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List of works by Mariana Gomes de Pinho

A comparative genomics approach for identifying host-range determinants in Streptococcus thermophilus bacteriophages

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

A divIVA null mutant of Staphylococcus aureus undergoes normal cell division

scientific article

A quinolinol-based small molecule with anti-MRSA activity that targets bacterial membrane and promotes fermentative metabolism

scientific article published on 12 July 2017

Absence of nucleoid occlusion effector Noc impairs formation of orthogonal FtsZ rings during Staphylococcus aureus cell division

scientific article published on 17 April 2011

An Activity-Based Probe for Studying Crosslinking in Live Bacteria

scientific article published on 17 July 2015

An acquired and a native penicillin-binding protein cooperate in building the cell wall of drug-resistant staphylococci

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Analysis of Cell Wall Teichoic Acids in Staphylococcus aureus

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Anti-biofouling 3D porous systems: the blend effect of oxazoline-based oligomers on chitosan scaffolds

scientific article published in January 2013

Antimicrobial Contact-Active Oligo(2-oxazoline)s-Grafted Surfaces for Fast Water Disinfection at the Point-of-Use

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Bacterial autolysins trim cell surface peptidoglycan to prevent detection by the Drosophila innate immune system

scientific article published on April 2014

Bacterial cell wall synthesis: new insights from localization studies

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Cell shape dynamics during the staphylococcal cell cycle.

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Characterization of a novel small molecule that potentiates β-lactam activity against gram-positive and gram-negative pathogens.

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Characterization of the murMN operon involved in the synthesis of branched peptidoglycan peptides in Streptococcus pneumoniae.

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Chemical Genetic Analysis and Functional Characterization of Staphylococcal Wall Teichoic Acid 2-Epimerases Reveals Unconventional Antibiotic Drug Targets

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Cloning, characterization, and inactivation of the gene pbpC, encoding penicillin-binding protein 3 of Staphylococcus aureus

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Cocrystal Structures of Diaminopimelate Decarboxylase

Complementation of the essential peptidoglycan transpeptidase function of penicillin-binding protein 2 (PBP2) by the drug resistance protein PBP2A in Staphylococcus aureus

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DeepBacs for multi-task bacterial image analysis using open-source deep learning approaches

scientific article published in 2022

Differential localization of LTA synthesis proteins and their interaction with the cell division machinery in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 20 March 2014

Dispersed mode of Staphylococcus aureus cell wall synthesis in the absence of the division machinery ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 November 2003

Effect of oxygen on glucose metabolism: utilization of lactate in Staphylococcus aureus as revealed by in vivo NMR studies

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Evidence for a dual role of PBP1 in the cell division and cell separation of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 27 April 2009

EzrA contributes to the regulation of cell size in Staphylococcus aureus

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Fluorescence ratio imaging microscopy shows decreased access of vancomycin to cell wall synthetic sites in vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

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Fluorescent reporters for studies of cellular localization of proteins in Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article published on 7 May 2010

FtsZ-Dependent Elongation of a Coccoid Bacterium

scientific article published on 06 September 2016

How to get (a)round: mechanisms controlling growth and division of coccoid bacteria ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2013

Inactivated pbp4 in highly glycopeptide-resistant laboratory mutants of Staphylococcus aureus

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Inactivation of the SauI type I restriction-modification system is not sufficient to generate Staphylococcus aureus strains capable of efficiently accepting foreign DNA.

scientific article published on 20 March 2009

Inhibition of WTA synthesis blocks the cooperative action of PBPs and sensitizes MRSA to β-lactams.

scientific article published on 19 October 2012

Insertion of epicatechin gallate into the cytoplasmic membrane of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus disrupts penicillin-binding protein (PBP) 2a-mediated beta-lactam resistance by delocalizing PBP2.

scientific article published on June 2010

Monofunctional transglycosylases are not essential for Staphylococcus aureus cell wall synthesis.

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MreC and MreD Proteins Are Not Required for Growth of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 15 October 2015

Murgocil is a highly bioactive staphylococcal-specific inhibitor of the peptidoglycan glycosyltransferase enzyme MurG.

scientific article published on 5 September 2013

New role of the disulfide stress effector YjbH in β-lactam susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 26 September 2011

Oxazoline-based antimicrobial oligomers: synthesis by CROP using supercritical CO2.

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Peptidoglycan synthesis drives an FtsZ-treadmilling-independent step of cytokinesis

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

Reassessment of the distinctive geometry of Staphylococcus aureus cell division

scientific article published on 14 August 2020

Recruitment of penicillin-binding protein PBP2 to the division site of Staphylococcus aureus is dependent on its transpeptidation substrates

scientific article published in February 2005

Reduction of the peptidoglycan crosslinking causes a decrease in stiffness of the Staphylococcus aureus cell envelope

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Restoring methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus susceptibility to β-lactam antibiotics

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Role of PBP1 in cell division of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 16 February 2007

Role of SCCmec type in resistance to the synergistic activity of oxacillin and cefoxitin in MRSA.

scientific article published on 21 July 2017

SEDS-bPBP pairs direct lateral and septal peptidoglycan synthesis in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 13 May 2019

Staphylococcus aureus PBP4 is essential for beta-lactam resistance in community-acquired methicillin-resistant strains

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Staphylococcus aureus Survives with a Minimal Peptidoglycan Synthesis Machine but Sacrifices Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance.

scientific article published on 7 May 2015

Staphylococcus aureus cell growth and division are regulated by an amidase that trims peptides from uncrosslinked peptidoglycan

scientific article published on 13 January 2020

Synergy between Ursolic and Oleanolic Acids from Vitellaria paradoxa Leaf Extract and β-Lactams against Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: In Vitro and In Vivo Activity and Underlying Mechanisms.

scientific article published on 16 December 2017

Teichoic acids are temporal and spatial regulators of peptidoglycan cross-linking in Staphylococcus aureus.

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The ClpXP protease is dispensable for degradation of unfolded proteins in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 18 September 2017

The Holliday junction resolvase RecU is required for chromosome segregation and DNA damage repair in Staphylococcus aureus.

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The SpoIIQ-SpoIIIAH complex of Clostridium difficile controls forespore engulfment and late stages of gene expression and spore morphogenesis

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The Staphylococcus aureus Chaperone PrsA Is a New Auxiliary Factor of Oxacillin Resistance Affecting Penicillin-Binding Protein 2A

scientific article published on 28 December 2015

The Staphylococcus aureus Membrane Protein SA2056 Interacts with Peptidoglycan Synthesis Enzymes.

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The different shapes of cocci

scientific article published on 04 February 2008, about the shape of bacteria

The pentaglycine bridges of Staphylococcus aureus peptidoglycan are essential for cell integrity

scientific article published on 21 March 2019

eHooke: A tool for automated image analysis of spherical bacteria based on cell cycle progression

publication published on 24 September 2021

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