ESPOSITO, FRANCESCA
ESPOSITO, FRANCESCA
DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE DELLA VITA E DELL'AMBIENTE
Cys44 of SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro affects its catalytic activity
2025-01-01 Iacobucci, I.; Cipollone, I.; Cozzolino, F.; Iaconis, D.; Talarico, C.; Coppola, G.; Morasso, S.; Costanzi, E.; Malune, Paolo; Storici, P.; Tramontano, E.; Esposito, Francesca; Monti, M.
Dual-Site Inhibition of SARS-CoV2 RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase by Small Molecules Able to Block Viral Replication Identified through a Computer-Aided Drug Discovery Approach
2025-01-01 Malune, Paolo; Iaconis, Daniela; Manelfi, Candida; Giunta, Stefano; Emmolo, Roberta; Lunghini, Filippo; Paulis, Annalaura; Talarico, Carmine; Corona, Angela; Rosario Beccari, Andrea; Tramontano, Enzo; Esposito, Francesca
Meeting report: Seventh summer school on innovative approaches for identification of antiviral agents (IAAASS)
2025-01-01 Corona, Angela; Cagno, Valeria; Grandi, Nicole; Fanunza, Elisa; Esposito, Francesca; Seley-Radtke, Kathie L.; Tramontano, Enzo
N -alkyl and N-benzyl indoles are anti-SARS-CoV-2 agents and nsp13 inhibitors
2025-01-01 Albano, Aurora; Emmolo, Roberta; De Santis, Riccardo; Patacchini, Elisa; Madia, Valentina Noemi; Maloccu, Stefania; Ialongo, Davide; Ruggieri, Giuseppe; Arpacioglu, Merve; Scipione, Luigi; Saccoliti, Francesco; Amatore, Donatella; Grilli, Giorgia; Lista, Florigio; Esposito, Francesca; Tramontano, Enzo; Corona, Angela; Di Santo, Roberto; Costi, Roberta
Structure−Activity Relationships of New 1‐Aryl‐1H‐Indole Derivatives as SARS‐CoV‐2 Nsp13 Inhibitors
2025-01-01 Madia, Valentina Noemi; Emmolo, Roberta; Patacchini, Elisa; Amatore, Donatella; Maloccu, Stefania; Ialongo, Davide; Albano, Aurora; Ruggieri, Giuseppe; Cara, Emanuele; Zarbo, Laura; Messore, Antonella; De Santis, Riccardo; Amoroso, Alessandra; Lista, Florigio; Esposito, Francesca; Tramontano, Enzo; Corona, Angela; Di Santo, Roberto; Costi, Roberta
The efficiency of high-throughput screening (HTS) and in-silico data analysis during medical emergencies: Identification of effective antiviral 3CLpro inhibitors
2025-01-01 Zian, D.; Iaconis, D.; Nenci, S.; Crusco, A.; Tawde, S.; Sodano, M.; Vitalone, R.; Raje, A.; Palamini, M.; Carettoni, D.; Molteni, A.; Manelfi, C.; Tazzari, V.; Beccari, A. R.; Malune, P.; Maloccu, S.; Paulis, Annalaura; Corona, Angela; Nieddu, Salvatore; Coletti, S.; Scarabottolo, L.; Tramontano, Enzo; Esposito, Francesca; Catalani, M.
Thiol-Reactive or Redox-Active: Revising a Repurposing Screen Led to a New Invalidation Pipeline and Identified a True Noncovalent Inhibitor Against Papain-like Protease from SARS-CoV-2
2025-01-01 Kuzikov, Maria; Morasso, Stefano; Reinshagen, Jeanette; Wolf, Markus; Monaco, Vittoria; Cozzolino, Flora; Golič Grdadolnik, Simona; Šket, Primož; Plavec, Janez; Iaconis, Daniela; Summa, Vincenzo; Corona, Angela; Paulis, Annalaura; Esposito, Francesca; Tramontano, Enzo; Monti, Maria; Beccari, Andrea R.; Manelfi, Candida; Windshügel, Björn; Gribbon, Philip; Storici, Paola; Zaliani, Andrea
Unveiling SARS-CoV-2's heart: role, structure and inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase
2025-01-01 Malune, P.; Esposito, Francesca; Tramontano, E.
