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Lígia O. Martins

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Murat Sezer; Patrycja Kielb; Lígia O. Martins; Tiago Pinto; Ana Santos; Smilja Todorovic
Distinct structural and redox properties of the heme active site in bacterial dye decolorizing peroxidase-type peroxidases from two subfamilies: resonance Raman and electrochemical study.
Tânia Rosado; M Paula Robalo; Pedro Bernardo; Ana V Coelho; Kamila Koci; Lígia O. Martins
Methyl syringate: an efficient phenolic mediator for bacterial and fungal laccases.
André T Fernandes; Carlos Lopes; Lígia O. Martins; Eduardo Pinho Melo
Unfolding pathway of CotA-laccase and the role of copper on the prevention of refolding through aggregation of the unfolded state.

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2013: Murat Sezer; Patrycja Kielb; Lígia O. Martins; Tiago Pinto; Ana Santos; Smilja Todorovic
Distinct structural and redox properties of the heme active site in bacterial dye decolorizing peroxidase-type peroxidases from two subfamilies: resonance Raman and electrochemical study.
Biochemistry 2013;52(18):3074-84.
2012: Tânia Rosado; M Paula Robalo; Pedro Bernardo; Ana V Coelho; Kamila Koci; Lígia O. Martins
Methyl syringate: an efficient phenolic mediator for bacterial and fungal laccases.
Bioresource technology 2012;124():371-8.
2012: André T Fernandes; Carlos Lopes; Lígia O. Martins; Eduardo Pinho Melo
Unfolding pathway of CotA-laccase and the role of copper on the prevention of refolding through aggregation of the unfolded state.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2012;422(3):442-6.
2012: Vânia Brissos; Zhenjia Chen; Lígia O. Martins
The kinetic role of carboxylate residues in the proximity of the trinuclear centre in the O2 reactivity of CotA-laccase.
Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) 2012;41(20):6247-55.
2012: Catarina S Silva; Cláudio M Soares; Vânia Brissos; Zhenjia Chen; João M Damas; Peter F Lindley; Lígia O. Martins; Isabel Bento
The role of Asp116 in the reductive cleavage of dioxygen to water in CotA laccase: assistance during the proton-transfer mechanism.
Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography 2012;68(Pt 2):186-93.
2011: Sónia Mendes; Christian G Ramos; Cristina A Viegas; Ana Farinha; Jorge H Leitão; Lígia O. Martins
Synergistic action of azoreductase and laccase leads to maximal decolourization and detoxification of model dye-containing wastewaters.
Bioresource technology 2011;102(21):9852-9.
2011: Sónia Mendes; Luciana Pereira; Carlos Batista; Lígia O. Martins
Molecular determinants of azo reduction activity in the strain Pseudomonas putida MET94.
Applied microbiology and biotechnology 2011;92(2):393-405.
2011: André T Fernandes; Manuela M Pereira; Catarina S Silva; Peter F Lindley; Isabel Bento; Eduardo Pinho Melo; Lígia O. Martins
The removal of a disulfide bridge in CotA-laccase changes the slower motion dynamics involved in copper binding but has no effect on the thermodynamic stability.
Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 2011;16(4):641-51.
2011: Bruno Correia; Zhenjia Chen; Sónia Mendes; Lígia O. Martins; Isabel Bento
Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of the azoreductase PpAzoR from Pseudomonas putida MET94.
Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications 2011;67(Pt 1):121-3.
2010: André T Fernandes; João M Damas; Smilja Todorovic; Robert Huber; M Camilla Baratto; Rebecca Pogni; Cláudio M Soares; Lígia O. Martins
The multicopper oxidase from the archaeon Pyrobaculum aerophilum shows nitrous oxide reductase activity.
The FEBS journal 2010;277(15):3176-89.
2010: Zhenjia Chen; Paulo Durão; Catarina S Silva; Manuela M Pereira; Smilja Todorovic; Peter Hildebrandt; Isabel Bento; Peter F Lindley; Lígia O. Martins
The role of Glu498 in the dioxygen reactivity of CotA-laccase from Bacillus subtilis.
Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) 2010;39(11):2875-82.
