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Fabio Lapenta

EN-FIST Centre of Excellence (Slovenia)ORCID 0000-0003-1195-3758Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Biochemistry· 1 Synthetic Biology· 1

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:human· 2 Assay:cryo-EM· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1 Research Focus:protein folding & dynamics· 1 Assay:protein structure· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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BiochemistrybioRxivPreprintAug 26, 2025

Structural flexibility of the human vault protein revealed by high-resolution cryo-EM and molecular dynamics simulations

Fabio Lapenta, Karen Palacio‐Rodríguez, Sergio Cruz-León…·Gerhard Hummer

This study uses cryo-EM and molecular dynamics simulations to reveal structural flexibility in the human vault protein, identifying conformational states and dynamic assembly mechanisms.

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humancryo-EM

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Synthetic BiologyScientific ReportsPeer-reviewedApr 28, 2021

Coiled-coil heterodimers with increased stability for cellular regulation and sensing SARS-CoV-2 spike protein-mediated cell fusion

Tjaša Plaper, Jana Aupič, Petra Dekleva…·Mojca Benčina

This paper designs stable coiled-coil peptides for cellular regulation and detects SARS-CoV-2 spike protein-mediated cell fusion.

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humanprotein structure

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