Francisco Jose Blanco is a structural biologist

Structural biology

Structural biology is a branch of molecular biology, biochemistry, and biophysics concerned with the molecular structure of biological macromolecules, especially proteins and nucleic acids, how they acquire the structures they have, and how alterations in their structures affect their function...

 working as Group Leader at the Centro de investigación Cooperativa en biociencias CIC bioGUNE. His research utilizes Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy to characterize [protein structure] and protein folding

Protein folding

Protein folding is the process by which a protein structure assumes its functional shape or conformation. It is the physical process by which a polypeptide folds into its characteristic and functional three-dimensional structure from random coil....

. His major contributions to the field of protein folding

Protein folding

Protein folding is the process by which a protein structure assumes its functional shape or conformation. It is the physical process by which a polypeptide folds into its characteristic and functional three-dimensional structure from random coil....

 include the study of the formation and stability of isolated β-hairpin

Beta hairpin

The beta hairpin structural motif is the simplest protein motif involving two beta strands that look like a hairpin. The motif consists of two strands that are adjacent in primary structure oriented in an antiparallel arrangement and linked by a short loop of two to five amino acids...

 structures, and the analysis of the folding pathway of the SH3 domain from the α-spectrin protein. His 68 structural biology papers listed in Web of Science

Web of Science

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 have been cited over 2500 times, giving him an h-index

H-index

The h-index is an index that attempts to measure both the productivity and impact of the published work of a scientist or scholar. The index is based on the set of the scientist's most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications...

of 27,.

External links

• http://www.cicbiogune.es/secciones/investigacion/ficha_laboratorio.php?idioma=en&unidad=5&subgrupo=28&subseccion=unidades_investigacion by Francisco Blanco