amino acids peptidomimetics peptides protein interactions

Selected Publications

Michela Bollati, Elettra Fasola, Stefano Pieraccini, Francesca Freddi, Paolo Cocomazzi, Francesco Oliva, Merlin Klußmann, Angelo Maspero, Umberto Piarulli, Silvia Ferrara,  Sara Pellegrino, Giovanni Bertoni, Silvia Gazzola; Impairing protein–protein interactions in an essentialt RNA
modification complex: An innovative antimicrobial strategy against Pseudomonas aeruginosa; JPeptSci.2024;e3658. https://doi.org/10.1002/psc.3658

Kaliroi Peqini, Simone Attanasio, Lucia Feni, Graziella Cappelletti, Sara Pellegrino; Breaking down and building up alpha-synuclein:An insight on its N-terminal domain; JPeptSci.2024;30:e3556. 
https://doi.org/10.1002/psc.3556

Valentina Pirovano, Patrizia Brini, Elisa Brambilla, MariaLuisa Gelmi, Alessandra Romanelli; Au(I)complexesinstalledonaself-assembledpeptide efficiently catalyze intramolecular cyclizationreactions; JPeptSci.2024;e3630. https://doi.org/10.1002/psc.3630

Enrica Chiesa, Francesco Anastasi, Francesca Clerici, Edoardo Mario Lumina, Ida Genta, Sara Pellegrino, and Maria Luisa Gelmi; Stereochemical Behavior of Pyrrolo-Pyrazole Peptidomimetics Promoting Phase-Selective Supramolecular Organogels; Gels 2024, 10, 263.  https://doi.org/10.3390/gels10040263

Enrica Chiesa, Francesca Clerici, Raffaella Bucci, Francesco Anastasi, Matteo Bottiglieri, Maddalena Patrini, Ida Genta, Alexander M. Bittner, and M. Luisa Gelmi; Smart Electrospun Nanofibers from Short Peptidomimetics Based on Pyrrolo-pyrazole Scaffold; Biomacromolecules 2024, 25, 2378−2389. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.3c01310

Elisa Fagnani, Paolo Cocomazzi, Sara Pellegrino, Gabriella Tedeschi, Francesca Grassi Scalvini, Federica Cossu, Stefano Da Vela, Alessandro Aliverti, Eloise Mastrangelo, and Mario Milani; CHCHD4 binding affects the active site of apoptosis inducing factor (AIF): Structural determinants for allosteric regulation; Structure 32, 1–9, May 2, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2024.02.008

Kelly Bugatti, Andrea Sartori, Lucia Battistini, Crescenzo Coppa, Emiel Vanhulle, Sam Noppen Becky Provinciael, Lieve Naesens, Annelies Stevaert, Alessandro Contini, Kurt Vermeire, and Franca Zanardi; Novel Polymyxin-Inspired Peptidomimetics Targeting the SARS-CoV-2 Spike:hACE2 Interface; Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2023, 24, 8765; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms24108765

Nicola Forlano, Raffaella Bucci, Alessandro Contini, Mariano Venanzi, Ernesto Placidi, Maria Luisa Gelmi, Raffaella Lettieri and Emanuela Gatto; Non-Conventional Peptide Self-Assembly into a Conductive Supramolecular Rope; Nanomaterials 2023, 13, 333;  https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13020333

Serena Delbue, Elena Pariani, Silvia Parapini, Cristina Galli, Nicoletta Basilico, Sarah D’Alessandro, Sara Pellegrino, Elena Pini, Samuele Ciceri, Patrizia Ferraboschi and Paride Grisenti; Heat-Treated Lysozyme Hydrochloride: A Study on Its Structural Modifications and Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Activity; Molecules 2023, 28, 2848. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28062848

Claudia Conte, Giuseppe Longobardi, Antonio Barbieri, Giuseppe Palma, Antonio Luciano, Giovanni Dal Poggetto, Concetta Avitabile,  Annalisa Pecoraro, Annapina Russo, Giulia Russo, Paola Laurienzo, Alessandra Romanelli; Non-covalent strategies to functionalize polymeric nanoparticles with NGR peptides for targeting breast cancer; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpharm.2023.122618

Kaliroi Peqini, Simone Attanasio, Lucia Feni, Graziella Cappelletti, Sara Pellegrino; Breaking down and building up alpha-synuclein: An insight on its N-terminal domain; J Pept Sci. 2023;e3556; https://doi.org/10.1002/psc.3556

