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Publications (since 2003)

Johnston S., Lin S., Lee P., Caffrey S. M., Wildschut J., Voordouw J.K., da Silva S.M., Pereira I.A.C., and Voordouw G. (2009) A genomic island of the sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough promotes survival under stress conditions while decreasing the efficiency of anaerobic growth, Environm. Microbiol., in press

• M.L. Rodrigues, I.A.C. Pereira & M. Archer (2008) “The NrfH cytochrome c quinol dehydrogenase”, in Handbook of Metalloproteins, Albrecht Messerschmidt (ed.), DOI: 10.1002/0470028637, Online Posting Date: September 15, 2008, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


• Oliveira T.F., Vonrhein C., Matias P.M., Venceslau S.S., Pereira I.A.C.*, Archer M.* (2008) The crystal structure of a dissimilatory sulfite reductase bound to DsrC provides novel insights into the mechanism of sulfate reduction, J. Biol. Chem., 283, 34141-34149


• De Lacey A.L., Gutiérrez-Sánchez C., Fernández V.M., Pacheco I., Pereira I.A.C. (2008) FTIR spectroelectrochemical characterization of the Ni-Fe-Se hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough, J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 13, 1315 - 1320

• Oliveira T.F., Vonrhein C., Matias P.M., Venceslau S.S., Pereira I.A.C., Archer M. (2008) Purification, crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of a dissimilatory Sulfite Reductase DsrAB in complex with DsrC, J. Struct. Biol., 164, 236–239

Rodrigues M.L., Scott K.A., Sansom M.S.P., Pereira I.A.C.* and Archer M.* (2008) Quinol oxidation by cytochromes c: structural characterization of the menaquinol binding site of NrfHA, J. Mol. Biol., 381, 341-50

• Pereira P.M., He Q., Valente F.M.A., Xavier A.V., Zhou J., Pereira I.A.C., Louro R.O. (2008) Energy metabolism in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough: insights from transcriptome analysis, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 93 (4), 347-362


• Pereira P.M., He Q., Valente F.M.A.,  Xavier A.V., Zhou J., Pereira I.A.C., Louro R.O. (2008) Transcriptional Response of Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough to Oxidative Stress Mimicking Environmental Conditions, Arch.Microbiol., 189 (5) 451-461.

da Silva S.M., Venceslau S.S., Fernandes C.L.V., Valente F.M.A. and Pereira I.A.C. (2008) Hydrogen metabolism of the human pathogen Bilophila wadsworthia, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 93 (4), 381-390

• Pereira I.A.C. (2007) “Membrane complexes in Desulfovibrio”, in Microbial Sulfur Metabolism, pp 24-35, Cornelius Friedrich and Christiane Dahl, Eds., Springer-Verlag.

• Valente F.M.A., Venceslau S.S., Regalla M., Coelho A.V., Pereira P.M. and Pereira I.A.C. (2007) The [NiFeSe] hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough is a bacterial lipoprotein lacking a typical lipoprotein signal peptide, FEBS Lett., 581, 18, 3341-3344

• Pereira I.A.C., Haveman S.A. and Voordouw G. (2007), “Biochemical, genetic and genomic characterization of anaerobic electron transport pathways in sulphate-reducing delta-proteobacteria”. for Sulphate-Reducing Bacteria: Environmental and Engineered Systems, pp 215-240, Larry L. Barton and W. Allan Hamilton Eds., Cambridge University Press


• Rodrigues M.L., Oliveira T., Pereira I. A. C. and Archer M. (2006) X-ray structure of the membrane-bound cytochrome c quinol dehydrogenase NrfH reveals novel heme coordination, EMBO J., 25, 5951–5960

• Gomes I., Di Paolo R.,  Pereira P. M., Pereira I. A. C., Saraiva L. M.,  Penadés S. and Franco R. (2006) Spectroelectrochemistry of Type II Cytochrome c3 on a Glycosylated Self-Assembled Monolayer, Langmuir, 22, 9809-9811

• Pereira P.M., Teixeira M., Xavier A.V., Louro R.O. and Pereira I.A.C. (2006) The Tmc complex from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough is involved in transmembrane electron transfer from periplasmic hydrogen oxidation, Biochemistry, 45, 10359 -10367

• Rodrigues M.L., Oliveira T., Matias P. M., Martins I. C., Valente F. M. A., Pereira I. A. C. and Archer M. (2006) Crystallization and preliminary structure determination of the membrane-bound complex cytochrome c nitrite reductase from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough, Acta Cryst. F62, 565-568

• Valente F.M.A., Almeida C.C., Pacheco I., Saraiva L.M. and Pereira I.A.C. (2006) Selenium is involved in regulation of periplasmic hydrogenases gene expression in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough, J. Bacteriol., 188, 3228-3235


• Di Paolo R.E., Pereira P.M., Gomes I., Valente F.M.A., Pereira I.A.C. and Franco R. (2006) Resonance Raman fingerprinting of multiheme cytochromes from the cytochrome c3 family, J. Biol. Inorg. Chem., 11, 217-224

• Pires, R.H., Venceslau S., Morais F., Teixeira M., Xavier A.V. and Pereira I.A.C. (2006) Characterization of the Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774 DsrMKJOP complex - a membrane-bound redox complex involved in sulfate respiration, Biochemistry, 45, 249-262

• Valente F.M.A., Oliveira, A.S.F., Gnadt N., Pacheco I., Coelho, A.V., Xavier A.V., Teixeira M., Soares, C.M. and Pereira I.A.C. (2005) Hydrogenases in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough - structural and physiologic characterisation of the membrane-bound [NiFeSe] hydrogenase, J. Biol. Inorg. Chem., 10, 667-682

• Matias, P.M., Pereira, I.A.C., Soares, C.M., Carrondo, M.A. (2005) Sulphate respiration from hydrogen in Desulfovibrio bacteria: a structural biology overview, Prog. Biophys. Mol. Biol., 89, 292-329

• Pereira I.A.C., Xavier A.V. (2005) “MultiHeme c Cytochromes and Enzymes”, in Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry, 2nd Edition, Editor R. Bruce King, vol. 5, pp 3360-3376,  John Wiley & Sons [pdf]

• Pires RH,Lourenço AI, Morais, F, Teixeira M, Xavier AV, Saraiva LM, and Pereira I.A.C. (2003) A novel membrane-bound respiratory complex from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774, Biochim. Biophys. Acta/Bioenergetics, 1605, 1-3, 67-82

• Rodrigues R, Valente FMA, Pereira IAC, Oliveira S and Rodrigues-Pousada C (2003) A novel membrane-bound Ech [NiFe] hydrogenase in Desulfovibrio gigas. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 306 (2), 366-375





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