Prof. Guilherme Menegon Arantes

 

Instituto de Química – USP – Sala 0915, Bloco 9 inferior
Fone: 11-30913848         Email: garantes (at) iq.usp.br

Currículos e IDs: Lattes, Grupo no CNPq, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, ORCID, ResearcherID, public GnuPG key

Tese de doutorado: Sobre as proteínas tirosina-fosfatases. Reatividade intrínseca de ésteres de fosfato e simulação computacional dos mecanismos de reação enzimática.

Tese de livre docência: Bioquímica e biofísica computacionais: Simulações da reatividade e da estrutura de biomoléculas.

 

Publicações:

• Escape of a small molecule from inside T4 lysozyme by multiple pathways.  Nunes-Alves A, Zuckerman DM, Arantes GM, Biophys. J., 114, 1058-1066, 2018;
• Mechanical unfolding of macromolecules coupled to bond dissociation. Nunes-Alves A, Arantes GM, J. Chem. Theory Comput., 14, 282-290, 2018;
• Conformational flexibility of the complete catalytic domain of Cdc25B phosphatases. Sayegh RSR, Tamaki FK, Marana SR, Salinas RK e Arantes GM, Proteins, 84, 1567-1575, 2016;
• Protein thermal denaturation is modulated by central residues in the protein structure network. Souza VP, Ikegami CM, Arantes GM e Marana SR, FEBS Journal, 283,1124-1138, 2016;
• Ferric-thiolate bond dissociation studied with electronic structure calculations. Arantes GM e Field MJ, J. Phys. Chem. A, 119, 10084-10090, 2015;
• Partition, orientation and mobility of ubiquinones in a lipid bilayer. Galassi VV e Arantes GM, BBA Bioenergetics, 1847, 1560-1573, 2015;
• Force-induced chemical reactions on the metal centre in a single metalloprotein molecule. Zheng P, Arantes GM, Field MJ e Li H, Nat. Commun., 6:7569, 2015;
• Ligand-receptor affinities computed by an adapted linear interaction model for continuum electrostatics and by protein conformational averaging. Nunes-Alves A, Arantes GM, J. Chem. Inf. Model., 54, 2309-2319, 2014;
• Theoretical modeling of low energy electronic transitions in reduced cobaloximes.  Bhattacharjee A, Chavarot-Kerlidou M, Dempsey JL, Gray HB, Fujita E, Fontecave M, Artero V, Arantes GM e Field MJ, ChemPhysChem, 15, 2951-2958, 2014;
• Homolytic cleavage of Fe-S bonds in rubredoxin under mechanical stress. Arantes GM, Bhattacharjee A, Field MJ, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 52, 8144-8146, 2013;
• A component of the Xanthomonadaceae type IV secretion system combines a VirB7 motif with a N0 domain found in outer membrane transport proteins.  Souza DP, Andrade MO, Alvarez-Martinez CE, Arantes GM, Farah CS, Salinas RK, PLOS Pathogens, 7, e1002031, 2011;
• Flexibility and inhibitor binding in Cdc25 phosphatases. Arantes GM, Proteins, 78, 3017-3032, 2010;
• Approximate multiconfigurational treatment of spin-coupled metal complexes. Arantes GM, Taylor PR, J. Chem. Theory Comp., 6, 1981-1989, 2010;
• The catalytic acid in the dephosphorylation of the Cdk2-pTpY/CycA protein complex by Cdc25B phosphatase. Arantes GM, J. Phys. Chem. B., 112, 15244–15247, 2008;
• A microscopic view of substitution reactions solvated by ionic liquids. Arantes GM, Ribeiro MCC, J. Chem. Phys., 128, 114503, 2008;
• A computational perspective on enzymatic catalysis. Arantes GM, Quim. Nova, 31, 377-383 , 2008;
• 1-(2-Quinolyl)-2-naphthol: A new intra-intermolecular photoacidphotobase molecule. Chien TC, Dias LG, Arantes GM, Santos LGC, Triboni ER, Bastos EL, Politi MJ, J. Photochem. Photobiology A, 194, 37-48 , 2008;
• Free-energy profiles for catalysis by a dual-specificity phosphatase. Arantes GM, Biochemical Journal, 399, 343-350, 2006;
• Specific parametrisation of a hybrid potential to simulate reactions in Phosphatases. Arantes GM, Loos M, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 8, 347-353, 2006;
• Solvent influence on the photophysical properties of 4-methoxy-N-methyl-1,8-naphthalimide, Demets GJ-F, Triboni ER, Alvarez EB, Arantes GM, Berci Filho P, Politi MJ, Spectrochimica Acta Part A, 63, 220-226, 2006;
• Thiolysis and alcoholysis of phosphate tri and monoesteres with aryl and alkyl leaving groups. An ab initio study in the gas-phase, Arantes GM, Chaimovich H, J. Phys. Chem. A, 109, 5625-5635, DOI: 10.1021/jp0449556, 2005;
• Parameterisation of the electronegativity equalisation method based on the charge model 1, Menegon G, Shimizu K, Farah JPS, Dias LG, Chaimovich H, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 4, 5933-5936, DOI: 10.1039/B206991A, 2002;
• Ab initio study on the thiolysis of trimethyl phosphate ester in the gas-phase, Menegon G, Loos M, Chaimovich H, J. Phys. Chem. A, 106(39), 9078-9084, DOI: 10.1021/jp026083i, 2002;
• Hydrolysis of 1,8- and 2,3-naphthalic anhydrides and the mechanism of cyclization of 1,8-naphthalic acid in aqueous solutions, Barros TC, Yunes S, Menegon G, Nome F, Chaimovich H, Politi MJ, Dias LG, Cuccovia IM, J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 2, 2342-2350, 2001;
• Some aspects of acylation of cellulose under homogeneous solution conditions, Regiani AM, Frollini E, Marson GA, Arantes GM, El Seoud OA, J. Polym. Sci. A, 37(9), 1357-1363, 1999.