UNIVERSITY OF ROME "TOR VERGATA"	ITALIAN SOCIETY OF BIOCHEMISTRY

OL RNA-BINDING PROTEINS: STRUCTURE AND RECOGNITION FROM EARLY DEVELOPMENT TO PRE-SENILE DEMENTIA
Gabriele Varani, Paul Cole, Andres Ramos and Luca Varani

I-1 STRUCTURAL BASIS FOR e^-/H⁺ COOPERATIVITY: THE REDOX-BOHR EFFECT
António V. Xavier

I-2 STRUCTURE, DYNAMICS AND FOLDING OF PARAMAGNETIC METALLOPROTEINS
Lucia Banci

I-3 GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE: A COMPLEX IRON-SULFUR FLAVOPROTEIN
M. A. Vanoni, S. Ravasio, H. Stabile, R. Bossi and B. Curti.

I-4 ON THE MOLECULAR EVOLUTION OF NO- AND O₂-REDUCTASES
Alessandro Giuffrè.
 
 

II-1 CASPASE FUNCTION, REGULATION AND INHIBITION
Donald W Nicholson

II-2 NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE REGULATION OF CALCIUM DEPENDENT PROTEOLYTIC SYSTEM
E. Melloni, F. Salamino, R. De Tullio, M. Averna, M. Michetti, B. Sparatore,and S. Pontremoli

II-3 PRELIMINARY STRUCTURAL STUDIES ON ATAXIN-3, A PROTEIN CONTAINING GLUTAMINE REPEATS RESPONSIBLE FOR A NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE
S. Pozzuolo, A. Insinga, R. Razzini, G. Vecchio, A. Servadio and P. Tortora

II-4 THE HEPATITIS C VIRUS NS3 PROTEASE
Christian Steinkühler, Mirko Brunetti, Gabriella Biasiol, Paola Gallinari, Antonello Pessi, Gaetano Barbato, Daniel Cicero, Renzo Bazzo, Daniela Fattori, Uwe Koch, Frank Narjes, Victor G. Matassa, Raffaele De Francesco
 
 

III-1 STRUCTURE AND STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN RHODOPSIN INVESTIGATED BY SITE-DIRECTED SPIN LABELING
Christian Altenbach and Wayne L. Hubbell

III-2 SOLVENT-BIOMOLECULE DYNAMICS: A NEUTRON SCATTERING-COMPUTER SIMULATION COMBINED APPROACH
S. Cannistraro

III-3 RECENT ADVANCES IN PROTEIN ANALYSIS: THE USE OF AUTOMATED MULTIDIMENSIONAL CHROMATOGRAPHY AND MASS SPECTROMETRY FOR THE RAPID IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PROTEINS
George J. Vella

III-4 TWO PHOTON FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
A. Diaspro, M. Corosu and M. Robello
 
 

IV-1 STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND REGULATION OF HETEROTRIMERIC G PROTEINS
Heidi E. Hamm

IV-2 PROTEIN KINASE STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS: A THOUSAND AND ONE VARIATIONS ON THE THEME ?
Lorenzo A. Pinna

IV-3 Ca²⁺  TRANSPORT AND Ca²⁺ REGULATION OF PHOTOTRANSDUCTION IN RODS
G. Rispoli, F. Noceti, L. Cavallini and A. Moriondo

IV-4 Ca²⁺- MEDIATED SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION BY SORCIN, A MEMBER OF THE PENTA EF-HAND FAMILY. TOPOLOGY OF THE INTERACTION WITH A PHYSIOLOGICAL TARGET, THE RYANODINE RECEPTOR
Carlotta Zamparelli, Daniela Verzili , Andrea Ilari, Gianni Colotti, Valentina Scippa and Emilia Chiancone
 
 

CR PROTEINS AT THE TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM: THE OUTLINE OF A BOOK I SHOULD LIKE TO READ
Remarks by Paolo M. Fasella
 
 

A01 TISSUE-SPECIFIC ISOFORMS OF FERREDOXIN-NADP⁺ REDUCTASE: STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES
A. Aliverti, C. Ferioli, D. Raimondi, M. Spinola, A. Negri, G. Zanetti

