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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Vaz, F, Filipe SR.  2015.  Preparation and Analysis of Crude Autolytic Enzyme Extracts from Staphylococcus aureus. Bio-protocol. 5:e1687.
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.
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.