Publications

Seixas I, Santos D, Vasconcelos I, Mira NP, Mendes-Ferreira A, Insights into the transcriptional regulation of poorly characterized alcohol acetyltransferase-encoding genes (HgAATs) sheds light into the production of acetate esters in Hanseniaspora guilliermondii, FEMS Yeast Res. (2023)(in press)(here)

Pedro NA, Fontebasso G, Pinto SN, Alves M and Mira NP, Acetate modulates the inhibitory effect of Lactobacillus gasseri against the pathogenic yeasts Candida albicans and Candida glabrata, Microbial Cell, 10(4):88-102(here)

Lage P, Coelho BB, Mira NP and Mendes-Ferreira A, A genome-wide phenotypic analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae response and tolerance to chitosan in conditions relevant for wine-making, Fermentation: 9(2)-172 (here)

Almada S,  Maia L,  Waerenborgh J,  Vieira BJC,  Mira NP,  Silva E,  Cerqueira F,  Pinto E  and Alves L, Cyclam-based iron(iii) and copper(ii) complexes: synthesis, characterization and application as antifungal agents, New Journal of Chemistry, 46: 16764-16770 (here)

Djukic-Vukovic A, Mira NP, Sedlakova-Kadukova, J, De Biase D and Lund P, Microbial Stress: From Model Organisms to Applications in Food, Microbiotechnology and Medicine (editorial article), Frontiers in Microbiology, 13: 945573  (here)

Salazar SB, Pinheiro MJF, Novais D, Soares AR, Lopes MM, Ferreira T, Rodrigues V, Fernandes F and Mira NP*, Disclosing azole resistance mechanisms in resistant C. glabrata strains encoding wild-type or gain-of-function CgPDR1 alleles through comparative genomics and transcriptomics, G3: Genes, Genomes and Genetics, 12:7  (here)

Nascimento M, Marques N, Correia J, Faria N*, Mira NP* and Ferreira FC*, An integrated perspective on microbe-based production of itaconic acid: from metabolic/strain engineering to bioprocess up and downstream design, Process Biochemistry  (here)

Vila-Santa A, Mendes FC, Ferreira FC, Prather KLJ and Mira NP*, Implementation of Synthetic Pathways to Foster Microbe-Based Production of Non-Naturally Occurring Carboxylic Acids and Derivatives, Journal of Fungi, 7(12), 1020 (here)

Pinheiro MJ, Costa JF, Marques F, Mira NP, Carvalho MFNN and Alves MMM, Bioactive Coatings with Ag-Camphorimine Complexes to Prevent Surface Colonization by the Pathogenic Yeast Candida albicans, Antibiotics, 10(6):638 (here)

Vila-Santa A., Islam MA, Ferreira FC, Prather KJ and Mira NP*, Prospecting biochemical pathways to implement microbe-based production of the new-to-nature platform chemical levulinic acid, ACS Synthetic Biology, 10, 4, 724–736, (2021)  (here)

Tavares MJ, Guldener U, Mendes-Ferreira A and Mira NP*, Genome sequencing, annotation and exploration of the SO2-tolerant non-conventional yeast Saccharomycodes ludwigii, BMC Genomics, 22: 131, (2021) (here)

Gonçalves B, Bernardo R, Wang C, Pedro NA, Butler G, Azeredo J, Henriques M, Mira NP, Silva S, Effect of progesterone on Candida albicans biofilm formation under acidic conditions: a transcriptomic analysis, International Journal of Medical Microbiology, 310: 151414, 2020 (here)

Salazar SB, Simões R, Pedro NA, Pinheiro MJF, Carvalho MFNN, Mira NP*, Conventional And Non-Conventional Therapeutic Approaches For The Treatment of Candidiasis: an overview, Journal of Fungi, 6(1):23, (2020) (here)

Sun W, Vila-Santa A, Liu N, Prozorov T, Xie D, Faria NT, Ferreira FC, Mira NP* and Shao Z*, Metabolic engineering of an acid-tolerant yeast strain Pichia kudriavzevii for itaconic acid production, Metabolic Engineering Communications, 10:e00124, (2020)   (here)

