National Research Council of Italy

Institute of Biosciences and BioResources

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Paola Pontieri

Role: Researcher
Section: Researchers and Technologists
Division: Portici
Tel: (39) 081-2539026
E-mail: paola.pontieri@ibbr.cnr.it

Role: Researcher

Section: Researchers and Technologists
Division: Napoli
Tel: (39) 081 679183 - 081 5788297
E-mail: paola.pontieri@ibbr.cnr.it

Born: September 12th 1967

Nationality: Italian

Professional Address:

Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources, UOS Napoli (IBBR,UOS Napoli)

Via Pietro Castellino,111

80131 Napoli (Italy)

Education and Training

  • Ph-D in Applied Biological Sciences at the Facoltà di Scienze Biologiche - Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli. Thesis: The lycorine resistance phenotype in the retrograde regulation” (2007).
  • Degree in Pharmacy at the Facoltà di Farmacia, Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli.

Job position:

  • From December 2018: Permanent position as Researcher at CNR-Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources (IBBR)
  • From August 2011: Researcher (art.23-CNR contract) at the CNR-Istituto di Genetica Vegetale (renamed IBBR from 2013), Research Division of Portici.
  • From January 2008 to July 2011 : Researcher (art.23-CNR contract) at the CNR-Istituto di Genetica e Biofisica -Adriano Buzzati-Traverso, Napoli (IGB-ABT-CNR-Napoli).
  • 2005-2007: PhD (fellowship from Banco di Napoli-Fondazione) at the IGB-ABT-CNR-Napoli.
  • 2000-2004: Researcher (contracts) at the IGB-ABT-CNR-Napoli.
  • 1998 : Research assistant (grant) at the Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, Università di Lecce ( Italy)
  • 1996 : Research assistant (grant) at the Genetics Institute, Muenchen (Germany).
  • 1993-1994 : Research assistant (grant) at the Department of Molecular Biology, Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, California (USA).
  • 1992-1993 : Research assistant (grant) at the Department of Immunology, Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, California (USA).

Main activity and responsibility

  • From August 2011 responsible of the IBBR-UOS Portici’s research group of Agrobiotechnology of Sorghum. Since November 2020 she obtained the transfer at the IBBR/UOS Napoli.

Main Research Interests

*Extraction and characterization of food-grade white sorghum proteins.

*Isolation and characterization of bioactive sorghum peptides with antioxidant activities.

*Extraction and characterization of polyphenolic compounds of colored varieties of food-grade sorghum.

*Formulation of nutraceutical foods based based on food-grade gluten-free white sorghum proteins.

*Development of the food-grade white sorghum agri-food chain for the production of functional foods and nutraceuticals.

*Isolation and genetic and molecular characterization of tellurium resistant mutants of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

*Study of diseases of mitochondrial origin using the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Caenorhabditis elegans as model organisms : isolation and characterization of mitochondrial ribosomal proteins connected with Alzheimer’s disease.

Scientific Responsible of the following projects (from 2010)

  1. Bando di Attuazione PSR 2007-2013 Misura 124 Progetto ISFAAGF - Regione Campania, “Cooperazione per lo sviluppo di nuovi prodotti, processi e tecnologie nei settori agricolo e alimentare e settore forestale”.Progetto: “Valutazione di ibridi di sorgo per lo sviluppo ed il mantenimento di una filiera agro-alimentare destinata alla produzione di alimenti gluten-free (ISFAAGF)”.
  2. Bando: Celi.Net srl nell’ambito del Cluster Agrifood - Nazionale (CL.A.N.) Progetto: “Characterization of gluten-free crops such as new varieties of food-grade sorghum”.
  3. Bando: Distretto Campania Bioscience PON03PE_00060_2.
  4. Progetto: “ Farine funzionali e prodotti da forno per celiaci ed intolleranti al glutine”.
  5. Bando di Attuazione PSR 2007-2013 Misura 124, GAL Alto Casertano, Regione Campania.
  6. CNR-DISBA project NutrAge (project nr. 7022).

Publications

A1. L. Del Giudice, D.R. Massardo, P. Pontieri, K. Wolf. Interaction between yeast mitochondrial and nuclear genomes: null alleles of RTG genes affect resistance to the alkaloid lycorine in rho° petites of Saccharomyces cerevisiae . Gene, 354, 9-14 (2005).

