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BIOGRAPHY
Maria Cristina Aspromonte is currently Assistant Professor (RTDa) in Biochemistry (SSD BIO/10) at the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Padua (Italy).
ACADEMIC POSITION
Assistant professor
since (03/2023)
DEGREES
- 2021 – PhD in Developmental Medicine and Health Planning Sciences
University of Padova – Italy - 2015 – MSc (Laura Magistrale) in General Biology
University of Sannio – Italy - 2014 – Maestrado em Biologia Celular e Molecular (“double degree” program)
Universidade de Coimbra – Portugal - 2012 – BSc (Laura Magistrale) in Biology –
University of Sannio – Italy
LANGUAGES
English
Italian
(Upper Advanced)
(Native)
2024
Journal Articles
Maria Cristina Aspromonte; Federica Quaglia; Alexander Miguel Monzon; Damiano Clementel; Alessio Del Conte; Damiano Piovesan; Silvio C. E. Tosatto
Searching and Using MobiDB Resource 6 to Explore Predictions and Annotations for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Journal Article
In: Current Protocols, vol. 4, no. 12, 2024, (Cited by: 0; Open Access).
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abstract = {Current Protocols© 2024 The Author(s). Current Protocols published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) make up around 30% of eukaryotic proteomes and play a crucial role in cellular processes and in pathological conditions such as neurodegenerative disorders and cancers. However, IDPs exhibit dynamic conformational ensembles and are often involved in the formation of biomolecular condensates. Understanding the function of IDPs is critical to research in many areas of science. MobiDB is a unique resource that serves as a comprehensive knowledgebase of IDPs and intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), combining disorder annotations from experimental evidence and predictions for a broad range of protein sequences. Over the past decade, MobiDB has evolved with a focus on expanding annotation coverage, standardizing annotation provenance, and enhancing database accessibility. The latest MobiDB, version 6, released in July 2024, includes significant improvements, such as the integration of AlphaFoldDB predictions and a new homology transfer pipeline that has substantially increased the number of entries with high-quality annotations. The user interface has also been updated, highlighting annotation features, clarifying the entry page, and providing an immediate overview of disorder, binding, and disorder functions information in the protein sequence. This protocol guides the user through applications of the MobiDB, including disorder prediction, curated data analysis, and exploration of interaction data. This guide covers how to perform a search in MobiDB annotations using the web interface and the MobiDB REST API for programmatic access. The protocols use a step-by-step walkthrough using the human growth hormone receptor to demonstrate MobiDB's functions for visualization and interpretation of protein disorder data. © 2024 The Author(s). Current Protocols published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. Basic Protocol 1: Searching MobiDB query formats. Basic Protocol 2: Searching MobiDB selected datasets and selected proteomes. Basic Protocol 3: Performing a search on the Statistics page in MobiDB. Support Protocol: Programmatic access with MobiDB REST API. Basic Protocol 4: Visualizing and interpreting a MobiDB Entry: The GHR use case.},
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Maria Cristina Aspromonte; Maria Victoria Nugnes; Federica Quaglia; Adel Bouharoua; Silvio C. E. Tosatto; Damiano Piovesan; Vasileios Sagris; Vasilis J. Promponas; Anastasia Chasapi; Erzsébet Fichó; Galo E. Balatti; Gustavo Parisi; Martín González Buitrón; Gabor Erdos; Matyas Pajkos; Zsuzsanna Dosztányi; Laszlo Dobson; Alessio Del Conte; Damiano Clementel; Edoardo Salladini; Emanuela Leonardi; Fatemeh Kordevani; Hamidreza Ghafouri; Luiggi G. Tenorio Ku; Alexander Miguel Monzon; Carlo Ferrari; Zsófia Kálmán; Juliet F. Nilsson; Jaime Santos; Carlos Pintado-Grima; Salvador Ventura; Veronika Ács; Rita Pancsa; Mariane Goncalves Kulik; Miguel A. Andrade-Navarro; Pedro José Barbosa Pereira; Sonia Longhi; Philippe Le Mercier; Julian Bergier; Peter Tompa; Tamas Lazar
DisProt in 2024: improving function annotation of intrinsically disordered proteins Journal Article
In: Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 52, no. D1, pp. D434-D441, 2024, (Cited by: 38; Open Access).
