Dr Arianna Fornili

Arianna Fornili
School of Physical and Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London

Publications

Relevant PublicationPublications of specific relevance to the Centre for Chemical Research

2023

Relevant PublicationSonne A, Antonovic AK, Melhedegaard E, Akter F, Andersen JL, Jungbluth H, Witting N, Vissing J, Zanoteli E, Fornili A and Ochala J (2023). Abnormal myosin post‐translational modifications and ATP turnover time associated with human congenital myopathy‐related RYR1 mutations. Acta Physiologica, Wiley vol. 239 (2) 
21-08-2023
Relevant PublicationAkter F, Ochala J and Fornili A (2023). Binding pocket dynamics along the recovery stroke of human β-cardiac myosin. PLOS Computational Biology, Public Library of Science (PLoS) vol. 19 (5) 
18-05-2023
Relevant PublicationAntonovic AK, Ochala J and Fornili A (2023). A rational approach to selective targeting of skeletal myosin. Biophysical Journal, Elsevier vol. 122 (3) 
01-02-2023

2022

bullet iconAntonovic AK, Ochala J and Fornili A (2022). Comparative study of binding pocket structure and dynamics in cardiac and skeletal myosin. Biophysical Journal, Biophysical Society vol. 122 (1), 54-62.  
29-11-2022
bullet iconColomba A, Claus J, Gao F, George R, Fornili A and Cameron AJM (2022). Targeting the HER3 pseudokinase domain with small molecule inhibitors. 
01-01-2022

2021

bullet iconMotta S, Pandini A, Fornili A and Bonati L (2021). Reconstruction of ARNT PAS-B Unfolding Pathways by Steered Molecular Dynamics and Artificial Neural Networks. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, American Chemical Society 
29-03-2021

2020

bullet iconFornili A, Hashem S and Davies WG (2020). Heart Failure Drug Modifies the Intrinsic Dynamics of the Pre-Power Stroke State of Cardiac Myosin. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, American Chemical Society 
07-12-2020
bullet iconRehman S, Grigoryeva LS, Richardson KH, Corsini P, White RC, Shaw R, Portlock TJ, Dorgan B, Zanjani ZS, Fornili A, Cianciotto NP and Garnett JA (2020). Structure and functional analysis of the Legionella pneumophila chitinase ChiA reveals a novel mechanism of metal-dependent mucin degradation. PLOS Pathogens, Public Library of Science (PLoS) vol. 16 (5) 
04-05-2020
bullet iconMotta S, Pandini A, Fornili A and Bonati L (2020). Reconstruction of ARNT PAS-B Unfolding Paths by Steered MD and Artificial Neural Network Reveals New Putative Binding Conformations. Biophysical Journal, Biophysical Society vol. 118 (3), 297A-297A.  
07-02-2020

2018

bullet iconTiberti M, Lechner B-D and Fornili A (2018). Binding Pockets in Proteins Induced by Mechanical Stress. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, American Chemical Society (ACS) vol. 15 (1), 1-6.  
10-12-2018
bullet iconHashem S, Tiberti M and Fornili A (2018). Allosteric Modulation of Cardiac Myosin Dynamics by Omecamtiv Mecarbil. 
01-02-2018
bullet iconTiberti M, Pandini A, Fraternali F and Fornili A (2018). In Silico Identification of Rescue Sites by Double Force Scanning. 
01-02-2018
bullet iconTiberti M, Lechner B-D and Fornili A (2018). Binding Pockets Under Mechanical Stress. 
01-02-2018

2017

bullet iconHashem S, Tiberti M and Fornili A (2017). Allosteric modulation of cardiac myosin dynamics by omecamtiv mecarbil., Editors: Wei G. PLOS Computational Biology vol. 13 (11), e1005826-e1005826.  
06-11-2017
bullet iconTiberti M, Pandini A, Fraternali F and FORNILI A (2017). In silico identification of rescue sites by double force scanning. Bioinformatics, Oxford University Press (OUP) 
14-08-2017

2016

bullet iconPandini A and Fornili A (2016). Using Local States To Drive the Sampling of Global Conformations in Proteins. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, American Chemical Society (ACS) vol. 12 (3), 1368-1379.  
12-02-2016
bullet iconFornili A, Rostkova E, Fraternali F and Pfuhl M (2016). Effect of RlC N-Terminal Tails on the Structure and Dynamics of Cardiac Myosin. 
01-02-2016
bullet iconPandini A and Fornili A (2016). Biasing the Sampling of Local States to Drive the Exploration of Global Conformations in Proteins. 
01-02-2016

2015

bullet iconCarluccio C, Fraternali F, Salvatore F, Fornili A and Zagari A (2015). Towards the identification of the allosteric Phe-binding site in phenylalanine hydroxylase. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, Taylor & Francis vol. 34 (3), 497-507.  
19-10-2015
bullet iconLu H-C, Chung SS, Fornili A and Fraternali F (2015). Anatomy of protein disorder, flexibility and disease-related mutations. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, Frontiers vol. 2 
12-08-2015

