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B23 Circular Dichroism
Status: Operational
Beamsize: 0.5mm² to 2mm x 4mm
Detector: PMT
Wavelength: 125 - 650 nm
Energy: 2 - 10 eV
Detector: PMT
Wavelength: 125 - 650 nm
Energy: 2 - 10 eV
User Publications
These papers are all based at least in part on data gathered on beamline B23. If you have published a paper based on data from B23 which doesn't appear here, please send a reference (ideally including a DOI) to us.
30 items found for 2015 [total: 374]
Oxidative stress alters the morphology and toxicity of aortic medial amyloid Biophysical Journal, 109 (11) Dec 2015 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.10.034
Structurally plastic peptide capsules for synthetic antimicrobial viruses Chemical Science, Dec 2015 DOI: 10.1039/C5SC03260A
Chiral organisations expressed by biomolecules at the Cu(110) surface Dec 2015
Thesis B23-Circular Dichroism
A supramolecular helix that disregards chirality Nature Chemistry, 8 Nov 2015 DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2397
Journal Paper B23-Circular Dichroism
Determination of the structure and morphology of gold nanoparticle–HSA protein complexes Nanoscale, Oct 2015 DOI: 10.1039/C5NR05147A
Artificial membrane binding proteins Oct 2015
Thesis B23-Circular Dichroism
Self-assembled arginine-capped peptide bolaamphiphile nanosheets for cell culture and controlled wettability surfaces Biomacromolecules, 16 (10) Sept 2015 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.5b00820
Helically twisted chiral arrays of gold nanoparticles coated with a cholesterol mesogen Journal Of The American Chemical Society, 137 (40) Sept 2015 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b05059
Journal Paper B23-Circular Dichroism I16-Materials and Magnetism I22-Small angle scattering & Diffraction
Increased duplex stabilization in porphyrin-LNA zipper arrays with structure dependent exciton coupling Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Sept 2015 DOI: 10.1039/C5OB01681A
Synchrotron radiation circular dichroism conformational study of peptaibols Sept 2015
Conference Paper B23-Circular Dichroism
Self-assembly of minidendrons in 2D and 3D liquid crystal lattices and superlattices Sept 2015
Thesis B23-Circular Dichroism
X-ray crystallographic and photophysical studies of DNA i-motifs Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations And Advances, 71 Aug 2015 DOI: 10.1107/S2053273315096254
Self-assembly pathway of peptide nanotubes formed by a glutamatic acid-based bolaamphiphile Chemical Communications, June 2015 DOI: 10.1039/C5CC03640B
Journal Paper B23-Circular Dichroism
Chemically modified, non-anticoagulant heparin derivatives are potent galectin-3 binding inhibitors and inhibit circulating galectin-3-promoted metastasis Oncotarget, 6 (27) June 2015 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.4409
Artificial membrane-binding proteins stimulate oxygenation of stem cells during engineering of large cartilage tissue Nature Communications, 6 June 2015 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8405
The structural analysis of Porphyrin modified DNA and the construction of a molecular wire June 2015
Thesis B23-Circular Dichroism
Effects of trehalose on thermodynamic properties of alpha-synuclein revealed through synchrotron radiation circular dichroism Biomolecules, 5 (2) May 2015 DOI: 10.3390/biom5020724
Predictive and experimental approaches for characterising mutant proteins from enu models of heritable human diseases May 2015
Thesis B23-Circular Dichroism
Liquid crystals with a twist May 2015
Science Highlight B23-Circular Dichroism I16-Materials and Magnetism I22-Small angle scattering & Diffraction
Self-assembly and collagen-stimulating activity of a peptide amphiphile incorporating a peptide sequence from lumican Langmuir, 31 (15) Apr 2015 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b00057
Self-assembly of a designed alternating arginine/phenylalanine oligopeptide Langmuir, 31 (15) Apr 2015 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b00253
Chiroptical studies on brevianamide B: vibrational and electronic circular dichroism confronted The Journal Of Organic Chemistry, 80 (7) Apr 2015 DOI: 10.1021/jo5022647
Journal Paper B23-Circular Dichroism
Photo-induced optical activity in phase-change memory materials Scientific Reports, 5 Mar 2015 DOI: 10.1038/srep08770
Circular dichroism for the analysis of protein-DNA interactions Mar 2015 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2877-4_19
Book Chapter B23-Circular Dichroism
