Vito De Pinto

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
118 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Vito De Pinto is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Clinical Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Vito De Pinto has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 109 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Clinical Biochemistry and 13 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Vito De Pinto's work include Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (86 papers), ATP Synthase and ATPases Research (30 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (24 papers). Vito De Pinto is often cited by papers focused on Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (86 papers), ATP Synthase and ATPases Research (30 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (24 papers). Vito De Pinto collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and United States. Vito De Pinto's co-authors include Angela Messina, Simona Reina, Francesca Guarino, Roland Benz, Ferdinando Palmieri, Varda Shoshan‐Barmatz, Andrea Magrì, Ziv Raviv, Markus Zweckstetter and Nurit Keinan and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Neuroscience and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Vito De Pinto

116 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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VDAC, a multi-functional mitochondrial protein regulating cell life and death

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vito De Pinto Italy	43	4.5k	765	755	661	377	118	5.5k
Fabiana Perocchi Germany	26	4.5k 1.0×	475 0.6×	791 1.0×	637 1.0×	392 1.0×	44	5.3k
Angela Messina Italy	34	2.7k 0.6×	421 0.6×	542 0.7×	814 1.2×	358 0.9×	84	3.8k
Michael Schlame United States	46	6.5k 1.4×	1.4k 1.9×	583 0.8×	827 1.3×	550 1.5×	116	7.7k
Sarah E. Calvo United States	35	6.7k 1.5×	2.0k 2.6×	478 0.6×	724 1.1×	517 1.4×	49	7.8k
Gino Cortopassi United States	35	4.8k 1.1×	1.3k 1.7×	689 0.9×	645 1.0×	253 0.7×	64	6.5k
Carla M. Koehler United States	38	6.1k 1.4×	1.1k 1.5×	341 0.5×	706 1.1×	701 1.9×	65	7.0k
Angelika Bröer Australia	41	2.5k 0.5×	1.0k 1.4×	973 1.3×	611 0.9×	284 0.8×	70	4.9k
Miriam L. Greenberg United States	44	5.6k 1.2×	1.1k 1.4×	501 0.7×	600 0.9×	1.0k 2.7×	137	7.0k
Lester R. Drewes United States	37	2.2k 0.5×	460 0.6×	978 1.3×	1.3k 1.9×	284 0.8×	103	5.3k
Vishal M. Gohil United States	29	3.1k 0.7×	639 0.8×	336 0.4×	454 0.7×	328 0.9×	52	3.9k

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Zimbone, Stefania, Simona Reina, Vito De Pinto, et al.. (2025). VDAC1 ‐Targeted NHK1 Peptide Recovers Mitochondrial Dysfunction Counteracting Amyloid‐β Oligomers Toxicity in Alzheimer's Disease. Aging Cell. 24(7). e70069–e70069. 2 indexed citations

Foti, Paola, Marianna Flora Tomasello, Giuseppe Battiato, et al.. (2024). Phenolic extract from olive mill wastewater sustains mitochondrial bioenergetics upon oxidative insult. Food Chemistry Molecular Sciences. 10. 100234–100234. 1 indexed citations

Foti, Paola, Cinzia Lucia Randazzo, Simona Reina, et al.. (2023). Protective Effect of Treated Olive Mill Wastewater on Target Bacteria and Mitochondrial Voltage-Dependent Anion-Selective Channel 1. Antioxidants. 12(2). 322–322. 4 indexed citations

Pappalardo, Xena Giada, Angela Ostuni, D Luciano, et al.. (2023). Human VDAC pseudogenes: an emerging role for VDAC1P8 pseudogene in acute myeloid leukemia. Biological Research. 56(1). 33–33. 3 indexed citations

Magrì, Andrea, et al.. (2023). VDAC1 Knockout Affects Mitochondrial Oxygen Consumption Triggering a Rearrangement of ETC by Impacting on Complex I Activity. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(4). 3687–3687. 9 indexed citations

