Publications
2013
Recruitment of a phospholipase C/sphingomyelinase into non-lamellar lipid droplets during hydrolysis of lipid bilayers.
Chem Phys Lipids. 166, 12-17 (2013).
Molecular techniques for dicistrovirus detection without RNA extraction or purification.
Biomed Res Int. 2013, ID 218593. doi: 10.1155/2013/218593 (2013).
Exploiting tertiary structure through local folds for crystallographic phasing.
Nat. Methods 10, 1099-1101 (2013).
Detergent solubilization of lipid bilayers: a balance of driving forces.
Trends Biochem Sci. 38, 85-93 (2013).
Recognition of intermolecular G-quadruplexes by full length nucleophosmin. Effect of a leukaemia-associated mutation.
FEBS Lett. 587, 2254–2259 (2013).
Geometric catalysis of membrane fission driven by flexible dynamin rings.
Science 339, 1433-1436 (2013).
Ca2+ influx and tyrosine kinases trigger Bordetella adenylate cyclase toxin (ACT) endocytosis. Cell physiology and expression of the CD11b/CD18 integrin major determinants of the entry route.
PLoS One 8, 1-14 (2013).
Comparative lipidomics analysis of HIV-1 particles and their producer cell membrane in different cell lines.
Cell Microbiol. 15, 292-304 (2013).
Synthetic biology: Challenging life in order to grasp, use, or extend it.
Biological Theory 8: 376–382 (2013)
Exploration for Triatoma virus (TrV) infection in laboratory-reared triatomines of Latin America: a collaborative study.
Int. J. Trop. Insect Sci., 33, 294–304 (2013).
Crystal structure and functional mechanism of a human antimicrobial membrane channel.
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 110, 4586-4591 (2013).
Structures of oncogenic, suppressor and rescued p53 core-domain variants: mechanisms of mutant p53 rescue.
Acta Cryst. D69, 2146–2156 (2013).
Structure and function of the PorB porin from disseminating Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
Biochem J. 449, 631-642 (2013).
Dermcidin: what is its antibiotic potential?.
Future Microbiol. 8, 817-819 (2013).
Intrinsically disordered protein threads through the bacterial outer-membrane porin OmpF
Science. 2013 Jun 28;340(6140):1570-4.
Proapoptotic Bax and Bak proteins form stable protein-permeable pores of tunable size.
J. Biol Chem. 288, 33241-33252 (2013).
Inoculation of triatoma virus (Dicistroviridae:Cripavirus) elicits a non-infective immune response in mice.
Parasit. Vectors. 6, 66 (2013).
Integrated conformational and lipid-sensing regulation of endosomal ArfGEF BRAG2.
PLoS Biol. 11, (9) e1001652 (2013).
Theoretical conditions for the stationary reproduction of model protocells.
Integr. Biol. 5, 324-341 (2013).
Fluorescence nanoscopy. Methods and applications.
J. Chem. Biol. 6, 97-120 (2013).
Novel functional APOB mutations outside LDL-binding region causing familial hypercholesterolaemia.
Hum Mol Genet. 23, 1817-1828. (2013).
Multistep protein unfolding during nanopore translocation
Nature Nanotechnology. 2013 Apr;8(4):288-95.
Subtype-selective activation of Kv7 Channels by AaTXK?(2-64), a novel toxin variant from the Androctonus australis scorpion venom.
Mol Pharmacol. 84, 763-773 (2013).
Thermodynamic signatures of macromolecular complexes-insights on the stability and interactions of nucleoplasmin, a nuclear chaperone.
In: Applications of Calorimetry in a Wide Context - Differential Scanning Calorimetry, Isothermal Titration Calorimetry and Microcalorimetry. Chapter 7, Intech, Rijeta, Croatia, 153-182 (2013).
Structure of the Triatoma virus capsid.
Acta Crystallogr. D. Biol. Crystallogr. 69, 1026-1037 (2013).
2012
Accumulated bending energy elicits neutral sphingomyelinase activity in human red blood cells.
Biophys. J. 102 2077–2085 (2012).
A new view of the lethal apoptotic pore.
PLoS Biology, 10, (9) e1001399 (2012).
Sialyllactose in viral membrane gangliosides is a novel molecular recognition pattern for mature dendritic cell capture of HIV-1.
PLoS Biol.10(4):e1001315. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001315 (2012).
The effect of amyloidogenic peptides on bacterial aging correlates with their intrinsic aggregation propensity.
J. Mol. Biol. 421, 270-281 (2012).
The Kv7.2/Kv7.3 heterotetramer assembles with a random subunit arrangement.
J Biol Chem. 287, 11870-11877 (2012).
Binding of b-Amyloid (1–42) peptide to negatively charged phospholipid membranes in the liquid-ordered state: modeling and experimental studies.
Biophys. J. 103, 453–463 (2012).
Facilitation of AMPA receptor synaptic delivery as a molecular mechanism for cognitive enhancement.
PLoS Biol 10, e1001262, doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001262 (2012)
Ribose Found in the Gas Phase
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51, 3119-3124 (2012)
Mechanistic insights into the retaining glucosyl-3-phosphoglycerate synthase from mycobacteria.
J Biol. Chem. 287, 24649-24661 (2012).
Far-from-equilibrium processes without net thermal exchange via energy sorting.
J. Chem. Phys. 136, 064115 (2012).
Lipid bilayers in the gel phase become saturated by Triton X-100 at lower surfactant concentrations than those in the fluid phase.
Biophys. J. 102 1–7 (2012).
Molecular recognition of a single sphingolipid species by a protein’s transmembrane domain.
Nature 481, 525-529 (2012)
Viroporins: structure and biological functions.
Nat Rev Microbiol. 10, 563-74 (2012).
Model systems of precursor cellular membranes: long-chain alcohols stabilize spontaneously formed oleic acid vesicles.
Biophys. J. 102, 278–286 (2012).
Recognition of membrane-bound fusion-peptide/MPER complexes by the HIV-1 neutralizing 2F5 antibody: implications for Anti-2F5 immunogenicity.
PLoS One, 7, e52740. doi: 10.1371 (2012).