2010: Isabel Bento; Catarina S Silva; Zhenjia Chen; Lígia O. Martins; Peter F Lindley; Cláudio M Soares
Mechanisms underlying dioxygen reduction in laccases. Structural and modelling studies focusing on proton transfer.
BMC structural biology 2010;10():28.
2009: Vânia Brissos; Luciana Pereira; Florentina-Daniela Munteanu; Artur Cavaco-Paulo; Lígia O. Martins
Expression system of CotA-laccase for directed evolution and high-throughput screenings for the oxidation of high-redox potential dyes.
Biotechnology journal 2009;4(4):558-63.
2009: Luciana Pereira; Ana V Coelho; Cristina A Viegas; Margarida M Correia Dos Santos; Maria Paula Robalo; Lígia O. Martins
Enzymatic biotransformation of the azo dye Sudan Orange G with bacterial CotA-laccase.
Journal of biotechnology 2009;139(1):68-77.
2009: André T Fernandes; Lígia O. Martins; Eduardo P Melo
The hyperthermophilic nature of the metallo-oxidase from Aquifex aeolicus.
Biochimica et biophysica acta 2009;1794(1):75-83.
2008: Paulo Durão; Zhenjia Chen; Catarina S Silva; Cláudio M Soares; Manuela M Pereira; Smilja Todorovic; Peter Hildebrandt; Isabel Bento; Peter F Lindley; Lígia O. Martins
Proximal mutations at the type 1 copper site of CotA laccase: spectroscopic, redox, kinetic and structural characterization of I494A and L386A mutants.
The Biochemical journal 2008;412(2):339-46.
2008: Paulo Durão; Zhenjia Chen; André T Fernandes; Peter Hildebrandt; Daniel H Murgida; Smilja Todorovic; Manuela M Pereira; Eduardo P Melo; Lígia O. Martins
Copper incorporation into recombinant CotA laccase from Bacillus subtilis: characterization of fully copper loaded enzymes.
Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 2008;13(2):183-93.
2007: E P Melo; André T Fernandes; P Durão; Lígia O. Martins
Insight into stability of CotA laccase from the spore coat of Bacillus subtilis.
Biochemical Society transactions 2007;35(Pt 6):1579-82.
2007: María Celestina Sánchez-Sutil; Nuria Gómez-Santos; Aurelio Moraleda-Muñoz; Lígia O. Martins; Juana Pérez; Juana Pérez Torres
Differential expression of the three multicopper oxidases from Myxococcus xanthus.
Journal of bacteriology 2007;189(13):4887-98.
2007: André T Fernandes; Cláudio M Soares; Manuela M Pereira; Robert Huber; Gregor Grass; Lígia O. Martins
A robust metallo-oxidase from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus.
The FEBS journal 2007;274(11):2683-94.
2006: Pedro Lamosa; Luís Gonçalves; Marta V Rodrigues; Lígia O. Martins; Neil D H Raven; Helena Santos
Occurrence of 1-glyceryl-1-myo-inosityl phosphate in hyperthermophiles.
Applied and environmental microbiology 2006;72(9):6169-73.
2006: Paulo Durão; Isabel Bento; André T Fernandes; Eduardo P Melo; Peter F Lindley; Lígia O. Martins
Perturbations of the T1 copper site in the CotA laccase from Bacillus subtilis: structural, biochemical, enzymatic and stability studies.
Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 2006;11(4):514-26.
2006: Maria Helena Lameiro; António Lopes; Lígia O. Martins; Paula M Alves; Eurico Melo
Incorporation of a model protein into chitosan-bile salt microparticles.
International journal of pharmaceutics 2006;312(1-2):119-30.
2005: Isabel Bento; Lígia O. Martins; Gonçalo Gato Lopes; Maria Arménia Carrondo; Peter F Lindley
Dioxygen reduction by multi-copper oxidases; a structural perspective.
Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) 2005;(21):3507-13.
2005: Rita Zilhão; Rachele Isticato; Lígia O. Martins; Leif Steil; Uwe Völker; Ezio Ricca; Charles P Moran; Adriano O Henriques
Assembly and function of a spore coat-associated transglutaminase of Bacillus subtilis.
Journal of bacteriology 2005;187(22):7753-64.
