Publications

Roberto Avendaño, Nefertiti Chaves, Paola Fuentes, Ethel Sánchez, Jose I Jiménez, Max Chavarría*. Production of selenium nanoparticles in Pseudomonas putida KT2440. Scientific Reports. (2016) 6: 37155.

Pablo I Nikel, Max Chavarría, Antoine Danchin & Víctor de Lorenzo. From dirt to industrial applications: Pseudomonas putida as a Synthetic Biology chassis for hosting harsh biochemical reactions. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. (2016) 34: 20-29.

Max Chavarría, Bruno Lomonte, José María Gutiérrez, Edgardo Moreno, Alice L Pérez, Why are Latin American countries in the limbo of open-access scientific publications?, Science and Public Policy, Volume 52, Issue 2, April 2025, Pages 317–320, https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scae073

Timmis, K., Baquero, F., Lal, R., Amorim, L.R.P., Nikel, P.I., Kaur, J., Sood, U., Lata, P., Singh, S., Robinson, J.M., Chavarria, M., Verstraete, W., Bernal, P., Banciu, H., Steward, K., Frey, J., Danchin, A., Karnkowska, A., Kotsyurbenko, O., Pereira, C.S., Boyd, E.S., Hallsworth, J.E., Nunes, O., Udaondo, Z., Huang, W., Wang, Y., Karahan, Z.C., Junier, P., Ron, E. and Ramos, J.L. (2025), Scientists' Warning to Humanity: The Need to Begin Teaching Critical and Systems Thinking Early in Life. Microb. Biotechnol., 18: e70270. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70270

Max Chavarría, Ángel Goñi-Moreno, Víctor de Lorenzo, Pablo I Nikel. A Metabolic Widget Adjusts the Phosphoenolpyruvate Dependent Fructose Influx in Pseudomonas putida. mSystems. (2016) 1, 6: e00154-16.

A. David Páez-Espino, Max Chavarría & Víctor de Lorenzo. The two paralog phoN (phosphinothricin acetyl transferase) genes of Pseudomonas putida encode functionally different proteins. Environ. Microbiol. (2015) 17(9):3330-3340.

Pablo I. Nikel & Max Chavarría. Quantitative physiology approaches to understand and optimize reducing power availability in environmental bacteria. T.J. McGenity et al. (eds.), Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology Protocols, Springer Protocols Handbooks, DOI 10.1007/8623_2015_84, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg (2015).

M. Deuschle, S. Limbrunner, D. Rother, S. Wahler, M. Chavarría, V. de Lorenzo, A. Kremling and K. Pflüger-Grau. Interplay of the PtsN (EIIA Ntr ) protein of Pseudomonas putida with its target sensor kinase KdpD. Environ. Microbiol. Rep. (2015) 6:899-907.

Pablo Ivan Nikel, Max Chavarría, Tobias Fuhrer, Uwe Sauer & Victor de Lorenzo. Pseudomonas putida KT2440 Metabolizes Glucose Through a Cycle Formed by Enzymes of the Entner-Doudoroff, Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas, and Pentose Phosphate Pathways. Journal of Biological Chemistry. (2015) 290 (43):25920-25932.

Max Chavarría, Gonzalo Durante, Tino Krell, César Santiago, Jan Brezovsky, Jiri Damborsky & Victor de Lorenzo. Fructose 1-Phosphate is the one and only physiological effector of the Cra (FruR) regulator of Pseudomonas putida. FEBS Open Bio. (2014) 4: 377–386.

Esteban Martínez-García, Pablo I. Nikel, Max Chavarría, and Víctor de Lorenzo. The metabolic cost of flagellar motion in Pseudomonas putida KT2440. Environ. Microbiol. (2014) 16 (1): 291-303.

Jose I. Jiménez, Danilo Perez-Pantoja, Max Chavarría, Eduardo Díaz and Víctor de Lorenzo. A second chromosomal copy of the catA gene endows Pseudomonas putida mt-2 with an enzymatic safety valve for excess of catechol. Environ. Microbiol. (2014) 16 (6):1767-78.