Search Results - "Catalini, Sara"
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Hindered intermolecular stacking of anti-parallel telomeric G-quadruplexes
Published in The Journal of chemical physics (14-09-2024)“…Telomeric G-quadruplexes (G4s) are non-canonical DNA structures composed of TTAGGG repeats. They are extensively studied both as biomolecules key for genome…”
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Aqueous solvation of glutathione probed by UV resonance Raman spectroscopy
Published in Journal of molecular liquids (01-06-2019)“…The specific interactions of water molecules with the tripeptide glutathione are investigated by UV Resonance Raman spectroscopy taking advantage of its…”
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Rigid, Fibrillar Quaternary Structures Induced by Divalent Ions in a Carboxylated Linear Polysaccharide
Published in ACS macro letters (21-01-2020)“…Polysaccharides are ubiquitous in nature; they serve fundamental roles in vivo and are used for a multitude of food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic biomaterials, and…”
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Linear and Non-Linear Middle Infrared Spectra of Penicillin G in the CO Stretching Mode Region
Published in Symmetry (Basel) (01-01-2021)“…In this work we report the linear and non-linear IR spectral response characterization of the CO bonds of PenicillinG sodium salt in D2O and in DMSO−d6…”
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Hydrogen Bonding and Solvation of a Proline-Based Peptide Model in Salt Solutions
Published in Life (Basel, Switzerland) (12-08-2021)“…The hydrogen bonding of water and water/salt mixtures around the proline-based tripeptide model glycyl-l-prolyl-glycinamide·HCl (GPG-NH ) is investigated here…”
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Probing Globular Protein Self-Assembling Dynamics by Heterodyne Transient Grating Experiments
Published in Applied sciences (25-01-2019)“…In this work, we studied the propagation of ultrasonic waves of lysozyme solutions characterized by different degrees of aggregation and networking. The…”
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Multi-length scale structural investigation of lysozyme self-assembly
Published in iScience (15-07-2022)“…Reactive amyloid oligomers are responsible for cytotoxicity in amyloid pathologies and because of their unstable nature characterizing their behavior is a…”
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Probing Water State during Lipidic Mesophases Phase Transitions
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (22-11-2021)“…We investigate the static and dynamic states of water network during the phase transitions from double gyroid (Ia3‾d ) to double diamond (Pn3‾m ) bicontinuous…”
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Amyloidogenic and non-amyloidogenic molten globule conformation of β-lactoglobulin in self-crowded regime
Published in International journal of biological macromolecules (01-07-2023)“…Molecular insights on the β-lactoglobulin thermal unfolding and aggregation are derived from FTIR and UV Resonance Raman (UVRR) investigations. We propose an…”
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Operando UV Resonance Raman study of DNA-ionic liquids gels
Published in Journal of molecular liquids (15-03-2024)“…•Ionogels are formed by assembly of DNA in imidazolium-based Ionic Liquids.•In situ and operando UV Resonance Raman is used to investigate DNA…”
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Molecular mechanisms behind BRACO19 and human telomeric G-quadruplex interaction
Published in Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy (05-12-2024)“…Human telomeres (HTs) can form DNA G-quadruplex (G4), an attractive target for anticancer and antiviral drugs. HT-G4s exhibit inherent structural polymorphism,…”
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Amyloid Self-Assembly of Lysozyme in Self-Crowded Conditions: The Formation of a Protein Oligomer Hydrogel
Published in Biomacromolecules (08-03-2021)“…A method is designed to quickly form protein hydrogels, based on the self-assembly of highly concentrated lysozyme solutions in acidic conditions. Their…”
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Hard X-ray transient grating spectroscopy on bismuth germanate
Published in Nature photonics (01-07-2021)“…Optical-domain transient grating (TG) spectroscopy is a versatile background-free four-wave-mixing technique that is used to probe vibrational, magnetic and…”
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Structural specificity of groove binding mechanism between imidazolium-based ionic liquids and DNA revealed by synchrotron-UV Resonance Raman spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations
Published in Journal of molecular liquids (01-02-2022)“…•Binding interactions of double strand DNA with ionic liquids are investigated.•Synchrotron-UV Resonance Raman experiments and MD simulations are…”
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Base-specific pre-melting and melting transitions of DNA in presence of ionic liquids probed by synchrotron-based UV resonance Raman scattering
Published in Journal of molecular liquids (15-05-2021)“…Hydrated ionic liquids (ILs) have been identified as solvent media able to enhance the structural stability of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). In this work, we…”
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Probing Water State during Lipidic Mesophases Phase Transitions
Published in Angewandte Chemie (22-11-2021)“…We investigate the static and dynamic states of water network during the phase transitions from double gyroid (Ia3‾d ) to double diamond (Pn3‾m ) bicontinuous…”
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Multiple length-scale control of Boc-protected diphenylalanine aggregates through solvent composition
Published in Materials advances (07-05-2024)“…Diphenylalanine and its variants are among the most studied building blocks in materials science due to their ability to form extended architectures with a…”
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Author Correction: Hard X-ray transient grating spectroscopy on bismuth germanate
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BGO relaxation dynamics probed with heterodyne detected optical transient gratings
Published 05-09-2023“…We used optical laser pulses to create transient gratings (TGs) with sub-10 {\mu}m spatial periodicity in a Bismuth Germanate (310) (Bi4Ge3O12) single crystal…”
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Element- and enantiomer-selective visualization of ibuprofen dimer vibrations
Published 09-10-2020“…In chemistry, biology and materials science, the ability to access interatomic interactions and their dynamical evolution has become possible with the advent…”
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