Álvaro Mallagaray

This paper identifies VdAve1, an antimicrobial effector from the fungal pathogen Verticillium dahliae, and shows it kills bacteria by binding lipoteichoic acid and disrupting plasma membranes.

The paper uses NMR to show that bivalent metal ions synergistically interact with norovirus P-domains, affecting capsid conformation and infectivity, but with differences between murine and human noroviruses.