Emanuele Scalonea, Luca Broggini, Cristina Visentina, Davide Erba, Fran Bacic Topleka , Kaliroi Peqini, Sara Pellegrino, Stefano Ricagnoa, Cristina Paissonia, and Carlo Camilloni; Multi-eGO: An in silico lens to look into protein aggregation kinetics at atomic resolution; PNAS 2022 Vol. 119 No. 26 e2203181119; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2203181119

Anant Kakar, Luis Enrique Sastré-Velásquez, Michael Hess, László Galgóczy, Csaba Papp, Jeanett Holzknecht, Alessandra Romanelli, Györgyi Váradi, Nermina Malanovic, Florentine Marxa; The Membrane Activity of the Amphibian Temporin B Peptide Analog TB_KKG6K Sheds Light on the Mechanism That Kills Candida albicans; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00290-22

Luca Domenico D’Andrea and Alessandra Romanelli; Temporins: Multifunctional Peptides from Frog Skin; Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2023, 24, 5426; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms24065426

Crescenzo Coppa, Andrea Bazzoli, Maral Barkhordari and Alessandro Contin; Accelerated Molecular Dynamics for Peptide Folding: Benchmarking Different Combinations of Force Fields and Explicit Solvent Models; Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 2023 63 (10), 3030-3042; https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.3c00138

Sabrina Giofrè, Antonio Renda, Silvia Sesana, Beatrice Formicola, Barbara Vergani, Biagio Eugenio Leone, Vanna Denti, Giuseppe Paglia, Serena Groppuso, Valentina Romeo, Luca Muzio, Andrea Balboni, Andrea Menegon, Antonia Antoniou, Arianna Amenta, Daniele Passarella, Pierfausto Seneci, Sara Pellegrino, and Francesca Re; Dual Functionalized Liposomes for Selective Delivery of Poorly Soluble Drugs to Inflamed Brain Regions; Pharmaceutics 2022, 14, 2402. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics14112402 

Elettra Fasola, Giulia Alboreggia, Stefano Pieraccini, Francesco Oliva, Fatima Ezzahra Agharbaoui, Michela Bollati, Giovanni Bertoni, Sandro Recchia, Marcello Marelli, Umberto Piarulli, Sara Pellegrino and Silvia Gazzola; Conformational switch and multiple supramolecular
structures of a newly identified self-assembling protein-mimetic peptide from Pseudomonas
aeruginosa YeaZ protein; Frontiers of Chemistry Volume 10 2022; doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2022.1038796

Francesco Vaghi, Giorgio Facchetti, Isabella Rimoldi, Matteo Bottiglieri, Alessandro Contini, Maria Luisa Gelmi and Raffaella Bucci; Highly efficient morpholine-based organocatalysts for the 1,4-addition reaction between aldehydes and nitroolefins: an unexploited class of catalysts; Frontiers in Chemistry Volume 11 2023; https://doi.10.3389/fchem.2023.1233097

Giorgio Facchetti, Jaime Gracia Vitoria, Martina Moraschi, Raffaella Bucci, Anne Catherine Abel, Stefano Pieraccini, Sara Pellegrino, and Isabella Rimoldi; Exploitation of Dimeric Cyclic Cysteine as Helix Inducer in Ultra-Short Peptides for Cu(II)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Michael Addition on Chalcones; Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2023, 26, e202300240; https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202300240

Lorenzo Calugi, Giulia Sautariello, Elena Lenci, Mauro Leucio Mattei, Crescenzo Coppa,
Nicoletta Cini, Alessandro Contini, Andrea Trabocchi; Identification of a short ACE2-derived stapled peptide targeting the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein;  European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 249, 2023, 115118; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmech.2023.115118 

Michela Bollati, Kaliroi Peqini, Luigi Barone, Carmina Natale, Marten Beeg, Marco Gobbi,Luisa Diomede, Michelangelo Trucch, Matteo de Rosa, and Sara Pellegrino; Rational Design of a Peptidomimetic Inhibitor of Gelsolin Amyloid Aggregation; Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2022, 23, 13973. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms232213973

