Articles

Original Articles in International Peer Reviewed Journals

2025

Beas, J. Z., Folgosa, F., Karavaeva, V., Sousa, F. L., Saraiva, L. M., A novel type of hemoglobin confers host-derived nitric oxide resistance to the opportunistic pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii, 2025, Scientific Reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-88123-z

Martins, M. C., Silveira, C. M., Teixeira, M., Folgosa, F., An iron–sulfur cluster as a new metal center in a flavodiiron protein, 2025, Protein Science, https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.70204

Lotoux, A., Caulat, L., Alves, C.M., Feliciano, C. A., Morvan, C., Folgosa F., Martin-Verstraete, I., Defense arsenal of the strict anaerobe Clostridioides difficile against reactive oxygen species encountered during its infection cycle, 2025, mBio, https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.03753-24

Malych, R., Folgosa, F., Pilátová, J., Mikeš, L., Dohnálek, V., Mach, J., Matějková, M., Kopecký, V., Doležal, P., Sutak, R., Eating the brain - A multidisciplinary study provides new insights into the mechanisms underlying the cytopathogenicity of Naegleria fowleri, 2025, Plos Pathogens, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012995

Viola, C., Laia, C. A.T., Ferreira, L.F.V., Folgosa, F., Veiga, J. P., Lima, J.C., Ruivo, A., Avó, J., Selenium-doped zeolites as sustainable NIR emitters: a comprehensive photophysical study, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1039/d5tc02810h

2024

Caulat, L.C., Lotoux,A., Martins,M.C., Kint, N., Anjou, C., Teixeira, M.,  Folgosa, F., Morvan, C.,  Martin-Verstraete, I., Physiological role and complex regulation of O₂-reducing enzymes in the obligate anaerobe Clostridioides difficile, mBio, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.01591-24

Martins, M.C., Alves, C.M., Teixeira, M., Folgosa, F., The flavodiiron protein from Syntrophomonas wolfei has five domains and acts both as an NADH:O2 or an NADH:H₂O₂ oxidoreductase, FEBS Journal, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.17040

2023

Viola, C., Laia, C.A.T., Outis, M., Ferreira, L. F.V., Alves, L. C., Teixeira, M., Folgosa, F., Lima, J.C., Ruivo, A., Avó, J., Long-lived NIR emission in sulfur-doped zeolites due to the presence of [S₃]^2- clusters, Materials Today Chemistry, 2023, 30, 101514, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtchem.2023.101514

2021

Fernandes, T.M., Folgosa, F., Teixeira, M., Salgueiro, C.A., Morgado, L., Structural and functional insights of GSU0105, a unique multiheme cytochrome from G. sulfurreducens, Biophysical Journal, 2021, 120, 5395, 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2021.10.023

Martins, M.C.; Fernandes, S.F.; Salgueiro, B.A.; Soares, J.C.; Romão, C.V.; Soares, C.M.; Lousa, D.; Folgosa, F.; Teixeira, M. The Amino Acids Motif -32GSSYN36- in the Catalytic Domain of E. coli Flavorubredoxin NO Reductase Is Essential for Its Activity. Catalysts 2021, 11, 926. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal11080926

2020

Kint N, Alves Feliciano C, Martins MC, Morvan C, Fernandes SF, Folgosa F, Dupuy B, Texeira M, Martin-Verstraete I., 2020, How the Anaerobic Enteropathogen Clostridioides difficile Tolerates Low O₂ Tensions, mBio 2020 11 (5): e01559-20

F. Folgosa,V. Pelmenschikov, M. Keck, C. Lorent,.Y. Yoda, J. A. Birrell, M. Kaupp, M. Teixeira, K.Tamasaku,.C. Limberg, L. Lauterbach, 2020, Hydroxo-bridged active site of a flavodiironNO reductase revealed by spectroscopy and computations, Chemxiv 12928331

2018

Folgosa, F, Martins, M.C, Teixeira, M, 2018, The multidomain flavodiiron protein from Clostridium difficile 630 is an NADH:oxygen oxidoreductase, Scien. Reports,  8(1):10164.

F. Folgosa,  M. C. Martins,  M. Teixeira, 2018, Diversity and Complexity of Flavodiiron Proteins, , FEMS Microb. Lett. 365, fnx267