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RNA, Metabolism, sRNA, RNA-binding proteins, Post-transcriptional regulation, Mitochondria, Riboswitch
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Employment (5)

Universidad Complutense de Madrid: Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, ES

2017-11 to present | Assistant Professor (Department of Cell Biology)
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Alvaro D Ortega

University of Groningen: Groningen, Groningen, NL

2013-10 to 2017-09 | Postdoctoral researcher (Molecular Systems Biology)
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Alvaro D Ortega

Centro Nacional de Biotecnología: Madrid, Madrid, ES

2009-10 to 2013-09 | Post-doctoral researcher (Microbial biotechnology)
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Alvaro D Ortega

Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras: Madrid, Madrid, ES

2008-05 to 2009-09 | Post-doctoral researcher
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Alvaro D Ortega

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid: Madrid, Madrid, ES

2003-01 to 2008-04 | PhD student (Molecular Biology)
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Alvaro D Ortega

Education and qualifications (2)

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid: Madrid, Madrid, ES

2003-01 to 2008-04 | PhD (Molecular Biology)
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Alvaro D Ortega

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid: Madrid, Madrid, ES

1997-09 to 2002-07 | MSc (Molecular Biology)
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Alvaro D Ortega

Works (24)

Rli51 Attenuates Transcription of the Listeria Pathogenicity Island 1 Gene mpl and Functions as a Trans-Acting sRNA in Intracellular Bacteria

International Journal of Molecular Sciences
2024-08-29 | Journal article
Contributors: Álvaro Morón; Laura Ortiz-Miravalles; Marcos Peñalver; Francisco García-del Portillo; M. Graciela Pucciarelli; Alvaro Darío Ortega
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Real-Time Assessment of Intracellular Metabolites in Single Cells through RNA-Based Sensors

Biomolecules
2023-04-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Alvaro Darío Ortega
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Pathogenicity and virulence of Listeria monocytogenes: A trip from environmental to medical microbiology

Virulence
2021-12-31 | Journal article
Contributors: Juan J. Quereda; Alvaro Morón-García; Carla Palacios-Gorba; Charlotte Dessaux; Francisco García-del Portillo; M. Graciela Pucciarelli; Alvaro D. Ortega
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A synthetic RNA-based biosensor for fructose-1,6-bisphosphate that reports glycolytic flux

Cell Chemical Biology
2021-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Alvaro Darío Ortega; Vakil Takhaveev; Silke Roelie Vedelaar; Yi Long; Neus Mestre-Farràs; Danny Incarnato; Franziska Ersoy; Lars Folke Olsen; Günter Mayer; Matthias Heinemann
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Assessment of the interaction between the flux-signaling metabolite fructose-1,6-bisphosphate and the bacterial transcription factors CggR and Cra.

Molecular microbiology
2018-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Bley Folly B; Ortega AD; Hubmann G; Bonsing-Vedelaar S; Wijma HJ; van der Meulen P; Milias-Argeitis A; Heinemann M
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Alvaro D Ortega via Europe PubMed Central

Metabolic-flux dependent regulation of microbial physiology.

Current opinion in microbiology
2018-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Litsios A; Ortega ÁD; Wit EC; Heinemann M
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Bacterial persistence is an active σS stress response to metabolic flux limitation.

Molecular systems biology
2016-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Radzikowski JL; Vedelaar S; Siegel D; Ortega ÁD; Schmidt A; Heinemann M
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Non-coding RNA regulation in pathogenic bacteria located inside eukaryotic cells.

Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology
2014 | Journal article
Contributors: Ortega AD; Quereda JJ; Pucciarelli MG; García-del Portillo F
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The Listeria Small RNA Rli27 Regulates a Cell Wall Protein inside Eukaryotic Cells by Targeting a Long 5'-UTR Variant.

PLoS genetics
2014-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Quereda JJ; Ortega AD; Pucciarelli MG; García-Del Portillo F
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A novel antisense RNA from the Salmonella virulence plasmid pSLT expressed by non-growing bacteria inside eukaryotic cells.

