Publications

Roushenas M., Salerno M., Bazzurro V., Gatta E., Diaspro A. (2025). Image analysis tools for improved characterization of nuclear chromatin patterns by confocal fluorescence microscopy. European Biophysics Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-025-01770-y

Pakravanan K., Bazzurro V., Salerno M., Diaspro A. (2025). Uptake of gold nanoparticles in HeLa cells observed by confocal microscopy shows dependency on particle size and shape. European Biophysics Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-025-01769-5

Salerno M., Mastromarino M.G., Alì G., Niccoli C., Sancataldo G., Scotto M., Vicidomini G., Bianchini P., Diaspro A., Lucchi M., Belcari N. (2025). MINFLUX Nanoscopy: A “Brilliant” Technique Promising Major Breakthrough. Microscopy Research and Technique. https://doi.org/10.1002/jemt.24765

Incardona N., Touijer L., Bianchini P., Diaspro A. (2025). The intelligent microscope at the nanoscale: multimodal microscopy from fluorescence to label-free. Optical Methods for Inspection, Characterization, and Imaging of Biomaterials VII, 600. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3071537

Piscitelli E., Dominici M., Balzano F., La Manna M.L., Sancesario G., Bonanno S., Gessani S., Borrelli A., Russo C., Maccarrone M., Cordella A., Mascolo M.G., Caligiuri A. (2025). Glycosylation Regulation by TMEM230 in Aging and Autoimmunity. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 26, 2412. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms26062412

Ferrara Y., Zito G., Mancini A., Russo S., De Luca A.C., Mangini M., Tommasi E., Rea I., Managò S., Coppola G., Pisco M., Terreno E. (2025). A novel therapeutic approach targeting PD-L1 in HNSCC and bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells hampers pro-metastatic features in vitro: perspectives for blocking tumor-stroma communication and signaling. Cell Communication and Signaling, 23(1), 74. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41181-024-00280-0

Pirozzi M., Agliarulo I., Di Martino R., Marzullo V.M., Quarto M., Turacchio G., Beznoussenko G.V., Russo D., Luini A., Mironov A.A., Parashuraman S. (2025). Cargoes move from cis to trans-Golgi compartments and concentrate in the TGN before exiting. EMBO Reports.

Giammona A., Terribile G., Rainone P., Pellizzer C., Porro D., Cerasa A., Sancini G., Rashid A.U., Belloli S., Valtorta S., Lo Dico A., Bertoli G. (2025). Effects of particulate air pollution exposure on lung-brain axis and related miRNAs modulation in mouse models. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 13, 1526424. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2025.1526424

Scotto di Carlo F., Russo S., Muyas F., Mangini M., Garribba L., Pazzaglia L., Rea I., Lonardo E., De Tommasi E., Delle Cave D., De Stefano L. (2025). Profilin 1 deficiency drives mitotic defects and reduces genome stability. Communications Biology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07714-8

Pesce L., Mastromarino M.G., Alì G., Niccoli C., Sancataldo G., Scotto M., Vicidomini G., Bianchini P., Diaspro A., Lucchi M., Belcari N. (2025). Phasor-FLIM and SHG imaging for quantitative analysis of lung cancer autofluorescence. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 30, 80–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2025.08.010

Dinatale V., Capozza M., Raffone S., Liuzzi S., de Bruijn H.S., McMorrow R., Zambito G., Robinson D., Mezzanotte L., Terreno E. (2025). Exploring Si-phthalocyanines with different valency for PSMA-targeted photodynamic therapy: synthesis and preclinical validation. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 290, 117562. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmech.2025.117562

Scalabrin M., Turco E., Davigo I., Filadi R., Nogara L., Gherardi G., Barazzuol L., Armani A., Trani G., Negro S., Franco-Romero A., Jaspers Y., Baschiera E., De Cegli R., Del Prete E., Cali T., Blaauw B., Salviati L., Rigoni M., Mammucari C., Caspar-Bauguil S., Moro C., Pizzo P., Sandri M., Kemp S., Romanello V. (2025). Alterations in peroxisome-mitochondria interplay in skeletal muscle accelerate muscle dysfunction. Nature Communications, 16, 9868. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-64833-w

Pisano A., Belloli S., Pignataro M.G., Rainone P., Valtorta S., Coliva A., de Turris V., Mosca L., Di Micco P., Moresco R.M., d’Amati G., Morea V. (2025). Peptide-mimetics derived from leucyl-tRNA synthetase are potential agents for the therapy of mt-tRNA-related diseases. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 16, 1607343. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2025.1607343

Spaziani S., Esposito A., Barisciano G., Quero G., Elumalai S., Leo M., Colantuoni V., Mangini M., Pisco M., Sabatino L., De Luca A.C., Cusano A. (2024). Combined SERS–Raman screening of HER2-overexpressing or silenced breast cancer cell lines. Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 22, 350.

Mangini M., Limatola N., Ferrara M.A., Coppola G., Chun J.T., De Luca A.C., Santella L. (2024). Application of Raman spectroscopy to the evaluation of F-actin changes in sea urchin eggs at fertilization. Zygote, 32(1), 38–48. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0967199423000552

Storti F., Bonfadini S., Mangini M., De Luca A.C., Criante L. (2024). High throughput clogging-free microfluidic particle filter by femtosecond laser micromachining. Electrophoresis. https://doi.org/10.1002/elps.202300253

Khadem H., Mangini M., Farazpour S., De Luca A.C. (2024). Correlative Raman Imaging: Development and Cancer Applications. Biosensors, 14(7), 324.

Delle Cave D., Mangini M., Tramontano C., De Stefano L., Corona M., Rea I. (2024). Hybrid biosilica nanoparticles for in-vivo targeted inhibition of colorectal cancer growth and label-free imaging. International Journal of Nanomedicine, 12079–12098.

