Publications

David Noel Zimmer, Friederike Schmid, and Giovanni Settanni.
Ionizable cationic lipids and helper lipids synergistically contribute to rna packing and protection in lipid-based nanomaterials.
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 128:10165–10177, 2024.

Dimitrios-Ilias Balourdas, Anja M Markl, Andreas Krämer, Giovanni Settanni, and Andreas C Joerger.
Structural basis of p53 inactivation by cavity-creating cancer mutations and its implications for the development of mutant p53 reactivators.
Cell Death & Disease, 15:408, 2024.

Giovanni Settanni.
Computational approaches to lipid-based nucleic acid delivery systems.
The European Physical Journal E, 46:127, 12 2023.

Giovanni Settanni, Wolfgang Brill, Heinrich Haas, and Friederike Schmid.
ph-dependent behavior of ionizable cationic lipids in mrna-carrying lipoplexes investigated by molecular dynamics simulations.
Macromolecular rapid communications, 43:e2100683, 6 2022.

Timo Schäfer, Christian Muhl, Matthias Barz, Friederike Schmid, and Giovanni Settanni.
Thermodynamics and Kinetics of the Interactions Between Proteins and Hydrophilic Polymers, pages 65–76.
Springer International Publishing, 2021.

Matthias R. Bauer, Andreas Krämer, Giovanni Settanni, Rhiannon N. Jones, Xiaomin Ni, Raysa Khan Tareque, Alan R. Fersht, John Spencer, and Andreas C. Joerger.
Targeting cavity-creating p53 cancer mutations with small-molecule stabilizers: The y220x paradigm.
ACS Chemical Biology, 15:657–668, 3 2020.

Timo M. Schäfer and Giovanni Settanni.
Data reweighting in metadynamics simulations.
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 16:2042–2052, 4 2020.

Timo Schafer, Christian Muhl, Matthias Barz, Friederike Schmid, and Giovanni Settanni.
Interactions Between Blood Proteins and Nanoparticles Investigated Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations, pages 63–74.
Springer International Publishing, 2019.

Timo Schäfer, Jiajia Zhou, Friederike Schmid, and Giovanni Settanni.
Blood Proteins and Their Interactions with Nanoparticles Investigated Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations, pages 5–19.
Springer International Publishing, 2018.

Giovanni Settanni, Timo Schäfer, Christian Muhl, Matthias Barz, and Friederike Schmid.
Poly-sarcosine and poly(ethylene-glycol) interactions with proteins investigated using molecular dynamics simulations.
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 16:543–550, 1 2018.

Stephan Köhler, Friederike Schmid, and Giovanni Settanni.
The internal dynamics and early adsorption stages of fibrinogen investigated by molecular dynamics simulations, pages 61–78.
Springer International Publishing, 1 2017.

Giovanni Settanni, Jiajia Zhou, and Friederike Schmid.
Interactions between proteins and poly(ethylene-glycol) investigated using molecular dynamics simulations.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 921:012002, 11 2017.

Giovanni Settanni, Jiajia Zhou, Tongchuan Suo, Susanne Schöttler, Katharina Landfester, Friederike Schmid, and Volker Mailänder.
Protein corona composition of poly(ethylene glycol)- and poly(phosphoester)-coated nanoparticles correlates strongly with the amino acid composition of the protein surface.
Nanoscale, 9:2138–2144, 2017.

Laura Tüting, Weixiang Ye, Giovanni Settanni, Friederike Schmid, Bernhard A. Wolf, Rubén Ahijado-Guzmán, and Carsten Sönnichsen.
Potassium triggers a reversible specific stiffness transition of polyethylene glycol.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 121:22396–22402, 10 2017.

Stephan Köhler, Friederike Schmid, and Giovanni Settanni.
The internal dynamics of fibrinogen and its implications for coagulation and adsorption.
PLOS Computational Biology, 11:e1004346, 9 2015.

Stephan Köhler, Friederike Schmid, and Giovanni Settanni.
Molecular dynamics simulations of the initial adsorption stages of fibrinogen on mica and graphite surfaces.
Langmuir, 31:13180–13190, 2015.
From Duplicate 2 (Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Initial Adsorption Stages of Fibrinogen on Mica and Graphite Surfaces - Köhler, Stephan; Schmid, Friederike; Settanni, Giovanni) PMID: 26569042.

Giovanni Settanni.
Simulations and Experiments in Protein Folding, volume 1215, pages 289–306.
2015.

Giovanni Settanni, David Serquera, Piotr E. Marszalek, Emanuele Paci, and Laura S. Itzhaki.
Effects of ligand binding on the mechanical properties of ankyrin repeat protein gankyrin.
PLoS Computational Biology, 9:e1002864, 1 2013.

Isolde H. Radford, Alan R. Fersht, and Giovanni Settanni.
Combination of markov state models and kinetic networks for the analysis of molecular dynamics simulations of peptide folding.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 115:7459–7471, 6 2011.

Nicolas Basse, Joel L. Kaar, Giovanni Settanni, Andreas C. Joerger, Trevor J. Rutherford, and Alan R. Fersht.
Toward the rational design of p53-stabilizing drugs: Probing the surface of the oncogenic y220c mutant.
Chemistry & Biology, 17:46–56, 1 2010.

David Serquera, Whasil Lee, Giovanni Settanni, Piotr E. Marszalek, Emanuele Paci, and Laura S. Itzhaki.
Mechanical unfolding of an ankyrin repeat protein.
Biophysical Journal, 98:1294–1301, 4 2010.

