Pierpaolo Di Nocera
Pierpaolo Di Nocera
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research area(s): Genetics And Genomics, Computational Biology
Course: Genetics and Molecular Medicine
University/Istitution: Università di Napoli Federico II
- Degree in Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples (1976)
- Visiting Scientist, NCI, NIH, Bethesda USA (1980-1983)
- Staff Scientist, EMBL Heidelberg (1986-1988)
- Associate Professor of General Pathology, University of Lecce (1987-1991)
- Associate Professor of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, University of Naples (1991-2001)
- Full Professor of Molecular Biology, University of Naples (2001-2004)
- Full Professor of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, University of Naples (2004-present)
- E. coli his operon: identification of promoter and attenuator region
- Eukaryotic retroelements: the F and G retrotransposons in D.melanogaster
- Transient eukaryotic gene expression assays in cultured D.melanogaster cells
- RNA polymerase I transcription: identification of polI enhancers in D.melanogaster
- Functional dissection of RNA polymerase II-dependent intragenic promoters
in D.melanogaster and human cells
- Identification of repetitive DNA families in Neisseriae and Yersiniae
- Post-transcriptional gene control in pathogenic microrganisms
- Genome-wide analyses of pathogenic microrganisms in silico and in vitro
Zarrilli R, Giannouli M, Rocco F, Loman NJ, Haines AS, Constantinidou C, Pallen MJ, Triassi M, Di Nocera PP. (2011) Genome sequences of three Acinetobacter baumannii strains assigned to the multilocus sequence typing genotypes ST2, ST25, and ST78. J Bacteriol. 193 2359-2360.

Rocco F, De Gregorio E, Di Nocera PP. (2010) A giant family of short palindromic sequences in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 308:185-192.

Rocco F, De Gregorio E, Colonna B, Di Nocera PP. (2009) Stenotrophomonas maltophilia genomes: a start-up comparison. Int J Med Microbiol. 299:535-546.

De Gregorio E, Bertocco T, Silvestro G, Carlomagno MS, Zarrilli R, Di Nocera PP. (2009) Structural organization of a complex family of palindromic repeats in Enterococci. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 292:7-12.

PCR-based rapid genotyping of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia isolates (2008) Roscetto E, Rocco F, Carlomagno MS, Casalino M, Colonna B, Zarrilli R, Di Nocera PP. BMC Microbiol. 8:202.

Cozzuto L, Petrillo M, Silvestro G, Di Nocera PP, Paolella G. (2008) Systematic identification of stem-loop containing sequence families in bacterial genomes. BMC Genomics 9:20.

Venditti R, De Gregorio E, Silvestro G, Bertocco T, Salza MF, Zarrilli R, Di Nocera PP.(2007) A novel class of small repetitive DNA sequences in Enterococcus faecalis. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 271193-201.

De Gregorio E, Silvestro G, Venditti R, Carlomagno MS, Di Nocera PP. (2006) Structural organization and functional properties of miniature DNA insertion sequences in yersiniae. J Bacteriol.188:7876-7884.

Petrillo M, Silvestro G, Di Nocera PP, Boccia A, Paolella G. (2006) Stem-loop structures in prokaryotic genomes. BMC Genomics. 7:170.

De Gregorio E, Silvestro G, Petrillo M, Carlomagno MS, Di Nocera PP. (2005). Enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus sequence repeats in yersiniae: genomic organization and functional properties. J Bacteriol.187:7945-7954.

Ribonuclease III-mediated processing of specific Neisseria meningitidis mRNAs (2003) De Gregorio E, Abrescia C, Carlomagno MS, Di Nocera PP. Biochem J. 374 :799-805.

Asymmetrical distribution of Neisseria miniature insertion sequence DNA repeats among pathogenic and nonpathogenic Neisseria strains (2003) De Gregorio E, Abrescia C, Carlomagno MS, Di Nocera PP.
Infect Immun. 71:4217-4221.
Project Title:
Whole genome comparisons of environmental and pathogenic Stenotrophomomas maltophilia genomes.


Project Title:
Identification of genomic islands and unusual DNA complex regions in prokaryotic genomes.