Bruno Melillo

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Bruno Melillo is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Virology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruno Melillo has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Organic Chemistry and 16 papers in Virology. Recurrent topics in Bruno Melillo's work include HIV Research and Treatment (16 papers), HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (10 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (9 papers). Bruno Melillo is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (16 papers), HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (10 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (9 papers). Bruno Melillo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Bruno Melillo's co-authors include Amos B. Smith, Stuart L. Schreiber, Benjamin F. Cravatt, Joseph Sodroski, Andrés Finzi, Oscar Verho, Micah Maetani, Jochen Zoller, Ekaterina V. Vinogradova and Navid Madani and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Bruno Melillo

51 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

LPCAT3 Inhibitors Remodel the Polyunsaturated Phospholipid Content of Human Cells and Protect from Ferroptosis

2022 105 citations Bruno Melillo, Benjamin F. Cravatt et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bruno Melillo United States	25	532	525	520	343	289	54	1.5k
Shizuko Sei United States	26	574 1.1×	512 1.0×	284 0.5×	629 1.8×	325 1.1×	73	1.9k
Frédéric Subra France	27	897 1.7×	1.0k 2.0×	291 0.6×	923 2.7×	201 0.7×	61	2.1k
Yoshio Aramaki Japan	19	515 1.0×	624 1.2×	393 0.8×	305 0.9×	377 1.3×	22	1.6k
Nickolay Y. Chirgadze United States	24	133 0.3×	1.2k 2.2×	443 0.9×	241 0.7×	194 0.7×	38	2.0k
Melissa S. Egbertson United States	20	564 1.1×	771 1.5×	535 1.0×	664 1.9×	46 0.2×	35	1.8k
Raghavan Balachandran United States	29	289 0.5×	719 1.4×	843 1.6×	201 0.6×	149 0.5×	58	1.8k
Mark E. Labadia United States	14	450 0.8×	461 0.9×	230 0.4×	508 1.5×	302 1.0×	18	1.3k
Bangalore K. Sathyanarayana United States	11	804 1.5×	1.2k 2.3×	358 0.7×	898 2.6×	166 0.6×	17	2.2k
Tai‐Shun Lin United States	24	212 0.4×	1.1k 2.1×	455 0.9×	548 1.6×	94 0.3×	51	2.0k
Donna L. Romero United States	22	531 1.0×	860 1.6×	911 1.8×	655 1.9×	173 0.6×	47	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Bruno Melillo

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bruno Melillo

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bruno Melillo. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bruno Melillo based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bruno Melillo. Bruno Melillo is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Bernard, Steffen M., Jonathan Pollock, Kristen E. DeMeester, et al.. (2026). Complexoform-restricted covalent TRMT112 ligands that allosterically agonize METTL5. Nature Chemical Biology. 1 indexed citations

Uddin, Taher, et al.. (2025). Improved Bicyclic Pyrrolidine Analogues Inhibit Toxoplasma gondii Growth In Vitro and Cure Infection In Vivo. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 68(16). 17350–17363.

Liu, Zhonglin, Jarrett R. Remsberg, Evert Njomen, et al.. (2024). Proteomic Ligandability Maps of Spirocycle Acrylamide Stereoprobes Identify Covalent ERCC3 Degraders. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(15). 10393–10406. 19 indexed citations

Melillo, Bruno, et al.. (2024). SF3B1 thermostability as an assay for splicing inhibitor interactions. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(2). 108135–108135.

