Vascular Biology and Drug Development
Posdoctoral Researcher, Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh University, Pittsburgh, PA, EEUU. Area of research: drug development for inflammation-related diseases (2006-2007).
Posdoctoral fellow, Center for Free Radical Biology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, EEUU. Area of research: Free Radical Biolog y Inflammatories Mediators (2004-2006).
Ph.D in Biochemistry, Faculty of Science (Udelar) and Pedeciba, Uruguay. Disertation: “Inflammatory oxidants and atherosclerosis: role of nitric oxide-derived species” (2005).
MSc. in Biochemistry, Faculty of Science (Udelar), Pedeciba, Uruguay. Disertación: “Aminoacid sequence and three-dimensional structure of the T4 specific isolectin B4 of Vicia villosa” (1997).
Medical Doctor (MD), Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de la República, Uruguay (1996).
Vascular biology
Drug development
Inflammation-related diseases
Pharmacology
Transgenesis
Atherosclerosis
Batthyany, C., Souza JM, Durán R, Cassina A, Cerveñansky C and Radi R. Time course and site(s) of cytochrome c tyrosine nitration by peroxynitrite. Biochemistry 44, 8038-8046, 2005.
Batthyany, C., Schopfer, F. J., Baker, P. R., Duran, R., Baker, L. M., Huang, Y., Cervenansky, C., Branchaud, B. P., and Freeman, B. A. Reversible post-translational modification of proteins by nitrated fatty acids in vivo. J Biol Chem 281, 20450-63, 2006.
Batthyany, C., Kelley, E. E., Hundley, N. J., Woodcock, S. R., Bonacci, G., Del Rio, J. M., Schopfer, F. J., Lancaster, J. R., Jr., Freeman, B. A., and Tarpey, M. M. Nitro-oleic acid, a novel and irreversible inhibitor of xanthine oxidoreductase. J Biol Chem 283, 36176-84, 2008 (co-first author).
Schopfer, F. J., Batthyany, C., Baker, P. R., Bonacci, G., Cole, M. P., Rudolph, V., Groeger, A. L., Rudolph, T. K., Nadtochiy, S., Brookes, P. S., and Freeman, B. A. Detection and quantification of protein adduction by electrophilic fatty acids: mitochondrial generation of fatty acid nitroalkene derivatives. Free Radic Biol Med 46, 1250-9, 2009.
Khoo, N. K., Rudolph, V., Cole, M. P., Golin-Bisello, F., Schopfer, F. J., Woodcock, S. R., Batthyány, C. & Freeman, B. A. Activation of vascular endothelial nitric oxide synthase and heme oxygenase-1 expression by electrophilic nitro-fatty acids. Free radical biology & medicine 48, 230-239, doi:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2009.10.046 (2010).
Bonacci, G., Schopfer, F. J., Batthyány, C., Rudolph, T. K., Rudolph, V., Khoo, N. K., Kelley, E. E. & Freeman, B. A. Electrophilic fatty acids regulate matrix metalloproteinase activity and expression. The Journal of biological chemistry 286, 16074-16081, doi:10.1074/jbc.M111.225029 (2011).
Gil, M., Grana, M., Schopfer, F. J., Wagner, T., Denicola, A., Freeman, B. A., Alzari, P. M., Batthyány, C. & Duran, R. Inhibition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis PknG by non-catalytic rubredoxin domain specific modification: reaction of an electrophilic nitro-fatty acid with the Fe-S center. Free radical biology & medicine 65, 150-161, doi:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2013.06.021 (2013).
Batthyány, C., Bartesaghi, S., Mastrogiovanni, M., Lima, A., Demicheli, V. & Radi, R. Tyrosine-Nitrated Proteins: Proteomic and Bioanalytical Aspects. Antioxidants & redox signaling, doi:10.1089/ars.2016.6787 (2016).
