Nicole Balasco

1.0k total citations
59 papers, 819 citations indexed

About

Nicole Balasco is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicole Balasco has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 819 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Materials Chemistry and 13 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Nicole Balasco's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (25 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (21 papers) and Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (11 papers). Nicole Balasco is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (25 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (21 papers) and Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (11 papers). Nicole Balasco collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and United States. Nicole Balasco's co-authors include Luigi Vitagliano, Giovanni Smaldone, Luciana Esposito, Carlo Diaferia, Giancarlo Morelli, Antonella Accardo, Cinzia Giannini, Teresa Sibillano, Sonia Di Gaetano and Luciano Pirone and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B and Langmuir.

In The Last Decade

Nicole Balasco

56 papers receiving 818 citations

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicole Balasco Italy	18	538	196	193	101	65	59	819
Haleh Abdizadeh Türkiye	11	459 0.9×	80 0.4×	82 0.4×	61 0.6×	49 0.8×	13	625
Christopher Bystroff United States	15	756 1.4×	55 0.3×	301 1.6×	42 0.4×	84 1.3×	32	1.0k
Sonali B. Fonseca Canada	8	940 1.7×	211 1.1×	118 0.6×	145 1.4×	70 1.1×	8	1.3k
Alessandro Spilotros Germany	10	431 0.8×	52 0.3×	234 1.2×	51 0.5×	36 0.6×	15	702
Dalit Shental-Bechor Israel	12	848 1.6×	38 0.2×	140 0.7×	167 1.7×	54 0.8×	15	1.0k
Hae‐Kap Cheong South Korea	21	773 1.4×	57 0.3×	99 0.5×	127 1.3×	75 1.2×	61	1.2k
Alejandro De María Antolinos France	6	433 0.8×	42 0.2×	201 1.0×	49 0.5×	58 0.9×	7	622
Wendy A. Breyer United States	8	382 0.7×	42 0.2×	116 0.6×	46 0.5×	60 0.9×	9	649
Maya J. Pandya United Kingdom	13	529 1.0×	248 1.3×	80 0.4×	112 1.1×	35 0.5×	18	760
Martha G. Oakley United States	17	861 1.6×	79 0.4×	131 0.7×	149 1.5×	117 1.8×	28	1.1k

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Balasco, Nicole, Nazanine Modjtahedi, Alessandra Monti, et al.. (2025). CHCHD4 Oxidoreductase Activity: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Molecular, Functional, and Structural Properties of Its Redox-Regulated Substrates. Molecules. 30(10). 2117–2117.

Balasco, Nicole, Alessia Ruggiero, Giovanni Smaldone, et al.. (2024). Structural studies of KCTD1 and its disease-causing mutant P20S provide insights into the protein function and misfunction. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 277(Pt 4). 134390–134390. 3 indexed citations

Balasco, Nicole, Davide Altamura, Pasqualina Liana Scognamiglio, et al.. (2024). Self-Assembled Materials Based on Fully Aromatic Peptides: The Impact of Tryptophan, Tyrosine, and Dopa Residues. Langmuir. 40(2). 1470–1486. 9 indexed citations

Balasco, Nicole, Carlo Diaferia, Elisabetta Rosa, et al.. (2023). A Comprehensive Analysis of the Intrinsic Visible Fluorescence Emitted by Peptide/Protein Amyloid-like Assemblies. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(9). 8372–8372. 16 indexed citations

Troisi, Romualdo, Nicole Balasco, Ida Autiero, Luigi Vitagliano, & Filomena Sica. (2023). Structural Insights into Protein–Aptamer Recognitions Emerged from Experimental and Computational Studies. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(22). 16318–16318. 8 indexed citations

Balasco, Nicole, Luciana Esposito, Alfonso De Simone, & Luigi Vitagliano. (2022). Local Backbone Geometry Plays a Critical Role in Determining Conformational Preferences of Amino Acid Residues in Proteins. Biomolecules. 12(9). 1184–1184. 2 indexed citations

