Diego U. Ferreiro

Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris gum Mutants: Effects on Xanthan Biosynthesis and Plant Virulence

Katzen, Federico, Ferreiro, Diego U., Oddo, Cristian G., Ielmini, M. Verónica, Becker, Anke, Pühler, Alfred, ...

Xanthan is an industrially important exopolysaccharide produced by the phytopathogenic, gram-negative bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris. It is composed of polymerized pentasaccharide...

Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris gum Mutants: Effects on Xanthan Biosynthesis and Plant Virulence

Katzen, Federico, Ferreiro, Diego U., Oddo, Cristian G., Ielmini, M. Verónica, Becker, Anke, Pühler, Alfred, ...

Xanthan is an industrially important exopolysaccharide produced by the phytopathogenic, gram-negative bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris. It is composed of polymerized pentasaccharide...

The Energy Landscapes of Repeat-Containing Proteins: Topology, Cooperativity, and the Folding Funnels of One-Dimensional Architectures

Ferreiro, Diego U., Walczak, Aleksandra M., Komives, Elizabeth A., Wolynes, Peter G.

Repeat-proteins are made up of near repetitions of 20– to 40–amino acid stretches. These polypeptides usually fold up into non-globular, elongated architectures that are stabilized by the...

Consequences of localized frustration for the folding mechanism of the IM7 protein

Sutto, Ludovico, Lätzer, Joachim, Hegler, Joseph A., Ferreiro, Diego U., Wolynes, Peter G.

In the laboratory, IM7 has been found to have an unusual folding mechanism in which an “on-pathway” intermediate with nonnative interactions is formed. We show that this intermediate is a...

Localizing frustration in native proteins and protein assemblies

Ferreiro, Diego U., Hegler, Joseph A., Komives, Elizabeth A., Wolynes, Peter G.

We propose a method of quantifying the degree of frustration manifested by spatially local interactions in protein biomolecules. This method of localization smoothly generalizes the global criterion...

Transition state for protein–DNA recognition

Ferreiro, Diego U., Sánchez, Ignacio E., De Prat Gay, Gonzalo

We describe the formation of protein–DNA contacts in the two-state route for DNA sequence recognition by a transcriptional regulator. Surprisingly, direct sequence readout establishes in the...