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  1. Nanovesicles and Human Skin Interaction: A Comparative Ex-Vivo Study

    Article • Nanomaterials, June 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  2. FLIM-Phasor Analysis (FLIM-ϕ) of Aβ-Induced Membrane Order Alterations: Towards a Cell-Based Biosensor for Early Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis

    Article • Micromachines, February 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  3. Gossypin-Loaded Ethosome Gel for Cutaneous Administration: A Preliminary Study on Melanoma Cells

    Article • Antioxidants, February 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  4. Saponins Effect on Human Insulin Amyloid Aggregation

    Article • Biomolecules, December 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  5. Hop leaves: From waste to a valuable source of bioactive compounds – A multidisciplinary approach to investigating potential applications

    Article • Heliyon, September 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  6. Core–Shell Nanogels With Raspberry Architecture and Amine Loading in the Core via Precipitation Polymerization: A Mechanistic Study

    Article • Macromolecules, June 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  7. A study of cyanidin/alginate complexation: Influence of pH in assembly and chiral properties

    Article • Carbohydrate Polymers, September 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  8. Assembly and recognition mechanisms of glycosylated PEGylated polyallylamine phosphate nanoparticles: A fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and small angle X-ray scattering study

    Article • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, September 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  9. Integrative effects of morphology, silicification, and light on diatom vertical movements

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, March 2023, Frontiers

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  10. Effects of model membranes on lysozyme amyloid aggregation

    Article • BioMolecular Concepts, January 2023, De Gruyter

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  11. Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Reveals the Nanostructure of Liposomes with Embedded OprF Porins of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Article • Langmuir, December 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  12. Impact of PEGylation on the degradation and pore organization in mesoporous silica nanoparticles: A study of the inner mesoporous structure in physiologically relevant ionic conditions

    Article • Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces, November 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  13. Investigation on a MMACHC mutant from cblC disease: The c.394C>T variant

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics, June 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  14. Taurine Stabilizing Effect on Lysozyme

    Article • Life, January 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  15. SAXS Reveals the Stabilization Effects of Modified Sugars on Model Proteins

    Article • Life, January 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  16. An N-terminal half fragment of the histidine phosphocarrier protein, HPr, is disordered but binds to HPr partners and shows antibacterial properties

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects, December 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  17. Novel Core–Shell Polyamine Phosphate Nanoparticles Self‐Assembled from PEGylated Poly(allylamine hydrochloride) with Low Toxicity and Increased In Vivo Circulation Time

    Article • Small, July 2021, Wiley

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  18. The dimer-monomer equilibrium of SARS-CoV-2 main protease is affected by small molecule inhibitors

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Antonio Palumbo Piccionello, Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  19. The Histidine Phosphocarrier Kinase/Phosphorylase from Bacillus Subtilis Is an Oligomer in Solution with a High Thermal Stability

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, March 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  20. Comprehensive Structural and Thermodynamic Analysis of Prefibrillar WT α-Synuclein and Its G51D, E46K, and A53T Mutants by a Combination of Small-Angle X-ray Scattering and Variational Bayesian Weighting

    Article • Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, August 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  21. Gelling without Structuring: A SAXS Study of the Interactions among DNA Nanostars

    Article • Langmuir, August 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  22. Trehalose Effect on The Aggregation of Model Proteins into Amyloid Fibrils

    Article • Life, May 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  23. Dynamics of the intrinsically disordered inhibitor IF7 of glutamine synthetase in isolation and in complex with its partner

    Article • Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, April 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  24. K+ vs. Na+ Effects on the Self-Assembly of Guanosine 5′-Monophosphate: A Solution SAXS Structural Study

    Article • Nanomaterials, March 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  25. Biophysical Characterization of Membrane Phase Transition Profiles for the Discrimination of Outer Membrane Vesicles (OMVs) From Escherichia coli Grown at Different Temperatures

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, February 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  26. Metallo-responsive self-assembly of lipophilic guanines in hydrocarbon solvents: a systematic SAXS structural characterization

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  27. Self-assembly of poly(allylamine)/siRNA nanoparticles, their intracellular fate and siRNA delivery

    Article • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, December 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore, Dr Damien Dupin

  28. Inhibition of Aβ1–42 Fibrillation by Chaperonins: Human Hsp60 Is a Stronger Inhibitor than Its Bacterial Homologue GroEL

    Article • ACS Chemical Neuroscience, July 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  29. Dynamics of the intrinsically disordered protein NUPR1 in isolation and in its fuzzy complexes with DNA and prothymosin α

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics, July 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  30. Mechanistic study of the nucleation and conformational changes of polyamines in presence of phosphate ions

    Article • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, May 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  31. Amyloid β-Peptide Interaction with Membranes: Can Chaperones Change the Fate?

