Carmen A Contreras-Vergara
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Lopez-Virgen A, Dautt-Castro M, Ulloa-Llanes L, Casas-Flores S, Contreras-Vergara C, Hernandez-Onate M, et al.
PeerJ
. 2024 Jul;
12:e17737.
PMID: 39035161
Mango is a popular tropical fruit that requires quarantine hot water treatment (QHWT) for postharvest sanitation, which can cause abiotic stress. Plants have various defense mechanisms to cope with stress;...
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Granillo-Luna O, Hernandez-Aguirre L, Peregrino-Uriarte A, Duarte-Gutierrez J, Contreras-Vergara C, Gollas-Galvan T, et al.
Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol
. 2022 Apr;
269:111212.
PMID: 35417748
Hypoxic zones are spreading worldwide in marine environments affecting many organisms. Shrimp and other marine crustaceans can withstand environmental hypoxia using several strategies, including the regulation of energy producing metabolic...
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Estrada-Cardenas P, Camacho-Jimenez L, Peregrino-Uriarte A, Contreras-Vergara C, Hernandez-Lopez J, Yepiz-Plascencia G
Biochimie
. 2022 Apr;
199:1-11.
PMID: 35367576
Hypoxia (<2 mg O/L) is one of the main environmental stressors that affects aquatic organisms, including the white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei). During hypoxia, reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation induces oxidative...
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Moreno-Cordova E, Islas-Osuna M, Contreras-Vergara C, Lopez-Zavala A, Ruiz-Bustos E, Resendiz-Sandoval M, et al.
Dev Comp Immunol
. 2020 Aug;
113:103807.
PMID: 32735961
Lysozymes play a key role in innate immune response to bacterial pathogens, catalyzing the hydrolysis of the peptidoglycan layer of bacterial cell walls. In this study, the genes encoding the...
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Dautt-Castro M, Lopez-Virgen A, Ochoa-Leyva A, Contreras-Vergara C, Sortillon-Sortillon A, Martinez-Tellez M, et al.
Front Plant Sci
. 2019 Aug;
10:969.
PMID: 31417586
Mango (.) is an important commercial fruit that shows a noticeable loss of firmness during ripening. Polygalacturonase (PG, E.C. 3.2.1.15) is a crucial enzyme for cell wall loosening during fruit...
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Lopez-Zavala A, Guevara-Hernandez E, Vazquez-Lujan L, Sanchez-Paz A, Garcia-Orozco K, Contreras-Vergara C, et al.
PeerJ
. 2018 Jun;
6:e5023.
PMID: 29922516
Thymidylate synthase (TS, E.C. 2.1.1.45) is a crucial enzyme for deoxythymidine monophosphate (dTMP) biosynthesis. The gene for this enzyme is , which encodes the folate-dependent TS that converts deoxyuridine monophosphate...
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Pacheco-Sanchez M, Contreras-Vergara C, Hernandez-Navarro E, Yepiz-Plascencia G, Martinez-Tellez M, Casas-Flores S, et al.
3 Biotech
. 2017 Mar;
4(4):357-365.
PMID: 28324472
MADS-box genes are a large family of transcription factors initially discovered for their role during development of flowers and fruits. The MADS-box transcription factors from animals have been studied by...
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Valenzuela-Chavira I, Contreras-Vergara C, Arvizu-Flores A, Serrano-Posada H, Lopez-Zavala A, Garcia-Orozco K, et al.
Biochimie
. 2017 Jan;
135:35-45.
PMID: 28104507
We studied a mango glutathione S-transferase (GST) (Mangifera indica) bound to glutathione (GSH) and S-hexyl glutathione (GSX). This GST Tau class (MiGSTU) had a molecular mass of 25.5 kDa. MiGSTU...
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Dautt-Castro M, Ochoa-Leyva A, Contreras-Vergara C, Pacheco-Sanchez M, Casas-Flores S, Sanchez-Flores A, et al.
Front Plant Sci
. 2015 Mar;
6:62.
PMID: 25741352
Fruit ripening is a physiological and biochemical process genetically programmed to regulate fruit quality parameters like firmness, flavor, odor and color, as well as production of ethylene in climacteric fruit....
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Inhibition by Cu2+ and Cd2+ of a mu-class glutathione S-transferase from shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei
Salazar-Medina A, Garcia-Rico L, Garcia-Orozco K, Valenzuela-Soto E, Contreras-Vergara C, Arreola R, et al.
J Biochem Mol Toxicol
. 2010 Feb;
24(4):218-22.
PMID: 20143451
Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are a family of detoxifying enzymes that catalyze the conjugation of glutathione (GSH) to electrophiles, thereby increasing the solubility of xenobiotics and aiding its excretion from the...