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Francesco Francia

Associate Professor

Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology

Academic discipline: BIO/10 Biochemistry

Publications

Malferrari, Marco; Francia, Francesco; Venturoli, Giovanni, Retardation of Protein Dynamics by Trehalose in Dehydrated Systems of Photosynthetic Reaction Centers. Insights from Electron Transfer and Thermal Denaturation Kinetics, «JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. B, CONDENSED MATTER, MATERIALS, SURFACES, INTERFACES & BIOPHYSICAL», 2015, 119, pp. 13600 - 13618 [Scientific article]Open Access

Möbius, K.; Savitsky, A.; Nalepa, A.; Malferrari, M.; Francia, F.; Lubitz, W.; Venturoli, G., The Magic of Disaccharide Glass Matrices for Protein Function as Decoded by High-Field EPR and FTIR Spectroscopy, «APPLIED MAGNETIC RESONANCE», 2015, 46, pp. 435 - 464 [Scientific article]

Roberto Borghese; Chiara Baccolini; Francesco Francia; Piera Sabatino; Raymond J. Turner; Davide Zannoni, Reduction of chalcogen oxyanions and generation of nanoprecipitates by the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus, «JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS», 2014, 269, pp. 24 - 30 [Scientific article]

M. Malferrari;A. Nalepa;G. Venturoli;F. Francia;W. Lubitz;K. Möbius;A. Savitsky, Structural and dynamical characteristics of trehalose and sucrose matrices at different hydration levels as probed by FTIR and high-field EPR, «PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS», 2014, 16, pp. 9831 - 9848 [Scientific article]

M. Malferrari; A. Mezzetti; F. Francia; G. Venturoli, Effects of dehydration on light-induced conformational changes in bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers probed by optical and differential FTIR spectroscopy, «BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS», 2013, 1827, pp. 328 - 339 [Scientific article]

Laure Michelet;Mirko Zaffagnini;Samuel Morisse;Francesca Sparla;María Esther Pérez-Pérez;Francesco Francia;Antoine Danon;Christophe H. Marchand;Simona Fermani;Paolo Trost;Stéphane D. Lemaire, Redox regulation of the Calvin–Benson cycle: something old, something new, «FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE», 2013, 4, pp. 1 - 21 [Scientific article]

Selva C.; Malferrari M.; Ballardini R.; Ventola A.; Francia F.; Venturoli G., Trehalose Preserves the Integrity of Lyophilized Phycoerythrin–AntiHuman CD8 Antibody Conjugates and Enhances their Thermal Stability in Flow Cytometric Assays, «JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES», 2013, 102, pp. 649 - 659 [Scientific article]

Malferrari M.; Venturoli G.; Francia F.; Mezzetti A., A New Method for D2O/H2O Exchange in Infrared Spectroscopy of Proteins, «SPECTROSCOPY», 2012, 27, pp. 337 - 342 [Scientific article]

Francia F.; Mezzetti A.; Malferrari M.; Venturoli G., Dehydration affects the stability of primary charge separation in bacterial reaction centers: Studies by optical and differential FTIR spectroscopy, in: EBEC 2012 Abstract Book, Elsevier, «BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS», 2012, BBActa supplement to volume 1817, pp. s146 - s147 (atti di: 17th European Bioenergetics Conference, Freiburg, Germania, 15-20 Settembre 2012) [Abstract]

Marco Malferrari;Francesco Francia;Paola Turina;Andreas Labahn;Giovanni Venturoli, Exploring the coupling between electron transfer and protein dynamics in photosynthetic reaction centers embedded into dehydrated amorphous matrices, in: EBEC 2012 Abstract Book, Elsevier, «BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS», 2012, BBActa Supplement to volume 1817, pp. s149 - s149 (atti di: 17th European Bioenergetics Conference, Friburg, Germania, 15-20 settembre) [Abstract]

Malferrari M.; Francia F.; Venturoli G., Coupling between Electron Transfer and Protein-Solvent Dynamics: FTIR and Laser-Flash Spectroscopy Studies in Photosynthetic Reaction Center Films at Different Hydration Levels, «THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. B», 2011, 115, pp. 14732 - 14750 [Scientific article]

D.-W. Lee; Y. El Khouri; F. Francia; B. Zambelli; S. Ciurli; G. Venturoli; P. Hellwig; F. Daldal, Zinc Inhibition of Bacterial Cytochrome bc1 Reveals the Role of Cytochrome b E295 in Proton Release at the Qo Site, «BIOCHEMISTRY», 2011, 50, pp. 4263 - 4272 [Scientific article]

A. Savitsky; M. Malferrari; F. Francia; G. Venturoli; K. Moebius, Bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers in trehalose glasses: coupling between protein conformational dynamics and electron-transfer kinetics as studied by laser-flash and high-field EPR spectroscopies, «JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. B, CONDENSED MATTER, MATERIALS, SURFACES, INTERFACES & BIOPHYSICAL», 2010, 114, pp. 12729 - 12743 [Scientific article]

L. Giachini; G. Veronesi; F. Francia; G. Venturoli; F. Boscherini, Synergic approach to XAFS analysis for the identification of most probable binding motifs for mononuclear zinc sites in metalloproteins, «JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION», 2010, 17, pp. 41 - 52 [Scientific article]

G. Veronesi; S.J. Whitehead; F. Francia; L. Giachini; F. Boscherini; G. Venturoli; N.P.J. Cotton; J.B. Jackson, X-ray absorption studies of Zn2+ -binding sites in Escherichia coli transhydrogenase and its H91K mutant, «BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS», 2010, 1797, pp. 494 - 500 [Scientific article]

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