4-(3-Phenylsulfonylindol-2-yl)-1-(pyridin-2-yl)piperazinyl-methanones as Potent Inhibitors of both SARS-CoV-2 and HCoV-OC43 Viruses
2024-01-01 Puxeddu, M.; Donalisio, M.; Bugert, J. J.; Corona, Angela; Cocomazzi, P.; Milani, M.; Hucke, F.; Arduino, I.; Esposito, Francesca; Moretti, P.; Ortore, M. G.; Nalli, M.; Manetto, S.; Mazzoccanti, G.; Bigogno, C.; Dondio, G.; Scio, P.; Coluccia, A.; Fracella, M.; Antonelli, G.; Lembo, D.; Tramontano, Enzo; Silvestri, R.; Mastrangelo, E.; La Regina, G.
Drug repurposing screen to identify inhibitors of the RNA polymerase (nsp12) and helicase (nsp13) from SARS-CoV-2 replication and transcription complex
2024-01-01 Kuzikov, Maria; Reinshagen, Jeanette; Wycisk, Krzysztof; Corona, Angela; Esposito, Francesca; Malune, Paolo; Manelfi, Candida; Iaconis, Daniela; Beccari, Andrea; Tramontano, Enzo; Nowotny, Marcin; Windshügel, Bjorn; Gribbon, Philip; Zaliani, Andrea
New Thiazolidine-4-One Derivatives as SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Inhibitors
2024-01-01 Messore, Antonella; Malune, Paolo; Patacchini, Elisa; Noemi Madia, Valentina; Ialongo, Davide; Arpacioglu, Merve; Albano, Aurora; Ruggieri, Giuseppe; Saccoliti, Francesco; Scipione, Luigi; Tramontano, Enzo; Canton, Serena; Corona, Angela; Scognamiglio, Sante; Paulis, Annalaura; Suleiman, Mustapha; Mohammed Al-Maqtari, Helmi; Abid, Fatma Mohamed A.; Kawsar, Sarkar M. A.; Sankaranarayanan, Murugesan; Di Santo, Roberto; Esposito, Francesca; Roberta Costi, And
The antipsychotic drug lurasidone inhibits coronaviruses by affecting multiple targets
2024-01-01 Baroni, S.; Carletti, T.; Donalisio, M.; Arduino, I.; Cazzaniga, I.; Giorgino, T.; Esposito, Francesca; Porta, A.; Diomede, L.; De Luigi, A.; Gobbi, M.; Lembo, D.; Marcello, A.; Tramontano, Enzo; Milani, M.; Mastrangelo, E.
5-Nitro-3-(2-(4-phenylthiazol-2-yl)hydrazineylidene)indolin-2-one derivatives inhibit HIV-1 replication by a multitarget mechanism of action
2023-01-01 Corona, A.; Meleddu, R.; Delelis, O.; Subra, F.; Cottiglia, F.; Esposito, F.; Distinto, S.; Maccioni, E.; Tramontano, E.
Broad-spectrum coronavirus 3C-like protease peptidomimetic inhibitors effectively block SARS-CoV-2 replication in cells: Design, synthesis, biological evaluation, and X-ray structure determination
2023-01-01 Stefanelli, Irina; Corona, Angela; Cerchia, Carmen; Cassese, Emilia; Improta, Salvatore; Costanzi, Elisa; Pelliccia, Sveva; Morasso, Stefano; Esposito, Francesca; Paulis, Annalaura; Scognamiglio, Sante; Di Leva, Francesco Saverio; Storici, Paola; Brindisi, Margherita; Tramontano, Enzo; Cannalire, Rolando; Summa, Vincenzo
DHFR Inhibitors Display a Pleiotropic Anti-Viral Activity against SARS-CoV-2: Insights into the Mechanisms of Action
2023-01-01 Iaconis, Daniela; Caccuri, Francesca; Manelfi, Candida; Talarico, Carmine; Bugatti, Antonella; Filippini, Federica; Zani, Alberto; Novelli, Rubina; Kuzikov, Maria; Ellinger, Bernhard; Gribbon, Philip; Riecken, Kristoffer; Esposito, Francesca; Corona, Angela; Tramontano, Enzo; Beccari, Andrea Rosario; Caruso, Arnaldo; Allegretti, Marcello
Dihydroxyphenyl- and Heteroaromatic-Based Thienopyrimidinones to Tackle HIV-1 LEDGF/p75-Dependent IN Activity
2023-01-01 Tocco, G.; Canton, S.; Laus, A.; Caboni, P.; Le Grice, S. F. J.; Tramontano, E.; Esposito, F.