Application of circular dichroism and magnetic circular dichroism for assessing biopharmaceuticals formulations photo-stability and small ligands binding properties International Journal Of Pharmaceutics, 480 Mar 2015 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2015.01.026
CDApps: integrated software for experimental planning and data processing at beamline B23, Diamond Light Source Journal Of Synchrotron Radiation, 22 Mar 2015 DOI: 10.1107/S1600577514028161
Comparisons with amyloid-β reveal an aspartate residue that stabilizes fibrils of the aortic amyloid peptide medin Journal Of Biological Chemistry, 290 Mar 2015 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M114.602177
Columnar liquid crystals in cylindrical nanoconfinement Acs Nano, 9 (2) Feb 2015 DOI: 10.1021/nn506605p
CD spectroscopy: an essential tool for quality control of protein folding Null, Feb 2015 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2230-7_14
The importance of loop length on the stability of i-motif structures Chemical Communications, 51 (26) Jan 2015 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC07279K
- Hannah A. Davies, Marie M. Phelan, Mark C. Wilkinson, Raymond Migrino, Seth Truran, Daniel Franco, Lu-Ning Liu, Christopher J. Longmore, Jillian Madine, "Oxidative stress alters the morphology and toxicity of aortic medial amyloid", Biophysical Journal, 109 (11), 2363 - 2370 (2015), DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.10.034
- Valeria Castelletto, Emiliana De Santis, Hasan Alkassem, Baptiste Lamarre, James Noble, Santanu Ray, Angelo Bella, Jonathan R. Burns, Bart W. Hoogenboom, Maxim G. Ryadnov, "Structurally plastic peptide capsules for synthetic antimicrobial viruses", Chemical Science (2015), DOI: 10.1039/C5SC03260A
- [Thesis] Tommaso Sgrilli, "Chiral organisations expressed by biomolecules at the Cu(110) surface" (2015)
- Cécile Roche, Hao-Jan Sun, Pawaret Leowanawat, Fumito Araoka, Benjamin E. Partridge, Mihai Peterca, Daniela A. Wilson, Margaret E. Prendergast, Paul A. Heiney, Robert Graf, Hans W. Spiess, Xiangbing Zeng, Goran Ungar, Virgil Percec, "A supramolecular helix that disregards chirality", Nature Chemistry, 8, 80 - 89 (2015), DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2397
- Robin Capomaccio, Isaac Ojea-Jimenez, Pascal Colpo, Douglas Gilliland, Giacomo Ceccone, François Rossi, Luigi Calzolai, "Determination of the structure and morphology of gold nanoparticle–HSA protein complexes", Nanoscale (2015), DOI: 10.1039/C5NR05147A
- [Thesis] James Armstrong, "Artificial membrane binding proteins" (2015)
- Emerson Rodrigo Da Silva, Merlin Nathaniel Mark Walter, Mehedi Reza, Valeria Castelletto, Janne Ruokolainen, Che John Connon, Wendel Andrade Alves, Ian Hamley, "Self-assembled arginine-capped peptide bolaamphiphile nanosheets for cell culture and controlled wettability surfaces", Biomacromolecules, 16 (10) (2015), DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.5b00820
- Liliana Cseh, Xiaobin Mang, Xiangbing Zeng, Feng Liu, Georg H. Mehl, Goran Ungar, Giuliano Siligardi, "Helically twisted chiral arrays of gold nanoparticles coated with a cholesterol mesogen", Journal Of The American Chemical Society, 137 (40) (2015), DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b05059
- Daniel Singleton, Rohanah Hussain, Giuliano Siligardi, Pawan Kumar, Patrick J. Hrdlicka, Nina Berova, Eugen Stulz, "Increased duplex stabilization in porphyrin-LNA zipper arrays with structure dependent exciton coupling", Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry (2015), DOI: 10.1039/C5OB01681A
- [Conference Paper] Marta De Zotti, Edoardo Longo, Fernando Formaggio, Giuliano Siligardi, "Synchrotron radiation circular dichroism conformational study of peptaibols" (2015)
- [Thesis] Ming-Huei Yen, "Self-assembly of minidendrons in 2D and 3D liquid crystal lattices and superlattices" (2015)
- [Conference Paper] Sarah Gurung, James Hall, Graeme Winter, John Brazier, Rohanah Hussain, Giuliano Siligardi, Thomas Sorensen, Christine J Cardin, "X-ray crystallographic and photophysical studies of DNA i-motifs", Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations And Advances, 71, s246 - s246 (2015), DOI: 10.1107/S2053273315096254
- Emerson Da Silva, Wendel Alves, Valeria Castelletto, Mehedi Reza, Janne Ruokolainen, Rohanah Hussain, Ian Hamley, "Self-assembly pathway of peptide nanotubes formed by a glutamatic acid-based bolaamphiphile", Chemical Communications (2015), DOI: 10.1039/C5CC03640B
