Carolina Fontana
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Porciuncula Gonzalez C, Cagnoni A, Marino K, Fontana C, Saenz-Mendez P, Irazoqui G, et al.
Carbohydr Res
. 2018 Nov;
472:1-15.
PMID: 30428394
Galectins are a family of carbohydrate-recognizing proteins that by interacting with specific glycoepitopes can mediate important biological processes, including immune cell homeostasis and activation of tolerogenic circuits. Among the different...
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Stahle J, Fontana C, Weintraub A, Widmalm G
Glycobiology
. 2018 Oct;
29(2):179-187.
PMID: 30346540
The structure of the O-antigen polysaccharide (PS) from the Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli O63 has been elucidated using a combination of bioinformatics, component analyses and NMR spectroscopy. The O-antigen is...
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Scalese G, Machado I, Fontana C, Risi G, Salinas G, Perez-Diaz L, et al.
J Biol Inorg Chem
. 2018 Sep;
23(8):1265-1281.
PMID: 30194536
Searching for prospective vanadium-based agents against Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite causing Chagas disease, four new [VO(8HQ-H)(L-2H)] compounds, where 8HQ is 8-hydroxyquinoline and L are tridentate salicylaldehyde semicarbazone derivatives L1-L4, were...
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Fontana C, Zaccheus M, Weintraub A, Ansaruzzaman M, Widmalm G
Carbohydr Res
. 2016 Jul;
432:41-9.
PMID: 27392309
The structure of a polysaccharide from Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain AN-16000 has been investigated. The sugar and absolute configuration analysis revealed d-Glc, d-GalN, d-QuiN and l-FucN as major components. The PS...
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Del Puerto L, Rovetta R, Navatta M, Fontana C, Lin G, Moyna G, et al.
Int J Parasitol
. 2016 Feb;
46(5-6):311-21.
PMID: 26891615
The larval stages of the cestodes Echinococcus multilocularis and Echinococcus granulosus cause the important zoonoses known as larval echinococcoses. These larvae are protected by a unique, massive, mucin-based structure known...
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Fontana C, Conde-Alvarez R, Stahle J, Holst O, Iriarte M, Zhao Y, et al.
J Biol Chem
. 2016 Feb;
291(14):7727-41.
PMID: 26867577
The structures of the lipooligosaccharides fromBrucella melitensismutants affected in the WbkD and ManBcoreproteins have been fully characterized using NMR spectroscopy. The results revealed that disruption ofwbkDgives rise to a rough...
17.
Fontana C, Weintraub A, Widmalm G
ChemistryOpen
. 2015 Apr;
4(1):47-55.
PMID: 25861570
Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is an important pathogen associated to food-borne infection in humans; strains of E. coli O181, isolated from human cases of diarrhea, have been classified as belonging...
18.
Fontana C, Li S, Yang Z, Widmalm G
Carbohydr Res
. 2014 Dec;
402:87-94.
PMID: 25497338
Some lactic acid bacteria, such as those of the Lactobacillus genus, have the ability to produce exopolysaccharides (EPSs) that confer favorable physicochemical properties to food and/or beneficial physiological effects on...
19.
Fontana C, Weintraub A, Widmalm G
Carbohydr Res
. 2014 Jun;
403:174-81.
PMID: 24909379
The structure of the O-antigen polysaccharide (PS) from Escherichia coli O42 has been investigated by NMR spectroscopy as the main method, which was complemented with sugar analysis, mass spectrometry, and...
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Fontana C, Kovacs H, Widmalm G
J Biomol NMR
. 2014 Apr;
59(2):95-110.
PMID: 24771296
In this study, a set of nuclear magnetic resonance experiments, some of them commonly used in the study of (13)C-labeled proteins and/or nucleic acids, is applied for the structure determination...