Liu, Zhonglin, Marscha Hirschi, Oleg Brodsky, et al.. (2024). An allosteric cyclin E-CDK2 site mapped by paralog hopping with covalent probes. Nature Chemical Biology. 21(3). 420–431. 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Yuxiang, Christopher J. Reinhardt, Kristen E. DeMeester, et al.. (2024). Redirecting the pioneering function of FOXA1 with covalent small molecules. Molecular Cell. 84(21). 4125–4141.e10. 16 indexed citations

Njomen, Evert, Kristen E. DeMeester, Daisuke Ogasawara, et al.. (2024). Multi-tiered chemical proteomic maps of tryptoline acrylamide–protein interactions in cancer cells. Nature Chemistry. 16(10). 1592–1604. 20 indexed citations

Ogasawara, Daisuke, David B. Konrad, Zher Yin Tan, et al.. (2024). Chemical tools to expand the ligandable proteome: Diversity-oriented synthesis-based photoreactive stereoprobes. Cell chemical biology. 31(12). 2138–2155.e32. 7 indexed citations

Tao, Yongfeng, Zhongyu Zou, Evert Njomen, et al.. (2023). Chemical Proteomic Discovery of Isotype‐Selective Covalent Inhibitors of the RNA Methyltransferase NSUN2. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(51). e202311924–e202311924. 40 indexed citations

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Baptista, Rodrigo P., et al.. (2023). Genetic crosses within and between species of Cryptosporidium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(1). e2313210120–e2313210120. 13 indexed citations

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Li, Haoxin, Jarrett R. Remsberg, Kristen E. DeMeester, et al.. (2023). Assigning functionality to cysteines by base editing of cancer dependency genes. Nature Chemical Biology. 19(11). 1320–1330. 30 indexed citations

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Tao, Yongfeng, David Remillard, Ekaterina V. Vinogradova, et al.. (2022). Targeted Protein Degradation by Electrophilic PROTACs that Stereoselectively and Site-Specifically Engage DCAF1. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(40). 18688–18699. 72 indexed citations

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Sharma, Manmohan, Mutharasappan Nachiappan, M. Yogavel, et al.. (2022). Inhibition of Plasmodium falciparum phenylalanine tRNA synthetase provides opportunity for antimalarial drug development. Structure. 30(7). 962–972.e3. 8 indexed citations

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Radke, Joshua B., Bruno Melillo, Manmohan Sharma, et al.. (2022). Bicyclic azetidines target acute and chronic stages of Toxoplasma gondii by inhibiting parasite phenylalanyl t-RNA synthetase. Nature Communications. 13(1). 459–459. 17 indexed citations

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Xia, Guoqin, Zhe Zhuang, Luo‐Yan Liu, et al.. (2020). Ligand‐Enabled β‐Methylene C(sp³)−H Arylation of Masked Aliphatic Alcohols. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(20). 7783–7787. 50 indexed citations

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Shang, Ming, Karla Santos Feu, Julien C. Vantourout, et al.. (2019). Modular, stereocontrolled C _β –H/C _α –C activation of alkyl carboxylic acids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(18). 8721–8727. 42 indexed citations

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Melillo, Bruno, Jochen Zoller, Bruce K. Hua, et al.. (2018). Synergistic Effects of Stereochemistry and Appendages on the Performance Diversity of a Collection of Synthetic Compounds. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(37). 11784–11790. 49 indexed citations

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Ding, Shilei, Amy M. Princiotto, Bruno Melillo, et al.. (2016). Short Communication: Small-Molecule CD4 Mimetics Sensitize HIV-1-Infected Cells to Antibody-Dependent Cellular Cytotoxicity by Antibodies Elicited by Multiple Envelope Glycoprotein Immunogens in Nonhuman Primates. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 33(5). 428–431. 21 indexed citations

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Melillo, Bruno, Shuaiyi Liang, Jongwoo Park, et al.. (2016). Small-Molecule CD4-Mimics: Structure-Based Optimization of HIV-1 Entry Inhibition. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 7(3). 330–334. 68 indexed citations

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Richard, Jonathan, Maxime Veillette, Shilei Ding, et al.. (2015). Small CD4 Mimetics Prevent HIV-1 Uninfected Bystander CD4 + T Cell Killing Mediated by Antibody-dependent Cell-mediated Cytotoxicity. EBioMedicine. 3. 122–134. 57 indexed citations

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