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Publications
 

2000-2006
 
  • Valente FMA, Almeida CC, Pacheco I, Carita J, Saraiva LM and Pereira IAC (2006) Selenium is involved in regulation of periplasmatic hydrogenases gene expression in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough. J. Bac., in press
  • Gonçalves VL, Nobre LS, Vicente JB, Teixeira M and Saraiva LM (2006) Flavohemoglobin requires microaerophylic conditions for nitrosative protection of Staphylococcus aureus. FEMS letters, in press
  • Justino MC, Almeida CC, Gonçalves VL, Teixeira M, Saraiva LM (2006) YtfE is a di-iron protein with an important function in assembly of iron-sulphur clusters. FEMS letters, in press
  • Messias AC, Aguiar AP, Brennan L, Salgueiro CA, Saraiva LM, Xavier AV, Turner DL (2006) Solution structures of tetrahaem ferricytochrome c3 from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough and its K45Q mutant: the molecular basis of cooperativity. Biochim Biophys Acta, in press
  • Henriques BJ, Saraiva LM, Gomes CM (2006) Combined spectroscopic and calorimetric characterization of rubredoxin reversible thermal transition. J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 11:73-81
  • Melo AM, Lobo SA, Sousa FL, Fernandes AS, Pereira MM, Hreggvidsson GO, Kristjansson JK, Saraiva LM, Teixeira M (2005) A nhaD Na+/H+ antiporter and a pcd homologues are among the Rhodothermus marinus complex I genes. Biochim Biophys Acta,1709 (1):95-103
  • Henriques BJ, Saraiva LM, Gomes CM (2005) Probing the mechanism of rubredoxin thermal unfolding in the absence of salt bridges by temperature jump experiments. Biochem Biophys Res Commun., 333(3):839-44
  • Rodrigues JV, Abreu IA, Saraiva LM, Teixeira M. (2005) Rubredoxin acts as an electron donor for neelaredoxin in Archaeoglobus fulgidus. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 329(4):1300-5
  • Justino M.C., Gonçalves V.M.M. and Saraiva L.M. (2005) Binding of NorR to three DNA sites is essential for promoter activation of the flavorubredoxin gene, the nitric oxide reductase of Escherichia coli. Biochem Biophys Res Commun., 328(2):540-4
  • Justino M.C., Vicente J.B., Teixeira M., Saraiva L.M., (2005) New genes implicated in the protection of anaerobically grown Escherichia coli against nitric oxide. J. Biol. Chem. 280(4): 2636–2643.
  • Srinivasan V, Rajendran C, Sousa FL, Melo AM, Saraiva LM, Pereira MM, Santana M, Teixeira M, Michel H., (2005) Structure at 1.3A resolution of Rhodothermus marinus caa3 cytochrome c domain. J. Mol. Biol. 345(5):1047-57
  • Correia, I.J., Paquete, C.M., Coelho, A., Almeida, C.C., Catarino, T., Louro, R.O., Frazão, C., Saraiva, L.M., Carrondo, M.A., Turner, D.L., Xavier, A.V. (2004) Proton assisted two electron transfer in natural variants of tetraheme cytochromes from Desulfomicrobium sp. J. Biol. Chem. 279, 52227 - 52237
  • Saraiva, L.M., Vicente, J.B. and Teixeira, M. (2004) The role of the flavodiiron proteins in microbial nitric oxide detoxification. Advances in Microbial Physiology, 49, 77-129
  • Bento, I., Matias, P.M., Baptista, A.M., Costa, P.N., van Dongen, W.M.A.M., Saraiva, L.M., Schneider, T.R., Soares, C.M., Carrondo, M.A. (2004) Molecular basis for redox-Bohr and cooperative effects in cytochrome c3 from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774: crystallographic and modelling studies of oxidised and reduced high resolution structures at pH 7.6 Proteins, 54, 135-52
  • Miramar, M.D., Inda, L.A., Saraiva, L.M. and Peleato, M.L. (2003) Plastocyanin/cytochrome c6 interchange in Scenedesmus vacuolatus. Journal Plant Physiology, 160, 1-4
  • Pires, R.H., Lourenço, A.I., Morais, F., Teixeira, M., Xavier, A.V., Saraiva, L.M. and Pereira, I.A.C. (2003) A novel membrane-bound respiratory complex from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774. Biochem. Biophys. Acta, 1605, 67-82
