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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

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

    Article • Biophysical Journal, October 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

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

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, October 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. Protein Amyloidogenesis Investigated by Small Angle Scattering

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

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  12. Proteins in binary solvents

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

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  13. 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

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

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

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

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  16. 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

  17. 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

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

    Article • Biophysical Journal, June 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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, January 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  25. 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

  26. Preferential solvation of lysozyme in water/ethanol mixtures

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

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. Multi- to Unilamellar Transitions in Catanionic Vesicles

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

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. 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

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

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

    Dr Maria Grazia Ortore

  38. 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

  39. 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

  40. 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

  41. 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

  42. 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

  43. 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

  44. 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

  45. 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