Marco Nardini

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
118 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Marco Nardini is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Marco Nardini has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Molecular Biology, 54 papers in Cell Biology and 29 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Marco Nardini's work include Hemoglobin structure and function (51 papers), Neonatal Health and Biochemistry (29 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (22 papers). Marco Nardini is often cited by papers focused on Hemoglobin structure and function (51 papers), Neonatal Health and Biochemistry (29 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (22 papers). Marco Nardini collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Belgium and United States. Marco Nardini's co-authors include Bauke W. Dijkstra, Martino Bolognesi, Alessandra Pesce, Paolo Ascenzi, Luc Moëns, Sylvia Dewilde, Dietmar Lang, Karl‐Erich Jaeger, Klaus Liebeton and Thorsten Burmester and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Marco Nardini

117 papers receiving 4.8k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marco Nardini Italy	37	3.4k	1.4k	483	450	425	118	4.9k
Menico Rizzi Italy	39	2.6k 0.8×	741 0.5×	229 0.5×	196 0.4×	299 0.7×	119	4.4k
Francesca Cutruzzolà Italy	37	3.1k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	147 0.3×	209 0.5×	559 1.3×	145	4.6k
Massimo Coletta Italy	43	3.9k 1.1×	2.6k 1.8×	177 0.4×	707 1.6×	1.6k 3.8×	316	7.0k
Nechama S. Kosower Israel	40	3.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	288 0.6×	348 0.8×	1.1k 2.6×	118	6.0k
Andrea Mozzarelli Italy	46	4.9k 1.4×	2.0k 1.5×	313 0.6×	538 1.2×	932 2.2×	237	7.2k
Winfried Haase Germany	42	4.0k 1.2×	524 0.4×	291 0.6×	196 0.4×	502 1.2×	138	5.7k
W.R. Montfort United States	46	4.0k 1.2×	1.5k 1.1×	439 0.9×	162 0.4×	939 2.2×	93	6.3k
Reinhart A.F. Reithmeier Canada	45	4.5k 1.3×	920 0.7×	175 0.4×	733 1.6×	1.7k 4.1×	133	6.2k
Michał Dadlez Poland	42	3.8k 1.1×	885 0.6×	768 1.6×	78 0.2×	661 1.6×	187	5.5k
Avner Schlessinger United States	41	4.2k 1.2×	360 0.3×	341 0.7×	187 0.4×	207 0.5×	110	6.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marco Nardini

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Gourlay, Louise J., Marco Mangiagalli, Elisabetta Moroni, Marina Lotti, & Marco Nardini. (2024). Structural determinants of cold activity and glucose tolerance of a family 1 glycoside hydrolase ( GH1 ) from Antarctic Marinomonas sp. ef1. FEBS Journal. 291(13). 2897–2917. 5 indexed citations

Bernardini, Andrea, Mariangela Lorenzo, Antonio Chaves-Sanjuán, et al.. (2021). The USR domain of USF1 mediates NF-Y interactions and cooperative DNA binding. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 193(Pt A). 401–413. 7 indexed citations

Mangiagalli, Marco, Marco Orlando, Stefania Brocca, et al.. (2020). The co‐existence of cold activity and thermal stability in an Antarctic GH42 β‐galactosidase relies on its hexameric quaternary arrangement. FEBS Journal. 288(2). 546–565. 38 indexed citations

Mangiagalli, Marco, Aleksei Kaleda, Maya Bar Dolev, et al.. (2018). Structure of a bacterial ice binding protein with two faces of interaction with ice. FEBS Journal. 285(9). 1653–1666. 23 indexed citations

Kaleda, Aleksei, Marco Mangiagalli, Maya Bar Dolev, et al.. (2018). Saturn-Shaped Ice Burst Pattern and Fast Basal Binding of an Ice-Binding Protein from an Antarctic Bacterial Consortium. Langmuir. 35(23). 7337–7346. 13 indexed citations

Pesce, Alessandra, Juan P. Bustamante, Axel Bidon‐Chanal, et al.. (2015). The N‐terminal pre‐A region of Mycobacterium tuberculosis 2/2HbN promotes NO‐dioxygenase activity. FEBS Journal. 283(2). 305–322. 11 indexed citations

