Dª MarÃa Lourdes GÓmez GÓmez
Professor
Department of Pharmacy
Castilla La Mancha University
Spain
Biography
She was born in Albacete in 1969. She holds a degree in Biological Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Valencia (1992) and PhD in Biology from the University of Valencia (1996). He held his postdoctoral stay (1997-2001) in the laboratory of Prof. Thomas Boller at the Friedrich Miescher Institut (Basel, Switzerland) working on the immune system of plants. Contracted Ramón y Cajal at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in 2003. She is currently a full professor since 2010 at this university. It develops its research tasks in the secondary metabolism of plants and in the characterization of bioactive compounds of vegetal origin in the Botanical Institute of the UCLM.
Research Interest
Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy.
Publications
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Trapero A, Ahrazem O, Rubio-Moraga A, Jimeno ML, Gómez MD, Gómez-Gómez L. Characterization of a glucosyltransferase enzyme involved in the formation of kaempferol and quercetin sophorosides in Crocus sativus. Plant physiology. 2012 Aug 1;159(4):1335-54.
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Rubio A, Rambla JL, Santaella M, Gómez MD, Orzaez D, Granell A, Gómez-Gómez L. Cytosolic and plastoglobule-targeted carotenoid dioxygenases from Crocus sativus are both involved in β-ionone release. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2008 Sep 5;283(36):24816-25.
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Asai T, Tena G, Plotnikova J, Willmann MR, Chiu WL, Gomez-Gomez L, Boller T, Ausubel FM, Sheen J. MAP kinase signalling cascade in Arabidopsis innate immunity. Nature. 2002 Feb 28;415(6875):977-83.
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Gómez-Gómez L, Boller T. FLS2: an LRR receptor–like kinase involved in the perception of the bacterial elicitor flagellin in Arabidopsis. Molecular cell. 2000 Jun 1;5(6):1003-11.
