• Analysis of CRISPR systems of types II-A, I-E and I-C in strains of Lacticaseibacillus 

      Pujato, Silvina A.; Galliani, Valentina; Irazoqui, Jose Matias; Amadio, Ariel; Quiberoni, Andrea; Mercanti, Diego (Elsevier, 2021-07)
      A total of 49 strains of Lacticaseibacillus were screened for the presence of CRISPR-Cas systems. Type II-A CRISPR-Cas loci were sequenced for 8 Lacticaseibacillus paracasei and 3 Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus strains. They ...
    • Cost-Effective Method to Perform SARS-CoV-2 Variant Surveillance: Detection of Alpha, Gamma, Lambda, Delta, Epsilon, and Zeta in Argentina 

      Torres, Carolina; Mojsiejczuk, Laura; Acuña, Dolores; Alexay, Sofía; Amadio, Ariel; Aulicino, Paula; Debat, Humberto Julio; Fay, Fabián; Fernandez, Franco Daniel; Giri, Adriana A.; Goya, Stephanie; Konig, Guido Alberto; Lucero, Horacio; Nabaes Jodar, Mercedes; Pianciola, Luis; Sfalcin, Javier A.; Acevedo, Raúl M.; Bengoa Luoni, Sofía Ailin; Bolatti, Elisa M.; Brusés, Bettina; Cacciabue, Marco Polo Domingo; Casal, Pablo E.; Cerri, Agustina; Chouhy, Diego; Dus Santos, Maria Jose; Eberhardt, María Florencia; Fernandez, Ailen; Fernandez, Paula Del Carmen; Fernández Do Porto, Darío; Formichelli, Laura; Gismondi, María Inés; Irazoqui, Jose Matias; Lorenzini Campos, Melina; Lusso, Silvina; Marquez, Nathalie; Muñoz Hidalgo, Marianne Graziel; Mussin, Javier; Natale, Mónica; Oria, Griselda; Pisano, María Belén; Posner, Victoria; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Viegas, Mariana (Frontiers Media, 2021-12-10)
      The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with concerning characteristics to public health has attracted the attention of the scientific community and governments both regionally and globally since the end of 2020. The most ...
    • Design and evaluation of synthetic bacterial consortia for optimized phenanthrene degradation through the integration of genomics and shotgun proteomics 

      Macchi, Marianela; Festa, Sabrina; Nieto, Esteban; Irazoqui, Jose Matias; Vega-Vela, Nelson E.; Junca, Howard; Valacco, María Pía; Amadio, Ariel; Morelli, Irma S.; Coppotelli, Bibiana M. (Elsevier, 2021-03)
      Two synthetic bacterial consortia (SC) composed of bacterial strains Sphingobium sp. (AM), Klebsiella aerogenes (B), Pseudomonas sp. (Bc-h and T), Burkholderia sp. (Bk) and Inquilinus limosus (Inq) isolated from a natural ...
    • Dissecting light sensing and metabolic pathways on the millimeter scale in high-altitude modern stromatolites 

      Alonso-Reyes, Daniel Gonzalo; Galván, Fátima Silvina; Irazoqui, Jose Matias; Amadio, Ariel; Tschoeke, Diogo; Thompson, Fabiano; Albarracín, Virginia Helena; Farias, María Eugenia (Springer, 2022-10)
      Modern non-lithifying stromatolites on the shore of the volcanic lake Socompa (SST) in the Puna are affected by several extreme conditions. The present study assesses for the first time light utilization and functional ...
    • Genomic analysis of shiga toxin-containing Escherichia coli O157:H7 isolated from Argentinean cattle 

      Amadio, Ariel; Bono, James L.; Irazoqui, Jose Matias; Larzabal, Mariano; Marques Da Silva, Wanderson; Eberhardt, María Florencia; Riviere, Nahuel Agustin; Gally, David; Manning, Shannon D.; Cataldi, Angel Adrian (Plos, 2021-10)
      Cattle are the main reservoir of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), with O157:H7 the distinctive serotype. EHEC is the main causative agent of a severe systemic disease, Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS). Argentina ...
    • Identification of key microorganisms in facultative stabilization ponds from dairy industries, using metagenomics 

