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  1. Water Oxidation by a Nickel-Glycine Catalyst

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, July 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  2. Low Temperature Assembly of Functional 3D DNA-PNA-Protein Complexes

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, May 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  3. A Flexible Docking Scheme Efficiently Captures the Energetics of Glycan-Cyanovirin Binding

    Article • Biophysical Journal, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  4. Protein secondary-shell interactions enhance the photoinduced hydrogen production of cobalt protoporphyrin IX

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  5. De novo design of functional proteins: Toward artificial hydrogenases

    Article • Biopolymers, November 2013, Wiley

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  6. De Novo Design of an Artificial Bis[4Fe-4S] Binding Protein

    Article • Biochemistry, October 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  7. Cyclic N-Terminal Loop of Amylin Forms Non Amyloid Fibers

    Article • Biophysical Journal, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  8. The antiviral lectin cyanovirin-N: probing multivalency and glycan recognition through experimental and computational approaches

    Article • Biochemical Society Transactions, October 2013, Portland Press Ltd.

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  9. A recipe for ligand-binding proteins

    Article • Nature, September 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  10. PNA-Peptide Assembly in a 3D DNA Nanocage at Room Temperature

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, April 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  11. Membrane Proteins

    Article • January 2013

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  12. Deciphering the Protein Folding Code through Zipping Steps

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  13. Reengineering the Oligosaccharide Specificity of CVN with BP_Dock

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  14. Electrostatic Interactions Modulate the Structure and Dynamics of Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  15. Effect of Prolines on the Intrinsic Stiffness of Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Variants

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  16. Cyclic N Terminal Fragment of Amylin Forms Non Amyloid Fibers: Implications for Intra- and Inter-Molecular Interactions in Amylin

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  17. A multivalent HIV-1 fusion inhibitor based on small helical foldamers

    Article • Tetrahedron, June 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  18. Modulation of function in a minimalist heme-binding membrane protein

    Article • JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, February 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  19. Photo-induced hydrogen production in a helical peptide incorporating a [FeFe] hydrogenase active site mimic

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  20. Monitoring Dimerization of GpA using FRET

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  21. Effect of a Single-Point Mutation on the Conformation and Dynamics of Islet Amyloid Polypeptide from Nanosecond-Resolved Intramolecular Contact Formation

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  22. Transient Tertiary Contact Formation in the CGRP Neuropeptide Revealed by Nanosecond Laser Spectroscopy

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  23. Simultaneous Observation of Peptide Backbone Lipid Solvation and α‐Helical Structure by Deep‐UV Resonance Raman Spectroscopy

    Article • ChemBioChem, July 2011, Wiley

    Renee JiJi, jason cooley, Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  24. Design of membrane proteins: toward functional systems

    Article • Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, December 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  25. Catalysis by Peptide‐Based Enzyme Models

    Article • September 2009, Wiley

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  26. Multivalent interactions with gp120 are required for the anti‐HIV activity of Cyanovirin

    Article • Biopolymers, January 2009, Wiley

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  27. Old enzymes, new tricks

    Article • Nature, May 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  28. Modulation of protein stability by O-glycosylation in a designed Gc-MAF analog

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, May 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  29. Conformational gating of dimannose binding to the antiviral protein cyanovirin revealed from the crystal structure at 1.35 Å resolution

    Article • Protein Science, May 2008, Wiley

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  30. A Monovalent Mutant of Cyanovirin-N Provides Insight into the Role of Multiple Interactions with gp120 for Antiviral Activity,

    Article • Biochemistry, July 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  31. Design of a Functional Membrane Protein by Engineering a Heme-Binding Site in Glycophorin A

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, December 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  32. A Designed Glycoprotein Analogue of Gc-MAF Exhibits Native-like Phagocytic Activity

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, May 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  33. Volatile anesthetic modulation of oligomerization equilibria in a hexameric model peptide

    Article • FEBS Letters, November 2004, Wiley

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  34. De NovoDesign of aD2-Symmetrical Protein that Reproduces the Diheme Four-Helix Bundle in Cytochromebc1

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, June 2004, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  35. A Hierarchic Approach to the Design of Hexameric Helical Barrels

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, May 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  36. Fluorinated Coiled-Coil Proteins Prepared In Vivo Display Enhanced Thermal and Chemical Stability

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, April 2001, Wiley

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  37. Fluorinated Coiled-Coil Proteins Prepared In Vivo Display Enhanced Thermal and Chemical Stability

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, April 2001, Wiley

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  38. Stabilization of Coiled-Coil Peptide Domains by Introduction of Trifluoroleucine

    Article • Biochemistry, February 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  39. From synthetic coiled coils to functional proteins: automated design of a receptor for the calmodulin-binding domain of calcineurin

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, August 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda, Professor Angela Lombardi

  40. Amphiphilic Copper(II) Complexes Modeled after the Metal-Complexation Subunit of Bleomycin Antibiotics

    Article • Langmuir, March 1998, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  41. Design of a Synthetic Receptor for the Calmodulin-Binding Domain of Calcineurin

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, December 1997, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda, Professor Angela Lombardi

  42. Comparative Reactivities of Phosphate Ester Cleavages by Metallomicelles

    Article • Langmuir, June 1997, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  43. Comparative Reactivities of Phosphate Ester Cleavages by Metallomicelles

    Article • Langmuir, January 1996, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  44. Influence of Aggregation on Redox Potentials of Amphiphilic Cu(II) Complexes Modeled after Bleomycin Antibiotics

    Article • Langmuir, January 1996, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  45. Self-Assembled Monolayers of Cu(II) Metallosurfactants on GC and HOPG

    Article • Langmuir, January 1996, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  46. Lanthanide cleavage of phosphodiester liposomes

    Article • Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications, January 1995, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  47. A hydrolytic reporter of copper(II) availability in artificial liposomes

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, May 1993, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda

  48. A novel class of Calmodulin mimetics: De Novo designed proteins in molecular recognition

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanna Ghirlanda, Professor Angela Lombardi