Search Results - "Trotta, Massimo"
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Highly oriented photosynthetic reaction centers generate a proton gradient in synthetic protocells
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (11-04-2017)“…Photosynthesis is responsible for the photochemical conversion of light into the chemical energy that fuels the planet Earth. The photochemical core of this…”
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Chromatophores efficiently promote light-driven ATP synthesis and DNA transcription inside hybrid multicompartment artificial cells
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (16-02-2021)“…The construction of energetically autonomous artificial protocells is one of the most ambitious goals in bottom-up synthetic biology. Here, we show an…”
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Introducing Protein Crystallization in Hydrated Deep Eutectic Solvents
Published in ACS sustainable chemistry & engineering (28-06-2021)“…Supramolecular structure and properties of deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are known to be highly affected by the addition of water, and their use as solvents…”
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Evolutionary engineering and molecular characterization of cobalt-resistant Rhodobacter sphaeroides
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (27-06-2024)“…With its versatile metabolism including aerobic and anaerobic respiration, photosynthesis, photo-fermentation and nitrogen fixation, can adapt to diverse…”
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Chlorophylls as Molecular Semiconductors: Introduction and State of Art
Published in Advanced materials technologies (01-02-2022)“…Chlorophylls (Chls) and their derivatives are the most common pigments used for light absorption, energy transfer, and charge separation in photosynthetic…”
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A highly efficient heptamethine cyanine antenna for photosynthetic Reaction Center: From chemical design to ultrafast energy transfer investigation of the hybrid system
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta. Bioenergetics (01-04-2019)“…The photosynthetic Reaction Center (RC) from the purple bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides has unique photoconversion capabilities, that can be exploited in…”
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Synthetic Antenna Functioning As Light Harvester in the Whole Visible Region for Enhanced Hybrid Photosynthetic Reaction Centers
Published in Bioconjugate chemistry (20-07-2016)“…The photosynthetic reaction center (RC) from the Rhodobacter sphaeroides bacterium has been covalently bioconjugated with a NIR-emitting fluorophore (AE800)…”
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Enhancing the Light Harvesting Capability of a Photosynthetic Reaction Center by a Tailored Molecular Fluorophore
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (29-10-2012)“…Light machine: The simplest photosynthetic protein able to convert sunlight into other energy forms is covalently functionalized with a tailored organic dye to…”
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Photobioelectrocatalysis of Intact Photosynthetic Bacteria Exposed to Dinitrophenol
Published in ChemElectroChem (14-06-2023)“…The outstanding metabolic versatility of purple non‐sulphur bacteria makes these organisms an ideal candidate for developing photobioelectrochemical systems…”
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Photobioelectrocatalysis of Intact Photosynthetic Bacteria Exposed to Dinitrophenol
Published in ChemElectroChem (14-06-2023)“…Invited for this issue's Front Cover is the international collaborative team with researchers from Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro” (Italy), São…”
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reaction center is the sensitive target of the mercury(II) ion in intact cells of photosynthetic bacteria
Published in Photosynthesis research (01-06-2012)“…The sensitivity of intact cells of purple photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides wild type to low level (<100 μM) of mercury (Hg2+) contamination was…”
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Charge Recombination Kinetics of Bacterial Photosynthetic Reaction Centres Reconstituted in Liposomes: Deterministic Versus Stochastic Approach
Published in Data (Basel) (01-06-2020)“…In this theoretical work, we analyse the kinetics of charge recombination reaction after a light excitation of the Reaction Centres extracted from the…”
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A Biological-Based Photovoltaic Electrochemical Cell: Modelling the Impedance Spectra
Published in Chemosensors (01-03-2020)“…The impedance response of an electrochemical cell able to convert sunlight into electrical power is analyzed and discussed. Light conversion is due to a…”
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Draft Genome Sequences of Three Novel Staphylococcus arlettae Strains Isolated from a Disused Biological Safety Cabinet
Published in Microbiology resource announcements (04-10-2018)“…The genome sequences of three new strains of Staphylococcus arlettae named Bari1, Bari2, and Bari3 are presented. The strains exhibited tolerance to hexavalent…”
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Protein/Lipid Interaction in the Bacterial Photosynthetic Reaction Center: Phosphatidylcholine and Phosphatidylglycerol Modify the Free Energy Levels of the Quinones
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (12-10-2004)“…The role of characteristic phospholipids of native membranes, phosphatidylcholine (PC), phosphatidylglycerol (PG), and cardiolipin (CL), was studied in the…”
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Chlorophyll a Behavior in Aqueous Solvents: Formation of Nanoscale Self-Assembled Complexes
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. B (12-12-2002)“…In this paper, the Chlorophyll a aggregation behavior is investigated in relation to the nature of the organic solvent, the composition of aqueous mixtures…”
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Photonics and Optoelectronics with Bacteria: Making Materials from Photosynthetic Microorganisms
Published in Advanced functional materials (01-05-2019)“…A critical selection of the recent literature reports on the use of photosynthetic and photoresponsive bacteria as a source of materials for optoelectronics…”
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Unveiling the Influence of Hydrated Deep Eutectic Solvents on the Dynamics of Water–Soluble Proteins
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. B (27-07-2023)“…Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are mixtures of two or more pure compounds (e.g., Lewis or Brønsted acids and bases, anionic and/or cationic species) in a…”
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The periodic table of photosynthetic purple non-sulfur bacteria: intact cell-metal ions interactions
Published in Photochemical & photobiological sciences (01-01-2022)“…Photosynthetic purple non-sulfur bacteria (PNB) have been widely utilized as model organisms to study bacterial photosynthesis. More recently, the remarkable…”
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Supramolecular Biohybrid Construct for Photoconversion Based on a Bacterial Reaction Center Covalently Bound to Cytochrome c by an Organic Light Harvesting Bridge
Published in Bioconjugate chemistry (19-04-2023)“…A supramolecular construct for solar energy conversion is developed by covalently bridging the reaction center (RC) from the photosynthetic bacterium…”
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