Pesce, Alessandra, Martino Bolognesi, & Marco Nardini. (2013). The Diversity of 2/2 (Truncated) Globins. Advances in microbial physiology. 63. 49–78. 38 indexed citations

Carzaniga, Thomas, Marco Nardini, Maria Elena Regonesi, et al.. (2013). A conserved loop in polynucleotide phosphorylase (PNPase) essential for both RNA and ADP/phosphate binding. Biochimie. 97. 49–59. 12 indexed citations

Bucchi, Annalisa, Mirko Baruscotti, Marco Nardini, et al.. (2013). Identification of the Molecular Site of Ivabradine Binding to HCN4 Channels. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e53132–e53132. 53 indexed citations

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Germani, Francesca, Alessandra Pesce, Luc Moëns, et al.. (2012). High Resolution Crystal Structures of the Cerebratulus lacteus Mini-Hb in the Unligated and Carbomonoxy States. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 13(7). 8025–8037. 4 indexed citations

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Pesce, Alessandra, Marco Nardini, Sylvia Dewilde, et al.. (2010). Ligand Migration in the Apolar Tunnel of Cerebratulus lacteus Mini-Hemoglobin. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(7). 5347–5358. 21 indexed citations

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Gourlay, Louise J., Silvia Sommaruga, Marco Nardini, et al.. (2010). Probing the active site of the sugar isomerase domain from E. coli arabinose‐5‐phosphate isomerase via X‐ray crystallography. Protein Science. 19(12). 2430–2439. 18 indexed citations

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Nardini, Marco, Carmen Valente, Stéfano Ricagno, et al.. (2009). CtBP1/BARS Gly172 → Glu mutant structure: Impairing NAD(H)-binding and dimerization. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 381(1). 70–74. 14 indexed citations

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Pesce, Alessandra, Liesbet Thijs, Marco Nardini, et al.. (2008). HisE11 and HisF8 Provide Bis-histidyl Heme Hexa-coordination in the Globin Domain of Geobacter sulfurreducens Globin-coupled Sensor. Journal of Molecular Biology. 386(1). 246–260. 46 indexed citations

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Nienhaus, Karin, G. Ulrich Nienhaus, Sylvia Dewilde, et al.. (2008). The Apolar Channel in Cerebratulus lacteus Hemoglobin Is the Route for O2 Entry and Exit. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(51). 35689–35702. 31 indexed citations

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Pesce, Alessandra, Marco Nardini, Sylvia Dewilde, et al.. (2005). Modulation of oxygen binding to insect hemoglobins: The structure of hemoglobin from the botfly Gasterophilus intestinalis. Protein Science. 14(12). 3057–3063. 6 indexed citations

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Pesce, Alessandra, Sylvia Dewilde, Marco Nardini, et al.. (2003). Human Brain Neuroglobin Structure Reveals a Distinct Mode of Controlling Oxygen Affinity. Structure. 11(9). 1087–1095. 279 indexed citations

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Nardini, Marco, Stefania Spanò, Claudia Cericola, et al.. (2002). Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of brefeldin A-ADP ribosylated substrate (BARS). Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 58(6). 1068–1070. 11 indexed citations

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Nardini, Marco, Alessandra Pesce, Menico Rizzi, et al.. (1996). Human α-Thrombin Inhibition by the Active Site Titrant Nα-(N,N-dimethylcarbamoyl)-α-azalysine p-nitrophenyl ester: A Comparative Kinetic and X-ray Crystallographic Study. Journal of Molecular Biology. 258(5). 851–859. 13 indexed citations

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Nardini, Marco, Cataldo Tarricone, Menico Rizzi, et al.. (1995). Reptile Heme Protein Structure: X-ray Crystallographic Study of the Aquo-met and Cyano-met Derivatives of the Loggerhead Sea Turle (Caretta caretta) Myoglobin at 2.0 Å Resolution. Journal of Molecular Biology. 247(3). 459–465. 22 indexed citations

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