Lorenzo Stella

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
152 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Lorenzo Stella is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lorenzo Stella has authored 152 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 118 papers in Molecular Biology, 53 papers in Microbiology and 23 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Lorenzo Stella's work include Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (53 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (33 papers) and Glutathione Transferases and Polymorphisms (19 papers). Lorenzo Stella is often cited by papers focused on Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (53 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (33 papers) and Glutathione Transferases and Polymorphisms (19 papers). Lorenzo Stella collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and South Korea. Lorenzo Stella's co-authors include Marco van de Weert, Sara Bobone, Antonio Palleschi, Gianfranco Bocchinfuso, Claudio Toniolo, Mariano Venanzi, Fernando Formaggio, Giorgio Ricci, B. Pispisa and Marco Tartaglia and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Lorenzo Stella

144 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Fluorescence quenching and ligand binding: A critical discussion of a popular methodology

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lorenzo Stella Italy	38	3.5k	1.2k	659	624	535	152	4.9k
Manuel Prieto Portugal	46	5.9k 1.7×	320 0.3×	284 0.4×	1.2k 1.9×	259 0.5×	186	7.6k
P. John Hart United States	44	2.9k 0.8×	233 0.2×	307 0.5×	636 1.0×	276 0.5×	115	6.3k
David A. Price United States	30	3.4k 1.0×	640 0.5×	212 0.3×	1.8k 2.9×	573 1.1×	52	5.4k
Heiko Heerklotz Canada	40	3.9k 1.1×	468 0.4×	170 0.3×	1.0k 1.7×	132 0.2×	108	5.2k
Alex F. Drake United Kingdom	32	1.7k 0.5×	329 0.3×	192 0.3×	522 0.8×	216 0.4×	115	3.2k
Paul J. Hergenrother United States	51	6.0k 1.7×	359 0.3×	492 0.7×	2.8k 4.6×	1.4k 2.6×	199	10.1k
Giorgio Colombo Italy	47	5.9k 1.7×	169 0.1×	594 0.9×	656 1.1×	489 0.9×	262	7.7k
Walter Filgueira de Azevedo Brazil	44	4.5k 1.3×	332 0.3×	351 0.5×	1.3k 2.1×	1.1k 2.1×	199	7.1k
Shirley Schreier Brazil	36	2.8k 0.8×	432 0.4×	171 0.3×	1.1k 1.8×	165 0.3×	135	4.8k
Christian A. Olsen Denmark	37	3.3k 0.9×	442 0.4×	224 0.3×	1.6k 2.5×	614 1.1×	139	5.0k

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Calligari, Paolo, Gianfranco Bocchinfuso, Jean‐Paul Vincken, et al.. (2025). Mechanistic Insights into the Membrane Permeabilization Activity of Antimicrobial Prenylated Isoflavonoids: A Comparative Study of Glabridin, Wighteone, and Lupiwighteone. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 73(11). 6668–6677. 1 indexed citations

Casciaro, Bruno, et al.. (2025). Modulating Antimicrobial Activity and Structure of the Peptide Esc(1‐21) via Site‐Specific Isopeptide Bond Formation. Journal of Peptide Science. 31(9). e70048–e70048. 1 indexed citations

Franzyk, Henrik, et al.. (2024). Water-membrane partition and the mutant selection window of antimicrobial peptides: insights from liposome studies. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 683(Pt 1). 1078–1086. 1 indexed citations

Loffredo, Maria Rosa, Bruno Casciaro, Rosa Bellavita, et al.. (2024). Strategic Single-Residue Substitution in the Antimicrobial Peptide Esc(1–21) Confers Activity against Staphylococcus aureus, Including Drug-Resistant and Biofilm Phenotype. ACS Infectious Diseases. 10(7). 2403–2418. 4 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.

