Elena Cartocci

Toscana Life Sciences — Italy

Immunology and Microbiology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Bacterial Infections and Vaccines(19), Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections(11), Escherichia coli research studies(7), Immune Response and Inflammation(3), Amoebic Infections and Treatments(3)

Publications27 total

Generalized Modules for Membrane Antigens (GMMA) Elicit Mild Local Reactogenicity After Intramuscular Injection in Absence of Aluminum Salt Adjuvant
Immunity Inflammation and Disease·2025Open Access
Generalised Modules for Membrane Antigens (GMMA) Do Not Elicit Concerning Local Reactogenicity after Intramuscular Injection in Absence of Aluminum Salt Adjuvant
Preprints.org·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Enhanced Systemic Humoral Immune Response Induced in Mice by Generalized Modules for Membrane Antigens (GMMA) Is Associated with Affinity Maturation and Isotype Switching
Vaccines·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
Investigating the Role of Antigen Orientation on the Immune Response Elicited by Neisseria meningitidis Factor H Binding Protein on GMMA
Vaccines·2022· 7 citedOpen Access
NHBA is processed by kallikrein from human saliva
PLoS ONE·2019· 9 citedOpen Access
NHBA is processed by kallikrein from human saliva
2018· 2 citedOpen Access
Neisseria Heparin Binding Antigen is targeted by the human alternative pathway C3-convertase
PLoS ONE·2018· 5 citedOpen Access
Expression of factor H binding protein in meningococcal strains can vary at least 15-fold and is genetically determined
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2016· 73 citedOpen Access
Vaccine composition formulated with a novel TLR7-dependent adjuvant induces high and broad protection against <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2015· 170 citedOpen Access
Structure of the meningococcal vaccine antigen NadA and epitope mapping of a bactericidal antibody
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2014· 64 citedOpen Access
Neisseria gonorrhoeae PIII has a role on NG1873 outer membrane localization and is involved in bacterial adhesion to human cervical and urethral epithelial cells
BMC Microbiology·2013· 8 citedOpen Access
Crystal structure of c5321: a protective antigen present in uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains displaying an SLR fold
BMC Structural Biology·2013· 17 citedOpen Access
Defining a protective epitope on factor H binding protein, a key meningococcal virulence factor and vaccine antigen
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2013· 131 citedOpen Access
Targeted Amino Acid Substitutions Impair Streptolysin O Toxicity and Group A <i>Streptococcus</i> Virulence
mBio·2013· 53 citedOpen Access
RrgB321, a Fusion Protein of the Three Variants of the Pneumococcal Pilus Backbone RrgB, Is Protective<i>In Vivo</i>and Elicits Opsonic Antibodies
Infection and Immunity·2011· 40 citedOpen Access
Rational Design of a Meningococcal Antigen Inducing Broad Protective Immunity
Science Translational Medicine·2011· 139 cited
Crystal structure of the protein corresponding to locus c5321 from CFT073 E.coli strain
2010
Identification of protective and broadly conserved vaccine antigens from the genome of extraintestinal pathogenic <i>Escherichia coli</i>
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2010· 260 citedOpen Access
Self-adjuvant and immune-stimulating activity of the anti-meningococcus B vaccine candidate Neisseria Meningitidis adhesin A as a soluble recombinant antigen (NadAΔ351–405) or as part of bacterial outer membrane vesicles
New Biotechnology·2009· 4 cited
The membrane expression of <i>Neisseria meningitidis</i> adhesin A (NadA) increases the proimmune effects of <i>MenB</i> OMVs on human macrophages, compared with NadA– OMVs, without further stimulating their proinflammatory activity on circulating monocytes
Journal of Leukocyte Biology·2009· 54 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Mariagrazia Pizza(12), Silvana Savino(11), Rino Rappuoli(11), Sara Marchi(9), Maria Scarselli(8), Vega Masignani(7), Marzia Monica Giuliani(6), Brunella Brunelli(6), Giacomo Romagnoli(6), Beatrice Aricò(5), Daniele Veggi(5), Laura Santini(4), Francesca Ferlicca(4), Isabella Bertoldi(4), Laura Serino(4), Silvia Maccari(4), Nathalie Norais(4), Paola Lo Surdo(4), Isabel Delany(4), Massimiliano Biagini(4)