Publications
2013
A biophysicist in the kitchen.
Flavour, 2:7 (2013).
Probing the biophysical interplay between a viral genome and its capsid.
Nat Chem. 5, 502-509 (2013).
Hofmeister ions control protein dynamics.
Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1830, 4564-4572 (2013).
Free Fructose is conformationally locked
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 2845-1852 (2013)
A computational module assembled from different protease family motifs identifies PI PLC from Bacillus cereus as a putative prolyl peptidase with a serine protease scaffold.
PLoS One, 8(8):e70923. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070923 (2013).
Structural basis for feed-forward transcriptional regulation of membrane lipid homeostasis in Staphylococcus aureus.
PLoS Pathog. 9:e1003108. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003108 (2013).
Effects of chronic and acute lead treatments on the biophysical properties of erythro- cyte membranes, and a comparison with model membranes.
FEBS Open Bio 3, 212–217 (2013).
Definir vida: un ejercicio constructivo.
SEBBM 175, 3-6 (2013).
Double-tailed lipid modification as a promising candidate for oligonucleotide delivery in mammalian cells.
Biochim. Biophys. Acta General Subjects 1830: 4872-4884 (2013).
Fourier-space TEM reconstructions with symmetry adapted functions for all rotational point groups.
J. Struct. Biol. 182, 87-92 (2013).
Calpain-mediated processing of adenylate cyclase toxin generates a cytosolic soluble catalytically active NTerminal domain.
PLoS One 8, Issue 6 | e67648 (2013).
Cooperativity between calmodulin-binding sites in Kv7.2 channels.
J. Cell Sci. 126, 244-253 (2013).
Structural insights into the chaperone activity of the 40-kDa heat shock protein DnaJ: binding and remodeling of a native substrate.
J. Biol. Chem. 288, 15065-15074 (2013).
The use of dansyl-calmodulin to study interactions with channels and other proteins.
Methods Mol. Biol. 998, 217-231 (2013).
Membrane partitioning of the pore-forming domain of Colicin A. role of the hydrophobic helical hairpin.
Biophys. J. 105, 1432-1443 (2013).
The neuronal serum- and glucocorticoid-regulated kinase 1.1 reduces neuronal excitability and protects against seizures through upregulation of the m-current.
J Neurosci. 33, 2684-2696 (2013).
The mechanism of detergent solubilization of lipid bilayers.
Biophys. J. 105, 289–299 (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).
2012
Insights into sphingolipid miscibility: separate observation of sphingomyelin and ceramide N-acyl chain melting.
Biophys J. 103, 2465-2474 (2012).
Viability conditions for a compartmentalized proto-metabolic system: a semi-empirical approach
PLoS ONE 7(6): e39480 (2012)
Functional characterization of splicing and ligand-binding domain variants in the LDL receptor.
Hum Mutat. 33, 232-43 (2012).
Siglec-1 is a novel dendritic cell receptor that mediates HIV-1 trans-infection through recognition of viral membrane gangliosides.
PLoS Biol. 10(12):e1001448. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001448 (2012).
Common pathways for growth and for plasticity.
Curr Opin Neurobiol 22, 405-411, doi:10.1016/j.conb.2012.02.008 (2012)
Deletion of a single helix from the transmembrane domain causes large changes in membrane insertion properties and secondary structure of the bacterial conjugation protein TrwB
Biochim Biophys Acta. 1818, 3158-3166 (2012).
Microscale AMPAR reorganization and dynamics of the postsynaptic density.
J. Neurosci 32, 7103-7105, doi:10.1523/ JNEUROSCI.1048-12.2012 (2012).
Pores of the toxin FraC assemble into 2D hexagonal clusters in both crystal structures and model membranes.
J. Struct. Biol. 180, 312-317 (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)