Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Department

Gelzinis, Andrius, Jevgenij Chmeliov, Marijonas Tutkus, Ernesta Vitulskienė, Marius Franckevičius, Claudia Büchel, Bruno Robert, and Leonas Valkunas. 2023. “Fluorescence Quenching in Aggregates of Fucoxanthin-Chlorophyll Protein Complexes: Interplay of Fluorescing and Dark States.” Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta. Bioenergetics, December, 149030. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2023.149030.

Alvaro-Aranda, Lucia, Ambre Petitalot, Yasmina Djeghmoum, Davide Panigada, Jenny Kaur Singh, Åsa Ehlén, Domagoj Vugic, et al. 2023. “The BRCA2 R2645G Variant Increases DNA Binding and Induces Hyper-Recombination.” Nucleic Acids Research, December, gkad1222. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad1222.

Versini, Raphaelle, Sujith Sritharan, Burcu Aykac Fas, Thibault Tubiana, Sana Zineb Aimeur, Julien Henri, Marie Erard, et al. 2023. “A Perspective on the Prospective Use of AI in Protein Structure Prediction.” Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, December. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.3c01361.

Herrera, Sara Abad, Bo Højen Justesen, Thibaud Dieudonné, Cédric Montigny, Poul Nissen, Guillaume Lenoir, and Thomas Günther Pomorski. 2023. “Direct Evidence of Lipid Transport by the Drs2-Cdc50 Flippase upon Truncation of Its Terminal Regions.” Protein Science: A Publication of the Protein Society, December, e4855. https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.4855.

Moréra, Solange, Armelle Vigouroux, Magali Aumont-Nicaise, Mohammed Ahmar, Thibault Meyer, Abbas El Sahili, Grégory Deicsics, et al. 2023. “A Highly Conserved Ligand-Binding Site for AccA Transporters of Antibiotic and Quorum-Sensing Regulator in Agrobacterium Leads to a Different Specificity.” The Biochemical Journal, December, BCJ20230273. https://doi.org/10.1042/BCJ20230273.

Amanullah, Sk, Philipp Gotico, Marie Sircoglou, Winfried Leibl, Manuel J. Llansola-Portoles, Tania Tibiletti, Annamaria Quaranta, Zakaria Halime, and Ally Aukauloo. 2023. “Second Coordination Sphere Effect Shifts CO2 to CO Reduction by Iron Porphyrin from Fe0 to FeI.” Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English), December, e202314439. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202314439.

E, Ľuptáková, Vigouroux A, Končitíková R, Kopečná M, Zalabák D, Novák O, Salcedo Sarmiento S, et al. 2023. “Plant Nucleoside N-Ribohydrolases: Riboside Binding and Role in Nitrogen Storage Mobilization.” The Plant Journal : For Cell and Molecular Biology, December. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16572.

Maestre-Reyna, Manuel, Po-Hsun Wang, Eriko Nango, Yuhei Hosokawa, Martin Saft, Antonia Furrer, Cheng-Han Yang, et al. 2023. “Visualizing the DNA Repair Process by a Photolyase at Atomic Resolution.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 382 (6674): eadd7795. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.add7795.

Loconte, Luisa, Davinia Arguedas, Rojbin El, Alix Zhou, Anna Chipont, Lea Guyonnet, Coralie Guerin, et al. 2023. “Detection of the Interactions of Tumour Derived Extracellular Vesicles with Immune Cells Is Dependent on EV-Labelling Methods.” Journal of Extracellular Vesicles 12 (12): e12384. https://doi.org/10.1002/jev2.12384.

Muzyukina, Polina, Anton Shkaruta, Noemi M. Guzman, Jessica Andreani, Adair L. Borges, Joseph Bondy-Denomy, Anna Maikova, Ekaterina Semenova, Konstantin Severinov, and Olga Soutourina. 2023. “Identification of an Anti-CRISPR Protein That Inhibits the CRISPR-Cas Type I-B System in Clostridioides Difficile.” MSphere, November, e0040123. https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00401-23.

Liu, Siyu, Judith Miné-Hattab, Marie Villemeur, Raphaël Guerois, Henrik Dahl Pinholt, Leonid A. Mirny, and Angela Taddei. 2023. “Author Correction: In Vivo Tracking of Functionally Tagged Rad51 Unveils a Robust Strategy of Homology Search.” Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, November. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41594-023-01180-8.

Diop, M., M. El-Hayek, J. Attard, A. Muhieddine, V. Veremeienko, S. Soorkia, Ph Carbonnière, A. de la Lande, B. Soep, and N. Shafizadeh. 2023. “Chlorophyll and Pheophytin Protonated and Deprotonated Ions: Observation and Theory.” The Journal of Chemical Physics 159 (19): 194308. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0174351.

