Dr. Andrés Vera Gómez

Office089/2180-77547 (Frau Steger)
Telephone089/2180-77537
RoomE1.003
E-mailAndres.Vera-Gomez”at”cup.lmu.de
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I did my PhD in the Cajal Institute (Madrid, Spain), where I used AFM-based Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy to study the mechanical properties of proteins and protein complexes (1.). Afterward, I was granted with a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship and move to Germany and join the lab of Professor Tinnefeld, where I learnt to master Single-Molecule FRET techniques (2.) and made myself familiar with the versatility of DNA-nanotechnology (3.).

Nowadays, I am the leader of the Single-Molecule biophysics subgroup in the Tinnefeld Lab, where I focus my energy on understanding the regulation and dynamics of multi-enzymatic bacterial protein complexes (4.,5.). Besides, I have recently developed a new technology to generate light-activated DNA and RNA polymerases on demand, which can be used for biotechnological applications and we are certain will revolutionize the qPCR and Hot start PCR field.

Publications

Zhaowei Liu, Haipei Liu; Andrés M. Vera; Byeongseon Yang; Philip Tinnefeld; Michael A. Nash

Engineering an artificial catch bond using mechanical anisotropy Journal Article

In: Nature Communications, 2024.

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Rosa Antón; Miguel Á. Treviño; David Pantoja-Uceda; Sara Félix; María Babu; Eurico J. Cabrita; Markus Zweckstetter; Philip Tinnefeld; Andrés M. Vera; Javier Oroz

Alternative low-populated conformations prompt phase transitions in polyalanine repeat expansions Journal Article

In: Nature Communications, 2024.

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A simple and general approach to generate photoactivatable DNA processing enzymes

Merve-Zeynep Kesici; Philip Tinnefeld; Andrés Manuel Vera

A simple and general approach to generate photoactivatable DNA processing enzymes Journal Article

In: Nucleic Acids Res, 2021, ISSN: 1362-4962.

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Cohesin-dockerin code in cellulosomal dual binding modes and its allosteric regulation by proline isomerization

Andrés Manuel Vera; Albert Galera-Prat; Michał Wojciechowski; Bartosz Różycki; Douglas V. Laurents; Mariano Carrión-Vázquez; Marek Cieplak; Philip Tinnefeld

Cohesin-dockerin code in cellulosomal dual binding modes and its allosteric regulation by proline isomerization Journal Article

In: Structure, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 587–597.e8, 2021.

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Andrés Manuel Vera; Philip Tinnefeld

Single-Molecule Approved Surface Passivation Journal Article

In: Structure, vol. 28, no. 12, pp. 1269–1270, 2020.

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Zhaowei Liu; Haipei Liu; Andrés M. Vera; Rafael C. Bernardi; Philip Tinnefeld; Michael A. Nash

High force catch bond mechanism of bacterial adhesion in the human gut Journal Article

In: Nature Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, 2020.

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Kevin Kramm; Tim Schröder; Jerome Gouge; Andrés Manuel Vera; Kapil Gupta; Florian B. Heiss; Tim Liedl; Christoph Engel; Imre Berger; Alessandro Vannini; Philip Tinnefeld; Dina Grohmann

DNA origami-based single-molecule force spectroscopy elucidates RNA Polymerase III pre-initiation complex stability Journal Article

In: Nature Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, 2020.

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Björn Hellenkamp; Sonja Schmid; Olga Doroshenko; Oleg Opanasyuk; Ralf Kühnemuth; Soheila Rezaei Adariani; Benjamin Ambrose; Mikayel Aznauryan; Anders Barth; Victoria Birkedal; Mark E. Bowen; Hongtao Chen; Thorben Cordes; Tobias Eilert; Carel Fijen; Christian Gebhardt; Markus Götz; Giorgos Gouridis; Enrico Gratton; Taekjip Ha; Pengyu Hao; Christian A. Hanke; Andreas Hartmann; Jelle Hendrix; Lasse L. Hildebrandt; Verena Hirschfeld; Johannes Hohlbein; Boyang Hua; Christian G. Hübner; Eleni Kallis; Achillefs N. Kapanidis; Jae-Yeol Kim; Georg Krainer; Don C. Lamb; Nam Ki Lee; Edward A. Lemke; Brié Levesque; Marcia Levitus; James J. McCann; Nikolaus Naredi-Rainer; Daniel Nettels; Thuy Ngo; Ruoyi Qiu; Nicole C. Robb; Carlheinz Röcker; Hugo Sanabria; Michael Schlierf; Tim Schröder; Benjamin Schuler; Henning Seidel; Lisa Streit; Johann Thurn; Philip Tinnefeld; Swati Tyagi; Niels Vandenberk; Andrés Manuel Vera; Keith R. Weninger; Bettina Wünsch; Inna S. Yanez-Orozco; Jens Michaelis; Claus A. M. Seidel; Timothy D. Craggs; Thorsten Hugel

Precision and accuracy of single-molecule FRET measurements—a multi-laboratory benchmark study Journal Article

In: Nature Methods, vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 669–676, 2018.

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  • A. M. Vera*, M. Carrión-Vázquez, Direct Identification of Protein–Protein Interactions by Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 55, 13970-13973 (2016).
  • A. M. Vera* et al., smFRET Detects Dual Binding Modes Modulated by Proline Isomerization in a Mega-Dalton Multi-Enzyme Complex. 2019.2012.2019.882373 (2019).

*corresponding author