      Irazoqui, Jose Matias; Eberhardt, María Florencia; Adjad, Maria Mercedes; Amadio, Ariel (PeerJ Publishing, 2022-03-14)
      Wastewater stabilization ponds are a natural form of wastewater treatment. Their low operation and maintenance costs have made them popular, especially in developing countries. In these systems, effluents are retained for ...
    • Omicron Waves in Argentina: Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Lineages BA.1, BA.2 and the Emerging BA.2.12.1 and BA.4/BA.5 

      Torres, Carolina; Nabaes Jodar, Mercedes; Acuña, Dolores; Zambrana Montaño, Romina Micaela; Culasso, Andrés Carlos Alberto; Amadio, Ariel; Aulicino, Paula; Ceballos, Santiago; Cacciabue, Marco Polo Domingo; Debat, Humberto Julio; Dus Santos, Maria Jose; Eberhardt, María Florencia; Espul, Carlos; Fay, Fabián; Fernández, María Ailén; Fernandez, Franco Daniel; Fernandez Muñoz, Juan Manuel; Ferrini, Florencia; Gallego, Fernando; Giri, Adriana Angélica; Cerri, Agustina; Bolatti, Elisa; Gismondi, Maria Ines; Goya, Stephanie; Gramundi, Iván; Irazoqui, Jose Matias; Konig, Guido Alberto; Leiva, Viviana; Lucero, Horacio; Marquez, Nathalie; Nardi, Cristina; Ortiz, Belén; Pianciola, Luis; Pintos, Carolina Beatriz; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Rastellini, Carolina Victoria; Rojas, Alejandro Ezequiel; Sfalcin, Javier; Suárez, Ariel; Tittarelli, Estefanía; Toro, Rosana; Villanova, Gabriela Vanina; Ziehm, María Cecilia; Zimmermann, María Carla; Zunino, Sebastián; Proyecto PAIS Working Group; Valinotto, Laura; Viegas, Mariana (MDPI, 2023-01-22)
      The COVID-19 pandemic has lately been driven by Omicron. This work aimed to study the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages during the third and fourth waves of COVID-19 in Argentina. Molecular surveillance was performed ...
    • Protective Role of Limosilactobacillus fermentum Lf2 and Its Exopolysaccharides (EPS) in a TNBS-Induced Chronic Colitis Mouse Model 

      Ale, Elisa C.; Irazoqui, Jose Matias; Ale, Analia; Peralta, Guillermo H.; Puntillo, Melisa; Burns, Patricia Graciela; Correa Olivar, Gabriela; Cazenave, Jimena; Bergamini, Carina Viviana; Amadio, Ariel; Binetti, Ana (MDPI, 2024-01)
      Limosilactobacillus fermentum Lf2 (Lf2) is an autochthonous strain that produces high levels of exopolysaccharides (EPS). The objective of this work was to evaluate the probiotic potential of Lf2 and its relationship with ...
    • Reconstruction and characterization of full-length begomovirus and alphasatellite genomes infecting pepper through metagenomics 

      Bornancini, Veronica Andrea; Irazoqui, Jose Matias; Flores, Ceferino Rene; Vaghi Medina, Carlos Gaston; Amadio, Ariel; Lopez Lambertini, Paola Maria (MDPI, 2020-02)
      In northwestern Argentina (NWA), pepper crops are threatened by the emergence of begomoviruses due to the spread of its vector, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius). The genus Begomovirus includes pathogens that can have a monopartite ...
    • Ruminal effects of excessive dietary sulphur in feedlot cattle 

