Research Unit: Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular

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

Research Fields:

1.- Structural proteomics and bioinformatics: bioactive compounds development.

2.- Molecular docking approaches for drug discovery.

 Representative Publications:

• Olivares-Vicente, M., Barrajón-Catalán, E., Herranz-López, M., Segura-Carretero, A., Joven, J., Encinar, J.A. and Micol, V. (2018). Plant-Derived Polyphenols in Human Health: Biological Activity, Metabolites and Putative Molecular Targets.  Current Drug Metabolism. DOI: 10.2174/1389200219666180220095236
• Micol, V., Encinar, J.A. and Herranz-López, M. (2017). Nutraceuticals molecular targets (III) – targeting protein receptors with polyphenols as new anti-obesity therapies. Agro FOOD Industry Hi Tech – vol. 28(5) – September/October 2017.
• Bello-Perez, M., Falco, A., Medina-Gali, R., Pereiro, P., Encinar, J.A., Novoa, B., Perez, L., Coll, J. (2017). Neutralization of viral infectivity by zebrafish C-reactive protein isoforms. Molecular Immunology 91 (2017) 145–155. DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2017.09.005.
• Herranz-López, M., Olivares-Vicente, M., Encinar, J.A., Barrajón-Catalán, E., Segura-Carretero, A., Joven, J. and Micol, V. (2017). Multi-targeted molecular effects of Hibiscus sabdariffa polyphenols: an opportunity for a global approach to obesity. Nutrients, 9(8), 907. DOI: 10.3390/nu9080907
• Micol, V. and Encinar, J.A. (2017). Nutraceuticals molecular targets (II). A novel way of approaching health by using nutraceuticals: Combined -omics and virtual screening. Agro FOOD Industry Hi Tech – vol. 28(2) – March/April 2017.

Patents and Available Technologies: Available technologies at https://ibmc.umh.es/encinar.asp

 Company agreements: none.