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2026
Nature

Oxygen Metabolism in Descendants of the Archaeal-Eukaryotic Ancestor

Appler, K.E.; Lingford, J.P.; Gong, X.; Panagiotou, K.; Leão, P.; Langwig, M.V.; Greening, C.; Ettema, T.J.G.; De Anda, V.; Baker, B.J. — Nature, 2026, pp. 1–11.

2025
Environmental Microbiology

Methanotrophic Flexibility of 'Ca. Methanoperedens' and Its Interactions With Sulphate-Reducing Bacteria in the Sediment of Meromictic Lake Cadagno

Echeveste Medrano, M.J.; Su, G.; Blattner, L.A.; Leão, P.; Sánchez-Andrea, I.; Jetten, M.S.M.; Welte, C.U.; Zopfi, J. — Environmental Microbiology, 27(7), e70133.

2025
bioRxiv Preprint

Mini-Bacterioferritins: Structural Insight into a New Type of Ferritin-Like Protein from an Anaerobic Methane-Oxidising Archaeon

Wissink, M.; Engilberge, S.; Leão, P.; Jansen, R.S.; Jetten, M.S.M.; Royant, A.; Welte, C.U.; Wagner, T. — bioRxiv, 2025.

2024
Nature Communications

Asgard Archaea Defense Systems and their Roles in the Origin of Eukaryotic Immunity

Leão, P.; Little, M.E.; Appler, K.E.; Sahaya, D.; Aguilar-Pine, E.; Currie, K.; Finkelstein, I.J.; De Anda, V.; Baker, B.J. — Nature Communications, 15(1), 6386.

2024
Genome Research

Complete Genomes of Asgard Archaea Reveal Diverse Integrated and Mobile Genetic Elements

Valentin-Alvarado, L.E.; Shi, L.D.; Appler, K.E.; Crits-Christoph, A.; De Anda, V.; Adler, B.A.; Cui, M.L.; Ly, L.; Leão, P.; Roberts, R.J. — Genome Research, 34(10), 1595–1609.

2024
Journal of Bacteriology

Nature Should Be the Model for Microbial Sciences

Baker, B.J.; Hyde, E.; Leão, P.Journal of Bacteriology, 206(9), e00228-24.

2023
Elements

Magnetic Guidance in Multicellular Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes

Leão, P.; Lefèvre, C.T. — Elements, 19(4), 234–238.

2022
Nature Microbiology

Genomes of Six Viruses that Infect Asgard Archaea from Deep-Sea Sediments

Rambo, I.M.; Langwig, M.V.; Leão, P.; De Anda, V.; Baker, B.J. — Nature Microbiology, 7(7), 953–961.

2022
Frontiers in Microbiology

Detection of Interphylum Transfers of the Magnetosome Gene Cluster in Magnetotactic Bacteria

Uzun, M.; Koziaeva, V.; Dziuba, M.; Leão, P.; Krutkina, M.; Grouzdev, D. — Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022.

2020
Environmental Microbiology

Magnetosome Magnetite Biomineralization in a Flagellated Protist: Evidence for an Early Evolutionary Origin for Magnetoreception in Eukaryotes

Leão, P.; Le Nagard, L.; Yuan, H.; Cypriano, J.; Da Silva-Neto, I.; Bazylinski, D.A.; Acosta-Avalos, D.; de Barros, H.L.; Hitchcock, A.P.; Lins, U. — Environmental Microbiology, 22(4), 1495–1506.

2020
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

The Swimming Orientation of Multicellular Magnetotactic Prokaryotes and Uncultured Magnetotactic Cocci in Magnetic Fields Similar to the Geomagnetic Field

De Melo, R.D.; Leão, P.; Abreu, F.; Acosta-Avalos, D. — Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, 113(2), 197–209.

2020
Scientific Reports

Insight on Thermal Stability of Magnetite Magnetosomes: Implications for the Fossil Record and Biotechnology

Cypriano, J.; Bahri, M.; Dembélé, K.; Baaziz, W.; Leão, P.; Bazylinski, D.A.; Abreu, F.; Ersen, O.; Farina, M.; Werckmann, J. — Scientific Reports, 10(1).

2020
Microbiology

Biodiversity of Magnetotactic Bacteria in the Freshwater Lake Beloe Bordukovskoe, Russia

Koziaeva, V.V.; Alekseeva, L.M.; Uzun, M.M.; Leão, P.; Sukhacheva, M.V.; Patutina, E.O.; Kolganova, T.V.; Grouzdev, D.S. — Microbiology, 89(3), 348–358.

2019
Frontiers in Microbiology

Genome-Based Metabolic Reconstruction of a Novel Uncultivated Freshwater Magnetotactic Coccus "Ca. Magnetaquicoccus inordinatus" UR-1

Koziaeva, V.; Dziuba, M.; Leão, P.; Uzun, M.; Krutkina, M.; Grouzdev, D. — Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, 2290.

2019
PLoS ONE

Uptake and Persistence of Bacterial Magnetite Magnetosomes in a Mammalian Cell Line: Implications for Medical and Biotechnological Applications

Cypriano, J.; Werckmann, J.; Vargas, G.; Lopes dos Santos, A.; Silva, K.T.; Leão, P.; Almeida, F.P.; Bazylinski, D.A.; Farina, M.; Lins, U. — PLoS ONE, 14(4), e0215657.

