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University of Almería: Almería, Andalusia, ES

2023-09-01 to present | Profesor Ayudante Doctor (Department of Chemistry and Physics)
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Lellys Contreras

University of Almeria: Almeria, Andalusia, ES

2022-09-01 to 2023-08-31 | Profesor Sustituto Interino (Instructor Professor) (Department of Chemistry and Physics)
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Lellys Contreras

Universidad de Almeria: Almeria, ES

2020-03-16 to 2022-01-15 | Postdoctoral researcher (Quimica y Fisica)
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Lellys Contreras

Universidad de Carabobo: Valencia, Carabobo, VE

1996-10-01 to 2018-09-01 | Full Professor (Retired Professor) (Biology)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Universidad de Murcia: Murcia, Murcia, ES

1996-10-20 to 2000-09-25 | Doctora en Biologia (Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular A)
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Lellys Contreras

Universidad Central de Venezuela: Caracas, Distrito Capital, VE

1988-10-01 to 1994-12-08 | Bachelor in Biology
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Funding (2)

Cofinanciamiento del Fortalecimiento de la Unidad de Microbiología Ambiental

2005-06 to 2006-10 | Grant
Consejo de Desarrollo Científico y Humanístico, Universidad de Carabobo (Valencia, VE)
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CDCH-1470-05
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Fortalecimiento de la Unidad de Microbiología Ambiental

2005-06 to 2006-10 | Grant
Fondo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Caracas, VE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

Pem2001002268
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Works (35)

MAXIMIZING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PRACTICAL LABORATORY SESSIONS IN SCIENCE EDUCATION

2025-03 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.21125/inted.2025.1707
Contributors: Lellys Mariela Contreras-Moyeja; Alba Carrillo-Moreno; Francisco Javier Las Heras-Vázquez; Josefa María Clemente Jiménez
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Exploring the Kinetics and Thermodynamics of a Novel Histidine Ammonia-Lyase from Geobacillus kaustophilus

International Journal of Molecular Sciences
2024-09-21 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/ijms251810163
Contributors: Francisco Manuel Salas-Garrucho; Alba Carrillo-Moreno; Lellys M. Contreras; Felipe Rodríguez-Vico; Josefa María Clemente-Jiménez; Francisco Javier Las Heras-Vázquez
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Structural Characterization of β-Xylosidase XynB2 from Geobacillus stearothermophilus CECT43: A Member of the Glycoside Hydrolase Family GH52

Crystals
2023-12-24 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/cryst14010018
Contributors: Jose Antonio Gavira; Lellys M. Contreras; Hassan Mohamad Alshamaa; Josefa María Clemente-Jiménez; Felipe Rodríguez-Vico; Francisco Javier Las Heras-Vázquez; Sergio Martínez-Rodríguez
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Efficiency Assessment between Entrapment and Covalent Bond Immobilization of Mutant β-Xylosidase onto Chitosan Support

Polymers
2023-07-26 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/polym15153170
Contributors: Gabriela Romero; Lellys M. Contreras; Carolina Aguirre Céspedes; Jeff Wilkesman; Josefa María Clemente-Jiménez; Felipe Rodríguez-Vico; Francisco Javier Las Heras-Vázquez
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Efficiency Assessment between Entrapment and Covalent Bond Immobilization of Mutant β-Xylosidase onto Chitosan Support

2023-06-28 | Preprint
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202306.1993.v1
Contributors: Gabriela Romero B.; Lellys M. Contreras; Aguirre Carolina; Wilkesman Jeff; Josefa María Clemente-Jiménez; Felipe Rodríguez-Vico; Francisco Javier Las Heras-Vázquez
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Characterization of Cross-Linked Enzyme Aggregates of the Y509E Mutant of a Glycoside Hydrolase Family 52 β-xylosidase from G. stearothermophilus

Molecules
2021-01-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/molecules26020451
Contributors: Gabriela Romero; Lellys M. Contreras; Carolina Aguirre; Jeff Wilkesman; Josefa María Clemente-Jiménez; Felipe Rodríguez-Vico; Francisco Javier Las Heras-Vázquez
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The isolated C-terminal nuclear localization sequence of the breast cancer metastasis suppressor 1 is disordered

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2019-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2019.01.035
Contributors: David Pantoja-Uceda; José L. Neira; Lellys M. Contreras; Christa A. Manton; Danny R. Welch; Bruno Rizzuti
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The Cyanobacterial Ribosomal-Associated Protein LrtA from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 Is an Oligomeric Protein in Solution with Chameleonic Sequence Properties.

