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  1. Molecular mimicry between SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein and mammalian proteomes: implications for the vaccine

    Article • Immunologic Research, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  2. Medical, Genomic, and Evolutionary Aspects of the Peptide Sharing between Pathogens, Primates, and Humans

    Article • Global Medical Genetics, August 2020, Thieme Publishing Group

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  3. Hydrophobicity and the Physico-Chemical Basis of Immunotolerance

    Article • Pathobiology, January 2020, Karger Publishers

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  4. Immunobiology: on the inexistence of a negative selection process

    Article • Advanced Studies in Biology, January 2020, Hikari, Ltd.

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  5. Human Papillomavirus Epitope Mimicry and Autoimmunity: The Molecular Truth of Peptide Sharing

    Article • Pathobiology, January 2019, Karger Publishers

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  6. The comparative biochemistry of viruses and humans: an evolutionary path towards autoimmunity

    Article • Biological Chemistry, December 2018, De Gruyter

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  7. Inter-Pathogen Peptide Sharing and the Original Antigenic Sin: Solving a Paradox

    Article • The Open Immunology Journal, August 2018, Bentham Science Publishers

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  8. Cytomegalovirus Infection: The Neurodevelopmental Peptide Signatures

    Article • Current Drug Discovery Technologies, July 2018, Bentham Science Publishers

    Dr. Guglielmo Lucchese, Professor Darja Kanduc

  9. Rare Human Codons and HCMV Translational Regulation

    Article • Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, January 2017, Karger Publishers

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  10. Role of codon usage and tRNA changes in rat cytomegalovirus latency and (re)activation

    Article • Journal of Basic Microbiology, February 2016, Wiley

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  11. H1N1 versus H5N1 hemagglutinins: A possible differential immunologic impact on neurodevelopment

    Article • Neurology Psychiatry and Brain Research, March 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Darja Kanduc, Dr. Guglielmo Lucchese

  12. Describing the Potential Crossreactome between Mumps Virus and Spermatogenesis-Associated Proteins

    Article • Endocrine Metabolic & Immune Disorders - Drug Targets, July 2014, Bentham Science Publishers

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  13. The Peptide Network between Tetanus Toxin and Human Proteins Associated with Epilepsy

    Article • Epilepsy Research and Treatment, January 2014, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Professor Darja Kanduc, Dr. Guglielmo Lucchese

  14. Peptide matching between Epstein-Barr virus and human proteins

    Article • Pathogens and Disease, August 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Darja Kanduc, Dr. Guglielmo Lucchese

  15. Peptide sharing betweenBordetella pertussisproteome and human sudden death proteins: a hypothesis for a causal link

    Article • Future Microbiology, August 2013, Future Medicine

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  16. Peptide profiling of the route from Mahoney to Sabin, and return

    Article • Journal of Basic Microbiology, May 2013, Wiley

    Professor Darja Kanduc, Dr. Guglielmo Lucchese

  17. Peptide Sharing Between Influenza A H1N1 Hemagglutinin and Human Axon Guidance Proteins

    Article • Schizophrenia Bulletin, January 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Darja Kanduc, Dr. Guglielmo Lucchese

  18. Molecular signatures of basal cell carcinoma susceptibility and pathogenesis: A genomic approach

    Article • International Journal of Oncology, November 2012, Spandidos Publications

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  19. West Nile virus diagnosis and vaccination: using unique viral peptide sequences to evoke specific immune responses

    Article • Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology, November 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Darja Kanduc, Dr. Guglielmo Lucchese

  20. Evidence for a vast peptide overlap between West Nile virus and human proteomes

    Article • Journal of Basic Microbiology, September 2012, Wiley

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  21. Homology, similarity, and identity in peptide epitope immunodefinition

    Article • Journal of Peptide Science, June 2012, Wiley

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  22. A qualitative description of the peptide sharing between poliovirus andHomo sapiens

    Article • Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology, February 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  23. Editorial[Hot Topic: Peptides in Diagnosis and Therapy (Executive Guest Editor: Darja Kanduc)]

    Article • Current Pharmaceutical Design, February 2012, Bentham Science Publishers

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  24. Circumscribing the Conformational Peptide Epitope Landscape