A2. D.R. Massardo, F. Senatore, P. Alifano, L. Del Giudice, P. Pontieri. Vetiver root essential oil Production correlates with root development during early growth of Vetiveria izanioides. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 34, 378-382 (2006).

A3. T. Stoycheva, D.R. Massardo, M. Pesheva, P. Venkov, K. Wolf, L. Del Giudice, P. Pontieri. Ty1 transposition induced by carcinogens in Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast depends on mitochondrial function. Gene, 389 (2), 212-218 (2007).

A4. G. Vigliotta, M. Di Giacomo, E. Carata, D.R. Massardo, S.M. Tredici, P. Pontieri, M. De Stefano, L. Del Giudice, D. Parente, P. Alifano. Nitrite metabolism in Debaryomyces hansenii TOB-Y7, a Yeast strain involved in tobacco fermentation. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 75, 633-645 (2007).

A5. G. Vigliotta, E. Nutricati, E. Carata, S.M. Tredici, M. De Stefano, P. Pontieri, D.R. Massardo, M.V. Prati, L. De Bellis, P. Alifano. Clonotrhix fusca (Roze, 1986), a Filamentous, Sheathed, Methanotrophic γ - Proteobacterium. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 73, 3556-3565 (2007).

A6. C. Sansone, D.R. Massardo, P. Pontieri, L. Maddaluno, M. De Stefano, S.M. Tredici, A. Talà, P. Alifano, L. Del Giudice. Isolation of a psychrotolerant Debaryomyces hansenii strain from Fermented tea plant (Camelia sinensis) leaves. J. Plant Interact., 2(3), 169-174 (2007).

A7. C. Ciacci, L. Maiuri, N. Caporaso, C. Bucci, L. Del Giudice, D.R. Massardo, P. Pontieri, N. Di Fonzo, S.R. Bean, B. Ioerger, M. Londei. Celiac disease: in vitro and in vivo safety and palatability of wheat-free sorghum food products. Clin. Nutr. 26 (6), 799-805 (2007).

A8. F. del Giudice, D.R. Massardo, P. Pontieri, L. Maddaluno, P. De Vita, C. Fares, C. Ciacci, L. Del Giudice. Development of a sorghum chain in the Italian Campania Region: from the field to the celiac patient’s table. J. Plant Interact., 3 (1) 49-55 (2008).

A9. Luigi Del Giudice, Domenica Rita Massardo, Paola Pontieri, Cinzia M. Bertea, Domenico Mombello, Elisabetta Carata, Salvatore Maurizio Tredici, Adelfia Talà, Marco Mucciarelli, Veneta Ivanova Groudeva, Mario De Stefano, Giovanni Vigliotta, Massimo E. Maffei, P. Alifano. The microbial community of Vetiver root and its involvement into essential oil biogenesis. Environ. Microbiol. 10, 2824-2841 (2008).

A10. D.R. Massardo, P. Pontieri. L. Maddaluno, M. De Stefano, P. Alifano, L. Del Giudice. Effects of tellurite on growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biometals, 22, 1089-1094 (2009).

A11. Pontieri P. Di Maro A., Tamburino R., Tilley M., Bean S.R., Roemer E., De Vita P., Alifano P., Del Giudice L., Massardo D.R.. Chemical Composition of selected food-grade sorghum varieties grown under typical Mediterranean conditions. Maydica. 55, 139-143 (2010).

A12. P. Pontieri, R. Di Fiore, J. Troisi, S.R. Bean, E. Roemer, J. Okot, P. Alifano, D. Pignone, L. Del Giudice, D.R. Massardo. Chemical composition and fatty acid content of white food Sorghums grown in different environments. Maydica. 56-1705, 1-7 (2011).

A13. Paola Pontieri, Pasquale De Vita, Antonio Boffa, Mitchell R. Tuinstra, Scott R. Bean, Gabriel Krishnamoorthy, Charles Miller, Earl Roemer, Pietro Alifano, Domenico Pignone, Domenica Rita Massardo and Luigi Del Giudice. Yield and morpho-agronomical evaluation of food-grade white sorghum hybrids grown in Southern Italy.J. Plant Interact., 7, 341-347 (2012).