Elisa Impresari Alberto Bossi, Edoardo Mario Lumina, Marco Aldo Ortenzi, Josine Marie Kothuis, Graziella Cappelletti, Daniela Maggioni, Michael S. Christodoulou, Raffaella Bucci and Sara Pellegrino; Fatty Acids/Tetraphenylethylene Conjugates: Hybrid AIEgens for the Preparation of Peptide-Based Supramolecular Gels; Front. Chem., 08 August 2022; https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2022.927563

Federico Ballabio, Luca Broggini, Cristina Paissoni, Xiao Han, Kaliroi Peqini, Benedetta Maria Sala, Renhua Sun, Tatyana Sandalova, Alberto Barbiroli, Adnane Achour, Sara Pellegrino, Stefano Ricagno, Carlo Camillonio; L- to D- Amino Acid Substitution in the Immunodominant LCMVDerived Epitope gp33 Highlights the Sensitivity of the TCR Recognition Mechanism for the MHC/Peptide Structure and Dynamics; ACS Omega, 2022, 7, 9622- 9635. DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c06964

Nicolò Bisi, Lucia Feni, Kaliroi Peqini, Helena Pérez-Peña, Sandrine Ongeri,Stefano Pieraccini  and Sara Pellegrino; α-Synuclein: An All-Inclusive Trip Around its Structure, Influencing Factors and Applied Techniques; Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021, 9, Article 666585;  https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2021.666585

Silvia Locarno, Raffaella Bucci, Elisa Impresari, Maria Luisa Gelmi, Sara Pellegrino and Francesca Clerici; Ultrashort Peptides and Gold Nanoparticles: Influence of Constrained Amino Acids on Colloidal Stability; Front. Chem., 1 October 2021, doi:10.3389/fchem.2021.736519.

Raffaella Bucci, Daniela Maggioni, Silvia Locarno, Anna Maria Ferretti, Maria Luisa Gelmi, and Sara Pellegrino; Exploiting Ultrashort α,β-Peptides in the Colloidal Stabilization of Gold Nanoparticles; Langmuir 2021, 37, 11365−11373. doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c01981

 Raffaella Bucci, Evangelos Georgilis, Alexander M. Bittner, Maria L. Gelmi and Francesca Clerici; Peptide-Based Electrospun Fibers: Current Status and Emerging Developments; Nanomaterials; 2021, 11, 1262. doi.org/10.3390/nano11051262

Raffaella Bucci, Francesca Foschi, Camilla Loro, Emanuela Erba, Maria Luisa Gelmi,* and Sara Pellegrino; Fishing in the Toolbox of Cyclic Turn Mimics: a Literature Overview of the Last Decade; Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2021, 2887–2900. doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202100244

Anant Kakar, Jeanett Holzknecht, Sandrine Dubrac, Maria Luisa Gelmi, Alessandra Romanelli,and Florentine Marx; New Perspectives in the Antimicrobial Activity of the Amphibian Temporin B: Peptide Analogs Are Effective Inhibitors of Candida albicans Growth; J. Fungi 2021, 7, 457. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof7060457

Lucia De Rosa, Donatella Diana, Rossella Di Stasi, Alessandra Romanelli, Michele F.M. Sciacca, Danilo Milardi, Carla Isernia, Roberto Fattorusso, Luca D. D’Andrea; Probing the helical stability in a VEGF-mimetic peptide; Bioorganic Chemistry 116 (2021) 105379.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioorg.2021.105379

Kaushiki S. Prabhudesai a, Sahil Raje a, Karishma Desai a, Deepak Modi b, Vikas Dighe c,Alessandro Contini d, Susan Idicula-Thomas; Central residues of FSHβ (89–97) peptide are not critical for FSHR binding:Implications for peptidomimetic design; Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 44 (2021) 128132.

Carlo Diaferia, Concetta Avitabile, Marilisa Leone,Enrico Gallo, Michele Saviano, Antonella Accardo and Alessandra Romanelli; Diphenylalanine Motif Drives Self-Assembling in Hybrid PNA-Peptide Conjugates; Chem. Eur. J. 2021, 27, 14307–14316. doi.org/10.1002/chem.202102481

Alessandro Contini, Emanuela Erba, Valeria Bondavalli, Alberto Barbiroli, Maria Luisa Gelmi , Alessandra Romanelli; Morpholino-based peptide oligomers: Synthesis and DNA binding properties;Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 549 (2021) 8-13;  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2021.02.087

