PUBLICATIONS OF QSAR RESEARCH UNIT IN ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY AND ECOTOXICOLOGY (1995-2007)

2007

Paola Gramatica Principles of QSAR models validation: internal and external QSAR Comb.Sci. 2007, 26(5), 694-701. DOI: 10.1002/qsar.20061015

Paola Gramatica and Ester Papa Screening and ranking of POPs for Global Half-Life: a QSAR approach for prioritization Environ. Sci. Technol., 2007, 41(8); 2833-2839. DOI: 10.1021/es061773

Huanxiang Liu, Ester Papa, John Walker, Paola Gramatica In silico Screening of Estrogen-Like Chemicals Based on Different Nonlinear Classification Models J.Mol. Graph. Model., 2007, 26, 135-144. DOI:10.1016/j.jmgm.2007.01.00

Huanxiang Liu and Paola Gramatica QSAR Study of Selective Ligands for the Thyroid Hormone Receptor beta Bioorg.  Med.  Chem., 2007, 15 (15), 5251-5261, DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2007.05.016

Paola Gramatica , Elisa Giani, Ester Papa Statistical external validation and consensus modeling: A QSPR case study for Koc prediction J. Mol. Graph. Model., 2007, 25, 755-766. DOI:10.1016/j.jmgm.2006.06.005

Paola Gramatica, Pamela Pilutti, Ester Papa Approaches for externally validated QSAR modeling of Nitrated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon mutagenicity SAR QSAR Environ. Res., 2007,18 , 169-178. DOI: 10.1080/10629360601054388

Ester Papa, John Dearden, Paola Gramatica Linear QSAR regression models for the prediction of bioconcentration factors by physicochemical properties and structural theoretical molecular descriptors Chemosphere, 2007, 67, 351-358. doi:10.1016/j.jmgm.2006.06.005 

Ester Papa, Jerker Fick, Richard Lindberg, Magnus Johansson, Paola Gramatica, Patrik L. Andersson Multivariate chemical mapping of antibiotics and identification of structurally representative substances Environ. Sci. Technol., 2007, 41, 1653-1661. DOI: 10.1021/es060618u

Paola Gramatica, Ester  Papa, Assunta Marrocchi, Lucio  Minuti, Aldo Taticchi, QSAR Modelling of PAH Mutagenicity by Classification Methods based on Holistic Theoretical Molecular Descriptors  Ecotox. Environ. Safety, 2007, 66, 353-361. doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2006.02.005 

Simone Bastianoni , Federico M. Pulselli, Silvia Focardi, Elisa B.P. Tiezzi, Paola Gramatica, Correlations and complementarities in data and methods through Principal Components Analysis (PCA) applied to the results of the SPIn-Eco project J. Environ. Manag., 2007, doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2006.04.018

2006

Paola Gramatica WHIM descriptors of shape QSAR Comb.  Sci., 2006, 25, 327-332. DOI: 10.1002/qsar.200510159

Huanxiang Liu, Ester Papa, Paola Gramatica QSAR Prediction of Estrogen Activity for a Large Set of Diverse Chemicals under the Guidance of OECD Principles Chem. Res. Toxicol., 2006, 19, 1540-1548. DOI: 10.1021/tx0601509

Paola Gramatica, Francesca Battaini, Elisa Giani, Ester Papa , Robert J.A. Jones,  Damiano Preatoni, Roberto M. Cenci Analysis of mosses and soils for quantifying heavy metal concentrations in Sicily: a multivariate and spatial analytical approach Environ.Sci.Pollut. Res, 2006, 13, 28-36. DOI : 10.1065/espr2006.01.006

M. Vracko, V. Bandelj, P. Barbieri, E. Benfenati , Q. Chaudhry , M. Cronin, J. Devillers, A. Gallegos, G. Gini, P. Gramatica, C. Helma , P. Mazzatorta, D. Neagu, T. Netzeva, M. Pavan, G. Patlewicz, M. Randic, I. Tsakovska, A. Worth Validation of counter propagation neural network models for predictive toxicology according to the OECD principles: a case study SAR QSAR Environ. Res., 2006, 17, 265-284. DOI: 10.1080/10659360600787650

