ORAL
PRESENTATIONS
IS
supramolecular Organisation a kEY factor for long term ARCHAEOLOGICAL
PREServation?
G. Tsoucaris, L. Bertrand, M. Cotte & Ph. Walter
Centre de
recherche et de restauration des musées de France U.M.R. 171 du
C.N.R.S., Louvre, Paris
PHOTONIC CRYSTALS
Nikolaos Stefanou1 & Antonios Modinos2
1Section of Solid State Physics, University of Athens,
Panepistimioupolis, GR-157 84 Athens, Greece; 2 Department of
Physics, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, GR-157 80
Athens, Greece
Rietveld
refinement of the mixed valence manganite LaMnO3+ä with tetravalent
ion substitutions at the La site
M.
Calamiotou, A. Gantis & E.Syskakis
University of Athens, Solid State Physics Dept.,
Panepistimiopolis Zografos 157 84, Athens, Greece
A suggestion for solution of the phase problem by
means of Quantum Mechanics
A. Hountasa, K. Bethanisa,
P. Tzamalisa, G. Tsoucarisb, M. Siakantarisa
& E. Levakisa
aDepartment of Sciences, Agricultural
University of Athens, 75 Iera Odos Votanikos, Athens 11855, Greece, b Laboratoire de recherche des Musèes
de France, Paris, France.
cOMBINING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND X-RAY
TECHNIQUES FOR STRUCTURE DETERMINATION
Laboratoire de Virologie Moléculaire
Structurale, CNRS-GIF, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
APOLIPOPROTEIN A-I PEPTIDE MODELS AS PROBES FOR DEVELOPING
ATHEROPROTECTIVE AGENTS
M. Sakarellos-Daitsiotis, C. Alexopoulos, A. Tambaki, K. Harilogis, A. Tselepis & C. Sakarellos
Department of Chemistry, Section of Organic Chemistry
and Biochemistry, University of Ioannina, 45110, Ioannina, Greece
UNIVERSAL
POSITIONS IN GLOBULAR PROTEINS REVEALED FROM STRUCTURE ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION
1 Laboratory of
Genetics, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 11855 Athens,
Greece;2 Department of Structural Biology, The Weizmann Institute of
Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel;3 Department of Chemistry and
Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford str., M-105, Cambridge, 02138,
MA, USA;4 Equipe Biologie Structurale, LMCP, Universités Paris 6 and Paris 7,
Case 115, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Powder x-ray diffraction study of the
influence of dispersed silica nanoparticles on the SmA-SmC* phase transition of
CE8 and DOBAMBC liquid crystals
G. Cordoyiannis1,
Z. Kutnjak2 & G. Nounesis1
1National
Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, 153 10 Aghia Paraskevi, Greece; 2Condensed
Matter Physics Department, Jožef Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana,
Slovenia
TOWARDS STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF THE NICOTINIC
ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR
S. J. Tzartos1,2, V. Avramopoulou1,
E. Eliopoulos3, P. Katapodis4, E. Katsemi1, D. Kekos, D. Leonidas5, A. Mamalaki1, N.
Oikonomakos5, K. Poulas2,
L. Psaridi-Linardaki1, A.
Sotiriadis1, C. Stergiou1, P. Zisimopoulou1 & M. Zouridakis1,2
1Department of
Biochemistry, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens; 2Department of Pharmacy,
University of Patras, Patras; 3Agricultural University, Athens; 4Natl. Polytechnic of Athens; 5Natl.
Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens
CRYSTAL
STRUCTURE DETERMINATION OF AN ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE FROM THE ANTARCTIC
PSYCHROPHILIC BACTERIUM MORAXELLA sp. TAE123</atl>
Y. Papanikolau1,
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(IMBB)-FORTH, PO Box 1527, 71110 Heraklion, <cny>Greece; 2">General
Chemical State Laboratory, Department of Heraklion, Epimenidou 13, Heraklion,
Crete, Greece; 3">Biology Department,
University of Crete, PO Box 2208, 71409 Heraklion, <cny>Greece
REACTIVE MICROPOROUS RARE-EARTH COORDINATION
POLYMERS THAT EXHIBIT SINGLE-CRYSTAL TO SINGLE-CRYSTAL DEHYDRATION AND
REHYDRATION
S. Skoulika & A. Michaelides
Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, 45110
Ioannina, Greece
NOVEL SYNTHETIC MODIFICATIONS OF CYCLODEXTRINS AND STRUCTURAL
CONSEQUENCES – A VIEW IN SOLUTION
K. Yannakopoulou & I. M. Mavridis
Laboratory of Structural and Supramolecular Chemistry
Institute of Physical Chemistry, National Center for
Sientific Research “Demokritos”, Ag. Paraskevi 15310, Attiki, Greece
Structural investigations into the largest
gene product of the human genome: titin
Powder
diffraction in Proteins
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Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), BP220, F38043 Grenoble Cedex 9, <cny>France</cny></aff>,
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CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS DPR MINIFERRITIN: INSIGHTS INTO IRON
INCORPORATION
A.C. Papageorgiou1, A. Kauko1, A.T. Pulliainen2, S. Haataja2 & J. Finne2
1 Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku,
Turku 20521, Finland; 2 Department of Medical Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology, University of Turku, Turku 20520, Finland
THE DNA BINDING PROTEIN HU IS AN
IDEAL MODEL MOLECULE FOR THERMOSTABILITY. THERMODYNAMIC AND PROTEIN-DNA
INTERACTION STUDIES
National and Kapodistrian Athens University, Faculty of Biology,
Department of Biochemistry- Molecular Biology, Panepistimiopolis-Zographou,
15784 Athens
R. Tyrrell*, A. R. Criswell, R. Bolotovsky, T. Niemeyer, R. Athay & J. W.
Pflugrath
Rigaku/MSC Inc., 9009 New Trails Drive,The
Woodlands,TX 77381 USA: Rigaku/MSC Europe, Unit B6 Chaucer Business
Park, Watery Lane, Kemsing, Sevenoaks, Kent TN15 6QY, United Kingdom
BINDING OF b-D-glucopyranosyl
bismethoxy-
phosphoramidate to glycogen phosphorylase b:
KINETIC AND
CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STUDIES
E. D. Chrysina1, M. N. Kosmopoulou1, R. Kardakaris1, N. Bischler1,
D. D. Leonidas1, T. Kannan3, D. Loganathan3
& N. G. Oikonomakos1, 2
1Institute
of Organic & Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 2Institute of Biological
Research & Biotechnology, The National Hellenic Research Foundation, 48,
Vassileos Constantinou Avenue, 116 35 Athens, Ellas; 3Department of
Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600 036, India
Thermal unfolding
intermediate of the BRCT tandem repeat region of human tumor suppressor gene
product BRCA1
S. Pyrpasopoulos1,
A. Ladopoulou1, M. Vlassi2, Y. Papanikolau3,
C. E. Vorgias4, D. Yannoukakos1* & G. Nounesis1
1Biomolecular Physics Laboratory,
I/R-RP, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”,
153 10 Aghia Paraskevi, GREECE; 2Protein Crystallography
Laboratory, Institute of Biology, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos” ,153 10 Aghia Paraskevi, GREECE; 3Institute
of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology,
71 110 Heraklion, GREECE; 4Department of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 157 84 Athens, GREECE
PARALLELISATION
OF A MULTI-MODEL,
MULTI-DIMENSIONAL
MOLECULAR REPLACEMENT PROGRAM
Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Democritus
University of Thrace, Dimitras 19, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece,
http://utopia.duth.gr/~glykos/
STRUCTURAL
AND THERMAL STUDIES ON A GENERAL PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTION MODULE
Protein
Crystallography Laboratory, Institute of Biology, NCSR “Demokritos”, 15310, Ag. Paraskevi Attikis, Athens,
Greece
POSTER PRESENTATION
1. RATIONAL
DESIGN OF AMPHIPATHIC HELICAL LIPOPEPTIDE MODELS AS APOA-I MIMETICS: SYNTHESIS,
CHARACTERIZATION AND CONFORMATIONAL STUDIES:
C. Alexopoulos1,3, N. Coudevylle2, A. Tselepis1, M.
Sakarellos-Daitsiotis1,3, C. Sakarellos1,3 & Manh
Thong Cung2
1Department of Chemistry, Section
of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Ioannina, 45 110 Ioannina,
Greece; 2Laboratoire de
Chimie Physique-Macromoleculaire, UMR 7568 CNRS-INPL, Nancy, France; 3Pepticom
Hellas, spin-off company, Greece. me00051@cc.uoi.gr, chalexop@ath.forthnet.gr
2. A historical
prospective study for â-barrel integral membrane protein prediction: Implications for Genome-wide prediction
P. G. Bagos, T. D Liakopoulos, V. J. Promponas & S. J. Hamodrakas
Department of Cell Biology
and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis,
15701, Athens.
