Publications of Uris Ros

Alvarez, C.; Ros, U.; Valle, A.; Pedrera, L.; Soto, C.; Hervis, Y. P.; Cabezas, S.; Valiente, P. A.; Pazos, F.; Lanio, M. E.: Biophysical and biochemical strategies to understand membrane binding and pore formation by sticholysins, pore-forming proteins from a sea anemone. Biophysical Reviews 9 (5), pp. 529 - 544 (2017)

Soto, C.; Del Valle, A.; Valiente, P. A.; Ros, U.; Lanio, M. E.; Hernández, A. M.; Alvarez, C.: Differential binding and activity of the pore-forming toxin sticholysin II in model membranes containing diverse ceramide-derived lipids. Biochimie 138, pp. 20 - 31 (2017)

Cabezas, S.; Ho, S.; Ros, U.; Lanio, M. E.; Alvarez, C.; van der Goot, F. G.: Damage of eukaryotic cells by the pore-forming toxin sticholysin II: Consequences of the potassium efflux. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: BBA 1859 (5), pp. 982 - 992 (2017)

Ros, U.; Peña-Blanco, A.; Hänggi, K.; Kunzendorf, U.; Krautwald, S.; Wong, W. W.-L.; García-Sáez, A. J.: Necroptosis Execution Is Mediated by Plasma Membrane Nanopores Independent of Calcium. Cell Reports 19, pp. 175 - 187 (2017)

Mesa-Galloso, H.; Delgado-Magnero, K. H.; Cabezas, S.; López-Castilla, A.; Hernández-González, J. E.; Pedrera, L.; Alvarez, C.; Peter Tieleman, D.; García-Sáez, A. J.; Lanio, M. E. et al.; Ros, U.; Valiente, P. A.: Disrupting a key hydrophobic pair in the oligomerization interface of the actinoporins impairs their pore-forming activity. Protein Science 26 (3), pp. 550 - 565 (2017)

Cosentino, K.; Ros, U.; Garcia-Saez, A. J.: Assembling the puzzle: Oligomerization of α-pore forming proteins in membranes. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: BBA 1858 (3), pp. 457 - 466 (2016)

Pedrera, L.; Gomide, A. B.; Sánchez, R. E.; Ros, U.; Wilke, N.; Pazos, F.; Lanio, M. E.; Itri, R.; Fanani, M. L.; Alvarez, C.: The Presence of Sterols Favors Sticholysin I-Membrane Association and Pore Formation Regardless of Their Ability to Form Laterally Segregated Domains. Langmuir 31 (36), pp. 9911 - 9923 (2015)

Ros, U.; Rodríguez-Vera, W.; Pedrera, L.; Valiente, P. A.; Cabezas, S.; Lanio, M. E.; García-Sáez, A. J.; Alvarez, C.: Differences in activity of actinoporins are related with the hydrophobicity of their N-terminus. Biochimie 116, pp. 70 - 78 (2015)

Ros, U.; García-Sáez, A. J.: More Than a Pore: The Interplay of Pore-Forming Proteins and Lipid Membranes. The Journal of Membrane Biology 248 (3), pp. 545 - 561 (2015)

Subburaj, Y.; Ros, U.; Hermann, E.; Tong, R.; García-Sáez, A. J.: Toxicity of an α-pore-forming toxin depends on the assembly mechanism on the target membrane as revealed by single molecule imaging. Journal of Biological Chemistry 290 (8), pp. 4856 - 4865 (2015)

Pedrera, L.; Fanani, M. L.; Ros, U.; Lanio, M. E.; Maggio, B.; Alvarez, C.: Sticholysin I-membrane interaction: an interplay between the presence of sphingomyelin and membrane fluidity. Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta 1838 (7), pp. 1752 - 1759 (2014)

Ros, U.; Edwards, M. A.; Epand, R. F.; Lanio, M. E.; Schreier, S.; Yip, C. M.; Alvarez, C.; Epand, R. M.: The sticholysin family of pore-forming toxins induces the mixing of lipids in membrane domains. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: BBA 1828 (11), pp. 2757 - 2762 (2013)

Ros, U.; Souto, A. L. C. F.; de Oliveira, F. J.; Crusca, E.; Pazos, F.; Cilli, E. M.; Lanio, M. E.; Schreier, S.; Alvarez, C.: Functional and topological studies with Trp-containing analogs of the peptide StII(1-30) derived from the N-terminus of the pore forming toxin sticholysin II: contribution to understand its orientation in membrane. Peptide Sciences 100 (4), pp. 337 - 346 (2013)

Ros, U.; Pedrera, L.; Diaz, D.; Karam, J. C. D.; Sudbrack, T. P.; Valiente, P. A.; MartÍnez, D.; Cilli, E. M.; Pazos, F.; Itri, R. et al.; Lanio, M. E.; Schreier, S.; Ávarez, C.: The membranotropic activity of N-terminal peptides from the pore-forming proteins sticholysin I and II is modulated by hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions as well as lipid composition. Journal of Biosciences 36 (5), pp. 781 - 791 (2011)

Cilli, E. M.; Pigossi, F. T.; Crusca, E.; Ros, U.; Martinez, D.; Lanio, M. E.; Alvarez, C.; Schreier, S.: Correlations between differences in amino-terminal sequences and different hemolytic activity of sticholysins. Toxicon 50 (8), pp. 1201 - 1204 (2007)

Lanio, M. E.; Alvarez, C.; Ochoa, C.; Ros, U.; Pazos, F.; Martínez, D.; Tejuca, M.; Eugenio, L. M.; Casallanovo, F.; Dyszy, F. H. et al.; Schreier, S.; Lissi, E.: Sticholysins I and II interaction with cationic micelles promotes toxins' conformational changes and enhanced hemolytic activity. Toxicon 50 (6), pp. 731 - 739 (2007)

Casallanovo, F.; de Oliveira, F. J. F.; de Souza, F. C.; Ros, U.; Martínez, Y.; Pentón, D.; Tejuca, M.; Martínez, D.; Pazos, F.; Pertinhez, T. A. et al.; Spisni, A.; Cilli, E. M.; Lanio, M. E.; Alvarez, C.; Schreier, S.: Model peptides mimic the structure and function of the N-terminus of the pore-forming toxin sticholysin II. Biopolymers (Peptide Science) 84 (2), pp. 169 - 180 (2006)

Flores-Romero, H.; Ros, U.; García-Sáez, A. J.: Chapter six: A lipid perspective on regulated cell death. In: International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology, Vol. 351, pp. 197 - 236 (Eds. Spetz, J. K. E.; Galluzzi, L.) (2020)

Espiritu, R. A.; Pedrera, L.; Ros, U.: Tuning the way to die: implications of membrane perturbations in necroptosis. In: Advances in Biomembranes and Lipid Self-Assembly, Vol. 29, pp. 201 - 247 (Eds. Iglič, A.; Rappolt, M.; García-Sáez, A. J.). Academic Press (2019)