Professor Stefano Ciurli

Bioinorganic Chemistry of Nickel

• Inorganics
• October 2019

Soyuretox, an Intrinsically Disordered Polypeptide Derived from Soybean (Glycine Max) U...

• International Journal of Molecular Sciences
• October 2019

Urease Inhibitory Potential and Soil Ecotoxicity of Novel “Polyphenols–Deep Eutectic So...

• ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
• August 2019

The Impact of pH on Catalytically Critical Protein Conformational Changes: The Case of ...

• Chemistry - A European Journal
• August 2019

Multifunctional Urea Cocrystal with Combined Ureolysis and Nitrification Inhibiting Cap...

• ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
• July 2019

The Structure of the Elusive Urease-Urea Complex Unveils the Mechanism of a Paradigmati...

• Angewandte Chemie International Edition
• April 2019

The Structure of the Elusive Urease–Urea Complex Unveils the Mechanism of a Paradigmati...

• Angewandte Chemie
• April 2019

The carbon monoxide dehydrogenase accessory protein CooJ is a histidine-rich multidomai...

• Journal of Biological Chemistry
• March 2019

Insights into Urease Inhibition by N-(n-Butyl) Phosphoric Triamide through an Integrate...

• Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
• February 2019

Novel Dual-Action Plant Fertilizer and Urease Inhibitor: Urea·Catechol Cocrystal. Chara...

• ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
• January 2019

Inhibition Mechanism of Urease by Au(III) Compounds Unveiled by X-ray Diffraction Analysis

• ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters
• January 2019

The structure of urease inactivated by Ag(i): a new paradigm for enzyme inhibition by h...

• Dalton Transactions
• January 2018

Smart urea ionic co-crystals with enhanced urease inhibition activity for improved nitr...

• Chemical Communications
• January 2018

Structural analysis of the interaction between Jaburetox, an intrinsically disordered p...

• Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces
• November 2017

Urease Inhibition in the Presence of N-(n-Butyl)thiophosphoric Triamide, a Suicide Subs...

• Biochemistry
• September 2017

The relationship between folding and activity in UreG, an intrinsically disordered enzyme

• Scientific Reports
• July 2017

Development of a multisite model for Ni(II) ion in solution from thermodynamic and kine...

• Journal of Computational Chemistry
• May 2017

Glutamate Ligation in the Ni(II)- and Co(II)-Responsive Escherichia coli Transcriptiona...

• Inorganic Chemistry
• May 2017

Protein Tunnels: The Case of Urease Accessory Proteins

• Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
• April 2017

The CO dehydrogenase accessory protein CooT is a novel nickel-binding protein

• Metallomics
• January 2017

Nickel impact on human health: An intrinsic disorder perspective

• Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics
• December 2016

Inactivation of urease by catechol: Kinetics and structure

• Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
• November 2016

Surface plasmon resonance and isothermal titration calorimetry to monitor the Ni(II)-de...

• Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
• August 2016

On the role of a specific insert in acetate permeases (ActP) for tellurite uptake in ba...

• Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
• June 2016

Kinetic and structural studies reveal a unique binding mode of sulfite to the nickel ce...

• Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
• January 2016

Inactivation of urease by 1,4-benzoquinone: chemistry at the protein surface

• Dalton Transactions
• January 2016

Isothermal Titration Calorimetry to Characterize Enzymatic Reactions

• January 2016

Evolution of Macromolecular Docking Techniques: The Case Study of Nickel and Iron Metab...

• Molecules
• August 2015

On the interaction of Helicobacter pylori NikR, a Ni(II)-responsive transcription facto...

• JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
• July 2015

Intrinsic disorder and metal binding in UreG proteins from Archae hyperthermophiles: GT...

• JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
• April 2015

Pliable natural biocide: Jaburetox is an intrinsically disordered insecticidal and fung...

• FEBS Journal
• February 2015

Nickel-responsive transcriptional regulators

• Metallomics
• January 2015

Promiscuous Nickel Import in Human Pathogens: Structure, Thermodynamics, and Evolution ...

• Structure
• October 2014

The conformational response to Zn(II) and Ni(II) binding of Sporosarcina pasteurii UreG...

• JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
• September 2014

Molecular landscape of the interaction between the urease accessory proteins UreE and UreG

• Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics
• September 2014

Fluoride inhibition of Sporosarcina pasteurii urease: structure and thermodynamics

• JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
• August 2014

Nonredox Nickel Enzymes

• Chemical Reviews
• April 2014

Hot Biological Catalysis: Isothermal Titration Calorimetry to Characterize Enzymatic Re...

• Journal of Visualized Experiments
• April 2014

FeON-FeOFF: the Helicobacter pylori Fur regulator commutates iron-responsive transcript...

• Nucleic Acids Research
• December 2013

Nickel binding properties of Helicobacter pylori UreF, an accessory protein in the nick...

• JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
• November 2013

Selectivity of Ni(II) and Zn(II) binding to Sporosarcina pasteurii UreE, a metallochape...

• JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
• October 2013

Structure of the UreD–UreF–UreG–UreE complex in Helicobacter pylori: a model study

• JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
• May 2013

Conformational Fluctuations of UreG, an Intrinsically Disordered Enzyme

• Biochemistry
• April 2013

Biogeochemical processes and geotechnical applications: progress, opportunities and cha...

• Géotechnique
• March 2013

The crystal structure of Sporosarcina pasteurii urease in a complex with citrate provid...

• JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
• February 2013

Urease

• January 2013

Nickel and Human Health

• January 2013

Engineered biosealant strains producing inorganic and organic biopolymers

• Journal of Biotechnology
• October 2012

Crystallographic and X-ray absorption spectroscopic characterization of Helicobacter p...

• Biochemical Journal
• February 2012

Biochemical and structural studies on native and recombinant Glycine max UreG: a detail...

• Plant Molecular Biology
• January 2012

Insights in the (un)structural organization of Bacillus pasteurii UreG, an intrinsicall...

• Molecular BioSystems
• January 2012

Intrinsic Fluorescence of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

• January 2012

Denaturant-Induced Conformational Transitions in Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

• January 2012

Unraveling the Helicobacter pylori UreG zinc binding site using X-ray absorption spectr...

• JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
• November 2011

Metal Ion-Mediated DNA-Protein Interactions

• September 2011

Model Structures of Helicobacter pylori UreD(H) Domains: A Putative Molecular Recogniti...

• Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences
• July 2011

Chemistry of Ni2+in Urease: Sensing, Trafficking, and Catalysis

• Accounts of Chemical Research
• July 2011

Zinc Inhibition of Bacterial Cytochrome bc 1 Reveals the Role of Cytochrome b E295 in ...

• Biochemistry
• May 2011

Interaction of Selenoprotein W with 14-3-3 Proteins: A Computational Approach

• Journal of Proteome Research
• March 2011

Holo-Ni2+Helicobacter pylori NikR contains four square-planar nickel-binding sites at p...

• Dalton Transactions
• January 2011

Computational Study of the DNA-Binding Protein Helicobacter pylori NikR: The Role of N...

• Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
• November 2010

Nickel Enzymes/Models

• September 2010

Helicobacter pylori UreE, a urease accessory protein: specific Ni 2+ - and Zn 2+ -bind...

• Biochemical Journal
• August 2009

The RNA Hydrolysis and the Cytokinin Binding Activities of PR-10 Proteins Are Different...

• PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
• May 2009

Zn2+-linked dimerization of UreG fromHelicobacter pylori, a chaperone involved in nicke...

• Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics
• January 2009

High-Affinity Ni2+ Binding Selectively Promotes Binding of Helicobacter pylori NikR to ...

• Journal of Molecular Biology
• November 2008

Structural Characterization of Binding of Cu(II) to Tau Protein †

• Biochemistry
• October 2008

High resolution crystal structure of Rubrivivax gelatinosus cytochrome c′

• Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
• May 2008

A model-based proposal for the role of UreF as a GTPase-activating protein in the ureas...

• Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics
• May 2007

Biochemical Studies on Mycobacterium tuberculosis UreG and Comparative Modeling Reveal...

• Biochemistry
• March 2007

The Ni2+ binding properties of Helicobacter pylori NikR

• Chemical Communications
• January 2007

Intrinsically Disordered Structure of Bacillus pasteurii UreG As Revealed by Steady-St...

• Biochemistry
• July 2006

Low-Temperature EPR and Mössbauer Spectroscopy of Two Cytochromes with His–Met Axial Co...

• ChemPhysChem
• June 2006

An Italian contribution to structural genomics: Understanding metalloproteins

• Coordination Chemistry Reviews
• June 2006

The Nickel Site of Bacillus pasteurii UreE, a Urease Metallo-Chaperone, As Revealed by...

• Biochemistry
• May 2006

Jack bean (Canavalia ensiformis) urease. Probing acid–base groups of the active site by...

• Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
• July 2005

High potential iron–sulfur proteins and their role as soluble electron carriers in bact...

• Photosynthesis Research
• July 2005

Structure of the Intermolecular Complex between Plastocyanin and Cytochromeffrom Spinach

• Journal of Biological Chemistry
• February 2005

UreG, a Chaperone in the Urease Assembly Process, Is an Intrinsically Unstructured GTP...

• Journal of Biological Chemistry
• November 2004

The Asn 38−Cys 84 H-Bond in Plastocyanin

• The Journal of Physical Chemistry
• June 2004

Nickel trafficking: insights into the fold and function of UreE, a urease metallochaper...

• Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
• May 2004

Preparation and reactivity studies of synthetic microperoxidases containing b-type heme

• JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
• March 2004

Molecular Details of Urease Inhibition by Boric Acid:  Insights into the Catalytic Mech...

• Journal of the American Chemical Society
• March 2004

Electron Transfer from HiPIP to the Photooxidized Tetraheme Cytochrome Subunit of Allo...

• Biochemistry
• January 2004

Structure ofRhodoferax fermentanshigh-potential iron–sulfur protein solved by MAD

• Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography
• August 2003

Nickel trafficking and urease: recent developments

• Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
• July 2003

Structural Basis for the Molecular Properties of Cytochrome c 6 †

• Biochemistry
• December 2002

New Insights into the Mechanism of Purple Acid Phosphatase through 1 H NMR Spectroscop...

• Journal of the American Chemical Society
• November 2002

NMR Solution Structure, Backbone Mobility, and Homology Modeling ofc-Type Cytochromes f...

• ChemBioChem
• April 2002

Molecular characterization of Bacillus pasteurii UreE, a metal-binding chaperone for th...

• JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
• February 2002

Structural Basis for Ni2+Transport and Assembly of the Urease Active Site by the Metall...

• Journal of Biological Chemistry
• October 2001

Structure-based rationalization of urease inhibition by phosphate: novel insights into ...

• JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
• October 2001

Backbone Dynamics of Plastocyanin in Both Oxidation States: SOLUTION STRUCTURE OF THE R...

• Journal of Biological Chemistry
• August 2001

The First Solution Structure of a Paramagnetic Copper(II) Protein:  The Case of Oxidiz...

• Journal of the American Chemical Society
• March 2001

Structure-based computational study of the catalytic and inhibition mechanisms of urease

• JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
• March 2001

Crystal Structure of OxidizedBacillus pasteuriiCytochromec553at 0.97-Å Resolution†

• Biochemistry
• October 2000

The complex of Bacillus pasteurii urease with acetohydroxamate anion from X-ray data at...

• JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
• February 2000

Cytochrome c-553 from the Alkalophilic Bacterium Bacillus pasteurii Has the Primary Str...

• Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
• October 1999

Structural properties of the nickel ions in urease: novel insights into the catalytic a...

• Coordination Chemistry Reviews
• September 1999

Probing Structural and Electronic Properties of the Oxidized [Fe 4 S 4 ] 3+ Cluster of...

• Journal of the American Chemical Society
• March 1999

High-Field NMR Studies of Oxidized Blue Copper Proteins:  The Case of Spinach Plastocyanin

• Journal of the American Chemical Society
• March 1999

A new proposal for urease mechanism based on the crystal structures of the native and i...

