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Soledad Porte Alcon

- Verified email at qb.fcen.uba.ar - Cited by 13521

Pablo Alcón Hernández

- Verified email at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk - Cited by 673

Class 2 CRISPR–Cas RNA-guided endonucleases: Swiss Army knives of genome editing

S Stella, P Alcon, G Montoya - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 2017 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas is a bacterial defense system against phage infection and nucleic acid invasion.
Class 2 type II CRISPR–Cas9 has also been widely used for genome engineering. Here, …

[PDF][PDF] Conformational activation promotes CRISPR-Cas12a catalysis and resetting of the endonuclease activity

S Stella, P Mesa, J Thomsen, B Paul, P Alcón… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Cas12a, also known as Cpf1, is a type VA CRISPR-Cas RNA-guided endonuclease that is
used for genome editing based on its ability to generate specific dsDNA breaks. Here, we …

Structure of the Cpf1 endonuclease R-loop complex after target DNA cleavage

S Stella, P Alcón, G Montoya - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Cpf1 is an RNA-guided endonuclease that is emerging as a powerful genome-editing tool 1
, 2 . Here we provide insight into its DNA-targeting mechanism by determining the structure …

FANCD2–FANCI is a clamp stabilized on DNA by monoubiquitination of FANCD2 during DNA repair

P Alcón, S Shakeel, ZA Chen, J Rappsilber… - Nature structural & …, 2020 - nature.com
Vertebrate DNA crosslink repair excises toxic replication-blocking DNA crosslinks.
Numerous factors involved in crosslink repair have been identified, and mutations in their …

Structure of the Fanconi anaemia monoubiquitin ligase complex

S Shakeel, E Rajendra, P Alcón, F O'Reilly, DS Chorev… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The Fanconi anaemia (FA) pathway repairs DNA damage caused by endogenous and
chemotherapy-induced DNA crosslinks, and responds to replication stress 1 , 2 . Genetic …

The DNA-damage kinase ATR activates the FANCD2-FANCI clamp by priming it for ubiquitination

T Sijacki, P Alcón, ZA Chen, SH McLaughlin… - Nature structural & …, 2022 - nature.com
DNA interstrand cross-links are tumor-inducing lesions that block DNA replication and
transcription. When cross-links are detected at stalled replication forks, ATR kinase …

[HTML][HTML] The histone chaperone SPT2 regulates chromatin structure and function in Metazoa

…, L Sanchez-Pulido, JL Price, P Alcon… - Nature Structural & …, 2024 - nature.com
Histone chaperones control nucleosome density and chromatin structure. In yeast, the H3–H4
chaperone Spt2 controls histone deposition at active genes but its roles in metazoan …

[HTML][HTML] PSTPIP1-LYP phosphatase interaction: structural basis and implications for autoinflammatory disorders

…, T Marcos, V Ruiz-Martín, J Casas, P Alcón… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Mutations in the adaptor protein PSTPIP1 cause a spectrum of autoinflammatory diseases,
including PAPA and PAMI; however, the mechanism underlying these diseases remains …

Substrate integrated waveguides structures using frequency selective surfaces operating in stop-band (SBFSS-SIW)

N Esparza, P Alcón, LF Herrán… - IEEE Microwave and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Gobierno del Principado de Asturias and FEDER (Unión Europea) under Project GRUPIN14-114,
and by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad under Project TEC2014-54005-P. …

Toxicity of blue led light and A2E is associated to mitochondrial dynamics impairment in ARPE-19 cells: implications for age-related macular degeneration

…, GG Liñares, JM Bujjamer, RM Gorojod, SP Alcon… - Archives of …, 2019 - Springer
… Experimental comparisons between treatments were made by Student’s t test or one-way
ANOVA, followed by Student-Newman–Keuls post hoc test with statistical significance set at p