Davide Capelli

850 total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 621 citations indexed

About

Davide Capelli is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Davide Capelli has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 621 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Cancer Research and 3 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Davide Capelli's work include Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (13 papers), Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (11 papers) and Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (2 papers). Davide Capelli is often cited by papers focused on Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (13 papers), Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (11 papers) and Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (2 papers). Davide Capelli collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and France. Davide Capelli's co-authors include Roberta Montanari, Viviana Scognamiglio, G. Pochetti, Fulvio Loiodice, Antonio Laghezza, Paolo Tortorella, Enrica Calleri, Antonio Lavecchia, Franck Peiretti and Carmen Cerchia and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Davide Capelli

24 papers receiving 613 citations

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Surface plasmon resonance technology: Recent advances, applications and experimental cases

2023 114 citations Davide Capelli, Viviana Scognamiglio et al. TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Davide Capelli Italy	13	405	88	82	59	54	25	621
Yuanjin Zhang China	18	368 0.9×	94 1.1×	29 0.4×	31 0.5×	38 0.7×	56	736
Magdalena Kusaczuk Poland	12	295 0.7×	59 0.7×	60 0.7×	81 1.4×	49 0.9×	27	712
Filipa S. Carvalho Portugal	12	431 1.1×	136 1.5×	60 0.7×	41 0.7×	52 1.0×	18	1.1k
Kazuhiro Nishiyama Japan	18	429 1.1×	56 0.6×	142 1.7×	28 0.5×	56 1.0×	71	975
Wenhui Zhou United States	15	375 0.9×	149 1.7×	32 0.4×	37 0.6×	37 0.7×	39	645
Songpei Li China	18	420 1.0×	120 1.4×	48 0.6×	47 0.8×	69 1.3×	29	754
Ana Burgeiro Portugal	12	326 0.8×	67 0.8×	81 1.0×	130 2.2×	50 0.9×	16	945
Shihai Yan China	14	299 0.7×	30 0.3×	66 0.8×	68 1.2×	66 1.2×	42	617
Matthias Schittmayer Austria	18	428 1.1×	43 0.5×	127 1.5×	37 0.6×	55 1.0×	42	844

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Capelli, Davide, Roberta Montanari, Giovanni Grazioso, et al.. (2025). Enhancing the activity of γ-hydroxy lactone derivatives as innovative peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ non-agonists inhibiting cyclin-dependent kinase 5-mediated phosphorylation. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 292. 117657–117657.

Rinaldi, Francesca, Sara Tengattini, Stefano Negri, et al.. (2024). Development of an analytical platform for the affinity screening of natural extracts by SEC-MS towards PPARα and PPARγ receptors. Analytica Chimica Acta. 1309. 342666–342666. 6 indexed citations

Capelli, Davide, Matteo Mori, Antonio Laghezza, et al.. (2023). Biological Screening and Crystallographic Studies of Hydroxy γ-Lactone Derivatives to Investigate PPARγ Phosphorylation Inhibition. Biomolecules. 13(4). 694–694. 3 indexed citations

Altomare, Angela, Ernesto Mesto, Maria Lacalamita, et al.. (2023). Structural Characterization of Low-Sr-Doped Hydroxyapatite Obtained by Solid-State Synthesis. Crystals. 13(1). 117–117. 18 indexed citations

Cancelliere, Rocco, Giuseppina Rea, Laura Micheli, et al.. (2023). Electrochemical and Structural Characterization of Lanthanum-Doped Hydroxyapatite: A Promising Material for Sensing Applications. Materials. 16(13). 4522–4522. 10 indexed citations

Capelli, Davide, Viviana Scognamiglio, & Roberta Montanari. (2023). Surface plasmon resonance technology: Recent advances, applications and experimental cases. TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry. 163. 117079–117079. 114 indexed citations breakdown →

Prati, Federica, Rosa Buonfiglio, Isabella Coletta, et al.. (2021). Discovery of Novel Chemical Series of OXA-48 β-Lactamase Inhibitors by High-Throughput Screening. Pharmaceuticals. 14(7). 612–612. 6 indexed citations

Boumis, Giovanna, Roberta Lucchi, Davide Capelli, et al.. (2021). Cytosolic localization and in vitro assembly of human de novo thymidylate synthesis complex. FEBS Journal. 289(6). 1625–1649. 2 indexed citations

Capelli, Davide, Roberta Montanari, G. Pochetti, et al.. (2021). PHA-680626 Is an Effective Inhibitor of the Interaction between Aurora-A and N-Myc. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(23). 13122–13122. 9 indexed citations

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Montanari, Roberta, Davide Capelli, Keiko Yamamoto, et al.. (2020). Insights into PPARγ Phosphorylation and Its Inhibition Mechanism. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 63(9). 4811–4823. 26 indexed citations

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Capelli, Davide, Chiara Parravicini, G. Pochetti, et al.. (2020). Surface Plasmon Resonance as a Tool for Ligand Binding Investigation of Engineered GPR17 Receptor, a G Protein Coupled Receptor Involved in Myelination. Frontiers in Chemistry. 7. 910–910. 27 indexed citations

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Peiretti, Franck, Roberta Montanari, Davide Capelli, et al.. (2020). A Novel N-Substituted Valine Derivative with Unique Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor γ Binding Properties and Biological Activities. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 63(21). 13124–13139. 9 indexed citations

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Laghezza, Antonio, Luca Piemontese, Carmen Cerchia, et al.. (2018). Identification of the First PPARα/γ Dual Agonist Able To Bind to Canonical and Alternative Sites of PPARγ and To Inhibit Its Cdk5-Mediated Phosphorylation. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 61(18). 8282–8298. 33 indexed citations

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Brusotti, Gloria, Roberta Montanari, Davide Capelli, et al.. (2017). Betulinic acid is a PPARγ antagonist that improves glucose uptake, promotes osteogenesis and inhibits adipogenesis. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 5777–5777. 68 indexed citations

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Capelli, Davide, Carmen Cerchia, Roberta Montanari, et al.. (2016). Structural basis for PPAR partial or full activation revealed by a novel ligand binding mode. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 34792–34792. 70 indexed citations

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Montanari, Roberta, Davide Capelli, Aldo Tava, et al.. (2016). Screening of saponins and sapogenins from Medicago species as potential PPARγ agonists and X-ray structure of the complex PPARγ/caulophyllogenin. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 27658–27658. 15 indexed citations

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Laghezza, Antonio, Roberta Montanari, Antonio Lavecchia, et al.. (2015). On the Metabolically Active Form of Metaglidasen: Improved Synthesis and Investigation of Its Peculiar Activity on Peroxisome Proliferator‐Activated Receptors and Skeletal Muscles. ChemMedChem. 10(3). 555–565. 27 indexed citations

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Calleri, Enrica, G. Pochetti, Katina S. S. Dossou, et al.. (2014). Resveratrol and Its Metabolites Bind to PPARs. ChemBioChem. 15(8). 1154–1160. 80 indexed citations

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Pasquo, Alessandra, Roberta Montanari, Davide Capelli, et al.. (2014). Structural basis of the transactivation deficiency of the human PPARγ F360L mutant associated with familial partial lipodystrophy. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 70(7). 1965–1976. 9 indexed citations

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Laghezza, Antonio, G. Pochetti, Antonio Lavecchia, et al.. (2012). New 2-(Aryloxy)-3-phenylpropanoic Acids as Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor α/γ Dual Agonists Able To Upregulate Mitochondrial Carnitine Shuttle System Gene Expression. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 56(1). 60–72. 32 indexed citations

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