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How Biology Handles Nitrite by Maia, Luisa B, Moura, José J. G

“…Nitrogen's biochemistry and signaling pathways that are involved in nitrite chemisry were explored. In order to generate nitrite-dependent signaling nitrogen…”
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Reduction of Carbon Dioxide by a Molybdenum-Containing Formate Dehydrogenase: A Kinetic and Mechanistic Study by Maia, Luisa B, Fonseca, Luis, Moura, Isabel, Moura, José J. G

“…Carbon dioxide accumulation is a major concern for the ecosystems, but its abundance and low cost make it an interesting source for the production of chemical…”
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The History of Desulfovibrio gigas Aldehyde Oxidoreductase-A Personal View by Moura, José J G

“…A story going back almost 40 years is presented in this manuscript. This is a different and more challenging way of reporting my research and I hope it will be…”
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Selenium-More than Just a Fortuitous Sulfur Substitute in Redox Biology by Maia, Luisa B, Maiti, Biplab K, Moura, Isabel, Moura, José J G

“…Living organisms use selenium mainly in the form of selenocysteine in the active site of oxidoreductases. Here, selenium's unique chemistry is believed to…”
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Nitrite Reductase Activity of Rat and Human Xanthine Oxidase, Xanthine Dehydrogenase, and Aldehyde Oxidase: Evaluation of Their Contribution to NO Formation in Vivo by Maia, Luisa B, Pereira, Vânia, Mira, Lurdes, Moura, José J. G

“…Nitrite is presently considered a NO “storage form” that can be made available, through its one-electron reduction, to maintain NO formation under…”
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Biochemical and Biophysical Characterization of the Caveolin-2 Interaction with Membranes and Analysis of the Protein Structural Alteration by the Presence of Cholesterol by Gorospe, Berta, Moura, José J G, Gutierrez-Merino, Carlos, Samhan-Arias, Alejandro K

“…Caveolin-2 is a protein suitable for the study of interactions of caveolins with other proteins and lipids present in caveolar lipid rafts. Caveolin-2 has a…”
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Periplasmic Nitrate Reductase and Formate Dehydrogenase: Similar Molecular Architectures with Very Different Enzymatic Activities by Cerqueira, Nuno M. F. S. A, Gonzalez, Pablo J, Fernandes, Pedro A, Moura, José J. G, Ramos, Maria João

“…It is remarkable how nature has been able to construct enzymes that, despite sharing many similarities, have simple but key differences that tune them for…”
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The Sulfur Shift: An Activation Mechanism for Periplasmic Nitrate Reductase and Formate Dehydrogenase by Cerqueira, Nuno M. F. S. A, Fernandes, Pedro A, Gonzalez, Pablo J, Moura, José J. G, Ramos, Maria J

“…A structural rearrangement known as sulfur shift occurs in some Mo-containing enzymes of the DMSO reductase family. This mechanism is characterized by the…”
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Insights into the Molybdenum/Copper Heterometallic Cluster Assembly in the Orange Protein: Probing Intermolecular Interactions with an Artificial Metal-Binding ATCUN Tag by Maiti, Biplab K, Almeida, Rui M, Maia, Luisa B, Moura, Isabel, Moura, José J. G

“…Orange protein (ORP) is a small bacterial protein, of unknown function, that contains a unique molybdenum/copper heterometallic cluster,…”
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Nitrite reduction by xanthine oxidase family enzymes: a new class of nitrite reductases by Maia, Luisa B, Moura, José J. G

“…Mammalian xanthine oxidase (XO) and Desulfovibrio gigas aldehyde oxidoreductase (AOR) are members of the XO family of mononuclear molybdoenzymes that catalyse…”
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The mechanism of formate oxidation by metal-dependent formate dehydrogenases by Mota, Cristiano S., Rivas, Maria G., Brondino, Carlos D., Moura, Isabel, Moura, José J. G., González, Pablo J., Cerqueira, Nuno M. F. S. A.

“…Metal-dependent formate dehydrogenases (Fdh) from prokaryotic organisms are members of the dimethyl sulfoxide reductase family of mononuclear…”
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Predicting Protein-Protein Interactions Using BiGGER: Case Studies by Almeida, Rui M, Dell'Acqua, Simone, Krippahl, Ludwig, Moura, José J G, Pauleta, Sofia R

“…The importance of understanding interactomes makes preeminent the study of protein interactions and protein complexes. Traditionally, protein interactions have…”
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Screening of Potential Stress Biomarkers in Sweat Associated with Sports Training by Nunes, Maria João, Cordas, Cristina M., Moura, José J. G., Noronha, João Paulo, Branco, Luís Cobra

“…Background Intense and continuous physical training in sports is related with psychological and physiological stress, affecting the health and well-being of…”
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Molybdenum and tungsten-dependent formate dehydrogenases by Maia, Luisa B., Moura, José J. G., Moura, Isabel

“…The prokaryotic formate metabolism is considerably diversified. Prokaryotes use formate in the C1 metabolism, but also evolved to exploit the low reduction…”
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Evaluation of Sweat-Sampling Procedures for Human Stress-Biomarker Detection by Nunes, Maria João, Moura, José J. G., Noronha, João Paulo, Branco, Luís Cobra, Samhan-Arias, Alejandro, Sousa, João P., Rouco, Carlos, Cordas, Cristina M.

“…Sweat is a potential biological fluid for the non-invasive analytical assessment of diverse molecules, including biomarkers. Notwithstanding, the sampling…”
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tetranuclear copper active site of nitrous oxide reductase: the CuZ center by Dell'Acqua, Simone, Pauleta, Sofia R, Moura, Isabel, Moura, José J. G

“…This review focuses on the novel CuZ center of nitrous oxide reductase, an important enzyme owing to the environmental significance of the reaction it…”
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Decavanadate interactions with actin: cysteine oxidation and vanadyl formation by Ramos, Susana, Duarte, Rui O, Moura, José J G, Aureliano, Manuel

“…Incubation of actin with decavanadate induces cysteine oxidation and oxidovanadium(IV) formation. The studies were performed combining kinetic with…”
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Molybdenum‐Copper Antagonism In Metalloenzymes And Anti‐Copper Therapy by Maiti, Biplab K., Moura, Isabel, Moura, José J. G.

“…The connection between 3d (Cu) and 4d (Mo) via the “Mo−S−Cu” unit is called Mo−Cu antagonism. Biology offers case studies of such interactions in…”
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The electron transfer complex between nitrous oxide reductase and its electron donors by Dell’Acqua, Simone, Moura, Isabel, Moura, José J. G., Pauleta, Sofia R.

“…Identifying redox partners and the interaction surfaces is crucial for fully understanding electron flow in a respiratory chain. In this study, we focused on…”
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Nitrite reduction by molybdoenzymes: a new class of nitric oxide-forming nitrite reductases by Maia, Luisa B., Moura, José J. G.

“…Nitric oxide (NO) is a signalling molecule involved in several physiological processes, in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and nitrite is being recognised as…”
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