Gianluca Molla

4.9k total citations
104 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Gianluca Molla is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Gianluca Molla has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Molecular Biology, 75 papers in Biochemistry and 29 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Gianluca Molla's work include Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism (74 papers), Polyamine Metabolism and Applications (42 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (29 papers). Gianluca Molla is often cited by papers focused on Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism (74 papers), Polyamine Metabolism and Applications (42 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (29 papers). Gianluca Molla collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and United States. Gianluca Molla's co-authors include Loredano Pollegioni, Mirella S. Pilone, Silvia Sacchi, Elena Rosini, Luciano Piubelli, Sandro Ghisla, Laura Caldinelli, Ilaria Armenia, Gianluca Tomasello and Wolfram Welte 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

Gianluca Molla

101 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gianluca Molla Italy 38 2.8k 2.3k 798 694 383 104 4.0k
Mirella S. Pilone Italy 36 2.5k 0.9× 2.4k 1.0× 756 0.9× 740 1.1× 340 0.9× 68 3.3k
Elena Rosini Italy 27 1.1k 0.4× 647 0.3× 253 0.3× 140 0.2× 121 0.3× 76 2.1k
Hideyuki Hayashi Japan 32 1.9k 0.7× 672 0.3× 822 1.0× 118 0.2× 263 0.7× 93 2.9k
Giovanni Gadda United States 33 2.0k 0.7× 904 0.4× 605 0.8× 322 0.5× 211 0.6× 135 3.3k
В. И. Тишков Russia 26 1.9k 0.7× 709 0.3× 738 0.9× 156 0.2× 52 0.1× 155 2.6k
Luciano Piubelli Italy 24 1.1k 0.4× 632 0.3× 205 0.3× 206 0.3× 125 0.3× 50 1.5k
Harold J. Bright United States 25 1.3k 0.5× 501 0.2× 353 0.4× 158 0.2× 223 0.6× 65 2.4k
Marilyn Schuman Jörns United States 32 2.1k 0.7× 1.0k 0.4× 528 0.7× 180 0.3× 715 1.9× 90 3.1k
Roderich Brandsch Germany 26 1.4k 0.5× 256 0.1× 160 0.2× 149 0.2× 74 0.2× 79 1.9k
Cintia Roodveldt Spain 20 1.8k 0.7× 144 0.1× 312 0.4× 128 0.2× 251 0.7× 28 2.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gianluca Molla

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gianluca Molla

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rosini, Elena, et al.. (2025). Valuable Compounds from Pollutants: Converting PET into Enantiopure Alanine. ACS Catalysis. 15(21). 17829–17843.
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Barbera, Vincenzina, Elisa Fasoli, Ulrich Giese, et al.. (2025). Electroconductive Bionanocomposites from Black Soldier Fly Proteins for Green Flexible Electronics. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 13(6). 2388–2400.
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Pollegioni, Loredano, et al.. (2024). A Pipeline for Green and Ultra-Fast Chitin Extraction from Black Soldier Fly Larvae. Waste and Biomass Valorization. 16(6). 3085–3093. 1 indexed citations
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Rosini, Elena, Loredano Pollegioni, & Gianluca Molla. (2023). The Symmetric Active Site of Enantiospecific Enzymes. Symmetry. 15(5). 1017–1017. 1 indexed citations
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Molla, Gianluca, et al.. (2023). On the regulation of human D‐aspartate oxidase. Protein Science. 32(11). e4802–e4802. 4 indexed citations
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Orlando, Marco, et al.. (2023). Microbial Enzyme Biotechnology to Reach Plastic Waste Circularity: Current Status, Problems and Perspectives. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(4). 3877–3877. 55 indexed citations
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Orlando, Marco, et al.. (2021). An Efficient Protein Evolution Workflow for the Improvement of Bacterial PET Hydrolyzing Enzymes. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(1). 264–264. 30 indexed citations
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Brennenstuhl, Heiko, Miroslava Didiášová, Birgit Assmann, et al.. (2020). Succinic Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase Deficiency: In Vitro and In Silico Characterization of a Novel Pathogenic Missense Variant and Analysis of the Mutational Spectrum of ALDH5A1. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(22). 8578–8578. 5 indexed citations
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Cappelletti, Pamela, Luciano Piubelli, Giulia Murtas, et al.. (2015). Structure–function relationships in human d-amino acid oxidase variants corresponding to known SNPs Proteins and proteomics. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 1 indexed citations
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Pollegioni, Loredano, et al.. (2013). A thermostable L-aspartate oxidase: a new tool for biotechnological applications. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 97(16). 7285–7295. 25 indexed citations
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Caldinelli, Laura, Gianluca Molla, Luisa Bracci, et al.. (2010). Effect of ligand binding on human D‐amino acid oxidase: Implications for the development of new drugs for schizophrenia treatment. Protein Science. 19(8). 1500–1512. 50 indexed citations
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Pollegioni, Loredano, Luciano Piubelli, & Gianluca Molla. (2009). Cholesterol oxidase: biotechnological applications. FEBS Journal. 276(23). 6857–6870. 76 indexed citations
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Sacchi, Silvia, Magalie Martineau, Jean‐Pierre Mothet, et al.. (2008). pLG72 Modulates Intracellular D-Serine Levels through Its Interaction with D-Amino Acid Oxidase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(32). 22244–22256. 127 indexed citations
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Caldinelli, Laura, Stefania Iametti, Alberto Barbiroli, et al.. (2008). Relevance of the flavin binding to the stability and folding of engineered cholesterol oxidase containing noncovalently bound FAD. Protein Science. 17(3). 409–419. 24 indexed citations
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Rosini, Elena, Giorgia Letizia Marcone, Silvia Sacchi, et al.. (2007). Glycine oxidase from Bacillus subtilis: Role of Histidine 244 and Methionine 261. Biochimie. 89(11). 1372–1380. 7 indexed citations
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Molla, Gianluca, et al.. (2006). Characterization of human d‐amino acid oxidase. FEBS Letters. 580(9). 2358–2364. 122 indexed citations
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Mörtl, Mario, Kay Diederichs, Wolfram Welte, et al.. (2004). Structure-Function Correlation in Glycine Oxidase from Bacillus subtilis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(28). 29718–29727. 57 indexed citations
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Pollegioni, Loredano, Christopher M. Harris, Gianluca Molla, Mirella S. Pilone, & Sandro Ghisla. (2001). Identification and role of ionizing functional groups at the active center of Rhodotorula gracilisD‐amino acid oxidase. FEBS Letters. 507(3). 323–326. 14 indexed citations
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Pollegioni, Loredano, Gianluca Molla, Stefano Campaner, Enzo Martegani, & Mirella S. Pilone. (1997). Cloning, sequencing and expression in E. coli of a d-amino acid oxidase cDNA from Rhodotorula gracilis active on cephalosporin C. Journal of Biotechnology. 58(2). 115–123. 39 indexed citations

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