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Mauricio G. Mateu is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research spans several fields related to medicine, environmental science, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. With a focus in subfields including ecology, infectious diseases, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, molecular biology, and epidemiology, this scientist contributes to a diverse range of scientific areas.

The scientist's research topics extensively cover bacteriophages and microbial interactions, viral infections and immunology research, respiratory viral infections research, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, virus-based gene therapy research, and protein structure and dynamics.

Mauricio G. Mateu has published work in several scientific venues, with notable frequency in the Journal of Molecular Biology and Sub-cellular Biochemistry, each having three publications. Other venues where they have contributed include ACS Nano, Small, and Communications Biology.

Frequent collaborators of the scientist include Alejandro Valbuena, Alicia Rodríguez-Huete, Luis Valiente, José R. Castón, and Juan Carlos Gil-Redondo. These coauthors have contributed often alongside Mateu in scientific research efforts.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Visualization of Single Molecules Building a Viral Capsid Protein Lattice through Stochastic Pathways, 2020, ACS Nano
  • A Genetically Engineered, Chain Mail-Like Nanostructured Protein Material with Increased Fatigue Resistance and Enhanced Self-Healing, 2022, Small
  • Antiviral compounds modulate elasticity, strength and material fatigue of a virus capsid framework, 2022, Biophysical Journal
  • Cryo-EM of human rhinovirus reveals capsid-RNA duplex interactions that provide insights into virus assembly and genome uncoating, 2024, Communications Biology
  • Negatively charged amino acids at the foot-and-mouth disease virus capsid reduce the virion-destabilizing effect of viral RNA at acidic pH, 2020, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • ANTIBODY RECOGNITION OF PICORNAVIRUSES AND ESCAPE FROM NEUTRALIZATION : A STRUCTURAL VIEW

    Mauricio G. Mateu

  • The structure and antigenicity of a type C foot-and-mouth disease virus

    S Lea;J Hernéndez;W Blakemore;E Brocchi

  • A large-scale evaluation of peptide vaccines against foot-and-mouth disease: lack of solid protection in cattle and isolation of escape mutants.

    O Taboga;C Tami;E Carrillo;J I Núñez

  • Assembly, stability and dynamics of virus capsids.

    Mauricio G. Mateu

  • A single amino acid substitution affects multiple overlapping epitopes in the major antigenic site of foot-and-mouth disease virus of serotype C.

    M. G. Mateu;M. A. Martínez;L. Capucci;D. Andreu

  • DNA-mediated anisotropic mechanical reinforcement of a virus

    C. Carrasco;A. Carreira;I. A. T. Schaap;P. A. Serena

  • Structure of the major antigenic loop of foot-and-mouth disease virus complexed with a neutralizing antibody: direct involvement of the Arg-Gly-Asp motif in the interaction.

    N. Verdaguer;M.G. Mateu;D. Andreu;E. Giralt

  • Rapid selection of genetic and antigenic variants of foot-and-mouth disease virus during persistence in cattle.

    F Gebauer;J C de la Torre;I Gomes;M G Mateu

  • Genetic Variability and Antigenic Diversity of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus

    Esteban Domingo;Mauricio G. Mateu;Miguel A. Martínez;Joaquín Dopazo

  • Nine hydrophobic side chains are key determinants of the thermodynamic stability and oligomerization status of tumour suppressor p53 tetramerization domain

    Mauricio G. Mateu;Alan R. Fersht

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

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

  • Evolution of the capsid protein genes of foot-and-mouth disease virus: antigenic variation without accumulation of amino acid substitutions over six decades.

    M A Martínez;J Dopazo;J Hernández;M G Mateu

  • Systematic Replacement of Amino Acid Residues within an Arg-Gly-Asp-containing Loop of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus and Effect on Cell Recognition

    Mauricio G. Mateu;M. Luz Valero;David Andreu;Esteban Domingo

  • Implications of a quasispecies genome structure: effect of frequent, naturally occurring amino acid substitutions on the antigenicity of foot-and-mouth disease virus.

    M G Mateu;M A Martínez;E Rocha;D Andreu

  • Mechanical properties of viruses analyzed by atomic force microscopy: A virological perspective

    Mauricio G. Mateu

  • New observations on antigenic diversification of RNA viruses. Antigenic variation is not dependent on immune selection.

    Esteban Domingo;Juana Díez;Miguel A. Martínez;Javier Hernández

  • Virus engineering: functionalization and stabilization

    Mauricio G. Mateu

  • Evolution subverting essentiality: Dispensability of the cell attachment Arg-Gly-Asp motif in multiply passaged foot-and-mouth disease virus

    Miguel Ángel Martínez;Núria Verdaguer;Mauricio G. Mateu;Esteban Domingo

  • Antigenic heterogeneity of a foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype in the field is mediated by very limited sequence variation at several antigenic sites.

    M G Mateu;J Hernández;M A Martínez;D Feigelstock

  • Extensive antigenic heterogeneity of foot-and-mouth disease virus of serotype C.

    M.G. Mateu;J.L. Da Silva;E. Rocha;D.L. De Brum

Frequent Co-Authors

Esteban Domingo
Esteban Domingo Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa
David Andreu
David Andreu Pompeu Fabra University
Ernest Giralt
Ernest Giralt University of Barcelona
Miguel Angel Martínez
Miguel Angel Martínez Autonomous University of Barcelona
Julio A. Camarero
Julio A. Camarero University of Southern California
Francisco Sobrino
Francisco Sobrino Spanish National Research Council
Ignacio Fita
Ignacio Fita Spanish National Research Council
David I. Stuart
David I. Stuart University of Oxford
Alan R. Fersht
Alan R. Fersht University of Cambridge
Cristina Escarmís
Cristina Escarmís Spanish National Research Council

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