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Alfredo F. Braña

Alfredo F. Braña

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Biology and Biochemistry

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58
Citations
8664
World Ranking
13472
National Ranking
283

Overview

Alfredo F. Braña is affiliated with the University of Oviedo in Spain. Their research spans multiple domains including Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Chemistry, with a focus on Pharmacology, Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biotechnology as key subfields.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, particularly:

  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods
  • Marine Sponges and Natural Products
  • Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms

Braña's recent peer-reviewed publications include the following:

  • Discovery of Cryptic Largimycins in Streptomyces Reveals Novel Biosynthetic Avenues Enriching the Structural Diversity of the Leinamycin Family, 2020, ACS Chemical Biology
  • Combinatorial biosynthesis yields novel hybrid argimycin P alkaloids with diverse scaffolds in Streptomyces argillaceus, 2022, Microbial Biotechnology
  • Uncovering the Cryptic Gene Cluster ahb for 3-amino-4-hydroxybenzoate Derived Ahbamycins, by Searching SARP Regulator Encoding Genes in the Streptomyces argillaceus Genome, 2023, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Alfredo F. Braña on multiple projects include:

  • Ignacio Pérez-Victoria
  • Suhui Ye
  • Jesús Martín
  • Fernando Reyes
  • José A. Salas

The publication venues where Braña has contributed most often are:

  • ACS Chemical Biology
  • Microbial Biotechnology
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Best Publications

  • Combinatorial biosynthesis of antitumor indolocarbazole compounds

    César Sánchez;Lili Zhu;Alfredo F. Braña;Aaroa P. Salas

  • The Biosynthetic Gene Cluster for the Antitumor Rebeccamycin: Characterization and Generation of Indolocarbazole Derivatives

    César Sánchez;Igor A Butovich;Alfredo F Braña;Jürgen Rohr

  • Identification of Two Genes from Streptomyces argillaceus Encoding Glycosyltransferases Involved in Transfer of a Disaccharide during Biosynthesis of the Antitumor Drug Mithramycin

    Ernestina Fernández;Ulrike Weißbach;César Sánchez Reillo;Alfredo F. Braña

  • Deciphering the biosynthesis pathway of the antitumor thiocoraline from a marine actinomycete and its expression in two Streptomyces species

    Felipe Lombó;Ana Velasco;Angelina Castro;Fernando de la Calle

  • Activation and identification of five clusters for secondary metabolites in Streptomyces albus J1074

    Carlos Olano;Ignacio García;Aranzazu González;Miriam Rodriguez

  • Mithramycin SK, a novel antitumor drug with improved therapeutic index, mithramycin SA, and demycarosyl-mithramycin SK: three new products generated in the mithramycin producer Streptomyces argillaceus through combinatorial biosynthesis.

    Lily L. Remsing;Ana M. González;Mohammad Nur-e-Alam;M. José Fernández-Lozano

  • Biosynthesis of the Angiogenesis Inhibitor Borrelidin by Streptomyces parvulus Tü4055: Cluster Analysis and Assignment of Functions

    Carlos Olano;Barrie Wilkinson;César Sánchez;Steven J Moss

  • Engineering Deoxysugar Biosynthetic Pathways from Antibiotic-Producing Microorganisms: A Tool to Produce Novel Glycosylated Bioactive Compounds

    Leticia Rodrı́guez;Ignacio Aguirrezabalaga;Nerea Allende;Alfredo F Braña

  • Reevaluation of the violacein biosynthetic pathway and its relationship to indolocarbazole biosynthesis.

    César Sánchez;Alfredo F. Braña;Carmen Méndez;José A. Salas

  • Deciphering the late steps in the biosynthesis of the anti-tumour indolocarbazole staurosporine : sugar donor substrate flexibility of the StaG glycosyltransferase

    Aaroa P. Salas;Lili Zhu;César Sánchez;Alfredo F. Braña

  • Formation of an adduct between fosfomycin and glutathione: a new mechanism of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

    P Arca;M Rico;A F Braña;C J Villar

  • The Biosynthetic Gene Cluster for the β-Lactam Carbapenem Thienamycin in Streptomyces cattleya

    Luz Elena Núñez;Carmen Méndez;Alfredo F Braña;Gloria Blanco

  • Identification and expression of genes involved in biosynthesis of L-oleandrose and its intermediate L-olivose in the oleandomycin producer Streptomyces antibioticus.

    Ignacio Aguirrezabalaga;Carlos Olano;Nerea Allende;Leticia Rodriguez

  • Biosynthesis of the antitumor chromomycin A3 in Streptomyces griseus: analysis of the gene cluster and rational design of novel chromomycin analogs

    Nuria Menéndez;Mohammad Nur-e-Alam;Alfredo F. Braña;Jürgen Rohr

  • Isolation, Characterization, and Heterologous Expression of the Biosynthesis Gene Cluster for the Antitumor Anthracycline Steffimycin

    Sonia Gullón;Carlos Olano;Mohamed S. Abdelfattah;Alfredo F. Braña

  • Role of substrate mycelium in colony development in Streptomyces.

    Carmen Méndez;Alfredo F. Brana;Manuel B. Manzanal;Carlos Hardisson

  • The Mithramycin Gene Cluster of Streptomyces argillaceus Contains a Positive Regulatory Gene and Two Repeated DNA Sequences That Are Located at Both Ends of the Cluster

    Felipe Lombó;Alfredo F. Braña;Carmen Méndez;José A. Salas

  • Identification of a sugar flexible glycosyltransferase from Streptomyces olivaceus, the producer of the antitumor polyketide elloramycin

    Gloria Blanco;Eugenio P Patallo;Alfredo F Braña;Axel Trefzer

  • Rationally designed glycosylated premithramycins: hybrid aromatic polyketides using genes from three different biosynthetic pathways.

    Axel Trefzer;Gloria Blanco;Lily Remsing;Eva Künzel

  • Oxidative cleavage of premithramycin B is one of the last steps in the biosynthesis of the antitumor drug mithramycin

    Laura Prado;Ernestina Fernández;Ulrike Weiβbach;Gloria Blanco

Frequent Co-Authors

Carmen Méndez
Carmen Méndez University of Oviedo
José A. Salas
José A. Salas University of Oviedo
Jürgen Rohr
Jürgen Rohr University of Kentucky
Barrie Wilkinson
Barrie Wilkinson John Innes Centre
Peter F. Leadlay
Peter F. Leadlay University of Cambridge
Arnold L. Demain
Arnold L. Demain Drew University
Hans-Peter Fiedler
Hans-Peter Fiedler University of Tübingen
Baltasar Mayo
Baltasar Mayo Spanish National Research Council
Patricia Ruas-Madiedo
Patricia Ruas-Madiedo Spanish National Research Council
Fernando Calle
Fernando Calle Technical University of Madrid

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