Publications

Lígia O. Martins, Cláudio M. Soares, Manuela M. Pereira, Miguel Teixeira, Teresa Costa, George H. Jones, Adriano Henriques. 2002. Molecular and biochemical characterization of a highly stable bacterial laccase that occurs as a structural component of the Bacillus subtilis endospore coat. J. Biol. Chem. 277: 18849-59. (PDF)

Francisco J. Enguita, Pedro M. Matias, Lígia O. Martins, Diana Plácido, Adriano O. Henriques, Maria Arménia Carrondo. 2002. Spore-coat laccase CotA from Bacillus subtilis: crystallization and preliminary X-ray characterization by the MAD method. Acta Crystal. 58: 1490-93. (PDF)

Francisco J. Enguita, Lígia O. Martins, Adriano O. Henriques, Maria Arménia Carrondo. 2003. Crystal structure of a bacterial endospore coat component: a laccase with enhanced thermostability properties. J. Biol. Chem. 278: 19416-25. (PDF)

Francisco J. Enguita, David Marçal, Lígia O. Martins, Rosa Grenha, Adriano O. Henriques, Peter F. Lindley, Maria Arménia Carrondo. 2004. Substrate and dioxygen binding to the endospore coat laccase from Bacillus subtilis. J. Biol. Chem. 279: 23472-76. (PDF)

Adriano O. Henriques, Teresa Costa, Lígia O. Martins, Rita Zilhão. 2004. Functional architecture and assembly of the spore coat. In "Bacterial Spores: Probiotics and Emerging Applications". (Ezio Ricca, Adriano O. Henriques, and Simon M. Cutting, eds.). Horizon Scientific Press, London, UK.

Isabel Bento, Lígia O. Martins, Gonçalo G. Lopes, Maria Arménia Carrondo, Peter F. Lindley. 2005. Dioxygen reduction by multicopper oxidases: a structural perspective. Dalton Transactions. 3507-13. (PDF)

Paulo Durão, Isabel Bento, André T. Fernandes, Eduardo P. Melo, Peter F. Lindley, Lígia O. Martins. 2006. Perturbations of the T1 copper site in the CotA-laccase from Bacillus subtilis: structural, biochemical, enzymatic and stability studies. J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 11: 514-526 (PDF)

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André T. Fernandes, Cláudio M. Soares, Manuela M. Pereira, Robert Huber, Gregor Grass, Lígia O. Martins. 2007. A robust metallo-oxidase from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus. FEBS J. 274: 2683-94 (PDF)

Maria C. Sanchez-Sutil, Nuria Gomez-Santos, Aurélio Moraleda-Munoz, Lígia O. Martins, Juana Perez, José Munoz-Dorado. 2007. Differential expression of the three multicopper oxidases from Myxococcus xanthus. J. Bacteriol. 189: 4887-4898 (PDF)

Eduardo P. Melo, André T. Fernandes, Paulo Durão, Lígia O. Martins. 2007. Insight into stability of CotA-laccase from the spore coat of Bacillus subtilis. Biochem. Soc. Trans. 35: 1579-82 (PDF)

Paulo Durão, Zhenjia Chen, André T. Fernandes, Peter Hildebrandt, Daniel H. Murgida, Smilja Todorovic, Manuela M. Pereira, Eduardo P. Melo, Lígia O. Martins. 2008. Copper incorporation into recombinant CotA-laccase from Bacillus subtilis: characterization of fully copper loaded enzymes. J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 13:183-93 (PDF)

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. 2008. Proximal mutations at the type 1 copper site of CotA-laccase; spectroscopic, redox, kinetic and structural characterization of I494A and L386A mutants. Biochem. J. 412: 339-346 . (PDF)

André T Fernandes, Lígia O. Martins, Eduardo P. Melo. 2009. The hyperthermophilic nature of the metallo-oxidase from Aquifex aeolicus. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 1794: 75-83 (PDF)

Luciana Pereira, Ana V. Coelho, Cristina A. Viegas, Margarida M. Correia dos Santos, Maria Paula Robalo, Lígia O. Martins. 2009. Enzymatic biotransformation of the azo dye sudan orange G with bacterial CotA-laccase. J Biotechnology. 139: 68-77. (PDF)

Vânia Brissos, Luciana Pereira, Florentina-Daniela Munteanu, Artur Cavaco-Paulo, Lígia O. Martins. 2009. Expression system of CotA-laccase for directed evolution and high-throughput screenings for the oxidation of high-redox potential dyes. Biotechnol. J. 4: 558-563. (PDF)

Luciana Pereira, Ana V. Coelho, Cristina A. Viegas, Christelle Ganachaud, Gilles Iacazio, Thierry Tron, M. Paula Robalo, Lígia O. Martins. 2009. On the mechanism of biotransformation of the anthraquinonic dye acid blue 62 by laccases. Adv. Synth. Catal. 351: 1857-1865 (PDF)

Zhenjia Chen, Paulo Durão, Catarina S. Silva, Manuela M. Pereira, Smilja Todorovic, Peter Hildebrandt, Isabel Bento, Peter F. Lindley and Lígia O. Martins. 2010. The role of Glu⁴⁹⁸ in the dioxygen reactivity of CotA-laccase from Bacillus subtilis. Dalton Transactions. 39: 2875-2882 (PDF)

André T Fernandes, João M. Damas, Smilja Todorovic, Robert Huber, M. Camilla Baratto, Rebecca Pogni, Cláudio M. Soares and Lígia O. Martins. 2010. The multicopper oxidase from the archaeon Pyrobaculum aerophilum shows nitrous oxide reductase activity. FEBS J. 277: 3176-3189 (PDF)

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