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abstract = {© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research.DisProt (URL: https://disprot.org) is the gold standard database for intrinsically disordered proteins and regions, providing valuable information about their functions. The latest version of DisProt brings significant advancements, including a broader representation of functions and an enhanced curation process. These improvements aim to increase both the quality of annotations and their coverage at the sequence level. Higher coverage has been achieved by adopting additional evidence codes. Quality of annotations has been improved by systematically applying Minimum Information About Disorder Experiments (MIADE) principles and reporting all the details of the experimental setup that could potentially influence the structural state of a protein. The DisProt database now includes new thematic datasets and has expanded the adoption of Gene Ontology terms, resulting in an extensive functional repertoire which is automatically propagated to UniProtKB. Finally, we show that DisProt’s curated annotations strongly correlate with disorder predictions inferred from AlphaFold2 pLDDT (predicted Local Distance Difference Test) confidence scores. This comparison highlights the utility of DisProt in explaining apparent uncertainty of certain well-defined predicted structures, which often correspond to folding-upon-binding fragments. Overall, DisProt serves as a comprehensive resource, combining experimental evidence of disorder information to enhance our understanding of intrinsically disordered proteins and their functional implications.},
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2023
Journal Articles
Damiano Piovesan; Alessio Del Conte; Damiano Clementel; Alexander Miguel Monzon; Martina Bevilacqua; Maria Cristina Aspromonte; Javier A Iserte; Fernando E Orti; Cristina Marino-Buslje; Silvio C. E Tosatto
MobiDB: 10 years of intrinsically disordered proteins Journal Article
In: Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 51, no. 1 D, pp. D438-D444, 2023, (Cited by: 82; Open Access).
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abstract = {© 2023 The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research.The MobiDB database (URL: https://mobidb.org/) is a knowledge base of intrinsically disordered proteins. MobiDB aggregates disorder annotations derived from the literature and from experimental evidence along with predictions for all known protein sequences. MobiDB generates new knowledge and captures the functional significance of disordered regions by processing and combining complementary sources of information. Since its first release 10 years ago, the MobiDB database has evolved in order to improve the quality and coverage of protein disorder annotations and its accessibility. MobiDB has now reached its maturity in terms of data standardization and visualization. Here, we present a new release which focuses on the optimization of user experience and database content. The major advances compared to the previous version are the integration of AlphaFoldDB predictions and the re-implementation of the homology transfer pipeline, which expands manually curated annotations by two orders of magnitude. Finally, the entry page has been restyled in order to provide an overview of the available annotations along with two separate views that highlight structural disorder evidence and functions associated with different binding modes.},
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Suzi A. Aleksander; James Balhoff; Seth Carbon; J. Michael Cherry; Harold J. Drabkin; Dustin Ebert; Marc Feuermann; Pascale Gaudet; Nomi L. Harris; David P. Hill; Raymond Lee; Huaiyu Mi; Sierra Moxon; Christopher J. Mungall; Anushya Muruganugan; Tremayne Mushayahama; Paul W. Sternberg; Paul D. Thomas; Kimberly Van Auken; Jolene Ramsey; Deborah A. Siegele; Rex L. Chisholm; Petra Fey; Maria Cristina Aspromonte; Maria Victoria Nugnes; Federica Quaglia; Silvio Tosatto; Michelle Giglio; Suvarna Nadendla; Giulia Antonazzo; Helen Attrill; Gil Dos Santos; Steven Marygold; Victor Strelets; Christopher J. Tabone; Jim Thurmond; Pinglei Zhou; Saadullah H. Ahmed; Praoparn Asanitthong; Diana Luna Buitrago; Meltem N. Erdol; Matthew C. Gage; Mohamed Ali Kadhum; Kan Yan Chloe Li; Miao Long; Aleksandra Michalak; Angeline Pesala; Armalya Pritazahra; Shirin C. C. Saverimuttu; Renzhi Su; Kate E. Thurlow; Ruth C Lovering; Colin Logie; Snezhana Oliferenko; Judith Blake; Karen Christie; Lori Corbani; Mary E. Dolan; Li Ni; Dmitry Sitnikov; Cynthia Smith; Alayne Cuzick; James Seager; Laurel Cooper; Justin Elser; Pankaj Jaiswal; Parul Gupta; Sushma Naithani; Manuel Lera-Ramirez; Kim Rutherford; Valerie Wood; Jeffrey L. De Pons; Melinda R. Dwinell; G. Thomas Hayman; Mary L. Kaldunski; Anne E. Kwitek; Stanley J. F. Laulederkind; Marek A. Tutaj; Mahima Vedi; Shur-Jen Wang; Peter D’Eustachio; Lucila Aimo; Kristian Axelsen; Alan Bridge; Nevila Hyka-Nouspikel; Anne Morgat; Stacia R. Engel; Kalpana Karra; Stuart R. Miyasato; Robert S. Nash; Marek S. Skrzypek; Shuai Weng; Edith D. Wong; Erika Bakker; Tanya Z. Berardini; Leonore Reiser; Andrea Auchincloss; Ghislaine Argoud-Puy; Marie-Claude Blatter; Emmanuel Boutet; …
The Gene Ontology knowledgebase in 2023 Journal Article
In: Genetics, vol. 224, no. 1, 2023, (Cited by: 943; Open Access).
