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Microalgae as a selenium vehicle for nutrition
Pires, Rita; Costa, Margarida; Pereira, Hugo; Cardoso, Helena; Ferreira, Luís; Lapa, Nuno; Silva, Joana; Ventura, MárciaRita Pires acknowledges the Ph.D. Fellowship 2022.12360.BNA, Ref CRM:001 1392 from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia . Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024.; Selenium (Se) is essential for human and animal nutrition, playing a key role in antioxidant and immune functions. Organic Se is better for supplementation because it is more efficiently assimilated and less toxic than its inorganic form. Due to th...
Isolation, identification and biotechnological applications of a novel, robust,...
Correia, Nádia; Pereira, Hugo; Silva, Joana T.; Santos, Tamára; Soares, Maria; Sousa, Carolina B.; Schüler, Lisa M.; Costa, Margarida; Varela, JoãoFunding: This research was funded by the Portuguese national budget P2020 in the scope of the project no. 023310 – ALGACO2: “Cultivo industrial de microalgas como tecnologia verde para captura de CO2 atmosférico”. This study received Portuguese national funds from FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology through project UIDB/04326/2020, and from the operational programmes CRESC Algarve 2020 and COMPETE 2020 ...
Structure, synthesis of hierridin C and discovery of prevalent alkylresorcinol ...
Costa, Margarida; Sampaio-Dias, I.E.; Castelo-Branco, R.; Scharfenstein, H.; Rezende de Castro, R.; Silva, Artur M. S.; Schneider, M.P.C.Small, single-celled planktonic cyanobacteria are ubiquitous in the world’s oceans yet tend not to to be perceived as biosynthetically-prolific organisms. Here we report the isolation and structure elucidation of hierridin C, an antiplasmodial halogenated alkylresorcinol produced in very low amounts by the picocyanobacterium Cyanobiumsp. LEGE 06113. We describe a simple, straightforward synthetic route to the s...