Roberto Contestabile

3.3k total citations
93 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Roberto Contestabile is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberto Contestabile has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Molecular Biology, 49 papers in Materials Chemistry and 45 papers in Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Roberto Contestabile's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (49 papers), Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism (43 papers) and Biochemical and Molecular Research (28 papers). Roberto Contestabile is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (49 papers), Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism (43 papers) and Biochemical and Molecular Research (28 papers). Roberto Contestabile collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and United Kingdom. Roberto Contestabile's co-authors include Martino L. di Salvo, Alessandro Paiardini, Martin K. Safo, Francesco Bossa, Angela Tramonti, Stefano Pascarella, Francesca Cutruzzolà, Sebastiana Angelaccio, Mirella Vivoli and Rita Florio 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

Roberto Contestabile

90 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roberto Contestabile Italy	29	1.6k	766	733	371	310	93	2.4k
Martino L. di Salvo Italy	30	1.5k 0.9×	829 1.1×	718 1.0×	445 1.2×	289 0.9×	82	2.4k
Alessio Peracchi Italy	28	2.0k 1.2×	609 0.8×	477 0.7×	203 0.5×	148 0.5×	63	2.6k
Jung‐Ja P. Kim United States	36	2.2k 1.4×	402 0.5×	231 0.3×	728 2.0×	89 0.3×	70	3.3k
Jan‐Olov Höög Sweden	33	1.4k 0.8×	221 0.3×	405 0.6×	167 0.5×	57 0.2×	75	2.6k
W. Todd Lowther United States	34	2.7k 1.7×	228 0.3×	649 0.9×	114 0.3×	36 0.1×	63	3.7k
Heidi Erlandsen United States	23	1.4k 0.9×	223 0.3×	212 0.3×	940 2.5×	268 0.9×	39	2.0k
Dashuang Shi United States	24	948 0.6×	344 0.4×	439 0.6×	352 0.9×	38 0.1×	62	1.5k
Marcel Deponte Germany	30	1.8k 1.1×	143 0.2×	408 0.6×	148 0.4×	35 0.1×	67	2.9k
Robert W. Bernlohr United States	24	1.4k 0.9×	409 0.5×	440 0.6×	92 0.2×	83 0.3×	67	2.4k
David P. Bloxham United Kingdom	19	1.1k 0.6×	271 0.4×	302 0.4×	153 0.4×	58 0.2×	68	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Roberto Contestabile

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roberto Contestabile

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Tesoriere, G, Ottavia Giampaoli, Mariangela Spagnoli, et al.. (2025). Vitamin B6 deficiency produces metabolic alterations in Drosophila. Metabolomics. 21(2). 42–42.

Salvo, Martino L. di, Angela Tramonti, Alessio Peracchi, et al.. (2024). One substrate many enzymes virtual screening uncovers missing genes of carnitine biosynthesis in human and mouse. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3199–3199. 4 indexed citations

Parroni, Alessia, et al.. (2023). A gene‐nutrient interaction between vitamin B6 and serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) affects genome integrity in Drosophila. Journal of Cellular Physiology. 238(7). 1558–1566. 3 indexed citations

Exertier, Cécile, Antonio Chaves-Sanjuán, Michail N. Isupov, et al.. (2023). Structural insights into the DNA recognition mechanism by the bacterial transcription factor PdxR. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(15). 8237–8254. 1 indexed citations

Boumis, Giovanna, Roberta Lucchi, Davide Capelli, et al.. (2021). Cytosolic localization and in vitro assembly of human de novo thymidylate synthesis complex. FEBS Journal. 289(6). 1625–1649. 2 indexed citations

Battista, Theo, Annarita Fiorillo, Martino L. di Salvo, et al.. (2021). Identification and characterization of the pyridoxal 5’-phosphate allosteric site in Escherichia coli pyridoxine 5’-phosphate oxidase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 296. 100795–100795. 10 indexed citations

