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Encarnación Martínez-Salas

Encarnación Martínez-Salas

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
54
Citations
8228
World Ranking
15833
National Ranking
347

Overview

Encarnación Martínez-Salas is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions spanning medicine. Their work delves into various subfields, including molecular biology, genetics, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, immunology, and agronomy and crop science.

The scientist's main topics of study include RNA research and splicing, RNA modifications and cancer, neurogenetic and muscular disorders research, viral infections and immunology research, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and interferon and immune responses.

Recent publications highlight the breadth of their research interests and collaborations. Notable papers include:

  • Picornavirus translation strategies, 2022, published in FEBS Open Bio
  • Emerging Roles of Gemin5: From snRNPs Assembly to Translation Control, 2020, published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • RNA-Binding Proteins at the Host-Pathogen Interface Targeting Viral Regulatory Elements, 2021, published in Viruses
  • MDA5 cleavage by the Leader protease of foot-and-mouth disease virus reveals its pleiotropic effect against the host antiviral response, 2020, published in Cell Death and Disease
  • Autosomal Recessive Cerebellar Atrophy and Spastic Ataxia in Patients With Pathogenic Biallelic Variants in GEMIN5, 2022, published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Rosario Francisco-Velilla
  • Azman Embarc-Buh
  • Salvador Abellan
  • Margarita Sáiz
  • Deepa Rajan

Encarnación Martínez-Salas frequently publishes in several venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • RNA Biology
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews - RNA
  • FEBS Open Bio
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Viruses

Best Publications

  • The quasispecies (extremely heterogeneous) nature of viral RNA genome populations: biological relevance — a review

    Esteban Domingo;Encarnación Martínez-Salas;Francisco Sobrino;Juan Carlos de la Torre

  • Internal ribosome entry site biology and its use in expression vectors

    Encarnación Martı́nez-Salas

  • Functional interactions in internal translation initiation directed by viral and cellular IRES elements

    Encarnación Martínez-Salas;Ricardo Ramos;Esther Lafuente;Sonia López de Quinto

  • Interaction of the eIF4G initiation factor with the aphthovirus IRES is essential for internal translation initiation in vivo.

    Sonia López De Quinto;Encarnación Martínez-Salas

  • Foot-and-mouth disease virus populations are quasispecies.

    E. Domingo;C. Escarmis;M. A. Martinez;E. Martinez-Salas

  • IRES interaction with translation initiation factors: functional characterization of novel RNA contacts with eIF3, eIF4B, and eIF4GII.

    Sonia López De Quinto;Esther Lafuente;Encarnación Martínez-Salas

  • New insights into internal ribosome entry site elements relevant for viral gene expression.

    Encarnación Martínez-Salas;Almudena Pacheco;Paula Serrano;Noemi Fernandez

  • Structural insights into viral IRES-dependent translation mechanisms

    Gloria Lozano;Encarnación Martínez-Salas

  • Coevolution of cells and viruses in a persistent infection of foot-and-mouth disease virus in cell culture.

    J C de la Torre;E Martínez-Salas;J Diez;A Villaverde

  • Conserved structural motifs located in distal loops of aphthovirus internal ribosome entry site domain 3 are required for internal initiation of translation.

    S López de Quinto;E Martínez-Salas

  • Picornavirus IRES elements: RNA structure and host protein interactions.

    Encarnación Martínez-Salas;Rosario Francisco-Velilla;Javier Fernandez-Chamorro;Gloria Lozano

  • Insights into Structural and Mechanistic Features of Viral IRES Elements.

    Encarnacion Martinez-Salas;Rosario Francisco-Velilla;Javier Fernandez-Chamorro;Azman M Embarek

  • The 3' end of the foot-and-mouth disease virus genome establishes two distinct long-range RNA-RNA interactions with the 5' end region.

    Paula Serrano;Miguel Rodriguez Pulido;Margarita Sáiz;Encarnacion Martínez-Salas

  • A single nucleotide substitution in the internal ribosome entry site of foot-and-mouth disease virus leads to enhanced cap-independent translation in vivo.

    Encarnación Martínez-Salas;Juan Carlos Saiz;Mercedes Dávila;Graham J. Belsham

  • Relevance of RNA structure for the activity of picornavirus IRES elements

    Olga Fernández-Miragall;Sonia López de Quinto;Encarnación Martínez-Salas

  • A novel role for Gemin5 in mRNA translation

    Almudena Pacheco;Sonia López de Quinto;Jorge Ramajo;Noemí Fernández

  • The need for enhancers in gene expression first appears during mouse development with formation of the zygotic nucleus.

    Encarnacion Martinez-Salas;Elwood Linney;John Hassell;Melvin L. DePamphilis

  • IRES‐driven translation is stimulated separately by the FMDV 3′‐NCR and poly(A) sequences

    Sonia López de Quinto;Margarita Sáiz;Diana de la Morena;Francisco Sobrino

  • Deletion or substitution of the aphthovirus 3' NCR abrogates infectivity and virus replication.

    M. Sáiz;S. Gómez;E. Martı́nez-Salas;F. Sobrino

  • Involvement of the aphthovirus RNA region located between the two functional AUGs in start codon selection.

    Sonia López de Quinto;Encarnación Martínez-Salas

Frequent Co-Authors

Esteban Domingo
Esteban Domingo Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa
Francisco Sobrino
Francisco Sobrino Spanish National Research Council
Miguel A. Vicente
Miguel A. Vicente University of Salamanca
Juan-Carlos Saiz
Juan-Carlos Saiz Autonomous University of Madrid
Crisanto Gutierrez
Crisanto Gutierrez Spanish National Research Council
Graham J. Belsham
Graham J. Belsham University of Copenhagen
Mauricio G. Mateu
Mauricio G. Mateu Spanish National Research Council
Cristina Escarmís
Cristina Escarmís Spanish National Research Council
Antonio Villaverde
Antonio Villaverde Autonomous University of Barcelona
Joaquín Dopazo
Joaquín Dopazo Institute of Biomedicine of Seville

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