Helena Ostolaza
Lecturer
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Biofisika Basque Centre for Biophysics
Spain
Biography
Helena Ostolaza earned her BS and MS in Biology in 1987 from the University of Basque Country and the PhD in 1992 from the University of Basque Country. She began as Lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Basque Country, in 1997 and since 1999 she is Associate Professor.
Research Interest
Her research has been focused on membrane-acting toxins, particularly in two toxins from the RTX (Repeats in Toxin) family, alpha-hemolysin from Escherichia coli and adenylate cyclase from Bordetella pertussis
Publications
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Etxebarria A, Benito-Vicente A, Alves AC, Ostolaza H, Bourbon M, Martin C. Advantages and versatility of fluorescence-based methodology to characterize the functionality of LDLR and class mutation assignment. PloS one. 2014 Nov 11;9(11):e112677.
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Etxebarria A, Benitoâ€Vicente A, Palacios L, Stef M, Cenarro A, Civeira F, Ostolaza H, Martin C. Functional Characterization and Classification of Frequent Lowâ€Density Lipoprotein Receptor Variants. Human mutation. 2015 Jan 1;36(1):129-41.
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Etxebarria A, Benito-Vicente A, Stef M, Ostolaza H, Palacios L, Martin C. Activity-associated effect of LDL receptor missense variants located in the cysteine-rich repeats. Atherosclerosis. 2015 Feb 28;238(2):304-12.
