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Garro HA, Bruna-Haupt E, Cianchino V, Malizia F, Favier S, Menacho-Márquez M, Cifuente D, Fernández CO, Pungitore CR. Verbascoside, synthetic derivatives and other glycosides from Argentinian native plant species as potential antitumoral agents (2020) Nat Prod Res.10:1-6. doi: 10.1080/14786419.2019.1710701

Cukierman DS, Lázaro DF, Sacco P, Ferreira PR, Diniz R, Fernández CO, Outeiro TF, Rey NA.X1INH, an improved next-generation affinity-optimized hydrazonic ligand, attenuates abnormal copper(I)/copper(II)-α-Syn interactions and affects protein aggregation in a cellular model of synucleinopathy. (2020) Dalton Trans. doi: 10.1039/d0dt01138j.

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González N, Gentile I, Garro HA, Delgado-Ocaña S, Ramunno CF, Buratti FA, Griesinger C, Fernández CO. Metal coordination and peripheral substitution modulate the activity of cyclic tetrapyrroles on αS aggregation: a structural and cell-based study (2019) J Biol Inorg Chem. 24:1269-1278. doi: 10.1007/s00775-019-01711-z.

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Tonucci FM, Almada E, Borini-Etichetti C, Pariani A, Hidalgo F, Rico MJ, Girardini J, Favre C, Goldenring JR, Menacho-Marquez M, Larocca MC. Identification of a CIP4 PKA phosphorylation site involved in the regulation of cancer cell invasiveness and metastasis (2019) Cancer Lett. 461:65-77. doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2019.07.006.

Borini Etichetti C, Di Benedetto C, Rossi C, Baglioni MV, Bicciato S, Del Sal G, Menacho-Marquez M, Girardini J. Isoprenylcysteine carboxy methyltransferase (ICMT) is associated with tumor aggressiveness and its expression is controlled by the p53 tumor suppressor (2019) J Biol Chem. 294:5060-5073. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA118.006037

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-Robles-Valero J, Lorenzo-Martín LF, Menacho-Márquez M, Fernández-Pisonero I, Abad A, Camós M, Toribio ML, Espinosa L, Bigas A, Bustelo XR. A Paradoxical Tumor-Suppressor Role for the Rac1 Exchange Factor Vav1 in T Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Cancer Cell. 2017 Nov 13;32(5):608-623.e9. doi:0.1016/j.ccell.2017.10.004.

-Rico M, Baglioni M, Bondarenko M, Laluce NC, Rozados V, André N, Carré M, Scharovsky OG, Menacho Márquez M. Metformin and propranolol combination prevents cancer progression and metastasis in different breast cancer models. Oncotarget. 2017 Jan 10;8(2):2874-2889. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.13760.

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-Valiente-Gabioud AA, Miotto MC, Chesta ME, Lombardo V, Binolfi A, Fernandez CO. Phthalocyanines as molecular scaffolds to block disease-associated protein aggregation (2016) Acc Chem Res 49:801-808.

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-Roth S, Bergmann H, Jaeger M, Yeroslaviz A, Neumann K, Koenig PA, Prazeres da Costa C, Vanes L, Kumar V, Johnson M, Menacho-Márquez M, Habermann B, Tybulewicz VL, Netea M, Bustelo XR, Ruland J. Vav Proteins Are Key Regulators of Card9 Signaling for Innate Antifungal Immunity. Cell Rep. 2016 Dec 6;17(10):2572-2583. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.11.018.