Editorial Board
Otavio Augusto Chaves Master in Chemistry (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro); Licenciado e Bacharel em Química (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro); Licenciado em Química (Universidade de Coimbra)
Professor, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropedica, RJ · Brazil
Editorial leadership for International Journal of Amino Acids
Research interests
- Serum Albumin
- Spectroscopy
- Molecular Modelling
Biography
- MSc Otavio Augusto Chaves was born in Sao Paulo-Brazil (1992) and nowadays he is Professor of the Department of Chemistry at Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ-Brazil).
- He obtained his Master of Science degree in Chemistry at UFRRJ and he obtained his double graduation in Chemistry at UFRRJ and University of Coimbra (UC-Portugal).
- He has scientific collaborations with national and international research groups (IME, USP, UFRJ, INMETRO, UERJ, UFRN, UENF, UFSM, UC and Ahalia School of Pharmacy).
- His research focus is centered on the interaction between commercial and potential drugs with serum albumins by spectroscopic analysis (UV-Vis absorption, circular dichroism, STD-NMR, zeta potential, FTIR-ATR, steady-state, time-resolved, 3D and synchronous fluorescence) and computational methods (molecular docking, molecular dynamics and semi-empirical calculations), as well as the determination of photophysics and photochemistry properties of synthetic compounds.
Selected publications
- Interaction of Two Commercial Azobenzene Food Dyes, Amaranth and New Coccine, with Human Serum Albumin: Biophysical Characterization 2023 cited 59×
- Combination of antiviral drugs inhibits SARS-CoV-2 polymerase and exonuclease and demonstrates COVID-19 therapeutic potential in viral cell culture 2022 cited 56×
- Commercially Available Flavonols Are Better SARS-CoV-2 Inhibitors than Isoflavone and Flavones 2022 cited 47×
- Atazanavir Is a Competitive Inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro, Impairing Variants Replication In Vitro and In Vivo 2021 cited 36×
- Profiling the Interaction between Human Serum Albumin and Clinically Relevant HIV Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors 2024 cited 36×
- Biophysical Characterization of the Interaction between a Transport Human Plasma Protein and the 5,10,15,20-Tetra(pyridine-4-yl)porphyrin 2022 cited 34×
Ranked by citation impact (Crossref) where available, newest otherwise · verified via ORCID.
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