Seefelder, M.; Alva, V.; Huang, B.; Engler, T.; Baumeister, W.; Guo, Q.; Fernandez-Busnadiego, R.; Lupas, A.; Kochanek, S.: The evolution of the huntingtin-associated protein 40 (HAP40) in conjunction with huntingtin. BMC Evolutionary Biology 20 (1), 162 (2020)

Narunsky, A.; Kessel, A.; Solan, R.; Alva, V.; Kolodny, R.; Ben-Tal, N.: On the evolution of protein-adenine binding. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (9), pp. 4701 - 4709 (2020)

Lauer, J.; Segeletz, S.; Cezanne, A.; Guaitoli, G.; Raimondi, F.; Gentzel, M.; Alva, V.; Habeck, M.; Kalaidzidis, Y.; Ueffing, M. et al.; Lupas, A.; Gloeckner, C.; Zerial, M.: Auto-regulation of Rab5 GEF activity in Rabex5 by allosteric structural changes, catalytic core dynamics and ubiquitin binding. eLife 8, e46302 (2019)

Afanasieva, E.; Chaudhuri, I.; Martin, J.; Hertle, E.; Ursinus, A.; Alva, V.; Hartmann, M.; Lupas, A.: Structural diversity of oligomeric β-propellers with different numbers of identical blades. eLife 8, e49853 (2019)

Brault, M.; Petit, J.; Immel, F.; Nicolas, W.; Glavier, M.; Brocard, L.; Gaston, A.; Fouché, M.; Hawkins, T.; Crowet, J.-M. et al.; Grison, M.; Germain, V.; Rocher, M.; Kraner, M.; Alva, V.; Claverol, S.; Paterlini, A.; Helariutta, Y.; Deleu, M.; Lins, L.; Tilsner, J.; Bayer, E.: Multiple C2 domains and transmembrane region proteins (MCTPs) tether membranes at plasmodesmata. EMBO Reports 20 (8), e47182 (2019)

Ludwiczak, J.; Winski, A.; Szczepaniak , A.; Alva, V.; Dunin-Horkawicz, S.: DeepCoil: a fast and accurate prediction of coiled-coil domains in protein sequences. Bioinformatics 35 (16), pp. 2790 - 2795 (2019)

Alva, V.; Lupas, A.: Histones Predate the Split Between Bacteria and Archaea. Bioinformatics 35 (14), pp. 2349 - 2353 (2019)

Ludwiczak, J.; Winski, A.; Marinho da Silva Neto, A.; Szczepaniak, K.; Alva, V.; Dunin-Horkawicz, S.: PiPred: a deep-learning method for prediction of π-helices in protein sequences. Scientific Reports 9, 6888 (2019)

Zimmermann, L.; Stephens, A.; Nam, S.-Z.; Rau, D.; Kübler, J.; Lozajic, M.; Gabler, F.; Söding, J.; Lupas, A.; Alva, V.: A Completely Reimplemented MPI Bioinformatics Toolkit with a New HHpred Server at its Core. Journal of Molecular Biology 430 (15), pp. 2237 - 2243 (2018)

Alvarez-Carreño, C.; Alva, V.; Becerra, A.; Lazcano, A.: Structure, function and evolution of the hemerythrin-like domain superfamily. Protein Science 27 (4), pp. 848 - 860 (2018)

Sgromo, A.; Raisch, T.; Backhaus, C.; Keskeny, C.; Alva, V.; Weichenrieder, O.; Izaurralde, E.: Drosophila Bag-of-marbles directly interacts with the CAF40 subunit of the CCR4-NOT complex to elicit repression of mRNA targets. RNA-A Publication of the RNA Society 24 (3), pp. 381 - 395 (2018)

Alva, V.; Lupas, A.: From ancestral peptides to designed proteins. Current Opinion in Structural Biology 48, pp. 103 - 109 (2018)

Michalik, M.; Orwick-Rydmark, M.; Habeck, M.; Alva, V.; Arnold, T.; Linke, D.: An evolutionarily conserved glycine-tyrosine motif forms a folding core in outer membrane proteins. PLoS One 12 (8), e0182016 (2017)

Fuchs, A.; Alva, V.; Maldoner, L.; Albrecht, R.; Hartmann, M.; Martin, J.: The Architecture of the Anbu Complex Reflects an Evolutionary Intermediate at the Origin of the Proteasome System. Structure 25 (6), pp. 834 - 845 (2017)

Lupas, A.; Alva, V.: Ribosomal proteins as documents of the transition from unstructured (poly)peptides to folded proteins. Journal of Structural Biology 198 (2), pp. 74 - 81 (2017)

Alva, V.; Lupas, A.: The TULIP superfamily of eukaryotic lipid-binding proteins as a mediator of lipid sensing and transport. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: BBA 1861 (8 Part B), pp. 913 - 923 (2016)

Alva, V.; Nam, S.-Z.; Söding, J.; Lupas, A.: The MPI bioinformatics Toolkit as an integrative platform for advanced protein sequence and structure analysis. Nucleic Acids Research (London) 44 (W1), pp. W410 - W415 (2016)

Hu, Y.; Schwab, S.; Escudeiro, P.; van Heesch, T.; Vreede, J.; Hartmann, M.; Lupas, A.; Dame, R.; Alva, V.; Hernandez Alvarez, B.: Bacterial histone HBb from Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus compacts DNA by bending. In Molecular Origins of LIFE, p. 59. Molecular Origins of LIFE (MOM 2024), München, Germany, July 19, 2024 - July 20, 2024. (2024)

Alva, V.: On the Structure and Evolution of Prokaryotic Surface-Layer Proteins. In Protein Evolution Meeting Münster, p. 18. Protein Evolution Meeting Münster (PEMM 2023), Münster, Germany, July 03, 2023 - July 05, 2023. (2023)

Alva, V.: Protein Sequence Analysis Using the MPI Bioinformatics Toolkit. In 8th Alpbach Workshop: Coiled Coil, Fibrous and Repeat Proteins, p. 9. 8th Alpbach Workshop: Coiled Coil, Fibrous and Repeat Proteins , Alpbach, Austria, September 04, 2022 - September 09, 2022. (2022)