Silvia Rinaldi
University of Siena
24 Papers
45 Citations
Silvia Rinaldi is an academic researcher from University of Siena. The author has contributed to research in topics: Silver nanoparticle & Allosteric regulation. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 21 publications. Previous affiliations of Silvia Rinaldi include National Research Council & University of Perugia.
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Papers
Nano-biocomposite films with modified cellulose nanocrystals and synthesized silver nanoparticles.
Elena Fortunati,Silvia Rinaldi,Mercedes Ana Peltzer,Nora Bloise,Livia Visai,Ilaria Armentano,Alfonso Jiménez,Loredana Latterini,Jose Maria Kenny,Jose Maria Kenny +9 more
TL;DR: PLA nano-biocomposite films based on poly(lactic acid) (PLA) with modified cellulose nanocrystals (s-CNC) and synthesized silver nanoparticles (Ag) have been prepared and characterized and showed a significant antibacterial activity influenced by the Ag content.
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Allosteric Modulators of HSP90 and HSP70: Dynamics Meets Function through Structure-Based Drug Design.
Mariarosaria Ferraro,Ilda D'Annessa,Elisabetta Moroni,Giulia Morra,Antonella Paladino,Silvia Rinaldi,Federica Compostella,Giorgio Colombo +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review advances in the design of HSP90 and HSP70 allosteric modulators and discuss these compounds as probes to decipher the complexity of the chapero...
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Toward Automatic Rhodopsin Modeling as a Tool for High-Throughput Computational Photobiology
Federico Melaccio,María del Carmen Marín,María del Carmen Marín,Alessio Valentini,Fabio Montisci,Silvia Rinaldi,Marco Cherubini,Xuchun Yang,Yoshitaka Kato,Michael Stenrup,Yoelvis Orozco-Gonzalez,Yoelvis Orozco-Gonzalez,Nicolas Ferré,Hoi Ling Luk,Hideki Kandori,Massimo Olivucci +15 more
TL;DR: The results of the predicted vertical excitation energy for 27 different rhodopsins including vertebrate, invertebrate, and microbial pigments indicate that such basic models could be employed for predicting trends in spectral changes and/or correlate the spectral changes with structural variations in large sets of proteins.
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PLGA/Ag nanocomposites: in vitro degradation study and silver ion release.
Elena Fortunati,Loredana Latterini,Silvia Rinaldi,Silvia Rinaldi,Jose Maria Kenny,Jose Maria Kenny,Ilaria Armentano +6 more
TL;DR: Results suggest that the PLGA film morphology can be modified introducing a small percentage of silver nanoparticles that do not affect the degradation mechanism of PLGA polymer in the nanocomposite, and clearly evinced the stabilizing effect of the Ag nanoparticles in thePLGA polymer and the mineralization process induced by the combined effect of silver and nanocomPOSite surface topography.
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Molecular bases for the selection of the chromophore of animal rhodopsins.
TL;DR: It is argued that the optimization of the electronic properties of the chromophore provided a key factor for the emergence of the striking amino acid sequence divergence observed between the microbial and animal rhodopsins.
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