A14. Salvatore Antonio Colecchia, Bruno Basso, Davide Cammarano, Antonio Gallo, Anna Maria Mastrangelo, Paola Pontieri, Luigi Del Giudice, Domenico Pignone and Pasquale De Vita. On the relationship between N management and grain protein content in six durum wheat cultivars in Mediterranean environment.J. Plant Interact. 8, 271-279 (2013).

A15. Paola Pontieri, Gianfranco Mamone, Salvatore De Caro, Mitch R. Tuinstra, Earl Roemer, Josephine Okot,Pasquale De Vita, Donatella B.M. Ficco, Pietro Alifano, Domenico Pignone, Domenica R. Massardo, Luigi Del Giudice. Sorghum, a healthy and gluten-free food for celiac patients as demonstrated by genome, biochemical and immunochemical analyses. J. Agric. Food Chem. , 61 (10), pp 2565-2571(2013).

A16. Paola Pontieri et al. Mineral content in grains of seven food-grade sorghum hybrids grown under Mediterranean Environment. Australian Journal Crop Science, in press 2014.

A17. Paola Pontieri, Mario De Stefano, Domenica Rita Massardo, Norio Gunge, Isamu Miyakawa, Nobundo Sando, Domenico Pignone, Graziano Pizzolante, Roberta Romano,Pietro Alifano, Luigi Del Giudice. Tellurium as a valuable tool for studying the prokaryotic origins of mitochondria. GENE, 559, 177-183 (2015).

A18. Paola Pontieri, Fabio Del Giudice, Martin D. Dimitrov, Margarita G. Pesheva, Pencho V. Venkov, Antimo Di Maro, Severina Pacifico,Priyadarshini Gadgil, Thomas J. Herald, Mitchell R. Tuinstra, Graziano Pizzolante, Roberta Romano, Pietro Alifano, Luigi Del Giudice.

Measurement of biological antioxidant activity of seven food-grade sorghum hybrids grown in a Mediterranean environment. Australian Journal Crop Science, 10, 904-910 (2016).

A19. Paola Pontieri, Jacopo Troisi, Antonio Boffa, Fabio Del Giudice, Alberto L. Chessa, Graziano Pizzolante, Roberta Romano, Pietro Alifano, Luigi Del Giudice. Nutrient, fatty acid and mineral composition of selected white food-grade sorghum hybrids grown in a Mediterranean area of Southern Italy. Maydica, 62 (2017).

A20. Graziano Pizzolante, Chiara Cordero, Salvatore M. Tredici, Davide Vergara, Paola Pontieri, Luigi Del Giudice, Andrea Capuzzo, Patrizia Rubiolo, Chidananda N. Kanchiswamy, Simon A. Zebelo, Carlo Bicchi, Massimo E. Maffei, Pietro Alifano.. Cultivable gut bacteria provide a pathway for adaptation of Chrysolina herbacea to Mentha aquatica volatiles. BMC Plant Biology, (2017) 17:30, DOI 10.1186/s12870-017- 0986-6.

A21. Luigi Del Giudice, Paola Pontieri. Sorghum grain as human healthy nutritious cereal. Verlag/Publisher: Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. Book (2017).

A22. Paola Pontieri, Hans Hartings, Marco Di Salvo, Domenica R. Massardo, Mario De Stefano, Graziano Pizzolante, Roberta Romano, Jacopo Troisi, Angelica Del Giudice, Pietro Alifano, Luigi Del Giudice. Mitochondrial ribosomal proteins involved in tellurite resistance in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Scientific Reports (2018) 8:12022 | DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-30479-6.

A23. Paola Pontieri, Jacopo Troisi, Scott R.Bean, Michael Tilley, Marco Di Salvo, Antonio Boffa, Domenico Pignone, Fabio Del Giudice, Mariarosaria Aletta, Pietro Alifano e Luigi Del Giudice. Comparison of extraction methods of isolating kafirin protein from food grade sorghum flour: Australian Journal of Crop Science, 13, 1297-1304 (2019).

A24. Paola Pontieri, Jacopo Troisi, Roberta Romano, Graziano Pizzolante, Scott R. Bean, Michael Tilley, Mario Motto, Mariarosaria Aletta, Fabio Del Giudice, Mario Sicardi, Pietro Alifano, Luigi Del Giudice. Nutritional composition of a selected white food-grade waxy sorghum variety grown in Mediterranean environment . Australian J.Crop Science, 14, 1525-1532 (2020)

 

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