A02 EXPRESSION IN ESCHERICHIA COLI OF fprA, A MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS GENE ENCODING A FERREDOXIN REDUCTASE SIMILAR TO MAMMALIAN ADRENODOXIN REDUCTASE
A. Aliverti, F. Fischer, S. Ravasio, M. A. Vanoni, R. Cantoni, M. Branzoni, G. Riccardi, B. Curti, G. Zanetti

A03 ISOLATION OF AN HEME-BINDING ENZYME FROM HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI
Andrea Battistoni, Francesca Pacello, Simon Kroll, Assunta Sansone, Paul Langford and Giuseppe Rotilio

A04 INHIBITION OF AMINE OXIDASES ACTIVITY BY SOME PYRAZOLE DERIVATIVES
O. Befani, A. De Giorgio, P. Turini, F. Manna, F. Chimenti, A. Bolasco, B. Bizzarri and B. Mondovì

A05 ISOLATION OF MEMBRANE-BOUND AND SOLUBLE FET3 PROTEINS WITH HIGH FERROXIDASE ACTIVITY FROM THE YEAST Pichia pastoris
Maria Carmela Bonaccorsi di Patti, Gian Carlo Bellenchi, Pamela Bielli and Lilia Calabrese

A06 ENGINEERING OF THE AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII RHODANESE TO ASSESS THE ROLE OF THR232
R.Colnaghi, A.Carpen, G. Cassinelli, F. Forlani and S. Pagani

A07 BIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND PARTIAL cDNA SEQUENCING OF AN AMINE OXIDASE FROM KLUYVEROMYCES MARXIANUS
D. Corpillo, F.Valetti, A. Rossi, A.Finazzi Agrò and C. Giunta

A08 CATALYTIC MECHANISM OF BOVINE SERUM AMINE OXIDASE
G De Matteis, E Agostinelli, B Mondovì and L Morpurgo

A09 PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CYTOCHROME C552 FROM AEROBICALLY GROWN PSEUDOMONAS NAUTICA 617 CELLS
Luana Di Leandro, Giuseppina Pitari, Bruno Maras and  Francesco Malatesta

A10 RESOLUTION OF PHENOL HYDROXYLASE OF  ACINETOBACTER RADIO-RESISTENS INTO THREE COMPONENT: ISOLATION OF THE OXYGENASE COMPONENT
Divari S., Pessione E., Griva E., Cavaletto M. and Giunta C.

A11 A NOVEL FUNCTION FOR FALS-LINKED Cu,Zn SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE MUTANTS
Alberto Ferri, Roberta Gabbianelli, Francesco Calvaruso, Giuseppe Rotilio and Maria Teresa Carrì

A12 OVEREXPRESSION OF PERIPLASMIC Cu,Zn SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE PROTECTS Escherichia coli FROM CADMIUM TOXICITY
Silvia Folcarelli, Andrea Battistoni, and Giuseppe Rotilio

A13 PROTEIN ENGINEERING OF NITRITE REDUCTASE FROM Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Grasso, S., Cutruzzolà, F., Arese, M., Wilson, E. K, Bellelli, A., and Brunori, M.

A14 THE ASYMMETRIC Fe(III) BINDING TO ONE OF THE THREE b SUBUNITS IN F1ATPASE IS CHARACTERISTIC OF THE WHOLE COMPLEX
G. Lippe, F. Di Pancrazio, S. Contessi, N. Bortolotti, E. Bauerlein and I. Mavelli

A15AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE: IDENTIFICATION OF SUBSTRATES AND COFACTORS BINDING SITES BY SITE-DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS
P. Morandi, B. Valzasina, C. Colombo, M. A. Vanoni and B. Curti

A16 EXPRESSION AND PARTIAL PURIFICATION OF THE COMPLEX OF TOLUENE/O- XYLENE-MONOOXYGENASE (TOMO) FROM Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1
Eugenio Notomista, Rossano Fusiello, Paola Barbieri and Alberto Di Donato

A17 PERIPLASMIC Cu,Zn SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE ENHANCES BACTERIAL SURVIVAL WITHIN NON-PROFESSIONAL PHAGOCYTES
Francesca Pacello, Andrea Battistoni, Giovanna Donnarumma, Maria Ajello,  Fabiana Superti, Piera Valenti, and Giuseppe Rotilio

A18 SUBSTRATE INACTIVATED BOVINE SERUM AMINE OXIDASE
P Pietrangeli, S Nocera, P Fattibene, XT Wang, B Mondovì, L Morpurgo

