Sergey Alekseevitch Bursakov

Investigador Auxiliar
Secção de Bioquímica e Biofísica

(+351) 212948300 (+351) 212948550
sergey@dq.fct.unl.pt

Interesses Científicos


enzymologia y cristalografia metaloproteinas e nitroreductasas, biodegradação, interacção planta-bactéria, tolerância à tóxicos orgânicos, biotecnología ambiental, stress

Publicações Representativas


Bursakov, S.A., M.-Y.Liu, W.J.Payne, J.LeGall, I.Moura, J.Moura (1995) Isolation and preliminary characterization of a soluble nitrate reductase from the sulfate reducing organism Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774. Anaerobe 1, 55-60.

Bursakov, S.A., C.Carneiro, M.J.Almendra, R.O.Duarte, J.Caldeira, I.Moura, J.J.G.Moura (1997) Enzymatic properties and effect of ionic strength on periplasmic nitrate reductase (NAP) from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 239, 816-822

Gavel, O.Yu., S.A.Bursakov, J.Calvete, G.George, J.J.G.Moura, and I.Moura (1998)ATP sulfurylase from sulfate-reducing bacteria of the genus Desulfovibrio. A novel metalloprotein containing cobalt and zinc. Biochemistry 37, 16225-16232.

Dias J.M., M.Thann, A.Humm, R.Huber, G.Bourenkov, H.Bartunik, S.A.Bursakov, J.Calvete, J.Caldeira, C.Carneiro, J.J.G.Moura, I.Moura, and M.J.Romão 1999 Crystal structure of the first dissimilatory nitrate reductase (NAP) at 1.9 Å solved by MAD methods. Structure, 7, 65-79

Bursakov S.A., O.Yu.Gavel, G.N.George, J.Lampreia, J.G.Moura, I.Moura (2004) Antagonists molybdenum and copper in a heterometallic cluster present on a novel protein (orange protein) isolated from Desulfovibrio gigas. J. Inorg. Bioch. 98, 833-840.

Gavel O.Yu., S.A.Bursakov, G.DiRocco, J.Trincão, I.J.Pickering, G.N.George, J.J.Calvete, V.L.Shnyrov, C.D.Brondino, A.S.Pereira, J.Lampreia, P.Tavares, J.J.G.Moura and I.Moura (2008) A new type of metal-binding site in cobalt- and zinc-containing adenylate kinases isolated from sulfate-reducers Desulfovibrio gigas and Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774. J Inorg Biochem. 102 1380-1395.

Zamorano LS, Pina DG, Arellano JB, Bursakov SA, Zhadan AP, Calvete JJ, Sanz L, Nielsen PR, Villar E, Gavel O, Roig MG, Watanabe L, Polikarpov I, Shnyrov VL. (2008) Thermodynamic characterization of the palm tree Roystonea regia peroxidase stability. Biochimie 90, 1737-1749
Kladova AV, Gavel OY, Zhadan GG, Roig MG, Shnyrov VL, Bursakov S.A. (2009) Zinc-, cobalt- and iron-chelated forms of adenylate kinase from the Gram-negative bacterium Desulfovibrio gigas.Int J Biol Macromol. 45,524-531.

Watanabe L, de Moura PR, Bleicher L, Nascimento AS, Zamorano LS, Calvete JJ, Sanz L, Pérez A, Bursakov S, Roig MG, Shnyrov VL, Polikarpov I.(2010) Crystal structure and statistical coupling analysis of highly glycosylated peroxidase from royal palm tree (Roystonea regia). J. Struct. Biol. 169, 226-242.