2014

bullet iconFORNILI A, Rostkova E, Fraternali F and Pfuhl M (2014). Phosphorylation Modulates the Dynamics of the N-Terminal Tail in Cardiac RLC., Editors: NA . Biophysical Journal, Biophysical Society vol. 106 (2), 33A-33A.  
01-01-2014
bullet iconPandini A, Fornili A, Fraternali F and Kleinjung J (2014). Gsatools: Analysis of Allosteric Communication and Functional Local Motions using a Structural Alphabet. 
01-01-2014

2013

bullet iconCarluccio C, Fraternali F, Salvatore F, Fornili A and Zagari A (2013). Structural features of the regulatory ACT domain of phenylalanine hydroxylase. PLoS ONE, Public Library of Science vol. 8 (11) 
14-11-2013
bullet iconFornili A, Pandini A, Lu H-C and Fraternali F (2013). Specialized dynamical properties of promiscuous residues revealed by simulated conformational ensembles. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, American Chemical Society vol. 9 (11), 5127-5147.  
12-11-2013
bullet iconPandini A, Fornili A, Fraternali F and Kleinjung J (2013). GSATools: Analysis of allosteric communication and functional local motions using a structural alphabet. Bioinformatics, Oxford Journals vol. 29 (16), 2053-2055.  
15-08-2013
bullet iconVavassori S, Cortini M, Masui S, Sannino S, Anelli T, Caserta IR, Fagioli C, Mossuto MF, Fornili A, vanAnken E, Degano M, Inaba K and Sitia R (2013). A pH-Regulated Quality Control Cycle for Surveillance of Secretory Protein Assembly. Molecular Cell, Elsevier/Science Direct vol. 50 (6), 783-792.  
27-06-2013
bullet iconChakroun N, Fornili A, Prigent S, Kleinjung J, Dreiss CA, Rezaei H and Fraternali F (2013). Decrypting prion protein conversion into a β-rich conformer by molecular dynamics. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, American Chemical Society vol. 9 (5), 2455-2465.  
14-05-2013
bullet iconLu H-C, Fornili A and Fraternali F (2013). Protein-Protein interaction networks studies and importance of 3D structure knowledge. Expert Review of Proteomics, Informa Healthcare vol. 10 (6), 511-520.  
01-01-2013

2012

bullet iconPandini A, Fornili A, Fraternali F and Kleinjung J (2012). Detection of allosteric signal transmission by information-theoretic analysis of protein dynamics. FASEB Journal, American Societies for Experimental Biology vol. 26 (2), 868-881.  
01-02-2012
bullet iconFornili A, Autore F, Chakroun N, Martinez P and Fraternali F (2012). Protein-water interactions in MD simulations: POPS/POPSCOMP solvent accessibility analysis, solvation forces and hydration sites. Methods in Molecular Biology, Springer Verlag vol. 819, 375-392.  
01-01-2012
bullet iconFornili A, Pfuhl M and Fraternali F (2012). Intrinsic Dynamics of the Regulatory Light Chain: Implications on Muscle Contraction. 
01-01-2012
bullet iconPandini A, Fornili A, Fraternali F and Kleinjung J (2012). Detection of Allosteric Signal Transmission by Information-Theoretic Analysis of Protein Dynamics. 
01-01-2012

2010

bullet iconFornili A, Giabbai B, Garau G and Degano M (2010). Energy landscapes associated with macromolecular conformational changes from endpoint structures. Journal of the American Chemical Society, American Chemical Society vol. 132 (49), 17570-17577.  
15-12-2010
bullet iconAutore F, Pagano B, Fornili A, Rittinger K and Fraternali F (2010). In silico phosphorylation of the autoinhibited form of p47phox: Insights into the mechanism of activation. Biophysical Journal, Elsevier/Science Direct vol. 99 (11), 3716-3725.  
01-12-2010
bullet iconPandini A, Fornili A and Kleinjung J (2010). Structural alphabets derived from attractors in conformational space. BMC Bioinformatics, BioMed Central vol. 11 
20-02-2010
bullet iconFornili A, Pandini A and Fraternali F (2010). Interface Dynamics In Hub Proteins. 
01-01-2010

2008

bullet iconIovane E, Giabbai B, Muzzolini L, Matafora V, Fornili A, Minici C, Giannese F and Degano M (2008). Structural Basis for Substrate Specificity in Group I Nucleoside Hydrolases ,. Biochemistry, American Chemical Society (ACS) vol. 47 (15), 4418-4426.  
25-03-2008

2007

bullet iconFornili A, Sironi M and Degano M (2007). Accurate Description of Nitrogenous Base Flexibility in Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Nucleotides Bound to Proteins. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, American Chemical Society (ACS) vol. 111 (23), 6297-6302.  
18-05-2007
bullet iconLoos P-F, FORNILI A, Sironi M and Assfeld X (2007). Removing extra frontier parameters in QM/MM methods : a tentative with the Local Self-Consistent Field approach., Editors: NA . Computing Letters, Brill vol. 3 (2), 473-486.  
01-01-2007

