Identification of aggregation-prone and gatekeeper residues in bacterial amyloids using site-directed mutagenesis and flow cytometry.

2022

Aguilera, P., Marín, J., Lagos, R., Marcoleta, A.

In Methods in Molecular Biology 2538.  Bacterial Amyloids: Methods and Protocols.   Eds: V. Arluison, F. Wien, A. Marcoleta.  Humana New York, NY. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2529-3

Assessment of intracellular amyloid formation in fixed and live bacteria using fluorescence microscopy.

2022

​Marín, J., Aguilera, P., Lagos,R., Marcoleta, A.

In Methods in Molecular Biology 2538.  Bacterial Amyloids: Methods and Protocols.   Eds: V. Arluison, F. Wien, A. Marcoleta.  Humana New York, NY. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2529-3

The highly diverse Antarctic Peninsula soil microbiota as a source of novel resistance genes.

2022

Marcoleta, AE., Arros, P.,  Varas, MA,  Costa, J., Rojas-Salgado, J., Berríos-Pastén, C.,  Tapia-Fuentes, S., Silva, D., Fierro, J.,  Canales, N., Chávez, FP.,  Gaete, A.,   González, M., Allende, ML,  Lagos, R.

Science of the Total Environment. 810 (2022) 152003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152003

Exploiting zebrafish xenografts for testing the in vivo antitumorigenic activity of microcin E492 against human colorectal cancer cells.

2020

Varas, M.A., Muñoz-Montecinos, C., Kallenz, V.,  Simon, V., Allende, M.A., Marcoleta, A.E. and Lagos, R.

Science of the Total Environment. 810 (2022) 152003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152003

Properties of genes encoding transfer RNAs as integration sites for genomic islands and prophages in Klebsiella pneumoniae.

2020

Berríos-Pastén, C., Acevedo, R., Arros, P., Varas, MA.,  Wyres, KL., Lam, MMC., Holt, KE, Lagos, R., AE. Marcoleta

bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.02.365908

Inhibition of Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis FtsZ Polymerization and Bacillus subtilis Growth by Dihydroxynaphtyl Aryl Ketones.

2019

Araya G, Benites J, Reyes JS, Marcoleta AE, Valderrama JA, Lagos R and Monasterio O

Frontiers in Microbiology.10:1225. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01225

Bacterial Amyloids.

2019

Marcoleta, A., Wein, F., Arluison, V., Lagos, R., Giraldo, R.

In eLS, John Wiley  & Sons. Ltd: Chichester. doi: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0028401

The Ferric uptake regulator (Fur) and iron availability control the production and maturation of the antibacterial peptide microcin E492.

2018

Marcoleta, AE., Gutiérrez-Cortez, S., Hurtado, F.,  Argandoña,  Y., Corsini, G., Monasterio, O.,  and Lagos, R.

PLoS ONE 13(8): e0200835. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200835

Evaluating different virulence traits of Klebsiella pneumoniae using the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum and zebrafish larvae as host models.

2018

Marcoleta, A.E,  Varas, M.A, Ortiz-Severín, J. Vásquez, L., Berríos-Pastén,  C.,  Sabag, A., Chávez,  F.P., Allende, M.L., Santiviago, C.,  Monasterio, O.,  and R. Lagos.

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology 8:30. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2018.00030

Thermal Adaptation of Mesophilic and Thermophilic FtsZ Assembly by Modulation of the Critical Concentration.

2017

Concha-Marambio, L., Maldonado, O.,  Lagos, R.,  Monasterio, O.,  Montecinos-Franjola, F.

PloS ONE.(10):  PLoS e0185707. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185707

Bacterial Microtubules Exhibit Polarized Growth, Mixed-Polarity Bundling, and Destabilization by GTP Hydrolysis.

2017

Díaz-Celis, C., Risca, V.I.,  Hurtado, F., Polka, J., Hansen, S.D., Maturana, D., Lagos, R., Mullins, D., Monasterio, O.

Journal of Bacteriology 199 (19) e0221-17. https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.00211-17.

Mutations on FtsZ lateral helix H3 that disrupt cell viability hamper reorganization of polymers on lipid surfaces.

2017

Marquez, I.F.,  Mateos-Gil, P.,  Shin, J-Y., Lagos, R.,  Monasterio, O.,  Velez, M.

Biochim Biophys Acta  – Biomembranes. 1859, 1815-1827. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbamem.2017.06.009

Inhibition of cancer cell growth and migration by dihydroxynaphthyl aryl ketones.  

2016

Benites, J.,  Valderrama, J.A., Ríos, D.,  Lagos, R., Monasterio, O., and  Buc Calderon, P.

Molecular & Cellular Toxicology  (MCT) 12:  237-242. doi:10.1007/s13273-016-0028-8

Klebsiella pneumoniae asparagine tDNAs are integration hotspots for different genomic islands encoding microcin E492 production determinants and other putative virulence factors present in hypervirulent strains.

2016

Marcoleta, A., Berríos-Pastén, C., Nuñez, G., Monasterio, O., Lagos, R.

Frontiers in Microbiology. 7:849  doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00849

Identification of key amino acid residues modulating intracellular and in vitro microcin E492 amyloid formation.

2016

Aguilera, P., Marcoleta, A., Lobos-Ruiz, P.,  Arranz, R., Valpuesta, JM., Monasterio, O., Lagos, R.

Frontiers in Microbiology. 7:35.  doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00035.

Binding of dihydroxynaphtyl aryl ketones  to tubulin colchicine sites inhibits microtubule  assembly.

2015

Gutiérrez , E., Benites, J., Valderrama, J., Buc-Calderon, P., Verrax, J., Nova E., Villanelo, F., Maturana, D., Escobar, C., Lagos, R., Monasterio, O.

Biochem. Biophys Res. Commun. 466: 418-425. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2015.09.041.

Single tryptophan mutants of FtsZ: nucleotide binding/exchange and conformational transitions.

2014

Montecinos-Franjola, F., James, N.G., Concha-Marambio, L., Brunet, J.E., Lagos, R., Monasterio, O., Jameson, D.M.

.  Biochim Biophys Acta 1844, 1193-200.