SARS-CoV-2 Molecular Evolution: A Focus on Omicron Variants in Umbria, Italy

Giulia Bicchieraro, Raffaella Ciurnelli, Alessandro Graziani, Alicia Yoke Wei Wong, Barbara Camilloni, Antonella Mencacci, Roberta Spaccapelo

Microorganisms, vol. 12, 2024 Jun, p. 1330

Electrophysiological Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Envelope Protein in U251 Human Glioblastoma Cells: Possible Implications in Gliomagenesis?

Lorenzo Monarca, Francesco Ragonese, Andrea Biagini, Paola Sabbatini, Matteo Pacini, Alessandro Zucchi, Roberta Spaccapelo, Paola Ferrari, Andrea Nicolini, Bernard Fioretti

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol. 25, 2024 Jun, p. 6669

A microbially produced AhR ligand promotes a Tph1-driven tolerogenic program in multiple sclerosis

Teresa Zelante, Giuseppe Paolicelli, Francesca Fallarino, Marco Gargaro, Gianluca Vascelli, Marco De Zuani, Jan Fric, Petra Laznickova, Marcela Hortova Kohoutkova, Antonio Macchiarulo, Daniela Dolciami, Giuseppe Pieraccini, Lorenzo Gaetani, Giulia Scalisi, Caterina Trevisan, Barbara Frossi, Carlo Pucillo, Antonella De Luca, Emilia Nunzi, Roberta Spaccapelo, Marilena Pariano, Monica Borghi, Francesca Boscaro, Riccardo Romoli, Andrea Mancini, Lucia Gentili, Giorgia Renga, Claudio Costantini, Matteo Puccetti, Stefano Giovagnoli, Maurizio Ricci, Martina Antonini, Paolo Calabresi, Paolo Puccetti, Massimiliano Di Filippo, Luigina Romani

Scientific Reports, vol. 14, 2024 Mar, p. 6651

Tripartite interactions comprising yeast-endobacteria systems in the gut of vector mosquitoes

Alessia Cappelli, Claudia Damiani, Aida Capone, Jovana Bozic, Priscilla Mensah, Emanuela Clementi, Roberta Spaccapelo, Guido Favia, Irene Ricci

Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 14, 2023, p. 1157299

Anopheline mosquito saliva contains bacteria that are transferred to a mammalian host through blood feeding

Anastasia Accoti, Claudia Damiani, Emilia Nunzi, Alessia Cappelli, Gloria Iacomelli, Giulia Monacchia, Antonella Turco, Francesco D'Alò, Matthew J. Peirce, Guido Favia, Roberta Spaccapelo

Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 14, 2023, p. 1157613

Impaired neutralizing antibody efficacy of tixagevimab-cilgavimab 150+150 mg as pre-exposure prophylaxis against Omicron BA.5. A real-world experience in booster vaccinated immunocompromised patients

Elisabetta Schiaroli, Anna Gidari, Giovanni Brachelente, Giulia Bicchieraro, Roberta Spaccapelo, Sabrina Bastianelli, Sara Pierucci, Chiara Busti, Carlo Pallotto, Lisa Malincarne, Barbara Camilloni, Flavio Falcinelli, Giuseppe Vittorio De Socio, Alfredo Villa, Antonella Mencacci, Daniela Francisci

Journal of Clinical Virology: The Official Publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology, vol. 168, 2023 Nov, p. 105584

Characterization of lab-based swarms of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes using 3D-video tracking

Andrea Cavagna, Irene Giardina, Michela Anna Gucciardino, Gloria Iacomelli, Max Lombardi, Stefania Melillo, Giulia Monacchia, Leonardo Parisi, Matthew J. Peirce, Roberta Spaccapelo

Scientific Reports, vol. 13, 2023 May, p. 8745

Immediate reinfection with Omicron variant after clearance of a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection

Antonella Mencacci, Alessio Gili, Barbara Camilloni, Giulia Bicchieraro, Roberta Spaccapelo, Carla Bietta, Fabrizio Stracci

Journal of Infection and Public Health, vol. 15, 2022 Sep, pp. 983--985

Hitting the right note at the right time: Circadian control of audibility in Anopheles mosquito mating swarms is mediated by flight tones

Jason Somers, Marcos Georgiades, Matthew P. Su, Judit Bagi, Marta Andrés, Alexandros Alampounti, Gordon Mills, Watson Ntabaliba, Sarah J. Moore, Roberta Spaccapelo, Joerg T. Albert

Science Advances, vol. 8, 2022 Jan, pp. eabl4844

Pharyngeal Microbial Signatures Are Predictive of the Risk of Fungal Pneumonia in Hematologic Patients

Claudio Costantini, Emilia Nunzi, Angelica Spolzino, Melissa Palmieri, Giorgia Renga, Teresa Zelante, Lukas Englmaier, Katerina Coufalikova, Zdeněk Spáčil, Monica Borghi, Marina M. Bellet, Enzo Acerbi, Matteo Puccetti, Stefano Giovagnoli, Roberta Spaccapelo, Vincenzo N. Talesa, Giuseppe Lomurno, Francesco Merli, Luca Facchini, Antonio Spadea, Lorella Melillo, Katia Codeluppi, Francesco Marchesi, Gessica Marchesini, Daniela Valente, Giulia Dragonetti, Gianpaolo Nadali, Livio Pagano, Franco Aversa, Luigina Romani

