Alvarez-Ponce, D.; Ruiz-González, M.; Vera Sirera, Francisco José; Feyertag, F.; Perez Amador, Miguel Angel; Fares Riaño, Mario Ali(MDPI AG, 2018-08)
[EN] Comparison of the proteins of thermophilic, mesophilic, and psychrophilic prokaryotes has revealed several features characteristic to proteins adapted to high temperatures, which increase their thermostability. These ...
[EN] An open question in evolutionary biology is how does the selection¿drift balance determine the fates
of biological interactions. We searched for signatures of selection and drift in genomes of five
endosymbiotic ...
Henderson, Brian; Fares Riaño, Mario Ali; Lund, Peter A.(Blackwell Publishing, 2013)
[EN] Chaperonin 60 is the prototypic molecular chaperone, an essential protein in eukaryotes and prokaryotes, whose
sequence conservation provides an excellent basis for phylogenetic analysis. Escherichia coli chaperonin ...
Sablok, Gaurav; Mudunuri, Suresh B.; Patnana, Sujan; Popova, Martina; Fares Riaño, Mario Ali; La Porta, Nicola(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013-04)
[EN] Microsatellites or simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are repetitive stretches of nucleotides (A, T, G, C) that are distributed either as single base pair stretches or as a combination of two- to six-nucleotides units ...
Ruíz González, Mario Javier; Fares Riaño, Mario Ali(BioMed Central, 2013-07-22)
[EN] Background: GroESL is a heat-shock protein ubiquitous in bacteria and eukaryotic organelles. This evolutionarily conserved protein is involved in the folding of a wide variety of other proteins in the cytosol, being ...
Sans Sánchez, Adrià(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017-02-23)
El objetivo de este proyecto es poder entender como los genes duplicados contribuyen a las innovaciones evolutivas. En concreto, se pretende estudiar mediante evolución experimental y análisis transcriptómico la re-programación ...
[EN] An 'interactome' screen of all Drosophila cell-surface and secreted proteins containing immunoglobulin superfamily (IgSF) domains discovered a network formed by paralogs of Beaten Path (Beat) and Sidestep (Side), a ...
Rodrigo Tarrega, Guillermo; Fares Riaño, Mario Ali(BioMed Central, 2012-04-13)
Background: The potential role of RNA molecules as gene expression regulators has led to a new perspective on the intracellular control and genome organization. Because secondary structures are crucial for their regulatory ...
Roque Mesa, Edelin Marta; Fares Riaño, Mario Ali; Yenush, Lynne; Rochina Peñalver, Mª Cruz; Wen, Jiangqi; Mysore, Kirankumar S.; Gómez Mena, María Concepción; Beltran Porter, Jose Pio; Cañas Clemente, Luís Antonio(Oxford University Press, 2016)
[EN] PISTILLATA (PI) is a member of the B-function MADS-box gene family, which controls the identity of both petals and stamens in Arabidopsis thaliana. In Medicago truncatula (Mt), there are two PI-like paralogs, known ...
Carretero Paulet, Lorenzo; Fares Riaño, Mario Ali(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2012-11)
[EN] Gene duplicates are a major source of evolutionary novelties in the form of new or specialized functions and play a key role in speciation. Gene duplicates are generated through whole genome duplications (WGD) or ...
Mattenberger, Florian; Sabater-Muñoz, Beatriz; Toft, Christina; Sablok, Gaurav; Fares Riaño, Mario Ali(Oxford University Press, 2017-12)
[EN] Gene duplication is an important source of novelties and genome complexity. What genes are preserved as duplicated through long evolutionary times can shape the evolution of innovations. Identifying factors that ...
Fares Riaño, Mario Ali; Sabater-Muñoz, B.; Toft, C.(Oxford University Press, 2017-05-01)
[EN] Gene duplication generates new genetic material, which has been shown to lead to major innovations in unicellular and multicellular organisms. A whole-genome duplication occurred in the ancestor of Saccharomyces yeast ...
Mattenberger, Florian; Sabater-Muñoz, B; Hallsworth, John E.; Fares Riaño, Mario Ali(Blackwell Publishing, 2017)
[EN] Glycerol synthesis is key to central metabolism and stress biology in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, yet the cellular adjustments needed to respond and adapt to glycerol stress are little understood. Here, we determined ...
[EN] Water is an essential element for living organisms, such that various responses have evolved to withstand water deficit in all living species. The study of these responses in plants has had particular relevance given ...
Sanz-Carbonell, Alejandro; Marques Romero, Mª Carmen; Bustamante-González, Antonio Javier; Fares Riaño, Mario Ali; Rodrigo Tarrega, Guillermo; Gomez, Gustavo Germán(Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.), 2019-02-18)
[EN] Background: MiRNAs have emerged as key regulators of stress response in plants, suggesting their potential as candidates for knock-in/out to improve stress tolerance in agricultural crops. Although diverse assays have ...
Sen, L; Fares Riaño, Mario Ali; Su, YJ; Wang, T(BioMed Central, 2012-08-16)
Background: The photosynthetic oxygen-evolving photo system II (PS II) produces almost the entire oxygen in the atmosphere. This unique biochemical system comprises a functional core complex that is encoded by psbA and ...
Hasiów-Jaroszewska, Beata; Fares Riaño, Mario Ali; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2014-01)
[EN] Our knowledge on the mode of evolution of the multifunctional viral proteins remains incomplete. To tackle this problem, here, we have investigated the evolutionary dynamics of the potyvirus multifunctional protein ...
Carretero Paulet, Lorenzo; Albert, VA; Fares Riaño, Mario Ali(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013-09)
[EN] The ubiquitous and conserved cytosolic heat-shock proteins 90 (HSP90A) perform essential functions in the cell. To understand the evolutionary origin of HSP90A functional diversification, we analyzed the distribution ...
Keane, O.M.; Toft, C.; Carretero Paulet, Lorenzo; Jones, G.W.; Fares Riaño, Mario Ali(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2014-11)
[EN] Biological systems remain robust against certain genetic and environmental challenges. Robustness allows the exploration of ecological adaptations. It is unclear what factors contribute to increasing robustness. Gene ...
Fares Riaño, Mario Ali; Ruíz González, Mario Javier; Labrador, Juan Pablo(Wiley, 2011-04)
[EN] Proteins rarely function in isolation but they form part of complex networks of interactions with other proteins within or among cells. The importance of a particular protein for cell viability is directly dependent ...