• Photocontrol of the β-Hairpin Polypeptide Structure through an Optimized Azobenzene-Based Amino Acid Analogue 

      Parlato, Raffaella; Volarić, Jana; Lasorsa, Alessia; Bagherpoor Helabad, Mahdi; Kobauri, Piermichele; Jain, Greeshma; Miettinen, Markus; Feringa, Ben L.; Szymanski, Wiktor; van der Wel, Patrick C. A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      A family of neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington’s disease (HD) and spinocerebellar ataxias, are associated with an abnormal polyglutamine (polyQ) expansion in mutant proteins that become prone to form amyloid-like ...