3. NMR, CD, AND MOLECULAR MODELING STUDIES OF HUMANIN, A
PEPTIDE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE-RELATED NEUROTOXICITY
D. Benaki1,
C. Zikos2, A. Evangelou2,3, E. Livaniou2, M.
Vlassi1, E. Mikros 4 & M. Pelecanou1
1 Institute of Biology, NCSR “Demokritos” 15310 Athens, Hellas
2 Institute of
Radioisotopes & Radiodiagnostic Products, NCSR “Demokritos” 153 10 Athens,
Hellas
3 Department of
Chemistry, University of Athens, 15784 Athens, Hellas
4 Department of
Pharmacy, University of Athens, 15771 Athens, Hellas
4. SINGLE-MOLECULE MAGNETISM BEHAVIOUR OF ENNEANUCLEAR IRON(II)
CLUSTERS
A. K. Boudalis1,2, V. Nastopoulos1, Y. Sanakis2, B. Donnadieu3,
J. M. Clemente-Juan4, A. Mari3, J.-P. Tuchagues3
& S. P. Perlepes1
1 Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, 26504
Patras (Greece); 2 Institute of Materials Science, NCSR
“Demokritos”, 153 10 Aghia Paraskevi Attikis (Greece); 3Laboratoire de Chimie de
Coordination du CNRS, 31077 Toulouse (France); 4 Instituto de
Ciencia Molecular, Universidad de Valencia, 46100 Burjassot (Spain)
5. Structure of thermochromic and photochromic derivatives oF
salicylaldehyde - keto/enol form
S. Chatziefthimiou, Y. Lazarou, E. Hadjoudis & I. M. Mavridis
Institute of Physical Chemistry, National Center for
Scientific Research “Demokritos”, P.O.
Box 60228, Ag. Paraskevi 15310, Greece.
6. A
dATABASE OF g-pROTEINS and their interactions with gpcrs
A. Elefsinioti, P. Bagos, I. Spyropoulos & S. Hamodrakas
Department of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology,
University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Athens 157 01
T. A. Felekis *, D. Tsiourvas & C. M. Paleos
A. I. Philippopoulosa,
E. Chatzivasilogloua, K. Chryssoua, A. Terzisb,
C. P. Raptopouloub & P. Falarasa*
aNSCR
“Demokritos”, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Aghia Paraskevi Attikis, 15310
Greece; bNSCR “Demokritos”, Institute of Materials Science, Aghia Paraskevi Attikis, 15310 Greece
9. Structure of the 2[Fe-4S]
FErREDOXIN FROM Pseudomonas aeruginosa
P. Giastas1, N. Pinotsis2, G. Efthymiou3, M. Wilmanns2, J. M. Moulis4, P. Kyritsis3 & I. M. Mavridis1
1National Center for Scientific Research
“Demokritos”,
Athens, Greece; 2EMBL-Hamburg, Germany; 3Department of Chemistry, University of Athens, Greece; 4DRDC/BMC, CEA-GRENOBLE, France
10. Structure based inhibitor design on ribonucleases: the imp
case
G. N. Hatzopoulos1, D. D. Leonidas1*, R. Kardakaris1, J. Matousek2 & N. G. Oikonomakos1
1 Institute of Organic & Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
The National Hellenic Research Foundation, 48 Vas. Constantinou Avenue, 11635
Athens; 2 Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of
Sciences of the Czech Republic, Libechov 27721, Czech Republic
11. STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF
TWO “MUTANT” PEPTIDE-ANALOGUES OF A PART OF THE CENTRAL DOMAIN OF THE B-FAMILY
SILKMOTH CHORION PROTEINS
V. A. Iconomidou &
S. J. Hamodrakas
Department of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Faculty of
Biology, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Athens 157 01, Greece
12. THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF
TRIPHENYLIODOMETHYLPHOSPHONIUM DICHLOROIODATE
A.P. Bozopoulos
& C. A. Kavounis
Applied Physics Laboratory, Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124
Thessaloniki, Greece
13. A new family of compounds, derivatives of
indirubin and indigo, inhibit Glycogen Phosphorylase b
M. N. Kosmopoulou1, D. D. Leonidas1, E. D. Chrysina1, G. Eisenbrand3, C. E. Sakarellos4 & N. G. Oikonomakos1, 2
14. DETECTION OF T-CELL
EPITOPES AND MODELING OF DQ2 AND DQ7 MOLECULES USING COMPUTATIONAL METHODS
Aggeliki Kosmopoulou1, Athanasios