    Article • Current Pharmaceutical Design, February 2012, Bentham Science Publishers

    Professor Darja Kanduc, Dr. Guglielmo Lucchese

  25. How a single amino acid change may alter the immunological information of a peptide

    Article • Frontiers in Bioscience, January 2012, Frontiers in Bioscience

    Professor Darja Kanduc, Dr. Guglielmo Lucchese

  26. Reviewing the role of peptide rarity in bacterial toxin immunomics

    Article • January 2012, Frontiers in Bioscience

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  27. Peptide cross-reactivity the original sin of vaccines

    Article • January 2012, Frontiers in Bioscience

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  28. A quantitative description of the peptide sharing between poliovirus andHomo sapiens

    Article • Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology, December 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  29. HCV: Written in our DNA

    Article • Self/Nonself, April 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  30. Selfness-nonselfness in designing an anti-B19 erythrovirus vaccine

    Article • Self/Nonself, April 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  31. Searching for an effective, safe and universal anti-HIV vaccine: Finding the answer in just one short peptide

    Article • Self/Nonself, January 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Darja Kanduc, Dr. Guglielmo Lucchese

  32. Pentapeptide commonality betweenCorynebacterium diphtheriaetoxin and theHomo sapiensproteome

    Article • Immunotherapy, January 2011, Future Medicine

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  33. No human protein is exempt from bacterial motifs, not even one

    Article • Self/Nonself, October 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Darja Kanduc, Dr. Guglielmo Lucchese

  34. Pentapeptide sharing betweenCorynebacterium diphtheriatoxin and the human neural protein network

    Article • Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology, September 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  35. Describing the hexapeptide identity platform between the influenza A H5N1 and Homo sapiens proteomes

    Article • Biologics Targets & Therapy, September 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  36. The self/nonself issue: A confrontation between proteomes

    Article • Self/Nonself, July 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  37. Protein information content resides in rare peptide segments

    Article • Peptides, May 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  38. Hepatitis B virus and Homo sapiens proteomewide analysis: A profusion of viral peptide overlaps in neuron-specific human proteins

    Article • Biologics Targets & Therapy, April 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  39. Clustering of rare peptide segments in the HCV immunome

    Article • Self/Nonself, April 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  40. Proposing Low-Similarity Peptide Vaccines againstMycobacterium tuberculosis

    Article • Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, January 2010, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Professor Darja Kanduc, Dr. Guglielmo Lucchese

  41. The oligodeoxynucleotide sequences corresponding to never-expressed peptide motifs are mainly located in the non-coding strand

    Article • BMC Bioinformatics, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  42. Bacterial peptides are intensively present throughout the human proteome

    Article • Self/Nonself, January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Darja Kanduc, Dr. Guglielmo Lucchese

  43. “Self-Nonself” Peptides in the Design of Vaccines

    Article • Current Pharmaceutical Design, October 2009, Bentham Science Publishers

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  44. Codon number shapes peptide redundancy in the universal proteome composition

    Article • Peptides, October 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  45. Proteome-guided search for influenza A B-cell epitopes

    Article • FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology, October 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Darja Kanduc, Dr. Guglielmo Lucchese

  46. Proteome-based epitopic peptide scanning along PSA

    Article • Experimental and Molecular Pathology, February 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  47. Rare peptide segments are found significantly more often in proto-oncoproteins than control proteins: implications for immunology and oncology

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, January 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  48. Pentapeptide overlapping between human immunodeficiency viruses and Home sapiens proteomes is higher than 90%

    Article • Retrovirology, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  49. Epitopic peptides with low similarity to the host proteome: towards biological therapies without side effects

    Article • Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy, December 2008, Informa Healthcare

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  50. Massive peptide sharing between viral and human proteomes

    Article • Peptides, October 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Darja Kanduc, Dr. Guglielmo Lucchese

  51. Sequence uniqueness and sequence variability as modulating factors of human anti-HCV humoral immune response

    Article • Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy, February 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Darja Kanduc, Dr. Guglielmo Lucchese

  52. Correlating low-similarity peptide sequences and HIV B-cell epitopes

    Article • Autoimmunity Reviews, February 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Alberta Lucchese, Professor Darja Kanduc

