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The research leading to the results published here have received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7 2007-2013) under Grant Agreement n°263916. The publications available here reflect the authors’ views only. The European Community is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained herein.


Scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals

Ana S. LuiÌ�s^a, Immacolata Venditto^a, Max J. Temple^b, Artur Rogowski^b, Arnaud Baslé^b, Jie Xue^c, J. Paul Knox^c, José A.M. Prates^a, LuiÌ�s M. A. Ferreira^a, Carlos M. G. A. Fontes^a, Shabir Najmudin^a, and Harry J. Gilbert^b (^aU.Lisbon, ^bU.Newcastle, ^cU.Leeds). Understanding How Noncatalytic Carbohydrate Binding Modules Can Display Specificity for Xyloglucan. The Journal Of Biological Chemistry Vol.288,NO.7,pp.4799–4809 (2013)

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Immacolata Venditto^a, Arnaud Baslé^b, Ana S. Luís^a, Max J. Temple^b, Luís M. A. Ferreira^a, Carlos M. G. A. Fontes^a, Harry J. Gilbert^b and Shabir Najmudin^a(^aU.Lisbon, ^bU.Newcastle). Overproduction, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray characterization of the C-terminal family 65 carbohydrate-binding module (CBM65B) of endoglucanase Cel5A from Eubacterium cellulosolvens. Acta Crystallographica Section F. F69, 191–194 (2013)

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K. Cameron, V. D. Alves, P. Bule, L. M. A Ferreira, C. M. G. A. Fontes & S. Najmudin (U.Lisbon). Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray characterization of the Acetivibrio cellulolyticus type I cohesin ScaC in complex with the ScaB dockerin. Acta Crystallographica Section F. F68, 1030–1033 (2012)

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Oral presentations

Merve Kaya, INRA. Structure and functionality of pectin in citrus fruits. Presented at the Scientific days of VENAM Doctoral School in October 2012 in Nantes (FR)

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V. Cornuault, U.Leeds. Development of Epitope Detection Chromatography for RG-I analysis. Presented at the Gordon Research Seminar in August 2012 in Boston (USA)

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Posters

Jeff Zhang^{a, b}, Artur Rogowski^a, Michael G. Hahn^b, J. Paul Knox^c and Harry J. Gilbert^{a, b} (^aU.Newcastle, ^bUniversity of Georgia, ^cU.Leeds). Diverse roles of CBMs in potentiating mannan degradation. Presented at the 10th Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting on April, 21-24, 2013 in Prague (CZ).

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K. Cameron^a, V. D. Alves^a, P. Bule^a, L. M.A. Ferreira^a, H. J. Gilbert^b, E. A. Bayer^c,C. M.G.A. Fontes^a and S. Najmudin^a (^aU.Lisbon, ^bU.Newcastle, ^cWeizmann Institute of Science). Structural characterization of Acetivibrio cellulolyticus type I cohesin ScaC in complex with the ScaB dockerin. Presented at the 2nd ENURS and ESRF-day on February 14-15, 2013 in Lisbon (PT); and at the 10th Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting on April, 21-24, 2013 in Prague (CZ).

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Immacolata Venditto^a, Ana S. Luís^a, José A.M. Prates^a, Luís M.A. Ferreira^a, Max J. Temple^b, Artur Rogowski^b, Arnaud Baslé^b, Jie Xue^c, J. Paul Knox^c, Shabir Najmudin^a, Carlos M.G.A. Fontes^a and Harry J. Gilbert^b (^aU.Lisbon, ^bU.Newcastle, ^cU.Leeds). The carbohydrate binding modules family 65 (CBM65) of endoglucanase Cel5A from Eubacterium cellulosolvens display specificity for xyloglucan. Presented at the 2nd ENURS and ESRF-day on February 14-15, 2013 in Lisbon (PT); and at the 10th Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting on April, 21-24, 2013 in Prague (CZ).

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V. Cornuault^a, F. Buffetto^b, K.J.D. Lee^a, M.-J. Crépeau^b, M.-C. Ralet^b, J.P. Knox^a (^aU.Leeds, ^bINRA). Isolation of RG-I oligosaccharides for monoclonal antibody production and antibody use as detection tools for novel chromatographic analyses of RG-I diversity. Presented at the Gordon conference on Plant Cell Wall Research on August 5-10, 2012 in Waterville (USA)

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F.Buffetto^a,V. Cornuault^b, M.-J. Crépeau^a, O. Tranquet^a , P. Knox^b, F. Guillon^a, M.-C. Ralet^a (^aINRA, ^bU.Leeds).  Production of low branched rhamnogalacturonan I oligosaccharides from sugar beet pulp. Presented at the Summer Course Glycoscience on June 3-7, 2012 in Gorningen (NL) and at the Plant and Seaweed Polysaccharides Symposium on July 17-20, 2012 in Nantes (FR).

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A. G. Sousa^a,b, W. G. T. Willats^b, S. O. Sørensen^a (^aCP Kelco, ^bU.Copenhagen). Industrial Pectin Biochemistry and Functionality. Presented at the Summer Course Glycoscience on June 3-7, 2012 in Gorningen (NL)

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