List of works by Lígia M. Saraiva

A ferredoxin from the thermohalophilic bacterium Rhodothermus marinus

scientific article published in November 2002

A nhaD Na+/H+ antiporter and a pcd homologues are among the Rhodothermus marinus complex I genes

scientific article published on August 2005

A novel nitroreductase of Staphylococcus aureus with S-nitrosoglutathione reductase activity

scientific article published on 13 March 2009

A novel type of monoheme cytochrome c: biochemical and structural characterization at 1.23 A resolution of rhodothermus marinus cytochrome c

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A novel type of nitric-oxide reductase. Escherichia coli flavorubredoxin

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A role for reactive oxygen species in the antibacterial properties of carbon monoxide-releasing molecules.

scientific article published on 30 July 2012

An N-Acetyl Cysteine Ruthenium Tricarbonyl Conjugate Enables Simultaneous Release of CO and Ablation of Reactive Oxygen Species

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Bacterioferritin protects the anaerobe Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough against oxygen.

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Binding of NorR to three DNA sites is essential for promoter activation of the flavorubredoxin gene, the nitric oxide reductase of Escherichia coli.

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Binding of azole antibiotics to Staphylococcus aureus flavohemoglobin increases intracellular oxidative stress

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Biochemical, spectroscopic, and thermodynamic properties of flavodiiron proteins.

scientific article published on January 2008

Characterisation of Desulfovibrio vulgaris haem b synthase, a radical SAM family member

scientific article published on 5 April 2014

Characterization of the Dihemic Cytochrome C549 from the Marine Denitrifying Bacterium Pseudomonas nautica 617

scientific article published on 01 March 1994

Cloning, purification, crystallization and X-ray crystallographic analysis of Ignicoccus hospitalis neelaredoxin

scientific article published on 30 April 2010

Cloning, sequencing and expression of the tetraheme cytochrome c3 from Desulfovibrio gigas

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

Combined spectroscopic and calorimetric characterisation of rubredoxin reversible thermal transition

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Comparative Fe and Zn K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopic study of the ferroxidase centres of human H-chain ferritin and bacterioferritin from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans.

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Crystal structure determination at 1.4 A resolution of ferredoxin from the green alga Chlorella fusca

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Crystallization and X-ray analysis of Rhodothermus marinus cytochrome c at 1.23 A resolution

scientific article published in January 2007

Desulfovibrio vulgaris CbiKP cobaltochelatase: evolution of a haem binding protein orchestrated by the incorporation of two histidine residues.

scientific article published on 3 August 2016

Detection by whole genome microarrays of a spontaneous 126-gene deletion during construction of a ytfE mutant: confirmation that a ytfE mutation results in loss of repair of iron-sulfur centres in proteins damaged by oxidative or nitrosative stress.

scientific article published on 4 February 2010

Di-iron proteins of the Ric family are involved in iron-sulfur cluster repair.

scientific article published on 13 January 2009

Effect of combined oxidative and nitrosative stresses on Staphylococcus aureus transcriptome

scientific article published on 7 February 2013

Effect of hydrogen-bond networks in controlling reduction potentials in Desulfovibrio vulgaris (Hildenborough) cytochrome C3 probed by site-specific mutagenesis

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Entamoeba histolytica modulates a complex repertoire of novel genes in response to oxidative and nitrosative stresses: implications for amebic pathogenesis.

scientific article published on 5 September 2008

Escherichia coli RIC is able to donate iron to iron-sulfur clusters

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Escherichia coli YtfE is a di-iron protein with an important function in assembly of iron-sulphur clusters

scientific article published in April 2006

Escherichia coli di-iron YtfE protein is necessary for the repair of stress-damaged iron-sulfur clusters.

scientific article published on 7 February 2007

Evolution in a family of chelatases facilitated by the introduction of active site asymmetry and protein oligomerization

scientific article

Exploring the antimicrobial action of a carbon monoxide-releasing compound through whole-genome transcription profiling of Escherichia coli

scientific article published in March 2009

Expression of a Desulfovibrio Tetraheme Cytochrome c in Escherichia coli

scientific article published in February 2000

Flavodiiron protein from Trichomonas vaginalis hydrogenosomes: the terminal oxygen reductase.

