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Victor Muñoz

Victor Muñoz
Associate Professor

vmunoz@umd.edu
phone: 301.405.1828
fax: 301.314.9121

Muñoz Group
Maryland Biophysics Program

Chem. and Biochem. web site

Research Summary

Biophysical Chemistry; Protein Folding and Design; Protein Engineering; Misfolding, Aggregation and Conformational Diseases (e.g. Alzheimer); Thermodynamics and Kinetics; Fluorescence, Circular Dichroism, NMR spectroscopy and Laser Spectroscopy; Statistical Mechanics and Computational Biology (Structure Prediction)

Recent Publications

M. Sadqi, F. Hernandez, U. Pan, M. Perez, M. Schaeberle, J. Avila & V. Muñoz (2002) alpha-helix structure in Alzheimer disease aggregates of tau protein. Biochemistry. 41, 7150-7155.

M. M. Garcia-Mira, M. Sadqi, N. Fisher, J.M. Sanchez-Ruiz & V. Muñoz (2002) Experimental Identification of Downhill Protein Folding. Science. 298, 2191-2195.

M. Sadqi, L. J. Lapidus & V. Muñoz. (2003) How fast is protein hydrophobic collapse? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 100, 12117-12122.

F. Y. Oliva & V. Muñoz (2004) A simple thermodynamic test to discriminate between two-state and downhill folding. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 126, 8596-8597.

 

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