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Molecular Biology
Spain
2025

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
73
Citations
13953
World Ranking
1295
National Ranking
14

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Juan C. Alonso is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain, focusing on biochemical, genetic, and molecular biology research fields. Their work spans several subfields, including molecular biology, genetics, ecology, cell biology, and molecular medicine.

The scientist's research concentrates on topics such as bacterial genetics and biotechnology, DNA repair mechanisms, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, CRISPR and genetic engineering, proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research, genomics and chromatin dynamics, and antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

Key recent publications by Juan C. Alonso include:

  • Low cost and sustainable hyaluronic acid production in a manufacturing platform based on Bacillus subtilis 3NA strain (2021) in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • The RecD2 helicase balances RecA activities (2022) in Nucleic Acids Research
  • Bacillus subtilis PcrA Couples DNA Replication, Transcription, Recombination and Segregation (2020) in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
  • Processing of stalled replication forks in Bacillus subtilis (2023) in FEMS Microbiology Reviews
  • DisA Limits RecG Activities at Stalled or Reversed Replication Forks (2021) in Cells

The scientist frequently publishes in several journals, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • FEMS Microbiology Reviews
  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • Nucleic Acids Research

Juan C. Alonso collaborates regularly with a group of frequent co-authors, such as:

  • Rubén Torres
  • Begoña Carrasco
  • Silvia Ayora
  • María Moreno-del Álamo
  • Ester Serrano

Best Publications

  • Modelling landscape-scale habitat use using GIS and remote sensing : a case study with great bustards

    P.E. Osborne;J.C. Alonso;R.G. Bryant

  • Genome Engineering Reveals Large Dispensable Regions in Bacillus subtilis

    Helga Westers;Ronald Dorenbos;Jan Maarten van Dijl;Jorrit Kabel

  • Large-scale habitat selection by agricultural steppe birds in Spain: identifying species–habitat responses using generalized additive models

    Susana Suárez-Seoane;Patrick E. Osborne;Juan Carlos Alonso;Juan Carlos Alonso

  • Visualization of DNA double-strand break repair in live bacteria reveals dynamic recruitment of Bacillus subtilis RecF, RecO and RecN proteins to distinct sites on the nucleoids.

    Dawit Kidane;Humberto Sanchez;Juan C. Alonso;Peter L. Graumann

  • Plasmid copy-number control and better-than-random segregation genes of pSM19035 share a common regulator

    Ana B. de la Hoz;Silvia Ayora;Izabela Sitkiewicz;Silvia Fernández

  • Habitat preferences of great bustard Otistarda flocks in the arable steppes of central Spain: are potentially suitable areas unoccupied?

    Simon J. Lane;Juan C. Alonso;Carlos A. Martín

  • Crystal structure of the plasmid maintenance system epsilon/zeta: functional mechanism of toxin zeta and inactivation by epsilon 2 zeta 2 complex formation.

    Anton Meinhart;Juan C. Alonso;Norbert Sträter;Wolfram Saenger

  • Molecular analysis of the replication region of the conjugative Streptococcus agalactiae plasmid pIP501 in Bacillus subtilis. Comparison with plasmids pAM beta 1 and pSM19035.

    Sabine Brantl;Detlev Behnke;Juan C. Alonso

  • Structural insight into gene transcriptional regulation and effector binding by the Lrp/AsnC family

    Paul Thaw;Svetlana E. Sedelnikova;Tatyana Muranova;Sebastian Wiese

  • Double-strand break repair in bacteria: a view from Bacillus subtilis.

    Silvia Ayora;Begoña Carrasco;Paula P. Cárdenas;Carolina E. César

  • A field test of ideal free distribution in flock-feeding common cranes

    L. M. Bautista;J. C. Alonso;J. A. Alonso

  • Nucleotide sequence and regulation of a new putative cell wall hydrolase gene, cwlD, which affects germination in Bacillus subtilis. .

    J Sekiguchi;K Akeo;H Yamamoto;F K Khasanov

  • Lithium inhibits caspase 3 activation and dephosphorylation of PKB and GSK3 induced by K+ deprivation in cerebellar granule cells

    Alfonso Mora;Guadalupe Sabio;Rosa A. González-Polo;Ana Cuenda

  • Analysis of the stabilization system of pSM19035-derived plasmid pBT233 in Bacillus subtilis.

    Piotr Cegłowski;Alexander Boitsov;Sunghee Chai;Juan C. Alonso

  • Lithium blocks the PKB and GSK3 dephosphorylation induced by ceramide through protein phosphatase-2A

    Alfonso Mora;Guadalupe Sabio;Ana Marı́a Risco;Ana Cuenda

  • Habitat selection by foraging White Storks, Ciconia ciconia, during the breeding season

    Juan C. Alonso;Javier A. Alonso;Luis M. Carrascal

  • Carrying capacity of staging areas and facultative migration extension in common cranes

    Juan C. Alonso;Javier A. Alonso;Luis M. Bautista

  • The Small Subunit of the Terminase Enzyme ofBacillus subtilisBacteriophage SPP1 forms a Specialized Nucleoprotein Complex with the Packaging Initiation Region

    Sunghee Chai;Rudi Lurz;Juan C. Alonso;Juan C. Alonso

  • Genetic recombination in Bacillus subtilis : a division of labor between two single-strand DNA-binding proteins

    Tribhuwan Yadav;Begoña Carrasco;Angela R. Myers;Nicholas P. George

  • The complete nucleotide sequence and functional organization of Bacillus subtilis bacteriophage SPP1

    Juan C Alonso;Gerhild Lüder;Asita C Stiege;Sunghee Chai

Frequent Co-Authors

Rudi Lurz
Rudi Lurz Max Planck Society
Fernando Rojo
Fernando Rojo Spanish National Research Council
Peter L. Graumann
Peter L. Graumann Philipp University of Marburg
Kunio Takeyasu
Kunio Takeyasu Kyoto University
Manuel B. Morales
Manuel B. Morales Autonomous University of Madrid
Jordi Barbé
Jordi Barbé Autonomous University of Barcelona
Christoph F. J. Meyer
Christoph F. J. Meyer University of Salford
Wolfram Saenger
Wolfram Saenger Freie Universität Berlin
Antonio Bernad
Antonio Bernad Spanish National Research Council
Borja Milá
Borja Milá Spanish National Research Council

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