Ernesto Raul Caffarena

@portal.fiocruz.br

Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Biophysics, Structural Biology, Drug Discovery
2526

Scholar Citations

25

Scholar h-index

49

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Structural and dynamic properties of guanosine-analog binding to 2′-deoxyguanosine-II riboswitch: a computational study
    D Antunes, LHS Santos, ER Caffarena, ACR Guimarães
    Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 43 (17), 9654-9675 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 3
  • Long‐Term Impact of the Largest Environmental Disaster in Latin America (Fundão Dam Failure) on Microbial Communities in Lakes of the Doce River Basin, Brazil
    P Almeida, A Torres, M Gomes, E Caffarena, H Jesus, P Pereira, ...
    Environmental Microbiology 27 (9), e70171 , 2025
    2025
  • The Extended N-Terminal Domain of VPAC1 Isoform 2 Acts as a Self-inhibitory Element: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations
    MH Reis, D Antunes, IBS Martins, ER Caffarena
    Brazilian Congress on Bioinformatics, 74-89 , 2025
    2025
  • Free Energy Perturbation and Free-Energy Calculations Applied to Drug Design
    D Antunes, LH Santos, ACR Guimarães, ER Caffarena
    Computer-Aided and Machine Learning-Driven Drug Design: From Theory to … , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 3
  • Genome-Wide Exploration of Thiamin Pyrophosphate Riboswitches in Medically Relevant Fungi Reveals Diverse Distribution and Implications for Antimicrobial Drug Targeting
    V Vargas-Junior, ACR Guimarães, ER Caffarena, D Antunes
    ACS omega 9 (51), 50134-50146 , 2024
    2024
  • Riboswitches as Antimicrobial Targets
    V Vargas-Junior, E Caffarena, D Antunes
    Structure-Based Drug Design, 81-108 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • Structural Characterization of Heat Shock Protein 90β and Molecular Interactions with Geldanamycin and Ritonavir: A Computational Study
    CR Lima, D Antunes, E Caffarena, N Carels
    International Journal of Molecular Sciences 25 (16), 8782 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 4
  • Exploring Novel Antimalarial Compounds Targeting Plasmodium falciparum Enoyl-ACP Reductase: Computational and Experimental Insights
    G AR Oliveira, B GDV Morales, R MO Sousa, S S Pereira, D Antunes, ...
    ACS omega 9 (21), 22777-22793 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 6
  • PACAP key interactions with PAC1, VPAC1, and VPAC2 identified by molecular dynamics simulations
    FATP Meireles, D Antunes, JR Temerozo, DC Bou-Habib, ER Caffarena
    Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 42 (6), 3128-3144 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 4
  • Thermostabilizing mechanisms of canonical single amino acid substitutions at a GH1 β‐glucosidase probed by multiple MD and computational approaches
    REO Rocha, DCB Mariano, TS Almeida, LS CorrêaCosta, PHC Fischer, ...
    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 91 (2), 218-236 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 8
  • In silico investigation of riboswitches in fungi: structural and dynamical insights into TPP riboswitches in Aspergillus oryzae
    V Vargas-Junior, D Antunes, AC Guimarães, E Caffarena
    RNA biology 19 (1), 90-103 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 10
  • pH and non-covalent ligand binding modulate Zika virus NS2B/NS3 protease binding site residues: Discoveries from MD and constant pH MD simulations
    LH Santos, ER Caffarena, RS Ferreira
    Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 40 (20), 10359-10372 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 5
  • Combining network-based and matrix factorization to predict novel drug-target interactions: a case study using the brazilian natural chemical database
    RS Martins, MF da Costa Gomes, ER Caffarena
    Current Bioinformatics 17 (9), 793-803 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 2
  • RASopathy cohort of patients enrolled in a Brazilian reference center for rare diseases: a novel familial LZTR1 variant and recurrent mutations
    NC Rabelo, ME Gomes, I de Oliveira Moraes, JC Pfisterer, GL de Morais, ...
    The Application of Clinical Genetics 15, 153 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 10
  • Differences in Charge Distribution in Leishmania tarentolae Leishmanolysin Result in a Reduced Enzymatic Activity
    V Ennes-Vidal, D Antunes, E Poláková, V Yurchenko, SSC Oliveira, ...
    International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23 (14), 7660 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 4
  • Development of New Potential Inhibitors of β1 Integrins through In Silico Methods—Screening and Computational Validation
    D Vasconcelos, B Chaves, A Albuquerque, L Andrade, A Henriques, ...
    Life 12 (7), 932 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 6
  • Bacterial 2′-deoxyguanosine riboswitch classes as potential targets for antibiotics: a structure and dynamics study
    D Antunes, LHS Santos, ER Caffarena, ACR Guimarães
    International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23 (4), 1925 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 10
  • RASopathy cohort of patients enrolled in a Brazilian reference center for rare diseases: a novel familial LZTR1 variant and recurrent mutations
    RN Chaves, ME Gomes, I de Oliveira Moraes, PJ Cantagalli, ...
    The Application of Clinical Genetics 15, 153 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 2
  • RASopathy cohort of patients enrolled in a Brazilian reference center for rare diseases: a novel familial LZTR1 variant and recurrent mutations
    N Chaves Rabelo, ME Gomes, I de Oliveira Moraes, J Cantagalli Pfisterer, ...
    The Application of Clinical Genetics, 153-170 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 6
  • How does alpha 1 Histidine102 affect the binding of modulators to alpha 1 beta 2 gamma 2 GABA A receptors? molecular insights from in silico experiments
    M Julia Amundarain, ER Caffarena, M Daniel Costabel
    PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS 23 (6), 3993-4006 , 2021
    2021