2006

bullet iconFornili A, Loos P-F, Sironi M and Assfeld X (2006). Frozen core orbitals as an alternative to specific frontier bond potential in hybrid Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics methods. Chemical Physics Letters, Elsevier vol. 427 (1-3), 236-240.  
01-08-2006
bullet iconFornili A, Moreau Y, Sironi M and Assfeld X (2006). On the suitability of strictly localized orbitals for hybrid QM/MM calculations. Journal of Computational Chemistry, Wiley vol. 27 (4), 515-523.  
27-01-2006

2005

bullet iconMorelli CF, Fornili A, Sironi M, Duri L, Speranza G and Manitto P (2005). Evidence for a Nucleophilic anti‐Attack on the Cleaved C(2)‐Oxygen Bond in Cl2‐AlH‐Catalyzed Ring‐Opening of 2‐Substituted 1,3‐Dioxolanes. ChemInform, Wiley vol. 36 (27), no-no.  
16-06-2005
bullet iconGenoni A, Fornili A and Sironi M (2005). Optimal virtual orbitals to relax wave functions built up with transferred extremely localized molecular orbitals. Journal of Computational Chemistry, Wiley vol. 26 (8), 827-835.  
06-04-2005
bullet iconMorelli CF, Fornili A, Sironi M, Durì L, Speranza G and Manitto P (2005). Evidence for a nucleophilic anti-attack on the cleaved C(2)–oxygen bond in Cl2AlH-catalyzed ring-opening of 2-substituted 1,3-dioxolanes. Tetrahedron Letters, Elsevier vol. 46 (11), 1837-1840.  
01-03-2005

2003

bullet iconFornili A, Sironi M and Raimondi M (2003). Determination of extremely localized molecular orbitals and their application to quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics methods and to the study of intramolecular hydrogen bonding. Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, Elsevier vol. 632 (1-3), 157-172.  
01-08-2003
bullet iconMorelli CF, Fornili A, Sironi M, Duri L, Speranza G and Manittoa P (2003). Regio‐ and Diastereoselectivity in TiCl4‐Promoted Reduction of 2‐Aryl‐Substituted cis‐4‐Methyl‐5‐trifluoromethyl‐1,3‐dioxolanes. ChemInform, Wiley vol. 34 (15), no-no.  
21-03-2003
bullet iconFornili A, Civera M, Sironi M and Fornili SL (2003). Molecular dynamics simulation of aqueous solutions of trimethylamine-N-oxide and tert-butyl alcohol. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) vol. 5 (21), 4905-4910.  
01-01-2003
bullet iconCivera M, Fornili A, Sironi M and Fornili SL (2003). Molecular dynamics simulation of aqueous solutions of glycine betaine. Chemical Physics Letters, Elsevier vol. 367 (1-2), 238-244.  
01-01-2003

2002

bullet iconMorelli CF, Fornili A, Sironi M, Durı̀ L, Speranza G and Manitto P (2002). Regio- and diastereoselectivity in TiCl4-promoted reduction of 2-aryl-substituted cis-4-methyl-5-trifluoromethyl-1,3-dioxolanes. Tetrahedron Asymmetry, Elsevier vol. 13 (23), 2609-2618.  
01-11-2002

2001

bullet iconFORNILI A (2001). Water interaction with glycine betaine: A hybrid QM/MM molecular dynamics simulation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Royal Society of Chemistry vol. 3, 1081-1085.  
01-01-2001

Grants

solid heart iconGrants of specific relevance to the Centre for Chemical Research
solid heart iconTG: Cheminformatics and machine learning approaches for GPCR computer aided drug design
Arianna Fornili
£125,091 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027)
solid heart iconWei Dai Studentship - Sosei Heptares
Arianna Fornili and Emma Grant
£21,600 Sosei Heptares (01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027)
solid heart iconCTP Training Grant:
Arianna Fornili
£124,088 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (01-10-2022 - 30-09-2026)
solid heart iconStructural bioinformatics and chemogenomics approaches to navigate GPCR ligand interaction space - CTP
Arianna Fornili
£123,282 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (01-10-2022 - 30-09-2026)
solid heart iconStructural Bioinformatics and chemogenomics approaches
Arianna Fornili
£21,600 Sosei Heptares (26-09-2022 - 25-09-2026)
bullet iconDiscovering missing links in neuropeptide evolution and function
Maurice Elphick and Arianna Fornili
£576,040 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (01-06-2023 - 31-05-2026)
solid heart iconThe cardiovascular function of the orphan G-protein coupled receptor GPR20
Andrew Tinker, Peter McCormick, Arianna Fornili and Patricia Munroe
£307,773 BHF British Heart Foundation (01-05-2023 - 30-04-2026)
bullet iconStructure of the assembly platform of the type II secretion system
Richard Pickersgill, Vidya Darbari and Arianna Fornili
£579,168 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (28-10-2022 - 27-10-2025)
solid heart iconDeveloping novel antibody tools to modulate GPR20
Andrew Tinker, Arianna Fornili, Ahuva Nissim and Peter McCormick
£74,767 Barts and the London Charity (01-12-2023 - 30-11-2024)


bullet iconRational design of selective modulators of skeletal myosin
Arianna Fornili
£109,387 MDA Muscular Dystrophy Association (01-01-2020 - 31-12-2023)