S. Banfi, E. Caruso, L.Buccafurni, R. Murano, E. Monti, M. Gariboldi, E. Papa, P. Gramatica, Comparison between 5,10,15,20-tetraaryl- and 5,15-diarylporphyrins as photosensitizers: Synthesis, photodynamic activity, and quantitative structure-activity relationship modelling J. Med. Chem. 2006, 49, 3293-3304. DOI: 10.1021/jm050997m

Paola Gramatica, Francesca Battaini, Elisa Giani, Ester Papa, Robert J. A. Jones and Roberto M. Cenci Multivariate Analysis of Heavy Metals Concentrations in Soils and Mosses of Two North-Italy Regions Fresenius Environ. Bull., 2006, 15(8) 731-737 Sp. Iss.

Luca Nizzetto, Bruno Cerabolini, Kevin Jones, Ester Papa, Paola Gramatica, Antonio Di Guardo Accumulation of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in canopies of different forest types: role of species composition and altitudinal-temperature gradient" Environ. Sci. Technol., 2006, 40 (21): 6580-6586. DOI: 10.1021/es0605523

Manuela Pavan, Viviana Consonni, Paola Gramatica, Roberto Todeschini New QSAR Modelling Approach Based on Ranking Models by Genetic Algorithms – Variable Subset Selection (GA-VSS). In “Partial Order in Chemistry and Environmental Sciences” (R. Brüggemann and L. Carlsen Ed.), Chapter 3, p.181-217 - Springer-Verlag, 2006.

2005

Paola Gramatica and Ester Papa An update of the BCF QSAR model based on theoretical molecular descriptors QSAR &Comb. Sci.  2005, 24, 953-960. DOI: 10.1002/qsar.200530123 

Ester Papa. Fulvio Villa, Paola Gramatica Statistically validated QSARs and theoretical descriptors for the modelling of the aquatic toxicity of organic chemicals in Pimephales promelas (Fathead Minnow) J. Chem. Inf. Model  2005, 45,1256-1266. DOI: 10.1021/ci050212l

Ester Papa, Francesca Battaini, Paola Gramatica Ranking of Esters’ Aquatic Toxicity modelled by QSAR Chemosphere 2005, 58, 559-570. doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2004.08.003 

Paola Gramatica, Pamela Pilutti, Ester Papa Ranking of Phenols for Abiotic Oxidation in Aqueous Environment: a QSPR Approach Annali di Chimica, 2005, 95, 199-209.

T. I. Netzeva, A. P. Worth, T. Aldenberg, R. Benigni, M. T.D.Cronin, P.Gramatica, J. S. Jaworska, S.Kahn, G. Klopman, C. A. Marchant, G. Myatt, N. Nikolova-Jeliazkova, G. Y. Patlewicz, R. Perkins,D.W. Roberts, T.W. Schultz, D. T. Stanton, J. J.M. van de Sandt,W. Tong, G. Veith and C. Yang Current Status of Methods for Defining the Applicability Domain of (Quantitative) Structure–Activity Relationships ATLA 2005, 33, 155–173.

2004

Paola Gramatica, Pamela Pilutti,  Ester Papa Validated QSAR Prediction of OH Tropospheric degradability: splitting into training-test set and consensus modeling J.Chem. Inf. Comp.Sci.. 2004, 44, 1794-1802. DOI:10.1021/ci049923u

Paola Gramatica, Pamela Pilutti, Ester Papa A Tool for the Assessment of VOC Degradability by Tropospheric Oxidants Starting from Chemical Structure Atm. Environ. 2004, 38(36), 6167-6175. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2004.07.026 

Paola Gramatica, Ester Papa, Francesca Battaini Ranking and classification of non-ionic organic pesticides for environmental distribution: a QSAR approach Int. J. Environ. Anal. Chem. 2004, 84,  65-74.

Paola Gramatica, Francesca Battaini, Ester Papa QSAR prediction of physico-chemical properties of esters Fresenius Environ. Bull. 2004, 13, 1258-1262.

