Lucia Banci - Selected publications#

List of publications (updated January 2014)

Lucia Banci's scientific production is impressive for quality and continuity (Google scholar H-index 61, more than 330 peer reviewed papers, see complete list in the attached CV, 13,800 total citations). Several papers have been highlighted in other top journals, among which six papers in Faculty of 1000, two in Natural Chemical Biology, two in Science, one in Nature, one in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, as well as several press releases to general press.

Banci, L., Barbieri, L., Bertini, I., Luchinat, E., Secci, E., Zhao, Y., and Aricescu, A. R.
Atomic-resolution monitoring of protein maturation in live human cells by NMR,
Nat.Chem.Biol., 9, 297-299, 2013
(highlighted on http://f1000.com/prime/717997728, and on http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cbic.201300379/full)

Banci, L., Bertini, I., Calderone, V., Ciofi-Baffoni, S., Giachetti, A., Jaiswal, D., Mikolajczyk, M., Piccioli, M., and Winkelmann, J., Molecular view of an electron transfer process essential for iron-sulfur protein biogenesis,
Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.U.S.A, 110, 7136-7141, 2013

Banci, L., Bertini, I., Blazevits, O., Calderone, V., Cantini, F., Mao, J., Trapananti, A., Vieru, M., Amori, I., Cozzolino, M., and Carri, M. T.
Interaction of Cisplatin with Human Superoxide Dismutase,
J.Am.Chem.Soc., 134, 7009-7014, 2012
(highlighted on http://f1000.com/prime/717949003 and http://www.esrf.eu/UsersAndScience/Publications/Highlights/2012/sb/sb16 and on http://www.synchrotron-soleil.fr/Soleil/ToutesActualites/2013/PX1-FeS-PNAS)

Banci L, Bertini I, Cantini F, Kozyreva T, Massagni C, Palumaa P, Rubino JT and Zovo K.
Human SOD1 maturation through interaction with human CCS. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109: 13555-13560, 2012

Tottey S, Patterson AM, Banci L, Bertini I, Felli IC, Pavelkova A, Dainty SJ, Pernil R, Waldron KJ, Foster AW and Robinson NJ.
Cyanobacterial metallochaperone inhibits deleterious side reactions of copper. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109: 95-100, 2012
(highlighted on http://f1000.com/prime/13441960)

Scarselli, M., Arico, B., Brunelli, B., Savino, S., Di Marcello, F., Palumbo, E., Veggi, D., Ciucchi, L., Cartocci, E., Bottomley, M. J., Malito, E., Lo, Surdo P., Comanducci, M., Giuliani, M. M., Cantini, F., Dragonetti, S., Colaprico, A., Doro, F., Giannetti, P., Pallaoro, M., Brogioni, B., Tontini, M., Hilleringmann, M., Nardi-Dei, V., Banci, L., Pizza, M., and Rappuoli, R.,
Rational design of a meningococcal antigen inducing broad protective immunity,
Sci.Transl.Med., 3, 91ra62-, 13-7-2011
(highlighted on http://f1000.com/prime/13261956#eval14614054)

Banci, L., Bertini, I., Ciofi-Baffoni, S., Kozyreva, T., Zovo, K., and Palumaa, P.,
Affinity gradients drive copper to cellular destinations,
Nature, 465, 645-648, 2010

Banci, L., Bertini, I., Cefaro, C., Cenacchi, L., Ciofi-Baffoni, S., Felli, I. C., Gallo, A., Gonnelli, L., Luchinat, E., Sideris, D. P., and Tokatlidis, K.,
Molecular chaperone function ofMia40 triggers consecutive induced folding steps of the substrate in mitochondrial protein import,
Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA, 107, 20190-20195, 2010

Banci, L., Bertini, I., Cefaro, C., Ciofi-Baffoni, S., Gallo, A., Martinelli, M., Sideris, D. P., Katrakili, N., and Tokatlidis, K.,
MIA40 is an oxidoreductase that catalyzes oxidative protein folding in mitochondria,
Nat.Struct.Mol.Biol., 16, 198-206, 2009

Banci, L., Bertini,I., Boca, M., Calderone, V., Cantini, F., Girotto, S., and Vieru, M.,
Structural and dynamic aspects related to oligomineralization of apo SOD1 and its mutants.,
Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA, 106, 6980-6985, 2009