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Jerson L. Silva

PeerJ Editor & Author

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Professor of Biochemistry in the Institute of Medical Biochemistry at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Awards include Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, TWAS Prize in Biology. Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences; the National Academy of Medicine; and Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS). Director of the Jiri Jonas National Center for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (UFRJ)

Biochemistry Biophysics Molecular Biology

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PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

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Professor of Biochemistry

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

October 1987 - October 2016

Institute of Medical Biochemistry

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April 27, 2017

On the entry of an emerging arbovirus into host cells: Mayaro virus takes the highway to the cytoplasm through fusion with early endosomes and caveolae-derived vesicles

Carlos A.M. Carvalho, Jerson L. Silva, Andréa C. Oliveira, Andre M.O. Gomes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3245 PubMed 28462045

November 9, 2016

Charge neutralization as the major factor for the assembly of nucleocapsid-like particles from C-terminal truncated hepatitis C virus core protein

Theo Luiz Ferraz de Souza, Sheila Maria Barbosa de Lima, Vanessa L. de Azevedo Braga, David S. Peabody, Davis Fernandes Ferreira, M. Lucia Bianconi, Andre Marco de Oliveira Gomes, Jerson Lima Silva, Andréa Cheble de Oliveira

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2670 PubMed 27867765

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February 13, 2020

Homeoprotein OTX1 and OTX2 involvement in rat myenteric neuron adaptation after DNBS-induced colitis

Michela Bistoletti, Giovanni Micheloni, Nicolò Baranzini, Annalisa Bosi, Andrea Conti, Viviana Filpa, Cristina Pirrone, Giorgia Millefanti, Elisabetta Moro, Annalisa Grimaldi, Roberto Valli, Andreina Baj, Francesca Crema, Cristina Giaroni, Giovanni Porta

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8442 PubMed 32095330

January 8, 2019

Simultaneous rapid detection of Hantaan virus and Seoul virus using RT-LAMP in rats

Xin Sui, Xu Zhang, Dongliang Fei, Zhen Zhang, Mingxiao Ma

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6068 PubMed 30643674

February 26, 2018

Crystal structure correlations with the intrinsic thermodynamics of human carbonic anhydrase inhibitor binding

Alexey Smirnov, Asta Zubrienė, Elena Manakova, Saulius Gražulis, Daumantas Matulis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4412 PubMed 29503769

June 22, 2017

A simple electroelution method for rapid protein purification: isolation and antibody production of alpha toxin from Clostridium septicum

Lorena Vázquez-Iglesias, Borja Estefanell-Ucha, Leticia Barcia-Castro, María Páez de la Cadena, Paula Álvarez-Chaver, Daniel Ayude-Vázquez, Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Berrocal

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3407 PubMed 28652930

April 4, 2017

Conserved DNA motifs in the type II-A CRISPR leader region

Mason J. Van Orden, Peter Klein, Kesavan Babu, Fares Z. Najar, Rakhi Rajan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3161 PubMed 28392985

March 14, 2017

Occurrence of concurrent infections with multiple serotypes of dengue viruses during 2013–2015 in northern Kerala, India

Manchala Nageswar Reddy, Ranjeet Dungdung, Lathika Valliyott, Rajendra Pilankatta

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2970 PubMed 28316881

February 8, 2017

Tracking the virus-like particles of Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus in insect cells

Ummi Fairuz Hanapi, Chean Yeah Yong, Zee Hong Goh, Noorjahan Banu Alitheen, Swee Keong Yeap, Wen Siang Tan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2947 PubMed 28194311

April 18, 2016

Structure and stability of recombinant bovine odorant-binding protein: III. Peculiarities of the wild type bOBP unfolding in crowded milieu

Olga V. Stepanenko, Denis O. Roginskii, Olesya V. Stepanenko, Irina M. Kuznetsova, Vladimir N. Uversky, Konstantin K. Turoverov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1642 PubMed 27114858

September 24, 2015

Looking for a generic inhibitor of amyloid-like fibril formation among flavone derivatives

Tomas Šneideris, Lina Baranauskienė, Jonathan G. Cannon, Rasa Rutkienė, Rolandas Meškys, Vytautas Smirnovas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1271 PubMed 26421240

June 10, 2014

Regulation of K_Ca2.3 and endothelium-dependent hyperpolarization (EDH) in the rat middle cerebral artery: the role of lipoxygenase metabolites and isoprostanes

Kathryn M. Gauthier, William B. Campbell, Alister J. McNeish

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.414 PubMed 24949235