Rafael Molina

CV

Current position 

2018-              Associate Professor at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (CPR). University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen (DK)    

Previous positions 

2016-2017       Senior Postdoctoral Scientist at Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Madrid (ES)

2010-2015       Postdoctoral Scientist at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO). Madrid (ES)

2007-2009       Associated Consultant Scientist in REPSOL energy company. Madrid (ES)

2003-2006       PhD in Structural Molecular Biology at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid (ES); and at the Institute for Structural Biology (IBS), Grenoble (FR)

Kort præsentation

Structure of Csx1-cOA₄ complex reveals the basis of RNA decay in Type III-B CRISPR-Cas. Molina, Rafael*; Stella, Stefano*; Feng, Mingxia*; Sofos, Nicholas; Jauniskis, Vykintas; Pozdnyakova, Irina; López-Méndez, Blanca; She, Qunxin; Montoya, Guillermo. Nature Communications, Vol. 10, No. 4302, 20.09.2019, p. 1-14.

Conformational Dynamics in Penicillin-Binding Protein 2a of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Allosteric Communication Network and Enablement of Catalysis. Mahasenan, Kiran V; Molina, Rafael; Bouley, Renee; Batuecas, María T; Fisher, Jed F; Hermoso, Juan A; Chang, Mayland; Mobashery, Shahriar. Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 139, No. 5, 08.02.2017, p. 2102-2110.

Visualizing phosphodiester-bond hydrolysis by an endonuclease. Molina, Rafael^*; Stella, Stefano^*; Redondo, Pilar; Gomez, Hansel; Marcaida, María José; Orozco, Modesto; Prieto, Jesús; Montoya, Guillermo. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, Vol. 22, No. 1, 01.2015, p. 65-72.

Non-specific protein-DNA interactions control I-CreI target binding and cleavage. Molina, Rafael; Redondo, Pilar; Stella, Stefano; Marenchino, Marco; D'Abramo, Marco; Gervasio, Francesco Luigi; Charles Epinat, Jean; Valton, Julien; Grizot, Silvestre; Duchateau, Phillipe; Prieto, Jesús; Montoya, Guillermo. Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 40, No. 14, 01.08.2012, p. 6936-6945.

Crystal structure of CbpF, a bifunctional choline-binding protein and autolysis regulator from Streptococcus pneumoniae. Molina, Rafael; González, Ana; Stelter, Meike; Pérez-Dorado, Inmaculada; Kahn, Richard; Morales, María; Moscoso, Miriam; Campuzano, Susana; Campillo, Nuria E; Mobashery, Shahriar; García, José L; García, Pedro; Hermoso, Juan A. EMBO Reports, Vol. 10, No. 3, 03.2009, p. 246-51.