Félix A. Rey

General context : Foamy viruses (FV) are the oldest retroviruses, described as largely nonpathogenic in their natural animal hosts. Simian foamy viruses (SFVs) can be transmitted to humans, where they establish persistent infection akin […]

We established an Emerging Infectious Disease Research Center in Southeast Asia and West/Central Africa with an inter-continental one-health approach designed to improve the capacity to respond rapidly and effectively to outbreaks. We built on […]

  CORONABODIES : Production of SARS-CoV-2 nucleoprotein (N) and spike (S) recombinant antigens and generation of anti-N and anti-S nanobodies for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. SUMMARY We propose a joint effort to generate as […]

Cell-Cell fusion in fertilization and developmental biology: a structural biology approach. My group has made seminal contributions in the past toward understanding the mechanism of membrane fusion used by enveloped viruses to infect a […]

The main objective of the programme is to focus on finding key factors determining dengue transmission and dynamics in order to develop new tools and strategies for controlling dengue transmission. We will estimate the […]

PDB Crystal Structures Resolution (A) Year NON-VIRAL proteins Eukariotyc cell-cell fusion 4OJC Wild-type full-length trimeric ectodomain of C. elegans fusion protein EFF-1  2.93 2014 4OJD C-ter truncated trimeric ectodomain of C. elegans fusion protein […]

  Little is known about the three-dimensional organization of rubella virus, which causes a relatively mild measles-like disease in children but leads to serious congenital health problems when contracted in utero. Although rubella virus […]

  Respiratory Syncytial Virus Nucleoprotein-RNA complex     Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most important viral agent of pediatric respiratory tract disease worldwide, causing pneumonia and bronchiolitis in infants. No vaccine is currently […]

  Double-stranded (ds) RNA virus particles are organized around a central icosahedral core capsid made of 120 identical subunits. This core capsid is unable to invade cells from outside, and animal dsRNA viruses have […]

 Bovine Viral Diarrhea virus envelop protein E(rns) Pestiviruses, which belong to the Flaviviridae family of RNA viruses, are important agents of veterinary diseases causing substantial economical losses in animal farming worldwide. Pestivirus particles display […]

Envelope glycoproteins of herpesviruses     Herpesviridae are a large family of double-stranded DNA viruses, counting more than 200 members that infect humans and a wide range of invertebrates and vertebrates. Herpesviruses carry a […]

  Hepatitis C virus E2 envelop glycoprotein     The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major cause of chronic liver disease worldwide, leading to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. In spite of being the focus […]

  Dengue virus E envelop glycoprotein The dengue virus (DENV) is a mosquito-borne member of the flavivirus genus responsible for roughly 50 million human infections each year. DENV is composed of four distinct but […]

Chikungunya virus p62-E1 envelope glycoproteins The Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an emerging mosquito-borne alphavirus that has caused widespread outbreaks of a debilitating human disease in the last 5 years. CHIKV invasion of susceptible cells […]

  Cell-cell fusion proteins are essential in development. We show that the C. elegans cell-cell fusion protein EFF-1 is structurally homologous to viral class II fusion proteins. The 2.6 Ang. crystal structure of the […]

Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus GP2 envelop protein Arenaviruses are important agents of zoonotic disease worldwide. The virions expose a tripartite envelope glycoprotein complex (GPC) at their surface, formed by the glycoprotein subunits GP1, GP2 and […]

Structural and functional studies of Chikungunya virus entry into host cells Deciphering Chikungunya virus cell biology by high-throughput / high-content screening Chikungunya virus infection of fibroblasts Chikungunya virus and the central nervous system infection