HIV-1 Integrase Inhibition Activity by Spiroketals Derived from Plagius flosculosus, an Endemic Plant of Sardinia (Italy) and Corsica (France)
2023-01-01 Sanna, Cinzia; D’Abrosca, Brigida; Fiorentino, Antonio; Giammarino, Federica; Vicenti, Ilaria; Corona, Angela; Caredda, Alessia; Tramontano, Enzo; Esposito, Francesca
Nirmatrelvir treatment of SARS-CoV-2-infected mice blunts antiviral adaptive immune responses
2023-01-01 Fumagalli, Valeria; Di Lucia, Pietro; Ravà, Micol; Marotta, Davide; Bono, Elisa; Grassi, Stefano; Donnici, Lorena; Cannalire, Rolando; Stefanelli, Irina; Ferraro, Anastasia; Esposito, Francesca; Pariani, Elena; Inverso, Donato; Montesano, Camilla; Delbue, Serena; Perlman, Stanley; Tramontano, Enzo; De Francesco, Raffaele; Summa, Vincenzo; Guidotti, Luca G; Iannacone, Matteo
Special Issue “Advances in Antiviral Agents against SARS-CoV-2 and Its Variants”
2023-01-01 Esposito, Francesca
Strigolactones as broad-spectrum antivirals against β-coronaviruses through targeting the main protease Mpro
2023-01-01 Biolatti, Matteo; Blangetti, Marco; Baggieri, Melissa; Marchi, Antonella; Gioacchini, Silvia; Bajetto, Greta; Arnodo, Davide; Bucci, Paola; Fioravanti, Raoul; Kojouri, Maedeh; Bersani, Matteo; D’Arrigo, Giulia; Siragusa, Lydia; Ghinato, Simone; De Andre, Marco; Gugliesi, Francesca; Albano, Camilla; Pasquero, Selina; Visentin, Ivan; D’Ugo, Emilio; Esposito, Francesca; Malune, Paolo; Tramontano, Enzo; Prandi, Cristina; Spyrakis, Francesca; Magurano, Fabio; Dell’Oste, Valentina
| Titolo | Data di pubblicazione | Autore(i) | Rivista | Editore |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cys44 of SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro affects its catalytic activity | 1-gen-2025 | Iacobucci, I.; Cipollone, I.; Cozzolino, F.; Iaconis, D.; Talarico, C.; Coppola, G.; Morasso, S.; Costanzi, E.; Malune, Paolo; Storici, P.; Tramontano, E.; Esposito, Francesca; Monti, M. | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES | - |
| Dual-Site Inhibition of SARS-CoV2 RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase by Small Molecules Able to Block Viral Replication Identified through a Computer-Aided Drug Discovery Approach | 1-gen-2025 | Malune, Paolo; Iaconis, Daniela; Manelfi, Candida; Giunta, Stefano; Emmolo, Roberta; Lunghini, Filippo; Paulis, Annalaura; Talarico, Carmine; Corona, Angela; Rosario Beccari, Andrea; Tramontano, Enzo; Esposito, Francesca | ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES | - |
| Meeting report: Seventh summer school on innovative approaches for identification of antiviral agents (IAAASS) | 1-gen-2025 | Corona, Angela; Cagno, Valeria; Grandi, Nicole; Fanunza, Elisa; Esposito, Francesca; Seley-Radtke, Kathie L.; Tramontano, Enzo | ANTIVIRAL RESEARCH | - |
| N -alkyl and N-benzyl indoles are anti-SARS-CoV-2 agents and nsp13 inhibitors | 1-gen-2025 | Albano, Aurora; Emmolo, Roberta; De Santis, Riccardo; Patacchini, Elisa; Madia, Valentina Noemi; Maloccu, Stefania; Ialongo, Davide; Ruggieri, Giuseppe; Arpacioglu, Merve; Scipione, Luigi; Saccoliti, Francesco; Amatore, Donatella; Grilli, Giorgia; Lista, Florigio; Esposito, Francesca; Tramontano, Enzo; Corona, Angela; Di Santo, Roberto; Costi, Roberta | JOURNAL OF ENZYME INHIBITION AND MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY | - |
| Structure−Activity Relationships of New 1‐Aryl‐1H‐Indole Derivatives as SARS‐CoV‐2 Nsp13 Inhibitors | 1-gen-2025 | Madia, Valentina Noemi; Emmolo, Roberta; Patacchini, Elisa; Amatore, Donatella; Maloccu, Stefania; Ialongo, Davide; Albano, Aurora; Ruggieri, Giuseppe; Cara, Emanuele; Zarbo, Laura; Messore, Antonella; De Santis, Riccardo; Amoroso, Alessandra; Lista, Florigio; Esposito, Francesca; Tramontano, Enzo; Corona, Angela; Di Santo, Roberto; Costi, Roberta | CHEMMEDCHEM | - |
| The efficiency of high-throughput screening (HTS) and in-silico data analysis during medical emergencies: Identification of effective antiviral 3CLpro inhibitors | 1-gen-2025 | Zian, D.; Iaconis, D.; Nenci, S.; Crusco, A.; Tawde, S.; Sodano, M.; Vitalone, R.; Raje, A.; Palamini, M.; Carettoni, D.; Molteni, A.; Manelfi, C.; Tazzari, V.; Beccari, A. R.; Malune, P.; Maloccu, S.; Paulis, Annalaura; Corona, Angela; Nieddu, Salvatore; Coletti, S.; Scarabottolo, L.; Tramontano, Enzo; Esposito, Francesca; Catalani, M. | ANTIVIRAL RESEARCH | - |
| Thiol-Reactive or Redox-Active: Revising a Repurposing Screen Led to a New Invalidation Pipeline and Identified a True Noncovalent Inhibitor Against Papain-like Protease from SARS-CoV-2 | 1-gen-2025 | Kuzikov, Maria; Morasso, Stefano; Reinshagen, Jeanette; Wolf, Markus; Monaco, Vittoria; Cozzolino, Flora; Golič Grdadolnik, Simona; Šket, Primož; Plavec, Janez; Iaconis, Daniela; Summa, Vincenzo; Corona, Angela; Paulis, Annalaura; Esposito, Francesca; Tramontano, Enzo; Monti, Maria; Beccari, Andrea R.; Manelfi, Candida; Windshügel, Björn; Gribbon, Philip; Storici, Paola; Zaliani, Andrea | ACS PHARMACOLOGY & TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE | - |
| Unveiling SARS-CoV-2's heart: role, structure and inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase | 1-gen-2025 | Malune, P.; Esposito, Francesca; Tramontano, E. | ANTIVIRAL RESEARCH | - |
| 4-(3-Phenylsulfonylindol-2-yl)-1-(pyridin-2-yl)piperazinyl-methanones as Potent Inhibitors of both SARS-CoV-2 and HCoV-OC43 Viruses | 1-gen-2024 | Puxeddu, M.; Donalisio, M.; Bugert, J. J.; Corona, Angela; Cocomazzi, P.; Milani, M.; Hucke, F.; Arduino, I.; Esposito, Francesca; Moretti, P.; Ortore, M. G.; Nalli, M.; Manetto, S.; Mazzoccanti, G.; Bigogno, C.; Dondio, G.; Scio, P.; Coluccia, A.; Fracella, M.; Antonelli, G.; Lembo, D.; Tramontano, Enzo; Silvestri, R.; Mastrangelo, E.; La Regina, G. | ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES | - |
| Drug repurposing screen to identify inhibitors of the RNA polymerase (nsp12) and helicase (nsp13) from SARS-CoV-2 replication and transcription complex | 1-gen-2024 | Kuzikov, Maria; Reinshagen, Jeanette; Wycisk, Krzysztof; Corona, Angela; Esposito, Francesca; Malune, Paolo; Manelfi, Candida; Iaconis, Daniela; Beccari, Andrea; Tramontano, Enzo; Nowotny, Marcin; Windshügel, Bjorn; Gribbon, Philip; Zaliani, Andrea | VIRUS RESEARCH | - |
| New Thiazolidine-4-One Derivatives as SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Inhibitors | 1-gen-2024 | Messore, Antonella; Malune, Paolo; Patacchini, Elisa; Noemi Madia, Valentina; Ialongo, Davide; Arpacioglu, Merve; Albano, Aurora; Ruggieri, Giuseppe; Saccoliti, Francesco; Scipione, Luigi; Tramontano, Enzo; Canton, Serena; Corona, Angela; Scognamiglio, Sante; Paulis, Annalaura; Suleiman, Mustapha; Mohammed Al-Maqtari, Helmi; Abid, Fatma Mohamed A.; Kawsar, Sarkar M. A.; Sankaranarayanan, Murugesan; Di Santo, Roberto; Esposito, Francesca; Roberta Costi, And | PHARMACEUTICALS | - |
