2026 Francesc X. Avilés: Chemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Chemistry	63	8474	7697	267	258	296	13264
Biology and Biochemistry	66	8744	8066	153	151	306	14193

Overview

Francesc X. Avilés is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a significant number of publications contributing to these areas.

The main topics covered in their work include:

Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis
Coagulation, Bradykinin, Polyphosphates, and Angioedema
Asthma and respiratory diseases
Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
Cellular transport and secretion
Mast cells and histamine
Biochemical and Structural Characterization

Their subfields of study emphasize Molecular Biology, Oncology, Cell Biology, Genetics, and Physiology.

Frequent publication venues for Francesc X. Avilés include:

International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Marine Drugs
Developmental & Comparative Immunology
Allergy
Agrociencia

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Francesc X. Avilés are as follows:

Analysis of the mast cell expressed carboxypeptidase A3 and its structural and evolutionary relationship to other vertebrate carboxypeptidases, 2021, Developmental & Comparative Immunology
Carboxypeptidase inhibition by NvCI suppresses airway hyperreactivity in a mouse asthma model, 2021, Allergy
Proximity Mapping of CCP6 Reveals Its Association with Centrosome Organization and Cilium Assembly, 2023, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Substrate Specificity and Structural Modeling of Human Carboxypeptidase Z: A Unique Protease with a Frizzled-Like Domain, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Marine Invertebrates: A Promissory Still Unexplored Source of Inhibitors of Biomedically Relevant Metallo Aminopeptidases Belonging to the M1 and M17 Families, 2023, Marine Drugs

They have collaborated regularly with several researchers, including:

Júlia Lorenzo
Giovanni Covaleda
Sara Wernersson
Sergi Rodríguez-Calado
Sebastián Tanco

Best Publications

AGGRESCAN: a server for the prediction and evaluation of "hot spots" of aggregation in polypeptides

Oscar Conchillo-Solé;Natalia S de Groot;Francesc X Avilés;Josep Vendrell

1153
Citations
The structure of histone H1 and its location in chromatin.

J. Allan;P. G. Hartman;C. Crane-Robinson;F. X. Aviles

929
Citations
Automated structure-based prediction of functional sites in proteins: applications to assessing the validity of inheriting protein function from homology in genome annotation and to protein docking.

Patrick Aloy;Enrique Querol;Francesc X. Aviles;Michael J.E. Sternberg

356
Citations
Short amino acid stretches can mediate amyloid formation in globular proteins: The Src homology 3 (SH3) case

Salvador Ventura;Jesús Zurdo;Saravanakumar Narayanan;Matilde Parreño

305
Citations
An automated classification of the structure of protein loops

Baldomero Oliva;Paul A. Bates;Enrique Querol;Francesc X. Avilés

267
Citations
Amyloid Fibril Formation by a Partially Structured Intermediate State of α-Chymotrypsin

Irantzu Pallarès;Josep Vendrell;Francesc X. Avilés;Salvador Ventura

266
Citations
Prediction of "hot spots" of aggregation in disease-linked polypeptides

Natalia Sánchez de Groot;Irantzu Pallarés;Francesc X Avilés;Josep Vendrell

244
Citations
Mutagenesis of the central hydrophobic cluster in Abeta42 Alzheimer's peptide. Side-chain properties correlate with aggregation propensities.

Natalia Sánchez de Groot;Francesc X. Aviles;Josep Vendrell;Salvador Ventura

237
Citations
Folding of small disulfide-rich proteins: clarifying the puzzle.

Joan L. Arolas;Francesc X. Aviles;Jui-Yoa Chang;Salvador Ventura

202
Citations
Metallocarboxypeptidases and their protein inhibitors. Structure, function and biomedical properties.

Josep Vendrell;Enrique Querol;Francesc X Avilés

201
Citations
Structure of the transition state in the folding process of human procarboxypeptidase A2 activation domain.

Virtudes Villegas;Jose C Martı́nez;Jose C Martı́nez;Francesc X Avilés;Luis Serrano

200
Citations
Three-dimensional structure of porcine procarboxypeptidase B: a structural basis of its inactivity.

M. Coll;A. Guasch;F. X. Avilés;R. Huber

183
Citations
A novel subfamily of mouse cytosolic carboxypeptidases

Elena Kalinina;Reeta Biswas;Iryna Berezniuk;Antoni Hermoso

177
Citations
Inclusion bodies: Specificity in their aggregation process and amyloid-like structure

Montse Morell;Ramona Bravo;Alba Espargaró;Xavier Sisquella

164
Citations
Ile-phe dipeptide self-assembly: clues to amyloid formation.

Natalia Sánchez de Groot;Teodor Parella;Francesc X. Aviles;Josep Vendrell

156
Citations
Protein engineering as a strategy to avoid formation of amyloid fibrils.

Virtudes Villegas;Jesús Zurdo;Vladimir V. Filimonov;Francesc X. Avilés

147
Citations
A carboxypeptidase inhibitor from the medical leech Hirudo medicinalis. Isolation, sequence analysis, cDNA cloning, recombinant expression, and characterization.

David Reverter;Josep Vendrell;Francesc Canals;Jeanny Horstmann

142
Citations
Metallocarboxypeptidases: emerging drug targets in biomedicine.

Joan L. Arolas;Josep Vendrell;Francesc X. Aviles;Lloyd D. Fricker

141
Citations
Potato Carboxypeptidase Inhibitor, a T-knot Protein, Is an Epidermal Growth Factor Antagonist That Inhibits Tumor Cell Growth

Carmen Blanco-Aparicio;Miguel Angel Molina;Ester Fernández-Salas;Marsha L. Frazier

136
Citations
New palladium(II) and platinum(II) complexes with the model nucleobase 1-methylcytosine: antitumor activity and interactions with DNA.

José Ruiz;Natalia Cutillas;Consuelo Vicente;Maria Dolores Villa

130
Citations