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2023
Veiga, H, Jousselin A, Schaeper S, Marques LB, Reed P, Saraiva BM, Wilton J, Filipe SR, Pinho MG.  2023.  Cell division protein FtsK coordinates bacterial chromosome segregation and daughter cell separation. EMBO J. 42:e112140.
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
Saraiva, BM, Krippahl L, Filipe SR, Henriques R, Pinho MG.  2021.  eHooke: a tool for automated image analysis of spherical bacteria based on cell cycle progression. Biological Imaging. 1:e3.
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.
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.
Szymczak, P, Rau MH, Monteiro JM, Pinho MG, Filipe SR, Vogensen FK, Zeidan AA, Janzen T.  2019.  A comparative genomics approach for identifying host-range determinants in Streptococcus thermophilus bacteriophages. Scientific Reports. 9(1):7991.
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.
2018
Monteiro, JM, Pereira AR, Reichmann NT, Saraiva BM, Fernandes PB, Veiga H, Tavares AC, Santos M, Ferreira MT, Macário V, VanNieuwenhze MS, Filipe SR, Pinho MG.  2018.  Peptidoglycan synthesis drives an FtsZ-treadmilling-independent step of cytokinesis. Nature. 554:528-532.
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.
2015
Monteiro, JM, Fernandes PB, Vaz F, Pereira AR, Tavares AC, Ferreira MT, Pereira PM, Veiga H, Kuru E, VanNieuwenhze M, Brun YV, Filipe SR, Pinho MG.  2015.  Cell shape dynamics during the staphylococci cell cycle. Nat. Commun. 6:8055.
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.
Reed, P, Atilano ML, Alves R, Hoiczyk E, Sher X, Reichmann NT, Pereira PM, Roemer T, Filipe SR, Pereira-Leal JB, Ligoxygakis P, Pinho MG.  2015.  Staphylococcus aureus survives with a minimal peptidoglycan synthesis machinery but sacrifices virulence and antibiotic resistance. PLoS Pathogens. 11:e1004891.
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.
2010
Atilano, ML, Pereira PM, Yates J, Reed P, Veiga H, Pinho* MG, Filipe* SR.  2010.  Teichoic acids are temporal and spatial regulators of peptidoglycan cross-linking in Staphylococcus aureus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 107:18991-18996.
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.
2007
Pereira, PM, Filipe SR, Tomasz A, Pinho MG.  2007.  Fluorescence ratio imaging microscopy shows decreased access of vancomycin to cell wall synthetic sites in vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 51:3627-3633.
2006
Payne, BT, van Knippenberg IC, Bell H, Filipe SR, Sherratt DJ, McGlynn P.  2006.  Replication fork blockage by transcription factor—DNA complexes in Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Res. 2006:5194-5202.
Possoz*, C, Filipe* SR, Grainge I, Sherratt DJ.  2006.  Tracking of controlled Escherichia coli replication fork stalling and restart at repressor-bound DNA in vivo. EMBO J. 25:2596-2604.
2001
Pinho, MG, Filipe SR, de Lencastre H, Tomasz A.  2001.  Complementation of the essential peptidoglycan transpeptidase function of penicillin-binding protein (PBP) 2 by the drug resistance protein PBP2A in Staphylococcus aureus. J. Bacteriol. 183:6525-6531.
2000
Filipe, SR, Pinho MG, Tomasz A.  2000.  Characterization of the murMN operon involved in the synthesis of branched peptidoglycan peptides in Streptococcus pneumoniae. J. Biol. Chem. 275:27768-27774.
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.