Full Professor of Molecular Biology, (1 November 2016-date), Department of Biochemical Sciences, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Director of the PhD School in Biochemistry (2017-2023)
Associate Professor, (from 27 December 2012-31 October 2016), Department of Biochemical Sciences, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Visiting Professor (from 30 May 2013-July 2016), Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
Researcher, (from 30 December 2005) Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, CNR, Rome, Italy.
Postdoctoral fellow, (1 June 2005 - 28 December 2005) Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti.
Research Assistant, (1 March 2004 - 31 May 2005), University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
Visiting Scientist, (1 October 2001 – 31 December 2003) Centre for Protein Engineering, Medical Research Council, Cambridge, UK, with Professor Alan Fersht.
Education:
Degree, in Biological Sciences, 110/110 cum laude, 14 December 1999. Sapienza, University of Rome
PhD in Biochemistry, 27 March 2003. Title: Snapshots of Protein folding. The folding pathway of cytochrome c551 from Pseudomonas Aeruginosa. University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
Editorial activities:
Editorial Board Member of Current Opinion in Structural Biology (Elsevier; 2024-date); Biophysical Chemistry (Elsevier; 2015-2020), Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group; 2013-date), Protein Engineering Design & Selection (Oxford Journals; 2008-2016), Protein and Peptide Letter (Bentham Science; 2021-date), Int J Mol Sci (MDPI; 2021-date), Life (MDPI; Editor-in-chief; 2021-date); Biology Direct (Springer Nature; 2022-date)
Awards and Prizes:
-May 2009 Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze, detta dei XL, e Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. “Vincenzo Caglioti" International Prize for Chemistry.
-May 2013 EMBO fellowship
- 2014 - 2018 Elected Member of the Global Young Academy
- 2018 - date Elected Member of the Scientific Board, Pasteur Institute, Italy
- 2019 - date Elected Member of the Academia Europeae (section Molecular Biology)
- September 2020 Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. “Luigi Tartufari" International Prize for Biological Sciences
- September 2020 Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze, detta dei XL. “Emilia Chiancone Medal" for Biological Chemistry.
- June 2024 Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. “Antonio Feltrinelli" Prize for Physiology, Biochemistry, Pharmacology and Neurosciences
Invited Talks and seminars:
Prof. Gianni has contributed over 40 talks and seminars in international conferences.
Selected Invited Presentations:
-21 July 2007 Protein Society Conference “Proteins from Birth to Death”, Boston, USA. -14-18 June 2009 VIII European Protein Society Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland
-23-24 September 2010 Conference “Twenty years of Protein Engineering”, Cambridge, UK,
-1-3 December 2010 Conference “Protein Structure and Dynamics”, Accademia dei Lincei Rome, Italy
- 25-30 June 2011 36th FEBS Congress, Turin, Italy.
-25-26 September 2012 Conference “Proteine 2012”, Chieti, Italy
-28-30 May 2018 “Proteine 2018”, Verona, Italy
-23 September 2018 “FISV Conference”, Rome, Italy
-1 August 2023, European Biophysical Society, Stockholm, Sweden
-11 June 2024, EU MORSBI International Conference, Lubjana, Slovenia
FUNDING
Prof. Gianni has been the Beneficiary of several research grants as Principal Investigator, including:
PASTEUR UNDER 40 (2013-2016, 90k Euro)
AIRC MFAG GRANT (2016-2019, 300k Euro)
EU ETN PDZnet (2016-2020, 250k Euro)
EU ETN UBIMOTIF (2020-2024, 250k Euro)
Lazio INNOVA (2021-2023, 100k Euro)
AIRC IG GRANT (2021-2025, 400k Euro)
PNRR – Paternariato Esteso – Age-it Spoke 2 (2023-2026. 300k Euro)
EU ETN IDPro (2023-2027, 250k Euro)
SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION:
Prof. Gianni is author of about 165 scientific publications in international peer-reviewed scientific journals, with over 4500 citations and an H index of 39.
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS:
1) Gianni, S., Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., Cutruzzolà, F., Bigotti, M.G. & Brunori, M. (2001). Snapshots of protein folding. A study on the multiple transition state pathway of cytochrome c551 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J. Mol. Biol., 309, 1177-87.
2) Gianni, S., Brunori, M. & Travaglini-Allocatelli, C. (2001). Refolding kinetics of cytochrome c551 reveals mechanistic defference between urea and guanidine. Protein Science, 10, 1685-1688
3) Arcovito, A., Gianni, S., Brunori, M., Travaglini-Allocatelli, C. & Bellelli, A. (2001). Fast coordination changes in cytochrome c do not necessarily imply folding. J. Biol. Chem. 276, 41073-41078.
4) Brunori, M., Bigotti, M.G., Cutruzzolà, F., Gianni, S. & Travaglini-Allocatelli, C. (2003) Cytochrome c551 as a model system for protein folding. Biophys. Chem. 100, 409-419.
5) Gianni, S., Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., Cutruzzolà, F., Brunori, M., Ramachandra Shastry, M.C. & Roder, H. (2003) Parallel pathways in cytochrome c551 folding. J. Mol. Biol. 330, 1145-1152 .
6) Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., Gianni, S., Morea, V., Tramontano, A., Soulimane, T. & Brunori, M. (2003) Exploring the cytochrome c folding mechanisms: cyt c552 from Thermus thermophilus folds through an on-pathway intermediate. J. Biol. Chem., 278, 41136-41140 .
7) Gianni, S., Guydosh, N.R., Khan, F., Caldas, T.D., Mayor, U., White, G.W.N., DeMarco, M.L., Daggett, V. & Fersht A.R. (2003) Unifying features in protein folding mechanisms. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA, 100, 13286-13291.
8) Khan, F., Chuang, J.I., Gianni, S. and Fersht, A.R. (2003) The kinetic pathway of folding of barnase. J. Mol. Biol., 333, 169-186.
