Publications
Papers in peer-review journals.
2011
New organoruthenium complexes with bioactive thiosemicarbazones as co-ligands: potential anti-trypanosomal agents. 2011. Demoro B., Sarniguet C., Sánchez-Delgado R., Rossi M., Liebowitz D., Caruso, F., Olea-Azar C., Moreno V., Medeiros A., Comini M.A., Otero L., Gambino D. Dalton Transactions (in press) [PubMed] [PDF].
Ortiz C., Larrieux N., Medeiros A., Botti H., Comini M., Buschiazzo, A. 2011. Expression, crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase from the human pathogen Trypanosoma cruzi in complex with substrate. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 67(Pt 11):1457-61 / 67(Pt 12):1674 [PubMed] [PDF]
Roldan A., Comini M.A., Crispo M., Krauth-Siegel R.L. 2011. Lipoamide dehydrogenase is essential for both bloodstream and procyclic Trypanosoma brucei. Mol. Microbiol. 81(3):623-39 [PubMed] [PDF]
Tools to evaluate conformation in protein products. 2011. Manta B., Obal G., Ricciardi A., Pritsch O., Denicola A. Biotechnology Journal 6(6):731-41. [PubMed] [PDF]
Ferrer-Sueta G., Manta B., Botti H., Radi R., Trujillo M., Denicola A. 2011. Factors affecting protein thiol reactivity and specificity in peroxide reduction. Chem. Res. Tox. 24(4):434-50. [PubMed] [PDF]
2009
Comini M.A., Dirdjaja N., Kaschel M., Krauth-Siegel R.L., 2009. Preparative enzymatic synthesis of trypanothione and trypanothione analogues. Int. J. Parasitol. 39, 1059-1062.
2008
Comini M.A., Rettig J., Dirdjaja N., Hanschmann E.M., Berndt C., Krauth-Siegel R.L., 2008. Monothiol Glutaredoxin-1 Is an Essential Iron-Sulfur Protein in the Mitochondrion of African Trypanosomes. J Biol. Chem. 283, 27785-27798.
Irigoín F., Cibils L., Comini M.A., Wilkinson S.R., Flohé L., Radi R., 2008. Insights into the redox biology of Trypanosoma cruzi: Trypanothione metabolism and oxidant detoxification. Free Radic. Biol. Med. 45, 733-742.
Buchholz K., Comini M.A., Wissenbach D., Schirmer R. H., Krauth-Siegel R. L. and Gromer S. (2008) Cytotoxic interactions of methylene blue with trypanosomatids-specific disulfide reductases and their dithiol products. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol., 160: 65-69.
Krauth-Siegel R. L. and Comini M.A. (2008) Redox control in trypanosomatids, parasitic protozoa with trypanothione-based thiol metabolism. Biochem. Biophys. Acta, 1780: 1236-1248.
Filser M., Comini M.A., Dirdjaja N., Molina-Navarro M., Herrero E., and Krauth-Siegel R. L. (2008) Cloning, functional analysis and localization of monothiol glutaredoxin-1 from Trypanosoma brucei. Biol. Chem., 389: 21-32.
2007 and previous years
Schlecker T., Comini M.A., Melchers J., Ruppert T., and Krauth-Siegel R. L. (2007) Catalytic mechanism of the glutathione peroxidase-type tryparedoxin peroxidase of Trypanosoma brucei. Biochem. J., 405: 445-454.
Xolalpa W., Vallecillo A., Lara M., Spallek R., Comini M., Singh M., and Espitia C. (2007) Identification of novel bacterial plasminogen-binding proteins in the human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proteomics, 7: 3332-3341.
Comini M.A., Krauth-Siegel R.L., and Flohé, L. (2007) Depletion of the thioredoxin homologue tryparedoxin impairs anti-oxidative defense in African trypanosomes. Biochem. J., 402: 43-49.
Trujillo M., Mauri P., Benazzi L., Comini M.A., De Palma A., Flohé L., Radi R., Stehr M., Singh M., Ursini F. and Jäger T. (2006) The mycobacterial thioredoxin peroxidase can act as a one-cysteine-peroxiredoxin. J. Biol. Chem., 281: 20555-20566.
Comini M.A., Menge U., Wissing J. and Flohé L. (2005) Trypanothione synthesis in Crithidia revisited. J. Biol. Chem., 280: 6850-6860.
Comini M.A., Menge U., and Flohé L. (2005) “Convenient isolation and kinetic mechanism of glutathionylspermidine synthetase from Crithidia fasciculata. Vol. 272 (1997) 11908–11915”. J. Biol. Chem., 280: 7407.
Comini M.A., Guerrero S. A., Haile S., Menge U., Lünsdorf H. and Flohé L. (2004) Validation of Trypanosoma brucei trypanothione synthetase as drug target. Free Radic. Biol. Med., 36: 1289-1302.
Imaz S. M., Comini M.A., Zerbini E., Sequeira M. D., Latini O., Claus J. D. and Singh M. (2004) Evaluation of commercial ELISA kits for the detection of Tuberculosis in Argentinean population. J. Clin. Microbiol., 42: 884-887.
Comini M.A., Menge U. and Flohé L. (2003) Biosynthesis of trypanothione in Trypanosoma brucei brucei. Biol. Chem., 384: 653-656.
Imaz M. S., Comini M.A., Zerbini E., Sequeira M. D., Spoletti M. J., Etchart A. A., Pagano H. J., Bonifasich E., Díaz N., Claus J. D. and Singh M. (2001) Evaluation of the diagnostic value of measuring IgG, IgM and IgA antibodies to the recombinant 16-kilodalton antigen of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in childhood tuberculosis. Int. J. Tuberc. Lung Dis., 5 (11): 1036-1043.
Book Chapters
Manta B., Fleitas A.L., Comini M.A. (2011). Iron Metabolism in Pathogenic Trypanosomes. In: Iron Metabolism. Ed. S.Arora, InTech Press. ISBN 979-953-307-162-5
Comini M.A., Medeiros A., Manta B. (2011). Stress response in the infective stage of Trypanosoma brucei. In: Stress Response in Microbiology. Ed. J.M. Requena, Horizon Scientific Press. ISBN 978-1-908230-04-1
Bollati-Fogolín M. and Comini M. A. (2008). Chapter 3: Clonagem e Expressão de Proteínas Heterólogas em Células Animais, pp. 40-76. In: Tecnologia do Cultivo de Células Animais: de Biofármacos a Terapia Gênica. Eds. Ângela Maria Moraes Elisabeth F. P. Augusto e Leda Dos Reis Castilho. Editora Roca, São Paulo, Brazil.
Bollati-Fogolín M. and Comini M. A. (2007). Chapter 3: Cloning and Expression of Heterologous Proteins in Animal Cells, pp. 39-73. In: Animal Cell Technology: From Biopharmaceuticals to Gene Therapy. Eds. Leda R. Castilho, Ângela Maria Moraes, Elisabeth F. P. Augusto and Michael Butler. Taylor & Francis, New York, US and Abingdon, UK.
Schlecker T., Comini M. A., and Krauth-Siegel R. L. (2007) . Chapter 11: The trypanothione system, pp. 231-252. In: Peroxiredoxin systems: Structures and functions. Eds. Leopold Flohé and Robin J. Harris. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.