Dieudonné, Thibaud, Felix Kümmerer, Michelle Juknaviciute Laursen, Charlott Stock, Rasmus Kock Flygaard, Syma Khalid, Guillaume Lenoir, Joseph A. Lyons, Kresten Lindorff-Larsen, and Poul Nissen. 2023. “Activation and Substrate Specificity of the Human P4-ATPase ATP8B1.” Nature Communications 14 (1): 7492. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42828-9.

Vrielynck, Nathalie, Marion Peuch, Stéphanie Durand, Qichao Lian, Aurélie Chambon, Aurélie Hurel, Julie Guérin, et al. 2023. “SCEP1 and SCEP2 Are Two New Components of the Synaptonemal Complex Central Element.” Nature Plants, November. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01558-y.

Messant, Marine, Umama Hani, Thanh-Lan Lai, Adjélé Wilson, Ginga Shimakawa, and Anja Krieger-Liszkay. 2023. “Plastid Terminal Oxidase (PTOX) Protects Photosystem I and Not Photosystem II against Photoinhibition in Arabidopsis Thaliana and Marchantia Polymorpha.” The Plant Journal: For Cell and Molecular Biology, November. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16520.

Bellanger, Tiffany, David da Silva Barreira, Frank Wien, Patrice Delarue, Patrick Senet, Aurélie Rieu, Fabrice Neiers, Paloma Fernández Varela, Sophie Combet, and Stéphanie Weidmann. 2023. “Significant Influence of Four Highly Conserved Amino-Acids in Lipochaperon-Active SHsps on the Structure and Functions of the Lo18 Protein.” Scientific Reports 13 (1): 19036. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46306-6.

Ghouil, Rania, Simona Miron, Koichi Sato, Dejan Ristic, Sari E. van Rossum-Fikkert, Pierre Legrand, Malika Ouldali, et al. 2023. “BRCA2-HSF2BP Oligomeric Ring Disassembly by BRME1 Promotes Homologous Recombination.” Science Advances 9 (43): eadi7352. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi7352.

Kefala Stavridi, Antonia, Amandine Gontier, Vincent Morin, Philippe Frit, Virginie Ropars, Nadia Barboule, Carine Racca, et al. 2023. “Structural and Functional Basis of Inositol Hexaphosphate Stimulation of NHEJ through Stabilization of Ku-XLF Interaction.” Nucleic Acids Research, October, gkad863. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad863.

Mao, Wei, Lars D. Renner, Charlène Cornilleau, Ines Li de la Sierra-Gallay, Sana Afensiss, Sarah Benlamara, Yoan Ah-Seng, et al. 2023. “On the Role of Nucleotides and Lipids in the Polymerization of the Actin Homolog MreB from a Gram-Positive Bacterium.” ELife 12 (October):e84505. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84505.

Campanacci, Valérie, and Benoît Gigant. 2023. “The C-Terminus of Stathmin-like Proteins Governs the Stability of Their Complexes with Tubulin.” Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 682 (October):244–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2023.10.023.

Talbi, Nacera, Mila C. Blekemolen, Slavica Janevska, Daniel P. Zendler, Herman Van Tilbeurgh, Isabelle Fudal, and Frank L. W. Takken. 2023. “Facilitation of Symplastic Effector Protein Mobility by Paired Effectors Is Conserved in Different Classes of Fungal Pathogens.” Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions: MPMI, October. https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-07-23-0103-FI.

Boussac, Alain, Miwa Sugiura, Makoto Nakamura, Ryo Nagao, Takumi Noguchi, Stefania Viola, A. William Rutherford, and Julien Sellés. 2023. “Absorption Changes in Photosystem II in the Soret Band Region upon the Formation of the Chlorophyll Cation Radical [PD1PD2].” Photosynthesis Research, September. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-023-01049-3.

Teixeira-Nunes, Magda, Pascal Retailleau, Dorothée Raoux-Barbot, Martine Comisso, Anani Amegan Missinou, Christophe Velours, Stéphane Plancqueel, Daniel Ladant, Undine Mechold, and Louis Renault. 2023. “Functional and Structural Insights into the Multi-Step Activation and Catalytic Mechanism of Bacterial ExoY Nucleotidyl Cyclase Toxins Bound to Actin-Profilin.” PLoS Pathogens 19 (9): e1011654. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1011654.

