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Virginia Nunes was affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain. Their research concentrated primarily in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with additional contributions in medicine. Across their career, Virginia published 34 works related to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, and 10 publications were classified under medicine.

Subfields of study covered by Virginia included molecular biology, genetics, physiology, biochemistry, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine. These specializations framed much of their scientific inquiry and output.

Virginia's research topics encompassed various areas, with notable focus on RNA regulation and disease, amino acid enzymes and metabolism, kidney stones and urolithiasis treatments, endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease, adenosine and purinergic signaling, genomics and rare diseases, and genetic and kidney cyst diseases.

Frequent coauthors collaborated with Virginia on multiple occasions. These included:

  • Esther Prat
  • Miguel López de Heredia
  • Rafael Artuch
  • Raúl Estévez
  • Clara Mayayo-Vallverdú

Virginia published in several scientific venues, with recurring contributions in:

  • Multi-Science Research
  • Frontiers in Genetics
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • ACS Nano
  • Human Molecular Genetics

Some of their recent papers included:

  • "CSVS, a crowdsourcing database of the Spanish population genetic variability" (2020) in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Treatment of Hepatic Fibrosis in Mice Based on Targeted Plasmonic Hyperthermia" (2021) in ACS Nano
  • "Identification of the GlialCAM interactome: the G protein-coupled receptors GPRC5B and GPR37L1 modulate megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy proteins" (2021) in Human Molecular Genetics
  • "Genotype and clinical characteristics of patients with Wolfram syndrome and WFS1-related disorders" (2023) in Frontiers in Genetics
  • "Choroid plexus LAT2 and SNAT3 as partners in CSF amino acid homeostasis maintenance" (2020) in Fluids and Barriers of the CNS

Best Publications

  • Cystinuria caused by mutations in rBAT , a gene involved in the transport of cystine

    María Julia Calonge;Paolo Gasparini;Josep Chillarón;Miguel Chillón

  • Non-type I cystinuria caused by mutations in SLC7A9, encoding a subunit (bo,+AT) of rBAT.

    Lídia Feliubadaló;Mariona Font;Jesús Purroy;Ferran Rousaud

  • Pathophysiology and treatment of cystinuria

    Josep Chillarón;Mariona Font-Llitjós;Joana Fort;Antonio Zorzano

  • New insights into cystinuria: 40 new mutations, genotype–phenotype correlation, and digenic inheritance causing partial phenotype

    M. Font-Llitjós;M. Jiménez-Vidal;L. Bisceglia;M. Di Perna

  • Mutant GlialCAM Causes Megalencephalic Leukoencephalopathy with Subcortical Cysts, Benign Familial Macrocephaly, and Macrocephaly with Retardation and Autism

    Tania López-Hernández;Margreet C. Ridder;Marisol Montolio;Xavier Capdevila-Nortes

  • The genetics of heteromeric amino acid transporters.

    Manuel Palacín;Virginia Nunes;Mariona Font-Llitjós;Maite Jiménez-Vidal

  • Expression cloning of a human renal cDNA that induces high affinity transport of L-cystine shared with dibasic amino acids in Xenopus oocytes

    J Bertran;A Werner;J Chillarón;V Nunes

  • Reduced steady-state levels of mitochondrial RNA and increased mitochondrial DNA amount in human brain with aging.

    Antoni Barrientos;Jordi Casademont;Francesc Cardellach;Xavier Estivill

  • Genotypic classification of patients with Wolfram syndrome: insights into the natural history of the disease and correlation with phenotype

    Miguel López de Heredia;Ramón Clèries;Virginia Nunes

  • GlialCAM, a protein defective in a leukodystrophy, serves as a ClC-2 Cl(-) channel auxiliary subunit.

    Elena Jeworutzki;Tania López-Hernández;Xavier Capdevila-Nortes;Sònia Sirisi

  • Functional analysis of mutations in SLC7A9, and genotype-phenotype correlation in non-Type I cystinuria.

    Mariona Font;Lídia Feliubadaló;Xavier Estivill;Virginia Nunes

  • A nuclear defect in the 4p16 region predisposes to multiple mitochondrial DNA deletions in families with Wolfram syndrome.

    Antoni Barrientos;Víctor Volpini;Jordi Casademont;David Genís

  • CA/GT microsatellite alleles within the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene are not generated by unequal crossingover.

    Núria Morral;Virginia Nunes;Teresa Casals;Xavier Estivill

  • Microsatellite haplotypes for cystic fibrosis: mutation frameworks and evolutionary tracers

    Núria Morral;Virginia Nunes;Teresa Casals;Miguel Chillón

  • Autosomal recessive Wolfram syndrome associated with an 8.5-kb mtDNA single deletion.

    A. Barrientos;J. Casademont;A. Saiz;F. Cardellach

  • Qualitative and Quantitative Changes in Skeletal Muscle mtDNA and Expression of Mitochondrial-Encoded Genes in the Human Aging Process

    Antoni Barrientos;Jordi Casademont;Francesc Cardellach;Esther Ardite

  • Localization, by linkage analysis, of the cystinuria type III gene to chromosome 19q13.1.

    Luigi Bisceglia;María Julia Calonge;Antonio Totaro;Lidia Feliubadaló

  • High heterogeneity for cystic fibrosis in Spanish families : 75 mutations account for 90% of chromosomes

    Teresa Casals;Maria D. Ramos;Javier Giménez;Sara Larriba

  • Disrupting MLC1 and GlialCAM and ClC-2 interactions in leukodystrophy entails glial chloride channel dysfunction

    Maja B. Hoegg-Beiler;Sònia Sirisi;Ian J. Orozco;Isidre Ferrer

  • Molecular mechanisms of MLC1 and GLIALCAM mutations in megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts

    Tania López-Hernández;Sònia Sirisi;Xavier Capdevila-Nortes;Marisol Montolio

Frequent Co-Authors

Manuel Palacín
Manuel Palacín Institute for Research in Biomedicine
Antonio Zorzano
Antonio Zorzano University of Barcelona
Paolo Gasparini
Paolo Gasparini University of Trieste
Antoni Barrientos
Antoni Barrientos University of Miami
Leopoldo Zelante
Leopoldo Zelante Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza
François Verrey
François Verrey University of Zurich
Anthony T. Moore
Anthony T. Moore University of California, San Francisco
Luis A. Pérez-Jurado
Luis A. Pérez-Jurado Pompeu Fabra University

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