Search Results - "Bortolini, Christian"
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Cystine oligomers successfully attached to peptide cysteine-rich fibrils
Published in Frontiers of chemical science and engineering (01-03-2016)“…Amyloid peptides are renowned to be related to neurodegenerative diseases, however, a fruitful avenue is to employ them as high-performance nanomaterials…”
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Nanoliposomes containing Eucalyptus citriodora as antibiotic with specific antimicrobial activity
Published in Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (14-02-2015)“…Bacterial infections are a serious issue for public health and represent one of the major challenges of modern medicine. In this work, a selective…”
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Nanostructural Differentiation and Toxicity of Amyloid-β25-35 Aggregates Ensue from Distinct Secondary Conformation
Published in Scientific reports (15-01-2018)“…Amyloid nanostructures are originated from protein misfolding and aberrant aggregation, which is associated with the pathogenesis of many types of degenerative…”
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Light-driven porphyrin modulating fibrillation of hIAPP20–29 peptide
Published in Journal of colloid and interface science (01-06-2017)“…[Display omitted] The human Islet amyloid polypeptide (20–29) (hIAPP20–29) is considered to be the core fibrillating fragment of hIAPP, which is associated…”
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Light-driven porphyrin modulating fibrillation of hIAPP(20-29) peptide
Published in Journal of colloid and interface science (01-06-2017)“…The human Islet amyloid polypeptide (20-29) (hIAPP ) is considered to be the core fibrillating fragment of hIAPP, which is associated with the pathogenesis of…”
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Complement-mediated killing of Escherichia coli by mechanical destabilization of the cell envelope
Published in The EMBO journal (14-10-2024)“…Complement proteins eliminate Gram-negative bacteria in the blood via the formation of membrane attack complex (MAC) pores in the outer membrane. However, it…”
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Phase separation in the outer membrane of Escherichia coli
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (02-11-2021)“…Gram-negative bacteria are surrounded by a protective outer membrane (OM) with phospholipids in its inner leaflet and lipopolysaccharides (LPS) in its outer…”
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Thermal effect on the degradation of hIAPP20–29 fibrils
Published in Journal of colloid and interface science (01-03-2018)“…[Display omitted] Uncontrolled misfolding of proteins resulting in the formation of amyloid deposits is associated with over 40 types of diseases, for…”
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Rapid Growth of Acetylated Aβ(16–20) into Macroscopic Crystals
Published in ACS nano (26-06-2018)“…Aberrant assembly of the amyloid-β (Aβ) is responsible for the development of Alzheimer’s disease, but can also be exploited to obtain highly functional…”
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Facile surface functionalization of multiwalled carbon nanotubes by soft dielectric barrier discharge plasma: Generate compatible interface for lipase immobilization
Published in Biochemical engineering journal (15-09-2014)“…•MWCNTs was surface-functionalized by simple, easy and fast DBD plasma treatment.•The functionalized molecular species were confirmed by FTIR and XPS…”
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A self-assembled nanopatch with peptide-organic multilayers and mechanical properties
Published in Nanoscale (14-02-2015)“…Peptides enable the construction of a diversity of one-dimensional (1D) and zero-dimensional (0D) nanostructures by molecular self-assembly. To date, it is a…”
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The position of hydrophobic residues tunes peptide self-assembly
Published in Soft matter (21-08-2014)“…The final structure and properties of synthetic peptides mainly depend on their sequence composition and experimental conditions. This work demonstrates that a…”
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Thermal effect on the degradation of hIAPP 20-29 fibrils
Published in Journal of colloid and interface science (01-03-2018)“…Uncontrolled misfolding of proteins resulting in the formation of amyloid deposits is associated with over 40 types of diseases, for instance, type-2 diabetes…”
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Identification of Cysteine‐Rich Peptide‐Fiber by Specific Cysteine‐Au Nanoparticles Binding on Fiber Surface
Published in Advanced materials interfaces (01-12-2014)“…Amyloid‐like cysteine‐rich peptide fibers are investigated by AFM, SR‐CD, TEM, Cryo‐EM, SR‐XPS and through gold‐nanoparticle binding fibers. The positions of…”
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Exciton Coupling of Phenylalanine Reveals Conformational Changes of Cationic Peptides
Published in ChemistrySelect (Weinheim) (13-03-2017)“…Circular dichroism (CD) is a versatile tool to investigate the secondary structure of proteins. Conventionally, CD signals in the far‐UV region are primarily…”
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Peptide‐Fibers: Identification of Cysteine‐Rich Peptide‐Fiber by Specific Cysteine‐Au Nanoparticles Binding on Fiber Surface (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 9/2014)
Published in Advanced materials interfaces (01-12-2014)“…Generally, it is very difficult to detect the precise location of specific amino acids in a 3D self‐assembled structure. F. Besenbacher, M. Dong, and…”
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