… (a) Optical and fluorescence microscopy image of a labeled ubiquicidin analogue (visible
by the green fluorescence) selectively binding to S. aureus bacteria, in co-culture with isolated …

… Filippo Savini and Sara Bobone contributed equally to this study. … Filippo Savini received
a B.Sc. degree in Biology (2011) and a MSc in Molecular and Cellular Biology (2014), from the …

… This value is maximum when the probe’s dynamics is restricted and/or slow (compared to
the fluorescence lifetime), and approaches zero when the fluorophore’s motions are fast and …

In this study, several proteins (albumin, lysozyme, insulin) and model compounds (Trp, Tyr,
homopolypeptides) were used to demonstrate the origin of the fluorescence observed upon …

… N, O, C and S atoms are colored in blue, red, gray and … N, O, C and S atoms are colored
in blue, red, gray and yellow … N, O, C and S atoms are colored in blue, red, gray and yellow …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) selectively kill bacteria by disrupting their cell membranes,
and are promising compounds to fight drug-resistant microbes. Biophysical studies on model …

… coli ATCC 25922 and the Gram-positive S. epidermidis ATCC 12228 were evaluated by …
coli and S. epidermidis were grown in MHB at 37 C to a mid-log phase (6 × 10 8 and 2 × 10 …

… The integration time was always 1 s with a step size of 1 nm. All spectra were corrected by …
equal to λ ; however, according to Kasha’s rule the shape of the emission spectrum of a single …

Several bioactive peptides exert their biological function by interacting with cellular membranes.
Structural data on their location inside lipid bilayers are thus essential for a detailed …

… Image time-stacks of 100 scans were collected at time intervals of 1.155 s per frame (4.325
ms per line). For each sample, a total of six measurements at different positions were …