Publications
_{Protein Bioinformatics}

Bharat, T.; Tocheva, E.; Alva, V.: The cell envelope architecture of Deinococcus: HPI forms the S-layer and SlpA tethers the outer membrane to peptidoglycan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120 (51), e2305338120 (2023)

Kaminski, K.; Ludwiczak, J.; Pawlicki, K.; Alva, V.; Dunin-Horkawicz, S.: pLM-BLAST: distant homology detection based on direct comparison of sequence representations from protein language models. Bioinformatics 39 (10), btad579 (2023)

Zibat, A.; Zhang, X.; Dickmanns, A.; Stegmann, K.; Dobbelstein, A.; Alachram, H.; Soliwoda, R.; Salinas, G.; Görlich, D.; Kschischo, M. et al.; Wollnik, B.; Dobbelstein, M.: N4-hydroxycytidine, the active compound of Molnupiravir, promotes SARS-CoV-2 mutagenesis and escape from a neutralizing nanobody. iScience 26 (10), 107786 (2023)

Böhning, J.; Dobbelstein, A.; Sulkowski, N.; Eilers, K.; von Kügelgen, A.; Tarafder, A.; Peak-Chew, S.-Y.; Skehel, M.; Alva, V.; Filloux, A. et al.; Bharat, T.: Architecture of the biofilm-associated archaic Chaperone-Usher pilus CupE from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. PLoS Pathogens 19 (4), e1011177 (2023)

von Kügelgen, A.; van Dorst, S.; Yamashita, K.; Sexton, D.; Tocheva, E.; Murshudov, G.; Alva, V.; Bharat, T.: Interdigitated immunoglobulin arrays form the hyperstable surface layer of the extremophilic bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120 (16), e2215808120 (2023)

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.: Molecular Logic of Prokaryotic Surface Layers. Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series (DSSS): Max-Planck-Campus , Tübingen, Germany (2023)

Hu, Y.; Deiss, S.; Joiner, J.; Hartmann, M.; Lupas, A.; Hernandez Alvarez, B.; Alva, V.: Atomic resolution structure of a DNA-binding histone protein from the bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. (submitted)