Mayra Pineda Torres

About

I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, NBER Faculty Research Fellow, and IZA Research Affiliate. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University in May 2022. My research interests lie at the intersection of health economics, labor economics, and gender economics. I am mainly concerned with topics related to women's and teens' welfare. My current body of work studies the health and economic impacts of access to reproductive healthcare.

Research topics

• Biochemistry
• Biology
• Computational biology
• Chemistry
• Cell biology
• Organic chemistry
• Bioinformatics

Selected publications

• Sod1 integrates oxygen availability to redox regulate NADPH production and the thiol redoxome

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2021 · 80 citations

  is important for antioxidant defense and a master regulator of metabolism and the thiol redoxome.

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• Competition between inside-out unfolding and pathogenic aggregation in an amyloid-forming β-propeller

  Nature Communications · 2024-01-02 · 13 citations

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  Abstract Studies of folded-to-misfolded transitions using model protein systems reveal a range of unfolding needed for exposure of amyloid-prone regions for subsequent fibrillization. Here, we probe the relationship between unfolding and aggregation for glaucoma-associated myocilin. Mutations within the olfactomedin domain of myocilin (OLF) cause a gain-of-function, namely cytotoxic intracellular aggregation, which hastens disease progression. Aggregation by wild-type OLF (OLF WT ) competes with…

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• Strain-dependent glutathionylation of fibronectin fibers impacts mechano-chemical behavior and primes an integrin switch

  Nature Communications · 2024-10-09 · 12 citations

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  The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a protein polymer network that physically supports cells within a tissue. It acts as an important physical and biochemical stimulus directing cell behaviors. For fibronectin (Fn), a predominant component of the ECM, these physical and biochemical activities are inextricably linked as physical forces trigger conformational changes that impact its biochemical activity. Here, we analyze whether oxidative post-translational modifications, specifically glutathionylat…

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• The Integration of Proteome-Wide PTM Data with Protein Structural and Sequence Features Identifies Phosphorylations that Mediate 14-3-3 Interactions

  Journal of Molecular Biology · 2022 · 11 citations

  14-3-3s are abundant proteins that regulate essentially all aspects of cell biology, including cell cycle, motility, metabolism, and cell death. 14-3-3s work by docking to phosphorylated Ser/Thr residues on a large network of client proteins and modulating client protein function in a variety of ways. In recent years, aided by improvements in proteomics, the discovery of 14-3-3 client proteins has far outpaced our ability to understand the biological impact of individual 14-3-3 interactions. The…

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• Depletion assisted hemin affinity (DAsHA) proteomics reveals an expanded landscape of heme-binding proteins in the human proteome

  Metallomics · 2023 · 9 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Heme b (iron protoporphyrin IX) plays important roles in biology as a metallocofactor and signaling molecule. However, the targets of heme signaling and the network of proteins that mediate the exchange of heme from sites of synthesis or uptake to heme dependent or regulated proteins are poorly understood. Herein, we describe a quantitative mass spectrometry (MS)-based chemoproteomics strategy to identify exchange labile hemoproteins in human embryonic kidney HEK293 cells that may be relevant to…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R00GM094533

  NIH · $484k · 2016

• NIH Grant R00GM09453303

  NIH · $249k · 2015

• NIH Grant R01GM112662

  NIH · $2.7M · 2020

Frequent coauthors

• Christoph H. Borchers

  McGill University

  17 shared

• Shilpa Choudhury

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  16 shared

• Henrik Dohlman

  12 shared

• Amit R. Reddi

  12 shared

• Hyojung Kim

  Kyung Hee University

  12 shared

• Henry Dewhurst

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  12 shared

• Nolan English

  Quantitative BioSciences

  11 shared

• Xinya Su

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  10 shared

Labs

• Mayra Pineda Torres LabPI

Education

• Ph.D., Economics

  Texas A&M University

  2022

• B.A.

  Banco de Mexico

Awards & honors

• 2025 IAC Faculty Excellence in Research Award
• 2023 Carole Joffe and Stanley Henshaw Early Achievement in S…
• 2020 IWPR Doctoral Fellow in Economics & Reproductive Health

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