Bioenergetics is the major topic of my research: structure of membrane proteins involved in energy conservation and energy transformation; mechanism of energy conservation; structure/function relationships in oxidative and photosynthetic energy conversion. Mitochondrial bc₁ complex, bacterial F_oF₁-ATPase and chloroplast pigment-binding proteins are some of the systems I'm interested in.  
My work is based on the complementarity between biochemical, biophysical, structural/molecular modeling and engineering approaches to the study of biological mechanism. Knowledge of the structure of the target protein and the ability to assay the functional consequences of specific mutagenesis make it possible to explore the mechanism of catalysis at the molecular level. Alternatively, prediction of membrane topology and construction of a structural model (based on sequence homology and functional analogy with other proteins) are utilised for the design of biochemical and mutational experiments.
Sequence omology and functional analogy has been utilized for a new research line on the role played by lipids and lipid exchange in the pro-apoptotic casacade at the mitochondrial level.

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