Lucia De Rosa, Rossella Di Stasi, Alessandra Romanelli and Luca Domenico D’Andrea; Exploiting Protein N-Terminus for Site-Specific Bioconjugation; Molecules 2021, 26, 3521. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26123521

Giorgio Facchetti, Raffaella Bucci, Marco Fusè, Emanuela Erba, Raffaella Gandolfi, Sara Pellegrino, and Isabella Rimoldi; Alternative Strategy to Obtain Artificial Imine Reductase by Exploiting Vancomycin/D-Ala-D-Ala Interactions with an Iridium Metal Complex;  Inorg. Chem. 2021, 60, 5, 2976–2982;  https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02969

Raffaella Bucci , Francesco Vaghi , Emanuela Erba , Alessandra Romanelli , Maria Luisa Gelmi , Francesca Clerici; Peptide grafting strategies before and after electrospinning of nanofibers, ActaMaterialia, 2020, 742-7061, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2020.11.051

Raffaella.Bucci, Alberto Bossi, Emanuela Erba, Francesco Vaghi, Abhijit Saha, Sivan Yuran, Daniela Maggioni, Maria Luisa Gelmi, Meital Reches and Sara Pellegrino; Nucleobase morpholino β amino acids as molecular chimeras for the preparation of photoluminescent materials from ribonucleosides; Scientific Reports volume 10, Article number: 19331 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76297-7

Francesco Vaghi, Raffaella Bucci, Francesca Clerici, Alessandro Contini, and M. Luisa Gelmi;Non-natural 3-Arylmorpholino-β-amino Acid as a PPII Helix Inducer; Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 15, 6197–6202; doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.0c02331

Elisabete C. C. M. Moura, Tiago Baeta, Alessandra Romanelli, Cedric Laguri, Alessandra M. Martorana, Emanuela Erba, Jean-Pierre Simorre, Paola Sperandeo and Alessandra Polissi; Thanatin Impairs Lipopolysaccharide Transport Complex Assembly by Targeting LptC–LptA Interaction and Decreasing LptA Stability; Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 , 11,  Article 909, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00909

Silvia Locarno,  Simona Argentiere, Alessandro Ruffoni, Daniela Maggioni,  Raffaella Soave,  Raffaella Bucci, Emanuela Erba, Cristina Lenardi, Maria Luisa Gelmi  and Francesca Clerici; Self-assembled hydrophobic Ala-Aib peptide encapsulating curcumin: a convenient system for water insoluble drugs; RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 9964–9975

Adil Doganay Duru ,Renhua Sun ,Eva B. Allerbring ,Jesseka Chadderton,Nadir Kadri,Xiao Han,Kaliroi Peqini,Hannes Uchtenhagen,Chaithanya Madhurantakam,Sara Pellegrino,Tatyana Sandalova,Per-Åke Nygren,Stephen J. Turner,Adnane Achour; Tuning antiviral CD8 T-cell response via proline-altered peptide ligand vaccination; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008244

Rafaella Bucci,· Federico Dapiaggi,· Helena Macut, Stefano Pieraccini,· Maurizio Sironi,· Maria Luisa Gelmi,·Emanuela Erba,· Sara Pellegrino; On‑resin multicomponent 1,3‑dipolar cycloadditionof cyclopentanone–proline enamines and sulfonylazides as an efcient tool for the synthesis of amidino depsipeptide mimics; Amino Acids (2020) 52:15–24 .

Ilir Pecnikaj, Francesca Foschi, Raffaella Bucci, Maria Luisa Gelmi, Carlo Castellano, Fiorella Meneghetti, and Michele Penso;Stereoselective Synthesis of α,α′-Dihydroxy-,′-diaryl–aminoAcids by Mannich-Like Condensation of Hydroarylamides; Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2019, 6707–6713

da Hafstrand, Ece Canan Sayitoglu, Anca Apavaloaei, Benjamin John Josey ,Renhua Sun, Xiao Han, Sara Pellegrino, Didem Ozkazanc, Renée Potens, Linda Janssen,Johan Nilvebrant , Per-Åke Nygren, Tatyana Sandalova,Sebastian Springer, Anna-Maria Georgoudaki, Adil Doganay Duru, and Adnane Achour; Successive crystal structure snapshots suggest the basis for MHC class I peptide loading and editing by tapasin; PNAS March 12, 2019 116 (11) 5055-5060 