| The antipsychotic drug lurasidone inhibits coronaviruses by affecting multiple targets | 1-gen-2024 | Baroni, S.; Carletti, T.; Donalisio, M.; Arduino, I.; Cazzaniga, I.; Giorgino, T.; Esposito, Francesca; Porta, A.; Diomede, L.; De Luigi, A.; Gobbi, M.; Lembo, D.; Marcello, A.; Tramontano, Enzo; Milani, M.; Mastrangelo, E. | FRONTIERS IN CELLULAR AND INFECTION MICROBIOLOGY | - |
| 5-Nitro-3-(2-(4-phenylthiazol-2-yl)hydrazineylidene)indolin-2-one derivatives inhibit HIV-1 replication by a multitarget mechanism of action | 1-gen-2023 | Corona, A.; Meleddu, R.; Delelis, O.; Subra, F.; Cottiglia, F.; Esposito, F.; Distinto, S.; Maccioni, E.; Tramontano, E. | FRONTIERS IN CELLULAR AND INFECTION MICROBIOLOGY | - |
| Broad-spectrum coronavirus 3C-like protease peptidomimetic inhibitors effectively block SARS-CoV-2 replication in cells: Design, synthesis, biological evaluation, and X-ray structure determination | 1-gen-2023 | Stefanelli, Irina; Corona, Angela; Cerchia, Carmen; Cassese, Emilia; Improta, Salvatore; Costanzi, Elisa; Pelliccia, Sveva; Morasso, Stefano; Esposito, Francesca; Paulis, Annalaura; Scognamiglio, Sante; Di Leva, Francesco Saverio; Storici, Paola; Brindisi, Margherita; Tramontano, Enzo; Cannalire, Rolando; Summa, Vincenzo | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY | - |
| DHFR Inhibitors Display a Pleiotropic Anti-Viral Activity against SARS-CoV-2: Insights into the Mechanisms of Action | 1-gen-2023 | Iaconis, Daniela; Caccuri, Francesca; Manelfi, Candida; Talarico, Carmine; Bugatti, Antonella; Filippini, Federica; Zani, Alberto; Novelli, Rubina; Kuzikov, Maria; Ellinger, Bernhard; Gribbon, Philip; Riecken, Kristoffer; Esposito, Francesca; Corona, Angela; Tramontano, Enzo; Beccari, Andrea Rosario; Caruso, Arnaldo; Allegretti, Marcello | VIRUSES | - |
| Dihydroxyphenyl- and Heteroaromatic-Based Thienopyrimidinones to Tackle HIV-1 LEDGF/p75-Dependent IN Activity | 1-gen-2023 | Tocco, G.; Canton, S.; Laus, A.; Caboni, P.; Le Grice, S. F. J.; Tramontano, E.; Esposito, F. | MOLECULES | - |
| HIV-1 Integrase Inhibition Activity by Spiroketals Derived from Plagius flosculosus, an Endemic Plant of Sardinia (Italy) and Corsica (France) | 1-gen-2023 | Sanna, Cinzia; D’Abrosca, Brigida; Fiorentino, Antonio; Giammarino, Federica; Vicenti, Ilaria; Corona, Angela; Caredda, Alessia; Tramontano, Enzo; Esposito, Francesca | PHARMACEUTICALS | - |
| Nirmatrelvir treatment of SARS-CoV-2-infected mice blunts antiviral adaptive immune responses | 1-gen-2023 | Fumagalli, Valeria; Di Lucia, Pietro; Ravà, Micol; Marotta, Davide; Bono, Elisa; Grassi, Stefano; Donnici, Lorena; Cannalire, Rolando; Stefanelli, Irina; Ferraro, Anastasia; Esposito, Francesca; Pariani, Elena; Inverso, Donato; Montesano, Camilla; Delbue, Serena; Perlman, Stanley; Tramontano, Enzo; De Francesco, Raffaele; Summa, Vincenzo; Guidotti, Luca G; Iannacone, Matteo | EMBO MOLECULAR MEDICINE | - |
| Special Issue “Advances in Antiviral Agents against SARS-CoV-2 and Its Variants” | 1-gen-2023 | Esposito, Francesca | VIRUSES | - |
| Strigolactones as broad-spectrum antivirals against β-coronaviruses through targeting the main protease Mpro | 1-gen-2023 | Biolatti, Matteo; Blangetti, Marco; Baggieri, Melissa; Marchi, Antonella; Gioacchini, Silvia; Bajetto, Greta; Arnodo, Davide; Bucci, Paola; Fioravanti, Raoul; Kojouri, Maedeh; Bersani, Matteo; D’Arrigo, Giulia; Siragusa, Lydia; Ghinato, Simone; De Andre, Marco; Gugliesi, Francesca; Albano, Camilla; Pasquero, Selina; Visentin, Ivan; D’Ugo, Emilio; Esposito, Francesca; Malune, Paolo; Tramontano, Enzo; Prandi, Cristina; Spyrakis, Francesca; Magurano, Fabio; Dell’Oste, Valentina | ACS INFECTIOUS DISEASES | - |