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List of works by Ricardo Franco

Binding of Protoporphyrin IX and Metal Derivatives to the Active Site of Wild-Type Mouse Ferrochelatase at Low Porphyrin-to-Protein Ratios†

scientific article published on 01 July 2002

Bionanoconjugates of tyrosinase and peptide-derivatised gold nanoparticles for biosensing of phenolic compounds

Characterization and optimization of the haemozoin-like crystal (HLC) assay to determine Hz inhibiting effects of anti-malarial compounds

scientific article published on 12 October 2015

Characterization of D. desulfuricans (ATCC 27774) [NiFe] hydrogenase EPR and redox properties of the native and the dihydrogen reacted states

scientific article published on 01 October 1993

Characterization of Representative Enzymes from a Sulfate Reducing Bacterium Implicated in the Corrosion of Steel

scientific article published on 01 April 1996

Characterization of the iron-binding site in mammalian ferrochelatase by kinetic and Mössbauer methods

scientific article published in November 1995

Charge Effects on the Structure and Composition of Porphyrin Binary Ionic Solids: ZnTPPS/SnTMePyP Nanomaterials

scientific article published on 17 January 2013

Chelatases: distort to select?

scientific article

Colorimetric detection of eukaryotic gene expression with DNA-derivatized gold nanoparticles

scientific article published in September 2005

Controlled adsorption of cytochrome c to nanostructured gold surfaces

Correction to Use of Gold Nanoparticles as Additives in Protein Crystallization

scholarly article published in Crystal Growth & Design

Design and Simple Assembly of Gold Nanostar Bioconjugates for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Immunoassays

scientific article published on 04 November 2019

Elucidating interactions of ionic liquids with polymer films using confocal Raman spectroscopy

scientific article published on 08 April 2005

Expedite SERS Fingerprinting of Portuguese White Wines Using Plasmonic Silver Nanostars.

scientific article published on 24 May 2019

Gold Nanoparticles as (Bio)Chemical Sensors

Gold nanoparticle-based fluorescence immunoassay for malaria antigen detection

scientific article published on 17 November 2011

Gold nanoparticles for the development of clinical diagnosis methods

scientific article published on 21 December 2007

Gold nanoparticles in the clinical laboratory: principles of preparation and applications.

scientific article published on 06 October 2011

Gold-nanoparticle-probe-based assay for rapid and direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA in clinical samples

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Gold–silver-alloy nanoprobes for one-pot multiplex DNA detection

scientific article published on 28 May 2010

Green photocatalytic synthesis of stable Au and Ag nanoparticles

scholarly article by Pedro Quaresma et al published 2009 in Green Chemistry

Highly efficient nanoplasmonic SERS on cardboard packaging substrates

scientific article published on 26 September 2014

Imaging gold nanoparticles for DNA sequence recognition in biomedical applications

scientific article published on December 2007

Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) biosensing using gold nanotriangles: detection of DNA hybridization events at room temperature

scientific article published in October 2014

Measurement of adsorption constants of laccase on gold nanoparticles to evaluate the enhancement in enzyme activity of adsorbed laccase

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Molecular dynamics simulations of mouse ferrochelatase variants: what distorts and orientates the porphyrin?

scientific article published on 20 June 2009

Molecular organization in self-assembled binary porphyrin nanotubes revealed by resonance Raman spectroscopy

scientific article published on 9 March 2010

Nanodiagnostics: fast colorimetric method for single nucleotide polymorphism/mutation detection

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

Nanoparticles in molecular diagnostics

scientific article published on January 2011

Nickel(II) Chelatase Variants Directly Evolved from Murine Ferrochelatase: Porphyrin Distortion and Kinetic Mechanism

scientific article published on February 10, 2011

Office paper decorated with silver nanostars - an alternative cost effective platform for trace analyte detection by SERS.

scientific article

Optimizing Au-nanoprobes for specific sequence discrimination

scientific article published on 20 January 2010

Pathogen-mimetic stealth nanocarriers for drug delivery: a future possibility

scientific article published on 19 May 2011

Porphyrin interactions with wild-type and mutant mouse ferrochelatase

scientific article published on 01 March 2000

Porphyrin-substrate binding to murine ferrochelatase: effect on the thermal stability of the enzyme

scientific journal article

Probing Surface Properties of Cytochrome c at Au Bionanoconjugates

Resonance Raman Spectroscopic Examination of Ferrochelatase-induced Porphyrin Distortion.

scientific article

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

scientific article published in November 2006

Star-shaped magnetite@gold nanoparticles for protein magnetic separation and SERS detection

scholarly article in RSC Advances, vol. 4 no. 8, 2014

Structure and function of ferrochelatase.

scientific article

Substitution of murine ferrochelatase glutamate-287 with glutamine or alanine leads to porphyrin substrate-bound variants

scientific article

Synthesis and Characterization of Elongated-Shaped Silver Nanoparticles as a Biocompatible Anisotropic SERS Probe for Intracellular Imaging: Theoretical Modeling and Experimental Verification

scientific article published on 13 February 2019

The conserved active-site loop residues of ferrochelatase induce porphyrin conformational changes necessary for catalysis

scientific journal article

The structural origin of nonplanar heme distortions in tetraheme ferricytochromes c3.

scientific article published in September 1998

Unraveling the substrate-metal binding site of ferrochelatase: an X-ray absorption spectroscopic study

scientific article

Unravelling Malaria Antigen Binding to Antibody-Gold Nanoparticle Conjugates

scholarly article by Miguel A. S. Cavadas et al published 25 October 2016 in Particle & Particle Systems Characterization

Use of Gold Nanoparticles as Additives in Protein Crystallization

Voltammetric studies of the catalytic electron-transfer process between the Desulfovibrio gigas hydrogenase and small proteins isolated from the same genus

scientific article published on 01 November 1993