Helena Macut, Xiao Hu, Delia Tarantino, Ettore Gilardoni, Francesca Clerici, Luca Regazzoni, Alessandro Contini, Sara Pellegrino & Maria Luisa Gelmi; Tuning PFKFB3 Bisphosphatase Activity Through Allosteric Interference; Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 20333 (2019)

Serena Marcelli, Filomena Iannuzzi, Elena Ficulle, Dalila Mango, Stefano Pieraccini, Sara Pellegrino, Massimo Corbo, Maurizio Sironi, Anna Pittaluga, Robert Nisticò & Marco Feligion; The selective disruption of presynaptic JNK2/STX1a interaction reduces NMDA receptor-dependent glutamate release; Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 7146 (2019)

Giorgio Facchetti,Sara Pellegrino,Raffaella Bucci,Donatella Nava,Raffaella Gandolfi,Michael S. Christodoulou andIsabella Rimoldi; Vancomycin-Iridium (III) Interaction: An Unexplored Route for Enantioselective Imine Reduction; Molecules 2019, 24(15), 2771

Francesco Oliva, Raffaella Bucci, Lucia Tamborini, Stefano Pieraccini, Andrea Pinto and Sara Pellegrino Bicyclic Pyrrolidine-Isoxazoline γ Amino Acid: A Constrained Scaffold for Stabilizing α-Turn Conformation in Isolated Peptides; Front. Chem., 18 March 2019

Raffaella Bucci, Alessandro Contini, * Francesca Clerici, Sara Pellegrino and Maria Luisa Gelmi; From glucose to enantiopure morpholino β-amino
acid: a new tool for stabilizing γ-turns in peptides; Org. Chem. Front., 2019, 6,972.

Raffaella Bucci, Alessandro Contini, Francesca Clerici, Egle Maria Beccalli, Fernando Formaggio, Irene Maffucci, Sara Pellegrino and Maria Luisa Gelmi;Fluoro-Aryl Substituted α,β2,3-Peptides in the Development of Foldameric Antiparallel β-Sheets: A Conformational Study; Frontiers in Chemistry ,April 2019,  Volume 7, Article 192 doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2019.00192

Faustine Bizet, Nicolo Tonali, Jean-Louis Soulier, Agostino Oliva, Julia Kaffy, Benoit Crousse and Sandrine Ongeri; Towards a general synthesis of di-aza-amino acids containing peptides; NewJ.Chem., 2018, 42, 17062; DOI: 10.1039/c8nj03635g

Raffaella Bucci, Sabrina Giofré, Francesca Clerici, Alessandro Contini, Andrea Pinto, Emanuela Erba, Raffaella Soave, Sara Pellegrino, and Maria Luisa Gelmi; Tetrahydro‑4H‑(pyrrolo[3,4‑d]isoxazol-3-yl)methanamine: A Bicyclic Diamino Scaffold Stabilizing Parallel Turn Conformations; J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 19, 11493-11501.

Nicolo Tonali, Julia Kaffy, Jean-Louis Soulier, Maria Luisa Gelmi, Emanuela Erba,Myriam Taverna, Carine van Heijenoort, Tap Ha-Duong  Sandrine Ongeri; Structure-activity relationships of beta-hairpin mimics as modulators of amyloid beta-peptide aggregation, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 154 (2018) 280-293.

Alessandro Contini, Nicola Ferri, Raffaella Bucci, Maria Giovanna Lupo, Emanuela Erba, Maria Luisa Gelmi, Sara Pellegrino, Peptide modulators of Rac1/Tiam1 protein-protein interaction:
An alternative approach for cardiovascular diseases, Biopolymers. 2017;e23089

Bucci R., Bonetti A., Clerici F., Nava D., Pellegrino S. Tessaro D., Gelmi M.L., Tandem Tetrahydroisoquinoline-4-carboxylic Acid/β-Alanine as a New Construct Able to Induce a Flexible Turn  , Chem. Eur. J., 2017, 23, 10822.

Bucci R, Das P., Iannuzzi F., Feligioni M., Gandolfi R., Gelmi M. L., Reches M., Pellegrino S. Self-assembly of an amphipathic ααβ-tripeptide into cationic spherical particles for intracellular delivery, Org. Biomolecular Chem., 2017, 15, 6773.