Mills, Philippa B., Martino L. di Salvo, Victoria I. Bunik, et al.. (2021). Characterization of Novel Pathogenic Variants Causing Pyridox(am)ine 5′-Phosphate Oxidase-Dependent Epilepsy. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(21). 12013–12013. 5 indexed citations

Tramonti, Angela, Elisabet Cuyàs, José Antonio Encinar, et al.. (2021). Metformin Is a Pyridoxal-5′-phosphate (PLP)-Competitive Inhibitor of SHMT2. Cancers. 13(16). 4009–4009. 19 indexed citations

Giardina, Giorgio, Alessio Paone, Angela Tramonti, et al.. (2018). The catalytic activity of serine hydroxymethyltransferase is essential for de novo nuclear dTMP synthesis in lung cancer cells. FEBS Journal. 285(17). 3238–3253. 28 indexed citations

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Tramonti, Angela, Alessandro Paiardini, Alessio Paone, et al.. (2018). Differential inhibitory effect of a pyrazolopyran compound on human serine hydroxymethyltransferase-amino acid complexes. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 653. 71–79. 14 indexed citations

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Milano, Teresa, Sebastiana Angelaccio, Angela Tramonti, et al.. (2017). A Comprehensive Computational Analysis of Mycobacterium Genomes Pinpoints the Genes Co-occurring with YczE, a Membrane Protein Coding Gene Under the Putative Control of a MocR, and Predicts its Function. Interdisciplinary Sciences Computational Life Sciences. 10(1). 111–125. 2 indexed citations

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Paiardini, Alessandro, Angela Tramonti, Martino L. di Salvo, et al.. (2016). Differential 3-bromopyruvate inhibition of cytosolic and mitochondrial human serine hydroxymethyltransferase isoforms, key enzymes in cancer metabolic reprogramming. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1864(11). 1506–1517. 34 indexed citations

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Salvo, Martino L. di, Soumya G. Remesh, Mirella Vivoli, et al.. (2013). On the catalytic mechanism and stereospecificity of Escherichia coli l‐threonine aldolase. FEBS Journal. 281(1). 129–145. 66 indexed citations

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Salvo, Martino L. di, Roberto Contestabile, Alessandro Paiardini, & Bruno Maras. (2013). Glycine consumption and mitochondrial serine hydroxymethyltransferase in cancer cells: The heme connection. Medical Hypotheses. 80(5). 633–636. 52 indexed citations

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Florio, Rita, Serena Rinaldo, Roberto Contestabile, et al.. (2011). In silico and in vitro validation of serine hydroxymethyltransferase as a chemotherapeutic target of the antifolate drug pemetrexed. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 46(5). 1616–1621. 49 indexed citations

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Musayev, Faik N., Martino L. di Salvo, Mario Saavedra‐Torres, et al.. (2009). Molecular Basis of Reduced Pyridoxine 5′-Phosphate Oxidase Catalytic Activity in Neonatal Epileptic Encephalopathy Disorder. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(45). 30949–30956. 38 indexed citations

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Amadasi, Alessio, Mariarita Bertoldi, Roberto Contestabile, et al.. (2007). Pyridoxal 5-Phosphate Enzymes as Targets for Therapeutic Agents. Current Medicinal Chemistry. 14(12). 1291–1324. 164 indexed citations

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Contestabile, Roberto, Alessandro Paiardini, Stefano Pascarella, et al.. (2001). l‐Threonine aldolase, serine hydroxymethyltransferase and fungal alanine racemase. European Journal of Biochemistry. 268(24). 6508–6525. 85 indexed citations

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Contestabile, Roberto, Sebastiana Angelaccio, Robin Maytum, Francesco Bossa, & Robert A. John. (2000). The Contribution of a Conformationally Mobile, Active Site Loop to the Reaction Catalyzed by Glutamate Semialdehyde Aminomutase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 275(6). 3879–3886. 17 indexed citations

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Contestabile, Roberto & Robert A. John. (1996). The Mechanism of High‐Yielding Chiral Syntheses Catalysed by Wild‐Type and Mutant Forms of Aspartate Aminotransferase. European Journal of Biochemistry. 240(1). 150–155. 4 indexed citations

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