Nuclear enveloppe,
Telomeres and DNA repair

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Julien, Manon, Rania Ghouil, Ambre Petitalot, Sandrine M. Caputo, Aura Carreira, and Sophie Zinn-Justin. 2021. “Intrinsic Disorder and Phosphorylation in BRCA2 Facilitate Tight Regulation of Multiple Conserved Binding Events.” Biomolecules 11 (7): 1060. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom11071060.

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Marcelot, Agathe, Ambre Petitalot, Virginie Ropars, Marie-Hélène Le Du, Camille Samson, Stevens Dubois, Guillaume Hoffmann, et al. 2021. “Di-Phosphorylated BAF Shows Altered Structural Dynamics and Binding to DNA, but Interacts with Its Nuclear Envelope Partners.” Nucleic Acids Research 49 (7): 3841–55. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkab184.

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Verzini, Silvia, Maliha Shah, Francois-Xavier Theillet, Adam Belsom, Jan Bieschke, Erich E. Wanker, Juri Rappsilber, Andres Binolfi, and Philipp Selenko. 2020. “Megadalton-Sized Dityrosine Aggregates of α-Synuclein Retain High Degrees of Structural Disorder and Internal Dynamics.” Journal of Molecular Biology 432 (24): 166689. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2020.10.023.

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Bodor, Andrea, Jens D. Haller, Chafiaa Bouguechtouli, Francois-Xavier Theillet, Laszlo Nyitray, and Burkhard Luy. 2020. “Power of Pure Shift H Alpha C Alpha Correlations: A Way to Characterize Biomolecules under Physiological Conditions.” Analytical Chemistry 92 (18): 12423–28. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.0c02182.

Aráoz, Rómulo, Paul Barnes, Véronique Séchet, Muriel Delepierre, Sophie Zinn-Justin, Jordi Molgó, Armen Zakarian, Philipp Hess, and Denis Servent. 2020. “Cyclic Imine Toxins Survey in Coastal European Shellfish Samples: Bioaccumulation and Mode of Action of 28-O-Palmitoyl Ester of Pinnatoxin-G. First Report of Portimine-A Bioaccumulation.” Harmful Algae 98 (September): 101887. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2020.101887.

Marcelot, Agathe, Howard J. Worman, and Sophie Zinn-Justin. 2020. “Protein Structural and Mechanistic Basis of Progeroid Laminopathies.” The FEBS Journal, August. https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.15526.

Lallemand, François, Sophie Vacher, Leanne de Koning, Ambre Petitalot, Adrien Briaux, Keltouma Driouch, Céline Callens, et al. 2020. “The High Protein Expression of FOXO3, but Not That of FOXO1, Is Associated with Markers of Good Prognosis.” Scientific Reports 10 (1): 6920. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-63895-8.

Ehlén, Åsa, Charlotte Martin, Simona Miron, Manon Julien, François-Xavier Theillet, Virginie Ropars, Gaetana Sessa, et al. 2020. “Proper Chromosome Alignment Depends on BRCA2 Phosphorylation by PLK1.” Nature Communications 11 (1): 1819. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15689-9.

Lafosse, Marine, Elise Cartier, Kathleen Solmont, Julie Rivollier, Djamille Azazna, Pierre Thuéry, Yves Boulard, et al. 2020. “Clickable Bambusurils to Access Multivalent Architectures.” Organic Letters 22 (8): 3099–3103. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.0c00856.

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Julien, Manon, Simona Miron, Aura Carreira, François-Xavier Theillet, and Sophie Zinn-Justin. 2020. “1H, 13C and 15N Backbone Resonance Assignment of the Human BRCA2 N-Terminal Region.” Biomolecular NMR Assignments 14 (1): 79–85. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12104-019-09924-8.

Zinke, Maximilian, Katrin A. A. Sachowsky, Carl Öster, Sophie Zinn-Justin, Raimond Ravelli, Gunnar F. Schröder, Michael Habeck, and Adam Lange. 2020. “Architecture of the Flexible Tail Tube of Bacteriophage SPP1.” Nature Communications 11 (1): 5759. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19611-1.

Alik, Ania, Chafiaa Bouguechtouli, Manon Julien, Wolfgang Bermel, Rania Ghouil, Sophie Zinn-Justin, and Francois-Xavier Theillet. 2020. “Sensitivity-Enhanced C-13-NMR Spectroscopy for Monitoring Multisite Phosphorylation at Physiological Temperature and PH.” Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 59 (26): 10411–15. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202002288.

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Julien, Manon, Chafiaa Bouguechtouli, Ania Alik, Rania Ghouil, Sophie Zinn-Justin, and François-Xavier Theillet. 2020. “Multiple Site-Specific Phosphorylation of IDPs Monitored by NMR.” Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2141: 793–817. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0524-0_41.

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Houriez, Céline, Florent Réal, Valérie Vallet, Michael Mautner, and Michel Masella. 2019. “Ion Hydration Free Energies and Water Surface Potential in Water Nano Drops: The Cluster Pair Approximation and the Proton Hydration Gibbs Free Energy in Solution.” The Journal of Chemical Physics 151 (17): 174504. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5109777.

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Essawy, Nada, Camille Samson, Ambre Petitalot, Sophie Moog, Anne Bigot, Isaline Herrada, Agathe Marcelot, Ana-Andreea Arteni, Catherine Coirault, and Sophie Zinn-Justin. 2019. “An Emerin LEM-Domain Mutation Impairs Cell Response to Mechanical Stress.” Cells 8 (6): 570. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells8060570.

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Samson, Camille, Ambre Petitalot, Florian Celli, Isaline Herrada, Virginie Ropars, Marie-Helene Le Du, Naima Nhiri, et al. 2018. “Structural Analysis of the Ternary Complex between Lamin A/C, BAF and Emerin Identifies an Interface Disrupted in Autosomal Recessive Progeroid Diseases.” Nucleic Acids Research 46 (19): 10460–73. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gky736.