Stavrakoudis1, Metaxia Vlassi2, Maria Sakarellos-Daitsiotis1
and Constantinos Sakarellos1
1 Department of
Chemistry, Section of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of
Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece; 2 Institute of Biology, National
Center for Research ‘Demokritos’, Agia Paraskevi, 15310, PO Box 60228, Greece
15. cONFORMATIONAL
ANALYSIS AND BINDING EPITOPE DETERMINATION, BY STD-NMR SPECTROSCOPY, OF THE MIR
AND VICE B REGIONS OF ACHR SUBUNITS
D. Krikorian1, C. Sakarellos 1, M.T. Cung2, M. Sakarellos-Daitsiotis 1, V.Tsikaris 1, A. Thureau2, N. Coudevylle2, G. Boussard2, K. Poulas3,4 & S.J. Tzartos3,4
1 Department of Chemistry,
Section of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Ioannina, 45110
Ioannina, Greece; 2 Laboratoire de Chimie-Physique Macromoleculaire,
UMR 7568 CNRS-INPL, Nancy, France; 3Department of Biochemistry,
Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens; 4Department of Pharmacy,
University of Patras, Greece
16. INTERCALATION-INDUCED
CHARGE/MAGNETIC ORDERING IN THE Na0.44MnO2 POROUS
MANGANATE
Á. Lappas1,*, D. Arnold2, V.
Pomjakushin3 & M. Green2
1Institute of Electronic Structure and
Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Vassilika Vouton, 711
10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece; 2Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21
Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS, UK; 3 Laboratory for Neutron
Scattering ETH-Z & Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen PSI,
Switzerland
17. The crystal structure and the x-ray amino
acid sequence of the sclerotium rolfsii lectin
D. D. Leonidas1* B. M. Swamy2, A. G. Bhat2, S. R. Inamdar2 & N. G. Oikonomakos1
1 Institute of Organic & Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
The National Hellenic Research Foundation, 48 Vas. Constantinou Avenue, 11635
Athens; 2 Department of Biochemistry, Karnatak University, Dharwad
580003, India
18. STRUCTURAL,
SPECTROSCOPIC AND THEORETICAL STUDIES ON miis4 (m = Mn, co,
ni) and cuIS3 CONTAINING COMPLEXES
D. Maganas1,
A. Grigoropoulos1, S. Staniland,2 N. Robertson2,
P. Kyritsis1 & G. Pneumatikakis1
1 Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of
Chemistry, University of Athens, GR-157 71 Athens, Greece2;
Department of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh
EH9 3JJ, United Kingdom
19. ASSEMBLY
OF A PHOTOREACTIVE COORDINATION POLYMER CONTAINING RECTANGULAR GRIDS
A. Michaelides, S. Skoulika & M. G. Siskos
Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, 45110
Ioannina, Greece
20. DIRECTED ORIENTATION OF METHYL ORANGE INSIDE NATURAL
CYCLODEXTRINS AND ANIONIC/CATIONIC CYCLODEXTRIN DERIVATIVES: SOLUTION NMR
STRUCTURES
N. Mourtzis, K. Yannakopoulou, I. M. Mavridis
Laboratory of Structural and Supramolecular Chemistry
Institute of Physical Chemistry, National Center for
Sientific Research “Demokritos”, Ag. Paraskevi 15310, Attiki, Greece
21. Calix[4]arene
Diphosphonate as a Versatile Building Block for the Solid State Complexation of Amines
A. N. Lazar1,
A. Navaza2, Carole Barbey2, A. W. Coleman1
1 Institut de
Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, CNRS UMR 5086,7 passage du Vercors,
F69367, Lyon France; 2 LPBC-CSSB CNRS-UMR 7033, UFR Santé, Médecine, Biologie
Humaine, Université Paris 13
22. STRUCTURAL
DATA COMPLEMENT ENZYME KINETIC STUDIES: THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF A HUMAN
DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE COMPLEX WITH ITS SUBSTRATE AND COENZYME
N. C. Papandreou1,
P. A. Tucker2 & S. J. Hamodrakas1
1 Faculty of Biology, Department of Cell Biology and
Biophysics, University of Athens, Athens 157 01, Greece.; 2 EMBL-Hamburg Outstation, Germany.