Svava K. Wetzel, Christina Ewald, Giovanni Settanni, Simon Jurt, Andreas Plückthun, and Oliver Zerbe.
Residue-resolved stability of full-consensus ankyrin repeat proteins probed by nmr.
Journal of Molecular Biology, 402:241–258, 9 2010.

Fang Huang, Sridharan Rajagopalan, Giovanni Settanni, Richard J. Marsh, Daven A. Armoogum, Nick Nicolaou, Angus J. Bain, Eitan Lerner, Elisha Haas, Liming Ying, and Alan R. Fersht.
Multiple conformations of full-length p53 detected with single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106:20758–20763, 12 2009.

Giovanni Settanni and Alan R. Fersht.
Downhill versus barrier-limited folding of bbl.
Journal of Molecular Biology, 387:993–1001, 4 2009.

Grace W. Yu, Marina Vaysburd, Mark D. Allen, Giovanni Settanni, and Alan R. Fersht.
Structure of human mdm4 n-terminal domain bound to a single-domain antibody.
Journal of Molecular Biology, 385:1578–1589, 2 2009.

F. Huang, G. Settanni, and A. R. Fersht.
Fluorescence resonance energy transfer analysis of the folding pathway of engrailed homeodomain.
Protein Engineering Design and Selection, 21:131–146, 1 2008.

Gianluca Interlandi, Svava K. Wetzel, Giovanni Settanni, Andreas Plückthun, and Amedeo Caflisch.
Characterization and further stabilization of designed ankyrin repeat proteins by combining molecular dynamics simulations and experiments.
Journal of Molecular Biology, 375:837–854, 2008.

Giovanni Settanni and Alan R. Fersht.
High temperature unfolding simulations of the trpz1 peptide.
Biophysical Journal, 94:4444–4453, 6 2008.

Svava K. Wetzel, Giovanni Settanni, Manca Kenig, H. Kaspar Binz, and Andreas Plückthun.
Folding and unfolding mechanism of highly stable full-consensus ankyrin repeat proteins.
Journal of Molecular Biology, 376:241–257, 2 2008.

Francesco Rao, Giovanni Settanni, and Amedeo Caflisch.
Estimation of folding probabilities and phi values from molecular dynamics simulations of reversible peptide folding.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 350:225–249, 2007.

Michele Seeber, Marco Cecchini, Francesco Rao, Giovanni Settanni, and Amedeo Caflisch.
Wordom: A program for efficient analysis of molecular dynamics simulations.
Bioinformatics, 23:2625–2627, 10 2007.

Gianluca Interlandi, Giovanni Settanni, and Amedeo Caflisch.
Unfolding transition state and intermediates of the tumor suppressor p16ink4a investigated by molecular dynamics simulations.
Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics, 64:178–192, 2006.

Francesco Rao, Giovanni Settanni, Enrico Guarnera, and Amedeo Caflisch.
Estimation of protein folding probability from equilibrium simulations.
The Journal of Chemical Physics, 122:184901, 5 2005.

Giovanni Settanni, Francesco Rao, and Amedeo Caflisch.
$\phi$ -value analysis by molecular dynamics simulations of reversible folding.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102:628–633, 1 2005.

G. Settanni, J. Gsponer, and A. Caflisch.
Erratum: (biophysical journal (2004) 86 (1691-1701)).
Biophysical Journal, 86, 2004.

G. Settanni, J. Gsponer, and A. Caflisch.
Formation of the folding nucleus of an sh3 domain investigated by loosely coupled molecular dynamics simulations.
Biophysical Journal, 86:1691–1701, 3 2004.

Giovanni Settanni, Antonino Cattaneo, and Paolo Carloni.
Molecular dynamics simulations of the ngf-trka domain 5 complex and comparison with biological data.
Biophysical Journal, 84:2282–2292, 4 2003.

B. Uk, M. Taufer, T. Stricker, G. Settanni, and A. Cavalli.
Implementation and characterization of protein folding on a desktop computational grid. is charmm a suitable candidate for the united devices metaprocessor?
page 10. IEEE Comput. Soc, 2003.

B. Uk, M. Taufer, T. Stricker, G. Settanni, A. Cavalli, and A. Caflisch.
Combining task- and data parallelism to speed up protein folding on a desktop grid platform.
pages 240–247. IEEE, 2003.

Giovanni Settanni, Trinh Xuan Hoang, Cristian Micheletti, and Amos Maritan.
Folding pathways of prion and doppel.
Biophysical Journal, 83:3533–3541, 12 2002.

Michela Visintin, Giovanni Settanni, Amos Maritan, Sergio Graziosi, James D Marks, and Antonino Cattaneo.
The intracellular antibody capture technology (iact): towards a consensus sequence for intracellular antibodies.
Journal of Molecular Biology, 317:73–83, 3 2002.

Giovanni Settanni, Antonino Cattaneo, and Amos Maritan.
Role of native-state topology in the stabilization of intracellular antibodies.
Biophysical Journal, 81:2935–2945, 11 2001.

Ruxandra I. Dima, Giovanni Settanni, Cristian Micheletti, Jayanth R. Banavar, and Amos Maritan.
Extraction of interaction potentials between amino acids from native protein structures.
The Journal of Chemical Physics, 112:9151–9166, 5 2000.

Gianni Settanni and Alessandro Treves.
Analytical model for the effects of learning on spike count distributions.
Neural Computation, 12:1773–1787, 8 2000.

Giovanni Settanni

Group leader

Raum: NB 6/68
Tel.: +49 234 32 23751
E-Mail: giovanni.settanni@rub.de

Contact

Dr. Giovanni Settanni

Ruhr University Bochum

Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

Universitätsstr. 150
44801 Bochum
Room NB 6/68

Tel: +49 234 32 23751

Email: giovanni.settanni@rub.de