Recent publications

2014

• D. Giacomazza, M.A. Sabatino, A. Catena, M. Leone, P.L. San Biagio, C. Dispenza, Carbohydrate Polymers, 114 (2014), 141–148: "Maltose-conjugated chitosans induce macroscopic gelation of pectin solutions at neutral pH"
• van Maarschalkerweerd A., Vetri V., Langkilde AE, Foderà V. and Vestergaard B, Biomacromolecules, 15 (2014), 3643–3654: " Protein:lipid co-aggregates are formed during a-synuclein-induced disruption of lipid bilayers"
• Foderà V., Vetri V., Wind T.S., Noppe W., Cornett C., Donald A.M., Morozova-Roche L., Vestergaard B., Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 5 (2014), 3254–3258: " Observation of the Early Structural Changes Leading to the Formation of Protein Superstructures"
• Masullo, T, Puccio, R, Di Pierro, M, Tagliavia, M., Censi, P., Vetri, V., Militello, V., Cuttitta, A., Colombo, P, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 172 (2014), 2175–2187: " Development of a biosensor for copper detection in aqueous solutions using an Anemonia sulcata recombinant GFP"
• I. Lundholm, W. Y. Wahlgren, F. Piccirilli, P. Di Pietro, A. Duelli, O. Berntsson, S. Lupi, A. Perucchi, G. Katona, RSC Advance, 4 (2014), 25502-25509: "Terahertz absorption of illuminated photosynthetic reaction center solution: a signature of photoactivation?"
• G. Navarra, A. Tinti, M. Di Foggia, M. Leone, V. Militello, A. Torreggiani A., J. Inorg. Biochem., 137 (2014), 64–73: " Metal ions modulate thermal aggregation of beta-lactoglobulin: A join chemical and physical characterisation. "
• Jennifer Baraka-Vidot, Giovanna Navarra, Maurizio Leone, Emmanuel Bourdon, Valeria Militello, Philippe Rondeau, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects, 1840 (2014), 1712–1724: " Deciphering metal-induced oxidative damages on glycated albumin structure and function"
• Giorgio Schirò, Valeria Vetri, Christian Beyschau Andersen, Francesca Natali, Michael Marek Koza, Maurizio Leone, and Antonio Cupane, J. Physical Chemistry B, 118 (2014), 2913–2923: "The Boson Peak of Amyloid Fibrils: Probing the Softness of Protein Aggregates by Inelastic Neutron Scattering"
• Giuseppe Sancataldo, Valeria Vetri, Vito Foderà, Gianluca Di Cara, Valeria Militello, Maurizio Leone, PLOSone, 9 (2014), e84552: "Oxidation Enhances Human Serum Albumin Thermal Stability and Changes the Routes of Amyloid Fibril Formation"

2013

• F. Piccirilli, S. Mangialardo, P. Postorino, S. Lupi, A. Perucchi, Journal of Molecular Structure, 1050 (2013), 159-165: " FTIR analysis of the high pressure response of native insulin assemblies"
• Michele D'Amico, Giorgio Schirò, Antonio Cupane, Laura D'Alfonso, Maurizio Leone, Valeria Militello, Valeria Vetri, Langmuir, 29 (2013), 10238 – 10246: "High Fluorescence of Thioflavin T Confined in Mesoporous Silica Xerogels"
• Valeria Vetri, Maurizio Leone, Ludmilla A. Morozova-Roche, Bente Vestergaard, Vito Foderà, PLOSone, 8 (2013), e68912-1 – e68912-11: "Unlocked Concanavalin A Forms Amyloid-like Fibrils from Coagulation of Long-lived “Crinkled” Intermediates"
• L. Nuccio, M. Willis, L. Schulz, S. Fratini, F. Messina, M. D’Amico et al, Phys. Rev Letters, 110 (2013), 216602-1 – 216602-5: "Importance of Spin-Orbit Interaction for the Electron Spin Relaxation in Organic Semiconductors "
• G. Navarra, F. Troia, V. Militello and M. Leone, Biophysical Chemistry, 177-178 (2013), 24 – 33: "Characterization of the nucleation process of lysozyme at physiological pH: Primary but not sole process"