Sugiura, Miwa, Masaya Kimura, Naohiro Shimamoto, Yuki Takegawa, Makoto Nakamura, Kazumi Koyama, Julien Sellés, Alain Boussac, and A. William Rutherford. 2023. “Tuning of the ChlD1 and ChlD2 Properties in Photosystem II by Site-Directed Mutagenesis of Neighbouring Amino Acids.” Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta. Bioenergetics, September, 149013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2023.149013.

Liu, Siyu, Judith Miné-Hattab, Marie Villemeur, Raphaël Guerois, Henrik Dahl Pinholt, Leonid A. Mirny, and Angela Taddei. 2023. “Publisher Correction: In Vivo Tracking of Functionally Tagged Rad51 Unveils a Robust Strategy of Homology Search.” Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, September. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41594-023-01114-4.

Gelot, Camille, Marton Tibor Kovacs, Simona Miron, Emilie Mylne, Alexis Haan, Liza Boeffard-Dosierre, Rania Ghouil, et al. 2023. “Polθ Is Phosphorylated by PLK1 to Repair Double-Strand Breaks in Mitosis.” Nature, September. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06506-6.

Clark, Anna D., Andrew F. Cumpstey, Jérôme Santolini, Alan A. Jackson, and Martin Feelisch. 2023. “Uncoupled Redox Stress: How a Temporal Misalignment of Redox-Regulated Processes and Circadian Rhythmicity Exacerbates the Stressed State.” Open Biology 13 (9): 230151. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsob.230151.

Leverne, Lucas, Thomas Roach, François Perreau, Fabienne Maignan, and Anja Krieger-Liszkay. 2023. “Increased Drought Resistance in State Transition Mutants Is Linked to Modified Plastoquinone Pool Redox State.” Plant, Cell & Environment, August. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14695.

Gareil, Nelly, Alison Gervais, Nicolas Macaisne, Guillaume Chevreux, Julie C. Canman, Jessica Andreani, and Julien Dumont. 2023. “An Unconventional TOG Domain Is Required for CLASP Localization.” Current Biology: CB 33 (16): 3522-3528.e7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.07.009.

Liu, Siyu, Judith Miné-Hattab, Marie Villemeur, Raphaël Guerois, Henrik Dahl Pinholt, Leonid A. Mirny, and Angela Taddei. 2023. “In Vivo Tracking of Functionally Tagged Rad51 Unveils a Robust Strategy of Homology Search.” Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, August. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41594-023-01065-w.

Brookes, Emre, Mattia Rocco, Patrice Vachette, and Jill Trewhella. 2023. “AlphaFold-Predicted Protein Structures and Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering: Insights from an Extended Examination of Selected Data in the Small-Angle Scattering Biological Data Bank.” Journal of Applied Crystallography 56 (Pt 4): 910–26. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576723005344.

Rump, Airi, Kristel Ratas, Tuuli Katarina Lepasepp, Jaanus Suurväli, Olli-Pekka Smolander, Katrin Gross-Paju, Toomas Toomsoo, Jean Kanellopoulos, and Sirje Rüütel Boudinot. 2023. “Sex-Dependent Expression Levels of VAV1 and P2X7 in PBMC of Multiple Sclerosis Patients.” Scandinavian Journal of Immunology 98 (2): e13283. https://doi.org/10.1111/sji.13283.

Petit, Pauline, Karim Hayoun, Béatrice Alpha-Bazin, Jean Armengaud, and Corinne Rivasseau. 2023. “First Isolation and Characterization of Bacteria from the Core’s Cooling Pool of an Operating Nuclear Reactor.” Microorganisms 11 (8): 1871. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11081871.

Monticelli, Serena, Alex Talbot, Philipp Gotico, Fabien Caillé, Olivier Loreau, Antonio Del Vecchio, Augustin Malandain, et al. 2023. “Unlocking Full and Fast Conversion in Photocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction for Applications in Radio-Carbonylation.” Nature Communications 14 (1): 4451. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40136-w.

Gotico, Philipp, Zakaria Halime, Winfried Leibl, and Ally Aukauloo. 2023. “Bimetallic Molecular Catalyst Design for Carbon Dioxide Reduction.” ChemPlusChem, July, e202300222. https://doi.org/10.1002/cplu.202300222.

Steunou, Anne-Soisig, Marion Babot, Anne Durand, Marie-Line Bourbon, Sylviane Liotenberg, Guylaine Miotello, Jean Armengaud, and Soufian Ouchane. 2023. “Discriminating Susceptibility of Xanthine Oxidoreductase Family to Metals.” Microbiology Spectrum, July, e0481422. https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.04814-22.

Szatkownik, Antoine, Diego Javier Zea, Hugues Richard, and Elodie Laine. 2023. “Building Alternative Splicing and Evolution-Aware Sequence-Structure Maps for Protein Repeats.” Journal of Structural Biology, July, 107997. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsb.2023.107997.

