Author

Giovanna Costanzo

Observed names: G COSTANZO, G Costanzo, G. Costanzo, Giovanna COSTANZO

Institutions: Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, National Research Council

Observed institutions: University of Rome Tor Vergata, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Czech Academy of Sciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Center for NanoScience, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biophysics, Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, Istituto Pasteur, National Research Council, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Sapienza University of Rome, National Institute for Astrophysics

ORCID: 0000-0002-9494-5536

Observed ORCID: 0000-0002-9494-5536

OpenAlex ID: A5010825760

Formamide and the origin of life

2011 · Raffaele Saladino, Claudia Crestini, et al. · Physics of Life Reviews · 293

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Genetics first or metabolism first? The formamide clue

2012 · Raffaele Saladino, Giorgia Botta, et al. · Chemical Society Reviews · 215

One‐Pot TiO2‐Catalyzed Synthesis of Nucleic Bases and Acyclonucleosides from Formamide: Implications for the Origin of Life

2003 · Raffaele Saladino, Umberto Ciambecchini, et al. · ChemBioChem · 139

Nucleoside Phosphorylation by Phosphate Minerals

2007 · Giovanna Costanzo, Raffaele Saladino, et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 134

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Formamide Chemistry and the Origin of Informational Polymers

2007 · Raffaele Saladino, Claudia Crestini, et al. · Chemistry & Biodiversity · 133

Generation of Long RNA Chains in Water

2009 · Giovanna Costanzo, Samanta Pino, et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 126

Formamide as the main building block in the origin of nucleic acids

2007 · Giovanna Costanzo, Raffaele Saladino, et al. · BMC Evolutionary Biology · 110

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Synthesis and Degradation of Nucleic Acid Components by Formamide and Iron Sulfur Minerals

2008 · Raffaele Saladino, Veronica Neri, et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 100

Synthesis and Degradation of Nucleobases and Nucleic Acids by Formamide in the Presence of Montmorillonites

2004 · Raffaele Saladino, Claudia Crestini, et al. · ChemBioChem · 100

Advances in the Prebiotic Synthesis of Nucleic Acids Bases: Implications for the Origin of Life

2004 · Raffaele Saladino, Claudia Crestini, et al. · Current Organic Chemistry · 86

Emergence of the First Catalytic Oligonucleotides in a Formamide‐Based Origin Scenario

2016 · Judit E. Šponer, Judit E. Šponer, et al. · Chemistry - A European Journal · 80

Synthesis and Degradation of Nucleic Acid Components by Formamide and Cosmic Dust Analogues

2005 · Raffaele Saladino, Claudia Crestini, et al. · ChemBioChem · 75

From formamide to RNA: the roles of formamide and water in the evolution of chemical information

2009 · Raffaele Saladino, Claudia Crestini, et al. · Research in Microbiology · 65

Generation of RNA Molecules by a Base‐Catalysed Click‐Like Reaction

2012 · Giovanna Costanzo, Raffaele Saladino, et al. · ChemBioChem · 62

Origin of Informational Polymers: The Concurrent Roles of Formamide and Phosphates

2006 · Raffaele Saladino, Claudia Crestini, et al. · ChemBioChem · 61

Mechanism of Degradation of Purine Nucleosides by Formamide. Implications for Chemical DNA Sequencing Procedures

1996 · Raffaele Saladino, Enrico Mincione, et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 61

ABFI contributes to the chromatin organization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae ARS1 B-domain

1994 · Patrizia Venditti, Giovanna Costanzo, et al. · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Structure and Expression · 61

On the Prebiotic Synthesis of Nucleobases, Nucleotides, Oligonucleotides, Pre-RNA and Pre-DNA Molecules

2005 · Raffaele Saladino, Claudia Crestini, et al. · Topics in Current Chemistry · 59

Attraction, phasing and neighbour effects of histone octamers on curved DNA

1990 · Giovanna Costanzo, Ernesto Di Mauro, et al. · Journal of Molecular Biology · 57

Nonenzymatic RNA Ligation in Water

2008 · Samanta Pino, Fabiana Ciciriello, et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 49

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Origin of Informational Polymers

2006 · Raffaele Saladino, Claudia Crestini, et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 47

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The Role of the Formamide/Zirconia System in the Synthesis of Nucleobases and Biogenic Carboxylic Acid Derivatives

2010 · Raffaele Saladino, Veronica Neri, et al. · Journal of Molecular Evolution · 40

About a Formamide-Based Origin of Informational Polymers: Syntheses of Nucleobases and Favourable Thermodynamic Niches for Early Polymers

2006 · Raffaele Saladino, Claudia Crestini, et al. · Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres · 40

From the one-carbon amide formamide to RNA all the steps are prebiotically possible

2012 · Raffaele Saladino, Giorgia Botta, et al. · Biochimie · 38

Untemplated Nonenzymatic Polymerization of 3′,5′cGMP: A Plausible Route to 3′,5′-Linked Oligonucleotides in Primordia

2015 · Judit E. Šponer, Judit E. Šponer, et al. · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · 34

Works count: 87

Citation count: 2,756

H-index: 27

I10-index: 47