A19 PHOTOPHYSICAL AND STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF  PEPTIDE SANDWICHED PROTOPORPHYRIN AS PRECURSOR OF HEMOPROTEIN  MODELS
B. Pispisa, M. Venanzi, L. Stella, A. Palleschi and G. Zanotti

A20 ENGINEERING OF PYRIDINE NUCLEOTIDE SPECIFICITY OF FERREDOXIN-NADP⁺ REDUCTASE
L. Piubelli, A. Aliverti, N. Carrillo, E. Ceccarelli, P.A. Karplus, and G. Zanetti

A21 ACTIVE SITE AND REACTION MECHANISM OF Rhodotorula gracilis D-AMINO ACID OXIDASE: A CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC AND SITE-DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS APPROACH
L Pollegioni, G Molla, D Porrini, V Job, L Motteran, S Sacchi, A Boselli, S Fantinato and M S Pilone

A22 KINETIC MECHANISM OF CHOLESTEROL OXIDASE FROM Streptomyces hygroscopicus  AND Brevibacterium sterolicum
L Pollegioni, G Molla, S Rizzi, L Motteran, S Ghisla and M S Pilone

A23 ONE ELECTRON REDUCTION OF AMINE OXIDASE
M. Ragaa Ragab, El Said El Sherbini, Peter O’Nell, and Alessandro Finazzi Agrò

A24 STRUCTURE AND REACTIVITY OF REDOX METALLO PROTEINS ENCAPSULATED IN SOL-GEL SILICA GLASS
I Savini, R Santucci, A Di Venere, N Rosato and L Avigliano.

A25 PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SUBUNITS B AND D OF THE COMPLEX OF TOLUENE/O-XYLENE-MONOOXYGENASE (TOMO) FROM Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1
Roberta Scognamiglio, Eugenio Notomista, Paola Barbieri, Piero Pucci, Fabrizio Dal Piaz and Alberto Di Donato

A26 PHENOL HYDROXYLASE REDUCTASE: IONIC STRENGHT DEPENDENCE OF REACTION KINETICS WITH CYTOCHROME C
Valetti F., Divari S., Griva E., Giunta C. and Gilardi G.
 
 

B01 PREDICTION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE OF ANCROD
G Boumis, B Vallone and G Amiconi

B02 MODULATION BY PROTONS OF THE FUNCTIONAL CATALYTIC PROPERTIES IN MMP-2, MMP-8 AND MMP-9 WITH SYNTHETIC AND NATURAL SUBSTRATES.
Massimo Coletta, Giovanni Francesco Fasciglione, Stefano Marini, Giampiero De Sanctis, Silvana D’Alessio, and Vincenzo Politi

B03 AMINO ACID SEQUENCE, REACTIVE SITES AND SECONDARY STRUCTURE OF A NOVEL WHEAT PROTEINASE INHIBITOR
S Di Gennaro, A Di Maro, A Facchiano, F Farisei, P Ferranti, P Parente, V Buonocore  and  E Poerio

B04 STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL COMPARISON BETWEEN HUMAN AND BOVINE TRYPTASES: INTERACTION WITH LDTI
F. Erba, L. Fiorucci, C. P. Sommerhoff, M. Coletta and F. Ascoli

B05 SERIN-PROTEINASE INHIBITOR ACTIVITIES IN TOMATO PLANTS TRANSGENIC FOR KUNITZ (KTI3) AND BOWMAN BIRK (Pi-IV) GENES AND THEIR EFFECT ON HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA LARVAE DEVELOPMENT
F Farisei, R Caccia, S Di Gennaro, E Poerio, C Pucci, M Schettino and GP Soressi

B06 SPIN-TRAPPING AGENT a-PHENYL N-TERT-BUTYLNITRONE AS INHIBITOR OF TRYPSIN AND ENHANCER OF THE OXIDATIVE DEGRADATION OF THE ENZYME BY HEPARIN
P Finotti, C Corvaja and A Pagetta

B07 ON THE PROCESSING ACTIVITY OF TRYPTASE: THE CASE OF BPTI
L. Fiorucci, M. Pallaoro, G. Caughey and F. Ascoli

B08 ENGINEERING AND CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS OF A TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN: THE HEPATITIS C VIRUS NS3 PROTEASE COFACTOR NS4A
Raffaele Ingenito, Elisabetta Bianchi, Reyna J. Simon, Stephen B. Kent and Antonello Pessi