scientific article published on 14 November 2008

Flavohemoglobin of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on January 2008

Flavohemoglobin requires microaerophilic conditions for nitrosative protection ofStaphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 24 February 2006

FrxA is an S-nitrosoglutathione reductase enzyme that contributes to Helicobacter pylori pathogenicity

scientific article published in September 2014

Functional characterization of peroxiredoxins from the human protozoan parasite Giardia intestinalis

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Functional characterization of the early steps of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis and modification in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough.

scientific article published on 13 May 2009

Gene expression study of the flavodi-iron proteins from the cyanobacteriumSynechocystissp. PCC6803

scientific article published in February 2011

Helicobacter pullorum induces nitric oxide release in murine macrophages that promotes phagocytosis and killing

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

Helicobacter pylori has an unprecedented nitric oxide detoxifying system.

scientific article

Hybrid cluster proteins and flavodiiron proteins afford protection to Desulfovibrio vulgaris upon macrophage infection.

scientific article published on 5 April 2013

Identification of the sirohaem biosynthesis pathway in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 12 October 2019

In the facultative sulphate/nitrate reducer Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774, the nine-haem cytochrome c is part of a membrane-bound redox complex mainly expressed in sulphate-grown cells

scientific article published in July 2001

Insights into the structure of the diiron site of RIC from Escherichia coli.

scientific article published on 9 January 2015

Iron-sulfur repair YtfE protein from Escherichia coli: structural characterization of the di-iron center

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Molecular basis for redox-Bohr and cooperative effects in cytochrome c3 from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774: crystallographic and modeling studies of oxidized and reduced high-resolution structures at pH 7.6

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Molecular hijacking of siroheme for the synthesis of heme and d1 heme

scientific article published on 3 October 2011

NADH oxidase activity of mitochondrial apoptosis-inducing factor

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NMR and EPR studies on a monoheme cytochrome c550 isolated from Bacillus halodenitrificans.

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New genes implicated in the protection of anaerobically grown Escherichia coli against nitric oxide.

scientific article published on 16 November 2004

Nine-haem cytochrome c from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774 : primary sequence determination, crystallographic refinement at 1.8  and modelling studies of its interaction with the tetrahaem cytochrome c 3

scientific article published in August 1999

Nitrosative stress defences of the enterohepatic pathogenic bacterium Helicobacter pullorum

scientific article published on 30 August 2017

Oxidative stress modulates the nitric oxide defense promoted by Escherichia coli flavorubredoxin

scientific article published on 4 May 2012

Physico-chemical and Spectroscopic Properties of the Monohemic Cytochrome C552 from Pseudomonas nautica 617

scientific article published in September 1994

Plastocyanin/cytochromec6 interchange inScenedesmus vacuolatus

scientific article published in January 2003

Probing the mechanism of rubredoxin thermal unfolding in the absence of salt bridges by temperature jump experiments.

scientific article published in August 2005

Proton-assisted two-electron transfer in natural variants of tetraheme cytochromes from Desulfomicrobium Sp.

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Purification and Preliminary Characterization of Three C-Type Cytochromes from Pseudomonas Nautica Strain 617

scientific article published on 01 July 1995

Reactive oxygen species mediate bactericidal killing elicited by carbon monoxide-releasing molecules

scientific article published on 6 June 2011

Redox states of Desulfovibrio vulgaris DsrC, a key protein in dissimilatory sulfite reduction

scientific article published on 05 November 2013

Regulation of the flavorubredoxin nitric oxide reductase gene inEscherichia coli: nitrate repression, nitrite induction, and possible post-transcription control

scientific article published in January 2003

Repair of Iron Centers RIC protein contributes to the virulence of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 11 October 2017

