Education

Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Faulty of Biochemistry and Biological Sciences, National University of the Litoral, Argentina, 2009

Current position

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Biochemistry and Biological Sciences, National University of the Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina

Publications (since 2005)

1. Asención Diez, M. D., Demonte, A. M., Guerrero, S. A., Ballicora, M. A. and Iglesias, A. A. (2013). The ADP‐glucose pyrophosphorylase from Streptococcus mutans provides evidence for the regulation of polysaccharide biosynthesis in Firmicutes. Molecular Microbiology 90(5): 1011-1027.
   
2. Asencion Diez, M. D., Peiru, S., Demonte, A. M., Gramajo, H. and Iglesias, A. A. (2012). Characterization of recombinant UDP- and ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylases and glycogen synthase to elucidate glucose-1-phosphate partitioning into oligo- and polysaccharides in Streptomyces coelicolor. J Bacteriol 194(6): 1485-1493.
   
3. Figueroa, C. M., Esper, M. C., Bertolo, A., Demonte, A. M., Aleanzi, M., Iglesias, A. A. and Ballicora, M. A. (2011). Understanding the allosteric trigger for the fructose-1,6-bisphosphate regulation of the ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase from Escherichia coli. Biochimie 93(10): 1816-1823.
   
4. Diez, M. D. A., Demonte, A., Giacomelli, J., Garay, S., Rodrígues, D., Hofmann, B., Hecht, H. J., Guerrero, S. A. and Iglesias, A. A. (2010). Functional characterization of GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase from Leptospira interrogans serovar Copenhageni. Archives of Microbiology 192(2): 103-114.
   
5. Ballicora, M. A., Erben, E. D., Yazaki, T., Bertolo, A. L., Demonte, A. M., Schmidt, J. R., Aleanzi, M., Bejar, C. M., Figueroa, C. M., Fusari, C. M., Iglesias, A. A. and Preiss, J. (2007). Identification of regions critically affecting kinetics and allosteric regulation of the Escherichia coli ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase by modeling and pentapeptide-scanning mutagenesis. J Bacteriol 189(14): 5325-5333.
   
6. Fusari, C., Demonte, A. M., Figueroa, C. M., Aleanzi, M. and Iglesias, A. A. (2006). A colorimetric method for the assay of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase. Anal Biochem 352(1): 145-147.