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Boosting docking-based virtual screening with deep learning
    JC Pereira, ER Caffarena, CN Dos Santos
    Journal of chemical information and modeling 56 (12), 2495-2506 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 452
  • Integrating molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations
    LHS Santos, RS Ferreira, ER Caffarena
    Docking screens for drug discovery, 13-34 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 343
  • Elastic properties, Young's modulus determination and structural stability of the tropocollagen molecule: a computational study by steered molecular dynamics
    AC Lorenzo, ER Caffarena
    Journal of biomechanics 38 (7), 1527-1533 , 2005
    2005
    Citations: 204
  • Evaluation of 7-arylaminopyrazolo [1, 5-a] pyrimidines as anti-Plasmodium falciparum, antimalarial, and Pf-dihydroorotate dehydrogenase inhibitors
    LFSP Azeredo, JP Coutinho, VAP Jabor, PR Feliciano, MC Nonato, ...
    European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 126, 72-83 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 92
  • Toll-like receptor 1 N248S single-nucleotide polymorphism is associated with leprosy risk and regulates immune activation during mycobacterial infection
    C de Sales Marques, VN Brito-de-Souza, LTA Guerreiro, JH Martins, ...
    The Journal of infectious diseases 208 (1), 120-129 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 72
  • Hydrogen Bonding of carboxylic acids in aqueous solutions—UV spectroscopy, viscosity, and molecular simulation of acetic acid
    G Ruderman, ER Caffarena, IG Mogilner, EJ Tolosa
    Journal of solution chemistry 27 (10), 935-948 , 1998
    1998
    Citations: 68
  • Genomic and structural features of the yellow fever virus from the 2016–2017 Brazilian outbreak
    MM Gómez, FVS Abreu, AAC Santos, IS Mello, MP Santos, IP Ribeiro, ...
    Journal of General Virology 99 (4), 536-548 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 66
  • Caracterização do envelhecimento populacional no município do Rio de Janeiro: contribuições para políticas públicas sustentáveis
    DSB Alves, MTS Barbosa, ER Caffarena, AS Silva
    Cadernos Saúde Coletiva 24, 63-69 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 57
  • Epoxy-α-Lapachone Has In Vitro and In Vivo Anti-Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis Effects and Inhibits Serine Proteinase Activity in This Parasite
    F Souza-Silva, SC Bourguignon, BAS Pereira, LMC Côrtes, ...
    Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 59 (4), 1910-1918 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 48
  • In silico analysis of the V66M variant of human BDNF in psychiatric disorders: An approach to precision medicine
    CCS De Oliveira, GRC Pereira, JYS De Alcantara, D Antunes, ...
    Plos one 14 (4), e0215508 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 47
  • Glass transition in aqueous solutions of glucose. Molecular dynamics simulation
    ER Caffarena, JR Grigera
    Carbohydrate research 300 (1), 51-57 , 1997
    1997
    Citations: 47
  • Using RNA sequence and structure for the prediction of riboswitch aptamer: a comprehensive review of available software and tools
    D Antunes, NAN Jorge, ER Caffarena, F Passetti
    Frontiers in genetics 8, 231 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 44
  • Naturally occurring genetic variants of human caspase‐1 differ considerably in structure and the ability to activate interleukin‐1β
    H Luksch, MJ Romanowski, O Chara, V Tüngler, ER Caffarena, ...
    Human mutation 34 (1), 122-131 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 44
  • Structural and molecular modeling features of P2X receptors
    LA Alves, JHM Da Silva, DNM Ferreira, AA Fidalgo-Neto, PCN Teixeira, ...
    International journal of molecular sciences 15 (3), 4531-4549 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 43
  • Hydration of glucose in the rubbery and glassy states studied by molecular dynamics simulation
    ER Caffarena, JR Grigera
    Carbohydrate research 315 (1-2), 63-69 , 1999
    1999
    Citations: 42
  • Computational drug design strategies applied to the modelling of human immunodeficiency virus-1 reverse transcriptase inhibitors
    LH Santos, RS Ferreira, ER Caffarena
    Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 110 (7), 847-864 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 41
  • On the hydrogen bond structure of water at different densities
    ER Caffarena, JR Grigera
    Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 342 (1-2), 34-39 , 2004
    2004
    Citations: 40
  • Understanding structure–activity relationships for trypanosomal cysteine protease inhibitors by simulations and free energy calculations
    LH Santos, BJ Waldner, JE Fuchs, GAN Pereira, KR Liedl, ER Caffarena, ...
    Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 59 (1), 137-148 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 37
  • Synthesis, antimalarial evaluation and molecular modeling studies of hydroxyethylpiperazines, potential aspartyl protease inhibitors, part 2
    W Cunico, CRB Gomes, V Facchinetti, M Moreth, C Penido, ...
    European journal of medicinal chemistry 44 (9), 3816-3820 , 2009
    2009
    Citations: 37
  • Computational modeling of the bHLH domain of the transcription factor TWIST1 and R118C, S144R and K145E mutants
    AM Maia, JHM da Silva, AL Mencalha, ER Caffarena, E Abdelhay
    BMC bioinformatics 13 (1), 184 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 33