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Francesco Musiani

Associate Professor

Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology

Academic discipline: CHIM/03 General and Inorganic Chemistry

Publications

M. Stola; F. Musiani; S. Mangani; P. Turano; N. Safarov; B. Zambelli; S. Ciurli, The nickel site of Bacillus pasteurii UreE, a urease metallo-chaperone, as revealed by metal-binding studies and X-ray absorption spectroscopy, «BIOCHEMISTRY», 2006, 45, pp. 6495 - 6509 [Scientific article]

S. Ciurli; F. Musiani, High potential iron.sulfur proteins and their role as soluble electron carriers in bacterial photosynthesis: tale of a discovery, «PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH», 2005, 85, pp. 115 - 131 [Scientific article]

F. Musiani; A. Dikiy; A.Y. Semenov; S. Ciurli, Modeling of protein-protein interactions in photosynthetic systems: structure of the intermolecular complex between plastocyanin and cytochrome f from spinach, «THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY», 2005, 280, pp. 18833 - 18841 [Scientific article]

B. Zambelli; M. Stola; F. Musiani; K. De Vriendt; B. Samyn; B. Devreese; J. Van Beeumen; P. Turano; A. Dikiy; D.A. Bryant; S. Ciurli, UreG, a chaperone in the urease assembly process, is an intrinsically unstructured GTPase that specifically binds Zn2+, «THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY», 2005, 280, pp. 4684 - 4695 [Scientific article]

B. Zambelli; M. Stola; F. Musiani; P. Turano; K. De Vriendt; J. Van Beeumen; S. Ciurli, Cloning, purification, molecular characterization and modeling of UreG, a urease metallo-chaperone, in: Homeostasis of Metals, VILLARD-DE-LANS, Institute of Metals in Biology, Grenoble, 2004, pp. 41 - 41 (atti di: 1st International Meeting on homeostasis of metals, Villard-de-Lans (France), 6-8 Settembre 2004) [Abstract]

VENTUROLI G.; MAMEDOV M.D.; MANSY F.; MUSIANI F.; STROCCHI M.; FRANCIA F.; SEMENOV A.Y.; COWAN J. A.; CIURLI S., Electron transfer from HiPIP to the photo-oxidized tetraheme cytochrome subunit of Allochromatium vinosum reaction center. New insights from site-directed mutagenesis and computational studies, «BIOCHEMISTRY», 2004, 43, pp. 437 - 445 [Scientific article]

MUSIANI F.; ZAMBELLI B.; STOLA M.; CIURLI S., Nickel trafficking: insights into the fold and function of UreE, a urease metallochaperone, «JOURNAL OF INORGANIC BIOCHEMISTRY», 2004, 98, pp. 803 - 813 [Scientific article]

MUSIANI F.; CARLONI P.; CIURLI S., The Asn38-Cys84 H-bond in plastocyanin, «JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. B, CONDENSED MATTER, MATERIALS, SURFACES, INTERFACES & BIOPHYSICAL», 2004, 108, pp. 7495 - 7499 [Scientific article]

Musiani F.; Arnofi E.; Casadio R.; Ciurli S., Structure-based computational study of the catalytic and inhibition mechanisms of urease, «JBIC», 2001, 6, pp. 300 - 314 [Scientific article]