Publications by Ricardo Cesar Guerrero Ferreira

New insights on the structure of alpha-synuclein fibrils using cryo-electron microscopy

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Ricardo Cesar Guerrero Ferreira, Dongchun Ni

Fibrils of alpha-synuclein are significant components of cellular inclusions associated with several neuropathological disorders including Parkinson’s disease, multiple system atrophy and dementia with Lewy bodies. In recent years, technological advances i ...

2020

Development of a simulated transtibial amputee model

Auke Ijspeert, Florin Dzeladini, Ricardo Cesar Guerrero Ferreira, César José Cardoso Ferreira

Currently, there are more than 30 million amputees in the world and each year thousands of people suffer from amputation and, therefore, the development of lower limb prostheses is crucial to improve the quality of millions of people's lives by restoring t ...

IEEE2019

Structure and transformation of bacteriophage A511 baseplate and tail upon infection of Listeria cells

Petr Leiman, Sergey Nazarov, Ricardo Cesar Guerrero Ferreira

Contractile injection systems (bacteriophage tails, type VI secretions system, R-type pyocins, etc.) utilize a rigid tube/contractile sheath assembly for breaching the envelope of bacterial and eukaryotic cells. Among contractile injection systems, bacteri ...

WILEY2019

Genetic, structural and phenotypic properties of MS2 coliphage with resistance to ClO2 disinfection

Virginie Bachmann, Tamar Kohn, Qingxia Zhong, Petr Leiman, Sergey Nazarov, Anna Carratala Ripolles, Laura Piccinini, Ricardo Cesar Guerrero Ferreira

Common water disinfectants like chlorine have been reported to select for resistant viruses, yet little attention has been devoted to characterizing disinfection resistance. Here, we investigated the resistance of MS2 coliphage to inactivation by chlorine ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Structure of the T4 baseplate and its function in triggering sheath contraction

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Petr Leiman, Christopher Browning, Ricardo Cesar Guerrero Ferreira, Nikolai Prokhorov

Several systems, including contractile tail bacteriophages, the type VI secretion system and R-type pyocins, use a multiprotein tubular apparatus to attach to and penetrate host cell membranes. This macromolecular machine resembles a stretched, coiled spri ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Branched Lateral Tail Fiber Organization in T5-Like Bacteriophages DT57C and DT571/2 is Revealed by Genetic and Functional Analysis

Ricardo Cesar Guerrero Ferreira, Nikolai Prokhorov

The T5-like siphoviruses DT57C and DT571/2, isolated from horse feces, are very closely related to each other, and most of their structural proteins are also nearly identical to T5 phage. Their LTFs (L-shaped tail fibers), however, are composed of two prot ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Complete genome sequences of T5-related Escherichia coli bacteriophages DT57C and DT571/2 isolated from horse feces

Ricardo Cesar Guerrero Ferreira, Nikolai Prokhorov

We report the complete genome sequencing of two Escherichia coli T5-related bacteriophages, DT57C and DT571/2, isolated from the same specimen of horse feces. These two isolates share 96 % nucleotide sequence identity and can thus be considered representat ...

Springer Wien2015