S. Pellegrino, N. Tonali, E. Erba, J. Kaffy, M. Taverna, A. Contini, M. Taylor, D. Allsop, M. L. Gelmia and S. Ongeri, beta-Hairpin mimics containing a piperidine–pyrrolidine scaffold modulate the beta-amyloid aggregation process preserving the monomer species, Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 1295–1302.

F. Selmin, G. Magri, C.G.M. Gennari, S. Marchianò, N. Ferri, S. Pellegrini, Development of poly(lactide-co-glycolide) nanoparticles functionalized with a mitochondria penetrating peptide, J. Pept. Sci. 2017, DOI 10.1002/psc.2952

F. Clerici, E. Erba, M.L. Gelmi, S. Pellegrino, Non-standard amino acids and peptides: From self-assembly to nanomaterials,Tetrahedron Letters 57 (2016) 5540–5550.

Emanuela Erba, Concetta La Rosa, A novel synthetic approach to the racemic Neuraminidase inhibitor Peramivir, Tetrahedron 72 (2016) 7975-7981.

Chiara G. M. Gennari, Silvia Franzè, Sara Pellegrino, Emanuela Corsini, Giulio Vistoli, Luisa Montanari, Paola Minghetti, and Francesco Cilurzo, Skin Penetrating Peptide as a Tool to Enhance the Permeation of Heparin through Human Epidermis, Biomacromolecules, 2016, 17 (1), 46–55.

Alessandro Ruffoni,  Maria V. Cavanna, Simona Argentiere, Silvia Locarno, Sara Pellegrino,a Maria Luisa Gelmia and Francesca Clerici, Aqueous self-assembly of short hydrophobic peptides containing norbornene amino acid into supramolecular structures with spherical shape, RSC Adv., 2016,6, 90754-90759.

Sara Pellegrino, Giorgio Facchetti, Alessandro Contini, Maria Luisa Gelmi, Emanuela Erba, Raffaella Gandolfi and Isabella Rimoldi, Ctr-1 Mets7 motif inspiring new peptide ligands for Cu(I)-catalyzed asymmetric Henry reactions under green conditions, RSC Adv., 2016,6, 71529-71533.

Roberto Benoni, Thelma A. Pertinhez, Francesca Spyrakis, Silvia Davalli, Sara Pellegrino, Gianluca Paredi, Angelica Pezzotti, Stefano Bettati, Barbara Campanini, Andrea Mozzarelli, Structural insight into the interaction of O-acetylserine sulfhydrylase with competitive, peptidic inhibitors by saturation transfer difference-NMR, FEBS Letters,  590 (7), 2016, 943–953.

Andrea Bonetti, Sara Pellegrino, Priyadip Das, Sivan Yuran, Raffaella Bucci, Nicola Ferri,Fiorella Meneghetti, Carlo Castellano,Meital Reches, and Maria Luisa Gelmi, Dipeptide Nanotubes Containing Unnatural Fluorine-Substituted β2,3-Diarylamino Acid and L‑Alanine as Candidates for Biomedical Applications,  Org. Lett., 2015, 17 (18), pp 4468–4471

Pellegrino S., Bonetti A., Clerici F., Contini A., Moretto A., Soave R., Gelmi M.L.,  1H-Azepin-Oxo-5-amino-5carboxylic acid: a 3-10 helix inducer and an effective tool for functionalized gold nanoparticles, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2015, 80, 5507-5516.

 Ferri, N. ; Facchetti, G. ; Pellegrino, S. ; Ricci, C. ; Curigliano, G. ; Pini, E. ; Rimoldi, I. “Promising antiproliferative platinum(II) complexes based on imidazole moiety: synthesis, evaluation in HCT-116 cancer cell line and interaction with Ctr-1 Met-rich domain”; Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 2015,  Volume: 23 Issue: 10 Pages: 2538-2547

Maffucci, I. ; Pellegrino, S. ; Clayden, J. ; Contini, A. “Mechanism of Stabilization of Helix Secondary Structure by Constrained C alpha-Tetrasubstituted alpha-Amino Acids” Journal of Physical Chemistry B , 2015, Volume: 119 , Issue: 4 , Pages: 1350-1361