  53. Widespread and ample peptide overlapping between HCV and Homo sapiens proteomes

    Article • Peptides, June 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Darja Kanduc, Dr. Guglielmo Lucchese

  54. Non-redundant Peptidomes from DAPs: Towards “The Vaccine”?

    Article • Autoimmunity Reviews, April 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Alberta Lucchese, Professor Darja Kanduc

  55. Pre-eclampsia is associated with Helicobacter pylori seropositivity in Italy

    Article • Journal of Hypertension, December 2006, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  56. Genome-wide transcriptional profiling in human squamous cell carcinoma of the skin identifies unique tumor-associated signatures

    Article • The Journal of Dermatology, May 2006, Wiley

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  57. Defining Peptide Sequences: From Antigenicity to Immunogenicity Through Redundancy

    Article • Current Pharmacogenomics, March 2006, Bentham Science Publishers

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  58. Article • Journal of Translational Medicine, January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  59. Article • Journal of Translational Medicine, January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  60. Article • Immunome Research, January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  61. Peptimmunology: Immunogenic Peptides and Sequence Redundancy

    Article • Current Drug Discovery Technologies, December 2005, Bentham Science Publishers

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  62. Definition of anti-tyrosinase MAb T311 linear determinant by proteome-based similarity analysis

    Article • Experimental Dermatology, July 2005, Wiley

    Dr Alberta Lucchese, Professor Darja Kanduc

  63. Computational peptide dissection of Melan-a/MART-1 oncoprotein antigenicity

    Article • Peptides, November 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Alberta Lucchese, Professor Darja Kanduc

  64. Identification of Monoclonal Anti-HMW-MAA Antibody Linear Peptide Epitope by Proteomic Database Mining

    Article • Journal of Investigative Dermatology, October 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Darja Kanduc, Dr. Guglielmo Lucchese

  65. NMR probing of in silico identification of anti-HPV16 E7 mAb linear peptide epitope

    Article • Peptides, February 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco Paolo Fanizzi, Professor Darja Kanduc, Dr. Guglielmo Lucchese

  66. Non-self-discrimination as a driving concept in the identification of an immunodominant HMW-MAA epitopic peptide sequence by autoantibodies from melanoma cancer patients

    Article • International Journal of Cancer, January 2004, Wiley

    Professor Francesco Paolo Fanizzi, Professor Darja Kanduc, Dr. Guglielmo Lucchese

  67. Possible association between HPV16 E7 protein level and cytokeratin 19

    Article • International Journal of Cancer, January 2004, Wiley

    Dr Alberta Lucchese, Prof Lorenzo Lo Muzio, Professor Darja Kanduc

  68. Article • Journal of Translational Medicine, January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  69. Clinical applications of DNA microarray analysis

    Article • Journal of Experimental Therapeutics and Oncology, November 2003, Wiley

    Professor Darja Kanduc, Dr. Guglielmo Lucchese

  70. Cancer prevention and therapy: strategies and problems

    Article • Journal of Experimental Therapeutics and Oncology, May 2003, Wiley

    Dr Alberta Lucchese, Professor Darja Kanduc

  71. Role of MHC II affinity and molecular mimicry in defining anti-HER-2/neu MAb-3 linear peptide epitope

    Article • Peptides, February 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Alberta Lucchese, Professor Darja Kanduc

  72. Translational Regulation of Human Papillomavirus Type 16 E7 mRNA by the Peptide SEQIKA, Shared by Rabbit α1-Globin and Human Cytokeratin 7

    Article • Journal of Virology, July 2002, ASM Journals

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  73. Monoclonal and polyclonal humoral immune response to EC HER-2/NEU peptides with low similarity to the host's proteome

    Article • International Journal of Cancer, March 2002, Wiley

    Dr Alberta Lucchese, Professor Darja Kanduc

  74. Fractionation of Rat Liver tRNA by Reversed-Phase High Performance Liquid Chromatography: Isolation of ISO-tRNAsPro

    Article • Preparative Biochemistry, November 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  75. tRNA fractionation by HPLC

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Darja Kanduc

  76. Immunogenicity in Peptide-Immunotherapy: From Self/Nonself to Similar/Dissimilar Sequences

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Darja Kanduc