Themed Issue in Honor of Carlos Gutiérrez Merino: Forty Years of Research Excellence in the Field of Membrane Proteins and Bioenergetics
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2024) | Viewed by 38185
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Interests: free radical biology; reactive oxygen species; reactive nitrogen species; peroxidases; NADH oxidases; lipidomics; intrinsically disordered proteins; neurodegenerative diseases; redox biomedicine
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Dear Colleagues,
As a Guest Editor of this Special Issue it is a pleasure to welcome your contributions dedicated to Prof. Carlos Gutierrez Merino, who has nearly reached the 40th anniversary of his research track and has dedicated his life to studying membrane proteins’ structure and function as well as their connection to cell bioenergetics and metabolism. Besides his outstanding career, Prof. Carlos Merino has been an excellent mentor, with whom it has been a pleasure to work.
Prof. Carlos Gutierrez Merino obtained his licentiate degree in Chemistry in 1974 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and was immediately incorporated into the CSIC as a predoctoral student in 1975. He defended his PhD thesis in 1977. After a short stage as a lecturer at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, he moved to the United States in 1978 to the Department of Pharmacology and Biochemistry in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Virginia. He obtained an Assistant Professor position in 1981 in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department at the School of Sciences at the Universidad de Extremadura and later Associate Professor and full Professor positions in 1985 and 1989, respectively. He was also Director of the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department from 1987 to 1995 and Research Vice-Rector at the University of Extremadura from 1995 to 1999. He was also a Board Member of the Spanish Biophysical Society in the 1990s.
He has an h-factor of 32 with more than 160 scientific publications and more than 100 peer-reviewed research articles. He has mentored 18 PhD students. He has made major scientific advances in the study of membrane proteins’ structure and function. These include Ca2+-ATPase pumps, plasma membrane L-type calcium channels, microsomal cytochrome P450s reductase, and plasma membrane cytochrome b5 reductase, as well as metalloproteins, glycogen phosphorylase, natural antioxidants, Aβ amyloid peptides and the functional characterization of the neuronal plasma membrane nanodomains.
To honor Prof. Carlos Gutierrez Merino’s research work during his outstanding career, we invite contributions from Ph.D. students, collaborators, and friends in the broad range of disciplines in which he has made contributions.
Dr. Alejandro Samhan-Arias
Prof. Dr. Manuel Aureliano
Dr. Carmen Lopez-Sanchez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- membrane proteins
- bioenergetics
- metalloproteins
- natural antioxidants
- calcium signaling
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