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AUTHOR
M. Levantino
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Proteins in Saccharides Matrices and the Trehalose Peculiarity: Biochemical and Biophysical Properties
2015
Immobilization of proteins and other biomolecules in saccharide matrices leads to a series of peculiar properties that are relevant from the point of view of both biochemistry and biophysics, and have important implications on related fields such as food industry, pharmaceutics, and medicine. In the last years, the properties of biomolecules embedded into glassy matrices and/or highly concentrated solutions of saccharides have been thoroughly investigated, at the molecular level, through in vivo, in vitro, and in silico studies. These systems show an outstanding ability to protect biostructures against stress conditions; various mechanisms appear to be at the basis of such bioprotection, th…
Investigating protein structure and dynamics through wide-angle X-ray solution scattering
2016
Wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) is a powerful tool that can be used to gain information on the structure and dynamics of proteins and other biomolecules in solution. Improved methods for the calculation of WAXS patterns from available or putative protein models allow to better exploit the structural information contained in the experimental data. These methods, together with recent applications of static and time-resolved WAXS, are briefly reviewed.