Publications
2011
Ménard-Moyon Cécilia, Fabbro Chiara, Prato Maurizio, Bianco Alberto
One-pot triple functionalization of carbon nanotubes Journal Article
In: Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany), vol. 17, no. 11, pp. 3222–3227, 2011, ISSN: 1521-3765.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Aniline Compounds, Azo Compounds, Benzylamines, carbon, I2CT, Nanotubes, Raman, Spectrophotometry, Spectrum Analysis, Surface Properties, Team-Bianco
@article{menard-moyon_one-pot_2011,
title = {One-pot triple functionalization of carbon nanotubes},
author = {Cécilia Ménard-Moyon and Chiara Fabbro and Maurizio Prato and Alberto Bianco},
doi = {10.1002/chem.201003050},
issn = {1521-3765},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-03-01},
journal = {Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)},
volume = {17},
number = {11},
pages = {3222--3227},
abstract = {Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are very promising as carriers for the delivery of bioactive molecules. The multifunctionalization of CNTs is necessary to impart multimodalities for the development of future CNT-based multipotent therapeutic constructs. In this context, we report the first example of covalent trifunctionalization of different types of CNTs. Our strategy is a simple and efficient methodology based on the simultaneous functionalization of the nanotube surface with three different active groups. The reaction is performed in one step by arylation with diazonium salts generated in situ. The CNTs are functionalized with benzylamine moieties blocked with three different protecting groups that can be selectively removed under specific conditions. The trifunctionalized CNTs were characterized by TEM, thermogravimetric analysis, and Raman and UV/Vis/NIR spectroscopy, while the amine loading was determined by using the Kaiser test. The sequential removal of the protecting groups of the amine functions allows the grafting of the molecules of interest on the nanotube surface to be controlled.},
keywords = {Aniline Compounds, Azo Compounds, Benzylamines, carbon, I2CT, Nanotubes, Raman, Spectrophotometry, Spectrum Analysis, Surface Properties, Team-Bianco},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2009
Zacchigna Marina, Klumpp Cedric, Prato Maurizio, Bianco Alberto
In vitro behavior of multifunctionalized fullerene-warfarin conjugates Journal Article
In: Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 6210–6221, 2009, ISSN: 1533-4880.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Animals, Anticoagulants, Fullerenes, I2CT, In Vitro Techniques, Mice, Spectrophotometry, Team-Bianco, Ultraviolet, Warfarin
@article{zacchigna_vitro_2009,
title = {In vitro behavior of multifunctionalized fullerene-warfarin conjugates},
author = {Marina Zacchigna and Cedric Klumpp and Maurizio Prato and Alberto Bianco},
doi = {10.1166/jnn.2009.1551},
issn = {1533-4880},
year = {2009},
date = {2009-10-01},
journal = {Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology},
volume = {9},
number = {10},
pages = {6210--6221},
abstract = {In this study we have covalently linked the anticoagulant warfarin to polyfunctionalized fullerenes. The objective was to explore the possibility of modifying the biological profile of a drug by covalent binding to functionalized fullerene. We have chosen warfarin as a model compound because it a widely used drug. We have analyzed the stability in vitro of the conjugates and found that the drug is released from the carbon support only after incubation in mouse plasma.},
keywords = {Animals, Anticoagulants, Fullerenes, I2CT, In Vitro Techniques, Mice, Spectrophotometry, Team-Bianco, Ultraviolet, Warfarin},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2000
Obrecht-Pflumio S., Dirheimer G.
In vitro DNA and dGMP adducts formation caused by ochratoxin A Journal Article
In: Chem Biol Interact, vol. 127, no. 1, pp. 29-44, 2000, (0009-2797 Journal Article).
Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Acid/metabolism, Adducts/*metabolism, Agents/pharmacology, Animals, Arachidonic, Carcinogens/pharmacology, Chelating, Chromatography, Deferoxamine/pharmacology, Deoxyguanine, DNA, Female, Kidney/ultrastructure, Liver/metabolism, Male, Mice, Microsomes, Microsomes/metabolism, Mycotoxins/pharmacology, NADP/metabolism, Nucleotides/*metabolism, Nucleotides/metabolism, Ochratoxins/*pharmacology, Peroxidase/metabolism, Rabbits, Spectrophotometry
@article{,
title = {In vitro DNA and dGMP adducts formation caused by ochratoxin A},
author = { S. Obrecht-Pflumio and G. Dirheimer},
year = {2000},
date = {2000-01-01},
journal = {Chem Biol Interact},
volume = {127},
number = {1},
pages = {29-44},
abstract = {Ochratoxin A (OTA), a nephrotoxic and nephrocarcinogenic mycotoxin, leads to the formation of DNA adducts after administration to animals. This could be due to an epigenetic effect. In vitro assays can exclude an indirect effect, where the xenobiotic can generate, in vivo, endogenous reactive compounds which give adducts on DNA. Microsomes prepared from mice or rabbit kidney and liver, used as metabolic activators, were incubated in the presence of commercial salmon testes DNA and OTA, with NADPH or arachidonic acid used as cofactors. Upto 126 DNA adducts for 10(9) nucleotides were detected using the 32P postlabeling method after incubation with the mouse kidney system. Similar results were obtained with rabbit kidney microsomes. Using liver microsomes, the number of DNA adducts detected was much lower. When NADPH was used as a cosubstrate (to explore the cytochrome P450 metabolic pathways), with mice kidney microsomes, the adduct level was only 44% of the one obtained with arachidonic acid. These results lend support to the hypothesis of the preferential activation of OTA by the peroxidase activity of prostaglandin synthases and/or lipoxygenases to direct genotoxic metabolites, and are in agreement with the previously obtained results after in vivo treatment of mice. In order to identify the nucleotides of DNA modified by the OTA metabolites, dAMP, dGMP, dTMP and dCMP were used as substrates under the same conditions as with DNA. The adducts were found only on dGMP. The total adduct level was of 344 adducts per 10(9) nucleotides with the appearance of three major adducts in the presence of arachidonic acid. With NADPH, 271 adducts were obtained per 10(9) nucleotides, with again three major adducts, but only two of them were similar to two adducts obtained in the presence of arachidonic acid. Desferal (desferrioxamine B methanesulphonate), at a 50 microM concentration, did not reduce the adduct level. Adducts were also obtained when polydG, polydC and dG-p-dG were used as alternative substrates, whereas no adducts were obtained with polydA, polydT and polydC. The major adduct obtained after incubation of DNA with OTA, comigrated with the major adduct obtained with dGMP, in two chromatographic solvents. These results show that OTA is metabolized to genotoxic metabolite(s) which interact with the guanine residues of DNA.},
note = {0009-2797
Journal Article},
keywords = {Acid/metabolism, Adducts/*metabolism, Agents/pharmacology, Animals, Arachidonic, Carcinogens/pharmacology, Chelating, Chromatography, Deferoxamine/pharmacology, Deoxyguanine, DNA, Female, Kidney/ultrastructure, Liver/metabolism, Male, Mice, Microsomes, Microsomes/metabolism, Mycotoxins/pharmacology, NADP/metabolism, Nucleotides/*metabolism, Nucleotides/metabolism, Ochratoxins/*pharmacology, Peroxidase/metabolism, Rabbits, Spectrophotometry},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
1992
Glasser A. L., el Adlouni C., Keith G., Sochacka E., Malkiewicz A., Santos M., Tuite M. F., Desgres J.
Presence and coding properties of 2'-O-methyl-5-carbamoylmethyluridine (ncm5Um) in the wobble position of the anticodon of tRNA(Leu) (U*AA) from brewer's yeast Journal Article
In: FEBS Lett, vol. 314, no. 3, pp. 381-5, 1992, (0014-5793 Journal Article).
Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: *Anticodon, &, Analysis, cerevisiae/*genetics, Chromatography, derivatives/analysis/chemistry/genetics, Fungal, Fungal/genetics, Gov't, high, Leu/*genetics, liquid, Mass, Molecular, Non-U.S., Pressure, Proteins/biosynthesis, RNA, Saccharomyces, Spectrophotometry, Spectrum, structure, Support, Transfer, Ultraviolet, Uridine/*analogs
@article{,
title = {Presence and coding properties of 2'-O-methyl-5-carbamoylmethyluridine (ncm5Um) in the wobble position of the anticodon of tRNA(Leu) (U*AA) from brewer's yeast},
author = { A. L. Glasser and C. el Adlouni and G. Keith and E. Sochacka and A. Malkiewicz and M. Santos and M. F. Tuite and J. Desgres},
year = {1992},
date = {1992-01-01},
journal = {FEBS Lett},
volume = {314},
number = {3},
pages = {381-5},
abstract = {The unknown modified nucleoside U* has been isolated by enzymatic and HPLC protocols from tRNA(Leu) (U*AA) recently discovered in brewer's yeast. The pure U* nucleoside has been characterized by electron impact mass spectroscopy, and comparison of its chromatographic and UV-absorption properties with those of appropriate synthetic compounds. The structure of U* was established as 2'-O-methyl-5-carbamoylmethyluridine (ncm5Um). The yeast tRNA(Leu) (U*AA) is the only tRNA so far sequenced which has been shown to contain ncm5Um. The location of such a modified uridine at the first position of the anticodon restricts the decoding property to A of the leucine UUA codon.},
note = {0014-5793
Journal Article},
keywords = {*Anticodon, &, Analysis, cerevisiae/*genetics, Chromatography, derivatives/analysis/chemistry/genetics, Fungal, Fungal/genetics, Gov't, high, Leu/*genetics, liquid, Mass, Molecular, Non-U.S., Pressure, Proteins/biosynthesis, RNA, Saccharomyces, Spectrophotometry, Spectrum, structure, Support, Transfer, Ultraviolet, Uridine/*analogs},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
1987
Debono M, Barnhart M, Carrell C B, Hoffmann Jules A, Occolowitz J L, Abbott B J, Fukuda D S, Hamill R L, Biemann K, Herlihy W C
A21978C, a complex of new acidic peptide antibiotics: isolation, chemistry, and mass spectral structure elucidation Journal Article
In: J. Antibiot., vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 761–777, 1987, ISSN: 0021-8820.
Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Acylation, Amino Acids, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Chemical Phenomena, Chemistry, Chromatography, Cyclic, Fatty Acids, Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry, High Pressure Liquid, hoffmann, Hydrolysis, M3i, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Mass Spectrometry, Molecular Conformation, Peptides, Spectrophotometry, Streptomyces
@article{debono_a21978c_1987,
title = {A21978C, a complex of new acidic peptide antibiotics: isolation, chemistry, and mass spectral structure elucidation},
author = {M Debono and M Barnhart and C B Carrell and Jules A Hoffmann and J L Occolowitz and B J Abbott and D S Fukuda and R L Hamill and K Biemann and W C Herlihy},
issn = {0021-8820},
year = {1987},
date = {1987-01-01},
journal = {J. Antibiot.},
volume = {40},
number = {6},
pages = {761--777},
abstract = {A21978C, produced by Streptomyces roseosporus, NRRL 11379, is a complex of new acidic lipopeptolide antibiotics which inhibits Gram-positive bacteria. HPLC separation of the various components from the purified complex resulted in the isolation of A21978C1, -C2 and -C3 (major components) and -C4, -C5, and -C0 (minor components). Each of these components was fermented with cultures of Actinoplanes utahensis (NRRL 12052) to give the identical inactive peptide ("A21978C nucleus") by removal of the fatty acid acyl groups from the N-terminus. This peptide was composed of 13 amino acids: L-kynurenine, L-threo-3-methylglutamic acid, L-asparagine, L-aspartic acid (3 residues), glycine (2 residues), L-tryptophan, L-ornithine, D-alanine, D-serine and L-threonine. The amino acid sequence was determined using a combination of the Edman degradation and gas chromatography mass spectrum (GC-MS) analysis of appropriately derivatized peptides obtained from partial hydrolysis. Each major component was shown to be acylated with a branched chain fatty acid at the N-terminus and the structure of this fatty acid was determined by 1H NMR and mass spectral methods. A structure for A21978C was assigned on the basis of this degradative and physico-chemical information.},
keywords = {Acylation, Amino Acids, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Chemical Phenomena, Chemistry, Chromatography, Cyclic, Fatty Acids, Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry, High Pressure Liquid, hoffmann, Hydrolysis, M3i, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Mass Spectrometry, Molecular Conformation, Peptides, Spectrophotometry, Streptomyces},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
1985
Hetru Charles, Luu B, Hoffmann Jules A
Ecdysone conjugates: isolation and identification Journal Article
In: Meth. Enzymol., vol. 111, pp. 411–419, 1985, ISSN: 0076-6879.
BibTeX | Tags: Animals, Bombyx, Chromatography, Ecdysone, Helix (Snails), High Pressure Liquid, hoffmann, Insect Hormones, M3i, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Mass Spectrometry, Spectrophotometry, Structure-Activity Relationship
@article{hetru_ecdysone_1985,
title = {Ecdysone conjugates: isolation and identification},
author = {Charles Hetru and B Luu and Jules A Hoffmann},
issn = {0076-6879},
year = {1985},
date = {1985-01-01},
journal = {Meth. Enzymol.},
volume = {111},
pages = {411--419},
keywords = {Animals, Bombyx, Chromatography, Ecdysone, Helix (Snails), High Pressure Liquid, hoffmann, Insect Hormones, M3i, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Mass Spectrometry, Spectrophotometry, Structure-Activity Relationship},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
1982
Tsoupras G, Luu B, Hoffmann Jules A
Isolation and identification of three ecdysteroid conjugates with a C-20 hydroxy group in eggs of Locusta migratoria Journal Article
In: Steroids, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 551–560, 1982, ISSN: 0039-128X.
Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Animals, Chromatography, Ecdysone, Ecdysterone, Female, Grasshoppers, High Pressure Liquid, hoffmann, M3i, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Ovum, Phosphates, Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
@article{tsoupras_isolation_1982,
title = {Isolation and identification of three ecdysteroid conjugates with a C-20 hydroxy group in eggs of Locusta migratoria},
author = {G Tsoupras and B Luu and Jules A Hoffmann},
issn = {0039-128X},
year = {1982},
date = {1982-11-01},
journal = {Steroids},
volume = {40},
number = {5},
pages = {551--560},
abstract = {Three ecdysteroids conjugates with a hydroxy group at C-20 were isolated from developing eggs of locusta migratoria and identified as 22-phosphate conjugates of 2-deoxy-20-hydroxy-ecdysone, 20-hydroxyecdysone and 20-hydroxyecdysone acetate.},
keywords = {Animals, Chromatography, Ecdysone, Ecdysterone, Female, Grasshoppers, High Pressure Liquid, hoffmann, M3i, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Ovum, Phosphates, Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}