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  1. Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) Class I and MHC Class II Proteins: Conformational Plasticity in Antigen Presentation

    Article • Frontiers in Immunology, March 2017, Frontiers

    Dr Miguel Alvaro-Benito

  2. MHC class II complexes sample intermediate states along the peptide exchange pathway

    Article • Nature Communications, November 2016, Nature

    Dr Miguel Alvaro-Benito

  3. Human leukocyte Antigen-DM polymorphisms in autoimmune diseases

    Article • Open Biology, August 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Miguel Alvaro-Benito

  4. HLA-DMA Polymorphisms Differentially Affect MHC Class II Peptide Loading

    Article • The Journal of Immunology, December 2014, The American Association of Immunologists

    Dr Miguel Alvaro-Benito

  5. Synthesis of 6-Kestose using an Efficient β-Fructofuranosidase Engineered by Directed Evolution

    Article • Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, February 2013, Wiley

    Dr Miguel Alvaro-Benito

  6. Assessment of Schwanniomyces occidentalis as a host for protein production using the wide-range Xplor®2 expression platform

    Article • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Miguel Alvaro-Benito

  7. Structural and Kinetic Insights Reveal That the Amino Acid Pair Gln-228/Asn-254 Modulates the Transfructosylating Specificity of Schwanniomyces occidentalis  -Fructofuranosidase, an Enzyme That Produces Prebiotics

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, April 2012, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Dr Miguel Alvaro-Benito

  8. Screening β-Fructofuranosidases Mutant Libraries to Enhance the Transglycosylation Rates of β-(2→6) Fructooligosaccharides

    Article • Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening, September 2011, Bentham Science Publishers

    Dr Miguel Alvaro-Benito

  9. New Insights into the Fructosyltransferase Activity of Schwanniomyces occidentalis β-Fructofuranosidase, Emerging from Nonconventional Codon Usage and Directed Mutation

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2010, ASM Journals

    Dr Miguel Alvaro-Benito

  10. Structural and Kinetic Analysis of Schwanniomyces occidentalis Invertase Reveals a New Oligomerization Pattern and the Role of Its Supplementary Domain in Substrate Binding

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, February 2010, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Dr Miguel Alvaro-Benito

  11. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of the fructofuranosidase fromSchwanniomyces occidentalis

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications, October 2009, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Miguel Alvaro-Benito

  12. Characterization of a β-fructofuranosidase from Schwanniomyces occidentalis with transfructosylating activity yielding the prebiotic 6-kestose

    Article • Journal of Biotechnology, October 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Miguel Alvaro-Benito