Maria Elena Álvarez

Position:

Former - PhD Student

Office:

EMPBA13

Telephone:

+34 93 40 34701

Email:

elena.alvarez@irbbarcelona.org

Research Group

Amino Acid Transporters and Disease

Aging and Metabolism

Selected group publications

Defective Slc7a7 transport reduces erythropoietin compromising erythropoiesis

Giroud-Gerbetant, Judith; Sotillo, Fernando; Hernández, Gonzalo; Ruano, Irene; Sebastián, David; Fort, Joana; Sánchez, Mayka; Weiss, Günter; Prats, Neus; Zorzano, Antonio; Palacín, Manuel; Bodoy, Susanna

Molecular Medicine

(1 )

29 -

(2025)

The conserved lysine residue in transmembrane helix 5 is key for the cytoplasmic gating of the L-amino acid transporters

Fort, Joana; Nicolàs-Aragó, Adrià; Maggi, Luca; Martinez Molledo, Maria; Kapiki, Despoina; Gonzalez-Novoa, Paula; Gómez-Gejo, Patricia; Zijlstra, Niels; Bodoy, Susanna; Pardon, Els; Steyaert, Jan; Llorca, Oscar; Orozco, Modesto; Cordes, Thorben; Palacín, Manuel

Pnas Nexus

(1 )

pgae584 -

(2025)

Structural basis for substrate specificity of heteromeric transporters of neutral amino acids

Rodriguez, CF; Escudero-Bravo, P; Diaz, L; Bartoccioni, P; Garcia-Martin, C; Gilabert, JG; Boskovic, J; Guallar, V; Errasti-Murugarren, E; Llorca, O; Palacin, M

Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America

118

(49 )

e2113573118 -

(2021)

Facilitated Diffusion of Proline across Membranes of Liposomes and Living Cells by a Calix[4]pyrrole Cavitand

Martinez-Crespo, Luis; Liang Sun-Wang, Jia; Felipe Sierra, Andres; Aragay, Gemma; Errasti-Murugarren, Ekaitz; Bartoccioni, Paola; Palacin, Manuel; Ballester, P

Chem

(11 )

3054 -

3070

(2020)

Deficient Endoplasmic Reticulum-Mitochondrial Phosphatidylserine Transfer Causes Liver Disease

Hernández-Alvarez, MI; Sebastián, D; Vives, S; Ivanova, S; Bartoccioni, P; Kakimoto, P; Plana, N; Veiga, SR; Hernández, V; Vasconcelos, N; Peddinti, G; Adrover, A; Jové, M; Pamplona, R; Gordaliza-Alaguero, I; Calvo, E; Cabré, N; Castro, R; Kuzmanic, A; Boutant, M; Sala, D; Hyotylainen, T; Oresic, M; Fort, J; Errasti-Murugarren, E;...

Cell

177

(4 )

881 -

(2019)