Luana de Fatima Alves
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Recent Articles
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Alves L, Moore J, Kell D
Int J Mol Sci
. 2024 Aug;
25(16).
PMID: 39201768
Kynurenic acid (KYNA) is an antioxidant degradation product of tryptophan that has been shown to have a variety of cytoprotective, neuroprotective and neuronal signalling properties. However, mammalian transporters and receptors...
2.
Alves L, Bortolucci J, Reginato V, Guazzaroni M, Mussatto S
Heliyon
. 2023 Apr;
9(4):e14838.
PMID: 37077683
Innovations in obtaining products from lignocellulosic biomass have been largely based on the improvement of microorganisms and enzymes capable of degrading these materials. To complete the whole process, microorganisms must...
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van der Hoek S, Rusnak M, Wang G, Stanchev L, Alves L, Jessop-Fabre M, et al.
Metab Eng
. 2022 Jan;
70:129-142.
PMID: 35085780
Ergothioneine (ERG) is an unusual sulfur-containing amino acid. It is a potent antioxidant, which shows great potential for ameliorating neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases. L-ergothioneine is rare in nature, with mushrooms...
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Alves L, Borelli T, Westmann C, Silva-Rocha R, Guazzaroni M
Genet Mol Biol
. 2019 Aug;
43(1):e20180252.
PMID: 31429862
Metagenomics approaches have been of high relevance for providing enzymes used in diverse industrial applications. In the current study, we have focused on the prospection of protease and glycosyl hydrolase...
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Ribeiro L, Amarelle V, Alves L, de Siqueira G, Lencioni Lovate G, Borelli T, et al.
Molecules
. 2019 Aug;
24(16).
PMID: 31398877
Protein engineering emerged as a powerful approach to generate more robust and efficient biocatalysts for bio-based economy applications, an alternative to ecologically toxic chemistries that rely on petroleum. On the...
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Monteiro L, Arruda L, Sanches-Medeiros A, Martins-Santana L, Alves L, Defelipe L, et al.
ACS Synth Biol
. 2019 Aug;
8(8):1890-1900.
PMID: 31362496
Bacterial transcription factors (TFs) are key devices for the engineering of complex circuits in many biotechnological applications, yet there are few well-characterized inducer-responsive TFs that could be used in the...
7.
Alves L, Meleiro L, Silva R, Westmann C, Guazzaroni M
Front Microbiol
. 2018 Nov;
9:2556.
PMID: 30420843
Beta-glucosidases are key enzymes involved in lignocellulosic biomass degradation for bioethanol production, which complete the final step during cellulose hydrolysis by converting cellobiose into glucose. Currently, industry requires enzymes with...
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Nora L, Westmann C, Martins-Santana L, Alves L, Monteiro L, Guazzaroni M, et al.
Microb Biotechnol
. 2018 Sep;
12(1):125-147.
PMID: 30259693
When recombinant DNA technology was developed more than 40 years ago, no one could have imagined the impact it would have on both society and the scientific community. In the...
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Alves L, Westmann C, Lencioni Lovate G, de Siqueira G, Borelli T, Guazzaroni M
Int J Genomics
. 2018 Sep;
2018:2312987.
PMID: 30211213
Over the past thirty years, since the dawn of metagenomic studies, a completely new (micro) universe was revealed, with the potential to have profound impacts on many aspects of the...
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Westmann C, Alves L, Silva-Rocha R, Guazzaroni M
Front Microbiol
. 2018 Jul;
9:1344.
PMID: 29973927
Although functional metagenomics has been widely employed for the discovery of genes relevant to biotechnology and biomedicine, its potential for assessing the diversity of transcriptional regulatory elements of microbial communities...