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José Pérez-Martín is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant work in agricultural and biological sciences.

Their contributions span several specialized subfields including molecular biology, plant science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, pharmacology, and cell biology.

Thematic areas in their research include:

  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Fungal Plant Pathogen Control
  • Fungal Biology and Applications
  • Plant tissue culture and regeneration
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms

Recent publications of José Pérez-Martín include:

  • "Incompatibility between proliferation and plant invasion is mediated by a regulator of appressorium formation in the corn smut fungus Ustilago maydis", 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The Rheb GTPase promotes pheromone blindness via a TORC1-independent pathway in the phytopathogenic fungus Ustilago maydis", 2022, PLoS Genetics
  • "Robust Cre recombinase activity in the biotrophic smut fungus Ustilago maydis enables efficient conditional null mutants in planta", 2021, Genetics
  • "Notch controls APC/C FZR-1 to enable accumulation of chromatin regulators in germline stem cells from Caenorhabditis elegans", 2025, Science Advances

They frequently collaborate with researchers such as Antonio de la Torre, Sónia Castanheira, Matteo Jurca, Kai Hoffmann, and Lara Schmitz.

Their work is published predominantly in:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • PLoS Genetics
  • Genetics
  • Science Advances

Best Publications

  • Insights from the genome of the biotrophic fungal plant pathogen Ustilago maydis

    Jörg Kämper;Regine Kahmann;Michael Bölker;Li-Jun Ma

  • Opening the Iron Box: Transcriptional Metalloregulation by the Fur Protein

    L Escolar;J Pérez-Martín;V de Lorenzo

  • Promoters responsive to DNA bending: a common theme in prokaryotic gene expression.

    J Pérez-Martín;F Rojo;V de Lorenzo

  • Comparative genomics of MAP kinase and calcium-calcineurin signalling components in plant and human pathogenic fungi.

    Nicolas Rispail;Darren M Soanes;Cemile Ant;Robert Czajkowski

  • CLUES AND CONSEQUENCES OF DNA BENDING IN TRANSCRIPTION

    J Pérez-Martín;V de Lorenzo

  • Binding of the fur (ferric uptake regulator) repressor of Escherichia coli to arrays of the GATAAT sequence.

    L Escolar;J Pérez-Martín;V de Lorenzo

  • Phenotypic switching in Candida albicans is controlled by a SIR2 gene.

    José Pérez‐Martín;José Antonio Uría;Alexander D. Johnson

  • Fungal model systems and the elucidation of pathogenicity determinants

    Elena Perez-Nadales;Maria Filomena Almeida Nogueira;Clara Baldin;Clara Baldin;Sónia Castanheira

  • Ecotoxicological evaluation of carbamazepine using six different model systems with eighteen endpoints.

    A Jos;G Repetto;J.C Rios;M.J Hazen

  • Activation of the transcriptional regulator XylR of Pseudomonas putida by release of repression between functional domains.

    S. Fernandez;V. De Lorenzo;J. Perez-Martin

  • Ustilago maydis, a new fungal model system for cell biology.

    Gero Steinberg;Gero Steinberg;Jose Perez-Martin

  • Dimorphism in fungal pathogens: Candida albicans and Ustilago maydis--similar inputs, different outputs.

    Cristina Sánchez-Martı́nez;José Pérez-Martı́n

  • The IIANtr (PtsN) Protein of Pseudomonas putida Mediates the C Source Inhibition of the ς54-dependent Pu Promoter of the TOL Plasmid

    Ildefonso Cases;José Pérez-Martı́n;Vı́ctor de Lorenzo

  • Pheromone-induced G2 arrest in the phytopathogenic fungus Ustilago maydis.

    Tatiana García-Muse;Gero Steinberg;José Pérez-Martín

  • Regulatory noise in prokaryotic promoters: how bacteria learn to respond to novel environmental signals

    V. De Lorenzo;J. Perez-Martin

  • Involvement of σ54 in exponential silencing of the Pseudomonas putida TOL plasmid Pu promoter

    IIdefonso Cases;Victor de Lorenzo;José Pérez-Martín

  • Protein-Induced Bending as a Transcriptional Switch

    José Pérez-Martín;Manuel Espinosa

  • The induction of sexual development and virulence in the smut fungus Ustilago maydis depends on Crk1, a novel MAPK protein

    Elia Garrido;Ute Voss;Philip Müller;Sonia Castillo-Lluva

  • ATP Binding to the σ54-Dependent Activator XylRTriggers a Protein Multimerization Cycle Catalyzed by UAS DNA

    José Pérez-Martín;Víctor de Lorenzo

  • In vitro activities of an N-terminal truncated form of XylR, a sigma 54-dependent transcriptional activator of Pseudomonas putida.

    J Pérez-Martín;V de Lorenzo

Frequent Co-Authors

Víctor de Lorenzo
Víctor de Lorenzo Spanish National Research Council
Gero Steinberg
Gero Steinberg University of Exeter
Regine Kahmann
Regine Kahmann Max Planck Society
Axel A. Brakhage
Axel A. Brakhage Leibniz Association
Alexander D. Johnson
Alexander D. Johnson University of California, San Francisco
Antonio Di Pietro
Antonio Di Pietro University of Córdoba
Neil A. R. Gow
Neil A. R. Gow University of Exeter
Nicholas J. Talbot
Nicholas J. Talbot University of East Anglia
Ana M. Cameán
Ana M. Cameán University of Seville
Marc-Henri Lebrun
Marc-Henri Lebrun University of Paris-Saclay

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