B09 STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE TWO MAIN SPECIES OF b2-MICROGLOBULIN IDENTIFIED IN NATURAL AMYLOID FIBRILS
P. Mangione, G. Esposito, G. Ferri, G. Merlini, R. Michelutti, M. Stoppini, G. Verdone, P. Viglino, V Bellotti

B10 EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT POLYPHENOLS ON CD95(FAS/APO-1) SYSTEM
M Russo, R Palumbo, I Tedesco, G Iacomino, P Russo, and G L Russo
 
 

C01 PROTEOME APPROACH TO MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS
L. Bini, S. Liberatori, B. Magi, B. Marzocchi, R. Raggiaschi, V. Pallini

C02 MIMOTOPES OF MUSCLE NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BINDING SITE
L. Bracci, A. Pini, A. Spreafico, L. Lozzi, B. Lelli, P. Battestin and P. Neri

C03 EFFECTS OF LMW-PTP PHOSPHORYLATION AT Tyr131 OR Tyr132
M. Bucciantini, P. Chiarugi, P. Cirri, L. Taddei, M. Stefani, G. Raugei and G. Ramponi

C04 STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF VOLKENSIN, A TYPE-2 RIP ISOLATED FROM THE ROOTS OF Adenia volkensii
A. Chambery, A. Di Maro, M. Mastronicola, P. Ferranti, A. Parente & F. Stirpe

C05 MECHANISM OF FRUCTOSE-1,6-BISPHOSPHATE TRANSPORT IN THE RAT HEART INVOLVES THE PROTEIN CARRIER OF DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS
D Di Pierro, B Tavazzi, C Hardin, AM Amorini, G Fazzina, G Lazzarino, B. Giardina and MJ Rovetto

C06 STRUCTURE-AFFINITY RELATIONSHIPS OF SUBSTRATES FOR THE NEUTRAL AMINO ACID TRANSPORT IN BOMBYX MORI ANTERIOR MIDGUT
M. Forcella, G. Hanozet, A. Pugliese, S.A. Achmad, E.H. Hakim, L. Makmur and P. Parenti

C07 PHAGE-DERIVED NON-NEUTRALIZING ANTI-P21-RAS INTRACELLULAR ANTIBODIES INHIBIT RAS FUNCTION IN VIVO
M. Lener, I. Horn, A. Cardinale, S. Messina, H. Hoogenboom, A. Cattaneo and S. Biocca

C08 ENTRAPMENT IN LIPOSOMES OF FITC-LABELLED RIBOSOME-INACTIVATING PROTEINS
G Marcozzi, R Ippoliti, A Tucci, L Spanò, A Poma

C09 STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF C-TERMINAL REGION OF b-SUBUNIT OF PROTEINKINASE CK2. A STUDY WITH LARGE SYNTHETIC PEPTIDES
O Marin, M Boschetti, P Polverino de Laureto, F Meggio and L A Pinna

C10 DOES ENDOGENOUS NITROGEN MONOXIDE (NO) CONTROL CELL RESPIRATION ?
Daniela Mastronicola, Andrea Bellelli, Cristina Zona, Eugenio Lendaro, Rodolfo Ippoliti, Fang Xu, Thomas J.J. Blanck, Maurizio Brunori and Paolo Sarti

C11 IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MILK FAT GLOBULES MEMBRANES PROTEINS FROM 2D GEL ELECTROPHORESIS SINGLE SPOT
S. Quaranta, A. Conti, L. Napolitano, M. Cavaletto, C. Giunta, J. Godovac-Zimmermann and M.G. Giuffrida

C12 CLONING OF A GENE ENCODING PHOSPHOLIPASE D FROM STREPTOMYCES PMF
C. Zambonelli, P. Morandi, M. A. Vanoni, S. Servi, F. Ceciliani, B. Curti and G. Carrea
 
 

D01 STUDIES ON TYROSYL RESIDUES OF A PROTEIN INHIBITOR OF PECTIN METHYLESTERASE BY FLUORESCENCE AND SECOND DERIVATIVE UV SPECTROSCOPY
C. Balestrieri, A. Giovane, L. Quagliuolo and L. Servillo

D02 THE 0.97 Å RESOLUTION CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF CYTOCHROME C-553 FROM B. pasteurii STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
S. Benini, W.R. Rypniewski, K.S. Wilson, S. Ciurli