Ruffoni, A. ; Contini, A. ; Soave, R. ; Lo Presti, L. ; Esposto, I. ; Maffucci, I.; Nava, D. ; Pellegrino, S. ; Gelmi, ML. ; Clerici, F. “Model peptides containing the 3-sulfanylnorbornene amino acid, a conformationally constrained cysteine analogue effective inducer of 3(10)-helix secondary structures” RSC Advances ,2015, Volume: 5, Issue: 41, Pages: 32643-32656

Pellegrino, S.; Ronda, L.; Annoni, C. ; Contini, A.; Erba, E.; Gelmi, ML. ; Piano, R.; Paredi, G.; Mozzarelli, A.; Bettati, S. “Molecular insights into dimerization inhibition of c-Maf transcription factor” Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Proteins and Proteomics ,2014, Volume: 1844 , Issue: 12, Pages: 2108-2115

Bonetti, A. ; Clerici, F. ; Foschi, F.; Nava, D.; Pellegrino, S.; Penso, M.; Soave, R.; Gelmi, ML. “syn/anti Switching by Specific Heteroatom-Titanium Coordination in the Mannich-Like Synthesis of 2,3-Diaryl-beta-amino Acid Derivatives”, European Journal of  Organic Chemistry , Volume: 2014 , Issue: 15 , Pages: 3203-3209

Pellegrino, S.; Contini, A.; Gelmi, ML.; Lo Presti, L. ; Soave, R ; Erba, E. “Asymmetric Modular Synthesis of a Semirigid Dipeptide Mimetic by Cascade Cycloaddition/Ring Rearrangement and Borohydride Reduction”, Journal of Organic Chemistry , 2014, Volume: 79, Issue: 7, Pages: 3094-3102

Ruffoni, A. ; Ferri, N.; Bernini, SK.; Ricci, C. ; Corsini, A.; Maffucci, I.; Clerici, F.; Contini, A., “2-Amino-3-(phenylsulfanyl)norbornane-2-carboxylate: An Appealing Scaffold for the Design of Rac1 Tiam1 Protein-Protein Interaction Inhibitors”, Journal of  Medicinal Chemistry, 2014, Volume: 57, Issue: 7,Pages: 2953-2962

Maffucci, I.; Contini, A.,  “Explicit Ligand Hydration Shells Improve the Correlation between MM-PB/GBSA Binding Energies and Experimental Activities”, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, Volume: 9, Issue: 6, Pages: 2706-2717

Pellegrino, S.; Ruscica, M.; Magni, P. ; Vistoli, G.; Gelmi, ML. “Antiproliferative activity on human prostate carcinoma cell lines of new peptidomimetics containing the spiroazepinoindolinone scaffold”, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry , 2013, Volume: 21, Issue: 17, Pages: 5470-5479

Alessandro Ruffoni, Alessandro Casoni, Maria Luisa Gelmi, Sara Pellegrino, Francesca Clerici “Hydroarylation of Substituted Norbornene Amino Acids: Studies on Long-Range Stereo-Electronic Effects on the Regioselectivity of the Addition” Current Organic Chemistry, 2012, 16, 2724-2738.

Greco, C. M.; Camera, M.; Facchinetti, L.; Brambilla, M.; Pellegrino, S.; Gelmi, M. L.; Tremoli, E.; Corsini, A.; Ferri, N. “Chemotactic effect of prorenin on human aortic smooth muscle cells: a novel function of the (pro)renin receptor” Cardiovascular research, 2012

Pellegrino, S.; Contini, A.; Clerici, F.; Gori, A.; Nava, D.; Gelmi, M. L. “1H-Azepine-4-amino-4-carboxylic acid: a new a,a disubstituted ornithine analogue capable of inducing helix conformations in short Ala-Aib pentapeptides” Chemistry- a European Journal, 2012 doi: 10.1002/chem.201104023

Pellegrino, S.; Annoni, C.; Contini, A.; Clerici, F.; Gelmi, M. L. “Expedient chemical synthesis of 75mer DNA binding domain of MafA: an insight on its binding to insulin enhancer” Amino Acids, 2012 doi: 10.1007/s00726-012-1274-2

Penso, M.; Foschi, F.; Pellegrino, S.; Testa, A.; Gelmi, M. L. “Diastereoselective protocols for the synthesis of 2,3 trans- and 2,3 cis 6-methoxy-morpholine-2-carboxylic acid derivatives” J. Org. Chem.  2012,  77,  3454-3461.