2004: Francisco Enguita; David Marçal; Lígia O. Martins; Rosa Grenha; Adriano O Henriques; Peter F Lindley; Maria Arménia Carrondo
Substrate and dioxygen binding to the endospore coat laccase from Bacillus subtilis.
The Journal of biological chemistry 2004;279(22):23472-6.
2004: Teresa Costa; Leif Steil; Lígia O. Martins; Uwe Völker; Adriano O Henriques
Assembly of an oxalate decarboxylase produced under sigmaK control into the Bacillus subtilis spore coat.
Journal of bacteriology 2004;186(5):1462-74.
2003: Francisco Enguita; Lígia O. Martins; Adriano O Henriques; Maria Arménia Carrondo
Crystal structure of a bacterial endospore coat component. A laccase with enhanced thermostability properties.
The Journal of biological chemistry 2003;278(21):19416-25.
2002: Francisco Enguita; Pedro M Matias; Lígia O. Martins; Diana Plácido; Adriano O Henriques; Maria Arménia Carrondo
Spore-coat laccase CotA from Bacillus subtilis: crystallization and preliminary X-ray characterization by the MAD method.
Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography 2002;58(Pt 9):1490-3.
2002: Lígia O. Martins; Cláudio M Soares; Manuela M Pereira; Miguel Teixeira; Teresa Costa; George H Jones; Adriano O Henriques
Molecular and biochemical characterization of a highly stable bacterial laccase that occurs as a structural component of the Bacillus subtilis endospore coat.
The Journal of biological chemistry 2002;277(21):18849-59.
2001: E P Melo; Tiago Q Faria; Lígia O. Martins; A M Gonçalves; J M Cabral
Cutinase unfolding and stabilization by trehalose and mannosylglycerate.
Proteins 2001;42(4):542-52.
1999: Lígia O. Martins; Nuno Empadinhas; Joey D Marugg; C Miguel; C Ferreira; Milton S da Costa; Helena Santos
Biosynthesis of mannosylglycerate in the thermophilic bacterium Rhodothermus marinus. Biochemical and genetic characterization of a mannosylglycerate synthase.
The Journal of biological chemistry 1999;274(50):35407-14.
1999: zelia Silva; Nuno Borges; Lígia O. Martins; R Wait; Milton S da Costa; Helena Santos
Combined effect of the growth temperature and salinity of the medium on the accumulation of compatible solutes by Rhodothermus marinus and Rhodothermus obamensis.
Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions 1999;3(2):163-72.
1997: Lígia O. Martins; R Huber; H Huber; K O Stetter; M S Da Costa; H Santos
Organic solutes in hyperthermophilic archaea.
Applied and environmental microbiology 1997;63(3):896-902.
1996: Lígia O. Martins; L S Carreto; Milton S da Costa; Helena Santos
New compatible solutes related to Di-myo-inositol-phosphate in members of the order Thermotogales.
Journal of bacteriology 1996;178(19):5644-51.
1996: K B Xavier; Lígia O. Martins; Ralf Peist; M Kossmann; Winfried Boos; Helena Santos
High-affinity maltose/trehalose transport system in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus litoralis.
Journal of bacteriology 1996;178(16):4773-7.
1995: Lígia O. Martins; H Santos
Accumulation of Mannosylglycerate and Di-myo-Inositol-Phosphate by Pyrococcus furiosus in Response to Salinity and Temperature.
Applied and environmental microbiology 1995;61(9):3299-303.
1991: Lígia O. Martins; Isabel Sá-Correia
Gellan gum biosynthetic enzymes in producing and nonproducing variants of Pseudomonas elodea.
Biotechnology and applied biochemistry 1991;14(3):357-64.
1991: Lígia O. Martins; Isabel Sá-Correia
Alginate biosynthesis in mucoid recombinants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa overproducing GDP-mannose dehydrogenase.
Enzyme and microbial technology 1991;13(5):385-9.
1990: Lígia O. Martins; Amália S Jurado; Vítor M C Madeira
Composition of polar lipid acyl chains of Bacillus stearothermophilus as affected by temperature and calcium.
Biochimica et biophysica acta 1990;1045(1):17-20.