9) Gianni, S., Mayor, U. and Fersht, A.R. (2003) Structural insights in the folding of single domain proteins. Ital. J. Biochem., 52, 157-161.
10) Jemth, P.*, Gianni S.*, Day, R., Li, B., Johnson, C.M., Daggett, V. and Fersht, A.R. (2004) Demonstration of a low-energy on-pathway intermediate in a fast-folding protein by kinetics, protein engineering, and simulation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA, 101, 6450-6455.
11) Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., Gianni, S. and Brunori, M. (2004) A common folding mechanism in the cytochrome c family. Trends Bioch. Sci., 29, 535-541.
12) White, G.W.N.*, Gianni, S.*, Grossman, J.G., Jemth, P., Fersht, A.R., and Daggett, V. (2005) Simulation and Experiment Conspire to reveal Cryptic Intermediates and the Slide from Framework to Nucleation-Condensation Mechanism in the Folding of the Homeodomain Superfamily. J. Mol. Biol., 350, 757-775.
13) Jemth, P., Day, R., Gianni, S., Khan, F., Allen, M. D., Daggett, V., and Fersht, A. R. (2005) The structure of the major transition state for folding of an FF domain from experiment and simulation. J. Mol. Biol., 350, 363-378
14) Travaglini-Allocatelli, C.*, Gianni, S.*, Dubey, V.K., Borgia, A., Di Matteo, A., Bonivento, D., Cutruzzolà, F., Bren, K.L. and Brunori, M. (2005) An obligatory intermediate in the folding of cytochrome c552 from Hydrogenobacter thermophilus. J. Biol. Chem., 280, 25729-25734
15) Gianni S., Calosci, N., Aelen, J., Vuister, G.W., Brunori, M. and Travaglini-Allocatelli C. (2005) Kinetic folding mechanism of PDZ2 from PTP-BL, Protein Eng. Des. Sel., 18, 389-395.
16) Gianni, S., Engström, A., Larsson, M., Calosci, N., Malatesta, F., Eklund, L., Ngang, C.C., Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., and Jemth P., (2005) The Kinetics Of Pdz Domain – Ligand Interactions And Implications For The Binding Mechanism, J. Biol. Chem., 280, 34805-34812.
17) Chi, C.N, Engstrom, Å, Gianni, S., Larsson, M. and Jemth, P. (2006) Two conserved residues govern the salt and pH dependencies of the binding reaction of a PDZ domain. J.Biol. Chem., 281, 36811-36888.
18) Gianni, S., Walma, T., Arcovito, A., Calosci, N., Bellelli, A., Engstrom, Å, Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., Brunori, M., Jemth, P. and Vuister, G.W. (2006) Demonstration of long-range interactions in a PDZ domain by NMR, kinetics, and protein engineering. Structure, 14, 1801-1809.
19) Gianni, S., Geeierhaas, C.D., Calosci, N., Jemth, P., Vuister, G.W., Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., Vendruscolo, M. and Brunori M. (2007) A PDZ domain recapitulates a unifying mechanism for protein folding. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA, 104, 128-133.
20) Federici, L., Masulli, M., Bonivento, D., Di Matteo, A., Gianni, S., Favaloro, B., Di Ilio, C. and Allocati, N., (2007) Role of Ser11 in the stabilization of the structure of Ochrobactrum anthropi glutathione transferase. Biochem J. 2007 403, 267-274
21) Ivarsson, Y., Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., Jemth, P., Malatesta, F., Brunori, M. and Gianni, S.† (2007) An on-pathway intermediate in the folding of a PDZ domain.
J Biol Chem. 282, 8568-8572
22) Chi, C.N*, Gianni, S.*†, Calosci, N., Travaglini-Allocatelli, C. Engstrom, Å, and Jemth, P. (2007) A conserved folding mechanism for PDZ domains. FEBS Letters 2007 581, 1109-1113.
23) Gianni, S.†, Ivarsson, Y., Jemth, P., Brunori, M., Travaglini-Allocatelli, C. (2007) Identification and characterization of protein folding intermediates. Biophys. Chem 128, 105-113.
24) Gianni, S., Brunori, M., Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., (2007) Plasticity of the protein folding landscape: switching between on and off-pathway intermediates Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 466 172-176.
25) Di Matteo, A., Gianni, S., Schininà, M.E., Giorgi, A., Altieri, F., Calosci, N., Brunori, M., Travaglini-Allocatelli, C. (2007) A strategic protein in cytochrome c maturation: 3D structure of CcmH and binding to apocytochrome c. J. Biol. Chem. 282, 27012-27019.
26) Jemth, P., Gianni, S.† (2007) PDZ domains: folding and binding. Biochemistry 46, 8701-8708
27) Gianni, S.†, Ivarsson, Y., Bah, A., Bush-Pelic, L.A., Di Cera, E. (2007) Mechanism of Na(+) binding to thrombin resolved by ultra-rapid kinetics. Biophys. Chem. 131, 111-114.
28) Ivarsson, Y., Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., Morea, V., Brunori, M., Gianni, S.† (2008) The folding pathway of an engineered circularly permuted PDZ domain. Protein Eng. Des. Sel 21 155-160.
29) Ivarsson, Y., Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., Brunori, M., Gianni, S.† (2008) Mechanisms of proten folding. Eur. Biophys. J. 37, 721-728
30) Jemth, P., Johnson, C.M., Gianni, S., Fersht, A.R. (2008) Demonstration by burst phase analysis of a robust folding intermediate in the FF domain Protein Eng. Des. Sel. 21, 207-214.
31) Ivarsson, Y, Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., Brunori, M., Gianni, S.†, (2008) Folding and Misfolding in a naturally circularly permuted PDZ domain. J. Biol. Chem. 283, 8954-8960.
32) Borgia, A., Gianni, S., Brunori, M., Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., (2008) Fast folding kinetics and stabilization of apo-cytochrome c FEBS Letters .582 1003-1007.
