Research

Research

Scientists from the IQFR and the University of Oxford reveal how a family of proteins, essential for inositide and phosphate metabolism in eukaryotes, act on three types of key compounds.

The journal Chemistry Eur J highlights in its cover the first structure of a new type of DNA/ligand complex where selective recognition of interfaces between different DNA secondary structures is observed for the first time.

Dr. José M. Martín García (IQFR) is currently editing an special issue along with Prof. Marc Messerschmidt (Arizona State University, USA) and Dr. Jeney Wierman (SSRL, USA) on novel structural studies of coronavirus proteins.

Collaboration between IQFR scientists, CBM Severo Ochoa center and the Vigo and A Coruña Universities, together with Galchimia company, reveals unprecedent characteristics in a thermophile esterase, obtained from a hot spring

Javier Oroz and Douglas Laurents, from the "Manuel Rico" NMR laboratory, have characterized structural transitions in Orb2, a functional prion which is key for memory consolidation in Drosophila.