Queralt-Martín, María, Lucie Bergdoll, Oscar Teijido, et al.. (2020). A lower affinity to cytosolic proteins reveals VDAC3 isoform-specific role in mitochondrial biology. The Journal of General Physiology. 152(2). 46 indexed citations

Manzo, Giorgia, Ilaria Serra, Andrea Magrì, et al.. (2018). Folded Structure and Membrane Affinity of the N-Terminal Domain of the Three Human Isoforms of the Mitochondrial Voltage-Dependent Anion-Selective Channel. ACS Omega. 3(9). 11415–11425. 10 indexed citations

Saletti, Rosaria, Simona Reina, Andrea Magrì, et al.. (2018). Post-translational modifications of VDAC1 and VDAC2 cysteines from rat liver mitochondria. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1859(9). 806–816. 32 indexed citations

Guardiani, Carlo, Loredana Leggio, Mariano Andrea Scorciapino, Vito De Pinto, & Matteo Ceccarelli. (2016). A computational study of ion current modulation in hVDAC3 induced by disulfide bonds. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1858(4). 813–823. 13 indexed citations

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Reina, Simona, Francesca Guarino, Andrea Magrì, & Vito De Pinto. (2016). VDAC3 As a Potential Marker of Mitochondrial Status Is Involved in Cancer and Pathology. Frontiers in Oncology. 6. 264–264. 52 indexed citations

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Pinto, Vito De, Simona Reina, Ankit Gupta, Angela Messina, & Radhakrishnan Mahalakshmi. (2016). Role of cysteines in mammalian VDAC isoforms' function. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1857(8). 1219–1227. 67 indexed citations

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Saletti, Rosaria, Simona Reina, Ramona Belfiore, et al.. (2016). High resolution mass spectrometry characterization of the oxidation pattern of methionine and cysteine residues in rat liver mitochondria voltage-dependent anion selective channel 3 (VDAC3). Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1859(3). 301–311. 31 indexed citations

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Messina, Angela, Simona Reina, Francesca Guarino, et al.. (2014). Live cell interactome of the human voltage dependent anion channel 3 (VDAC3) revealed in HeLa cells by affinity purification tag technique. Molecular BioSystems. 10(8). 2134–2145. 23 indexed citations

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Reina, Simona, Andrea Magrì, Marco Lolicato, et al.. (2013). Deletion of β-strands 9 and 10 converts VDAC1 voltage-dependence in an asymmetrical process. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1827(6). 793–805. 33 indexed citations

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Pinto, Vito De, Francesca Guarino, Angela Messina, et al.. (2010). Characterization of human VDAC isoforms: A peculiar function for VDAC3?. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1797. 66–66. 7 indexed citations

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Perosa, Federico, et al.. (2009). Two Structurally Different Rituximab-Specific CD20 Mimotope Peptides Reveal That Rituximab Recognizes Two Different CD20-Associated Epitopes. The Journal of Immunology. 182(1). 416–423. 27 indexed citations

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Bellia, Francesco, Vittorio Calabrese, Francesca Guarino, et al.. (2009). Carnosinase Levels in Aging Brain: Redox State Induction and Cellular Stress Response. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 11(11). 2759–2775. 53 indexed citations

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Huizing, Marjan, et al.. (1996). Importance of mitochondrial transmembrane processes in human mitochondriopathies. Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes. 28(2). 109–114. 18 indexed citations

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Pinto, Vito De, et al.. (1990). Positive residues involved in the voltage‐gating of the mitochondrial porin‐channel are localized in the external moiety of the pore. FEBS Letters. 274(1-2). 122–126. 10 indexed citations

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Pinto, Vito De, Roland Benz, Corrado Caggese, & Ferdinando Palmieri. (1989). Characterization of the mitochondrial porin from Drosophila melanogaster. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 987(1). 1–7. 41 indexed citations

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