      Castro, Damian Jesus Nahuel; Ceron Cucchi, Maria Esperanza; Ortiz Chura, Abimael; Depetris, Gustavo; Irazoqui, Jose Matias; Amadio, Ariel; Cravero, Silvio Lorenzo Pedro; Canton, German Jose (Wiley, 2021-10-27)
      Sulphur (S) dietary excess can limit productive performance and increase polioencephalomalacia (PEM) incidence in feedlot cattle (FC). Sulphur excess ingested is transformed to hydrogen sulphide (H2S) by sulfo-reducing ...
    • Secuenciación genómica y análisis del genotipo argentino de soja convencional "INTA-FICA 5C k/lx [Glycine max (L.) Merr ] 

      Fumero, María Verónica; Bernardi, Clarisa Noelia; Garis, Sol Belén; Lenzi, Lisandro German; Amadio, Ariel; Irazoqui, Jose Matias; Cappuccio, Javier Alejandro; Soldini, Diego Omar; Vanzetti, Leonardo Sebastian (Centro Regional Córdoba, INTA, 2023-08-29)
      La soja es un paleopoliploide y múltiples fuerzas evolutivas han dado fuerza a su genoma actual. En los últimos años se han publicado múltiples ensamblados genómicos tanto para genotipos cultivados como silvestres que han ...
    • The Lambda Variant in Argentina: Analyzing the Evolution and Spread of SARS-CoV-2 Lineage C.37 

      Nabaes Jodar, Mercedes Soledad; Torres, Carolina; Mojsiejczuk, Laura; Acuña, Dolores; Valinotto, Laura Elena; Goya, Stephanie; Natale, Monica; Lusso, Silvina; Alexay, Sofia; Amadio, Ariel; Irazoqui, Jose Matias; Fernandez, Franco Daniel; Acevedo, Maria Elina; Alvarez Lopez, Cristina; Angelletti, Andres; Aulicino, Paula; Bolatti, Elisa; Brusés, Bettina; Cacciabue, Marco Polo Domingo; Cavatorta, Ana; Cerri, Agustina; Cordero, Andres; Debat, Humberto Julio; Dus Santos, Maria Jose; Eberhardt, María Florencia; Ercole, Regina; Espul, Carlos; Farber, Marisa Diana; Fay, Fabián; Fernandez, Ailen; Ferrini, Florencia; Formichelli, Laura; Ceballos, Santiago; Gallego, Fernando; Giri, Adriana; Gismondi, Maria Ines; Acevedo, Raul Maximiliano; Gramundi, Ivan; Ibañez, María Eugenia; Konig, Guido Alberto; Leiva, Viviana; Lorenzini Campos, Melina; Lucero, Horacio; Marquez, Nathalie; Mazzeo, Melina; Mistchenko, Alicia Susana; Montoto, Luciana; Muñoz Hidalgo, Marianne Graziel; Nadalich, Victoria; Nardi, Cristina; Ortiz, Belén; Pianciola, Luis; Pintos, Carolina; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Rastellini, Carolina; Rojas, Alejandro Ezequiel; Sfalcin, Javier; Suarez, Ariel; Theaux, Clara; Thomas, Guillermo; Tittarelli, Estefania; Toro, Rosana; Villanova, Vanina; Wenk, Gretel; Ziehm, Cecilia; Zimmermann, Maria Carla; Zunino, Sebastian; Proyecto PAIS; Viegas, Mariana (MDPI, 2023-06-16)
      The second wave of COVID-19 occurred in South America in early 2021 and was mainly driven by Gamma and Lambda variants. In this study, we aimed to describe the emergence and local genomic diversity of the SARS-CoV-2 Lambda ...
    • β-Galactosidases from a Sequence-Based Metagenome: Cloning, Expression, Purification and Characterization 

      Eberhardt, María Florencia; Irazoqui, Jose Matias; Amadio, Ariel (MDPI, 2021)
      Stabilization ponds are a common treatment technology for wastewater generated by dairy industries. Large proportions of cheese whey are thrown into these ponds, creating an environmental problem because of the large volume ...