Fernando Formaggio

11.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
419 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Fernando Formaggio is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Fernando Formaggio has authored 419 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 336 papers in Molecular Biology, 157 papers in Organic Chemistry and 92 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Fernando Formaggio's work include Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (268 papers), Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (80 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (64 papers). Fernando Formaggio is often cited by papers focused on Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (268 papers), Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (80 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (64 papers). Fernando Formaggio collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Netherlands and France. Fernando Formaggio's co-authors include Claudio Toniolo, Marco Crisma, Cristina Peggion, Quirinus B. Broxterman, Johan Kamphuis, Alessandro Moretto, Bernard Kaptein, Marta De Zotti, A. Polese and Mariano Venanzi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Fernando Formaggio

409 papers receiving 9.4k 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.

Control of peptide conformation by the Thorpe-Ingold effect (C?-tetrasubstitution)

2001 621 citations Claudio Toniolo, Marco Crisma et al. Biopolymers profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fernando Formaggio Italy	48	6.9k	3.7k	1.8k	1.3k	1.3k	419	9.6k
Marco Crisma Italy	49	8.0k 1.2×	4.5k 1.2×	1.8k 1.0×	998 0.7×	928 0.7×	393	10.4k
Claudio Toniolo Italy	68	15.5k 2.2×	8.3k 2.2×	3.9k 2.1×	2.1k 1.6×	1.7k 1.2×	725	20.6k
Barbara Imperiali United States	62	8.3k 1.2×	4.0k 1.1×	2.1k 1.1×	209 0.2×	492 0.4×	239	12.0k
Alison Rodger United Kingdom	53	5.5k 0.8×	3.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	245 0.2×	138 0.1×	268	9.5k
Feng Gai United States	51	4.9k 0.7×	880 0.2×	1.6k 0.9×	209 0.2×	472 0.4×	178	7.6k
Isabella L. Karle United States	52	5.6k 0.8×	4.3k 1.2×	1.6k 0.9×	513 0.4×	96 0.1×	280	9.1k
Carsten Schmuck Germany	49	3.1k 0.4×	3.4k 0.9×	2.2k 1.2×	227 0.2×	168 0.1×	225	7.7k
Shao Q. Yao Singapore	67	8.3k 1.2×	4.0k 1.1×	1.7k 0.9×	103 0.1×	295 0.2×	301	13.8k
Stefan Matile Switzerland	78	8.3k 1.2×	7.3k 2.0×	5.1k 2.8×	403 0.3×	257 0.2×	392	20.1k
Floyd E. Romesberg United States	59	8.1k 1.2×	2.1k 0.6×	651 0.4×	228 0.2×	225 0.2×	200	10.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fernando Formaggio

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Guryanov, Ivan, Barbara Biondi, Angelo Santoro, et al.. (2025). Improving Solid-State Properties of the Side-Chain Peptide Building Blocks for the Synthesis of GLP-1 Analogs through Their Complexation with Metal Cations. Organic Process Research & Development. 29(3). 785–793. 1 indexed citations

Rancan, Marzio, Annalisa Bisello, Silvia Carlotto, et al.. (2024). Self‐Assembly of Supramolecular Double Helix from a Tetrapeptide and Direct Visualization by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. Chemistry - A European Journal. 31(9). e202404080–e202404080. 1 indexed citations

Bobone, Sara, Paolo Calligari, Luca Pannone, et al.. (2024). Fluorescent Labeling Can Significantly Perturb Measured Binding Affinity and Selectivity of Peptide–Protein Interactions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(40). 10252–10257.