33) Parrini, C., Bemporad, F., Baroncelli, A., Gianni, S., Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., Kohn, J.E., Ramazzotti, M., Chiti, F., Taddei, N., (2008) The folding process of acylphosphatase from Escherichia coli is remarkably accelerated by the presence of a disulfide bond. J. Mol. Biol. 379, 1107-1118.
34) Calosci, N., Chi, C.N., Richter, B., Camilloni, C., Engstrom, A, Eklund, L, Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., Gianni, S.†, Vendruscolo, M.†, Jemth, P.†, (2008) Comparison of successive transition states for folding reveals alternative early folding pathways of two homologous proteins Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 105, 19241-19246.
35) Sicorello, A., Torrassa, S., Soldi, G., Gianni, S., Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., Taddei, N., Relini, A., Chiti, F., (2009) Agitation and high ionic strength induce amyloidogenesis of a folded PDZ domain in native conditions Biophys. J 96, 2289-2298.
36) Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., Ivarsson, Y., Jemth, P., and Gianni, S.,† (2009) Folding and stability of globular proteins and implications for function. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 19, 3-7.
37) Scaloni, F., Gianni, S., Federici, L., Falini, B., Brunori, M. (2009) Folding mechanism of the C-terminal domain of nucleophosmin: residual structure in the denatured state and its pathophysiological significance. FASEB J. 23, 2360-2365.
38) Federici, L., Masulli, M., Gianni, S., Di Ilio, C., Allocati, N. (2009) A conserved hydrogen-bond network stabilizes the structure of Beta class glutathione S-transferases. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 382: 525-529.
39) Ivarsson, Y., Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., Brunori, M., Gianni, S., (2009) Engineered symmetric connectivity highlights malleability in protein folding pathways J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 11727-11733.
40) Chi, C.N., Bach, A., Engström, A., Wang, H., Strømgaard, K., Gianni, S.†, Jemth, P. † (2009) A sequential binding mechanism in a PDZ domain. Biochemistry. 48, 7089-7097.
41) Savino, C., Montemiglio, L.C., Sciara, G., Miele, A.E., Kendrew, S.G., Jemth, P., Gianni, S.†, Vallone, B., (2009) Investigating the structural plasticity of a cytochrome P450: three-dimensional structures of P450 EryK and binding to its physiological substrate. J. Biol. Chem. 284, 29170-29179.
42) Gianni, S., Brunori, M., Jemth, P., Oliveberg, M., Zhang, M., (2009) Distinguishing between smooth and rough free energy barriers in protein folding. Biochemistry 48, 11825-11830.
43) Giansanti, F., Di Leandro, L., Koutris, I., Pitari, G., Fabbrini, M.S., Lombardi, A., Flavell, D.J., Flavell, S.U., Gianni, S. †, Ippoliti, R. (2010) Engineering a switchable toxin: the potential use of PDZ domains in the expression, targeting and activation of modified saporin variants. Protein Eng. Des, Sel. 23. 61-68.
44) Scaloni, F., Federici, L., Brunori, M., Gianni, S., (2010) Deciphering the folding transition state structure and denatured state properties of nucleophosmin C-terminal domain. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, USA 107, 5447-5452.
45) Haq, S.R., Jurgens, M.C., Chi, C.N., Koh, C.S., Elfstrom, L., Selmer, M., Gianni, S†, Jemth, P (2010) The plastic energy landscape of protein folding: a triangular folding mechanism with an equilibrium intermediate for a small protein domain. J Biol Chem. 285, 18051-18059
46) Di Matteo, A., Calosci, N., Gianni ,S., Jemth, P., Brunori, M., Travaglini-Allocatelli, C. (2010) Structural and functional characterization of CcmG from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a key component of the bacterial cytochrome c maturation apparatus. Proteins. Struct. Funct. Bioinf. 78, 2213-21.
47) Montemiglio, L.C., Gianni, S., Vallone, B., Savino, C. (2010) Azole drugs trap cytochrome P450 EryK in alternative conformational states. Biochemistry 49, 9199-9206.
48) Gianni, S., Ivarsson, Y., De Simone, A., Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., Brunori, M., Vendruscolo M., (2010) Characterization of the Structure of a Misfolded Intermediate Populated during the Folding Process of a PDZ domain Nature Struct. Mol Biol. 17, 1431-1437.
49) Morrone, A., McCully, M.E., Bryan, P.N., Brunori, M., Daggett, V., Gianni, S.†, Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., (2011) The denatured state dictates the topology of two proteins with almost identical sequence but different native structure and function. J. Biol., Chem. . 286, 3863-3872.
50) Gianni, S., Haq, S.R., Montemiglio, L.C., Jürgens, M.C., Engström, Å., Chi, C.N., Brunori, M., Jemth, P. (2011) Sequence-specific long range networks in PSD-95/discs large/ZO-1 (PDZ) domains tune their binding selectivity. J. Biol. Chem. 286, 27167-27175.
51) Morrone, A., Giri, R., Toofanny, R.D., Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., Brunori, M., Daggett, V., Gianni, S.†, (2011) GB1 is not a two-state folder: identification and characterization of an on-pathway intermadiate. Biophys. J 101, 2053-2060.
52) Giardina, G., Montioli, R., Gianni, S., Cellini, B., Paiardini, A., Borri-Voltattorni, C., Cutruzzolà, F., (2011) The open conformation of human DOPA decarboxylase reveals the mechanism of PLP addition to Group II decarboxylases. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 20514-20519.
53) Haq SR, Chi CN, Bach A, Dogan J, Engström A, Hultqvist G, Karlsson A, Lundström P, Montemiglio LC, Strømgaard K, Gianni S, Jemth P. (2011) Side chain interactions form late and cooperatively in the binding reaction between disordered peptides and PDZ domains. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134, 599-605
54) Brunori, M., Gianni, S., Giri, R., Morrone, A., Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., (2012) Morphogenesis of a protein: folding pathways and the energy landscape Bioch. Soc. Trans 40(2):429-32.
