José A. Navarro

Jose Antonio Navarro Carruesco

ORCID: 0000-0002-0536-6074

Group: Stress response and synthetic biology of photosynthetic microorganisms

Position: Senior Researcher, CSIC

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Room:  D S113,

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Formation

Graduate in Biological Siences, University of Seville, 1982

PhD in Biology , University of Seville, 1986

Postdoc Researcher at the University of Arizona, USA, 1988-1989

Research Interests

My scientific activity has mainly focused on the study of structure-function relationships in proteins, the electron transfer in photosynthesis and the biochemical and metabolic response to oxidative stress. The ultimate goal is the improvement of photosynthetic primary productivity, particularly in relation to the (bio)availability of metals (copper and iron) and the redox mechanisms of the response to stress in photosynthetic organisms, currently related to the use and improvement of microalgae and cyanobacteria in biotechnology.

Publications

Castell C, Rodríguez-Lumbreras LA, Hervás M, Fernández-Recio J, Navarro JA. New insights into the evolution of the electron transfer from cytochrome f to photosystem I in the green and red branches of photosynthetic eukaryotes. Plant Cell Physiol. 2021 Oct 29;62(7):1082-1093. doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcab044
Castell C, Bernal-Bayard P, Ortega JM, Roncel M, Hervás M, Navarro JA. The heterologous expression of a plastocyanin in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum improves cell growth under iron-deficient conditions. Physiol Plant. 2021 Feb;171(2):277-290. doi: 10.1111/ppl.13290
Bernal-Bayard P, Pallara C, Carmen Castell M, Molina-Heredia FP, Fernández-Recio J, Hervás M, Navarro JA. Interaction of photosystem I from Phaeodactylum tricornutum with plastocyanins as compared with its native cytochrome c6: Reunion with a lost donor. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2015 Dec;1847(12):1549-59. doi: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2015.09.006
Durán RV, Hervás M, De La Rosa MA, Navarro JA. The efficient functioning of photosynthesis and respiration in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 strictly requires the presence of either cytochrome c6 or plastocyanin. J Biol Chem. 2004 Feb 20;279(8):7229-33. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M311565200
Molina-Heredia FP, Wastl J, Navarro JA, Bendall DS, Hervás M, Howe CJ, De La Rosa MA. A new function for an old cytochrome? Nature. 2003 Jul 3;424(6944):33-4. doi: 10.1038/424033b
 
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