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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.
Vaz, F, Covas G, Pinho MG, Filipe SR.  2016.  Analysis of cell wall teichoic acids in Staphylococcus aureus. Methods Mol. Biol. 1440:201-13.
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.
Queda, F, Covas G, Filipe* SR, Marques* MMB.  2020.  Assembly of peptidoglycan fragments – a synthetic challenge. Pharmaceuticals. 13(11):392.
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.
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.
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.
Fiser, A, Filipe SR, Tomasz A.  2003.  Cell wall branches, penicillin resistance and the secrets of the MurM protein. Trends Microbiol. 11:547-553.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Filipe, SR, Severina E, Tomasz A.  2000.  Distribution of the mosaic structured murM genes among natural populations of Streptococcus pneumoniae. J. Bacteriol. 182:6798-6805.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Filipe, SR, Severina E, Tomasz A.  2001.  Functional analysis of Streptococcus pneumoniae MurM reveals the region responsible for its specificity in the synthesis of peptidoglycan branched peptides. J. Biol. Chem. 276:39618-39628.
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.
Filipe, SR, Tomasz A.  2000.  Inhibition of the expression of penicillin resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae by inactivation of cell wall muropeptide branching genes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 97:4891-4896.
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.
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.
Aggarwal, SD, Lloyd* AJ, Yerneni SS, Narciso AR, Shepherd J, Roper DI, Dowson C, Filipe* SR, Hiller* NL.  2021.  A Molecular Link between Cell Wall Biosynthesis, Translation Fidelity, and Stringent Response in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 118(14):e2018089118.