Microbiologia

Alarico S, da Costa MS, Empadinhas N (2008) Molecular and physiological role of the trehalose-hydrolyzing alpha-glucosidase from Thermus thermophilus HB27. J. Bacteriol. 190(7):2298-305.

Albuquerque L, Rainey FA, Nobre MF, da Costa MS (2008) Elioraea tepidiphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a slightly thermophilic member of the Alphaproteobacteria. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 58(Pt 4):773-8.

Albuquerque L, Tiago I, Taborda M, Nobre MF, Veríssimo A, da Costa MS (2008) Bacillus isabeliae sp. nov., a halophilic bacterium isolated from a sea salt evaporation pond. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 58(Pt 1):226-30.

Alves M, Nogueira C, de Magalhães-Santana A, Chung AP, Morais PV, da Costa MS (2008) Nosocomiicoccus ampullae gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the surface of bottles of saline solution used in wound cleansing. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 58(Pt 12):2939-44.

Antunes A, Rainey FA, Wanner G, Taborda M, Pätzold J, Nobre MF, da Costa MS, Huber R (2008) A new lineage of halophilic, wall-less, contractile bacteria from a brine-filled deep of the Red Sea. J. Bacteriol. 190(10):3580-7.

Antunes A, Taborda M, Huber R, Moissl C, Nobre MF, da Costa MS (2008) Halorhabdus tiamatea sp. nov., a non-pigmented, extremely halophilic archaeon from a deep-sea, hypersaline anoxic basin of the Red Sea, and emended description of the genus Halorhabdus. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 58(Pt 1):215-20.

Callegan RP, Nobre MF, McTernan PM, Battista JR, Navarro-González R, McKay CP, da Costa MS, Rainey FA (2008) Description of four novel psychrophilic, ionizing radiation-sensitive Deinococcus species from alpine environments. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 58(Pt 5):1252-8.

Cava F, Zafra O, da Costa MS, Berenguer J (2008) The role of the nitrate respiration element of Thermus thermophilus in the control and activity of the denitrification apparatus. Environ. Microbiol. 10(2):522-33.

Empadinhas N, Albuquerque L, Mendes V, Macedo-Ribeiro S, da Costa MS (2008) Identification of the mycobacterial glucosyl-3-phosphoglycerate synthase. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 280(2):195-202.

Empadinhas N, da Costa MS. 2008. Osmoadaptation mechanisms in prokaryotes: distribution of compatible solutes. Int Microbiol. 11(3):151-61.

Empadinhas N, da Costa MS (2008) To be or not to be a compatible solute: bioversatility of mannosylglycerate and glucosylglycerate. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 31(3):159-68.

Hipolito E, Faria E, Alves AF, de Hoog GS, Anjos J, Gonçalves T, Morais PV, Estevão H (2008) Alternaria infectoria brain abscess in a child with chronic granulomatous disease. Eur. J. Clin Microbiol Infect. Dis. 28: 377-380.

Nobre A, Alarico S, Fernandes C, Empadinhas N, da Costa MS (2008) A unique combination of genetic systems for the synthesis of trehalose in Rubrobacter xylanophilus: properties of a rare actinobacterial TreT. J. Bacteriol. 190(24):7939-46.

Paulo C, Mourão C, Veiga PM, Marques JM, Rocha G, Alves AF; Querol A, Meliço-Silvestre AA, Gonçalves I, Flores, ClementeC, Gonçalves T (2008) Retrospective analysis of clinical yeast isolates in a hospital in the centre of Portugal: spectrum and revision of the identification procedures. Med. Mycol. DOI: 10.1080/13693780802709081.

Pereira PJ, Empadinhas N, Albuquerque L, Sá-Moura B, da Costa MS, Macedo-Ribeiro S (2008) Mycobacterium tuberculosis glucosyl-3-phosphoglycerate synthase: structure of a key enzyme in methylglucose lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis. PLoS ONE 3(11):e3748.

Sá-Moura B, Albuquerque L, Empadinhas N, da Costa MS, Pereira PJ, Macedo-Ribeiro S (2008) Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of mannosyl-3-phosphoglycerate synthase fromRubrobacter xylanophilus. Acta Crystallogr. Sec.t F. Struct. Biol. Cryst. Commun. 1;64(Pt 8):760-3.