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, January 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  32. Multimodal-3D imaging based on μMRI and μCT techniques bridges the gap with histology in visualization of the bone regeneration process

    Article • Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, October 2017, Wiley

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  33. High-Pressure-Driven Reversible Dissociation of α -Synuclein Fibrils Reveals Structural Hierarchy

    Article • Biophysical Journal, October 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  34. Investigation on different chemical stability of mitochondrial Hsp60 and its precursor

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, October 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  35. Pressure effects on α -synuclein amyloid fibrils: An experimental investigation on their dissociation and reversible nature

    Article • Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, August 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  36. Curcumin-like compounds designed to modify amyloid beta peptide aggregation patterns

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Antonio Palumbo Piccionello, Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  37. Protein Amyloidogenesis Investigated by Small Angle Scattering

    Article • Current Pharmaceutical Design, August 2016, Bentham Science Publishers

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  38. Proteins in binary solvents

    Article • Biophysical Reviews, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  39. Association of DNA-Stabilized Carbon Nanotubes and Cationic Surfactants: Ionic Strength and Chain Length Effects

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, January 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  40. Stability and disassembly properties of human naïve Hsp60 and bacterial GroEL chaperonins

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  41. Amyloid β-peptide insertion in liposomes containing GM1-cholesterol domains

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  42. Entrapment and characterization of functional allosteric conformers of hemocyanin in sol–gel matrices

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  43. Temperature-induced self-assembly of degalactosylated xyloglucan at low concentration

    Article • Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics, September 2015, Wiley

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  44. Structural and Thermodynamic Properties of Septin 3 Investigated by Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering

    Article • Biophysical Journal, June 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  45. Photo-inhibition of Aβ fibrillation mediated by a newly designed fluorinated oxadiazole

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Antonio Palumbo Piccionello, Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  46. Quaternary structures of GroEL and naïve-Hsp60 chaperonins in solution: a combined SAXS-MD study

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Antonio Palumbo Piccionello, Dr Maria Grazia Ortore, Professor Giampaolo Barone

  47. Human Hsp60 with Its Mitochondrial Import Signal Occurs in Solution as Heptamers and Tetradecamers Remarkably Stable over a Wide Range of Concentrations

    Article • PLOS One, May 2014, PLOS

    Antonio Palumbo Piccionello, Dr Gabriella Pocsfalvi, Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  48. GENFIT: software for the analysis of small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering data of macromolecules in solution

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, May 2014, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  49. The impact of high hydrostatic pressure on structure and dynamics of β-lactoglobulin

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  50. Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Study of Self-Assembling Lipophilic Guanines in Organic Solvents: G-Quadruplex Formation and Cation Effects in Cyclohexane

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, January 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  51. The DODAB–AOT–water system: vesicle formation and interactions with salts or synthetic polyelectrolytes

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Camillo A. La Mesa, Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  52. Preferential solvation of lysozyme in water/ethanol mixtures

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, December 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  53. Time-resolved small-angle x-ray scattering study of the early stage of amyloid formation of an apomyoglobin mutant

    Article • Physical Review E, December 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  54. How soft are biological helices? A measure of axial and lateral force constants in folate quadruplexes by high-pressure X-ray diffraction

    Article • European Biophysics Journal, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  55. Time-Resolved Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering Study of the Early Formation of Amyloid Protofibrils on a Apomyoglobin Mutant

    Article • Biophysical Journal, February 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  56. Multi- to Unilamellar Transitions in Catanionic Vesicles

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, June 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  57. Analysis of porosity in NiTi SMA's changed by secondary pulse electric current treatment by means of ultra small angle scattering and micro-computed tomography

    Article • Intermetallics, May 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  58. The Importance of Protein-Protein Interactions on the pH-Induced Conformational Changes of Bovine Serum Albumin: A Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering Study

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  59. The Importance of Protein-Protein Interactions on the pH-Induced Conformational Changes of Bovine Serum Albumin: A Small Angle X-Ray Scattering Study

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  60. Guanosine Quadruplexes in Solution: A Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering Analysis of Temperature Effects on Self-Assembling of Deoxyguanosine Monophosphate

    Article • Journal of Nucleic Acids, January 2010, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  61. Combining structure and dynamics: non-denaturing high-pressure effect on lysozyme in solution

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, July 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  62. Looking for the best experimental conditions to detail the protein solvation shell in a binary aqueous solvent via small angle scattering

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, June 2009, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  63. New Insights into Urea Action on Proteins: A SANS Study of the Lysozyme Case

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, October 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  64. Microcalorimetric study of thermal unfolding of lysozyme in water/glycerol mixtures: An analysis by solvent exchange model

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, July 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  65. Grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering from alkaline phosphatase immobilized in atmospheric plasmapolymer coatings

    Article • Applied Surface Science, June 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  66. SANS/SAXS study of the BSA solvation properties in aqueous urea solutions via a global fit approach

    Article • European Biophysics Journal, March 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  67. Surface engineering techniques used for improving the mechanical and tribological properties of the Ti6A14V alloy

    Article • Surface and Coatings Technology, February 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  68. Preferential hydration of lysozyme in water/glycerol mixtures: A small-angle neutron scattering study

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, June 2007, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore, Henrich Frielinghaus

  69. High pressure small-angle neutron scattering study of the aggregation state of β-lactoglobulin in water and in water/ethylene-glycol solutions

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, February 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  70. Ribosomes Deprived of Select Proteins Show Similar Structural Alterations Induced by Thermal Treatment of Native Particles

    Article • Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics, January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  71. Biophysical study of a molecular intermediate preceding collapse of tight couple and Kaltschmidt-Wittmann ribosomes

    Article • FEBS Letters, July 2002, Wiley

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore