Are amyloid fibers very stiff or do they "breathe"? Teams from the Bordeaux and Grenoble sites used isotopic labeling and NMR of solids to show that the core of amyloid fibers is very rigid over long time scales. In contrast, surface hydrophobic side chains flip over a wide range of time scales.
The INFRANALYTICS research infrastructure is pleased to announce that the 1,2 GHz NMR spectrometer manufactured by the Bruker company was received and put into service on its Lille site in September.
Loïc Salmon and Sami Jannin have received new funding from the ERC for their respective research on the use of microRNAs for virus inhibition and in DNP by dissolution.
The methodological developments carried out by Andrew Pell's team at the Infranalytics NMR center in Lyon make it possible to push paramagnetic NMR further, particularly for the study of sodium-ion battery components.
Antoine Loquet, scientific manager of the Bordeaux site, received the Ampère Prize (May 2021) for his research on the study of protein assemblies by nuclear magnetic resonance in the solid state.
The characterization of the structure of guanine tautomers in the gas phase carried out by FT-ICR on the Orsay mass spectrometry platform in collaboration with the University of Cordoba in Argentina provides a better understanding of the recognition mechanisms between the different bases. DNA and RNA.
