Francesco Bemporad
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical, Experimental and Clinical Sciences
University of Florence
Italy
Biography
2014: Enrollment to the professor of the band for the competition sectors 05 / E1 (General Biochemistry and Clinical Biochemistry) and 05 / E2 (Molecular Biology). 14/03/2008: Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biology Applied at the Department of Biochemical Sciences of the University of Florence. The PhD thesis was awarded by Florence University Press as the best PhD thesis in the Biomedical Area for 2007 (see this page). 17/12/2003: Degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Florence Studies titled "Study of the folding process of acylphosphatase from" S. solfataricus ". Comparative analysis with other proteins belonging to the superfamily of acylphosphatases ".
Research Interest
Biochemistry
Publications
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Ghadami, Seyyed Abolghasem; Bemporad, Francesco; Sala, Benedetta Maria; Tiana, Guido; Ricagno, Stefano; Chiti, Fabrizio (2017). FRET studies of various conformational states adopted by transthyretin. CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES, pp. 1-22, ISSN:1420-682X
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Luti, S; Martellini, F; Bemporad, F; Mazzoli, L; Paoli, P; Pazzagli, L. (2017). A single amino acid mutation affects elicitor and expansins-like activities of cerato-platanin, a non-catalytic fungal protein.. PLOS ONE, vol. 12, pp. 0-0, ISSN:1932-6203
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Elia, Francesco; Cantini, Francesca; Chiti, Fabrizio; Dobson, Christopher Martin; Bemporad, Francesco (2017). Direct Conversion of an Enzyme from Native-like to Amyloid-like Aggregates within Inclusion Bodies. BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL, vol. 112, pp. 2540-2551, ISSN:0006-3495