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Bras, JLA, Carvalho AL, Viegas A, Najmudin S, Alves VD, Prates JAM, Ferreira LMA, Romao MJ, Gilbert HJ, Fontes CMGA.  2012.  ESCHERICHIA COLI EXPRESSION, PURIFICATION, CRYSTALLIZATION, AND STRUCTURE DETERMINATION OF BACTERIAL COHESIN-DOCKERIN COMPLEXES. Cellulases. 510(Gilbert, H. J., Ed.).:395-415. Abstract
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Bras, JLA, Cartmell A, Carvalho ALM, Verze G, Bayer EA, Vazana Y, Correia MAS, Prates JAM, Ratnaparkhe S, Boraston AB, Romao MJ, Fontes CMGA, Gilbert HJ.  2011.  Structural insights into a unique cellulase fold and mechanism of cellulose hydrolysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108:5237-5242., Number 13 AbstractWebsite
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Bras, JLA, Alves VD, Carvalho AL, Najmudin S, Prates JAM, Ferreira LMA, Bolam DN, Romao MJ, Gilbert HJ, Fontes CMGA.  2012.  Novel Clostridium thermocellum Type I Cohesin-Dockerin Complexes Reveal a Single Binding Mode. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287:44394-44405., Number 53 AbstractWebsite
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Bonifacio, C, Cunha CA, Muller A, Timoteo CG, Dias JM, Moura I, Romao MJ.  2003.  Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of the di-haem cytochrome c peroxidase from Pseudomonas stutzeri. Acta Crystallographica Section D-Biological Crystallography. 59:345-347. AbstractWebsite
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Boer, DR, Thapper A, Brondino CD, Romao MJ, Moura JJG.  2004.  X-ray crystal structure and EPR spectra of "arsenite-inhibited" Desulfovibrio gigas aldehyde dehydrogenase: A member of the xanthine oxidase family. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 126:8614-8615., Number 28 AbstractWebsite
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Boer, DR, Muller A, Fetzner S, Lowe DJ, Romao MJ.  2005.  On the purification and preliminary crystallographic analysis of isoquinoline 1-oxidoreductase from Brevundimonas diminuta 7. Acta Crystallographica Section F-Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications. 61:137-140. AbstractWebsite
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Aveiro, SS, Freire F, Clayton J, Cameloc M, Carvalho AL, Ferreira GC, Romao MJ, Macedo AL, Goodfellow BJ.  2012.  Structural studies of the p22HBP/SOUL family of heme-binding proteins. Febs Journal. 279:458-458. AbstractWebsite
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Archer, M, Huber R, Tavares P, Moura I, Moura JJG, Carrondo MA, Sieker LC, Legall J, Romao MJ.  1995.  CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE OF DESULFOREDOXIN FROM DESULFOVIBRIO-GIGAS DETERMINED AT 1.8 ANGSTROM RESOLUTION - A NOVEL NONHEME IRON PROTEIN-STRUCTURE. Journal of Molecular Biology. 251:690-702., Number 5 AbstractWebsite
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Archer, M, Carvalho AL, Teixeira S, Moura I, Moura JJG, Rusnak F, Romao MJ.  1999.  Structural studies by X-ray diffraction on metal substituted desulforedoxin, a rubredoxin-type protein. Protein Science. 8:1536-1545., Number 7 AbstractWebsite
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Archer, M, Banci L, Dikaya E, Romao MJ.  1997.  Crystal structure of cytochrome c' from Rhodocyclus gelatinosus and comparison with other cytochromes c'. Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. 2:611-622., Number 5 AbstractWebsite
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Almeida, MG, Macieira S, Goncalves LL, Huber R, Cunha CA, Romao MJ, Costa C, Lampreia J, Moura JJG, Moura I.  2003.  The isolation and characterization of cytochrome c nitrite reductase subunits (NrfA and NrfH) from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774 - Re-evaluation of the spectroscopic data and redox properties. European Journal of Biochemistry. 270:3904-3915., Number 19 AbstractWebsite
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Bluepharma / University of Coimbra Innovation Award (2013 edition)

 Angelina Sá Palma, Maria João Romão and Ana Luísa Carvalho integrate the winning team, headed by researcher Paula Videira, from FCM-UNL.

Best Poster Award in the 3rd ENURS & ESRF Day

 On April 8th, Viviana Correia was awarded the Prize for Best Poster entitled “Implementation of the Microarray Technology for studying molecular interactions of the bacterial Cellulosome”, in the 3rd ENURS & ESRF Day, that took place in Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (

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Fundamentals of Structural Biology (FBE) - 3 ECTS

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Clara Immenwahr Award

 The cluster of excellence “Unifying Concepts in Catalysis” (UniCat) has presented Dr. Teresa Santos-Silva with the 2014 Clara Immenwahr Award on February 21st at the Technische Universität Berlin. The chemist is being honoured for her outstanding contributions to the field of aldehyde oxidase enzymes, a group of enzymes that are important for all vertebrates.