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doi = {10.1093/genetics/iyad031},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
journal = {Genetics},
volume = {224},
number = {1},
publisher = {Oxford University Press},
abstract = {© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Genetics Society of America.The Gene Ontology (GO) knowledgebase (http://geneontology.org) is a comprehensive resource concerning the functions of genes and gene products (proteins and noncoding RNAs). GO annotations cover genes from organisms across the tree of life as well as viruses, though most gene function knowledge currently derives from experiments carried out in a relatively small number of model organisms. Here, we provide an updated overview of the GO knowledgebase, as well as the efforts of the broad, international consortium of scientists that develops, maintains, and updates the GO knowledgebase. The GO knowledgebase consists of three components: (1) the GO - a computational knowledge structure describing the functional characteristics of genes; (2) GO annotations - evidence-supported statements asserting that a specific gene product has a particular functional characteristic; and (3) GO Causal Activity Models (GO-CAMs) - mechanistic models of molecular "pathways"(GO biological processes) created by linking multiple GO annotations using defined relations. Each of these components is continually expanded, revised, and updated in response to newly published discoveries and receives extensive QA checks, reviews, and user feedback. For each of these components, we provide a description of the current contents, recent developments to keep the knowledgebase up to date with new discoveries, and guidance on how users can best make use of the data that we provide. We conclude with future directions for the project.},
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Emanuela Leonardi; Maria Cristina Aspromonte; Denise Drongitis; Elisa Bettella; Lucia Verrillo; Roberta Polli; Meriel McEntagart; Laura Licchetta; Robertino Dilena; Stefano D’Arrigo; Claudia Ciaccio; Silvia Esposito; Vincenzo Leuzzi; Annalaura Torella; Demetrio Baldo; Fortunato Lonardo; Giulia Bonato; Serena Pellegrin; Franco Stanzial; Renata Posmyk; Ewa Kaczorowska; Miryam Carecchio; Monika Gos; Sylwia Rzońca-Niewczas; Maria Giuseppina Miano; Alessandra Murgia
Expanding the genetics and phenotypic spectrum of Lysine-specific demethylase 5C (KDM5C): a report of 13 novel variants Journal Article
In: European Journal of Human Genetics, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 202-215, 2023, (Cited by: 11; Open Access).
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title = {Expanding the genetics and phenotypic spectrum of Lysine-specific demethylase 5C (KDM5C): a report of 13 novel variants},
author = {Emanuela Leonardi and Maria Cristina Aspromonte and Denise Drongitis and Elisa Bettella and Lucia Verrillo and Roberta Polli and Meriel McEntagart and Laura Licchetta and Robertino Dilena and Stefano D’Arrigo and Claudia Ciaccio and Silvia Esposito and Vincenzo Leuzzi and Annalaura Torella and Demetrio Baldo and Fortunato Lonardo and Giulia Bonato and Serena Pellegrin and Franco Stanzial and Renata Posmyk and Ewa Kaczorowska and Miryam Carecchio and Monika Gos and Sylwia Rzońca-Niewczas and Maria Giuseppina Miano and Alessandra Murgia},
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journal = {European Journal of Human Genetics},
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abstract = {© 2022, This is a U.S. Government work and not under copyright protection in the US; foreign copyright protection may apply.Lysine-specific demethylase 5C (KDM5C) has been identified as an important chromatin remodeling gene, contributing to X-linked neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). The KDM5C gene, located in the Xp22 chromosomal region, encodes the H3K4me3-me2 eraser involved in neuronal plasticity and dendritic growth. Here we report 30 individuals carrying 13 novel and one previously identified KDM5C variants. Our cohort includes the first reported case of somatic mosaicism in a male carrying a KDM5C nucleotide substitution, and a dual molecular finding in a female carrying a homozygous truncating FUCA1 alteration together with a de novo KDM5C variant. With the use of next generation sequencing strategies, we detected 1 frameshift, 1 stop codon, 2 splice-site and 10 missense variants, which pathogenic role was carefully investigated by a thorough bioinformatic analysis. The pattern of X-chromosome inactivation was found to have an impact on KDM5C phenotypic expression in females of our cohort. The affected individuals of our case series manifested a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by psychomotor delay, intellectual disability with speech disorders, and behavioral features with particular disturbed sleep pattern; other observed clinical manifestations were short stature, obesity and hypertrichosis. Collectively, these findings expand the current knowledge about the pathogenic mechanisms leading to dysfunction of this important chromatin remodeling gene and contribute to a refinement of the KDM5C phenotypic spectrum.},
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