Andrade R, Doostmohammadi M, Santos JL, Sagot MF, Mira NP* and Vinga S*, MOMO - Multi-Objective Metabolic mixed integer Optimization: application to yeast strain engineering, BMC Bioinformatics, 21:69, (2020)   (here)

Esteves M, Barbosa C, Vasconcelos I, Tavares MJ, Mira NP and Mendes-Ferreira A, Characterizing the potential of the non-conventional yeast Saccharomycodes ludwigii UTAD17 in winemaking, Microrganisms, 7:11 (2019)  (here)

Costa J, Pinheiro MJF, Sousa AS, Rego AB, Marques F, Oliveira MC, Leitão JH*, Mira NP* and Carvalho MFNN*, Antimicrobial Activity of Silver Camphorimine Complexes against Candida Strains, Antibiotics, 8:144 (2019)  (here)

Souza JA, Alves MM, Barros Barbosa D, Lopes MM, Pinto E, Figueiral H, Delbem AC* and Mira NP*, Study of the activity of Punica granatum-mediated silver nanoparticles against Candida albicans and Candida glabrata, alone or in combination with azoles or polyenes, Medical Mycology, 1-4, (2019) (here)

Lage P, Sampaio Marques B, Ludovico P, Mira NP* and Mendes-Ferreira A*, Transcriptomic and chemogenomic analyses unveil the essential role of Com2-regulon in response and tolerance of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to stress induced by sulfur dioxide, Microbial Cell, 6(11):509-523, (2019)  (here)

Lourenço A, Pedro N, Salazar SB and Mira NP, Effect of acetic and lactic acids at a low pH in growth and azole resistance of Candida albicans and Candida glabrata, Frontiers in Microbiology, 9:3265, (2019) (here)

Seixas I, Barbosa C, Mendes-Faia A, Güldener U, Tenreiro R, Mendes-Ferreira A* and Mira NP*, Genome sequence of the non-conventional wine yeast Hanseniaspora guilliermondii UTAD222 unveils relevant traits of this species and of the Hanseniaspora genus in the context of wine fermentation, DNA Research, 26(1):67-83, (2019) (here)

Marques L, Alves MM, Eugénio S, Salazar SB, Pedro N, Grenho L, Mira NP, Fernandes MH and Montemor MF, Potential anti-cancer and anti-Candida activity of Zn-derived foams, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 6, 2821-2830, (2018) (here)

Alves MM, Marques LM, Nogueira I, Santos CF, Salazar SB, Eugénio S, Mira NP and Montemor F, In silico, in vitro and antifungal activity of the surface layers formed on zinc upon this biomaterial degradation, Applied Surface Science, 447:401-407,(2018) (here)

Alves MM, Cunha DV, Santos CF, Mira NP and Montemor F, Microstructured ZnO-rod like coating prevents biofilm formation prompted by pathogenic Candida spp, Ceramics International, 44(4), 4467-4472, 2018 (here)

Salazar SB, Wang C, Munsterkotter M, Okamoto M, Takahashi-Nakaguchi A, Chibana H, Lopes MM, Guldener U, Butler G and Mira NP, Comparative genomic and transcriptomic analyses unveil novel features of azole resistance and adaptation to the human host in Candida glabrata, FEMS Yeast Res, 18(1), (2018) (here)

Cunha D*, Salazar B*, Lopes MM and Mira NP, Mechanistic insights underlying tolerance to acetic acid stress in vaginal Candida glabrata isolates, Frontiers in Microbiology, 8:259 (2017) (here)

Bernardo R, Cunha DV, Wang C, Pereira L, Silva S, Salazar SB, Schroeder MS, Okamoto M, Takahashi-Nakaguchi A, Chibana H, Aoyoama T, Sá-Correia I, Azeredo J, Butler G and Mira NP, The CgHaa1-regulon mediates response and tolerance to acetic acid stress in the human pathogen Candida glabrata, G3: Genes, Genomes and Genetics, 7: 1-18, (2017) (here)