Research Unit: Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular

Web page: 

https://www.umh.es/contenido/Universidad/:persona_3728/datos_es.html

https://ibmc.umh.es/luisperez.asp

Research Fields:

• Viral Diseases of Fish.
• Development of antivirals.
• Resistance to virus infection mediated by the innate immune system.

Representative Publications:

Nombela I, Puente-Marin S, Chico V, Villena AJ, Carracedo B, Ciordia S, Mena MC, Mercado L, Perez L, Coll J, Estepa A, Ortega-Villaizan MDM. (2017). Identification of diverse defense mechanisms in rainbow trout red blood cells in response to halted replication of VHS virus. Version 2. F1000Res. 2017 Nov 6 [revised 2018 Jan 1];6:1958. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.12985.2. eCollection 2017.

M Medina-Gali R, Ortega-Villaizan MDM, Mercado L, Novoa B, Coll J, Perez (2018) L. Beta-glucan enhances the response to SVCV infection in zebrafish. Dev Comp Immunol 84:307-314. doi: 10.1016/j.dci.2018.02.019.

Nombela I, Carrion A, Puente-Marin S, Chico V, Mercado L, Perez L, Coll J, Ortega-Villaizan MDM. (2017) Infectious pancreatic necrosis virus triggers antiviral immune response in rainbow trout red blood cells, despite not being infective. Version 2. F1000Res. 2017 Nov 7 [revised 2017 Jan 1];6:1968. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.12994.2. eCollection 2017.

Bello-Perez M, Falco A, Medina-Gali R, Pereiro P, Encinar JA, Novoa B, Perez L, Coll J. (2017). Neutralization of viral infectivity by zebrafish c-reactive protein isoforms. Mol Immunol. Nov;91:145-155. doi: 10.1016/j.molimm.2017.09.005.

Bello-Perez M, Falco A, Medina R, Encinar JA, Novoa B, Perez L, Estepa A, Coll. (2017). Structure and functionalities of the human c-reactive protein compared to the zebrafish multigene family of c-reactive-like proteins. Dev Comp Immunol. 2017 Apr;69:33-40. doi: 10.1016/j.dci.2016.12.001.