Luca Mollica

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Luca Mollica is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Mollica has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Materials Chemistry and 8 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Luca Mollica's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (18 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (8 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (5 papers). Luca Mollica is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (18 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (8 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (5 papers). Luca Mollica collaborates with scholars based in Italy, France and United States. Luca Mollica's co-authors include Giovanna Musco, Martin Blackledge, Andrea Spitaleri, Andrea Cavalli, Malene Ringkjøbing Jensen, Marco E. Bianchi, Francesco De Marchis, A Agresti, Moreno Zamai and Massimiliano Gaetani and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Luca Mollica

57 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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.

Glycyrrhizin Binds to High-Mobility Group Box 1 Protein and Inhibits Its Cytokine Activities

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luca Mollica Italy	25	1.3k	395	281	264	206	59	2.3k
Andrea Spitaleri Italy	27	1.0k 0.8×	239 0.6×	195 0.7×	279 1.1×	61 0.3×	48	2.0k
M. Sundström Sweden	23	2.4k 1.9×	296 0.7×	293 1.0×	300 1.1×	87 0.4×	40	3.4k
Tadashi Okamura Japan	34	1.6k 1.3×	677 1.7×	158 0.6×	94 0.4×	191 0.9×	129	3.8k
Marta Vilaseca Spain	33	1.3k 1.0×	90 0.2×	176 0.6×	484 1.8×	94 0.5×	102	2.8k
M. Stihle Switzerland	23	1.7k 1.3×	362 0.9×	324 1.2×	39 0.1×	129 0.6×	29	2.8k
Ralf Thoma Switzerland	23	1.3k 1.1×	90 0.2×	416 1.5×	88 0.3×	207 1.0×	33	2.3k
David P. Cistola United States	35	2.6k 2.0×	165 0.4×	302 1.1×	257 1.0×	152 0.7×	76	3.9k
Koji Ogata Japan	26	1.2k 1.0×	570 1.4×	199 0.7×	67 0.3×	117 0.6×	84	2.7k
Rachelle J. Bienstock United States	23	1.2k 0.9×	178 0.5×	50 0.2×	208 0.8×	135 0.7×	39	2.0k
Giovanna Scapin United States	37	3.1k 2.4×	317 0.8×	753 2.7×	95 0.4×	354 1.7×	85	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Luca Mollica

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luca Mollica

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D’Onofrio, Mariapina, et al.. (2025). Multiple and Alternative Sites Make Tau Protein an Adaptable Sticky Surface for the SH3 Domain of Fyn Kinase. Angewandte Chemie. 137(28). 1 indexed citations

Arrigoni, Federica, et al.. (2024). A conserved acidic residue drives thyroxine synthesis within thyroglobulin and other protein precursors. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(1). 108026–108026.

Tagliaferri, Barbara, Luca Mollica, Alberto Malovini, et al.. (2023). Health-related quality of life and clinical complexity of a real-life cohort of patients with advanced HR+/HER2– breast cancer treated with CDK4/6 inhibitors and endocrine therapy. Drugs in Context. 12(12). 1–14. 1 indexed citations

Rondelli, Valeria, Luca Mollica, Alexandros Koutsioubas, et al.. (2022). Carbohydrate-carbohydrate interaction drives the preferential insertion of dirhamnolipid into glycosphingolipid enriched membranes. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 616. 739–748. 4 indexed citations

Munari, Francesca, Luca Mollica, Giorgio Arrigoni, et al.. (2022). Structural Basis for Chaperone‐Independent Ubiquitination of Tau Protein by Its E3 Ligase CHIP. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(15). e202112374–e202112374. 17 indexed citations

Morasso, Carlo, Daisy Sproviero, Marta Truffi, et al.. (2021). Fast quantification of extracellular vesicles levels in early breast cancer patients by Single Molecule Detection Array (SiMoA). Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 192(1). 65–74. 23 indexed citations

Bernetti, Mattia, Elena Rosini, Luca Mollica, et al.. (2018). Binding Residence Time through Scaled Molecular Dynamics: A Prospective Application to hDAAO Inhibitors. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 58(11). 2255–2265. 22 indexed citations

Bernetti, Mattia, Matteo Masetti, Fabio Pietrucci, et al.. (2017). Structural and Kinetic Characterization of the Intrinsically Disordered Protein SeV N_TAIL through Enhanced Sampling Simulations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 121(41). 9572–9582. 23 indexed citations

Guerry, Paul, Loïc Salmon, Luca Mollica, et al.. (2013). Mapping the Population of Protein Conformational Energy Sub‐States from NMR Dipolar Couplings. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(11). 3181–3185. 41 indexed citations

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Guerry, Paul, Loïc Salmon, Luca Mollica, et al.. (2013). Mapping the Population of Protein Conformational Energy Sub‐States from NMR Dipolar Couplings. Angewandte Chemie. 125(11). 3263–3267. 1 indexed citations

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Guerry, Paul, Luca Mollica, & Martin Blackledge. (2013). Mapping Protein Conformational Energy Landscapes Using NMR and Molecular Simulation. ChemPhysChem. 14(13). 3046–3058. 14 indexed citations

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Pietrucci, Fabio, Luca Mollica, & Martin Blackledge. (2013). Mapping the Native Conformational Ensemble of Proteins from a Combination of Simulations and Experiments: New Insight into the src-SH3 Domain. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 4(11). 1943–1948. 13 indexed citations

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Gaetani, Massimiliano, Vittoria Matafora, Mario Saare, et al.. (2012). AIRE-PHD fingers are structural hubs to maintain the integrity of chromatin-associated interactome. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(22). 11756–11768. 30 indexed citations

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Salmon, Loïc, Levi Pierce, Alexander Grimm, et al.. (2012). Multi‐Timescale Conformational Dynamics of the SH3 Domain of CD2‐Associated Protein using NMR Spectroscopy and Accelerated Molecular Dynamics. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 51(25). 6103–6106. 29 indexed citations

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Mollica, Luca, Maria Baias, Józef R. Lewandowski, et al.. (2012). Atomic-Resolution Structural Dynamics in Crystalline Proteins from NMR and Molecular Simulation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 3(23). 3657–3662. 43 indexed citations

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Schneider, Robert C., Jie‐rong Huang, Mingxi Yao, et al.. (2011). Towards a robust description of intrinsic protein disorder using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Molecular BioSystems. 8(1). 58–68. 88 indexed citations

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Mollica, Luca, Giulia Morra, Giorgio Colombo, & Giovanna Musco. (2011). HMGB1–Carbenoxolone Interactions: Dynamics Insights from Combined Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Molecular Dynamics. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 6(5). 1171–1180. 11 indexed citations

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Burastero, Samuele E., et al.. (2009). Protective versus pathogenic anti-CD4 immunity: insights from the study of natural resistance to HIV infection. Journal of Translational Medicine. 7(1). 101–101. 5 indexed citations

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Org, Tõnis, Francesca Chignola, Csaba Hetényi, et al.. (2008). The autoimmune regulator PHD finger binds to non-methylated histone H3K4 to activate gene expression. EMBO Reports. 9(4). 370–376. 89 indexed citations

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Salmona, Mario, Michela Morbin, Tania Massignan, et al.. (2003). Structural Properties of Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker Disease Amyloid Protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(48). 48146–48153. 66 indexed citations

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