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Research publications
«Insights on cross-species transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from structural modeling»
João PGLM Rodrigues, Susana Barrera-Vilarmau*, João MC Teixeira*, Elizabeth Seckel, Panagiotis L Kastritis, Michael Levitt (* equal contribution). Plos Computational Biology, 16(12), e1008449, 2020. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008449
«Structural models of human ACE2 variants with SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein for structure-based drug design»
Marija Sorokina, João MC Teixeira, Susana Barrera-Vilarmau, Reinhard Paschke, Ioannis Papasotiriou, João PGLM Rodrigues, Panagiotis L Kastritis (All authors conceived and designed the project, performed data analysis and wrote the manuscript. P.L.K. supervised the project). Scientific Data, 2020, 7-1, article 309. DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-00652-6
«Insights on cross-species transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from structural modeling»
João PGLM Rodrigues, Susana Barrera-Vilarmau, João MC Teixeira, Elizabeth Seckel, Panagiotis L Kastritis, Michael Levitt. bioRxiv, 2020. DOI:
“p15PAF binding to PCNA modulates the DNA sliding surface”
Matteo De March*, Susana Barrera-Vilarmau*, Emmanuele Crespan*, Elisa Mentegari, Nekane Merino, Giovanni Maga, Ramon Crehuet, Silvia Onesti, Francisco J. Blanco, Alfredo De Biasio (*equal contribution). Nucleic Acids Research, 2018, 46 (18), 9816-9828. 10.1093/nar/gky723
“Structural basis of human PCNA sliding on DNA”
Matteo De March, Nekane Merino, Susana Barrera-Vilarmau, Ramon Crehuet, Silvia Onesti, Francisco J. Blanco, Alfredo De Biasio. Nature Communications, 2017; 8: 13935. doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13935
“ASC Pyrin domain self-associates and binds NLRP3 using equivalent binding interfaces”
Javier Oroz, Susana Barrera-Vilarmau, Carlos Alfonso, Germán Rivas, Eva de Alba. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2016 Sep 9; 291 (37): 19487-501.
“Intrinsic order and disorder in the bcl-2 member harakiri: insights into its proapoptotic activity”
Susana Barrera-Vilarmau, Patricia Obregón, Eva de Alba. PLoS One, 2011, 6(6):e21413. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021413
“Characterization of a novel interaction between Bcl-2 members Diva and Harakiri”
Lorenzo Sborgi, Susana Barrera-Vilarmau, Patricia Obregón, Eva de Alba. PLoS One, 2010, 5(12):e15575. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015575
“Thermal stability of peroxidase from Chamaerops excelsa palm tree at pH 3”
Laura S. Zamorano*, Susana B. Vilarmau*, Juan B. Arellano, Galina G. Zhadan, Nazaret Hidalgo Cuadrado, Sergey A. Bursakov, Manuel G. Roig, Valery L. Shnyrov (* equal contribution). International journal of biological macromolecules, 2009, 1;44(4):326-32. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2009.01.004
Published structures
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“3D NMR solution structure of NLRP3 PYD”
Javier Oroz, Susana Barrera-Vilarmau, Carlos Alfonso, Germán Rivas, Eva de Alba. RCSB Protein Data Bank, PDB ID: 2NAQ
“Solution structure of the cytosolic fragment 22-53 of Bcl-2 member Harakiri”
Susana Barrera- Vilarmau, Patricia Obregón, Eva de Alba. RCSB Protein Data Bank, PDB ID: 2L58
“Solution structure of the transmembrane domain of Bcl-2 member Harakiri in micelles”
Susana Barrera-Vilarmau, Patricia Obregón, Eva de Alba. RCSB Protein Data Bank, PDB ID: 2L5B
Acknowledged in
“The dark side of the ring: role of the DNA sliding surface of PCNA”
Matto De March and Alfredo De Biasio. Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2017 Dec; 52(6): 663-673. 10.1080/10409238.2017.1364218
«taurenmd: A command-line interface for analysis of Molecular Dynamics simulations»
João M.C. Teixeira. Journal of Open Source Software, 5 (50), 2175. DOI: 10.21105/joss.02175
“Farseer-NMR: automatic treatment, analysis and plotting of large, multi-variable NMR data”
João M.C. Teixeira, Simon P. Skinner, Miguel Arbesú, Alexander L. Breeze, Miquel Pons. Journal of biomolecular NMR, 2018, volume 71, issue 1, pp. 1-9. 10.1007/s10858-018-0182-5
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