Alessandro Morelli
Genova Universit, Italy
Biography
Alessandro Morelli (b. 1943) has studied enzyme Glucose-6-P-dehydrogenase and it’s molecular mechanism of senescence. Has been working in the field of phototransducion and molecular events in photoreceptor cells of vertebrate retina. He has discovered the protein FX, a NADP dependent enzyme catalizing synthesis of GDP-L-fucose. He has been working on the effects of electromagnetic fields of extremely low frequency on the activity of enzymes involved in bioenergeticprocess. Recently he has studied the myelin energetic function in brain put in in evidence the ATP extramitochondrial synthesis, with application in the study of Multiple Sclerosis and other neurodegenerative deseases.
