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    The obesity and inflammatory marker haptoglobin attracts monocytes via interaction with chemokine (C-C motif) receptor 2 (CCR2)

    Obesity is a chronic low inflammatory state. In the obesity condition the white adipose tissue (WAT) is massively infiltrated with monocytes/macrophages, and the nature of the signals recruiting these inflamma...

    Margherita Maffei, Marcella Funicello, Teresa Vottari, Olimpia Gamucci in BMC Biology (2009)

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    The bacterial protein toxin, cytotoxic necrotizing factor 1 (CNF1) provides long-term survival in a murine glioma model

    Glioblastomas are largely unresponsive to all available treatments and there is therefore an urgent need for novel therapeutics. Here we have probed the antineoplastic effects of a bacterial protein toxin, the...

    Eleonora Vannini, Anna Panighini, Chiara Cerri, Alessia Fabbri in BMC Cancer (2014)

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    Post-translational selective intracellular silencing of acetylated proteins with de novo selected intrabodies

    PISA, generates intrabodies that selectively bind and interfere with the intracellular function of an acetylated version of a target protein.

    Michele Chirichella, Simonetta Lisi, Marco Fantini, Martina Goracci in Nature Methods (2017)

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    Selection and characterization of human scFvs targeting the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein isolated from antibody libraries of COVID-19 patients

    In 2019, the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus emerged in China, causing the pneumonia named COVID-19. At the beginning, all research efforts were focused on the spike (S) glycoprotein. However, it became evident t...

    Simonetta Lisi, Francesca Malerba, Paola Quaranta, Rita Florio in Scientific Reports (2024)