Ester Papa, Sara Castiglioni, Paola Gramatica, Victor Nikolayenko, Odil Kayumov, Davide Calamari Screening the leaching tendency of pesticides applied in the Amu Darya Basin (Uzbekistan) Water Res. 2004, 38 (16), 3485-3494. doi:10.1016/j.watres.2004.04.053

Paola Gramatica, Ester Papa, Stefano Pozzi Prediction of POP environmental Persistence and Long Range Transport by QSAR and Chemometric Approaches Fresenius Environ. Bull. 13,  2004, 1204-1209.

Thomas Backaus, Michael Faust, Martin Scholze, Paola Gramatica, Marco Vighi and L.Horst Grimme Joint Algal Toxicity of Phenylurea Herbicides is Equally predictable by Concentration Addition and Independent Action Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 2004, 23 (2), 258-264.

Reports:

Paola Gramatica (2004) QSARs for atmospheric degradation. In Anon. Evaluation of the Setubal Principles for establishing the status of development and validation of (Q)SARs – Annex 2 ENV/JM/TG(2004)27/ANN, OECD, Paris. OECD Environment, Health and Safety Publication. http://appli1.oecd.org/olis/2004doc.nsf/linkto/env-jm-mono(2004)24

Paola Gramatica (2004) Evaluation of different statistical approaches to the validation of Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships–ECVAM, JRC, Ispra. http://ecb.jrc.it/QSAR/ under QSARs/documents/public access

2003

Alexander Tropsha, Paola Gramatica, Vijay K. Gombar The Importance of Being Earnest: Validation is the Absolute Essential for Successful Application and Interpretation of QSPR Models QSAR &Comb. Sci., 2003, 22, 69-77. DOI:10.1002/qsar.200390007

Paola Gramatica and Ester Papa QSAR Modeling of Bioconcentration Factor by Theoretical Molecular Descriptors QSAR &Comb. Sci., 2003,, 22, 374-385. DOI:10.1002/qsar.200390027

Paola Gramatica, Pamela Pilutti,Ester Papa QSAR Prediction of Ozone  Tropospheric Degradation  QSAR &Comb. Sci., 2003, 22, 364-373. DOI:10.1002/qsar.200390026

Vighi, R. Altenburger, A. Arrhenius, T.Backaus, W.Bodeker, H.Blanck, F.Consolaro M.Faust, A.Finizio, K.Froehner, P.Gramatica, L.H.Grimme, F.Gronvall, V.Hamer, M.Scholze and H.Walter Water quality objectives for mixtures of toxic chemicals: problems and perspectives. Ecotox. Environ.  Safety, 2003, 54, 139-150. doi:10.1016/S0147-6513(02)00047-7

M.Faust, R. Altenburger, T. Backaus H. Blanck, W.Boedeker, P.Gramatica, V.Hamer, M.Scholze, M.Vighi and L.H.Grimme Joint algal toxicity of 16 dissimilarly acting chemicals is predictable by the concept of independent action, Aquatic Toxicol. 2003, 63, 43-63. doi:10.1016/S0166-445X(02)00133-9  

Paola Gramatica, Viviana Consonni, Manuela Pavan Prediction of Aromatic Amines Mutagenicity from Theoretical Molecular Descriptors SAR QSAR Environ. Res., 2003, 14,  237-250. DOI: 10.1080/1062936032000101484

Paola Gramatica, Pamela Pilutti and Ester Papa Predicting the NO3 Tropospheric Degradability of Organic Pollutants by Theoretical Molecular Descriptors Atm. Environ., 2003, 37 (22) , 3115-3124. doi:10.1016/S1352-2310(03)00293-0

Lennart Eriksson, Joanna Jaworska, Andrew Worth, Mark Cronin, Robert M McDowell,  Paola Gramatica Methods for reliability, uncertainty assessment, and applicability evaluations of regression based and classification QSARs Environ. Health Perspectives 2003, 111 (10), 1361-1375. doi:10.1289/ehp.5758

Backhaus, T., Altenburger, R., Arrhenius, Å., Blanck, H., Faust, M., Finizio, A., Gramatica, P., Grothe, M., Junghans, M., Meyer, W., Pavan, M., Porspring, T., Scholze, M., Todeschini, R., Vighi, M., Walter, H.. and Grimme, L.H. The BEAM-project: prediction and assessment of mixture toxicities in the aquatic environment. Continental Shelf Research 2003, 23 (17-19):, 1757-1769. doi:10.1016/j.csr.2003.06.002 