- Carrie A. Duckworth, Scott E. Guimond, Paulina Sindrewicz, Ashley J. Hughes, Neil S. French, Lu-Yun Lian, Edwin A. Yates, D. Mark Pritchard, Jonathan M. Rhodes, Jeremy E. Turnbull, Lu-Gang Yu, "Chemically modified, non-anticoagulant heparin derivatives are potent galectin-3 binding inhibitors and inhibit circulating galectin-3-promoted metastasis", Oncotarget, 6 (27) (2015), DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.4409
- James Armstrong, Rameen Shakur, Joseph Horne, Sally C. Dickinson, Craig T. Armstrong, Katherine Lau, Juned Kadiwala, Robert Lowe, Annela Seddon, Stephen Mann, Ross Anderson, Adam Perriman, Anthony P. Hollander, "Artificial membrane-binding proteins stimulate oxygenation of stem cells during engineering of large cartilage tissue", Nature Communications, 6 (2015), DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8405
- [Thesis] James Wood, "The structural analysis of Porphyrin modified DNA and the construction of a molecular wire" (2015)
- Paolo Ruzza, Rohanah Hussain, Barbara Biondi, Andrea Calderan, Isabella Tessari, Luigi Bubacco, Giuliano Siligardi, "Effects of trehalose on thermodynamic properties of alpha-synuclein revealed through synchrotron radiation circular dichroism", Biomolecules, 5 (2), 724 - 734 (2015), DOI: 10.3390/biom5020724
- [Thesis] Maria Teresa Sabino Buenavista, "Predictive and experimental approaches for characterising mutant proteins from enu models of heritable human diseases" (2015)
- [Science Highlight] Diamond Light Source, "Liquid crystals with a twist" (2015)
- Ian Hamley, Ashkan Dehsorkhi, Valeria Castelletto, Merlin N. M. Walter, Che Connon, Mehedi Reza, Janne Ruokolainen, "Self-assembly and collagen-stimulating activity of a peptide amphiphile incorporating a peptide sequence from lumican", Langmuir, 31 (15) (2015), DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b00057
- Carla C. Decandio, Emerson R. Silva, Ian Hamley, Valeria Castelletto, Michelle S. Liberato, Vani X. Oliveira, Cristiano L. P. Oliveira, Wendel A. Alves, "Self-assembly of a designed alternating arginine/phenylalanine oligopeptide", Langmuir, 31 (15) (2015), DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b00253
- Patrick Bultinck, Fanny L. Cherblanc, Matthew J. Fuchter, Wouter A. Herrebout, Ya-Pei Lo, Henry S. Rzepa, Giuliano Siligardi, Marko Weimar, "Chiroptical studies on brevianamide B: vibrational and electronic circular dichroism confronted", The Journal Of Organic Chemistry, 80 (7), 3359 - 3367 (2015), DOI: 10.1021/jo5022647
- Konstantin B. Borisenko, Janaki Shanmugam, Benjamin A. O. Williams, Paul Ewart, Behrad Gholipour, Daniel W. Hewak, Rohanah Hussain, Tamas Javorfi, Giuliano Siligardi, Angus Kirkland, "Photo-induced optical activity in phase-change memory materials", Scientific Reports, 5, 26 (2015), DOI: 10.1038/srep08770
- [Book Chapter] Garry Scarlett, Giuliano Siligardi, Geoff Kneale, "Circular dichroism for the analysis of protein-DNA interactions" (2015), DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2877-4_19
- Edoardo Longo, Rohanah Hussain, Giuliano Siligardi, "Application of circular dichroism and magnetic circular dichroism for assessing biopharmaceuticals formulations photo-stability and small ligands binding properties", International Journal Of Pharmaceutics, 480, 84 - 91 (2015), DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2015.01.026
- Rohanah Hussain, Kristian Benning, Tamas Javorfi, Edoardo Longo, Timothy R. Rudd, Bill Pulford, Daniel Myatt, Giuliano Siligardi, "CDApps: integrated software for experimental planning and data processing at beamline B23, Diamond Light Source", Journal Of Synchrotron Radiation, 22, 1605-1614 (2015), DOI: 10.1107/S1600577514028161
- Hannah A. Davies, Jill Madine, David Middleton, "Comparisons with amyloid-β reveal an aspartate residue that stabilizes fibrils of the aortic amyloid peptide medin", Journal Of Biological Chemistry, 290, 7791 - 7803 (2015), DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M114.602177
- Ruibin Zhang, Xiangbing Zeng, Bong Seock Kim, Richard J. Bushby, Kyusoon Shin, Patrick Baker, Virgil Percec, Pawaret Leowanawat, Goran Ungar, "Columnar liquid crystals in cylindrical nanoconfinement", Acs Nano, 9 (2), 1759 - 1766 (2015), DOI: 10.1021/nn506605p
- [Book Chapter] Giuliano Siligardi, Rohanah Hussain, "CD spectroscopy: an essential tool for quality control of protein folding", Null (2015), DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2230-7_14
- Sarah Gurung, Christine Schwarz, James P. Hall, Christine J. Cardin, John A. Brazier, "The importance of loop length on the stability of i-motif structures", Chemical Communications, 51 (26), 5630 - 5632 (2015), DOI: 10.1039/C4CC07279K
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