PUBLICACIONES/PUBLICATIONS
  1. Padrón, R., Alamo, L. Review: The use of negative staining and cryo-electron microscopy to understand the molecular mechanism of myosin-linked regulation of striated muscle contraction.
    Acta Microscópica, 13(1y2):14-29, 2004 (published in 2007)
  2. Woodhead, J., Zhao, F., Craig, R., Egelman, E., Alamo, L. & Padrón, R. Atomic model of a myosin filament in the relaxed state.
    Nature 436: 1195-1199 , 2005.
  3. Zoghbi, M. E., Woodhead, J., Craig, R. y Padrón, R. Helical order in tarantula thick filaments requires the closed conformation of the myosin head.
    J. Mol. Biol. 342: 1223-1236, 2004.(Artículo completo)
  4. Craig, R. y Padrón, R. "Molecular Structure of the Sarcomere. Capitulo 7. Libro de texto "Myology" (Editores A. G. Engel y C. Franzini-Armstrong), Tercera edición. McGraw-Hill, Inc., Nueva York. 2004. (Revision por invitación) (Artículo completo)
  5. Ramírez, C. D. y Padrón R. Cardiomiopatía hipertrófica familiar: genes, mutaciones y modelos animales.
    Investigación Clinica: 45(1): 69-100, 2004.
  6. Luther, P.K. , Padrón, R., Ritter, S, Craig, R. y Squire, J. M. Heterogeneity of Z-band structure within a single muscle sarcomere: Implications for sarcomere assembly.
    J. Mol. Biol. 332: 161-169, 2003.
  7. Hidalgo, C., Padrón, R., Horowitz, R., Zhao, F. y Craig, R. Purification of native myosin filaments from muscle.
    Biophys. J. 81: 2817-2826, 2001.
  8. Hidalgo, C., Craig, R., Ikebe, M. y Padrón, R. Mechanism of phosphorylation of the regulatory light chain of myosin from tarantula striated muscle.
    J. Muscle Res. Cell Motil. 22. 51-59, 2001.
  9. G. Offer, P. J. Knight, S. A. Burgess,  L. Alamo & R. Padrón. A New Model for the Surface Arrangement of Myosin Molecules in Tarantula Thick Filaments.
    J. Mol. Biol. 298(2): 239-260, 2000    . (Artículo completo)
  10. Padrón, R.; Alamo, L.; Murgich, J. & Craig, R. Towards an atomic model of the thick filament of muscle.
     J. Mol. Biol. 275: 35-41, 1998.
  11.  Mateu, L.; Moran, O.; Padrón, R., Borgo, M., Vonasek, E., Marquez, V. y Luzzati, V.  The action of local anesthetics on myelin structure and nerve conduction in toad sciatic nerve.
    Biophys. J.: 70: 2581-2587, 1997.
  12. San-Blas, G.; Padrón, R.; Alamo, L. y San-Blas, F. Use of morphology index histograms to quantify populations of the fungal pathogen Paracoccidioides brasiliensis.
    Microbiology 143:  197-202, 1997.     (Artículo completo)
  13. Padrón, R., Alamo, L., Guerrero, J. R., Granados, M., Uman, P. & Craig, R. (1995) Three-dimensional reconstruction of thick filaments from rapidly frozen, freeze-substituted tarantula muscle.
    J. Struct. Biol. 115(3): 250-257.
  14. Padrón, R., Guerrero, J. R., Alamo, L., Granados, M., Gherbesi, N. & Craig, R. (1993) Direct determination of tarantula myosin filament symmetry by rapid freezing.
    J. Struct. Biol. 111: 17-21.
  15. Craig, R., Alamo, L. & Padrón, R. (1992) Structure of the myosin filaments of relaxed and rigor striated vertebrate muscle studied by rapid freezing electron microscopy. J. Mol. Biol. 228: 474-487.
  16. Padrón, R.; Granados, M.; Alamo, L.; Guerrero, J. R. y Craig, R. (1992) Visualization of myosin helices in sections of rapidly frozen relaxed tarantula muscle.
    J. Struct. Biol. 108: 269-276.
  17. Craig, R., Padrón, R. & Alamo, L. (1991) Direct determination of myosin filament symmetry in scallop striated adductor muscle by rapid freezing and freeze-substitution.
    J. Mol. Biol. 220: 125-132.
  18. Padrón, R., Pante, N., Sosa, H. & Kendrick-Jones, J. (1991) X-ray diffraction study of the structural changes accompanying phosphorylation of tarantula muscle.
    J. Muscle Res. Cell Motil. 12: 235-241.
  19. Padrón, R. & Craig, R. (1989) Disorder induced in non-overlap myosin crossbridges by loss of adenosine triphosphate.
    Biophys. J. 56: 927-933.
  20. Padrón, R., Alamo, L. Craig, R. y Caputo, C. (1988) A method for quick freezing live muscles at known instants during contraction with simultaneous recording of mechanical tension.
    J. Microsc. (Oxford) 151: 81-102.
  21. Craig, R., Padrón, R. & Kendrick-Jones (1987) Structural changes accompanying phosphorylation of tarantula muscle thick filaments.
    J. Cell. Biol. 105: 1319-1327.
  22. Crowther, R.A.; Padrón, R. & Craig, R. (1985) The arrangement of the heads of myosin in relaxed thick filaments from Tarantula muscle.
    J. Mol. Biol. 184: 429-439.
  23. Padrón, R. & Huxley, H.E. (1984) The effect of the ATP analogue AMPPNP on the structure of crossbridges in vertebrate skeletal muscle: X-ray diffraction and mechanical studies.
    J. Muscle Res. Cell. Motil 5: 613-655.
  24. Egelman, E.H. & Padrón, R.(1984) X-ray diffraction evidence that actin is a 100 Å filament.
    Nature 307: 56-58.
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