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Genomes and GenesSpecies | Allegra ViaSummaryAffiliation: University of Rome La Sapienza Country: Italy Publications
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Molecular evolution of a gene cluster of serine proteases expressed in the Anopheles gambiae female reproductive tractEmiliano Mancini
Istituto Pasteur Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica e Malattie Infettive, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy
BMC Evol Biol 11:72. 2011..gambiae females...
A structure filter for the Eukaryotic Linear Motif ResourceAllegra Via
Center for Molecular Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, Rome, Italy
BMC Bioinformatics 10:351. 2009..Several tools now use these attributes to classify putative motifs based on confidence of functionality...
3dLOGO: a web server for the identification, analysis and use of conserved protein substructuresAllegra Via
Centre for Molecular Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy
Nucleic Acids Res 35:W416-9. 2007..The 3dLOGO server, with related documentation, is available at http://3dlogo.uniroma2.it/..
SH3-Hunter: discovery of SH3 domain interaction sites in proteinsEnrico Ferraro
Centre for Molecular Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133, Rome, Italy
Nucleic Acids Res 35:W451-4. 2007..The server prediction capability is based on a neural network model integrating high-throughput pep-spot data with structural information extracted from known SH3-peptide complexes...
FunClust: a web server for the identification of structural motifs in a set of non-homologous protein structuresGabriele Ausiello
Centre for Molecular Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
BMC Bioinformatics 9:S2. 2008....
Local comparison of protein structures highlights cases of convergent evolution in analogous functional sitesGabriele Ausiello
Centre for Molecular Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
BMC Bioinformatics 8:S24. 2007..With the purpose of finding new examples of convergent evolution, we selected only those matching sites composed of structural regions whose residue order is inverted in the relative protein sequences...
Query3d: a new method for high-throughput analysis of functional residues in protein structuresGabriele Ausiello
Centre for Molecular Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133 Rome, Italy
BMC Bioinformatics 6:S5. 2005....
A neural strategy for the inference of SH3 domain-peptide interaction specificityEnrico Ferraro
Centre for Molecular Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
BMC Bioinformatics 6:S13. 2005..In this regard, a reliable inference methodology to be used for reducing the sequence space of putative binding peptides represents a valuable support for molecular and cellular biologists...
Investigation of a potential mechanism for the inhibition of SmTGR by Auranofin and its implications for Plasmodium falciparum inhibitionAntonia Caroli
Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 417:576-81. 2012..Our findings support a recently hypothesized molecular mechanism of inhibition for SmTGR and suggest that PfTR is indeed a possible and attractive drug target in P. falciparum...
pdbFun: mass selection and fast comparison of annotated PDB residuesGabriele Ausiello
Centre for Molecular Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133 Rome, Italy
Nucleic Acids Res 33:W133-7. 2005..Possible examples of targets are represented by another selection, a single structure or a dataset composed of many structures. The output is a list of aligned structural matches offered in tabular and also graphical format...
Identification of the Schistosoma mansoni molecular target for the antimalarial drug artemetherRosalba Lepore
Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
J Chem Inf Model 51:3005-16. 2011..Our analysis of the mode of binding of artemether to Ca²⁺-ATPases also provides an explanation for the apparent paradox that, although the molecule has no side effect in humans, it has been shown to possess antitumoral activity...
False occurrences of functional motifs in protein sequences highlight evolutionary constraintsAllegra Via
Centro di Bioinformatica Molecolare, Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Roma
BMC Bioinformatics 8:68. 2007..questions such as: How are organisms protected from undesirable occurrences of motifs otherwise selected for their functionality? Has the random appearance of functional motifs in protein sequences been affected during evolution?..
Exploiting publicly available biological and biochemical information for the discovery of novel short linear motifsAhmed Sayadi
Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
PLoS ONE 6:e22270. 2011..biocomputing.it/modipath)...
On the mechanism of chloroquine resistance in Plasmodium falciparumMauro Chinappi
Department of Biochemical Sciences, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
PLoS ONE 5:e14064. 2010....
A structural study for the optimisation of functional motifs encoded in protein sequencesAllegra Via
Centre for Molecular Bioinformatics, Dept, of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
BMC Bioinformatics 5:50. 2004..If residues structurally conserved in proteins sharing a function cannot be aligned in a multiple sequence alignment, they are likely to be missed in a standard pattern construction procedure...
Seq2Struct: a resource for establishing sequence-structure linksAllegra Via
Department of Biology, Centre for Molecular Bioinformatics, University of Rome Tor Vergata 00133 Rome, Italy
Bioinformatics 21:551-3. 2005..AVAILABILITY: The Seq2Struct resource, with related documentation, is available at http://surface.bio.uniroma2.it/seq2struct/ CONTACT: seq2struct@cbm.bio.uniroma2.it...
From sequence to structural analysis in protein phosphorylation motifsAllegra Via
Biocomputing Group, Department of Biochemical Science A Rossi Fanelli, Sapienza University of Rome, P le Aldo Moro 5, Rome, Italy
Front Biosci 16:1261-75. 2011....