Replacement of Lysine 45 by Uncharged Residues Modulates the Redox-Bohr Effect in Tetraheme Cytochromec3ofDesulfovibrio vulgaris(Hildenborough)†

scientific article published in September 1998

Replacement of Methionine as the Axial Ligand of Achromobacter cycloclastes Cytochrome C554 at High pH Values Revealed by Absorption, EPR and MCD Spectroscopy

scientific article published on 01 October 1994

Role of the siderophore transporter SirABC in the Staphylococcus aureus resistance to oxidative stress.

scientific article published on 29 March 2014

Rubredoxin acts as an electron donor for neelaredoxin in Archaeoglobus fulgidus

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Selenium is involved in regulation of periplasmic hydrogenase gene expression in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough.

scientific article published on May 2006

Sequencing the gene encoding desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774 nine-heme cytochrome c.

scientific article published in September 1999

Solution structures of tetrahaem ferricytochrome c3 from Desulfovibrio vulgaris (Hildenborough) and its K45Q mutant: The molecular basis of cooperativity

scientific article published in February 2006

Spectroelectrochemistry of type II cytochrome c3 on a glycosylated self-assembled monolayer.

scientific article published in November 2006

Spin-equilibrium and heme-ligand alteration in a high-potential monoheme cytochrome (cytochrome c554) from Achromobacter cycloclastes, a denitrifying organism

scientific article

Spontaneous CO release from Ru(II)(CO)2-protein complexes in aqueous solution, cells, and mice

scientific article published on 4 December 2014

Staphylococcus aureushaem biosynthesis: characterisation of the enzymes involved in final steps of the pathway

scientific article published on 26 May 2015

Structure at 1.0 A resolution of a high-potential iron-sulfur protein involved in the aerobic respiratory chain of Rhodothermus marinus

scientific article

Structure at 1.3Å Resolution of Rhodothermus marinus caa3 Cytochrome c Domain

scientific article published on 07 December 2004

Sulfate-reducing bacteria reveal a new branch of tetrapyrrole metabolism.

scientific article published on January 2012

Superoxide reduction by Archaeoglobus fulgidus desulfoferrodoxin: comparison with neelaredoxin

scientific article published on 26 October 2006

Superoxide reduction by Nanoarchaeum equitans neelaredoxin, an enzyme lacking the highly conserved glutamate iron ligand

scientific article published on 30 October 2007

Superoxide reduction by a superoxide reductase lacking the highly conserved lysine residue

scientific article published on 5 December 2014

The Na+/H+ antiporter of the thermohalophilic bacterium Rhodothermus marinus.

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The Staphylococcus aureus α-Acetolactate Synthase ALS Confers Resistance to Nitrosative Stress.

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The anaerobeDesulfovibrio desulfuricansATCC 27774 grows at nearly atmospheric oxygen levels

scientific article published on 12 January 2007

The bactericidal activity of carbon monoxide-releasing molecules against Helicobacter pylori

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The genetic organization of Desulfovibrio desulphuricans ATCC 27774 bacterioferritin and rubredoxin-2 genes: involvement of rubredoxin in iron metabolism.

scientific article published in July 2001

The haem–copper oxygen reductase of Desulfovibrio vulgaris contains a dihaem cytochrome c in subunit II

scientific article published in December 2008

The mechanism of superoxide scavenging by Archaeoglobus fulgidus neelaredoxin

scientific article published on 6 August 2001

The role of the flavodiiron proteins in microbial nitric oxide detoxification.

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The role of the hybrid cluster protein in oxidative stress defense.

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The structure, function and properties of sirohaem decarboxylase - an enzyme with structural homology to a transcription factor family that is part of the alternative haem biosynthesis pathway

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The superoxide reductase from the early diverging eukaryote Giardia intestinalis

scientific article published in October 2011

Trichomonas vaginalis Repair of Iron Centres Proteins: The Different Role of Two Paralogs

scientific article published in June 2016

Widespread distribution in pathogenic bacteria of di-iron proteins that repair oxidative and nitrosative damage to iron-sulfur centers

scientific article

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