Sandra de Macedo Ribeiro - Selected Publications#

1.Figueiredo, F., Sárkány, Z., Silva, A., Vilasboas-Campos, D., Maciel, P., Teixeira-Castro, A., Martins, P.M., Macedo-Ribeiro, S. (2023). Drug repurposing of dopaminergic drugs to inhibit ataxin-3 aggregation. Biomed Pharmacother. 165,115258. PMID: 37549460

2.Manso, J.A., Carabias, A., Sárkány, Z., de Pereda, J.M., Pereira, P.J.B., Macedo-Ribeiro, S. (2023). Pathogen-specific structural features of Candida albicans Ras1 activation complex: uncovering new antifungal drug targets. mBio. 14,e0063823. PMID: 37526476

3.Sárkány, Z., Rocha, F., Bratek-Skicki, A., Tompa, P., Macedo-Ribeiro, S., Martins, P.M. (2023). Quantification of Surface Tension Effects and Nucleation-and-Growth Rates during Self-Assembly of Biological Condensates. Adv Sci (Weinh). 10,e2301501. PMID: 37279376

4.Barbosa Pereira, P.J., Manso, J.A., Macedo-Ribeiro S. (2023) The structural plasticity of polyglutamine repeats. Curr Opin Struct Biol. 80, 102607. PMID: 37178477

5.Figueiredo, F., Lopes-Marques, M., Almeida, B., Matscheko, N., Martins, P.M., Silva, A., Macedo-Ribeiro, S. (2022). Robust Assay to Monitor Ataxin-3 Amyloid Fibril Assembly. Cells 11,1969. PMID: 35741099

6.Martins. P.M., Navarro, S. et al., Ventura, S., Macedo-Ribeiro, S. (2020). MIRRAGGE – Minimum Information Required for Reproducible AGGregation Experiments. Frontiers in Molecular Neurosciences 13, 582488. PMID: 33328883

7. Silva, A., de Almeida, A.V., Macedo-Ribeiro, S. (2018). Polyglutamine expansion diseases: More than simple repeats. Journal of Structural Biology 201,139. PMID: 28928079

8. Silva, A., Almeida, B., Fraga, J.S., Taboada, P., Martins, P.M., Macedo-Ribeiro, S. (2017). Distribution of amyloid and oligomeric species from protein aggregation kinetics. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 56:14042-14045. PMID: 28906069. PMID: 28906069

9.Merski, M., Moreira, C., Abreu, R.M., Ramos, M.J., Fernandes, P.A., Martins, L.M., Pereira, P.J.B., Macedo-Ribeiro, S. (2017). Molecular motion regulates the activity of the Mitochondrial Serine Protease HtrA2. Cell Death Dis. 8, e3119. PMID: 29022916

10. Rocha, R., Barbosa, P.J.B., Santos, M.A.S., Macedo-Ribeiro, S. (2011). Unveiling the structural basis for translational ambiguity tolerance in a human fungal pathogen. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 108,14091-14096. PMID: 21825144.