55) Hultqvist G, Pedersen SW, Chi CN, Strømgaard K, Gianni S, Jemth P. (2012) An expanded view of the protein folding landscape of PDZ domains. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 421, 550-553.
56) Chi, C.N., Bach, A., Stromgaard, K., Gianni, S., Jemth, P., (2012) Ligand binding by PDZ domains. Biofactors, 38, 338-348.
57) Giri., R., Morrone, A., Travaglini-Allocatelli C., Jemth, P., Brunori, M., Gianni, S.†, (2012) The folding pathways of proteins with increasing degree of sequence identities but different structure and function. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 109, 17772-17776.
58) Morrone, A., Giri, R., Brunori, M., Gianni S. †, (2012) Reassessing the folding of the KIX domain: Evidence for a two-state mechanism Protein Sci. 21, 1775-1779.
59) Gianni, S. †, Morrone, A., Giri, R., Brunori, M. (2012) A folding-after-binding mechanism describes the recognition between the transactivation domain of c-Myb and the KIX domain of the CREB-binding protein. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 428, 205-209
60) Chi CN, Haq SR, Rinaldo S, Dogan J, Cutruzzolà F, Engström A, Gianni S, Lundström P, Jemth P. (2012) Interactions outside the Boundaries of the Canonical Binding Groove of a PDZ Domain Influence Ligand Binding. Biochemistry. 51, 8971-8979
61) Polticelli, F., Caprari, S., Gianni, S., Ascenzi, P., (2012) GA/GB Fold switching may modulate fatty acid transfer from human serum albumin to bacteria. IUBMB Life 64, 885-888.
62) Hultqvist, G., Punekar, A., Morrone, A., Chi, C.N., Engstrom, A, Selmer, M, Gianni, S. †, Jemth, P., (2012) Tolerance of protein folding to a circular permutation in a PDZ domain, PLOS ONE, 7, e50055
63) Chiarella, S., Federici, L., Di Matteo, A., Brunori, M., Gianni, S. †, (2013) The folding pathway of a functionally competent C-terminal domain of nucleophosmin: protein stability and denatured state residual structure. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 435, 64-68.
64) Ascenzi, P., and Gianni S. †, (2013) On the functional role of reaction intermediates: rediscovering "chronosteric effects" thirty years later. IUBMB Life, 65, 836-844
65) Eildal JN, Hultqvist G, Balle T, Stuhr-Hansen N, Padrah S, Gianni S, Strømgaard K, Jemth P. (2013) Probing the role of backbone hydrogen bonds in protein-peptide interactions by amide-to-ester mutations J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135, 12998-13007
66) Hultqvist G, Haq SR, Punekar AS, Chi CN, Engström Å, Bach A, Strømgaard K, Selmer M, Gianni, S. †, Jemth P. (2013) Energetic pathway sampling in a protein interaction domain. Structure. 21, 1193-1202.
67) Giri R, Morrone A, Toto A, Brunori M, Gianni, S. † (2013) Structure of the transition state for the binding of c-Myb and KIX highlights an unexpected order for a disordered system. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 110, 149422-149427
68) Dogan, J., Gianni, S. †, Jemth, P. (2014) The binding mechanisms of intrinsically disordered proteins Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 16, 6323-6331
69) Bonetti D, Toto A, Giri R, Morrone A, Sanfelice D, Pastore A, Temussi P, Gianni, S. †, Brunori M. (2014) The kinetics of folding of frataxin. Phys Chem Chem Phys. 16, 6391-6397.
70) Gianni, S. †, Dogan J, Jemth P. (2014) Distinguishing induced fit from conformational selection. Biophys. Chem. 189, 33-39.
71) Toto A, Giri R, Brunori M, Gianni, S. † (2014) The mechanism of binding of the KIX domain to the mixed lineage leukemia protein and its allosteric role in the recognition of c-Myb. Protein Sci. 23, 962-969.
72) Di Silvio, E., Bonetti, D., Toto, A., Morrone, A., Gianni, S. † (2014) The mechanism of binding of the second PDZ domain from the Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase-BL to the Adenomatous Polyposis Coli tumor suppressor. Protein Eng. Des. Sel. 27, 249-253
73) Gianni, S. † Jemth, P., (2014) Conserved nucleation sites reinforce the significance of Phi value analysis in protein-folding studies. IUBMB Life 66, 449-452
74) Conti, S., Li, X., Gianni, S., Ghadami, S. A., Buxbaum, J., Cecchi, C., Chiti, F., Bemporad, F., (2014) A complex equilibrium among partially unfolded conformations in monomeric transthyretin. Biochemistry 53, 4381-4392
75) Gianni, S. †, Camilloni, C., Giri, R., Toto, A., Bonetti, D., Morrone, A., Sormanni, P, Brunori, M., Vendruscolo, M. (2014) Understanding the frustration arising from the competition between function, misfolding, and aggregation in a globular protein. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 111, 14141-14146
76) Dosnon, M., Bonetti, D., Morrone, A., Erales, J., Di Silvio, E., Longhi, S., Gianni, S. † (2015) Demonstration of a Folding after Binding Mechanism in the Recognition between the Measles Virus NTAIL and X Domains. ACS Chem Biol 10, 795-802.
77) Di Silvio, E., Toto, A., Bonetti, D., Morrone, A., Gianni, S. † (2015) Understanding the effect of alternative splicing in the folding and function of the second PDZ from protein tyrosine phosphatase-BL. Sci Rep. 5: 9299.
78) Di Silvio, E., Brunori, M., Gianni, S. † (2015) Frustration Scuplts the early stages of protein folding Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 54, 10867-10869.
79) Gruet A, Dosnon M, Blocquel D, Brunel J, Gerlier D, Das RK, Bonetti D, Gianni, S., Fuxreiter M, Longhi S, Bignon C. (2016) Fuzzy regions in an intrinsically disordered protein impair protein-protein interactions. FEBS J.
