CV Lattes
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Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas (CCNH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at Bacharelado e Licenciatura em Ciências Biológicas from Instituto de Biociências da USP (2002) and ph.d. at Biologia da Relação Patógeno-Hospedeiro from Universidade de São Paulo (2008). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Microplusin is a copper and iron chelating peptide, present in the cattle tick Riphicephalus (Boophilus) microplus. It has a globular structure, arranged in five ±-helices and is rich in histidine and cysteine amino acids residues. The histidines H-1, H-2 and H-74 were among the possible amino acids involved in forming the binding site for copper. In addition to its chelating ability, mic…
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