2002

Paola Gramatica and Antonio Di Guardo Screening of pesticides for environmental partitioning tendency Chemosphere , 2002, 47, 947-956. doi:10.1016/S0045-6535(02)00007-3  

Paola Gramatica, Stefano Pozzi, Viviana Consonni, Antonio Di Guardo Classification of environmental pollutants for global mobility potential SAR QSAR Environ. Res., 2002, 13, 205-217. DOI: 10.1080/10629360290002695

Paola Gramatica, Angela Santagostino, Ezio Bolzacchini, Bruno Rindone Atmospheric monitoring toxicology and QSAR modelling of nitrophenols Fresenius Environ. Bull. 2002,11, 757-762.

Paola Gramatica , Angela Santagostino , Ezio Bolzacchini , Vito Librando, Marco Orlandi, Bruno Rindone   Analysis in air, toxicology and QSAR modeling with nitrophenols. (2002) In: Air Pollution X, WIT Press, A. Brebbia, J. F Martin-Duque eds, Southampton, U.K., pp 731-740.

Paola Gramatica, Pamela Pilutti , Ester Papa Ranking of Volatile Organic Compounds for Tropospheric Degradability by Oxidants: a QSPR Approach. SAR QSAR Environ. Res., 2002, 13, 743-753. DOI: 10.1080/1062936021000043472

Viviana Consonni, Roberto Todeschini,  Manuela Pavan, Paola Gramatica. Structure/Response Correlations and Similarity/Diversity Analysis by GETAWAY Descriptors. 2. Application of the Novel 3D Molecular Descriptors to QSAR/QSPR Studies J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci.; 2002; 42(3); 693-705.  DOI: 10.1021/ci0155053

Helge Walter, Federica Consolaro, Paola Gramatica, Martin Scholze, Rolf Altenburger Mixture toxicity of priority pollutants at No Observed Effect Concentrations (NOECs) Ecotoxicology, 2002, 11, 299-310. DOI:10.1023/A:1020592802989

2001

Paola Gramatica, Marco Vighi, Federica Consolaro, Roberto Todeschini, Antonio Finizio,  Michael Faust QSAR approach for the selection of congeneric compounds with a similar toxicological mode of action. Chemosphere, 2001, 42, 873-883. doi:10.1016/S0045-6535(00)00180-6 

Paola Gramatica, Federica Consolaro, Stefano Pozzi QSAR approach to POPs screening for atmospheric persistence. Chemosphere,  2001, 43/4-7, 655-664. doi:10.1016/S0045-6535(00)00418-5 

Marco Vighi, Paola Gramatica, Federica Consolaro, Roberto Todeschini QSAR and chemometric approaches for setting water quality objectives for dangerous chemicals. Ecotox and Environ Safety,  2001, 49, 206-220. doi:10.1006/eesa.2001.2064

Paola Gramatica QSAR approach to the evaluation of chemicals Chemistry Today 2001, 18-24.

T.Benincori, S.Mazzoli, F.Sannicolò, V.Consonni, P.Gramatica, R.Todeschini, G.Zotti and G.Schiavon Steric Control of Conductivity in Highly-conjugated Polythiophenes Chem. Materials,  2001, 13 (5), 1665-1673. DOI: 10.1021/cm0009118

M.Faust, R. Altenburger, T. Backaus, H. Blanck, W.Boedeker, P.Gramatica, V.Hamer, M.Scholze, M.Vighi and L:H:Grimme Predicting the joint algal toxicity of multi-component s-triazine mixtures at low-effect concentrations of individual toxicants. Aquatic Toxicol., 2001, 56, 13-32. doi:10.1016/S0166-445X(01)00187-4 

1998-2000

Paola Gramatica, Mauro Corradi, Viviana Consonni Modelling and prediction of soil sorption coefficients of non-ionic organic pesticides by different sets of molecular descriptors. Chemosphere,  2000, 41 (5), 763-777. doi:10.1016/S0045-6535(99)00463-4 

Paola Gramatica, Viviana Consonni,  Roberto Todeschini QSAR Study of the Tropospheric Degradation of Organic Compounds Chemosphere, 1999, 38, 1371-1378. doi:10.1016/S0045-6535(98)00539-6 

Paola Gramatica, Stefano Pozzi, Federica Consolaro,  Roberto Todeschini Study of the POP atmospheric mobility by QSAR approach Organohalogen Compounds, 1999, 41, 399-404.

