Selected Papers

1. P. Mariani, V. Luzzati and H. Delacroix: "Cubic phases of lipid - containing systems: structure analysis and biological implications". J. Mol. Biol., 204, 165-189 (1988).
    

2. P. Mariani: "The cubic phases". Current Opin. Structural Biology, 1, 501-505 (1991).
    

3. H. Delacroix, J.M. Gilli, I. Erk, P. Mariani: "Structure analysis of a quenched Blue phase I using electron microscopy". Physical Review Letters, 69, 2935-2938 (1992).
    

4. P. Mariani and L. Saturni: "Measurement of intercolumnar forces beween parallel guanosine four-stranded helices". Biophysical Journal, 70, 1-8 (1996).
    

5. P. Mariani, B. Paci, P. Bosecke, C. Ferrero, M. Lorenzen and R. Caciuffo: "The effects of hydrostatic pressure on the monoolein-water system: an estimate of the energy function of the inverted Ia3d cubic phase". Physical Review E, 54, 5840-5843 (1996).
    

6. R. Casadio, E. Polverini, P. Mariani, F. Spinozzi, F. Carsughi, A. Fontana, P. Polverino de Laureto, G. Matteucci, C. M. Bergamini,: "The structural basis for regulation of tissue transglutaminase by Calcium ions". European Journal of Biochemistry, 262, 672-679 (1999).
    

7. G. Proni, G. Gottarelli, P. Mariani, G. P. Spada: "The chirality of the cholesteric phase of DNA and G-wires: its connection to their molecular structures". Chemistry Eur. J. , 6, 3249-3253 (2000).
    

8. S. Pieraccini, G. Gottarelli, P. Mariani, S. Masiero, L. Saturni, G. P. Spada: "Columnar lyomesophases formed in hydrocarbon solvents by chiral lipophilic guanosine-alkali metal complexes: a model of ion channels". Chirality, 13, 7-12 (2001).
    

9. M. Pisani, S. Bernstorff, C. Ferrero, P. Mariani: "Pressure induced cubic-to-cubic phase transition in monoolein hydrated system". Journal Phys. Chem. B, 105, 3109-3119 (2001).
    

10. E. Mezzina, P. Mariani, R. Itri, S. Masiero, S. Pieraccini, G.P. Spada, F. Spinozzi, J.T. Davis, G. Gottarelli: "The self-assembly of a lipophilic guanosine nucleoside into polymeric columnar aggregates: the nucleoside structure contains sufficient information to drive the process towards a strikingly regular polymer. Chemistry Eur. J., 7, 388-395 (2001).
     

11. S. Cinelli, F. Spinozzi, R. Itri, S. Finet, F. Carsughi, G. Onori, P. Mariani. "Structural Characterisation of the pH-Denatured States of Ferricytochrome-c by Synchrotron Small Angle X-Ray Scattering". Biophys. Journal, 81, 3522-3533 (2001).
     

12. M. Pisani, T. Narayanan, G. M. Di Gregorio, C. Ferrero, S. Finet, P. Mariani: "Compressing inverse lyotropic systems: structural behavior and energetics of dioleoyl phosphatidyl ethanolamine", Phys. Rev. E, 68: 21924(1)-21924(11) (2003).
     

13. E. Occhipinti, P. L. Martelli, F. Spinozzi, F. Corsi, C. Formantici, L. Molteni, H. Amenitsch, P. Mariani, P. Tortora and R. Casadio: "3D Structure of Sulfolobus solfataricus Carboxypeptidase developed by Molecular Modelling is confirmed by Site-directed Mutagenesis and Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering". Biophysical Journal, 85: 1165-1175 (2003).
     

14. F. Spinozzi, E. Maccioni, C. V. Teixeira, H. Amenitsch, R. Favilla, M. Goldoni, P. Di Muro, B. Salvato, P. Mariani, M. Beltramini: "Synchrotron SAXS studies on the structural stability of carcinus aestuarii hemocyanin in solution". Biophysical Journal, 85, 2661-2672 (2003).
     

15. F. Federiconi, P. Ausili, G. Fragneto, C. Ferrero, P. Mariani. “Locating counterions in guanosine quadruplexes: a contrast-variation neutron diffraction experiment in condensed hexagonal phase”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 109: 11037-11045 (2005).
     

16. M.G. Ortore, F. Spinozzi, F. Carsughi, P. Mariani, M. Bonetti, and G. Onori. “High pressure SANS study of the aggregation state of b-LG in water / ethylene-glycol solutions”, Chemical Physics Letters, 418, 342-346 (2005).
     

17. L. Paccamiccio, M. Pisani, F. Spinozzi, C. Ferrero, S. Finet, P. Mariani. “Pressure effects on lipidic direct phases: the dodecyltrimethyl ammonium chloride-water system”. J. Phys. Chem. B, 110, 12410-12418 (2006)
     

18. M. Rappolt, G.M. Di Gregorio, M. Almgren, H. Amenitsch, G. Pabst, P. Laggner, and P. Mariani: “Non-equilibrium formation of the cubic Pn3m phase in a monoolein/water system”. Europhysics Letters, 75, 267-273 (2006)
     

19. F. Spinozzi, P. Mariani, L. Saturni, F. Carsughi, S. Bernstorff, S. Cinelli, and G. Onori. “Met-myoglobin association in dilute solution during pressure-induced denaturation: an analysis at pH 4.5 by high-pressure small-angle X-ray scattering”. Journal Physical Chemistry, in press (2007).
     

20. R. Sinibaldi, M.G. Ortore, F. Spinozzi, F. Carsughi, H. Frielinghaus, S. Cinelli, G. Onori, P. Mariani. “Preferential hydration of lysozyme in water/glycerol mixtures: a small-angle neutron scattering study”. Journal of Chemical Physics, in press (2007).