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List of works by Sónia Troeira Henriques

A novel quantitative kinase assay using bacterial surface display and flow cytometry

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Anticancer and toxic properties of cyclotides are dependent on phosphatidylethanolamine phospholipid targeting

scientific article

Bacteria May Cope Differently from Similar Membrane Damage Caused by the Australian Tree Frog Antimicrobial Peptide Maculatin 1.1.

scientific article published on 22 June 2015

Cell Membrane Composition Drives Selectivity and Toxicity of Designed Cyclic Helix-Loop-Helix Peptides with Cell Penetrating and Tumor Suppressor Properties

scientific article published on 21 August 2019

Cell-penetrating peptides and antimicrobial peptides: how different are they?

scientific article published on October 2006

Characterization of Tachyplesin Peptides and Their Cyclized Analogues to Improve Antimicrobial and Anticancer Properties ⬇️

scientific article published on 26 August 2019

Computer-Aided Design of Mastoparan-like Peptides Enables the Generation of Nontoxic Variants with Extended Antibacterial Properties

scientific article published on 26 August 2019

Cyclic Analogues of Horseshoe Crab Peptide Tachyplesin I with Anticancer and Cell Penetrating Properties

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

Cyclotide Structure and Function: The Role of Membrane Binding and Permeation

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

Cyclotide isolation and characterization

scientific article

Cyclotides as templates in drug design

scientific article published on 28 October 2009

Decoding the membrane activity of the cyclotide kalata B1: the importance of phosphatidylethanolamine phospholipids and lipid organization on hemolytic and anti-HIV activities

scientific article

Defense Peptides Engineered from Human Platelet Factor 4 Kill Plasmodium by Selective Membrane Disruption

scientific article published on 19 July 2018

Design and characterization of novel antimicrobial peptides, R-BP100 and RW-BP100, with activity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria.

scientific article

Design of substrate-based BCR-ABL kinase inhibitors using the cyclotide scaffold

scientific article

Development of a μO-Conotoxin Analogue with Improved Lipid Membrane Interactions and Potency for the Analgesic Sodium Channel NaV1.8.

scientific article published on 29 March 2016

Development of cell-penetrating peptide-based drug leads to inhibit MDMX:p53 and MDM2:p53 interactions

scientific article published on 10 June 2016

Discovery and mechanistic studies of cytotoxic cyclotides from the medicinal herb Hybanthus enneaspermus

scientific article published on 15 May 2020

Discovery of Peptide Drugs from Natural Sources

Editorial Overview

scientific article published on 01 June 2017

Environmental factors that enhance the action of the cell penetrating peptide pep-1 A spectroscopic study using lipidic vesicles

scientific article published on 5 March 2005

Fast membrane association is a crucial factor in the peptide pep-1 translocation mechanism: a kinetic study followed by surface plasmon resonance

scientific article published in January 2010

Gating modifier toxin interactions with ion channels and lipid bilayers: Is the trimolecular complex real?

scientific article published on 08 April 2017

How to address CPP and AMP translocation? Methods to detect and quantify peptide internalization in vitro and in vivo (Review).

scientific article

Identification and characterization of a new family of cell-penetrating peptides: cyclic cell-penetrating peptides

scientific article

Identification of survival-promoting OSIP108 peptide variants and their internalization in human cells

scientific article published in August 2016

Identification, Characterization, and Three-Dimensional Structure of the Novel Circular Bacteriocin, Enterocin NKR-5-3B, from Enterococcus faecium

scientific article

Importance of the cell membrane on the mechanism of action of cyclotides

scientific article published on 03 February 2012

Interaction of Tarantula Venom Peptide ProTx-II with Lipid Membranes Is a Prerequisite for Its Inhibition of Human Voltage-gated Sodium Channel NaV1.7.

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

Is PrP(106-126) fragment involved in the membrane activity of the Prion protein?

scientific article published on August 2010

Is the Mirror Image a True Reflection? Intrinsic Membrane Chirality Modulates Peptide Binding

scientific article published on 10 December 2019

Kalata B1 and Kalata B2 Have a Surfactant-Like Activity in Phosphatidylethanolomine-Containing Lipid Membranes

scientific article

Lysine to arginine mutagenesis of chlorotoxin enhances its cellular uptake

scientific article published on 29 April 2017

Lysine-rich Cyclotides: A New Subclass of Circular Knotted Proteins from Violaceae

scientific article published on 31 August 2015

Mirror Images of Antimicrobial Peptides Provide Reflections on Their Functions and Amyloidogenic Properties

scientific article

NMR and protein structure in drug design: application to cyclotides and conotoxins

scientific article

New Potent Membrane-Targeting Antibacterial Peptides from Viral Capsid Proteins

scientific article published on 4 May 2017

Optimization of the cyclotide framework to improve cell penetration properties

scientific article

Orientation and Location of the Cyclotide Kalata B1 in Lipid Bilayers Revealed by Solid-State NMR.

scientific article

Peptide-Membrane Interactions Affect the Inhibitory Potency and Selectivity of Spider Toxins ProTx-II and GpTx-1

scientific article published on 21 December 2018

Phosphatidylethanolamine binding is a conserved feature of cyclotide-membrane interactions

scientific article

PrP(106-126) does not interact with membranes under physiological conditions

scientific article

Putative role of membranes in the HIV fusion inhibitor enfuvirtide mode of action at the molecular level

scientific article published on January 2004

Re-evaluating the role of strongly charged sequences in amphipathic cell-penetrating peptides: a fluorescence study using Pep-1.

scientific article published in August 2005

Redesigned Spider Peptide with Improved Antimicrobial and Anticancer Properties

scientific article published on 25 July 2017

Spider peptide toxin HwTx-IV engineered to bind to lipid membranes has an increased inhibitory potency at human voltage-gated sodium channel hNaV1.7.

scientific article published on 20 January 2017

Structural and functional analysis of human liver-expressed antimicrobial peptide 2.

scientific article published in October 2010

Structural and functional characterization of chimeric cyclotides from the Möbius and trypsin inhibitor subfamilies

scientific article published on 3 August 2016

Structural parameters modulating the cellular uptake of disulfide-rich cyclic cell-penetrating peptides: MCoTI-II and SFTI-1

scientific article published on 24 June 2014

The Application of Biophysical Techniques to Study Antimicrobial Peptides

article published in 2012

The Cyclic Cystine Ladder in  -Defensins Is Important for Structure and Stability, but Not Antibacterial Activity

scientific article

The Prototypic Cyclotide Kalata B1 Has a Unique Mechanism of Entering Cells

scientific article published on 11 August 2015

The antimicrobial activity of Sub3 is dependent on membrane binding and cell-penetrating ability

scientific article

The toxicity of prion protein fragment PrP(106-126) is not mediated by membrane permeabilization as shown by a M112W substitution

scientific article published in May 2009

Translocation of beta-galactosidase mediated by the cell-penetrating peptide pep-1 into lipid vesicles and human HeLa cells is driven by membrane electrostatic potential

scientific article published in August 2005

Translocation or membrane disintegration? Implication of peptide-membrane interactions in pep-1 activity

scientific article published on April 2008

Understanding the Diversity and Distribution of Cyclotides from Plants of Varied Genetic Origin

scientific article

Using the MCoTI-II Cyclotide Scaffold To Design a Stable Cyclic Peptide Antagonist of SET, a Protein Overexpressed in Human Cancer

scientific article published on 21 December 2015

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