80) Gianni, S., Dogan, J., Jemth, P. (2016) Coupled binding and folding of intrinsically disordered proteins: what can we learn from kinetics? Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 38, 18-24.
81) Toto A, Camilloni C, Giri R, Brunori M, Vendruscolo M, Gianni, S. † (2016) Molecular Recognition by Templated Folding of an Intrinsically Disordered Protein Sci. Rep. 6 21994
82) Toto A, Pedersen SW, Karlsson OA, Moran GE, Andersson E, Chi CN, Strømgaard K, Gianni, S. † Jemth P. (2016) Ligand binding to the PDZ domains of postsynaptic density protein 95. Protein Eng. Des. Sel. Mar 2 [epub ahead of print]
83) Gianni, S. †, Jemth, P. (2016) Protein Folding: Vexing debates on a fundamental problem. Biophys. Chem 212, 17-21
84) Bonetti D, Camilloni C, Visconti L, Longhi S, Brunori M, Vendruscolo M, Gianni, S. † (2016) Identification and Structural Characterization of an Intermediate in the Folding of the Measles Virus X domain. J. Biol. Chem. Mar 21 [epub ahead of print]
85) Camilloni, C., Bonetti, D., Morrone, D., Giri, R., Dobson, C. M., Brunori, M., Gianni, S. † , Vendruscolo, M. (2016) Structural Biology of the hydrophobic effect in protein folding Sci. Rep. Accepted for publication.
86) Toto, A., Gianni, S. † (2016) Mutational Analysis of the Binding-Induced Folding Reaction of the Mixed-Lineage Leukemia Protein to the KIX Domain. Biochemistry. 55, 3957-3962
87) Dogan J, Toto A, Andersson E, Gianni, S. †, Jemth P. (2016) Activation Barrier-Limited Folding and Conformational Sampling of a Dynamic Protein Domain. Biochemistry. 55, 5289-5295.
88) Toto A, Mattei A, Jemth P, Gianni, S. †, (2016) Understanding the role of phosphorylation in the binding mechanism of a PDZ domain. Protein Eng Des Sel. 2016 Oct 19. [Epub ahead of print]
89) Brunori M, Gianni, S. † .(2016) Molecuar Medicine – To be or not to be Biophys Chem. 2016 Jul-Aug;214-215:33-46.
90) Kukic P, Pustovalova Y, Camilloni C, Gianni, S., Korzhnev DM, Vendruscolo M. (2017) Structural Characterization of the Early Events in the Nucleation- Condensation Mechanism in a Protein Folding Process. J Am Chem Soc. 139, 6899- 6910.
91) Troilo F, Bonetti D, Toto A, Visconti L, Brunori M, Longhi S, Gianni, S. † (2017) The folding pathway of the KIX domain ACS Chem. Biol. 12, 1683-1690
92) Longhi S, Bloyet LM, Gianni, S., Gerlier D. (2017) How order and disorder within paramyxoviral nucleoproteins and phosphoproteins orchestrate the molecular interplay of transcription and replication. Cell Mol Life Sci. 74, 3091-3118.
93) Bonetti D, Troilo F, Toto A, Brunori M, Longhi S, Gianni, S. † (2017) Analyzing the Folding and Binding Steps of an Intrinsically Disordered Protein by Protein Engineering. Biochemistry 56, 3780-3786.
94) Caillet-Saguy C, Toto A, Guerois R, Maisonneuve P, di Silvio E, Sawyer K, Gianni, S. † Wolff N. (2017) Regulation of the Human Phosphatase PTPN4 by the inter-domain linker connecting the PDZ and the phosphatase domains. Sci Rep. 7, 7875.
95) Toto, A., Bonetti, D., De Simone A., Gianni, S. † (2017) Understanding the mechanism of binding between Gab2 and the C terminal SH3 domain from Grb2 Oncotarget 8, 82344-82351.
96) Gautier C, Visconti L, Jemth P, Gianni S. † (2017) Addressing the role of the α-helical extension in the folding of the third PDZ domain from PSD-95. Sci Rep. 7, 12593.
97) Gianni S†, Jemth P. (2017) How Fast Is Protein-Ligand Association? Trends Biochem Sci. 42, 847-849.
98) Bignon C, Troilo F, Gianni S, Longhi S. (2017) Partner-Mediated Polymorphism of an Intrinsically Disordered Protein. J Mol Biol. S0022-2836(17)30562-4.
99) Schramm A, Lieutaud P, Gianni S, Longhi S, Bignon C. (2017) InSiDDe: A Server for Designing Artificial Disordered Proteins. Int J Mol Sci. 19: E91.
100) Saponaro, C., Sergio, S., Coluccia, A., De Luca, M., La Regina, G., Mologni, L., Famiglini, V.,Naccarato, V., Bonetti, D., Gautier, C., Gianni, S., Vergara, D., Salzet, M., Fournier, I., Bucci, C., Silvestri, R., Gambacorti Passerini, C., Maffia, M., Coluccia, A.M.L (2018) β-Catenin knockdown promotes NHERF1-mediated survival of colorectal cancer cells: implications for a double-targeted therapy Oncogene. 2018 Mar 19.
101) Caflisch, A., Gianni, S.†, (2018) Curr Opin Struct. Biol. 48:iv-vii.
102) Bonetti D, Troilo F, Brunori M, Longhi S, Gianni S†. (2018) How Robust Is the Mechanism of Folding-Upon-Binding for an Intrinsically Disordered Protein? Biophys J.114, 1889-1894.
103) Del Poggetto E, Toto A, Aloise C, Di Piro F, Gori L, Malatesta F, Gianni S, Chiti F, Bemporad F. (2018) Stability of an aggregation-prone partially folded state of human profilin-1 correlates with aggregation propensity. J Biol Chem. 2018 May 14. pii: jbc.RA118.002087.
