People
Marino F. A. Santos
senior researcher
Research Group
Position
Volunteer Researcher with PhD (since 2019)
Personal Website
Email
mf.santos@alumni.fct.unl.pt
Phone number
00351212948300 (ext: 11424)
ORCID
Ciência Vitae
Recent publications
- João Paquete-Ferreira; Francisco Leisico; Márcia A.S. Correia; Filipa S.S. Engrola; Teresa Santos-Silva; Marino F.A. Santos. 2023. Using Small-angle X-ray Scattering to Characterize Biological Systems: A General Overview and Practical Tips. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2652, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3147-8_22
- Filipa S.S. Engrola; João Paquete-Ferreira; Teresa Santos-Silva; Márcia A.S. Correia; Francisco Leisico; Marino F.A. Santos. 2023. Screening of Buffers and Additives for Protein Stabilization by Thermal Shift Assay: A Practical Approach. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2652, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3147-8_11
- Marino F. A. Santos; João Costa Pessoa. 2023. Interaction of Vanadium Complexes with Proteins: Revisiting the Reported Structures in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) since 2015. MOLECULES, 28(18), DOI: 10.3390/molecules28186538
- Barroca-Ferreira, J; Goncalves, AM; Santos, MFA; Santos-Silva, T; Maia, CJ; Passarinha, LA. 2022. A chromatographic network for the purification of detergent-solubilized six-transmembrane epithelial antigen of the prostate 1 from Komagataella pastoris mini-bioreactor lysates. JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A, 1685, DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2022.463576
- Ana MGonçalves; Augusto QPedro; Diana MOliveira; Adriana EOliveira; Marino FASantos; Márcia A. S. Correia; João Queiroz; Eugenia Gallardo; Maria João Romão; Passarinha LA. 2022. Thermofluor-Based Optimization Strategy for the Stabilization of Recombinant Human Soluble Catechol-O-Methyltransferase. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES, 23, DOI: 10.3390/ijms232012298
- Santos, MFA; Sciortino, G; Correia, I; Fernandes, ACP; Santos-Silva, T; Pisanu, F; Garribba, E; Pessoa, JC. 2022. Binding of (VO2+)-O-IV, (VOL)-O-IV, (VOL2)-O-IV and (VO2L)-O-V Moieties to Proteins: X-ray/Theoretical Characterization and Biological Implications. CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, DOI: 10.1002/chem.202200105
- Pessoa, JC; Santos, MFA; Correia, I; Sanna, D; Sciortino, G; Garribba, E. 2021. Binding of vanadium ions and complexes to proteins and enzymes in aqueous solution. COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS, 449, DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2021.214192
- Barroca-Ferreira, J; Cruz-Vicente, P; Santos, MFA; Rocha, SM; Santos-Silva, T; Maia, CJ; Passarinha, LA. 2021. Enhanced Stability of Detergent-Free Human Native STEAP1 Protein from Neoplastic Prostate Cancer Cells upon an Innovative Isolation Procedure. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES, 22, DOI: 10.3390/ijms221810012
- Oliveira, AR; Mota, C; Mourato, C; Domingos, RM; Santos, MFA; Gesto, D; Guigliarelli, B; Santos-Silva, T; Romao, MJ; Pereira, IAC. 2020. Toward the Mechanistic Understanding of Enzymatic CO2 Reduction. ACS Catalysis, 10, DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c00086
- Alexandra R. Fernandes; Inês Mendonça-Martins; Marino F.A. Santos; Luís R. Raposo; Rita Mendes; Joana Marques; Carlos C. Romão; Maria João Romão; Teresa Santos-Silva; Pedro V. Baptista. 2020. Improving the Anti-inflammatory Response via Gold Nanoparticle Vectorization of CO-Releasing Molecules. ACS Biomaterials-Science & Engineering, DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.9b01936
Main research interests
- X-ray crystallography applied to Drug Design
- Structural and functional studies on the interactions of vanadium and copper complexes with serum proteins/oxygen carriers (development of possible anti-diabetic and anti-cancer drugs).
- Structural and functional studies on the interactions of CORMs (CO-Releasing Molecules) with serum proteins/oxygen carriers (development of putative drugs with anti-inflammatory, anti-apoptotic and anti-proliferative effects)
- Structural and functional studies of PtpA (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) inhibitors as a potential approach to fight tuberculosis