Direct immobilization of an engineered Bacillus subtilis Lipase A variant: evaluation of substrate specificity, solvent stability and peptide synthesis

K Rodríguez-Núñez, M Barraza, P Vásquez… - Process …, 2024 - Elsevier
Enzyme-mediated peptide synthesis is a promising alternative for current industrial
requirements, mainly due to its potential for increasing process sustainability and efficiency …

Prebiotic dimer and trimer peptide formation in gas-phase atmospheric nanoclusters of water

SE Harold, SL Warf, GC Shields - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Insight into the origin of prebiotic molecules is key to our understanding of how living
systems evolved into the complex network of biological processes on Earth. By modelling …

Water is a radiation protection agent for ionised pyrrole

M Johny, CA Schouder, A Al-Refaie, L He… - Physical Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Radiation-induced damage of biological matter is an ubiquitous problem in nature. The
influence of the hydration environment is widely discussed, but its exact role remains …

On peptide bond formation from protonated glycine dimers in the gas phase: computational insight into the role of protonation

L Lavy, D Comte, F Calvo, B Farizon… - Physical Chemistry …, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Peptide bond formation from the pure protonated glycine dimer, H+ (Gly) 2, and from the
mixed protonated glycine–diglycine dimer, H+ Gly2 (Gly), was recently found experimentally …

Water molecule elimination from the protonated methanol dimer ion—An example of a size-selective intracluster reaction

T Salbaing, D Comte, L Lavy, H Lissillour… - The Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The abundance of extraterrestrial methanol makes the reaction between methanol
molecules in a molecular cluster a possible key step in the search for mechanisms for the …

Density Functional Theory Calculations on the Interstellar Formation of Biomolecules

Q Liao, J Wang, P Xie, E Liang… - Research in Astronomy …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Density functional theory (DFT) is the most versatile electronic structure method used in
quantum chemical calculations, and is increasingly applied in astrochemical research. This …

Protonated molecular clusters: promoting molecular complexity

D Comte, L Lavy, L Parrado-Ospina, H Lissillour… - Physica …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Molecules identified in Space display a diversity greater than ever, yet the mechanisms
responsible for this complexity remain largely unknown. The extreme conditions faced by …