Roeland Boer

    Research Group: 
    Structural Biology of Protein & Nucleic Acid Complexes and Molecular Machines
    Unit: 
    STRUCTURAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
    Position: 
    Alumni - Postdoctoral Fellow
    Office: 
    EMPBB43
    Telephone: 
    +34 93 40 34953
    Email: 
    roeland.boer@irbbarcelona.org

    Left IRB Barcelona in June 2014

    Selected group publications

    Structures of T7 bacteriophage portal and tail suggest a viral DNA retention and ejection mechanism
    Cuervo A, Fàbrega-Ferrer M, Machón C, Conesa JJ, Fernández FJ, Pérez-Luque R, Pérez-Ruiz M, Pous J, Vega MC, Carrascosa JL and Coll M.
    Nat Commun, 10 (1), 3746 (2019)
    Atomic structure of the Epstein-Barr virus portal
    Machón C, Fàbrega-Ferrer M, Zhou D, Cuervo A, Carrascosa JL, Stuart DI and Coll M.
    Nat Commun, 10 (1), 3891 (2019)
    Structures of T7 bacteriophage portal and tail suggest a viral DNA retention and ejection mechanism
    Cuervo, A., Fàbrega-Ferrer, M., Machón, C., Conesa, J.J., Fernández, F.J, Pérez-Luque, R., Pérez-Ruiz, M., Pous, J, Vega, M.C., Carrascosa, J.L. & Coll, M.
    Nature Communications, 10 (1), doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11705-9-3746 (2019)
    Atomic structure of the Epstein-Barr virus portal
    Machón, C., Fàbrega-Ferrer, M., Zhou, D., Cuervo, A., Carrascosa, J.L., Stuart, D.I. & Coll, M.
    Nature Communications, 1 (10), doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11706-8.-3891 (2019)
    Structure-Driven Discovery of α,γ-Diketoacid Inhibitors Against UL89 Herpesvirus Terminase
    Bongarzone S., Nadal M., Kaczmarska Z., Machón C., Álvarez M., Albericio F., Coll M.
    ACS Omega, 3 (8), 8497-8505 (2018)
    Structural basis of a histidine-DNA nicking/joining mechanism for gene transfer and promiscuous spread of antibiotic resistance
    Pluta R, Boer DR, Lorenzo-Díaz F, Russi S, Gómez H, Fernández-López C, Pérez-Luque R, Orozco M, Espinosa M and Coll M.
    P Natl Acad Sci Usa, 114 (32), E6526-E653 (2017)
    Conformational plasticity of RepB, the replication initiator protein of promiscuous streptococcal plasmid pMV158
    Boer DR, Ruiz-Masó JA, Rueda M, Petoukhov MV, Machón C, Svergun DI, Orozco M, del Solar G and Coll M.
    Sci Rep, 6 20915 (2016)
    Structural basis for DNA binding specificity by the auxin-dependent ARF transcription factors
    Boer DR, Freire-Rios A, van den Berg WA, Saaki T, Manfield IW, Kepinski S, López-Vidrieo I, Franco-Zorrilla JM, de Vries SC, Solano R, Weijers D and Coll M.
    Cell, 156 (3), 577-89 (2014)
    Thread insertion of a bis(dipyridophenazine) diruthenium complex into the DNA double helix by the extrusion of AT base pairs and cross-linking of DNA duplexes
    Boer DR, Wu L, Lincoln P and Coll M.
    Angew Chem Int Edit, 53 (7), 1949-52 (2014)
    Human mitochondrial transcription factor A induces a U-turn structure in the light strand promoter
    Rubio-Cosials A, Sidow JF, Jiménez-Menéndez N, Fernández-Millán P, Montoya J, Jacobs HT, Coll M, Bernadó P and Solà M.
    Nat Struct Mol Biol, 18 (11), 1281-9 (2011)
    The structure of a transcription activation subcomplex reveals how σ(70) is recruited to PhoB promoters
    Blanco AG, Canals A, Bernués J, Solà M and Coll M.
    Embo J, 30 3776-3785 (2011)
    Structure and inhibition of herpesvirus DNA packaging terminase nuclease domain
    Nadal M, Mas PJ, Blanco AG, Arnan C, Solà M, Hart DJ and Coll M.
    P Natl Acad Sci Usa, 107 (37), 16078-83 (2010)
    Human mitochondrial mTERF wraps around DNA through a left-handed superhelical tandem repeat
    Jiménez-Menéndez N, Fernández-Millán P, Rubio-Cosials A, Arnan C, Montoya J, Jacobs HT, Bernadó P, Coll M, Usón I and Solà M.
    Nat Struct Mol Biol, 17 (7), 891-3 (2010)
    Plasmid replication initiator RepB forms a hexamer reminiscent of ring helicases and has mobile nuclease domains
    Boer DR, Ruíz-Masó JA, López-Blanco JR, Blanco AG, Vives-Llàcer M, Chacón P, Usón I, Gomis-Rüth FX, Espinosa M, Llorca O, del Solar G and Coll M.
    Embo J, 28 (11), 1666-78 (2009)
    Molecular recognition of a three-way DNA junction by a metallosupramolecular helicate
    Oleksy A, Blanco AG, Boer R, Usón I, Aymamí J, Rodger A, Hannon MJ and Coll M.
    Angew Chem Int Edit, 45 (8), 1227-31 (2006)
    The structure of phage φ29 transcription regulator p4-DNA complex reveals an N-hook motif for DNA binding
    Badia D, Camacho A, Pérez-Lago L, Escandón C, Salas M and Coll M
    Mol Cell, 22 73-81 (2006)
    Recognition and processing of the origin of transfer DNA by conjugative relaxase TrwC
    Guasch A, Lucas M, Moncalián G, Cabezas M, Pérez-Luque R, Gomis-Rüth FX, de la Cruz F and Coll M.
    Nat Struct Mol Biol, 10 (12), 1002-10 (2003)
    The bacterial conjugation protein TrwB resembles ring helicases and F1-ATPase
    Gomis-Rüth FX, Moncalián G, Pérez-Luque R, González A, Cabezón E, de la Cruz F and Coll M.
    Nature, 409 (6820), 637-41 (2001)
    Crystal structure of a DNA Holliday junction
    Ortiz-Lombardía M, González A, Eritja R, Aymamí J, Azorín F and Coll M.
    Nat Struct Mol Biol, 6 (10), 913-7 (1999)
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