Publications by the researcher in collaboration with JOSÉ GREGORIO GAVILANES FRANCO (67)

2017

  1. Fungal ribotoxins: A review of potential biotechnological applications

    Toxins, Vol. 9, Núm. 2

  2. Minimized natural versions of fungal ribotoxins show improved active site plasticity

    Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Vol. 619, pp. 45-53

2016

  1. Involvement of loop 5 lysine residues and the N-terminal β-hairpin of the ribotoxin hirsutellin A on its insecticidal activity

    Biological Chemistry, Vol. 397, Núm. 2, pp. 135-145

2015

  1. Involvement of loops 2 and 3 of α-sarcin on its ribotoxic activity

    Toxicon, Vol. 96, pp. 1-9

  2. Preparation of an engineered safer immunotoxin against colon carcinoma based on the ribotoxin hirsutellin A

    FEBS Journal, Vol. 282, Núm. 11, pp. 2131-2141

2013

  1. Fungal extracellular ribotoxins as insecticidal agents

    Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Vol. 43, Núm. 1, pp. 39-46

  2. Hirsutellin A: A paradigmatic example of the insecticidal function of fungal ribotoxins

    Insects, Vol. 4, Núm. 3, pp. 339-356

2012

  1. A non-cytotoxic but ribonucleolytically specific ribotoxin variant: Implication of tryptophan residues in the cytotoxicity of hirsutellin A

    Biological Chemistry, Vol. 393, Núm. 6, pp. 449-456

  2. Implication of an Asp residue in the ribonucleolytic activity of hirsutellin A reveals new electrostatic interactions at the active site of ribotoxins

    Biochimie, Vol. 94, Núm. 2, pp. 427-433

  3. Production and characterization of a colon cancer-specific immunotoxin based on the fungal ribotoxin α-sarcin

    Protein Engineering, Design and Selection, Vol. 25, Núm. 8, pp. 425-435

  4. Production and characterization of scFvA33T1, an immunoRNase targeting colon cancer cells

    FEBS Journal, Vol. 279, Núm. 17, pp. 3022-3032

2008

  1. The insecticidal protein hirsutellin A from the mite fungal pathogen Hirsutella thompsonii is a ribotoxin

    Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics, Vol. 72, Núm. 1, pp. 217-228

  2. The therapeutic potential of fungal ribotoxins

    Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Vol. 9, Núm. 3, pp. 153-160

2007

  1. Fungal ribotoxins: Molecular dissection of a family of natural killers

    FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Vol. 31, Núm. 2, pp. 212-237

  2. Sea anemone actinoporins: The transition from a folded soluble state to a functionally active membrane-bound oligomeric pore

    Current Protein and Peptide Science, Vol. 8, Núm. 6, pp. 558-572

  3. Silent mutations at the 5′-end of the cDNA of actinoporins from the sea anemone Stichodactyla helianthus allow their heterologous overproduction in Escherichia coli

    Journal of Biotechnology, Vol. 127, Núm. 2, pp. 211-221

2005

  1. Anomalous electrophoretic behavior of a very acidic protein: Ribonuclease U2

    Electrophoresis, Vol. 26, Núm. 18, pp. 3407-3413

  2. Production and characterization of a noncytotoxic deletion variant of the Aspergillus fumigatus allergen Aspf1 displaying reduced IgE binding

    FEBS Journal, Vol. 272, Núm. 10, pp. 2536-2544

2004

  1. Conserved asparagine residue 54 of α-sarcin plays a role in protein stability and enzyme activity

    Biological Chemistry, Vol. 385, Núm. 12, pp. 1165-1170

  2. Phenotypic selection and characterization of randomly produced non-haemolytic mutants of the toxic sea anemone protein sticholysin II

    FEBS Letters, Vol. 575, Núm. 1-3, pp. 14-18