Infection and Immunity, vol. 89, 2021 Jul, pp. e0010521

Comparison of two human organoid models of lung and intestinal inflammation reveals Toll-like receptor signalling activation and monocyte recruitment

Shyam Sushama Jose, Marco De Zuani, Federico Tidu, Marcela Hortová Kohoutková, Lucia Pazzagli, Giancarlo Forte, Roberta Spaccapelo, Teresa Zelante, Jan Frič

Clinical \& Translational Immunology, vol. 9, 2020 May, pp. e1131

Sulforaphane-Loaded Ultradeformable Vesicles as A Potential Natural Nanomedicine for the Treatment of Skin Cancer Diseases

Maria Chiara Cristiano, Francesca Froiio, Roberta Spaccapelo, Antonia Mancuso, Steven P. Nisticò, Betty P. Udongo, Massimo Fresta, Donatella Paolino

Pharmaceutics, vol. 12, 2019 Dec, p. 6

Large-cage assessment of a transgenic sex-ratio distortion strain on populations of an African malaria vector

Luca Facchinelli, Ace R. North, C. Matilda Collins, Miriam Menichelli, Tania Persampieri, Alessandro Bucci, Roberta Spaccapelo, Andrea Crisanti, Mark Q. Benedict

Parasites \& Vectors, vol. 12, 2019 Feb, p. 70

Structure-activity relationships, biological evaluation and structural studies of novel pyrrolonaphthoxazepines as antitumor agents

Margherita Brindisi, Cristina Ulivieri, Gloria Alfano, Sandra Gemma, Francisco de Asís Balaguer, Tuhina Khan, Alessandro Grillo, Giulia Chemi, Grégory Menchon, Andrea E. Prota, Natacha Olieric, Daniel Lucena-Agell, Isabel Barasoain, J. Fernando Diaz, Angela Nebbioso, Mariarosaria Conte, Ludovica Lopresti, Stefania Magnano, Rebecca Amet, Paula Kinsella, Daniela M. Zisterer, Ola Ibrahim, Jeff O'Sullivan, Lucia Morbidelli, Roberta Spaccapelo, Cosima Baldari, Stefania Butini, Ettore Novellino, Giuseppe Campiani, Lucia Altucci, Michel O. Steinmetz, Simone Brogi

European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 162, 2019 Jan, pp. 290--320

Estimating bacteria diversity in different organs of nine species of mosquito by next generation sequencing

M. V. Mancini, C. Damiani, A. Accoti, M. Tallarita, E. Nunzi, A. Cappelli, J. Bozic, R. Catanzani, P. Rossi, M. Valzano, A. Serrao, I. Ricci, R. Spaccapelo, G. Favia

BMC microbiology, vol. 18, 2018 Oct, p. 126

Antitumor activity and expression profiles of genes induced by sulforaphane in human melanoma cells

Paola Arcidiacono, Francesco Ragonese, Anna Stabile, Alessandra Pistilli, Ekaterina Kuligina, Mario Rende, Ugo Bottoni, Stefano Calvieri, Andrea Crisanti, Roberta Spaccapelo

European Journal of Nutrition, vol. 57, 2018 Oct, pp. 2547--2569

Anticarcinogenic activities of sulforaphane are influenced by Nerve Growth Factor in human melanoma A375 cells

Paola Arcidiacono, Anna Maria Stabile, Francesco Ragonese, Alessandra Pistilli, Stefano Calvieri, Ugo Bottoni, Andrea Crisanti, Roberta Spaccapelo, Mario Rende

Food and Chemical Toxicology: An International Journal Published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association, vol. 113, 2018 Mar, pp. 154--161

Transcriptomic profiling of microglia reveals signatures of cell activation and immune response, during experimental cerebral malaria

Barbara Capuccini, Jingwen Lin, Carlos Talavera-López, Shahid M. Khan, Jan Sodenkamp, Roberta Spaccapelo, Jean Langhorne

Scientific Reports, vol. 6, 2016 Dec, p. 39258

Release of Plasmodium sporozoites requires proteins with histone-fold dimerization domains

Chiara Currà, Renate Gessmann, Tomasino Pace, Leonardo Picci, Giulia Peruzzi, Vassiliki Varamogianni-Mamatsi, Lefteris Spanos, Célia R. S. Garcia, Roberta Spaccapelo, Marta Ponzi, Inga Siden-Kiamos

Nature Communications, vol. 7, 2016 Dec, p. 13846

Variant Exported Blood-Stage Proteins Encoded by Plasmodium Multigene Families Are Expressed in Liver Stages Where They Are Exported into the Parasitophorous Vacuole

Aurélie Fougère, Andrew P. Jackson, Dafni Paraskevi Bechtsi, Joanna A. M. Braks, Takeshi Annoura, Jannik Fonager, Roberta Spaccapelo, Jai Ramesar, Séverine Chevalley-Maurel, Onny Klop, Annelies M. A. van der Laan, Hans J. Tanke, Clemens H. M. Kocken, Erica M. Pasini, Shahid M. Khan, Ulrike Böhme, Christiaan van Ooij, Thomas D. Otto, Chris J. Janse, Blandine Franke-Fayard

PLoS pathogens, vol. 12, 2016 Nov, pp. e1005917