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Francesc X. Avilés publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francesc X. Avilés sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 296 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Francesc X. Avilés D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francesc X. Avilés sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 63 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

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

  • The structure of histone H1 and its location in chromatin.

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • An automated classification of the structure of protein loops

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

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

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

  • Prediction of "hot spots" of aggregation in disease-linked polypeptides

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Metallocarboxypeptidases and their protein inhibitors. Structure, function and biomedical properties.

    Josep Vendrell;Enrique Querol;Francesc X Avilés

  • 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

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

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

  • A novel subfamily of mouse cytosolic carboxypeptidases

    Elena Kalinina;Reeta Biswas;Iryna Berezniuk;Antoni Hermoso

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

    Montse Morell;Ramona Bravo;Alba Espargaró;Xavier Sisquella

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

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

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

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

  • 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

  • Metallocarboxypeptidases: emerging drug targets in biomedicine.

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

  • 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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Salvador Ventura
Salvador Ventura Autonomous University of Barcelona
Robert Huber
Robert Huber University of Duisburg-Essen
Virtudes Moreno
Virtudes Moreno University of Barcelona
Luis Serrano
Luis Serrano Centre for Genomic Regulation
Patrick Aloy
Patrick Aloy Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Miquel Coll
Miquel Coll Spanish National Research Council
Lloyd D. Fricker
Lloyd D. Fricker Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Marc A. Marti-Renom
Marc A. Marti-Renom Pompeu Fabra University
Michael J.E. Sternberg
Michael J.E. Sternberg Imperial College London
Christian P. Sommerhoff
Christian P. Sommerhoff Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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