2019
Academic Press Book Chapter

Magnetotaxis

Acosta-Avalos, D.; Leão, P.; Abreu, F.; Bazylinski, D.A. — Academic Press, 2019.

2019
bioRxiv Preprint

Characterizing Novel Magnetotactic Bacteria Using a Combination of Magnetic Column Separation (MTB-CoSe) and mamK-Specific Primers

Koziaeva, V.V.; Alekseeva, L.M.; Uzun, M.M.; Leão, P.; Sukhacheva, M.V.; Patutina, E.O.; Kolganova, T.V.; Grouzdev, D.S. — bioRxiv, 682252.

2018
Molecules Review

Applications of Magnetotactic Bacteria, Magnetosomes and Magnetosome Crystals in Biotechnology and Nanotechnology: Mini-Review

Vargas, G.; Cypriano, J.; Correa, T.; Leão, P.; Bazylinski, D.A.; Abreu, F. — Molecules, 23(10), 2438.

2018
Virulence

Extracellular Vesicles and Vesicle-Free Secretome of the Protozoa Acanthamoeba castellanii Under Homeostasis and Nutritional Stress

Gonçalves, D.S.; Ferreira, M.S.; Liedke, S.C.; Gomes, K.X.; de Oliveira, G.A.; Leão, P.E.L.; Cesar, G.V.; Casadevall, A. et al. — Virulence, 9(1), 818–836.

2018
Environmental Microbiology

Culture-Independent Characterization of a Novel Magnetotactic Member Affiliated to the Beta Class of the Proteobacteria Phylum from an Acidic Lagoon

Abreu, F.; Leão, P.; Vargas, G.; Cypriano, J.; Figueiredo, V.; Enrich-Prast, A.; Bazylinski, D.A.; Lins, U. — Environmental Microbiology, 20(7), 2615–2624.

2018
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Association of Magnetotactic Multicellular Prokaryotes with Pseudoalteromonas Species in a Natural Lagoon Environment

Leão, P.; Gueiros-Filho, F.J.; Bazylinski, D.A.; Lins, U.; Abreu, F. — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 111(11), 2213–2223.

2018
Geomicrobiology Journal

X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Magnetism of Synthetic Greigite and Greigite Magnetosomes in Magnetotactic Bacteria

Zhu, X.; Hitchcock, A.P.; Le Nagard, L.; Bazylinski, D.A.; Morillo, V.; Abreu, F.; Leão, P.; Lins, U. — Geomicrobiology Journal, 35(3), 215–226.

2017
Environmental Microbiology

Ultrastructure of Ellipsoidal Magnetotactic Multicellular Prokaryotes Depicts their Complex Assemblage and Cellular Polarity in the Context of Magnetotaxis

Leão, P.; Chen, Y.R.; Abreu, F.; Wang, M.; Zhang, W.J.; Zhou, K.; Xiao, T.; Wu, L.F.; Lins, U. — Environmental Microbiology, 19(6), 2151–2163.

2017
Frontiers in Microbiology

Broadcast Spawning Coral Mussismilia hispida Can Vertically Transfer Its Associated Bacterial Core

Leite, D.C.A.; Leão, P.; Garrido, A.G.; Lins, U.; Santos, H.F.; Pires, D.O.; Castro, C.B.; Van Elsas, J.D.; Zilberberg, C.; Rosado, A.S. — Frontiers in Microbiology, 8, 176.

2016
BMC Genomics

Combined Genomic and Structural Analyses of a Cultured Magnetotactic Bacterium Reveals Its Niche Adaptation to a Dynamic Environment

Araujo, A.C.V.; Morillo, V.; Cypriano, J.; Teixeira, L.C.R.S.; Leão, P.; Lyra, S.; Almeida, L.G.; Bazylinski, D.A.; Vasconcellos, A.T.R.; Abreu, F. — BMC Genomics, 17(Suppl 8), 726.

2016
Applied & Environmental Microbiology

North-Seeking Magnetotactic Gammaproteobacteria in the Southern Hemisphere

Leão, P.; Teixeira, L.C.R.S.; Cypriano, J.; Farina, M.; Abreu, F.; Bazylinski, D.A.; Lins, U. — Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82(18), 5595–5602.

2016
Environmental Microbiology

Culture-Independent Characterization of Novel Psychrophilic Magnetotactic Cocci from Antarctic Marine Sediments

Abreu, F.; Carolina, A.; Araujo, V.; Leão, P.; Silva, K.T.; Carvalho, F.M.; Cunha, O.L.; Almeida, L.G.; Geurink, C.; Farina, M. — Environmental Microbiology, 18(12), 4426–4441.

2013
Microscopy and Microanalysis

Cell Adhesion, Multicellular Morphology, and Magnetosome Distribution in the Multicellular Magnetotactic Prokaryote Candidatus Magnetoglobus multicellularis

Abreu, F.; Silva, K.T.; Leão, P.; Guedes, I.A.; Keim, C.N.; Farina, M.; Lins, U. — Microscopy and Microanalysis, 19(3), 535–543.

2013
Applied & Environmental Microbiology

Optimization of Magnetosome Production and Growth by the Magnetotactic Vibrio Magnetovibrio blakemorei Strain MV-1 Through a Statistics-Based Experimental Design

Silva, K.T.; Leão, P.E.; Abreu, F.; López, J.A.; Gutarra, M.L.; Farina, M.; Bazylinski, D.A.; Freire, D.M.G.; Lins, U. — Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 79(8), 2823–2827.

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