104) Malgieri G, D'Abrosca G, Pirone L, Toto A, Palmieri M, Russo L, Sciacca MFM, Tatè R, Sivo V, Baglivo I, Majewska R, Coletta M, Pedone PV, Isernia C, De Stefano M, Gianni S, Pedone EM, Milardi D, Fattorusso R. (2018) Folding mechanisms steer the amyloid fibril formation propensity of highly homologous proteins. Chem Sci. 9: 3290-3298.
105) Bignon C, Troilo F, Gianni S, Longhi S. Modulation of Measles Virus NTAIL Interactions through Fuzziness and Sequence Features of Disordered Binding Sites. (2018) Biomolecules. 2018; 9, E8.
106) Karlsson E, Andersson E, Dogan J, Gianni S, Jemth P, Camilloni C. A structurally heterogeneous transition state underlies coupled binding and folding of disordered proteins. (2019) J Biol Chem. 294, 1230-1239
107) Troilo F, Bignon C, Gianni S, Fuxreiter M, Longhi S. (2018) Experimental Characterization of Fuzzy Protein Assemblies: Interactions of Paramyxoviral NTAIL Domains With Their Functional Partners. Methods Enzymol. 611:137-192.
108) Gianni S, McCully ME, Malagrinò F, Bonetti D, De Simone A, Brunori M, Daggett V. (2018) A Carboxylate to Amide Substitution That Switches Protein Folds. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2018 57:12795-12798.
109) Troilo F, Bonetti D, Camilloni C, Toto A, Longhi S, Brunori M, Gianni S†. (2018) Folding Mechanism of the SH3 Domain from Grb2. J Phys Chem B. 122(49):11166-11173.
110) Bonetti D, Troilo F, Toto A, Travaglini-Allocatelli C, Brunori M, Gianni S†. (2018) Mechanism of Folding and Binding of the N-Terminal SH2 Domain from SHP2. J Phys Chem B. 122(49):11108-11114.
111) Visconti L, Malagrinò F, Toto A, Gianni S.† (2019) The kinetics of folding of the NSH2 domain from p85. Sci Rep. 9, 4058
112) Troilo F, Bonetti D, Bignon C, Longhi S, Gianni S.†(2019) Understanding Intramolecular Crosstalk in an Intrinsically Disordered Protein. ACS Chem Biol. 14, 337-341.
113) Visconti L, Malagrinò F, Broggini L, De Luca CMG, Moda F, Gianni S†, Ricagno S, Toto A. (2019) Investigating the Molecular Basis of the Aggregation Propensity of the Pathological D76N Mutant of Beta-2 Microglobulin: Role of the Denatured State. Int J Mol Sci. 20 pii: E396.
114) Coluccia A, La Regina G, Naccarato V, Nalli M, Orlando V, Biagioni S, De Angelis ML, Baiocchi M, Gautier C, Gianni S, Di Pastena F, Di Magno L, Canettieri G, Coluccia AML, Silvestri R. (2019) Drug Design and Synthesis of First in Class PDZ1 Targeting NHERF1 Inhibitors as Anticancer Agents. ACS Med Chem Lett, 10, 499-503
115) Malagrinò F, Troilo F, Bonetti D, Toto A, Gianni, S. † (2019) Mapping the allosteric network within a SH3 domain. Sci Rep. 2019 9:8279.
116) Visconti L, Malagrinò F, Gianni, S. †, Toto A. (2019) Structural characterization of an on-pathway intermediate and transition state in the folding of the N-terminal SH2 domain from SHP2. FEBS J. 286(23):4769-4777.
117) Gianni, S. †, Jemth P. (2019) Affinity versus specificity in coupled binding and folding reactions. Protein Eng Des Sel. 32:203.
118) Toto A, Troilo F, Visconti L, Malagrinò F, Bignon C, Longhi S, Gianni, S. †, (2019) Binding induced folding: Lessons from the kinetics of interaction between NTAIL and XD. Arch Biochem Biophys. 671:255-261.
119) Petrosino M, Pasquo A, Novak L, Toto A, Gianni S, Mantuano E, Veneziano L, Minicozzi V, Pastore A, Puglisi R, Capriotti E, Chiaraluce R, Consalvi V. (2019) Characterization of human frataxin missense variants in cancer tissues. Hum Mutat. 2019 Sep;40(9):1400-1413.
120) Troilo F, Malagrinò F, Visconti L, Toto A, Gianni S. (2019) The Effect of Proline cis-trans Isomerization on the Folding of the C-Terminal SH2 Domain from p85. Int J Mol Sci. 2019 Dec 23;21(1). pii: E125.
121) Laursen, L, Karlsson, E., Gianni, S. †, Jemth, P., (2020) Functional interplay between protein domains in a supramodular structure J. Biol. Chem, J Biol Chem. 2020 Feb 14;295(7):1992-2000.
122) Toto A, Malagrinò F, Visconti L, Troilo F, Gianni S. (2020) Unveiling the Molecular Basis of the Noonan Syndrome-Causing Mutation T42A of SHP2. Int J Mol Sci. 2020 Jan 10;21(2). pii: E461.
123) Gautier, C., Gianni, S. †, (2020) Unveiling the folding mechanism of PDZ domains Methods Mol. Biol. 2141:661-671
124) Toto, A., Troilo, F., Malagrinò, F., Gianni, S. †, (2020) Understanding binding induced folding by temperature jump Methods Mol. Biol.2141:651-661.
125) Toto A, Malagrinò F, Visconti L, Troilo F, Pagano L, Brunori M, Jemth P, Gianni S†. (2020) Templated folding of intrinsically disordered proteins J Biol Chem. 2020 May 8;295(19):6586-6593.
126) Malagrinò F, Visconti L, Pagano L, Toto A, Troilo F, Gianni S†. (2020) Understanding the Binding Induced Folding of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins by Protein Engineering: Caveats and Pitfalls Int J Mol Sci. 2020 May 15;21(10):3484.