23. The Crystal Structure
of the complex of Concanavalin A with
2,2,6,6-Tetramethylpiperidine-1-Oxyl-4-á-D-Glycopyranoside
K. S. Pavlou & S. J. Hamodrakas
Faculty of Biology, Department of Cell Biology and
Biophysics, University of Athens, Athens 157 01, Greece
24. Frank-Kasper polyhedra, disclination nets and basic magnetism
in Nd3(Fe,Ti)29 and Nd3(Fe,Ti)29Nx
intermetallics
V.
Psycharis1 & C. Christidis2
1Institute of Materials
Science, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” 153 10 Athens,
Greece; 2Department of Engineering Sciences, School of Engineering,
University of Patras, 265 04 Patras, Greece
25. Synthesis, Crystal, Spectroscopic Characterization
and Magnetic Properties of Trinuclear and Hexanuclear Iron(III)
Salicylaldoximato Complexes
C. P. Raptopoulou, Y. Sanakis, A. Boudalis & V. Psycharis
Institute of Materials Science, NCSR “Demokritos”,
15310 Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, GREECE
26. SEQUENTIAL
OLIGOPEPTIDE CARRIERS (SOCn) OF IMMUNOGENIC PEPTIDES WITH A BUILT-IN
VACCINE ADJUVANT – APPLICATION TO RECONSTITUTED MODELS OF AChR, La/SSB AND Sm
AUTOANTIGENS
C. Sakarellos1,
D. Krikorian1, K. Poulas2, C. Voitharou1, I.
Lazaridis2,3, S. Tzartos2,3 & M.
Sakarellos-Daitsiotis1
1 Department of
Chemistry, Section of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of
Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece; 2Department of Pharmacy,
University of Patras, Greece; 3Department of Biochemistry, Hellenic
Pasteur Institute, Athens
27. compounds
of the system Ba-Pb-Ca-Cu-O PREPARED at 870o C
1 Department of Physics, 2 Department
of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Aristotle Univercity of Thessaloniki
(A.U.Th.), Thessaloniki 54006, Greece
28. Encapsulation of
the (4-chlorophenoxy) acetic acid encapsulated in â-Cyclodextrin and Heptakis(2,3,6-tri-O-methyl)-â-Cyclodextrin
Physics Laboratory,
Agricultural University of Athens, 75 Iera Odos, 118 55 Athens, Greece
29. sequential
polypeptides Poly (Pro-x-gly) as collagen models
S. Zevgiti1,
E. Panou1, C. Sakarellos1, M. Sakarellos-Daitsiotis1
& E. Ioakimoglou2
1 Department of Chemistry, Section of Organic Chemistry
and Biochemistry, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece; 2
Department of Conservation of Works of Art and Antiquities, Laboratory of
Physicohemical Techiques, TEI of Athens, 12210 Athens, Greece
30. SYNTHESIS
AND STRUCTURAL CHEMISTRY OF METAL-PHOSPHONATE POLYMERS. aPPLICATIONS IN CRYSTAL
GROWTH AND CORROSION INHIBITION
Chris Manztaridis, Panos Lykoudis, Stella Katarachia &
Konstantinos Demadis*
University of Crete, Department of Chemistry, 300
Leoforos Knossos, Heraklion, Crete, Greece