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2022
Figueiredo, J, Henriques MX, Catalão MJ, Pinheiro S, Narciso AR, Mesquita F, Saraiva BM, Carido M, Cabanes D, Pinho MG, Filipe SR.  2022.  Encapsulation of the septal cell wall protects Streptococcus pneumoniae from its major peptidoglycan hydrolase and host defenses. PLoS Pathogens. 18:e1010516.
2021
Gigante, AM, Olivença F, Catalão MJ, Moniz-Pereira J, Filipe SR, Pimentel M.  2021.  The Mycobacteriophage Ms6 LysB N-terminus Displays Peptidoglycan Binding Affinity. Viruses. 13(7):1377.
2020
Queda, F, Covas G, Filipe* SR, Marques* MMB.  2020.  Assembly of peptidoglycan fragments – a synthetic challenge. Pharmaceuticals. 13(11):392.
2019
Vaz, F, Kounatidis I, Covas G, Parton RM, Harkiolaki M, Davis I, Filipe* SR, Ligoxygakis* P.  2019.  Accessibility to peptidoglycan is important for recognition of Gram-positive bacteria in Drosophila. Cell Reports. 27(8):2480-2492.
Monteiro, JM, Covas G, Rausch D, Filipe SR, Schneider T, Sahl HG, Pinho MG.  2019.  The pentaglycine bridges of Staphylococcus aureus peptidoglycan are essential for cell integrity. Scientific Reports. 9(1):5010.
Catalão, MJ, Filipe SR, Pimentel M.  2019.  Revisiting anti-tuberculosis therapeutic strategies that target the peptidoglycan structure and synthesis. Front. Microbiol. 10:190.
Queda, F, Covas G, Silva T, Santos CA, Bronze MR, Canada FJ, Corvo M, Filipe* SR, Marques* MMB.  2019.  A top-down chemo-enzymatic approach towards N-acetylglucosamine-N-acetylmuramic oligosaccharides: chitosan as a reliable template. Carbohydrate Polymers. 224:115133.
2018
Szymczak, P, Filipe SR, Covas G, Vogensen FK, Neves AR, Janzen T.  2018.  Cell wall glycans mediate recognition of the dairy bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus by bacteriophages. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 84(23):e01847-18.
Carvalho, LC, Queda F, Almeida CV, Filipe SR, Marques MMM.  2018.  From a natural polymer to relevant NAG-NAM precursors. Asian J Org Chem.. 7(12):2544-2551.
2017
Dajkovic, A, Tesson B, Chauhan S, Courtin P, Keary R, Flores P, Marliere C, Filipe SR, Chapot-Chartier M-P, Carballido-Lopez R.  2017.  Hydrolysis of Peptidoglycan is Modulated by Amidation of meso-Diaminopimelic Acid and Mg2+ in Bacillus subtilis. Mol. Microbiol. 104:972-988.
2016
Vaz, F, Covas G, Pinho MG, Filipe SR.  2016.  Analysis of cell wall teichoic acids in Staphylococcus aureus. Methods Mol. Biol. 1440:201-13.
Gravato-Nobre, MJ, Vaz F, Filipe S, Chalmers R, Hodgkin J.  2016.  The invertebrate lysozyme effector ILYS-3 is systemically activated in response to danger signals and confers antimicrobial protection in C. elegans. PLoS Pathogens. 15:e1005826.
2015
Carvalho, F, Atilano ML, Pombinho R, Covas G, Gallo RL, Filipe SR, Sousa S, Cabanes D.  2015.  L-Rhamnosylation of Listeria monocytogenes wall teichoic acids promotes resistance to antimicrobial peptides by delaying interaction with the membrane. PLoS Pathogens. 11:e1004919.
Greene, NG, Narciso AR, Filipe SR, Camilli A.  2015.  Peptidoglycan branched stem peptides contribute to Streptococcus pneumoniae virulence by inhibiting pneumolysin release. PLoS Pathogens. 11:e1004996.
2014
Atilano, ML, Pereira PM, Vaz F, Catalão MJ, Reed P, Grilo IR, Sobral RG, Ligoxygakis P, Pinho MG, Filipe SR.  2014.  Bacterial autolysins trim cell surface peptidoglycan to prevent detection by the Drosophila innate immune system. eLife. 3:e02277.
Rueff, A-S, Chastanet A, Dominguez-Escobar J, Yao Z, Yates J, Prejean M-V, Delumeau O, P. Noirot, Wedlich-Soldner R, Filipe SR, Carballido-Lopez R.  2014.  An early cytoplasmic step of peptidoglycan synthesis is associated to MreB in Bacillus subtilis. Mol. Microbiol. 91:348-362.
Catalao, MJ, Figueiredo J, Henriques MX, Gomes JP, Filipe SR.  2014.  Optimization of fluorescent tools for cell biology studies in Gram-positive bacteria. PLoS One. 9:e113796.
2013
Henriques, MX, Catalão MJ, Figueiredo J, Gomes JP, Filipe SR.  2013.  Construction of improved tools for protein localization studies in Streptococcus pneumoniae. PLoS One. 8:e55049.
2011
Henriques, MX, Rodrigues T, Carido M, Ferreira L, Filipe SR.  2011.  Synthesis of capsular polysaccharide at the division septum of Streptococcus pneumoniae is dependent on a bacterial tyrosine kinase. Mol. Microbiol. 82:515-534.
2008
Memmi, G, Filipe SR, Pinho MG, Fu Z, Cheung A.  2008.  Staphylococcus aureus PBP4 is essential for beta-lactams resistance in community-acquired methicillin resistant strains. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 52:3955-3966.
1999
de Lencastre, H, Wu SW, Pinho MG, Ludovice AM, Filipe S, Gardete S, Sobral R, Gill S, Chung M, Tomasz A.  1999.  Antibiotic resistance as a stress response: complete sequencing of a large number of chromosomal loci in Staphylococcus aureus strain COL that impact on the expression of resistance to methicillin. Microb. Drug Resist. 5:163-175.