Hernan Alonso
Australian National University
15 Papers
58 Citations
Hernan Alonso is an academic researcher from Australian National University. The author has contributed to research in topics: RuBisCO & Biology. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 15 publications. Previous affiliations of Hernan Alonso include University of Melbourne & Monash University, Clayton campus.
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Papers
Combining docking and molecular dynamic simulations in drug design.
TL;DR: This review focuses on applications and protocols of recent studies where docking calculations and molecular dynamics simulations were combined to dock small molecules into protein receptors, and is structured to lead the reader from the simpler to more compute‐intensive methods.
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Advancing Our Understanding and Capacity to Engineer Nature’s CO2-Sequestering Enzyme, Rubisco
TL;DR: There is a growing impetus in developing novel strategies to address global concerns regarding food security as crop productivity gains through traditional breeding begin to lag and arable land becomes scarcer.
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Rubisco activity and regulation as targets for crop improvement
Martin A. J. Parry,P. John Andralojc,Joanna C. Scales,Michael E. Salvucci,A. Elizabete Carmo-Silva,Hernan Alonso,Spencer M. Whitney +6 more
TL;DR: As the rate-limiting step in carbon assimilation, even modest improvements in the overall performance of Rubisco pose a viable pathway for obtaining significant gains in plant yield, particularly under stressful environmental conditions.
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Isoleucine 309 acts as a C4 catalytic switch that increases ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (rubisco) carboxylation rate in flaveria
Spencer M. Whitney,Robert E. Sharwood,Douglas J. Orr,Sarah White,Hernan Alonso,Jeroni Galmés +5 more
TL;DR: The versatility of plastome manipulation in tobacco is shown for identifying sequences in C4-rubisco that can be transplanted into C3-Rubisco to improve carboxylation rate (VC), and application of this transplastomic system permits further identification of other structural solutions selected by nature that can increase rubisco VC in C3 crops.
Evolving Methanococcoides burtonii archaeal Rubisco for improved photosynthesis and plant growth
TL;DR: The versatility of high throughput directed protein evolution for improving the carboxylation properties of a non-photosynthetic Rubisco from the archaea Methanococcoides burtonii is demonstrated and shown to offer new potential for enhancing leaf photosynthesis and plant growth.