The curious case of peptide-coordinated iron–sulfur clusters: prebiotic and biomimetic insights
Bonfio C.* Dalton Transactions (2021), 50, 801-807.
Choroid plexus organoids predict CNS drug permeability and reveal human CSF proteins produced by specialised cell types.
Pellegrini L., Bonfio C., Chadwick J., Begum F., Skehel M., Lancaster M. Science (2020), 369, eaaz5626.
Glycerol configurations of environmental GDGTs investigated using a selective sn2 ether cleavage protocol.
Liu X., Russell D. A., Bonfio C., Summons R. E. Organic Geochemistry (2019), 128, 57-62.
Investigation of glutathione-derived electrostatic and hydrogen bonding interactions and their role in defining Grx5 [2Fe-2S] cluster stability, optical spectra and transfer chemistry.
Sen S., Bonfio C., Mansy S. S., Cowan J. A. Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (2018), 23 (2), 241-252.
pH-driven RNA strand separation under prebiotically plausible conditions.
Mariani A., Bonfio C., Johnson C., Sutherland J. D. Biochemistry (2018), 57, 6382-6386.
Prebiotic iron-sulfur peptide catalysts generate a pH gradient across model membranes of late protocells.
Bonfio C., Godino E., Corsini M., Fabrizi De Biani F., Guella G., Mansy S. S. Nature Catalysis (2018), 1, 616-623.
UV light-driven prebiotic synthesis of iron-sulfur clusters.
Bonfio C., Valer L., Scintilla S., Shah S., Evans D. J., Jin L., Szostak J. W., Sasselov D. D., Sutherland J. D., Mansy S. S. Nature Chemistry (2017), 9, 1229-1234.
The chemical roots of iron-sulfur dependent metabolism.
Bonfio C., Mansy S. S. Biochemistry (2017), 56, 5225-5226.
Cysteine containing dipeptides show a metal specificity that matches the composition of seawater.
Belmonte L., Rossetto D., Forlin M., Scintilla S., Bonfio C., Mansy S. S. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2016), 18, 20104-8.
Duplications of an Iron-Sulfur Tripeptide Leads to the Formation of a Protoferredoxin.
Scintilla S., Bonfio C., Belmonte L., Forlin M., Rossetto D., Li J., Cowan J. A., Galliani A., Arnesano F., Assfalg M., Mansy S. S. Chemical Communications (2016), 52, 13456-13459.