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Beatriz Alvarez is a researcher affiliated with the University of the Republic in Uruguay. Their work spans fields related to Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a focus on subfields including Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Oncology, Organic Chemistry, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

Their research topics cover a diverse range of biochemical and molecular biology themes, including:

  • Sulfur Compounds in Biology
  • Redox biology and oxidative stress
  • Glutathione Transferases and Polymorphisms
  • Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
  • Protein Interaction Studies and Fluorescence Analysis
  • Genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology

Beatriz Alvarez has contributed to publications in several scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Free Radical Biology and Medicine
  • PLoS ONE
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Essays in Biochemistry

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Alvarez include:

  • "Acidity and nucleophilic reactivity of glutathione persulfide," 2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • "Persulfides, at the crossroads between hydrogen sulfide and thiols," 2020, Essays in Biochemistry
  • "A bacterial cold-active dye-decolorizing peroxidase from an Antarctic Pseudomonas strain," 2023, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • "Sulfenic acid in human serum albumin: Reaction with thiols, oxidation and spontaneous decay," 2021, Free Radical Biology and Medicine
  • "Possible molecular basis of the biochemical effects of cysteine-derived persulfides," 2022, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their research output. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Ruma Banerjee
  • A.B. Boraston
  • Lila M. Gierasch
  • F. Peter Guengerich
  • Roger Colbran

Best Publications

  • Chemical Biology of H2S Signaling through Persulfidation.

    Milos R. Filipovic;Jasmina Zivanovic;Beatriz Alvarez;Ruma Banerjee

  • The thiol pool in human plasma: the central contribution of albumin to redox processes.

    Lucía Turell;Rafael Radi;Beatriz Alvarez

  • Peroxynitrite reactivity with amino acids and proteins.

    B. Alvarez;R. Radi

  • Biochemistry of Peroxynitrite and Protein Tyrosine Nitration.

    Gerardo Ferrer-Sueta;Nicolás Campolo;Madia Trujillo;Silvina Bartesaghi

  • Sulfenic acid formation in human serum albumin by hydrogen peroxide and peroxynitrite.

    Sebastián Carballal;Rafael Radi;Marion C Kirk;Stephen Barnes

  • Peroxynitrite-dependent tryptophan nitration.

    Beatriz Alvarez;Homero Rubbo;Marion Kirk;Stephen Barnes

  • Kinetics of Peroxynitrite Reaction with Amino Acids and Human Serum Albumin

    Beatriz Alvarez;Gerardo Ferrer-Sueta;Bruce A. Freeman;Rafael Radi

  • Pathways of peroxynitrite oxidation of thiol groups

    Celia Quijano;Beatriz Alvarez;Reynaldo M. Gatti;Ohara Augusto

  • Reaction of Hydrogen Sulfide with Disulfide and Sulfenic Acid to Form the Strongly Nucleophilic Persulfide.

    Ernesto Cuevasanta;Mike Lange;Jenner Bonanata;E. Laura Coitiño

  • Reactivity of hydrogen sulfide with peroxynitrite and other oxidants of biological interest.

    Sebastián Carballal;Madia Trujillo;Ernesto Cuevasanta;Silvina Bartesaghi

  • Nitration and inactivation of tyrosine hydroxylase by peroxynitrite.

    Béatrice Blanchard-Fillion;José M. Souza;José M. Souza;Thomas Friel;George C.T. Jiang

  • Biological chemistry of hydrogen sulfide and persulfides

    Ernesto Cuevasanta;Matías N. Möller;Beatriz Alvarez

  • Reactivity of Sulfenic Acid in Human Serum Albumin

    Lucía Turell;Horacio Botti;Sebastián Carballal;Gerardo Ferrer-Sueta

  • Aerobiosis Increases the Genomic Guanine Plus Cytosine Content (GC%) in Prokaryotes

    Hugo Naya;Héctor Romero;Alejandro Zavala;Beatriz Alvarez

  • One- and two-electron oxidation of thiols: mechanisms, kinetics and biological fates

    Madia Trujillo;Beatriz Alvarez;Rafael Radi

  • Detection and quantification of nitric oxide-derived oxidants in biological systems.

    Matías N. Möller;Natalia Rios;Madia Trujillo;Rafael Radi

  • Inactivation of human Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase by peroxynitrite and formation of histidinyl radical.

    Beatriz Alvarez;Verónica Demicheli;Rosario Durán;Madia Trujillo

  • Solubility and Permeation of Hydrogen Sulfide in Lipid Membranes

    Ernesto Cuevasanta;Ana Denicola;Beatriz Alvarez;Matías N. Möller

  • Sulfenic acid in human serum albumin.

    S. Carballal;B. Alvarez;L. Turell;H. Botti

  • Thiol and sulfenic acid oxidation of AhpE, the one-cysteine peroxiredoxin from Mycobacterium tuberculosis: kinetics, acidity constants, and conformational dynamics.

    Martín Hugo;Lucía Turell;Bruno Manta;Horacio Botti

  • The Biological Chemistry of Peroxynitrite

    Rafael Radi;Ana Denicola;Beatriz Alvarez;Gerardo Ferrer-Sueta

Frequent Co-Authors

Rafael Radi
Rafael Radi University of the Republic
Madia Trujillo
Madia Trujillo University of the Republic
Ana Denicola
Ana Denicola University of the Republic
Bruce A. Freeman
Bruce A. Freeman University of Pittsburgh
Ruma Banerjee
Ruma Banerjee University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Francisco J. Schopfer
Francisco J. Schopfer University of Pittsburgh
David P. Ballou
David P. Ballou University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Darío A. Estrin
Darío A. Estrin University of Buenos Aires
Milos R. Filipovic
Milos R. Filipovic Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Javier García-Samaniego
Javier García-Samaniego Hospital Universitario La Paz

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