Publications by Zekiye Pelin Güven

Ion-bridges and lipids drive aggregation of same-charge nanoparticles on lipid membranes

Francesco Stellacci, Zekiye Pelin Güven, Giulia Rossi

The control of the aggregation of biomedical nanoparticles (NP) in physiological conditions is crucial as clustering may change completely the way they interact with the biological environment. Here we show that Au nanoparticles, functionalized by an anion ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Site-selective surface enhanced Raman scattering study of ligand exchange reactions on aggregated Ag nanocubes

Francesco Stellacci, Paulo Henrique Jacob Silva, Zekiye Pelin Güven, Evangelia-Nefeli Athanasopoulou

Surface modification of ligand protected nanoparticles (NPs) can be driven by ligand exchange reactions (LER). Little is known about the mechanism of this reaction, especially when the particles are not spherical. Here, we use the intrinsic hot spots gener ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2022

Broad-spectrum nanoparticles against bacteriophage infections

Francesco Stellacci, Francesca Olgiati, Paulo Henrique Jacob Silva, Matteo Gasbarri, Zekiye Pelin Güven, Urszula Beata Cendrowska, Lukasz Richter

Viral infections caused by bacteriophages, i.e., viruses that kill bacteria are one of the most dangerous and common threats for bacteria-based bioreactors. More than 70% of biotechnology companies have admitted to encountering this problem. Despite phage ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Calcium-triggered fusion of lipid membranes is enabled by amphiphilic nanoparticles

Francesco Stellacci, Ye Yang, Ahmet Bekdemir, Zekiye Pelin Güven

Lipid membrane fusion is an essential process for a number of critical biological functions. The overall process is thermodynamically favorable but faces multiple kinetic barriers along the way. Inspired by nature's engineered proteins such as SNAP recepto ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Unraveling the complexity of amyloid polymorphism using gold nanoparticles and cryo-EM

Francesco Stellacci, Hilal Lashuel, Nadine Aït Bouziad, Paulo Henrique Jacob Silva, Anass Chiki, Zekiye Pelin Güven, Urszula Beata Cendrowska, Sophie Vieweg, Marie Mueller

Increasing evidence suggests that amyloid polymorphism gives rise to different strains of amyloids with distinct toxicities and pathology-spreading properties. Validating this hypothesis is challenging due to a lack of tools and methods that allow for the ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Organelle-specific targeting of polymersomes into the cell nucleus

Zekiye Pelin Güven

Organelle-specific nanocarriers (NCs) are highly sought after for delivering therapeutic agents into the cell nucleus. This necessitates nucleocytoplasmic transport (NCT) to bypass nuclear pore complexes (NPCs). However, little is known as to how comparabl ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Synthesis and Characterization of Amphiphilic Gold Nanoparticles

Francesco Stellacci, Paulo Henrique Jacob Silva, Zhi Luo, Matteo Gasbarri, Zekiye Pelin Güven, Urszula Beata Cendrowska, Samuel Thomas Jones

Gold nanoparticles covered with a mixture of 1-octanethiol (OT) and 11-mercapto-1-undecane sulfonic acid (MUS) have been extensively studied because of their interactions with cell membranes, lipid bilayers, and viruses. The hydrophilic ligands make these ...

JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS2019

Structure-Property Relationships of Amphiphilic Nanoparticles That Penetrate or Fuse Lipid Membranes

Francesco Stellacci, Davide Demurtas, Paulo Henrique Jacob Silva, Randy Patrick Carney, Ye Yang, Ahmet Bekdemir, Zekiye Pelin Güven

2018

Nanoparticle Liposome Interactions

Zekiye Pelin Güven

Protein-mimetic materials are of great interest for biotechnology to grant protein-like properties to artificial systems. Additionally, these materials can be used to shed light on the fundamental properties of proteins in many environments. Nanoparticles, ...

EPFL2018

Synthesis and characterization of mixed ligand chiral nanoclusters

Francesco Stellacci, Zekiye Pelin Güven, Kellen Michael Harkness

Chiral mixed ligand silver nanoclusters were synthesized in the presence of a chiral and an achiral ligand. While the chiral ligand led mostly to the formation of nanoparticles, the presence of the achiral ligand drastically increased the yield of nanoclus ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016