Selected Publications


• Carvalho-Santos Z, Machado P, Alvarez-Martins I, Gouveia SM, Jana SC, Duarte P, Amado T, Branco P, Freitas MC, Silva ST, Antony C, Bandeiras TM, Bettencourt-Dias "BLD10/CEP135 Is a Microtubule-Associated Protein that Controls the Formation of the Flagellum Central Microtubule Pair" (2012) M. Dev Cell. 14;23(2):412-24

•S. Gorynia, T. M. Bandeiras, F. G. Pinho, C. E. McVey, C. Vonrhein, A. Round, D. I. Svergun, P. Donner, P. M. Matias and Maria Arménia Carrondo, "Structural and functional insights into a dodecameric molecular machine – The RuvBL1/RuvBL2 complex" (2011) J. Struct. Biol., in press doi:10.1016/j.jsb.2011.09.001.


• F. G. Pinho, A. F. Pinto, L. C. Pinto, H. Huber, C. V. Romão, M. Teixeira, P. M. Matias and T. M. Bandeiras, "Superoxide reductase from Nanoarchaeum equitans: expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis" (2011) Acta Cryst.F67:591-595. doi:10.1107/S1744309111009432.


• S. Gonçalves, A. M. Esteves, N. Borges, H. Santos and P. M. Matias, "Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of mannosyl-3-phosphoglycerate phosphatase from Thermus thermophilus HB27" (2011) Acta Cryst. F67:390-396. DOI:10.1107/S1744309111002843.


• C. S. A. Baltazar, M. C. Marques, C. M. Soares, A. M. DeLacey, I. A. C. Pereira and P. M. Matias, "Nickel-Iron-Selenium Hydrogenases - An Overview" (2011) Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2011(7):948-962. DOI:10.1002/ejic.201001127.


• C. V. Romão, D. Ladakis, S. A. L. Lobo, M. A.Carrondo, A. A. Brindley, E. Deery, P. M. Matias, R. W. Pickersgill, L. M. Saraiva and Martin J. Warren, "Evolution in a family of chelatases facilitated by the introduction of active site asymmetry and protein oligomerization" (2011) PNAS 108(1):97-102. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1014298108. 


• S. Gonçalves, N. Borges, A. M. Esteves, B. Victor, C. M. Soares, H. Santos, P. M. Matias, "Structural analysis of Thermus thermophilus HB27 mannosyl-3-phosphoglycerate synthase provides evidence for a second catalytic metal ion and new insight into the retaining mechanism of glycosyltransferases" (2010)  J. Biol. Chem. 285(23):17857-17868. DOI:10.1074/jbc.M109.095976.


• F. G. Pinho, C. V. Romão, A. F. Pinto, L. M. Saraiva, H. Huber, P. M. Matias, M. Teixeira, T.M. Bandeiras, "Cloning, purification, crystallization and X-ray crystallographic analysis of Ignicoccus hospitalis neelaredoxin" (2010) Acta Cryst. F66:605–607. DOI:10.1107/ S1744309110012030.


• T. M. Bandeiras, C. V. Romão, J. V. Rodrigues, M.Teixeira, P. M. Matias, "Purification,crystallization and X-ray crystallographic analysis of Archaeoglobus fulgidus neelaredoxin”,(2010) Acta Cryst. F66: 316-319. DOI: 10.1107/S1744309110000916.


• M. C. Marques, R. Coelho, A. L. De Lacey, I. A.C. Pereira, P. M. Matias "The three-dimensional structure of [NiFeSe] Hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough: a Hydrogenase without a bridging ligand in the active site in its oxidised, "as-isolated” state”(2010) J. Mol. Biol. 396:893-907. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.12.013.


• T.M. Bandeiras, R.C. Hillig, P.M. Matias, U. Eberspaecher, J. Fanghänel, M. Thomaz, S. Miranda, K. Crusius, V. Pütter, P. Amstutz, M. Gulotti-Georgieva, H.K. Binz, C. Holz, A.A.P. Schmitz, C. Lang, P. Donner, U. Egner, M.A. Carrondo and B. Müller-Tiemann, "Crystal structure of Wild-Type Plk-1 Kinase Domain in Complex with a Selective DARPin” (2008) Acta Crystallographica, D64:339-353.


• M. Matzapetakis, P. Turano, E.C. Theil, I. Bertini, "(13)C-(13)C NOESY spectra of a 480 kDa protein: solution NMR of ferritin." (2007) J. Biomol. NMR, 38:237-242.


• P.M. Matias, S. Gorynia, P. Donner, M.A. Carrondo "Crystal Structure of the Human AAA+ Protein RuvBL1” (2006) J. Biol. Chem.281:38918-38929.


• M. Roxo-Rosa, Z. Xu, A. Schmidt, M. Neto, Z.W. Cai, C.M. Soares, D.N., Sheppard and M.D. Amaral (2006). "Revertant mutants G550E and 4RK rescue cystic fibrosis mutants in the first nucleotide-binding domain of CFTR by different mechanisms.” PNAS 103:17891-17896.


• C. Frazão, C.E. McVey, M. Amblar, A. Barbas, C. Vonrhein, C.M. Arraiano and M.A. Carrondo "Unravelling the dynamics of RNA degradation by RNAse II and its RNA- bound complex” (2006) Nature 443: 110-114.


• Patent no. WO 01/66599, filed 2001.

 

• S. Gonçalves, S. P. Miller, M. A. Carrondo, A. M. Dean and P. M. Matias,"Induced Fit and the Catalytic Mechanism of Isocitrate Dehydrogenase" (2012) Biochemistry, 51:7098–7115. DOI:10.1021/bi300483w

 

• S. Gonçalves, A. M. Esteves, H. Santos, N. Borges and P. M. Matias, "The three-dimensional structure of mannosyl-3-phosphoglycerate phosphatase from Thermus thermophilus HB27: a new member of the Haloalcanoic Acid Dehalogenase Superfamily" (2011) Biochemistry, in press doi:10.1021/bi201171h