  • Aragão, D., Macedo, S., Mitchell, E.P., Romão, C.V., Liu, M.Y., Frazão, C., Saraiva, L.M., Xavier, A.V., LeGal, J., Van Dogen, W.M.W., Hagen, W.R., Teixeira, M., Carrondo, M.A. and Lindley P. (2003) Reduced Hybrid Cluster (HCP) from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774 and Desulfovibrio vulgaris (Hildenborough). X-Ray structures at High Resolution using Synchrotron Radiation. J. Inorg. Biol. Chem., 8, 540-548
  • Costa, P.N., Teixeira, M. and Saraiva, L.M. (2003) Regulation of the flavorubredoxin nitric oxide reductase gene in Escherichia coli: nitrate repression, nitrite induction and possible post-transcriptional control. FEMS Lett., 218, 385-393
  • Abreu, I.A., Lourenço, A.I., Xavier, A.V., LeGall, J., Coelho, A.V., Matias, P.M., Pinto, D.M., Carrondo, M.A., Teixeira, M. and Saraiva, L.M. (2003) A novel iron centre in the Split-Soret cytochrome c from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774. J. Inorg. Biol. Chem., 8, 360-370
  • Pereira, M.M., Jones, K.L., Campos, M.G., Melo, A.M.P., Saraiva, L.M., Louro, R.O., Wittung-Stafshede, P. and Texeira M. (2002) A ferredoxin from the thermohalophilic bacterium Rhodothermus marinus. Biochem. Biophys. Acta, 1601, 1-8
  • Gomes, C.M., Giuffrè, A., Forte, E., Vicente, J.B., Saraiva, L.M., Brunori, M. and Teixeira, M. (2002) A novel type of nitric oxide reductase: Escherichia coli flavorubredoxin. J. Biol. Chem., 277, 25273-25276
  • Valente, F.M.A., Saraiva, L.M., LeGall, J., Xavier, A.V., Teixeira, M. and Pereira, I.A.C. ( 2001) A membrane-bound cytochrome c3-Type II cytochrome c3 from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough. Biochem., 2, 895-905
  • Abreu, I.A., Saraiva, L.M., Teixeira, M. and Cabelli, D.E. (2001) The mecanism of superoxide scavenging by Archaeoglobus fulgidus neelaredoxin. J. Biol. Chem., 276, 38995-39001
  • Salgueiro, C.A., da Costa, P.N., Messias, A.C., LeGall, J., van Dongen, W.M.A.M., Turner, D., Saraiva, L.M. and Xavier, A.V. (2001) Effect of hydrogen bond networks in controlling redox potencials in Desulfovibrio vulgaris (Hildenborough) cytochrome c3 probed by site specific mutagenesis. Biochemistry, 40, 9709-9716
  • Saraiva, L.M., da Costa, P.N., Conte, C., Xavier, A.V. and LeGall, J. (2001) In the facultative sulfate/nitrate reducer Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774 the nine-heme cytochrome c is part os a membrane-bound redox complex mainly involved in the sulfate respiration. Biochem. Biophys. Acta, 1520, 1-8
  • Costa, P.N., Romão, C.V., LeGall, J., Xavier, A.V., Melo, E., Teixeira, M. and Saraiva L.M. (2001) The genetic organisation of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans bacterioferritin and rubredoxin genes: involvement of rubredoxin in the iron metabolism. Mol. Microbiol., 41, 217-227
  • Miramar, M.D., Costantini, P., Ravagnan, L., Saraiva, L.M., Haouzi, D., Brothers, G., Penninger, J.M., Peleato, M.L., Kroemer, G. and Susin, S.A. (2001) NADH-oxidase activity of mitochondrial apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF). J. Biol. Chem., 276, 16391-16398
  • Matias, P.M., Soares, C.M., Saraiva, L.M., Coelho, R., Morais, J., LeGall, J., and Carrondo, M.A. (2001) [NiFe] hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774: gene sequencing, three-dimensional structure determination and refinement at 1.8A and modelling studies of its interaction with the tetrahaem cutochrome c3. J. Biol. Inorg. Chem., 6, 63-81
  • Abreu, I.A., Saraiva, L.M., Carita, J., Huber, H., Stetter, K.O., Cabelli, D. and Teixeira, M. (2000) Oxygen detoxification in the strict anaerobic archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus: superoxide scavenging by neelaredoxin. Mol. Microbiol., 38, 322-334
  • da Costa, P.N., Marujo, P., van Dongen, W.M.A., Arraiano, C. and Saraiva, L.M. (2000) Cloning, sequencing and expression of the tetrahemic cytochrome c3 from Desulfovibrio gigas. Biochem. Biophys. Acta, 1492, 271-275
  • da Costa, P.N., Conte, C. and Saraiva, L.M. (2000) Expression of a Desulfovibrio Tetraheme cytochrome c in Escherichia coli. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 268, 688-691

 

 

 

 
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