D03 DETERMINANTS OF CLUSTER AND FOLDING STABILITY IN RUBREDOXIN
Francesco Bonomi, Stefania Iametti, Dimitrios Fessas, Marly K. Eisdness, Quien Z. Zeng, Robert A. Scott, Donald M. Kurtz, Jr

D04 THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE RHODANESE FROM Azotobacter vinelandii
Domenico Bordo, Rita Colnaghi, Daniela Deriu, Aristodemo Carpen, Silvia Pagani and Martino Bolognesi

D05 TRANSGLUTAMINASE-CROSSLINKING AND STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF THE HUMAN SMALL PROLINE RICH 3 PROTEIN
E Candi, G Melino,  B Ciani, P Guerrieri,  E Tarcsa, LN Marekov, PM. Steinert , M Sette  and M Paci

D06 STRUCTURAL REQUIREMENTS FOR TRIPHOSPHATE CLEAVAGE BY KINASES AND POLYMERASES
Valentina Cappello and Uwe Koch

D07 ACID-INDUCED DISSOCIATION OF THE UNUSUAL DODECAMERIC FERRITIN FROM Listeria innocua
Chiaraluce, R., Consalvi, V., Cavallo, S., Stefanini, S., and Chiancone, E.

D08 ROLE OF TRP 83 IN THE DIMER STABILITY OF P. leiognathi Cu,Zn SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE
Melania D’Orazio, Andrea Battistoni, Francesca Polizio, Mariano Venanzi, Giu-seppe Rotilio, and Alessandro Desideri

D09 STRUCTURAL STUDIES ON COMPLEX OLIGOMERS BY SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING
E. Dainese, D. Svergun, M. Beltramini, P. Di Muro and B. Salvato

D10 POTENTIAL BINDING SITES OF LACTATE ON METMYOGLOBIN PREDICTED BY A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH
M. Cristina De Rosa, Andrea Brancaccio, Alessandro Pompili, Alessandro Lupi and Bruno Giardina

D11 DENATURED STATES OF HEMOGLOBIN: THE XANES APPROACH
S Della Longa, I Ascone, A Bertollini, G Boumis, A Congiu Castellano, E Lendaro & G Amiconi

D12 X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY STUDY OF THR72->ILE MUTANT HEMOGLOBIN FROM Scapharca inaequivalvis
S. Della Longa, I. Ascone, A. Gambacurta, A. Bertollini, M. Girasole, A. Congiu Castellano, and F. Ascoli

D13 SPECTROSCOPIC FEATURES AND THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY OF TISSUE TRANSGLUTAMINASE: A FLUORESCENCE AND CIRCULAR DICHROISM STUDY
A Di Venere, G Mei, A Rossi, N Rosato and A Finazzi Agrò

D14 SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES AND MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF INSULIN. EVIDENCE OF INSULIN-GLUCOSE INTERACTION
M Falconi, MT Cambria, A Cambria, M Bozzi, M Sette and A Desideri

D15 A MODEL FOR THE INCORPORATION OF METAL FROM THE COPPER CHAPERONE CCS INTO Cu, Zn SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE
M Falconi, M Iovino and A Desideri

D16 THE BINDING OF HEMIN TO HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN: A COMBINED NMR AND COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH
Mauro Fasano, Giuseppe Digilio and Silvio Aime

D17 THERMAL UNFOLDING OF MONOMERIC AND DIMERIC BETALACTOGLOBULINS
Stefania Iametti, Francesco Bonomi, Dimitrios Fessas, Alberto Schiraldi

D18 INFLUENCE OF IONIC STRENGTH AND EXTREME ACID PH ON THE STRUCTURE OF CYTOCHROME C" AND CYTOCHROME C: A SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY
C Indiani, M Coletta, H Costa, G De Sanctis, G Smulevich, F Neri, D L Turner, and H Santos

D19 LIMITED PROTEOLYSIS AS A POWERFUL TOOL FOR PROBING FLEXIBLE OLIGOPEPTIDE PORTIONS AMONG  DIFFERENT CLASSES OF GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASES
M. Lo Bello,  M. Nuccetelli,  C. Capo,  C. Evangelisti,  R. Petruzzelli and G. Ricci

