People

Irina Saraiva Franco

senior researcher

Position
DL 57 Transitory Norm contract (since 2018)
Email
irinafranco@fct.unl.pt
Phone number
212948300 (ext: 11107)
Ciência Vitae

Recent publications

  • Monteiro, IP; Sousa, S; Borges, V; Goncalves, P; Gomes, JP; Mota, LJ; Franco, IS. 2022. A Search for Novel Legionella pneumophila Effector Proteins Reveals a Strain Specific Nucleotropic Effector. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 12, DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.864626
  • Bugalhao, JN; Mota, LJ; Franco, IS. 2016. Identification of regions within the Legionella pneumophila VipA effector protein involved in actin binding and polymerization and in interference with eukaryotic organelle trafficking. MicrobiologyOpen, 5, DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.316
  • Bugalhao, JN; Mota, LJ; Franco, IS. 2015. Bacterial nucleators: actin' on actin. Pathogens and Disease, 73, DOI: 10.1093/femspd/ftv078
  • Franco, Irina Saraiva; Shohdy, Nadim; Shuman, Howard A. 2012. The Legionella pneumophila Effector VipA Is an Actin Nucleator That Alters Host Cell Organelle Trafficking. PLoS Pathogens, 8(2), DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002546
  • Franco, Irina S; Shuman, Howard A; Charpentier, Xavier. 2009. The perplexing functions and surprising origins of Legionella pneumophila type IV secretion effectors. CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY, 11(10), DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2009.01351.x
  • Franco, Irina Saraiva; Mota, Luis Jaime; Soares, Claudio Manuel; de Sa-Nogueira, Isabel. 2007. Probing key DNA contacts in AraR-mediated transcriptional repression of the Bacillus subtilis arabinose regulon. NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH, 35(14), DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm509
  • Franco, IS; Mota, LJ; Soares, CM; de Sa-Nogueira, I. 2006. Functional domains of the Bacillus subtilis transcription factor AraR and identification of amino acids important for nucleoprotein complex assembly and effector binding. JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY, 188(8), DOI: 10.1128/JB.188.8.3024-3036.2006