Publications
_{Protein Bioinformatics}

Curtis, Z.; Escudeiro, P.; Mallon, J.; Leland, O.; Rados , T.; Dodge, A.; Andre, K.; Kwak, J.; Yun, K.; Issac, B. et al.; Martinez Pastor, M.; Schmid, A.; Pohlschroder, M.; Alva, V.; Bisson, A.: Halofilins as Emerging Bactofilin Families of Archaeal Cell Shape Plasticity Orchestrators. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121 (40), e2401583121 (2024)

Schwab, S.; Hu, Y.; van Erp, B.; Kajili, M.; Hartmann, M.; Hernandez-Alvarez, B.; Alva, V.; Boyle, A.; Dame, R.: Histones and histone variant families in prokaryotes. Nature Communications 15 (1), 7950 (2024)

Hu, Y.; Schwab, S.; Deiss, S.; Escudeiro, P.; van Heesch, T.; Joiner, J.; Vreede, J.; Hartmann, M.; Lupas, A.; Hernandez Alvarez, B. et al.; Alva, V.; Dame, R.: Bacterial histone HBb from Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus compacts DNA by bending. Nucleic Acids Research 52 (14), gkae485, pp. 8193 - 8204 (2024)

Selim, K.; Alva, V.: PII-like signaling proteins: a new paradigm in orchestrating cellular homeostasis. Current Opinion in Microbiology 79, 102453 (2024)

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)

Sleutel, M.; Sonani, R.; Miller, J.; Wang, F.; Gonzalez Socorro, A.; Chen, Y.; Martin, R.; Demeler, B.; Rudolph, M.; Alva, V. et al.; Remaut, H.; Egelman, E.; Conticello, V.: Donor Strand Complementation and Calcium Ion Coordination Drive the Chaperone-free Polymerization of Archaeal Cannulae. (submitted)

Samir, S.; Elshereef, A.; Alva, V.; Hahn, J.; Dubnau, D.; Galperin, M.; Selim, K.: ComFB, a new widespread family of c-di-NMP receptor proteins. (submitted)

Johnson, E.; Isbilir, B.; Alva, V.; Bharat, T.; Doye, J.: Punctuated and continuous structural diversity of S-layers across the prokaryotic tree of life. (submitted)