María-José Huertas Romera
Group: Gene expression and metabolic regulation in cyanobacteria
Position: Lecturer at the University of Seville
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Office: tel. 954489601 ext. 446003
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Formation
Graduate in Biological Science, University of Granada, 1994
PhD in Biology, University of Granada, 1999
Research Interests
My work focuses on adaptation mechanisms of photosynthetic microorganisms to different environmental and nutrient conditions, in particular studying redox regulation and its relationship to metabolism in cyanobacteria. Our aim is to understand how photosynthetic microorganisms control and regulate their metabolic processes, and we are particularly interested in the role of thioredoxins in this process. We are currently investigating the essential role of the thioredoxin TrxA in cellular metabolism and the reduction system of these proteins using conditional mutants.
Publications
| Mallén-Ponce, Manuel J.; Florencio, Francisco Javier; Huertas, Maria Jose. Thioredoxin A regulates protein synthesis to maintain carbon and nitrogen partitioning in cyanobacteria. 2024. Plant Physiology 2024: 00: 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiae101 |
| Mallén-Ponce MJ, Huertas MJ, Florencio FJ. Exploring the Diversity of the Thioredoxin Systems in Cyanobacteria. Antioxidants. 2022 Mar 28;11(4):654. https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox11040654 |
| Huertas M.J and Mallén‐Ponce M.J. .Dark side of cyanobacteria: searching for strategies to control blooms. 2022. Microbial Biotechnology 15(5), 1321–1323. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.13982 |
| Mallén-Ponce, MJ.; Huertas, MJ; Sánchez-Riego, AM; Florencio, FJ .2021. Depletion of m-type thioredoxin impairs photosynthesis, carbon fixation, and oxidative stress in cyanobacteria. Plant physiology 187-3, pp.1325-1340. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiab321 |