2012

• Federica Piccirilli, Sara Mangialardo, Paolo Postorino, Leonetta Baldassarre, Stefano Lupi and Andrea Perucchi, Soft Matter, 8 (2012), 11863–11870: "Sequential dissociation of insulin amyloids probed by high pressure Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy"
• Michele D'Amico, Maria Giovanna Di Carlo, Minna Groenning, Valeria Militello, Valeria Vetri and Maurizio Leone, J. Phys. Chem. Letters, 3 (2012), 1596–1601: "Thioflavin T Promotes Aß(1-40) Amyloid Fibrils Formation"
• Giorgio Schirò‡, Valeria Vetri‡, Bernhard Frick, Valeria Militello, Maurizio Leone and Antonio Cupane,
  J. Phys. Chem. Letters, 3 (2012), 992–996: "Neutron Scattering Reveals Enhanced Protein Dynamics in Concanavalin A Amyloid Fibrils"
• Mariaelena Ricca, Vito Foderà, Valeria Vetri, Gianpiero Buscarino, Maria Montalbano and Maurizio Leone, Journal of Food Science, 77 (2012), C1084–C1089: "Oxidation Processes in Sicilian Olive Oils Investigated by a Combination of Optical and EPR Spectroscopy"

2011

• S. Agnello, M. Cannas, L. Vaccaro, G. Vaccaro, F. M. Gelardi, M. Leone, V. Militello, R. Boscaino , J. Phys. Chem. C, 115 (2011), 12831–12835: "Near-Infrared Emission of O2 Embedded in Amorphous SiO2 Nanoparticles"
• Picone P., Giacomazza D., Vetri V., Carrotta R., Militello V., San Biagio P. L., Di Carlo M., Aging Cell, 10 (2011), 832–843: "Insulin activated Akt rescues Aß oxidative stress-induced cell death by orchestrating molecular trafficking" 13/01/2012 "La Stampa"
• Carrotta R., Vetri V., Librizzi F., Martorana V., Militello V., Leone M. , Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 115 (2011), 2691–2698: "Amyloid Fibrils Formation of Concanavalin A at Basic pH"
• D'Amico M., Raccosta S., Cannas M., Martorana V., Manno M. , Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 115 (2011), 4078–4087: "The Existence of Metastable Intermediate Lysozyme Conformation Highlights the Role of Alcohols in Altering Protein Stability"
• V. Vetri, M. D'Amico, V. Foderà, M. Leone, A. Ponzoni, G. Sberveglieri, V. Militello, Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 508 (2011), 13-24: "Bovine Serum Albumin protofibril-like aggregates formation: Solo but not simple mechanism"
• V. Vetri, G. Ossato, V. Militello, M. A. Digman, M. Leone and E. Gratton, Biophysical Journal 100 (2011) 774-783: "Fluctuation Methods To Study Protein Aggregation in Live Cells: Concanavalin A Oligomers Formation "
• V. Foderà, F. Librizzi, V. Militello, G. Navarra, V. Vetri and M. Leone, "Nucleation Mechanisms and Morphologies in Insulin Amyloid Fibril Formation " in Protein Aggregation (2011), Ed. D. A. Stein, Series: Protein Science and Engineering Microbiology Research Advances, Nova Science Publishers
• P. Rondeau, G. Navarra, V. Militello, E. Bourdon "On the Aggregation of Albumin: Influences of the Protein Glycation" in Protein Aggregation (2011), Ed. D. A. Stein, Series: Protein Science and Engineering Microbiology Research Advances, Nova Science Publishers
• G. Navarra, M. Cannas, M. D'Amico, D. Giacomazza, V. Militello, L. Vaccaro, M. Leone , Food Chemistry, 126 (2011), 1226–1231: "Thermal oxidative process in extra virgin olive oils studied by FTIR, rheology and time-resolved luminescence"
• C. Lo Presti, V. Vetri, M. Ricca, V. Foderà, G. Tripodo, G. Spadaro, C. Dispenza, Reactive and Functional Polymers, 71 (2011), 155–167: "Pulsatile protein release and protection using radiation-crosslinked polypeptide hydrogel delivery devices"

