Davide Sala

908 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 488 citations indexed

About

Davide Sala is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Davide Sala has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 488 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Materials Chemistry and 3 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Davide Sala's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (9 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (5 papers). Davide Sala is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (9 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (5 papers). Davide Sala collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and United States. Davide Sala's co-authors include Jens Meiler, Hassane S. Mchaourab, Diego del Alamo, Felipe Engelberger, Antonio Rosato, Andrea Giachetti, Francesco Musiani, Peter W. Hildebrand, Hossein Batebi and Claudia Andreini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports and Trends in Pharmacological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Davide Sala

14 papers receiving 484 citations

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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.

Sampling alternative conformational states of transporters and receptors with AlphaFold2

2022 263 citations Diego del Alamo, Davide Sala et al. eLife profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Davide Sala Italy	10	394	150	88	43	31	16	488
Brinda Vallat United States	13	337 0.9×	129 0.9×	36 0.4×	30 0.7×	15 0.5×	24	464
Bettina Elshorst Germany	8	361 0.9×	81 0.5×	59 0.7×	45 1.0×	19 0.6×	18	416
Diego del Alamo United States	9	346 0.9×	125 0.8×	53 0.6×	50 1.2×	21 0.7×	13	429
Eric R. Bolin United States	6	325 0.8×	63 0.4×	65 0.7×	29 0.7×	19 0.6×	8	424
Marı́a Silvina Fornasari Argentina	15	516 1.3×	143 1.0×	91 1.0×	40 0.9×	17 0.5×	34	631
Karthikeyan Annamalai Germany	9	507 1.3×	85 0.6×	29 0.3×	37 0.9×	48 1.5×	13	635
Ioana M. Ilie Netherlands	13	276 0.7×	76 0.5×	44 0.5×	27 0.6×	27 0.9×	22	425
Ana I. Azuaga Spain	15	489 1.2×	174 1.2×	21 0.2×	50 1.2×	32 1.0×	25	622
Adam G. Kreutzer United States	14	415 1.1×	55 0.4×	173 2.0×	43 1.0×	20 0.6×	32	630
Prakash Chandra Rathi Germany	11	349 0.9×	125 0.8×	108 1.2×	16 0.4×	7 0.2×	12	499

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16 of 16 papers shown

Kaiser, Anette, Juan Camilo Rojas Echeverri, Davide Sala, et al.. (2025). Transient ligand contacts of the intrinsically disordered N-terminus of neuropeptide Y2 receptor regulate arrestin-3 recruitment. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8326–8326.

Guzzetti, Lorenzo, et al.. (2025). Assessment of the Nutraceutical Properties of Wild Strawberry (Fragaria vesca L.) Extracts on Human Colorectal Cell Lines. Molecular Nutrition & Food Research. 69(11). e70018–e70018. 1 indexed citations

Guzzetti, Lorenzo, Paolo Biella, Davide Sala, et al.. (2024). Animal pollination shapes fruits market features, seeds functional traits and modulates their chemistry. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 22734–22734. 1 indexed citations

Sala, Davide, Felipe Engelberger, Hassane S. Mchaourab, & Jens Meiler. (2023). Modeling conformational states of proteins with AlphaFold. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 81. 102645–102645. 91 indexed citations

Sala, Davide, et al.. (2023). Targeting in silico GPCR conformations with ultra-large library screening for hit discovery. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences. 44(3). 150–161. 14 indexed citations

Sala, Davide, Diego del Alamo, Hassane S. Mchaourab, & Jens Meiler. (2022). Modeling of protein conformational changes with Rosetta guided by limited experimental data. Structure. 30(8). 1157–1168.e3. 18 indexed citations

Alamo, Diego del, Davide Sala, Hassane S. Mchaourab, & Jens Meiler. (2022). Sampling alternative conformational states of transporters and receptors with AlphaFold2. eLife. 11. 263 indexed citations breakdown →

Giachetti, Andrea, et al.. (2022). Learning to Identify Physiological and Adventitious Metal-Binding Sites in the Three-Dimensional Structures of Proteins by Following the Hints of a Deep Neural Network. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 62(12). 2951–2960. 12 indexed citations

Sala, Davide, Andrea Giachetti, & Antonio Rosato. (2021). Insights into the Dynamics of the Human Zinc Transporter ZnT8 by MD Simulations. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 61(2). 901–912. 15 indexed citations

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Sala, Davide, et al.. (2020). Dynamical Behavior and Conformational Selection Mechanism of the Intrinsically Disordered Sic1 Kinase-Inhibitor Domain. Life. 10(7). 110–110. 3 indexed citations

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Sala, Davide, Yuanpeng J. Huang, David A. Snyder, et al.. (2019). Protein structure prediction assisted with sparse NMR data in CASP13. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 87(12). 1315–1332. 16 indexed citations

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Sala, Davide, Andrea Giachetti, & Antonio Rosato. (2019). An atomistic view of the YiiP structural changes upon zinc(II) binding. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects. 1863(10). 1560–1567. 13 indexed citations

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Sala, Davide, Andrea Giachetti, & Antonio Rosato. (2018). Molecular dynamics simulations of metalloproteins: A folding study of rubredoxin from <em>Pyrococcus furiosus</em>. AIMS Biophysics. 5(1). 77–96. 7 indexed citations

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Sala, Davide, Francesco Musiani, & Antonio Rosato. (2018). Application of Molecular Dynamics to the Investigation of Metalloproteins Involved in Metal Homeostasis. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 2018(43). 4661–4677. 12 indexed citations

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Rusnati, Marco, Davide Sala, Alessandro Orro, et al.. (2018). Speeding Up the Identification of Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator-Targeted Drugs: An Approach Based on Bioinformatics Strategies and Surface Plasmon Resonance. Molecules. 23(1). 120–120. 13 indexed citations

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Sala, Davide, Andrea Giachetti, Claudio Luchinat, & Antonio Rosato. (2016). A protocol for the refinement of NMR structures using simultaneously pseudocontact shift restraints from multiple lanthanide ions. Journal of Biomolecular NMR. 66(3). 175–185. 9 indexed citations

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