- We use biophysical experimental techniques such as crystallography and cryo-EM to visualize at the atomic level the structure of molecules essential to life, such as DNA polymerases involved in DNA Repair and Cancer and ion channels involved in electric nerve signalling (cell-cell communications).
- We complement them with molecular and normal modes dynamics, so as to go beyond the essentially static pictures given by these methods.
- We also try to better understand the electrostatics of macromolecules and their interaction with the solvent and ligands, in order to be able to predict their binding properties.
- Our main goal is to design structure-inspired drugs (pharmacology) and re-design active site(s) to make them accept other substrates (synthetic biology).
- From outside campus, more details can be found at http://lorentz.dynstr.pasteur.fr
- If inside campus, use this one: http://lorentz.dynstr.pasteur.fr
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Name
Position
2015
2020
Zeineb Fourati-Kammoun
Post-doc
2015
2020
Frédéric Poitevin
Post-doc
2015
2020
Filippo Romoli
Post-doc
2015
2020
Danièle Sinnaya
Administrative Staff
2015
2020
Irina Volahasina Randrianjatovo-Gbalou
Post-doc
2015
2020
Pierre Raia
PhD Student
2015
2020
Thomas Ybert
Post-doc
2015
2020
Jérôme Loc’h
Post-doc
2015
2020
Haidai Hu
PhD Student
2015
2020
Victoire PRAT
Undergraduate Student
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2020Structural evidence for the binding of monocarboxylates and dicarboxylates at pharmacologically relevant extracellular sites of a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel., Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol 2020 Jul; 76(Pt 7): 668-675.
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2020Structural basis for allosteric transitions of a multidomain pentameric ligand-gated ion channel., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2020 Jun; 117(24): 13437-13446.
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2020Structural basis for the increased processivity of D-family DNA polymerases in complex with PCNA., Nat Commun 2020 03; 11(1): 1591.
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2019Statistical Physics Approach to the Optimal Transport Problem., Phys. Rev. Lett. 2019 Jul; 123(4): 040603.
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2019Structural evidence for an “in trans” base selection mechanism involving Loop1 in polymerase μ at an NHEJ double-strand break junction, J. Biol. Chem. 2019 Jul;294(27):10579-10595.
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2019Rapid enzymatic synthesis of long RNA polymers: A simple protocol to generate RNA libraries with random sequences, Methods 2019 May;161:83-90.
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2019Structure of the DP1-DP2 PolD complex bound with DNA and its implications for the evolutionary history of DNA and RNA polymerases, PLoS Biol. 2019 Jan;17(1):e3000122.
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2019An updated structural classification of replicative DNA polymerases, Biochem. Soc. Trans. 2019 02;47(1):239-249.
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2018Numerical Encodings of Amino Acids in Multivariate Gaussian Modeling of Protein Multiple Sequence Alignments, Molecules 2018 Dec;24(1).
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2018Electrostatics, proton sensor, and networks governing the gating transition in GLIC, a proton-gated pentameric ion channel, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2018 12;115(52):E12172-E12181.
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Contact
Marie de Tarragon Phone: Ext. 86 96 Email: marie.de-tarragon@pasteur.fr Address Unite de Dynamique Structurales des Macromolecules Biologiques 25-28 Rue du Docteur Roux 75015, Paris France