PloS one
2013 | Journal article
Contributors: Gonzalo-Asensio J; Ortega AD; Rico-Pérez G; Pucciarelli MG; García-Del Portillo F
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An RpoS-dependent sRNA regulates the expression of a chaperone involved in protein folding.

RNA (New York, N.Y.)
2013-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Silva IJ; Ortega AD; Viegas SC; García-Del Portillo F; Arraiano CM
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Genome expression analysis of nonproliferating intracellular Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium unravels an acid pH-dependent PhoP-PhoQ response essential for dormancy.

Infection and immunity
2013-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Núñez-Hernández C; Tierrez A; Ortega AD; Pucciarelli MG; Godoy M; Eisman B; Casadesús J; García-del Portillo F
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Dynamics of Salmonella small RNA expression in non-growing bacteria located inside eukaryotic cells.

RNA biology
2012-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Ortega AD; Gonzalo-Asensio J; García-del Portillo F
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Human G3BP1 interacts with beta-F1-ATPase mRNA and inhibits its translation.

Journal of cell science
2010-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Ortega AD; Willers IM; Sala S; Cuezva JM
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Up-regulation of the ATPase inhibitory factor 1 (IF1) of the mitochondrial H+-ATP synthase in human tumors mediates the metabolic shift of cancer cells to a Warburg phenotype.

The Journal of biological chemistry
2010-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Sánchez-Cenizo L; Formentini L; Aldea M; Ortega AD; García-Huerta P; Sánchez-Aragó M; Cuezva JM
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Selective inhibition of beta-F1-ATPase mRNA translation in human tumours.

The Biochemical journal
2010-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Willers IM; Isidoro A; Ortega AD; Fernández PL; Cuezva JM
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The tumor suppressor function of mitochondria: translation into the clinics.

Biochimica et biophysica acta
2009-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Cuezva JM; Ortega AD; Willers I; Sánchez-Cenizo L; Aldea M; Sánchez-Aragó M
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Cancer abolishes the tissue type-specific differences in the phenotype of energetic metabolism.

Translational oncology
2009-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Acebo P; Giner D; Calvo P; Blanco-Rivero A; Ortega AD; Fernández PL; Roncador G; Fernández-Malavé E; Chamorro M; Cuezva JM
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Glucose avidity of carcinomas.

Cancer letters
2009-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Ortega AD; Sánchez-Aragó M; Giner-Sánchez D; Sánchez-Cenizo L; Willers I; Cuezva JM
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HuR and the bioenergetic signature of breast cancer: a low tumor expression of the RNA-binding protein predicts a higher risk of disease recurrence.

Carcinogenesis
2008-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Ortega AD; Sala S; Espinosa E; González-Barón M; Cuezva JM
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Loss of the mitochondrial bioenergetic capacity underlies the glucose avidity of carcinomas.

Cancer research
2007-10 | Journal article
Contributors: López-Ríos F; Sánchez-Aragó M; García-García E; Ortega AD; Berrendero JR; Pozo-Rodríguez F; López-Encuentra A; Ballestín C; Cuezva JM
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A message emerging from development: the repression of mitochondrial beta-F1-ATPase expression in cancer.

Journal of bioenergetics and biomembranes
2007-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Cuezva JM; Sánchez-Aragó M; Sala S; Blanco-Rivero A; Ortega AD
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Biogenesis and dynamics of mitochondria during the cell cycle: significance of 3'UTRs.

PloS one
2006 | Journal article
Contributors: Martínez-Diez M; Santamaría G; Ortega AD; Cuezva JM
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Alteration of the bioenergetic phenotype of mitochondria is a hallmark of breast, gastric, lung and oesophageal cancer.

The Biochemical journal
2004-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Isidoro A; Martínez M; Fernández PL; Ortega AD; Santamaría G; Chamorro M; Reed JC; Cuezva JM
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