A review of the strategies for obtaining high-quality crystals utilizing nanotechnologies and microgravity

E Pechkova, NL Bragazzi… - Critical Reviews™ in …, 2014 - dl.begellhouse.com
Crystallization is a highly demanding and time-consuming task that causes a real bottle-
neck in basic research. Great effort has been made to understand the factors and …

Advances in nanocrystallography as a proteomic tool

E Pechkova, NL Bragazzi, C Nicolini - Advances in Protein Chemistry and …, 2014 - Elsevier
In order to overcome the difficulties and hurdles too much often encountered in crystallizing
a protein with the conventional techniques, our group has introduced the innovative …

Langmuir–Blodgett nanotemplates for protein crystallography

E Pechkova, C Nicolini - Nature Protocols, 2017 - nature.com
The new generation of synchrotrons and microfocused beamlines has enabled great
progress in X-ray protein crystallography, resulting in new 3D atomic structures for proteins …

Stability of J-aggregated species in an indocarbocyanine dye in Langmuir–Blodgett Films

P Debnath, S Chakraborty, S Deb, J Nath, B Dey… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Here, the stability behaviour of J-aggregate of an indocarbocyanine dye 1, 1′-Dioctadecyl-
3, 3, 3′, 3′-Tetramethylindocarbocynine perchlorate (DiI) in fatty acid mixed (X DiI= 0.4) …

[HTML][HTML] Determination of protein-protein interaction for cancer control via mass spectrometry and nanoconductimetry of nappa snap arrays: an overview

C Nicolini, NL Bragazzi, E Pechkova - NanoWorld Journal, 2015 - jnanoworld.com
Background: Protein-protein interactions play a major role in Cancer Control and their
detailed understanding by Label-Free Nanotechnology is essential especially within the …

Ab Initio Semi-Quantitative Analysis of Micro-Beam Grazing-Incidence Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering (Μ-GISAXS) during Protein Crystal Nucleation and Growth

C Nicolini, NL Bragazzi, E Pechkova… - Journal of Proteomics …, 2014 - hal.science
Micro-beam Grazing-Incidence Small-Angle X-ray scattering (μ-GISAXS), exploiting both the
advantages of elastic X-ray scattering and the highly focused third-generation synchrotron …

[PDF][PDF] In situ monitoring by raman spectroscopy of lysozyme conformation during “nanotemplate” induced crystallization

C Nicolini, L Belmonte, G Maksimov… - J Microb Biochem …, 2013 - academia.edu
Using Raman spectroscopy and lysozyme, this latter as model protein, we investigate the
differences in protein conformation before and after LB nanotemplate-induced crystal …

Langmuir-Blodgett (LB)-based Nanobiocrystallography at the Frontiers of Cancer Proteomics

E Pechkova, NL Bragazzi, S Fiordoro… - Anticancer …, 2015 - ar.iiarjournals.org
Background/Aim: Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) films used as templates for crystallization lead to
marked changes in protein stability and water dehydration, despite slight changes in protein …

[PDF][PDF] Stability and Radiation Damage of Protein Crystals as Studied by Means of Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulation

PS Orekhov, ME Bozdaganyan, E Pechkova, C Nicolini - NanoWorld J, 2017 - core.ac.uk
Abstract Molecular Dynamics (MD) and Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of crystals can help in
interpretation of experimental X-ray crystallography data. Particularly, they can be useful for …

Nanogenomics and Nanoproteomics Enabling Personalized, Predictive and Preventive Medicine

NL Bragazzi - 2014 - archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de
Since the discovery of the nucleic acid, molecular biology has made tremendous
progresses, achieving a lot of results. Despite this, there is still a gap between the classical …