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Shape and Size Tunability of Sheets of Interlocked Ring Copolymers
Juan Luengo-Márquez, Salvatore Assenza, Cristian Micheletti
Mechanically bonded membranes of interlocked ring polymers are a significant generalization of conventional elastic sheets, where connectivity is provided by covalent bonding, and…
Force-dependent elasticity of nucleic acids
Juan Luengo-Márquez, Juan Zalvide-Pombo, Rubén Pérez +1
The functioning of double-stranded (ds) nucleic acids (NAs) in cellular processes is strongly mediated by their elastic response. These processes involve proteins that interact wit…
Efficient conversion of chemical energy into mechanical work by Hsp70 chaperones
Salvatore Assenza, Alberto S. Sassi, Ruth Kellner +3
Hsp70 molecular chaperones are abundant ATP-dependent nanomachines that actively reshape non-native, misfolded proteins and assist a wide variety of essential cellular processes. H…
Beyond freezing: amorphous water in biomimetic soft nanoconfinement
Livia Salvati Manni, Salvatore Assenza, Michael Duss +6
Water is a ubiquitous liquid with unique physico-chemical properties, whose nature has shaped our planet and life as we know it. Water in restricted geometries has different proper…
The Shape of a Stretched Polymer
Alberto S. Sassi, Salvatore Assenza, Paolo De Los Rios
The shape of a polymer plays an important role in determining its interactions with other molecules and with the environment, and is in turn affected by both of them. As a conseque…
Quantifying the role of chaperones in protein translocation by computational modelling
Salvatore Assenza, Paolo De Los Rios, Alessandro Barducci
The molecular chaperone Hsp70 plays a central role in the import of cytoplasmic proteins into organelles, driving their translocation by binding them from the organellar interior.…