Personal Home Page

In construction

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

1. Shiga toxin B-subunit sequential binding to its natural receptor in lipid membranes
   Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, vol. 1768, no. 3, pp. 628–636, 2007
2. Omiganan interaction with bacterial membranes and cell wall models. Assigning a biological role to saturation
   Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, vol. 1768, no. 5, pp. 1277–1290, 2007
3. How to address CPP and AMP translocation? Methods to detect and quantify peptide internalization in vitro and in vivo (Review)
   Molecular Membrane Biology, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 173–184, 2007
4. Energy-independent translocation of cell-penetrating peptides occurs without formation of pores. A biophysical study with pep-1
   Molecular Membrane Biology, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 282–293, 2007
5. The influence of cholesterol on the interaction of HIV gp41 membrane proximal region-derived peptides with lipid bilayers
   FEBS Journal, vol. 274, no. 19, pp. 5096–5104, 2007
6. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 7, pp. 3385–3394, 2006
7. Cell-penetrating peptides and antimicrobial peptides: how different are they?
   Biochemical Journal, vol. 399, no. 1, p. 1, 2006
8. Chiral Recognition ofD-Kyotorphin by Lipidic Membranes: Relevance Toward Improved Analgesic Efficiency
   ChemMedChem, vol. 1, no. 7, pp. 723–728, 2006
9. The membranes’ role in the HIV-1 neutralizing monoclonal antibody 2F5 mode of action needs re-evaluation
   Antiviral Research, vol. 71, no. 1, pp. 69–72, 2006
10. Why are HIV-1 fusion inhibitors not effective against SARS-CoV? Biophysical evaluation of molecular interactions
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects, vol. 1760, no. 1, pp. 55–61, 2006
11. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, vol. 1669, no. 2, pp. 75–86, 2005
12. Lipidic Membranes Are Potential ?Catalysts? in the Ligand Activity of the Multifunctional Pentapeptide Neokyotorphin
    ChemBioChem, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 697–702, 2005
13. Re-evaluating the role of strongly charged sequences in amphipathic cell-penetrating peptidesA fluorescence study using Pep-1
    FEBS Letters, vol. 579, no. 20, pp. 4498–4502, 2005
14. Lipid membrane-induced optimization for ligand–receptor docking: recent tools and insights for the “membrane catalysis” model
    European Biophysics Journal, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 92–103, 2005
15. Miguel A.R.B. Castanho
    European Biophysics Journal, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 91–91, 2005
16. Developing students' awareness of public understanding of science: A matter of survival?
    Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 202–204, 2005
17. Biochemistry, vol. 44, no. 30, pp. 10189–10198, 2005
18. Overview of Common Spectroscopic Methods to Determine the Orientation/Alignment of Membrane Probes and Drugs in Lipidic Bilayers
    Current Organic Chemistry, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 889–898, 2005
19. Does Aliphatic Chain Length Influence Carbocyanines' Orientation in Supported Lipid Multilayers?
    Journal of Fluorescence, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 281–287, 2004
20. Putative role of membranes in the HIV fusion inhibitor enfuvirtide mode of action at the molecular level
    Biochemical Journal, vol. 377, no. 1, p. 107, 2004
21. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 126, no. 45, pp. 14758–14763, 2004
22. Biochemistry, vol. 43, no. 30, pp. 9716–9724, 2004
23. An overview of the biophysical applications of atomic force microscopy
    Biophysical Chemistry, vol. 107, no. 2, pp. 133–149, 2004
24. Cholesterol modulates maculosin's orientation in model systems of biological membranesRelevance towards putative molecular recognition
    Steroids, vol. 69, no. 13-14, pp. 825–830, 2004
25. Evaluation of Lipopolysaccharide Aggregation by Light Scattering Spectroscopy
    ChemBioChem, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 96–100, 2003
26. Quantifying molecular partition into model systems of biomembranes: an emphasis on optical spectroscopic methods
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, vol. 1612, no. 2, pp. 123–135, 2003
27. Brownian dynamics simulation of the unsaturated lipidic molecules oleic and docosahexaenoic acid confined in a cellular membrane
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, vol. 1565, no. 1, pp. 29–35, 2002
28. Joint determination by Brownian dynamics and fluorescence quenching of the in-depth location profile of biomolecules in membranes
    Analytical Biochemistry, vol. 307, no. 1, pp. 1–12, 2002
29. Dealing with the challenges of teaching molecular biophysics to biochemistry majors through an heuristics-based approach
    Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 163–168, 2002
30. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 106, no. 29, pp. 7278–7282, 2002
31. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 105, no. 2, pp. 562–568, 2001
32. A photophysical study of the polyene antibiotic filipin Self-aggregation and filipin–ergosterol interaction
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, vol. 1510, no. 1-2, pp. 125–135, 2001
33. Crude tall-oil sodium salts micellization in aqueous solutions studied by static and dynamic light scattering
    Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, vol. 191, no. 3, pp. 263–268, 2001
34. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 104, no. 48, pp. 11579–11584, 2000
35. Conformation and dynamic properties of a saturated hydrocarbon chain confined in a model membrane: a Brownian dynamics simulation
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, vol. 1463, no. 1, pp. 131–141, 2000
36. The pentaene macrolide antibiotic filipin prefers more rigid DPPC bilayers: a fluorescence pressure dependence study
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, vol. 1419, no. 1, pp. 1–14, 1999
37. Simulation of the distribution and diffusion of a rigid amphipathic particle embedded in a model membrane
    Biophysical Chemistry, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 41–53, 1999
38. Continuous particle size distribution analysis with dynamic light scattering MAXAMPER: A regularization method using the maximum amplitude for the average error and the Lagrange's multipliers method
    Journal of Biochemical and Biophysical Methods, vol. 36, no. 2-3, pp. 101–117, 1998
39. Biochemistry, vol. 37, no. 24, pp. 8674–8682, 1998
40. Fluorescence quenching data interpretation in biological systems The use of microscopic models for data analysis and interpretation of complex systems
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, vol. 1373, no. 1, pp. 1–16, 1998
41. Structural characterization of organized systems of polysaccharides and phospholipids by light scattering spectroscopy and electron microscopy
    Carbohydrate Research, vol. 300, no. 1, pp. 31–40, 1997
42. Structural characterization (shape and dimensions) and stability of polysaccharide/lipid nanoparticles
    Biopolymers, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 511–520, 1997
43. Separating the turbidity spectra of vesicles from the absorption spectra of membrane probes and other chromophores
    European Biophysics Journal, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 253–259, 1997
44. The transverse location of the fluorescent probe trans-parinaric acid in lipid bilayers
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, vol. 1279, no. 2, pp. 164–168, 1996
45. Fluorescence study of a derivatized diacylglycerol incorporated in model membranes
    Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 75–85, 1994
46. Filipin and its interaction with cholesterol in aqueous media studied using static and dynamic light scattering
    Biopolymers, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 447–456, 1994
47. Fluorescence study of the macrolide pentaene antibiotic filipin in aqueous solution and in a model system of membranes
    European Journal of Biochemistry, vol. 207, no. 1, pp. 125–134, 1992