Int J Mol Sci.
2018-06-24 | Journal article
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BRMS1

Springer-Verlag
2017-06-20 | Encyclopedia entry
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Lellys Contreras

Biodegradación de dibenzotiofeno por oxigenasas de termófilos

Editorial Académica Española
2015-08-13 | Book
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Lellys Contreras

Enzymatic characterization of the recombinant beta-xylosidase xynb2

International Scientific Journal Medical and Biological Sciences
2014-05-24 | Journal article
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Lellys Contreras

Identificación zimográfica de proteasas excretadas por bacterias termófilas

FARAUTE de Ciencia y Tecnología
2011 | Journal article
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Lellys Contreras

Caracterización de una actividad lipasa termoestable excretada por Anoxybacillus sp.

CIENCIA-LUZ
2010 | Journal article
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Lellys Contreras

Determinación y caracterización parcial de proteasas obtenidas del fruto de THEVETIA AHOUAI (L.) A.DC.

FARAUTE Ciens. y Tec.
2007 | Journal article
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Lellys Contreras

Altered lipid composition and enzyme activities of plasma membranes from Trypanosoma (Schizotrypanum) cruzi epimastigotes grown in the presence of sterol biosynthesis inhibitors.

Journal article
PMID: 9113089
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Lellys Contreras

Amylase Zymography.

Journal article
PMID: 28608223
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Lellys Contreras

Antiproliferative effects and mechanism of action of SCH 56592 against Trypanosoma (Schizotrypanum) cruzi: in vitro and in vivo studies.

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PMID: 9661019
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Cysteine Mutational Studies Provide Insight into a Thiol-Based Redox Switch Mechanism of Metal and DNA Binding in FurA from Anabaena sp. PCC 7120.

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PMID: 26414804
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Detection of Guaiacol Peroxidase on Electrophoretic Gels.

Journal article
PMID: 28608212
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Lellys Contreras

Enhancement of sequential zymography technique for the detection of thermophilic lipases and proteases.

Journal article
PMID: 24609273
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Lellys Contreras

Guaiacol peroxidase zymography for the undergraduate laboratory.

Journal article
PMID: 25052049
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Inhibition of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis by ajoene is associated with blockade of phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis.

Journal article
PMID: 9168609
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Lellys Contreras

Inhibitors of delta24(25) sterol methyltransferase block sterol synthesis and cell proliferation in Pneumocystis carinii.

Journal article
PMID: 9210660
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Interaction of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone with binary phospholipid membranes: structural changes and relevance of phase behavior.

Journal article
PMID: 11325729
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Isolation and characterization of a thermostable beta-xylosidase in the thermophilic bacterium Geobacillus pallidus.

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PMID: 17363348
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Mechanism of action of anti-proliferative lysophospholipid analogues against the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi: potentiation of in vitro activity by the sterol biosynthesis inhibitor ketoconazole

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PMID: 11328763
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Modification of the sterol composition of Trypanosoma (Schizotrypanum) cruzi epimastigotes by delta 24(25)-sterol methyl transferase inhibitors and their combinations with ketoconazole

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PMID: 8577328
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Lellys Contreras

Sequential Detection of Thermophilic Lipase and Protease by Zymography.

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PMID: 28608219
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Lellys Contreras

Structural characterisation of the natively unfolded enterocin EJ97.

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PMID: 20385607
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Lellys Contreras

Structure and conformational stability of a tetrameric thermostable N-succinylamino acid racemase.

Journal article
PMID: 19517534
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Lellys Contreras

Structure and interaction with membrane model systems of a peptide derived from the major epitope region of HIV protein gp41: implications on viral fusion mechanism

Journal article
PMID: 11258936
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Lellys Contreras

The family 52 beta-xylosidase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus is a dimer: structural and biophysical characterization of a glycoside hydrolase.

Journal article
PMID: 18657634
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Lellys Contreras

The transcriptional repressor RYBP is a natively unfolded protein which folds upon binding to DNA.

Journal article
PMID: 19170609
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Lellys Contreras

Two-dimensional infrared correlation spectroscopy study of the interaction of oxidized and reduced cytochrome c with phospholipid model membranes.

Journal article
PMID: 17560895
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Lellys Contreras

Zymography Detection of a Bacterial Extracellular Thermoalkaline Esterase/Lipase Activity.

Journal article
PMID: 28608222
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Lellys Contreras
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