Gouveia A, Pinto D, Veiga H, Antunes W, Pinho MG, São-José C. Synthetic antimicrobial peptides as enhancers of the bacteriolytic action of staphylococcal phage endolysins. Sci Rep. 2022

Pinto D, da Fonseca RR. Evolution of the extracytoplasmic function σ factor protein family. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, 2 (1). 2020

Wiegand S, Jogler M, Boedeker C, Pinto D, Vollmers J, Rivas-Marín E, Kohn T, Peeters S, Heuer A, Rast P, Oberbeckmann S, Bunk B, Jeske O, Meyerdierks A, Storesund J E, Kallscheuer N, Lücker S, Lage O M, Pohl T, Merkel B J, Hornburger P, Brümmer F, Labrenz M, Spormann A M, Camp H o d, Overmann J, Amann R, Jetten M S M, Mascher T,Medema M, Devos, D P, Kaster A-K, Øvreås L, Rhode M, Galperin M Y, Jogler C. Cultivation and functional characterization of 79 Planctomycetes uncovers their unique biology. Nat Microbiol. 2019

Pinto D *, Liu Q*, Mascher T. ECF σ factors with regulatory extensions: The one‐component systems of the σ universe. Mol Microbiol. 2019

Tran N T , Huang X, Hong H-J, Bush M J, Chandra G, Pinto D, Bibb M J, Hutchings M I, Mascher T, Buttner, M J. Defining the regulon of genes controlled by σE, a key regulator of the cell envelope stress response in Streptomyces coelicolor. Mol Microbiol. 2019

Pinto D, Dürr F, Froriep F, Araújo D, Liu Q, Mascher T. Extracytoplasmic Function σ Factors Can Be Implemented as Robust Heterologous Genetic Switches in Bacillus subtilis. iScience. 2019

Liu Q, Pinto D, Mascher T. Characterization of the Widely Distributed Novel ECF42 Group of Extracytoplasmic Function σ Factors in Streptomyces venezuelae. J Bacteriol. 2018; 200 (21).

Pinto D*, Vecchione S*, Wu H, Mauri M, Mascher T, Fritz G. Engineering orthogonal synthetic timer circuits based on extracytoplasmic function σ factors. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018; 46(14):7450-7464.

Kleine B, Chattopadhyay A, Polen T, Pinto D, Mascher T, Bott M, Brocker M, Freudl R. The three-component system EsrISR regulates a cell envelope stress response in Corynebacterium glutamicum. Mol Microbiol. 2017; 106(5):719-741.

Pinto D, Mascher T. (Actino)Bacterial "intelligence": using comparative genomics to unravel the information processing capacities of microbes. Curr Genet. 2016; 62(3):487-98.

Pinto D, Mascher T. The ECF classification: a phylogenetic reflection of the regulatory diversity in the extracytoplasmic function sigma factor protein family. In: de Bruijn FJ (ed), Stress and Environmental Regulation of Gene Expression and Adaptation in Bacteria, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2016; Chapter 2.6, pp 64-96.

Huang X*, Pinto D*, Fritz G, Mascher T. Environmental Sensing in Actinobacteria: a Comprehensive Survey on the Signaling Capacity of This Phylum. J Bacteriol. 2015; 197(15):2517-35.

Pinto D, Santos MA, Chambel L. Thirty years of viable but nonculturable state research: unsolved molecular mechanisms. Crit Rev Microbiol. 2015; 41(1):61-76.

Pinto D, São-José C, Santos MA, Chambel L. Characterization of two resuscitation promoting factors of Listeria monocytogenes. Microbiology. 2013; 159:1390-401.

Pinto D, Ruivo M, Vandamme P, Lopes M de FS. Hospital-adapted clonal complex 17 Enterococcus faecium found among sand enterococcal isolates. Journal of Envirinmental Protection. 2012; 3:74-82.

Rigottier-Gois L, Alberti A, Houel A, Taly JF, Palcy P, Manson J, Pinto D, Matos RC, Carrilero L, Montero N, Tariq M, Karsens H, Repp C, Kropec A, Budin-Verneuil A, Benachour A, Sauvageot N, Bizzini A, Gilmore MS, Bessières P, Kok J, Huebner J, Lopes F, Gonzalez-Zorn B, Hartke A, Serror P. Large-scale screening of a targeted Enterococcus faecalis mutant library identifies envelope fitness factors. PLoS One. 2011;6(12):e29023.

Pinto D, Almeida V, Almeida Santos M, Chambel L. Resuscitation of Escherichia coli VBNC cells depends on a variety of environmental or chemical stimuli. J Appl Microbiol. 2011;110(6):1601-11.