Ruffoni, A., Casoni, A., Pellegrino, S., Gelmi, M.L., Soave, R., Clerici, F. “Sulfanyl-methylene-5(4H)-oxazolones and β-sulfanyl-α-nitroacrylates as appealing dienophiles for the synthesis of conformationally constrained cysteine analogues” Tetrahedron, 2012, 68, 1951-1962.

Lanza G., Chiacchio U., Motta S., Pellegrino S., Broggini G. “On the Stability of Polyalanines  Secondary Structures: the Role of Polyproline II Helix” Chem. Phys. Chem. 2011, 12, 2724-2727

Gassa, F.; Contini, A.; Fontana, G.; Pellegrino, S.; Gelmi, M.L. “A Highly Diastereoselective “Synthesis of a-Hydroxy-b-amino Acid Derivatives via a Lewis Acid Catalyzed Three-Component Condensation Reaction.”    J. Org. Chem.  2010,  75,  7099-7106.

Pellegrino, S.; Ferri, N.; Colombo, N.;  Cremona, E.;Corsini, A.; Fanelli, R.; Gelmi, M. L.; Cabrele C. “Synthetic peptides containing a conserved sequence motif of the Id protein family modulate vascular smooth muscle cell phenotype” Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 2009, 19, 6298–6302.

1. Pellegrino, F. Clerici, M. L. Gelmi “b-Hydroxynorbornane amino acid derivatives: valuable synthons for the diastereoselective synthesis preparation of substituted cyclopentylglycines derivatives” Tetrahedron 2008, 64, 5657-566

1. L. Gelmi, F. Clerici, R. Gandolfi, S. Pellegrino “A new efficient synthesis of enantiopure diasteromeric 3’-aminocyclopentylglycines” Tetrahedron-Asymmetry 2008, 19, 584-592

3. L. Gelmi, C. Cattaneo, S. Pellegrino, F. Clerici, M. Montali, C. Martini “An efficient route to all stereoisomeric enantiopure 6-amino-3-alkyl-3-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octane-6-carboxylic acids” J. Org. Chem. 2007, 72, 9811-9814.

1. L. Gelmi, F. Caputo, F. Clerici, S. Pellegrino, G. Giannaccini, L. Betti, L. Fabbrini, L. Schmid, L. Palego, A. Lucacchini “1-Aminocyclopentane-1,2,4-tricarboxylic acids screening on glutamatergic and serotonergic systems” Bioorg. Med. Chem., 2007, 15, 7581–7589

F.Caputo, C. Cattaneo, F. Clerici, M.L. Gelmi, S. Pellegrino “a,g-Diamino Acids: Asymmetric Synthesis of New Constrained 6-Amino-3 azabicyclo[3.2.1] octane-6-carboxylic Acids” J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 8467-8472.

1436. Caputo, F. Clerici, M.L Gelmi, S. Pellegrino, D. Pocar “An efficient synthesis of new diastereomeric enantiopure 1-aminocyclopentane-1,2,4-tricarboxylic acids” Tetrahedron:Asymmetry, 2006, 17, 1430-1436.

1. Cabrele, F. Clerici, M.L. Gelmi, R. Gandolfi, F. Molinari, S. Pellegrino “Chemoenzymatic resolution of epimeric cis 3-carboxycylopentylglycine derivatives” Tetrahedron, 2006, 62, 3502-3508

67. Caputo, F. Clerici, M.L Gelmi, S. Pellegrino, T. Pilati “Enantioselective Synthesis of Epimeric cis  3-Carboxycylopentylglycines” Tetrahedron:Asymmetry, 2006, 17, 61-67.

1. Caputo, F. Clerici, M. L. Gelmi, D. Nava, S. Pellegrino “Uncatalyzed Solventless Diels-Alder Reaction of 2-Amino-3-nitroacrylate: Synthesis of New Epimeric 2-Amino-3-nitro-norbornene- and norbornane-2-carboxylic Acids” Tetrahedron, 2006, 62,1288-1294

5286. Clerici, M. L. Gelmi, S. Pellegrino, T. Pilati “3-Formylcyclopent-3-enyl- and 3-carboxycyclopentylglycine Derivatives: a New Stereocontrolled Approach via Retro-aldol or Retro-Claisen Reactions” J. Org. Chem. 2003, 68, 5286.