Prof. Lorenzo Stella

Contact Details

 

Office: Department of Science and Chemical Technologies
Tel:  +39 06 72594463
Fax: +39 06 72594328

 

Research Activity

 

• 3-D structures of peptides in solution
• Peptide-membrane interactions
• Biomolecular electronics
• Molecular recognition and chiral discrimination
• Computational chemistry and molecular modeling

Recent Publications

 

[1] L. Stella, G. Bocchinfuso, E. Gatto, C. Mazzuca, M. Venanzi, F. Formaggio, C. Toniolo, A. Palleschi and B. Pispisa.
 “Peptide foldamers: from spectroscopic studies to applications”. 
Reviews in Fluorescence 2007. C. D. Geddes and J. R. Lakowicz (Eds.), Springer, New York, (2007).

2] E. Gatto, C. Mazzuca, L. Stella, M. Venanzi, C. Toniolo, B. Pispisa.
 “Effect of peptide lipidation on membrane perturbing activity: a comparative study on two trichogin analogues”.
 J. Phys Chem. B., 110: 22813 (2006).

3] M. Venanzi, E. Gatto, G. Bocchinfuso, A. Palleschi, L. Stella, C. Baldini, F. Formaggio, C. Toniolo. 
”Peptide folding dynamics: a time-resolved study from the nanosecond to the microsecond time regime”. 
J. Phys. Chem. B, 110: 22834 (2006).

4] B. Pispisa, L. Stella, C. Mazzuca, M. Venanzi.
 “Trichogin topology and activity in model membranes as determined by fluorescence spectroscopy” .
 Reviews in fluorescence 2006, C. D. Geddes and J. R. Lakowicz (Eds.), Springer, New York, pp. 47 (2006).

5] E. Gatto, M. Venanzi, A. Palleschi, L. Stella, B. Pispisa, L. Lorenzelli, C. Toniolo, F. Formaggio, G. Marletta. 
”Self-assembled peptide monolayers on interdigitated gold microelectrodes” .
 Mat. Sci. Eng. C., 26: 918 (2006).

6] C. Carta, F. Pantaleoni, G. Bocchinfuso, L. Stella, I. Vasta, A. Sarkozy, C. Digilio, A. Palleschi, A. Pizzuti, P. Grammatico, G. Zampino, B. Dallapiccola, B. D. Gelb, M, Tartaglia.
 “Germline missense mutations affecting KRAS isoform B are associated with a severe Noonan syndrome phenotype” .
 Am. J. Hum. Gen., 79: 129 (2006).

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