• Structure
• February 1999

On the role of high-potential iron–sulfur proteins and cytochromes in the respiratory c...

• Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics
• January 1999

On the Role of Soluble Redox Carriers Alternative to Cytochrome c2 As Donors to Tetrahe...

• January 1999

Immobilization of jack bean urease on hydroxyapatite: urease immobilization in alkaline...

• Soil Biology and Biochemistry
• October 1998

Modulation of Bacillus pasteurii cytochrome c 553 reduction potential by structural and...

• JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
• August 1998

The complex of Bacillus pasteurii urease with β-mercaptoethanol from X-ray data at 1.65...

• JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
• June 1998

Kinetic properties and stability of potato acid phosphatase immobilized on Ca-polygalac...

• Biology and Fertility of Soils
• May 1998

Crystallization and preliminary high-resolution X-ray diffraction analysis of native an...

• Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography
• May 1998

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of cytochromec′ fromRubriviv...

• Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography
• March 1998

Coordination sphere versus protein environment as determinants of electronic and functi...

• January 1998

Cyclic voltammetry and spectroelectrochemistry of cytochrome c8 from Rubrivivax gelatin...

• Inorganica Chimica Acta
• October 1997

Crystals of cytochrome c‐553 from Bacillus pasteurii show diffraction to 0.97 å resolution

• Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics
• August 1997

The Primary Structure of Rhodoferax fermentans High-Potential Iron-Sulfur Protein, an E...

• European Journal of Biochemistry
• March 1997

• Photosynthesis Research
• January 1997

Kinetics of photo-induced electron transfer from high-potential iron-sulfur protein to ...

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• July 1996

X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study of Native and Phenylphosphorodiamidate-Inhibited Ba...

• European Journal of Biochemistry
• July 1996

Urease from the soil bacterium Bacillus pasteurii: Immobilization on Ca-polygalacturonate

• Soil Biology and Biochemistry
• June 1996

Bacillus pasteurii urease: A heteropolymeric enzyme with a binuclear nickel active site

• Soil Biology and Biochemistry
• June 1996

1H NMR of High-Potential Iron-Sulfur Protein from the Purple Non-Sulfur Bacterium Rhodo...

• European Journal of Biochemistry
• March 1996

Rationalization of the reduction potentials within the series of the high potential iro...

• Inorganica Chimica Acta
• December 1995

Isolation, Characterization, and Functional Role of the High-Potential Iron-Sulfur Prot...

• Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
• October 1995

The high potential iron-sulfur protein (HiPIP) from Rhodoferax fermentans is competent...

• FEBS Letters
• January 1995

Oxidized and Reduced [Fe2Q2] (Q = S, Se) Cores of Spinach Ferredoxin: a Comparative Stu...

• Inorganic Chemistry
• January 1995

The electronic structure of iron-sulfur [Fe4S4]3+ clusters in proteins. An investigatio...

• Biochemistry
• September 1993

NMR of Polymetallic Systems in Proteins

• January 1993

Synthetic nickel-containing heterometal cubane-type clusters with NiFe3Q4 cores (Q = su...

• Journal of the American Chemical Society
• June 1992

On the structure of the nickel/iron/sulfur center of the carbon monoxide dehydrogenase ...

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• May 1992

cis- and trans-Dichloro chelate complexes of niobium(IV): synthesis and structure of tr...

• Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions
• January 1988

Five-co-ordinate magnesium complexes: synthesis and structure of quadridentate Schiff-b...

• Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions
• January 1988

Ion pair complexes form the reduction of metal(II)-dibenzotetramethyltetra-aza[14]annul...

• Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications
• January 1987

A New Class of Organozirconium(IV) Compounds: Alkyl Derivatives of Tetramethyltetraazad...

• Angewandte Chemie International Edition
• January 1987

Reduzierte Cobalt-meso-tetraphenylporphyrin-Komplexe: Synthese und Struktur von [Na(thf...

• Angewandte Chemie
• June 1986

Urease: Recent Insights on the Role of Nickel

Subsite-Specific Structures and Reactions in Native and Synthetic [4Fe-4S] Cubane-Type ...