Marianna Bianca Emanuela Portaccio

Dr. Marianna Bianca Emanuela Portaccio

Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Università degli Studi della Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Caserta, Campania, Italy
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Academic Career Length

34Years (1993-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 October 2013 in Electrochimica Acta
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MPMarianna Bianca Emanuela Portaccio
Marianna Bianca Emanuela Portaccio
DTD. Di Tuoro
D. Di Tuoro
FAF. Arduini
F. Arduini
Danila MosconeDanila Moscone
Danila Moscone
MCM. Cammarota
M. Cammarota
Maria LeporeMaria Lepore
Maria Lepore

1 May 2010 in Biosensors and Bioelectronics
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MPMarianna Bianca Emanuela Portaccio
Marianna Bianca Emanuela Portaccio
DTD. Di Tuoro
D. Di Tuoro
FAF. Arduini
F. Arduini
Maria LeporeMaria Lepore
Maria Lepore
DMDamiano Gustavo Mita
Damiano Gustavo Mita
Danila MosconeDanila Moscone
Danila Moscone

1 September 2010 in General and Comparative Endocrinology
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PSPietro G. Signorile
Pietro G. Signorile
ESEnrico P. Spugnini
Enrico P. Spugnini
LMLuigi Mita
Luigi Mita
PMPasquale Mellone
Pasquale Mellone
ADAlfredo D’aVino
Alfredo D’aVino
Alfonso BaldiAlfonso Baldi
Alfonso Baldi

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CIClara Iannuzzi
Clara Iannuzzi
MBMargherita Borriello
Margherita Borriello
MPMarianna Bianca Emanuela Portaccio
Marianna Bianca Emanuela Portaccio
GIGaetano Irace
Gaetano Irace
ISIvana Sirangelo
Ivana Sirangelo
Human insulin is a widely used model protein for the study of amyloid formation as both associated to insulin injection amyloidosis in type II diabetes and highly prone to form amyloid fibrils in vitro. In this study, we aim to gain new structural insights into insulin fibril formation under two different aggregating conditions at neutral and acidic pH, using a combination of fluorescence, circular dichroism, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, and transmission electron miscroscopy. We reveal that fibrils formed at neutral pH are morphologically different from those obtained at lower pH. Moreover, differences in FTIR spectra were also detected. In addition, only insulin fibrils formed at neutral pH showed the characteristic blue-green fluorescence generally associated to amyloid fibrils. So far, the molecular origin of this fluorescence phenomenon has not been clarified and different hypotheses have been proposed. In this respect, our data provide experimental evidence that allow identifying the molecular origin of such intrinsic property.

1 January 2013 in Materials Science and Engineering: C
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IDI. Delfino
I. Delfino
MPMarianna Bianca Emanuela Portaccio
Marianna Bianca Emanuela Portaccio
BVBartolomeo Della Ventura
Bartolomeo Della Ventura
DMDamiano Gustavo Mita
Damiano Gustavo Mita
Maria LeporeMaria Lepore
Maria Lepore

1 January 2011 in Chemosphere
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LML. Mita
L. Mita
MBM. Bianco
M. Bianco
EVEmanuela Viggiano
Emanuela Viggiano
FZF. Zollo
F. Zollo
UBU. Bencivenga
U. Bencivenga
DMDamiano Gustavo Mita
Damiano Gustavo Mita