Paola Gramatica, Natalia Navas,  Roberto Todeschini Classification of organic solvents and modelling of their physico-chemical properties by chemometric methods using different sets of molecular descriptors. Trends Anal. Chem., 1999, 18, 461-471. doi:10.1016/S0165-9936(99)00115-6

Paola Gramatica, Natalia Navas, Roberto Todeschini 3D-modelling and prediction by WHIM descriptors. Part 9. Chromatographic relative retention time and physico-chemical properties of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Chemom. Intell. Lab. Syst., 1998, 40, 53-63. doi:10.1016/S0169-7439(97)00079-8 

1995-1998 (At Milano-Bicocca University, Milano Chemometrics and QSAR Research Group)

R.Todeschini, P.Gramatica, M.Lasagni and R.Provenzani Weighted Holistic Invariant Molecular descriptors. Part 2. Theory development and applications  on modeling physico-chemical properties of PolyAromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH). Chemom. Intell. Lab. Syst. 27, 1995, 221-229.

R.Todeschini, M.Vighi, R.Provenzani, A.Finizio and P.Gramatica Modeling and prediction by using WHIM descriptors in QSAR studies: toxicity of heterogeneous  chemicals on Daphnia magna. Chemosphere, 32, 1996, 1527-1545.

R.Todeschini, C.Bettiol, G.Giurin, P.Gramatica, P.Miana and E.Argese Modeling and prediction by using WHIM descriptors in QSAR studies: submithocondrial particles (SMP) as toxicity biosensors of chlorophenols. Chemosphere, 33, 1996, 71-79.

R.Todeschini and P.Gramatica 3D-modelling and prediction by WHIM descriptors. Part 5. Theory development and chemical meaning of the WHIM descriptors.  Quant.Struct.-Act.Relat., 16, 1997, 113-119.

R.Todeschini and P.Gramatica 3D-modelling and prediction by WHIM descriptors. Part 6. Applications of WHIM descriptors in QSAR studies.  Quant.Struct.-Act.Relat., 16, 1997, 120-125.

R.Todeschini and P.Gramatica The WHIM theory: New 3D-molecular descriptors for  QSAR in environmental modelling.  SAR QSAR Environ. Res., 7, 1997, 89-115.

C.Chiorboli, P.Gramatica, R.Piazza, A.Pino and R.Todeschini 3D-modelling and prediction by WHIM descriptors. Part 7. Physico-chemical properties of haloaromatics: comparison between WHIM  and topological descriptors. SAR QSAR Environ. Res., 7, 1997, 133-150.

R.Todeschini, M.Vighi, A.Finizio and P.Gramatica 3D-modelling and prediction by WHIM descriptors. Part 8. Toxicity and  physico- chemical properties of environmental priority chemicals by 2D-TI and 3D-WHIM descriptors.  SAR QSAR Environ. Res., 7, 1997, 173-193.

R.Todeschini and P.Gramatica New 3D-molecular descriptors: the WHIM theory and QSAR applications. In 3D-QSAR in Drug Design, Vol.2 (Ed.H.Kubinyi, G.Folkers and Y.C.Martin), KLUWER/ESCOM, 1998, 355-380. 

R.Todeschini, V.Consonni, D.Galvagni and  P.Gramatica A new molecular structure representation: Spectral Weighted Molecular (SWM signals for studies of Molecular Similarity). Quimica Analitica, 1999, 18, 41-47.

E.Bolzacchini, V.Consonni, P.Gramatica, S.Meinardi, M.Orlandi, B.Rindone and  R.Todeschini Toward an in vitro Test for the Diagnosis of Allergy to Penicillins. Synthesis, Characterization and use of B-lactam and B-Lactam Metabolite Poly-L-Lysines which Recognize Human IgE Antibodies.  Bioconjugate Chemistry, 1999, 10, 332-337. DOI: 10.1021/bc980023r