2010

• Tripodo C., Gri G., Piccaluga P. P., Frossi B., Guarnotta C., Piconese S., Franco G., Vetri V., Pucillo C. E., Florena A. M., Colombo M. P., Pileri S. A., American Journal of Pathology, 177 (2010), 792–802: "Mast cells and Th17 cells contribute to the lymphoma-associated pro-inflammatory microenvironment of angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma"
• Ricca M., Foderà V., Giacomazza D., Leone M., Spadaro G. and Dispenza C. , Colloid. Polym. Sci., 288 (2010), 969–980: "Probing the internal environment of PVP networks generated by irradiation with different sources"
• Andersen C.B., Hicks M.R., Vetri V., Vandahl B., Rahbek-Nielsen H., Thøgersen H., Thøgersen I.B., Enghild J.J., Serpell L.C., Rischel C., Otzen D.E., J. Mol. Biol. 397 (2010) 932-946: "Glucagon fibril polymorphism reflects differences in protofilament backbone structure."
• V. Vetri, R. Carrotta, P. Picone, M. Di Carlo and V. Militello, Biochim. Biophys. Acta – Protein & Proteomics 1804 (2010) 173-183: "Concanavalin A aggregation and toxicity on cell cultures"
• P. Rondeau, G. Navarra, F. Cacciabaudo, M. Leone, E. Bourdon, V. Militello, Biochim. Biophys. Acta – Protein & Proteomics 1804 (2010) 789-798: "Thermal aggregation of glycated Bovine Serum Albumin."

2009

• V. Vetri, G. Ossato, V. Militello, M. A. Digman, M. Leone and E. Gratton, Eur. Biophys. J. 38 (2009) Suppl. 1, S137: "Oligomerization of Concanavalin A in live cells detected by fluctuation analysis "
• V. Vetri, G. Ossato, V. Militello, M. A. Digman, M. Leone and E. Gratton, Biophysical Journal 96 (3) Supplement 1, (2009) 88a: "Detecting Protein Aggregation on Cells Surface: Concanavalin A Oligomers Formation "
• S. Raccosta, M. Manno, D. Bulone, D. Giacomazza, V. Militello, V. Martorana and P.L. San Biagio, European Biophys J. 39 (2009) 1007-1017: "Irreversible gelation of thermally unfolded proteins: Structural and mechanical properties of lysozyme aggregates"
• G. Navarra, D. Giacomazza, M. Leone, F. Librizzi, V. Militello and P.L. San Biagio Eur. Biophys. J. 38, (2009) 437-446: "Thermal aggregation and ion-induced cold-gelation of Bovine Serum Albumin"
• G. Navarra, A. Tinti, M. Leone, V. Militello, A. Torreggiani, J. Inorg. Biochem. 103 (2009) 1729-1738: "Influence of metal ions on thermal aggregation of bovine serum albumin: Aggregation kinetics and structural changes"
• Foderà V., Cataldo S., Librizzi F., Pignataro B., Spiccia P., Leone M. , Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 113 (2009), 10830–10837: "Self-organization pathways and spatial heterogeneity in insulin amyloid fibrils formation"
• D’Amico M., Messina F., Cannas M., Leone M., Boscaino R., Journal of Physics C: Condensed Matter 21 (2009) 115803-1/7: "Photoluminescence spectral dispersion as a probe of structural inhomogeneity in silica"
• D’Amico M., Messina F., Cannas M., Leone M., Boscaino R. , Physical Review B 79 (2009) 064203-1/8: "Inhomogeneous width of oxygen deficient centers induced by electron irradiation of silica"
• Navarra G, Vella E, Grandi S, Leone M and Boscaino R, J Non-Cryst Solids 355 (2009) 1028–1033: "Temperature effects on the IR absorption bands of hydroxyl and deuteroxyl groups in silica glass"

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PhD Theses

• A. Cannizzo, PhD Thesis (2006): “Optical properties of point defects in silica: Role of the local dynamics of the host matrix”
• V. Vetri, PhD Thesis (2007): “Conformational changes involved in protein aggregation”
• G. Navarra, PhD Thesis (2007): “Effects of Metal Ions on Aggregation Processes of Whey Proteins”
• V. Foderà, PhD Thesis (2009): “Insulin Fibril Formation: Growth Mechanisms and Fiber Morphologies”
• M. D'Amico, PhD Thesis (2009): “Conformational heterogeneity in silica: homogeneous and inhomogeneous linewidths of Oxygen Deficient Centres”
• S. Raccosta, PhD Thesis (2011): “Intermolecular interactions in metastable protein solutions”

Master Theses

• G. Di Carlo, Master Thesis (2011): “Meccanismi di aggregazione del peptide beta amiloide 1-40” (Aggregation mechanisms of 1-40 beta amyloid peptide)

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