127) Visconti L, Toto A, Jarvis JA, Troilo F, Malagrinò F, De Simone A, Gianni S†. (2020) Demonstration of Binding Induced Structural Plasticity in a SH2 Domain Front Mol Biosci. 2020 May 12;7:89.
128) Gautier C, Troilo F, Cordier F, Malagrinò F, Toto A, Visconti L, Zhu Y, Brunori M, Wolff N, Gianni S†. (2020) Hidden kinetic traps in multidomain folding highlight the presence of a misfolded but functionally competent intermediate Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Aug 18;117(33):19963-19969.
129) Toto A, Ma S, Malagrinò F, Visconti L, Pagano L, Stromgaard K, Gianni S†. (2020) Comparing the binding properties of peptides mimicking the Envelope protein of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 to the PDZ domain of the tight junction-associated PALS1 protein Protein Sci. 2020 Oct;29(10):2038-2042.
130) Laursen L, Kliche J, Gianni S†, Jemth P. (2020) Supertertiary protein structure affects an allosteric network. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Sep 29;117(39):24294-24304.
131) Gianni S†, Jemth P. (2020) Direct Quantification of Protein Dimerization Preference Shed Light on SOD1-associated ALS J Mol Biol. 2020 Nov 20;432(23):6003-6004.
132) Malagrinò F, Coluccia A, Bufano M, Regina G, Puxeddu M, Toto A, Visconti L, Paone A, Magnifico MC, Troilo F, Cutruzzolà F, Silvestri R, Gianni S†. (2020) Targeting the Interaction between the SH3 Domain of Grb2 and Gab2. Cells. 2020 Nov 7;9(11):2435.
133) Pagano L, Toto A, Malagrinò F, Visconti L, Jemth P, Gianni S†. (2021) Double Mutant Cycles as a Tool to Address Folding, Binding, and Allostery. Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Jan 15;22(2):828.
134) Visconti L, Malagrinò F, Troilo F, Pagano L, Toto A, Gianni S†. (2021) Folding and Misfolding of a PDZ Tandem Repeat. J Mol Biol. 2021 Apr 2;433(7):166862
135) Gianni S†, Freiberger MI, Jemth P, Ferreiro DU, Wolynes PG, Fuxreiter M. (2021) Fuzziness and Frustration in the Energy Landscape of Protein Folding, Function, and Assembly Acc Chem Res. 2021 Mar 2;54(5):1251-1259.
136) Fusco G, Gianni S†. (2021) Function, Regulation, and Dysfunction of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Life (Basel) 2021 Feb 12;11(2):140.
137) Nalli M, Puxeddu M, La Regina G, Gianni S, Silvestri R. Emerging Therapeutic Agents for Colorectal Cancer. Molecules. 2021 Dec 9;26(24):7463. doi: 10.3390/molecules26247463.
138) Pagano L, Malagrinò F, Nardella C, Gianni S†, Toto A. Experimental Characterization of the Interaction between the N-Terminal SH3 Domain of Crkl and C3G. Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Dec 7;22(24):13174.
139) Nardella C, Malagrinò F, Pagano L, Rinaldo S, Gianni S†, Toto A. Determining folding and binding properties of the C-terminal SH2 domain of SHP2. Protein Sci. 2021 Dec;30(12):2385-2395. doi: 10.1002/pro.4201.
140) Nardella C, Visconti L, Malagrinò F, Pagano L, Bufano M, Nalli M, Coluccia A, La Regina G, Silvestri R, Gianni S†, Toto A. Targeting PDZ domains as potential treatment for viral infections, neurodegeneration and cancer. Biol Direct. 2021 Oct 12;16(1):15. doi: 10.1186/s13062-021-00303-9.
141) Laursen L, Gianni S†, Jemth P. Dissecting Inter-domain Cooperativity in the Folding of a Multi Domain Protein. J Mol Biol. 2021 Sep 3;433(18):167148. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2021.167148. Epub 2021 Jul 8.
142) Pagano L, Malagrinò F, Visconti L, Troilo F, Pennacchietti V, Nardella C, Toto A, Gianni S. † Probing the Effects of Local Frustration in the Folding of a Multidomain Protein. J Mol Biol. 2021 Jul 23;433(15):167087. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2021.167087. Epub 2021 Jun 3.
143) Malagrinò F, Pennacchietti V, Santorelli D, Pagano L, Nardella C, Diop A, Toto A, Gianni S†. On the Effects of Disordered Tails, Supertertiary Structure and Quinary Interactions on the Folding and Function of Protein Domains Biomolecules. 2022 Jan 26;12(2):209. doi: 10.3390/biom12020209
144) Malagrinò F, Diop A, Pagano L, Nardella C, Toto A, Gianni S†. Unveiling induced folding of intrinsically disordered proteins - Protein engineering, frustration and emerging themes Curr Opin Struct Biol . 2022 Feb;72:153-160. doi: 10.1016/j.sbi.2021.11.004.
145) Coluccia A, Bufano M, La Regina G, Puxeddu M, Toto A, Paone A, Bouzidi A, Musto G, Badolati N, Orlando V, Biagioni S, Masci D, Cantatore C, Cirilli R, Cutruzzolà F, Gianni S, Stornaiuolo M, Silvestri R. Anticancer Activity of ( S)-5-Chloro-3-((3,5-dimethylphenyl)sulfonyl)- N-(1-oxo-1-((pyridin-4-ylmethyl)amino)propan-2-yl)-1 H-indole-2-carboxamide (RS4690), a New Dishevelled 1 Inhibitor Cancers (Basel). 2022 Mar 7;14(5):1358. doi: 10.3390/cancers14051358.
146) Toto A, Malagrinò F, Nardella C, Pennacchietti V, Pagano L, Santorelli D, Diop A, Gianni S†. Characterization of early and late transition states of the folding pathway of a SH2 domain Protein Sci. 2022 Jun;31(6):e4332. doi: 10.1002/pro.4332.
