Research Units

Structural Biology Unit - Laboratory 5

Personal data

Nicola G. A. Abrescia

Email: nabrescia@cicbiogune.es
Phone: 946.572.523 (EXT 307)
Address: Unidad de Biología Estructural - Ed. 800
Derio (Vizcaya)

Structural Biology Unit

Laboratory 5

Research Interests:

Virus assembly mechanisms & Virus Evolution
Archaeal transcription machinery

Collaborations:

Finnish Centre of Excellence in Virus Research

University of Helsinki

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Dept.

Indiana University

Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics

University of Oxford

To find all the articles authored by Nicola G. Abrescia click PubMed

Currently there are no PhD & Postodc positions formally open in the group. Nevertheless we are always interested in highly-motivated applicants.

A research assistant position funded for 2 years is open. For formal inquires please send and email to: nabrescia@cicbiogune.es

Recent available articles:

I am pleased to provide you complimentary one-time access to my Annual Reviews article as a PDF file ([http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/eprint/sgjhjS8Pyt7cd6UQixGw/full/10.1146/annurev-biochem-060910-095130]), for your own personal use. Any further/multiple distribution, publication, or commercial usage of this copyrighted material requires submission of a permission request addressed to the Copyright Clearance Centre (http://www.copyright.com/).

Virology open-access copy: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682212002231

NAR open-access copy: http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/07/30/nar.gks692.full.pdf?keytype=ref&ijkey=bshnMr6I82zitMH

Selected Publications

Abrescia N.G.A., Bamford D.H., Grimes J.M., Stuart D.I.; Structure Unifies the viral universe. Ann. Rev. Biochem. 81, (2012).

Badia-Martinez D., Peralta B., Andres G., Guerra M., Gil-Carton D., Abrescia N.G.A.; Three-dimensional visualization of forming Hepatitis C virus-like particles by electron-tomography. Virology 430,120-126 (2012).

Wojtas M.N., Mogni M., Millet O., Bell S.D. and Abrescia N.G.A. ; Structural and functional analyses of the interaction of archaeal RNA polymerase with DNA. Nucleic Acids Res. doi: 10.1093/nar/gks692 (2012).

Korkhin Y., Unligil, U. M., Littlefield, O., Nelson, P. J., Stuart, D. I., Sigler, P. B., Bell, S. D. and Abrescia, N. G. A.; Evolution of Complex RNA Polymerases: the Complete Archaeal RNA Polymerase Structure. Plos Biology 7, 5, e1000102. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000102 (2009).

Kadlec, J, Loureiro, S., Abrescia, N. G. A., Stuart, D. I. and Jones, I. M. ; The postfusion structure of baculovirus gp64 supports a unified view of viral fusion machines. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 15,1024-1030 (2008).

Abrescia, N. G. A., Grimes, J. M., Kivelä, H. M., Assenberg, R., Sutton, G., Butcher, S. J., Bamford, J. K. H., Bamford, D. H., Stuart, D. I. ; Insights into virus evolution and membrane biogenesis from the structure of the marine lipid-containing bacteriophage PM2. Mol. Cell. 5,749-761 (2008).

Abrescia, N. G. A., Cockburn, J. J. B., Grimes, J. M., Sutton, G. C., Diprose, J. M., Butcher, S., Fuller, S. D., San Martín, C., Burnett, R. M, Stuart, D. I., Bamford, D. H., Bamford, J. K. H. ; Insights into assembly from structural analysis of bacteriophage PRD1. Nature 432,68-74 (2004).

Cockburn JJ, Abrescia NG, Grimes JM, Sutton GC, Diprose JM, Benevides JM, Thomas GJ Jr, Bamford JK, Bamford DH, Stuart DI; Membrane structure and interactions with protein and DNA in bacteriophage PRD1. Nature 432,122-125 (2004).