Search Results - "Antonio, Monari"
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Toward a Quantitative Assessment of Electronic Transitions’ Charge-Transfer Character
Published in Journal of chemical theory and computation (09-09-2014)“…We hereby report studies devoted to a topological descriptor of photoinduced electronic charge density variation. Our novel index, symbolized as ϕ S , consists…”
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Staring at the Naked Goddess: Unraveling the Structure and Reactivity of Artemis Endonuclease Interacting with a DNA Double Strand
Published in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (01-07-2021)“…Artemis is an endonuclease responsible for breaking hairpin DNA strands during immune system adaptation and maturation as well as the processing of potentially…”
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A Portrait of the Chromophore as a Young System-Quantum-Derived Force Field Unraveling Solvent Reorganization upon Optical Excitation of Cyclocurcumin Derivatives
Published in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (01-04-2024)“…The study of fast non-equilibrium solvent relaxation in organic chromophores is still challenging for molecular modeling and simulation approaches, and is…”
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Molecular Mechanisms Associated with Clustered Lesion-Induced Impairment of 8-oxoG Recognition by the Human Glycosylase OGG1
Published in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (26-10-2021)“…The 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine, referred to as 8-oxoG, is a highly mutagenic DNA lesion that can provoke the appearance of mismatches if it escapes the DNA…”
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Molecular Bases and Specificity behind the Activation of the Immune System OAS/RNAse L Pathway by Viral RNA
Published in Viruses (02-08-2024)“…The first line of defense against invading pathogens usually relies on innate immune systems. In this context, the recognition of exogenous RNA structures is…”
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Cooperative Effects of Cytosine Methylation on DNA Structure and Dynamics
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. B (29-08-2019)“…The behavior of the structural parameters of DNA considering different levels of methylation in CpG islands is studied by means of full-atom molecular dynamics…”
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Revealing the Molecular Interactions between Human ACE2 and the Receptor Binding Domain of the SARS-CoV-2 Wild-Type, Alpha and Delta Variants
Published in International journal of molecular sciences (28-01-2023)“…After a sudden and first spread of the pandemic caused by the novel SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus 2) wild-type strain, mutants have…”
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Design and synthesis of a new bifunctional chelating agent: Application for Al 18F/177Lu complexation
Published in Journal of inorganic biochemistry (01-09-2023)“…Theranostic and personalized medicine are blooming strategies to improve oncologic patients' health care and facilitate early treatment. While…”
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Iron's Wake: The Performance of Quantum Mechanical-Derived Versus General-Purpose Force Fields Tested on a Luminescent Iron Complex
Published in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (06-07-2020)“…Recently synthetized iron complexes have achieved long-lived excited states and stabilities which are comparable, or even superior, to their ruthenium…”
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Specific Recognition of the 5′-Untranslated Region of West Nile Virus Genome by Human Innate Immune System
Published in Viruses (13-06-2022)“…In the last few years, the sudden outbreak of COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 proved the crucial importance of understanding how emerging viruses work and…”
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E/Z Molecular Photoswitches Activated by Two-Photon Absorption: Comparison between Different Families
Published in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (05-12-2021)“…Nonlinear optical techniques as two-photon absorption (TPA) have raised relevant interest within the last years due to the capability to excite chromophores…”
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Towards Iron(II) Complexes with Octahedral Geometry: Synthesis, Structure and Photophysical Properties
Published in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (17-12-2020)“…The control of ligand-field splitting in iron (II) complexes is critical to slow down the metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT)-excited states deactivation…”
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Stability of the Guanine Endoperoxide Intermediate: A Computational Challenge for Density Functional Theory
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory (11-12-2014)“…The addition of singlet molecular oxygen 1O2 onto guanine is a most important and deleterious reaction in biological damage. We assess the efficiency of…”
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Photophysical Properties of Ruthenium(II) Polypyridyl DNA Intercalators: Effects of the Molecular Surroundings Investigated by Theory
Published in Chemistry : a European journal (26-09-2014)“…The environmental effects on the structural and photophysical properties of [Ru(L)2(dppz)]2+ complexes (L=bpy=2,2′‐bipyridine, phen=1,10‐phenanthroline,…”
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Never Cared for What They Do: High Structural Stability of Guanine-Quadruplexes in the Presence of Strand-Break Damage
Published in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (19-05-2022)“…DNA integrity is an important factor that assures genome stability and, more generally, the viability of cells and organisms. In the presence of DNA damage,…”
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Novel Molecular-Dynamics-Based Protocols for Phase Space Sampling in Complex Systems
Published in Frontiers in chemistry (17-10-2018)“…The adequate exploration of the phase space of a chromophore is a fundamental necessity for the simulation of their optical and photophysical properties,…”
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Hydrogen abstraction by photoexcited benzophenone: consequences for DNA photosensitization
Published in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP (21-03-2016)“…We report a computational investigation of the hydrogen abstraction (H-abstraction) induced by triplet benzophenone ((3)BP) on thymine nucleobase and backbone…”
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Accurate Estimation of the Standard Binding Free Energy of Netropsin with DNA
Published in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (25-01-2018)“…DNA is the target of chemical compounds (drugs, pollutants, photosensitizers, etc.), which bind through non-covalent interactions. Depending on their structure…”
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Ibuprofen and ketoprofen potentiate UVA-induced cell death by a photosensitization process
Published in Scientific reports (21-08-2017)“…Nonsteroidal 2-arylproprionic acids are widely used, over-the-counter, anti-inflammatory drugs. Photosensitivity is a commonly overlooked adverse effect of…”
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Environmentally sensitive fluorescence of the topical retinoid adapalene
Published in Frontiers in chemistry (08-07-2024)“…Intrinsic fluorescence of drugs brings valuable information on their localization in the organism and their interaction with key biomolecules. In this work, we…”
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