147) Brunori M, Gianni S†. An Outlook on the Complexity of Protein Morphogenesis in Health and Disease. Front Mol Biosci. 2022 Jun 13;9:909567. doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.909567.
148) Nardella C, Toto A, Santorelli D, Pagano L, Diop A, Pennacchietti V, Pietrangeli P, Marcocci L, Malagrinò F, Gianni S. † (2022) Folding and Binding Mechanisms of the SH2 Domain from Crkl. Biomolecules. 2022 Jul 22;12(8):1014. doi: 10.3390/biom12081014.
149) Malagrinò F, Fusco G, Pennacchietti V, Toto A, Nardella C, Pagano L, de Simone A, Gianni S†. (2022) Cryptic binding properties of a transient folding intermediate in a PDZ tandem repeat. Protein Sci. 2022 Sep;31(9):e4396. doi: 10.1002/pro.4396.
150) Gautier C, Gianni S†. A short structural extension dictates the early stages of folding of a PDZ domain. Biochim Biophys Acta Proteins Proteom. 2022 Nov 1;1870(11-12):140852.
151) Pagano L, Pennacchietti V, Diop A, Santorelli D, Pietrangeli P, Marcocci L, Nardella C, Malagrinò F, Toto A, Gianni S. † (2022) Exploring the effect of tethered domains on the folding of Grb2 protein. Arch Biochem Biophys. 2022 Nov 30;731:109444.
152) Hollås H, Ramirez J, Nominé Y, Kostmann C, Toto A, Gianni S, Travé G, Vedeler A. (2022) The cooperative folding of annexin A2 relies on a transient nonnative intermediate. Biophys J. 2022 Dec 6;121(23):4492-4504.
153) Diop A, Santorelli D, Malagrinò F, Nardella C, Pennacchietti V, Pagano L, Marcocci L, Pietrangeli P, Gianni S †, Toto A. SH2 Domains: Folding, Binding and Therapeutical Approaches. Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Dec 15;23(24):15944.
154) Santorelli D, Marcocci L, Pennacchietti V, Nardella C, Diop A, Pietrangeli P, Pagano L, Toto A, Malagrinò F, Gianni S†. (2023) Understanding the molecular basis of folding cooperativity through a comparative analysis of a multidomain protein and its isolated domains 2023 J Biol Chem. Mar;299(3):102983.
155) Bufano M, Puxeddu M, Nalli M, La Regina G, Toto A, Liberati FR, Paone A, Cutruzzolà F, Masci D, Bigogno C, Dondio G, Silvestri R, Gianni S, Coluccia A. (2023) Targeting the Grb2 cSH3 domain: Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of the first series of modulators. Bioorg Chem. 2023 Sep;138:106607.
156) Diop A, Pietrangeli P, Nardella C, Pennacchietti V, Pagano L, Toto A, Di Felice M, Di Matteo S, Marcocci L, Malagrinò F, Gianni S†. (2023) Biophysical Characterization of the Binding Mechanism between the MATH Domain of SPOP and Its Physiological Partners. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Jun 14;24(12):10138.
157) Nardella C, Pagano L, Pennacchietti V, Felice MD, Matteo SD, Diop A, Malagrinò F, Marcocci L, Pietrangeli P, Gianni S†, Toto A. (2023) An intramolecular energetic network regulates ligand recognition in a SH2 domain. Protein Sci. 2023 Aug;32(8):e4729.
158) Pennacchietti V, Pagano L, Malagrinò F, Diop A, Di Felice M, Di Matteo S, Marcocci L, Pietrangeli P, Toto A, Gianni S. † (2023) Characterization of the folding and binding properties of the PTB domain of FRS2 with phosphorylated and unphosphorylated ligands. Arch Biochem Biophys. 2023 Sep 1;745:109703.
159) Gianni, S. †, Jemth, P., (2023) Allostery Frustrates the Experimentalist. J Mol Biol. 2023 Feb 28;435(4):167934.
160) Diop A, Pietrangeli P, Pennacchietti V, Pagano L, Toto A, Di Felice M, Di Matteo S, Marcocci L, Malagrinò F, Gianni S†. (2023) Addressing the Binding Mechanism of the Meprin and TRAF-C Homology Domain of the Speckle-Type POZ Protein Using Protein Engineering. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Dec 11;24(24):17364
161) Pagano L, Simonetti L, Pennacchietti V, Toto A, Malagrinò F, Ivarsson Y, Gianni S†. (2023) Exploring the short linear motif-mediated protein-protein interactions of CrkL through ProP-PD. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2024 Apr 9;703:149658.
162) Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation Consortium. (2024) CAGI, the Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation, establishes progress and prospects for computational genetic variant interpretation methods. Genome Biol. 2024 Feb 22;25(1):53
163) Di Felice M, Pagano L, Pennacchietti V, Diop A, Pietrangeli P, Marcocci L, Di Matteo S, Malagrinò F, Toto A, Gianni S. † (2024) The binding selectivity of the C-terminal SH3 domain of Grb2, but not its folding pathway, is dictated by its contiguous SH2 domain. J Biol Chem. 2024 Apr;300(4):107129.
164) Pietrangeli P, Marcocci L, Pennacchietti V, Diop A, Di Felice M, Pagano L, Malagrinò F, Toto A, Brunori M, Gianni S. † (2024) The Mechanism of Folding of Human Frataxin in Comparison to the Yeast Homologue - Broad Energy Barriers and the General Properties of the Transition State. J Mol Biol. 2024 May 15;436(10):168555.
165) Pagano L, Pennacchietti V, Malagrinò F, Di Felice M, Toso J, Puglisi E, Gianni S†, Toto A. (2024) Folding and Binding Kinetics of the Tandem of SH2 Domains from SHP2. Int J Mol Sci. 2024 Jun 14;25(12):6566.
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