Renouard, Emilie, Magdalena Nowinska, Fabien Lacombat, Pascal Plaza, Pavel Müller, and Agathe Espagne. 2023. “Multiscale Transient Absorption Study of the Fluorescent Protein Dreiklang and Two Point Variants Provides Insight into Photoswitching and Nonproductive Reaction Pathways.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, July, 6477–85. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00431.

Feelisch, Martin, Anna D. Clark, Andrew F. Cumpstey, Jérôme Santolini, and Alan A. Jackson. 2023. “Long COVID: Potential Role of the Reactive Species Interactome.” The Journal of Infection, July, S0163-4453(23)00376-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2023.07.004.

Veremeienko, Vasyl, Chloe Magne, Minh-Huong Ha-Thi, Ana Arteni, Andrew Pascal, Mikas Vengris, Thomas Pino, Robert Bruno, and Manuel Llansola-Portoles. 2023. “Singlet Fission in Heterogeneous Lycopene Aggregates.” ChemRxiv. https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-t3q2s.

Čopič, Alenka, Thibaud Dieudonné, and Guillaume Lenoir. 2023. “Phosphatidylserine Transport in Cell Life and Death.” Current Opinion in Cell Biology 83 (July):102192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceb.2023.102192.

Schweke, Hugo, Qifang Xu, Gerardo Tauriello, Lorenzo Pantolini, Torsten Schwede, Frédéric Cazals, Alix Lhéritier, et al. 2023. “Discriminating Physiological from Non-Physiological Interfaces in Structures of Protein Complexes: A Community-Wide Study.” Proteomics, June, e2200323. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.202200323.

Perrin, Marie E., Bo Li, Johanne Mbianda, May Bakail, Christophe André, Gwenaëlle Moal, Pierre Legrand, et al. 2023. “Unexpected Binding Modes of Inhibitors to the Histone Chaperone ASF1 Revealed by a Foldamer Scanning Approach.” Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England), June. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3cc01891a.

Kra, Kalouna, Siyu Li, Laetitia Gargowitsch, Jéril Degrouard, Javier Pérez, Roya Zandi, Stéphane Bressanelli, and Guillaume Tresset. 2023. “Energetics and Kinetic Assembly Pathways of Hepatitis B Virus Capsids in the Presence of Antivirals.” ACS Nano, June. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c03595.

Wang, Yanan, Giovanni Chiappetta, Raphaël Guérois, Yijun Liu, Stéphane Romero, Daniel J. Boesch, Matthias Krause, et al. 2023. “PPP2R1A Regulates Migration Persistence through the NHSL1-Containing WAVE Shell Complex.” Nature Communications 14 (1): 3541. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39276-w.

Labidi, Raphaël J., Bruno Faivre, Philippe Carpentier, Giulia Veronesi, Albert Solé-Daura, Ragnar Bjornsson, Christophe Léger, et al. 2023. “Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Catalyzed by a Molybdenum-Copper Artificial Hydrogenase.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, June. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c01350.

Seif-El-Dahan, Murielle, Antonia Kefala-Stavridi, Philippe Frit, Steven W. Hardwick, Dima Y. Chirgadze, Taiana Maia De Oliviera, Sébastien Britton, et al. 2023. “PAXX Binding to the NHEJ Machinery Explains Functional Redundancy with XLF.” Science Advances 9 (22): eadg2834. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg2834.

Hardwick, Steven W., Antonia Kefala Stavridi, Dimitri Y. Chirgadze, Taiana Maia De Oliveira, Jean-Baptiste Charbonnier, Virginie Ropars, Katheryn Meek, Tom L. Blundell, and Amanda K. Chaplin. 2023. “Cryo-EM Structure of a DNA-PK Trimer: Higher Order Oligomerisation in NHEJ.” Structure (London, England: 1993), May, S0969-2126(23)00167-3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2023.05.013.

Taouis, Karim, Sophie Vacher, Josée Guirouilh-Barbat, Jacques Camonis, Etienne Formstecher, Tatiana Popova, Anne-Sophie Hamy, et al. 2023. “WWOX Binds MERIT40 and Modulates Its Function in Homologous Recombination, Implications in Breast Cancer.” Cancer Gene Therapy, May. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41417-023-00626-x.

Boussac, Alain, Julien Sellés, and Miwa Sugiura. 2023. “Energetics and Proton Release in Photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus Elongatus with a D1 Protein Encoded by Either the PsbA2 or PsbA3 Gene.” Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta. Bioenergetics 1864 (3): 148979. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2023.148979.