Rashdan H.R.M., Abdelrahman M.T., De Luca A.C., Mangini M. (2024). Towards a new generation of hormone therapies: design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel 1,2,3-triazoles as estrogen-positive breast cancer therapeutics and non-steroidal aromatase inhibitors. Pharmaceuticals, 17(1), 88.

Ramazanov B.R., Parchure A., Di Martino R. (2024). Calcium flow at ER–TGN contact sites facilitates secretory cargo export. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 35, 50.

Bonavita R., Di Martino R., Cortone G. (2024). A method for the analysis of the oligomerization profile of the Huntington’s disease-associated, aggregation-prone mutant huntingtin protein by isopycnic ultracentrifugation. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 11, 1420691.

Bazzurro V., [full author list per journal] (2024). Mapping the effect of the antisecretory factor on GABAA receptor α1 and α6 subunits in cerebellar granule cells in vitro. IBRO Neuroscience Reports, 17, 188–195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibneur.2024.08.001

Zeaiter L., [full author list per journal] (2024). Unveiling nuclear chromatin distribution using IsoConcentraChromJ: a fluorescence imaging plugin for IsoRegional and IsoVolumetric based ratios analysis. PLOS ONE, 19, e0305809. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0305809

Cervetto C., [full author list per journal] (2024). Photons induce vesicular exocytotic release of glutamate in a power-dependent way. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24, 10977. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms241310977

Sarnella A. (2024). The chicken embryo: an old but promising model for in vivo preclinical research. Biomedicines, 12, 2835.

Scaglione A., Resta F., Goretti F., Pavone F.S. (2024). Group ICA of wide-field calcium imaging data reveals the retrosplenial cortex as a major contributor to cortical activity during anesthesia. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 18, 1258793. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2024.1258793

García Casas P., Rossini M., Påvénius L., Saeed M., Arnst N., Sonda S., Fernandes T., D’Arsiè I., Bruzzone M., Berno V., Raimondi A., Sassano M.L., Naia L., Barbieri E., Sigismund S., Agostinis P., Sturlese M., Niemeyer B.A., Brismar H., Ankarcrona M., Gautier A., Pizzo P., Filadi R. (2024). Simultaneous detection of membrane contact dynamics and associated Ca²⁺ signals by reversible chemogenetic reporters. Nature Communications, 15, 9775. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52985-0

Mangini M., Rea I., Lonardo E., De Tommasi E., Delle Cave D., De Stefano L. (2023). Diatom-based SERS substrates for applications in biomedicine. Il Nuovo Cimento C, 100(132), 46.

Scotto di Carlo F., Russo S., Muyas F., Mangini M., Garribba L., Pazzaglia L. (2023). Profilin 1 deficiency drives mitotic defects and reduces genome stability. Communications Biology, 6(1), 9.

Mangini M., Ferrara M.A., Zito G., Managò S., Luini A., De Luca A.C. (2023). Cancer metabolic features allow discrimination of tumor from white blood cells by label-free multimodal optical imaging. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 11, 1057216.

Italiani P., Paulis M., De Luca A.C., Corteggio A., Mangini M., Mantero S. (2023). EFSA Pilot Project on NAMs for the hazard assessment of nanofibers. Lot 2: Exploring the use of gut-on-a-chip models for risk assessments of nanofibers. EFSA Supporting Publications, 20(11), 8230E.

Avolio R., Agliarulo I., Criscuolo D., Sarnataro D., Auriemma M., De Lella S., Pennacchio S., Calice G., Ng M.Y., Giorgi C., Pinton P., Cooperman B.S., Landriscina M., Esposito F., Matassa D.S. (2023). Cytosolic and mitochondrial translation elongation are coordinated through the molecular chaperone TRAP1 for the synthesis and import of mitochondrial proteins. Genome Research, 33, 1242–1257.

Bonavita R., Scerra G., Di Martino R., Nuzzo S., Polishchuk E., Di Gennaro M., Williams S.V., Caporaso M.G., Caiazza C., Polishchuk R., D’Agostino M., Fleming A., Renna M. (2023). The HSPB1–p62/SQSTM1 functional complex regulates the unconventional secretion and transcellular spreading of the HD-associated mutant huntingtin protein. Human Molecular Genetics, 32(14).

Baldini F., [full author list per journal] (2023). Nuclear and chromatin rearrangement associate to epigenome and gene expression changes in a model of in vitro adipogenesis and hypertrophy. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids, 1868, 159368. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbalip.2023.159368

Delle Cave D.D., Buonaiuto S., Sainz B. Jr., Fantuz M., Mangini M., Carrer A. (2022). LAMC2 marks a tumor-initiating cell population with an aggressive signature in pancreatic cancer. Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research, 41(1), 315.

Sahu P., Balakrishnan A., Di Martino R., Luini A., Russo D. (2022). Role of the Mosaic Cisternal Maturation Machinery in Glycan Synthesis and Oncogenesis. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 10, 842448.

Del Giudice S., De Luca V., Parizadeh S., Russo D., Luini A., Di Martino R. (2022). Endogenous and exogenous regulatory signaling in the secretory pathway: role of Golgi signaling molecules in cancer. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 10, 833663.

Liccardo F., Luini A., Di Martino R. (2022). Endomembrane-based signaling by GPCRs and G-proteins. Cells, 11(3), 528.

Grimaldi G., Filograna A., Schembri L., Lo Monte M., Di Martino R., Pirozzi M. (2022). PKD-dependent PARP12-catalyzed mono-ADP-ribosylation of Golgin-97 is required for E-cadherin transport from Golgi to plasma membrane. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 119(1), e2026494119.