D20 EVALUATION OF WATER RESIDENCE TIME ON AZURIN SURFACE BY MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION
A.Luise, M. Falconi and A. Desideri

D21 THE PRION "EXPANDED BOX" A STRUCTURAL LINK BETWEEN PROTEIN FOLDING AND NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES
S Melino, C Capo, B Dragani, M Paci, A Aceto and R Petruzzelli

D22 DESIGN, EXPRESSION AND FOLDING STUDIES OF A CHIMERA MYOGLOBIN
R. Musto, C. Travaglini Allocatelli, F. Cutruzzolà, M.G. Bigotti, L. Federici
and M. Brunori

D23 MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF HUMAN GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE P1-1: ANALYSIS OF THE INDUCED FIT MECHANISM BY LIGAND BINDING
M Nicotra, L Stella, N Rosato, E E Di Iorio and G Ricci

D24 PROBING THE H-SITE OF HUMAN GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE  P1-1 BY SITE-DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS OF VAL 10 AND VAL 35.
M. Nuccetelli,  A. P. Mazzetti,  C. Micaloni,  F. Pichiorri,  G. Antonini, A.M. Caccuri, G. Ricci and  M. Lo Bello

D25 ANOMERIC SPECIFICITY OF THE NEURAMINIDASE FROM SENDAI VIRUS
C. Pasti, T. Bellini, V. Lanzara, and F. Dallocchio

D26 STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF GOAT  MILK FOLATE-BINDING PROTEIN
Massimiliano Perduca, Alessandro Zenti, Monica Galliano, Lorenzo Minchiotti, Monica Campagnoli, Angela Amoresano, Piero Pucci, Alessandro Coda and Hugo L. Monaco

D27 CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF TWO ANCESTRAL GLOBINS, FROM UNICELLULAR ALGAE AND FROM PARAMECIA, THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF MAD TECHNIQUES
Pesce,A., Guertin,M., Moens,L., DeWilde,S., Bolognesi,M.

D28 X-RAY STRUCTURE OF P. leiognathi Cu,Zn SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE MUTATATED ON THE INTERFACE AREA
A. Pesce, M.E. Stroppolo, D. Bordo, C.Rosano, M. Bolognesi and A. Desideri

D29 TRIFLUOROETHANOL-ASSISTED  PROTEIN  FOLDING:  FRAGMENT  53-103 OF  BOVINE a-LACTALBUMIN
P. Polverino de Laureto, M. Donadi, E. Scaramella and A. Fontana

D30 STEPWISE REMOVAL OF THE b-SUBDOMAIN IN  BOVINE a-LACTALBUMIN
P. Polverino de Laureto, E. Scaramella, D. Vinante and A. Fontana

D31 CHARACTERIZATION OF A TRUNCATED MUTANT OF SSO7D RIBONUCLEASE FROM THE ARCHAEON S. solfataricus
E. Raimondi, E. Shehi, G. Fumagalli, E. Mombelli, S. Vidal, P. Fusi and P.Tortora

D32 COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT MILKS USING TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS
P Roncada and GF Greppi

D33 STRUCTURE OF HUMAN HEXOKINASE I COMPLEX WITH  NON-CATALYTIC ATP: A MECHANISM FOR ENZYME:MEMBRANE ASSOCIATION CONTROL
C. Rosano, E. Sabini, M. Bianchi, G. Bartolucci, G. Serafini, M. Magnani, M.Bolognesi

D34 ASSEMBLY OF TWO CYTOCHROME C PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS INDUCES FORMATION OF A FOLDED STATE WITH NATIVE-LIKE FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES
R. Santucci, L. Fiorucci and F. Ascoli

D35 CHEMICAL  SYNTHESIS  OF  THE  RGD-PROTEIN  DECORSIN: EFFECT  OF  PRO Æ ALA  REPLACEMENT  IN  PROTEIN  THERMOSTABILITY
E. Scaramella, E. Frare, P. Polverino de Laureto, O. Marin, R. Deana, V. De Filippis and A. Fontana

D36 PROTEIN SURFACE ACCESSIBILITY: A 1H-NMR PARAMAGNETIC STUDY
M. Scarselli, A. Bernini, C. Segoni, H. Molinari, G. Esposito, A. M. Lesk, F. Laschi, P. Temussi and N. Niccolai

