What Contributes to the Measured Chiral Optical Response of the Glutathione-Protected Au25 Nanocluster?

M Monti, MF Matus, S Malola, A Fortunelli, M Aschi… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The water-soluble glutathione-protected [Au25 (GSH) 18]− 1 nanocluster was investigated
by integrating several methodologies such as molecular dynamics simulations, essential …

A Joint Experimental and Theoretical Study on the Structural and Spectroscopic Properties of the Piv-Pro-d-Ser-NHMe Peptide

S Menant, V Tognetti, H Oulyadi… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In this paper, we investigate the secondary structure of the Piv-Pro-d-Ser-NHMe peptide by
means of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electronic circular dichroism (ECD) …

The Conformational Dynamics of the Ligands Determines the Electronic Circular Dichroism of the Chiral Au38(SC2H4Ph)24 Cluster

M Monti, G Brancolini, E Coccia, D Toffoli… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Effects of the conformational dynamics of 2-PET protective ligands on the electronic circular
dichroism (ECD) of the chiral Au38 (SC2H4Ph) 24 cluster are investigated. We adopt a …

Novel isoindolinone-based analogs of the natural cyclic peptide fenestin a: synthesis and antitumor activity

H Zhang, J Wu, J Wang, S **ao, L Zhao… - ACS Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Small-and medium-sized cyclopeptides have been found to have extensive bioactivities and
have drawn much attention from medicinal chemists. In the work described in this paper …

A computational approach for modeling electronic circular dichroism of solvated chromophores

M Monti, M Stener, M Aschi - Journal of Computational …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The present study consists in a novel computational protocol to model the UV‐circular
dichroism spectra of solvated species. It makes use of quantum‐chemical calculations on a …

DFT-aided infrared and electronic circular dichroism spectroscopic study of cyclopeptide S-PK6 and the exploration of its antitumor potential by molecular docking

X Zhang, T Li, L Zhao, H Xu, C Yan, Y **… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cyclic peptides have been widely explored as new chemical modalities in drug design, yet
the structural study of bioactive cyclic peptides is often difficult due to the irregular …

Short peptides as predictors for the structure of polyarginine sequences in disordered proteins

B Milorey, R Schweitzer-Stenner, B Andrews… - Biophysical journal, 2021 - cell.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins and intrinsically disordered regions are frequently enriched
in charged amino acids. Intrinsically disordered regions are regularly involved in important …

Forbidden Secondary Structures Found in Gel-Forming Fibrils of Glycylphenylalanylglycine

N O'Neill, TA Lima, FF Ferreira, L Thursch… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The zwitterionic l-tripeptide glycylphenylalanylglycine self-assembles into very long
crystalline fibrils in an aqueous solution, which causes the formation of an exceptionally …

Detailed structural investigation of Crizotinib and the exploration of its antitumor potential by DFT calculations and molecular docking

L Zhao, S **ao, S Jiang, Y **, W Fang… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Detailed structural investigation and exploration of the potential clinical indications are
necessary for the drug reevaluation of newly-approved drugs. Crizotinib is a potent and …

Electronic circular dichroism from real-time propagation in state space

M Monti, M Stener, E Coccia - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, we propose to compute the electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectra of
chiral molecules using a real-time propagation of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation …