Publications by Luciano Andres Abriata

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Building blocks for commodity augmented reality-based molecular visualization and modeling in web browsers

For years, immersive interfaces using virtual and augmented reality (AR) for molecular visualization and modeling have promised a revolution in the way how we teach, learn, communicate and work in chemistry, structural biology and related areas. However, m ...

2020

Population Structure, Molecular Epidemiology, and beta-Lactamase Diversity among Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Isolates in the United States

Luciano Andres Abriata

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is a Gram-negative, nonfermenting, environmental bacillus that is an important cause of nosocomial infections, primarily associated with the respiratory tract in the immunocompromised population. Aiming to understand the popula ...

2019

3D architecture and structural flexibility revealed in the subfamily of large glutamate dehydrogenases by a mycobacterial enzyme

Luciano Andres Abriata

Glutamate dehydrogenases (GDHs) are widespread metabolic enzymes that play key roles in nitrogen homeostasis. Large glutamate dehydrogenases composed of 180kDa subunits (L-GDHs(180)) contain long N- and C-terminal segments flanking the catalytic core. Desp ...

2021

Reviewing Challenges of Predicting Protein Melting Temperature Change Upon Mutation Through the Full Analysis of a Highly Detailed Dataset with High-Resolution Structures

Luciano Andres Abriata

Predicting the effects of mutations on protein stability is a key problem in fundamental and applied biology, still unsolved even for the relatively simple case of small, soluble, globular, monomeric, two-state-folder proteins. Many articles discuss the li ...

2021

Sustainable Refining of Vegetable Oil Made Easy with a Designer Phospholipase C Enzyme

Luciano Andres Abriata

The increasing demand pressures the vegetable oil industry to develop novel refining methods. Degumming with type C phospholipases (PLCs) is a green technology and provides extra oil. However, natural PLCs are not active under the harsh conditions used in ...

2023

De novo development of proteolytically resistant therapeutic peptides for oral administration

Christian Heinis, Florence Pojer, Luciano Andres Abriata, Xudong Kong, Kaycie Marie Butler, Vanessa Carle

The oral administration of peptide drugs is hampered by their metabolic instability and limited intestinal uptake. Here, we describe a method for the generation of small target-specific peptides (less than 1,600 Da in size) that resist gastrointestinal pro ...

2020

How Structural and Physicochemical Determinants Shape Sequence Constraints in a Functional Enzyme

Matteo Dal Peraro, Luciano Andres Abriata

The need for interfacing structural biology and biophysics to molecular evolution is being increasingly recognized. One part of the big problem is to understand how physics and chemistry shape the sequence space available to functional proteins, while sati ...

Public Library Science2015

An experiment-informed signal transduction model for the role of the Staphylococcus aureus MecR1 protein in beta-lactam resistance

Matteo Dal Peraro, Luciano Andres Abriata

The treatment of hospital- and community-associated infections by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a perpetual challenge. This Gram-positive bacterium is resistant specifically to beta-lactam antibiotics, and generally to many other an ...

Springer Nature2019

Beyond the coupled distortion model: structural analysis of the single domain cupredoxin AcoP, a green mononuclear copper centre with original features

Luciano Andres Abriata

Cupredoxins are widely occurring copper-binding proteins with a typical Greek-key beta barrel fold. They are generally described as electron carriers that rely on a T1 copper centre coordinated by four ligands provided by the folded polypeptide. The discov ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

A look beyond the QR code of SNARE proteins

Matteo Dal Peraro, Luciano Andres Abriata

Soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor Attachment protein REceptor (SNARE) proteins catalyze the fusion process of vesicles with target membranes in eukaryotic cells. To do this, they assemble in a zipper-like fashion into stable complexes between the m ...

2024

How Technologies Assisted Science Learning at Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Luciano Andres Abriata

As most other aspects of life, education was strongly affected by the lockdowns imposed to slow down the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers at all levels of education suddenly faced the challenge of adapting their courses to online versions. This po ...

2022

Molecular dynamics simulations of apocupredoxins: insights into the formation and stabilization of copper sites under entatic control

Matteo Dal Peraro, Luciano Andres Abriata

Cupredoxins perform copper-mediated long-range electron transfer (ET) in biological systems. Their copper-binding sites have evolved to force copper ions into ET-competent systems with decreased reorganization energy, increased reduction potential, and a d ...

Springer2014

GtrA Protein Rv3789 Is Required for Arabinosylation of Arabinogalactan in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Stewart Cole, Matteo Dal Peraro, Luciano Andres Abriata, Claudia Sala, Gaëlle Séraphine Kolly, Mahé Cécile Raccaud, Raju Mukherjee

Mycobacterium tuberculosis possesses a thick and highly hydrophobic cell wall principally composed of a mycolyl-arabinogalactan-peptidoglycan complex, which is critical for survival and virulence. DprE1 is a well-characterized component of decaprenyl-phosp ...

American Society for Microbiology2015

Dissecting the Effects of Concentrated Carbohydrate Solutions on Protein Diffusion, Hydration, and Internal Dynamics

Matteo Dal Peraro, Luciano Andres Abriata, Francesco Piazza, Enrico Spiga

We present herein a thorough description of the effects of high glucose concentrations on the diffusion, hydration and internal dynamics of ubiquitin, as predicted from extensive molecular dynamics simulations on several systems described at fully atomisti ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Molecular Effects of Concentrated Solutes on Protein Hydration, Dynamics, and Electrostatics

Matteo Dal Peraro, Luciano Andres Abriata, Enrico Spiga

Most studies of protein structure and function are performed in dilute conditions, but proteins typically experience high solute concentrations in their physiological scenarios and biotechnological applications. High solute concentrations have well-known e ...

Cell Press2016

Thermal Stabilization of a Bacterial Zn(II)-Dependent Phospholipase C through Consensus Sequence Design

Luciano Andres Abriata

Proteins' extraordinary performance in recognition and catalysis has led to their use in a range of applications. However, proteins obtained from natural sources are oftentimes not suitable for direct use in industrial or diagnostic setups. Natural protein ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Immobilization of the N-terminal helix stabilizes prefusion paramyxovirus fusion proteins

Matteo Dal Peraro, Luciano Andres Abriata

Parainfluenza virus 5 (PIV5) is an enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA virus of the Paramyxoviridae family. PIV5 fusion and entry are mediated by the coordinated action of the receptor-binding protein, hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN), and the f ...

National Academy of Sciences2016

Thermostable phospholipase C: A key to efficient and sustainable enzymatic oil degumming processes

Luciano Andres Abriata

Phospholipase C (PLC) enzymes play a pivotal role in the degumming process of edible oils, which is essential for producing high-quality refined oils. The enzymatic degumming process, compared with conventional chemical methods, offers significant advantag ...

2025

Aerolysin Nanopore Structures Revealed at High Resolution in a Lipid Environment

Matteo Dal Peraro, Luciano Andres Abriata, Maria Josefina Marcaida Lopez, Juan Francisco Bada Juarez, Jana Susanne Anton

Aerolysin is a beta-pore-forming toxin produced by most Aeromonas bacteria, which has attracted large attention in the field of nanopore sensing due to its narrow and charged pore lumen. Structurally similar proteins, belonging to the aerolysin-like family ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2025

Optimization of Conformational Dynamics in an Epistatic Evolutionary Trajectory

Luciano Andres Abriata

The understanding of protein evolution depends on the ability to relate the impact of mutations on molecular traits to organismal fitness. Biological activity and robustness have been regarded as important features in shaping protein evolutionary landscape ...

Oxford Univ Press2016