Professor Stefano Ciurli
Universita degli Studi di Bologna
Professor, Chemistry
Italy
My co-authors include
Stefano Benini
Łukasz Berlicki
Dr Michele Cianci
My Publications
The model structure of the copper-dependent ammonia monooxygenase
JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
September 2020
The structure-based reaction mechanism of urease, a nickel dependent enzyme: tale of a ...
JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
August 2020
Nickel and GTP Modulate Helicobacter pylori UreG Structural Flexibility
Biomolecules
July 2020
Targeting the Protein Tunnels of the Urease Accessory Complex: A Theoretical Investigation
Molecules
June 2020
Intrinsic disorder in the nickel-dependent urease network
January 2020
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 <i>bc</i><sub>1</sub> Reveals the Role of Cytoc...
Biochemistry
April 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(<scp>IV</scp>): synthesis and stru...
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 in English
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 ...