-resistant population with different susceptibility to innate immune responses and mild effects on metabolic profiles. Microbiological Research. 282. 127609–127609. 8 indexed citations

Beernink, Peter T., Roberta Marchetti, Linda Cerofolini, et al.. (2024). Gonococcal Mimitope Vaccine Candidate Forms a Beta-Hairpin Turn and Binds Hydrophobically to a Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibody. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(7). 2617–2629.

King, Rebecca M., Anna Notaro, Antonio Molinaro, et al.. (2024). Moraxella ovis and Moraxella bovoculi lipooligosaccharide biosynthesis genes, and structural characterisation of oligosaccharide from M. ovis 354T. Carbohydrate Research. 536. 109043–109043. 1 indexed citations

Vivès, Corinne, Yunqin Zhang, Fabrizio Chiodo, et al.. (2024). Atomic-Level Dissection of DC-SIGN Recognition of Bacteroides vulgatus LPS Epitopes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(2). 697–712. 7 indexed citations

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Silipo, Alba, et al.. (2023). Extraction, Purification, and Chemical Degradation of LPS from Gut Microbiota Strains. Methods in molecular biology. 2613. 153–179. 9 indexed citations

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Pagliuca, Chiara, Olga I. Nedashkovskaya, Oleg V. Chernikov, et al.. (2023). Pushing the Boundaries of Structural Heterogeneity with the Lipid A of Marine Bacteria Cellulophaga. ChemBioChem. 24(10). e202300183–e202300183. 4 indexed citations

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Speciale, Immacolata, Anna Notaro, Yoshiyuki Manabe, et al.. (2023). Structural Determination and Chemical Synthesis of the N‐Glycan from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Thermococcus kodakarensis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(13). e202218655–e202218655. 3 indexed citations

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Laverde, Diana, et al.. (2023). Identification of a capsular polysaccharide from Enterococcus faecium U0317 using a targeted approach to discover immunogenic carbohydrates for vaccine development. Carbohydrate Polymers. 330. 121731–121731. 5 indexed citations

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Nicola, Antonio De, Costanza Montis, Greta Donati, et al.. (2023). Bacterial lipids drive compartmentalization on the nanoscale. Nanoscale. 15(20). 8988–8995. 7 indexed citations

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Xu, Peng, et al.. (2023). Synthesis of Unprecedented α/β‐Alternate (1→4)‐Glucans via Stereoselective Iterative Glycosylation. Chemistry - A European Journal. 29(30). e202300659–e202300659. 6 indexed citations

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Xu, Peng, et al.. (2022). Total Synthesis and Stereochemistry Assignment of Nucleoside Antibiotic A‐94964. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(14). e202200818–e202200818. 9 indexed citations

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García-Vello, Pilar, Garima Sharma, Immacolata Speciale, et al.. (2020). Structural features and immunological perception of the cell surface glycans of Lactobacillus plantarum: a novel rhamnose-rich polysaccharide and teichoic acids. Carbohydrate Polymers. 233. 115857–115857. 36 indexed citations

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Chiodo, Fabrizio, et al.. (2020). Chemical synthesis of glycans up to a 128-mer relevant to the O-antigen of Bacteroides vulgatus. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4142–4142. 83 indexed citations

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Silipo, Alba, et al.. (2019). Synthesis of Forsythenethoside A, a Neuroprotective Macrocyclic Phenylethanoid Glycoside, and NMR Analysis of Conformers. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 84(21). 13733–13743. 11 indexed citations

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Willmann, Roland, Gitte Erbs, Mari‐Anne Newman, et al.. (2011). Arabidopsis lysin-motif proteins LYM1 LYM3 CERK1 mediate bacterial peptidoglycan sensing and immunity to bacterial infection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(49). 19824–19829. 380 indexed citations breakdown →

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