Barman, Swagatam, Sudip Mukherjee, Alessandro Grottesi, et al.. (2023). Isoamphipathic antibacterial molecules regulating activity and toxicity through positional isomerism. Chemical Science. 14(18). 4845–4856. 10 indexed citations

Cantini, Francesca, Sara Bobone, Hugo van Ingen, et al.. (2023). Structural and Functional Characterization of the Newly Designed Antimicrobial Peptide Crabrolin21. Membranes. 13(3). 365–365. 2 indexed citations

Loffredo, Maria Rosa, Sara Bobone, Bruno Casciaro, et al.. (2021). Inoculum effect of antimicrobial peptides. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(21). 63 indexed citations

Anselmi, Massimiliano, Paolo Calligari, Jochen S. Hub, et al.. (2020). Structural Determinants of Phosphopeptide Binding to the N-Terminal Src Homology 2 Domain of the SHP2 Phosphatase. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 60(6). 3157–3171. 17 indexed citations

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Martinelli, Simone, Luca Pannone, Christina Lißewski, et al.. (2020). Pathogenic PTPN11 variants involving the poly‐glutamine Gln ²⁵⁵ ‐Gln ²⁵⁶ ‐Gln ²⁵⁷ stretch highlight the relevance of helix B in SHP2's functional regulation. Human Mutation. 41(6). 1171–1182. 1 indexed citations

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Loffredo, Maria Rosa, Sara Bobone, Nermina Malanović, et al.. (2020). Binding of an antimicrobial peptide to bacterial cells: Interaction with different species, strains and cellular components. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1862(8). 183291–183291. 69 indexed citations

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Vaezi, Zahra, Vincenzo Luca, Maria Luisa Mangoni, et al.. (2019). Aggregation determines the selectivity of membrane-active anticancer and antimicrobial peptides: The case of killerFLIP. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1862(2). 183107–183107. 35 indexed citations

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Salnikov, Evgeniy S., Marta De Zotti, Sara Bobone, et al.. (2019). Trichogin GA IV Alignment and Oligomerization in Phospholipid Bilayers. ChemBioChem. 20(16). 2141–2150. 8 indexed citations

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Mukherjee, Sourav P., Olesja Bondarenko, Pekka Kohonen, et al.. (2018). Macrophage sensing of single-walled carbon nanotubes via Toll-like receptors. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 1115–1115. 55 indexed citations

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Stella, Lorenzo, Zahra Vaezi, Vincenzo De Luca, et al.. (2016). The Role of Thermodynamics in the Activity and Selectivity of Antimicrobial Peptides. Biophysical Journal. 110(3). 75a–76a. 1 indexed citations

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Martinelli, Simone, Aurelio Pio Nardozza, Paola Torreri, et al.. (2012). Counteracting Effects Operating on Src Homology 2 Domain-containing Protein-tyrosine Phosphatase 2 (SHP2) Function Drive Selection of the Recurrent Y62D and Y63C Substitutions in Noonan Syndrome*. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(32). 27066–27077. 26 indexed citations

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Stella, Lorenzo, Gianfranco Bocchinfuso, Emanuela Gatto, et al.. (2010). Different mechanisms of action of antimicrobial peptides: insights from fluorescence spectroscopy experiments and molecular dynamics simulations. Cineca Institutional Research Information System (Tor Vergata University). 6 indexed citations

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Orioni, Barbara, Gianfranco Bocchinfuso, Jin Young Kim, et al.. (2009). Membrane perturbation by the antimicrobial peptide PMAP-23: A fluorescence and molecular dynamics study. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1788(7). 1523–1533. 66 indexed citations

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Stella, Lorenzo, et al.. (2008). Shining a light on peptide-lipid interactions. Fluorescence methods in the study of membrane-active peptides. Cineca Institutional Research Information System (Tor Vergata University). 26(4). 44–46. 4 indexed citations

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Pace, Giuseppina, Mariano Venanzi, P. Castrucci, et al.. (2005). Static and dynamic features of a helical hexapeptide chemisorbed on a gold surface. Materials Science and Engineering C. 26(5-7). 918–923. 11 indexed citations

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