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Veas Inostroza, Rhonda; Rojas Pirela, Maura; Castillo Rivas, Christian; Olea Azar, Claudio; Moncada, Mauricio; Ulloa, Pablo; Rojas, Verónica; Kemmerling Weis, Ulrike (Elsevier, 2020)Introduction: Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, has no effective treatment available. On the other hand, microalgae are aquatic organisms that constitute an interesting reservoir of ...
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Over-accumulation of astaxanthin in Haematococcus pluvialis through chloroplast genetic engineering Galarza, Janeth I.; Gimpel, Javier A.; Rojas, Verónica; Arredondo Vega, Bertha O.; Henríquez, Vitalia (Elsevier, 2018)The carotenoid biosynthesis pathway of Haematococcus pluvialis has been genetically modified to overproduce astaxanthin, a red pigment of high commercial value. The endogenous phytoene desaturase coding sequence (pds) has ...
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Rojas Pirela, Maura; Andrade Alviárez, Diego; Rojas, Verónica; Kemmerling, Ulrike; Cáceres, Ana J.; Michels, Paul A.; Concepción, Juan Luis; Quiñones, Wilfredo (Royal Society, 2020)Phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) is a glycolytic enzyme that is well conserved among the three domains of life. PGK is usually a monomeric enzyme of about 45 kDa that catalyses one of the two ATP-producing reactions in the ...
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Rojas, Verónica; Galanti Garrone, Norbel; Bols, Niels C.; Marshall, Sergio H. (2009)Piscirickettsia salmonis is the etiologic agent of the salmonid rickettsial septicemia (SRS), an endemic disease which causes significant losses in salmon production. This intracellular bacterium is normally cultured in ...