Esposito, Luciana, Nicole Balasco, Giovanni Smaldone, et al.. (2021). AlphaFold-Predicted Structures of KCTD Proteins Unravel Previously Undetected Relationships among the Members of the Family. Biomolecules. 11(12). 1862–1862. 22 indexed citations

Balasco, Nicole, Vincenzo d’Alessandro, Pietro Ferrara, Giovanni Smaldone, & Luigi Vitagliano. (2021). Analysis of the time evolution of COVID-19 lethality during the first epidemic wave in Italy.. PubMed. 92(2). e2021171–e2021171. 18 indexed citations

Balasco, Nicole, Luciana Esposito, Flavia Villani, et al.. (2021). A global analysis of conservative and non-conservative mutations in SARS-CoV-2 detected in the first year of the COVID-19 world-wide diffusion. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 24495–24495. 6 indexed citations

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Diaferia, Carlo, Elisabetta Rosa, Nicole Balasco, et al.. (2021). The Introduction of a Cysteine Residue Modulates The Mechanical Properties of Aromatic‐Based Solid Aggregates and Self‐Supporting Hydrogels. Chemistry - A European Journal. 27(60). 14886–14898. 17 indexed citations

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Troisi, Romualdo, Nicole Balasco, Luigi Vitagliano, & Filomena Sica. (2020). Molecular dynamics simulations of human α-thrombin in different structural contexts: evidence for an aptamer-guided cooperation between the two exosites. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 39(6). 2199–2209. 15 indexed citations

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Balasco, Nicole, Giovanni Smaldone, Pompea Del Vecchio, et al.. (2019). The characterization of Thermotoga maritima Arginine Binding Protein variants demonstrates that minimal local strains have an important impact on protein stability. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 6617–6617. 7 indexed citations

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Ricciardelli, Annarita, Angela Casillo, Alessandro Vergara, et al.. (2018). Environmental conditions shape the biofilm of the Antarctic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAC125. Microbiological Research. 218. 66–75. 31 indexed citations

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Balasco, Nicole, Daniela Barone, Annamaria Sandomenico, et al.. (2018). Intrinsic structural versatility of the highly conserved 412–423 epitope of the Hepatitis C Virus E2 protein. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 116. 620–632. 7 indexed citations

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Mazzarella, L., et al.. (2018). Crystal structure of the ferric homotetrameric β 4 human hemoglobin. Biophysical Chemistry. 240. 9–14. 4 indexed citations

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Balasco, Nicole, Giovanni Smaldone, Alessia Ruggiero, Alfonso De Simone, & Luigi Vitagliano. (2018). Local structural motifs in proteins: Detection and characterization of fragments inserted in helices. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 118. 1924–1930. 6 indexed citations

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Diaferia, Carlo, Nicole Balasco, Teresa Sibillano, et al.. (2018). Structural Characterization of Self‐Assembled Tetra‐Tryptophan Based Nanostructures: Variations on a Common Theme. ChemPhysChem. 19(13). 1635–1642. 24 indexed citations

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Balasco, Nicole, et al.. (2017). Dissection of Factors Affecting the Variability of the Peptide Bond Geometry and Planarity. BioMed Research International. 2017. 1–9. 13 indexed citations

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Giudice, Alessandra Del, Claudia Leggio, Nicole Balasco, Luciano Galantini, & Nicolae Viorel Pavel. (2014). Ibuprofen and Propofol Cobinding Effect on Human Serum Albumin Unfolding in Urea. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 118(34). 10043–10051. 11 indexed citations

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Balasco, Nicole, Luciana Esposito, Alfonso De Simone, & Luigi Vitagliano. (2013). Role of loops connecting secondary structure elements in the stabilization of proteins isolated from thermophilic organisms. Protein Science. 22(7). 1016–1023. 20 indexed citations

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