D37 MASS SPECTROMETRY ANALYSIS OF POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS INVOLVING THE REDOX STATE OF CYSTEINES IN RECOMBINANT PROTEINS
ME Schinina', MC Bonaccorsi di Patti, and B Maras

D38 FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE RECOMBINANT N-TERMINAL DOMAIN OF a-DYSTROGLYCAN LACKING A PUTATIVE PROPEPTIDE REGION
F Sciandra, E Di Stasio, G Macchia, F Di Tommaso, T C Petrucci, B Giardina, D Bozic, and A Brancaccio

D39 MOLECULAR DOCKING OF Escherichia coli PTS SYSTEM
Andrea Spallarossa, Martino Bolognesi and Domenico Bordo

D40 MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF HUMAN GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE P1-1: STRUCTURAL FLUCTUATIONS OF THE APOENZYME
L Stella, M Nicotra, E E Di Iorio and G Ricci

D41 LONG TERM INTERACTION IN Cu,Zn SOD FROM P. LEIOGNATHI
Maria Elena Stroppolo, Francesca Polizio, Marco Sette and Alessandro Desideri

D42 PARTLY  FOLDED  STATES  OF  CYTOCHROME  C  PROBED  BY  PROTEOLYSIS
M. Zambonin, F. Dal Santo, V. De Filippis, P. Polverino de Laureto and A. Fontana

D43 ANALYSIS  OF  THE  PARTLY  FOLDED  STATES  OF APOMYOGLOBIN BY LIMITED  PROTEOLYSIS
M. Zambonin, F. Dal Santo, A. Clementi, B. Spolaore, E. Scaramella, V. Bonetto, P. Polverino de Laureto, V. De Filippis and A. Fontana

D44 LIGAND-LINKED CHANGES AT THE SUBUNIT INTERFACE IN NATIVE DIMERIC SCAPHARCA HEMOGLOBIN AND THE PHE97ÆLEU MUTANT. A SULPHYDRYL INFRARED ABSORPTION STUDY.
Laura Guarrera, Gianni Colotti, Emilia Chiancone and Alberto Boffi
 
 

E01 INHIBITORS BEHAVIOUR AGREE WITH THE 3-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE ACTIVE SITE IN 6-PHOSPHOGLUCONATE DEHYDROGENASES
M. Bertelli and S. Hanau

E02 MOLECULAR OXYGEN CONTROLS THE REACTION SPECIFICITY OF PYRIDOXAL 5’-PHOSPHATE-DEPENDENT a-DECARBOXYLASES ON THEIR a-METHYLSUBSTRATES
M Bertoldi, V Carbone and C Borri Voltattorni

E03 BINDING MECHANISM OF GLUTATHIONE TO GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASES
A M Caccuri, G Antonini, M Nicotra, M Lo Bello, G Federici and G Ricci

E04 CYTIDINE DEAMINASE FROM TWO EXTREMOPHILIC BACTERIA: CLONING, EXPRESSION, PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION
A.Cambi, M.Grelloni, J. Neuhard and A. Vita

E05 COPPER-CHELATION AFFECTS THE EXPRESSION OF a-FETOPROTEIN
P. Carlini, M.R. Ciriolo and G. Rotilio

E06 STUDIES ON THE MECHANISM OF MERCURIAL AND ARSENICAL INACTIVATION OF LOW Mr PHOSPHOTYROSINE PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE
A Caselli, R Marzocchini, G Manao, G Camici, and G Ramponi

E07 BINDING OF NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE KINASE TO DNA IN VIVO
L Cervoni, P Pietrangeli, S Coppari, I Lascu and A Giartosio

E08 DECIPHERING BINDING SPECIFICITY MEDIATED BY SMALL PROTEIN RECOGNITION MODULES
G Cesareni, L Castagnoli, L Dente, M Helmer Citterich, A Zucconi Fonseca, S Panni, M Quondam, S Paoluzi, G Cestra, G Nardelli, A Tommasi di Vignano

E09 IN VITRO EXPRESSION, PURIFICATION AND CELLULAR LOCALIZATION OF THE HUMAN UBIQUITIN FUSION-DEGRADATION 1 (UFD1L) GENE
Conti E., Amati F., Bengala M., Mari A., Serafini G., Bartolucci E., Pizzuti A., Dallapiccola B., Novelli G.

E10 FUNCTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS IN ADULT AND FETAL HB J-SARDEGNA[(50(CE8)HIS(ASP]. THE ROLE OF a1b1 CONTACT
M. Corda, M. C. De Rosa, M. G. Pellegrini, M. T. Sanna, A.Olianas, A.Fais, L.Manca, B.Masala, M.Castagnola and B.Giardina.

E11 TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORETIC ANALYSIS OF HUMAN TISSUE TRANSGLUTAMINASE: EFFECTS OF POLYAMINES ON POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS
M.Fabbi, S.Martini, B.Santamaria, A.Bargellesi and M.E.Cosulich

E12 CARBOXYPEPTIDASE FROM Sulfolobus solfataricus: A VERSATILE ENZYME AND A POSSIBLE TOOL IN ORGANIC SYNTHESES
C. Formantici, G. Baietta, M.E. Regonesi, L. Cipolla, F. Nicotra and P. Tortora

E13 DENATURANT GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS ON A TRANSVERSE SDS GRADIENT (SDS-DGGE) FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF PROTEIN - LIGAND COMPLEXES: CARBONIC ANHYDRASE AND SULFONAMIDE INHIBITORS
E. Gianazza, S. Castiglioni, A. Chrambach, I. Eberini, C. R. Sirtori, G. Vecchio

E14 POLYPEPTIDE RETRO-INVERSO-ISOMERS: DETERMINATION OF BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS AND SOLUTION CONFORMATION BY CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS, 1H NMR SPECTROSCOPY AND CIRCULAR DICHROISM
M.T.W. Hearn, I. Messana, F. Misiti, D.V. Rossetti, B. Giardina and M. Castagnola

E15 STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS OF RABIES VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN PEPTIDES BINDING THE NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR
L. Lozzi, L. Bracci, L. Giovannoni and P. Neri

E16 RADIOCHROMATOGRAPHIC ASSAY OF ANANDAMIDE HYDROLASE
M. Maccarrone, M. Bari and A. Finazzi Agrò

E17 EFFECTORS AND TEMPERATURE MODULATION OF OXYGEN TRANSPORT IN POLAR BEAR (Ursus maritimus) HEMOGLOBIN
M Marta, A Colella, M Patamia, M Pomponi, C Bertonati and B Giardina

E18 TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION OF THE BOMBININ GENE EXPRESSION
Rossella Miele, Marina Borro, Daniela Fiocco, Ylva Engström, Donatella Barra and Maurizio Simmaco

E19 THE HAEMOGLOBIN SYSTEM OF Gymnothorax unicolor
A.Olianas, M.Corda, A.Pisano, A.Fais, M.T.Sanna, A.M.Deiana, S.Salvadori, M.Castagnola and M.Pellegrini

E20 ACYLPHOSPHATASE POSSESSES NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATASE AND NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVITIES
P Paoli, G Camici, G Manao, and G Ramponi

E21 LIGAND AND ODOUR CONFORMATIONAL EFFECTS ON PIG ODORANT-BINDING PROTEIN
S Paolini, S D'Auria, A Floridi, P Pelosi and C Fini

E22 SIGMA-CLASS GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE FROM SKIN SECRETION OF Xenopus laevis
A. Pennelli, R. Romagnoli, S. Ortolano, P. Sacchetta, C. Di Ilio, M. Simmaco

E23 THE HEMOGLOBIN FROM POLAR BEAR (Ursus maritimus)
M Pomponi, C Bertonati, A Colella, S Sacchi, M Patamia, M Marta, A Derocher, W Øystein and B Giardina

E24bDYSTROGLYCAN-GRB2 INTERACTION MEASURED BY SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE
K Russo, G Macchia and T C. Petrucci

E25 TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS AS A SOURCE OF ANTIGENS FOR THE SELECTION OF HUMAN ANTIBODIES FROM A PHAGE DISPLAY LYBRARY
A Santucci, A Pini and P Neri

E26 THE ROLE OF THE ACTIVE SITE LYSINE (LYS-276) IN GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE FROM Escherichia coli
A. Tramonti, D. De Biase and F. Bossa

E27 POSSIBLE ROLE OF TWO HYDROPHOBIC AMINOACID RESIDUES IN HUMAN CYTIDINE DEAMINASE
S.Vincenzetti, A. Cambi, M. Grelloni, G. Maury, F. Bertorelle, G. Gaubert, J. Neuhard and Alberto Vita