Marta Alenquer

This study shows that age-related decline in adipose tissue lipolysis reduces disease tolerance to SARS-CoV-2, increasing mortality in older mice and correlating with human COVID-19 severity.

The paper identifies unconjugated bilirubin as a protective metabolite against malaria by inhibiting parasite proliferation and hemozoin formation.

This paper shows that a commensal Streptococcus mitis strain prevents secondary pneumococcal pneumonia by inhibiting pneumococcal colonization and dissemination through bacteriocins.

This study shows that membrane association stabilizes suboptimal membrane proteins like IAV M2, preventing premature degradation and enhancing biogenesis efficiency.

This study shows that the influenza A virus M2 viroporin can use multiple membrane insertion pathways, including EMC and Oxa1-family translocons, ensuring robust viral infection.

This study shows segmented negative-strand RNA viruses use upstream translation initiation to expand their coding capacity through non-AUG initiation and host mRNA leader sequence appropriation.