Gatto, Emanuela, Marta De Zotti, Fernando Formaggio, et al.. (2023). Peptide-bridged bis-porphyrin compounds: A photophysical and molecular dynamics study. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology. 16. 100191–100191. 1 indexed citations

Bisello, Annalisa, et al.. (2023). Modulation of Ferrocene–Ferrocene Interactions by Varying Their Reciprocal Positions in L-Dap/Aib Helical Peptides. Inorganics. 11(12). 482–482. 1 indexed citations

Formaggio, Fernando, et al.. (2022). A Peptide-Based Trap for Metal Ions Studied by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance. Chemosensors. 10(2). 71–71. 2 indexed citations

Banerjee, Raja, et al.. (2021). C^α-Methyl-l-valine: A Preferential Choice over α-Aminoisobutyric Acid for Designing Right-Handed α-Helical Scaffolds. Biochemistry. 60(36). 2704–2714. 1 indexed citations

Zotti, Marta De, et al.. (2021). Tylopeptin B peptide antibiotic in lipid membranes at low concentrations: Self-assembling, mutual repulsion and localization. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1863(9). 183585–183585. 9 indexed citations

Formaggio, Fernando, Antonella Glisenti, Barbara Biondi, et al.. (2020). Sustainable, Site‐Specific Linkage of Antimicrobial Peptides to Cotton Textiles. Macromolecular Bioscience. 20(12). e2000199–e2000199. 4 indexed citations

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Drouillat, Bruno, Cristina Peggion, Barbara Biondi, et al.. (2019). Heterochiral Ala/(αMe)Aze sequential oligopeptides: Synthesis and conformational study. Journal of Peptide Science. 25(5). e3165–e3165. 1 indexed citations

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Bucci, Raffaella, Alessandro Contini, Francesca Clerici, et al.. (2019). Fluoro-Aryl Substituted α,β2,3-Peptides in the Development of Foldameric Antiparallel β-Sheets: A Conformational Study. Frontiers in Chemistry. 7. 192–192. 18 indexed citations

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Drouillat, Bruno, Cristina Peggion, Barbara Biondi, et al.. (2018). A novel peptide conformation: the γ-bend ribbon. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 16(42). 7947–7958. 7 indexed citations

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Bortolus, Marco, Marta De Zotti, Fernando Formaggio, & Anna Lisa Maniero. (2013). Alamethicin in bicelles: Orientation, aggregation, and bilayer modification as a function of peptide concentration. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1828(11). 2620–2627. 27 indexed citations

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Moretto, Alessandro, Marco Crisma, Fernando Formaggio, et al.. (2007). Slow tert‐butyl ester acidolysis and peptide 3₁₀‐helix to α‐helix transition in HFIP solution. Biopolymers. 88(2). 233–238. 18 indexed citations

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Wright, Karen, Jean‐François Lohier, Michel Wakselman, et al.. (2007). Evidence for the 3₁₀‐helical structure of peptides based on antAib, a fluorophoric, anthracene‐fused, 1‐aminocyclopentane‐1‐carboxylic acid. Biopolymers. 88(6). 797–806. 3 indexed citations

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Peggion, Cristina, Micha Jost, Chiara Baldini, Fernando Formaggio, & Claudio Toniolo. (2007). Total Syntheses in Solution of TOAC‐Labelled Alamethicin F50/5 Analogues. Chemistry & Biodiversity. 4(6). 1183–1199. 21 indexed citations

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Salnikov, Evgeniy S., Denis A. Erilov, A. D. Milov, et al.. (2006). Location and Aggregation of the Spin-Labeled Peptide Trichogin GA IV in a Phospholipid Membrane as Revealed by Pulsed EPR. Biophysical Journal. 91(4). 1532–1540. 55 indexed citations

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Moretto, Alessandro, Cristina Peggion, Fernando Formaggio, et al.. (2005). Stereoselective acylation of a racemic amine with C^α‐methyl phenylglycine‐based dipeptide 5(4H)‐oxazolones. Chirality. 17(8). 481–487. 11 indexed citations

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Locardi, Elsa, Stefano Mammi, Evaristo Peggion, et al.. (1998). Conformation and membrane activity of an analogue of the peptaibol antibiotic trichogin GA IV with a lipophilic amino acid at the N-terminus.. PubMed. 4(6). 389–99. 18 indexed citations

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Kaptein, Bernard, Wilhelmus H. J. Boesten, H. Schoemaker, et al.. (1996). Preparation and use of enantiomerically pure Ca-tetrasubstituted a-amino acids. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 14. 9–12. 3 indexed citations

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