Tailoring new enzyme functions by rational redesign

F Cedrone, A Ménez, E Quéméneur - Current opinion in structural biology, 2000 - Elsevier
Site-directed mutagenesis is still a very efficient strategy to elaborate improved enzymes.
Recently, advances have been made in developing rational strategies aimed at reshaping …

Immune checkpoint blockade, immunogenic chemotherapy or IFN-α blockade boost the local and abscopal effects of oncolytic virotherapy

L Fend, T Yamazaki, C Remy, C Fahrner, M Gantzer… - Cancer research, 2017 - AACR
Athough the clinical efficacy of oncolytic viruses has been demonstrated for local treatment,
the ability to induce immune-mediated regression of distant metastases is still poorly …

Vectorization in an oncolytic vaccinia virus of an antibody, a Fab and a scFv against programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) allows their intratumoral delivery and an …

P Kleinpeter, L Fend, C Thioudellet, M Geist… - …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
We report here the successful vectorization of a hamster monoclonal IgG (namely J43)
recognizing the murine Programmed cell death-1 (mPD-1) in Western Reserve (WR) …

Structural Consequences of Binding of UO22+ to Apotransferrin:  Can This Protein Account for Entry of Uranium into Human Cells?

C Vidaud, S Gourion-Arsiquaud, F Rollin-Genetet… - Biochemistry, 2007 - ACS Publications
It has been established that transferrin binds a variety of metals. These include toxic uranyl
ions which form rather stable uranyl-transferrin derivatives. We determined the extent to …

[HTML][HTML] The enhanced tumor specificity of TG6002, an armed oncolytic vaccinia virus deleted in two genes involved in nucleotide metabolism

J Foloppe, J Kempf, N Futin, J Kintz, P Cordier… - Molecular Therapy …, 2019 - cell.com
Oncolytic vaccinia viruses are currently in clinical development. However, the safety and the
tumor selectivity of these oncolytic viruses must be improved. We previously constructed a …

[HTML][HTML] Patient-Derived Lung Tumoroids—An Emerging Technology in Drug Development and Precision Medicine

H Lê, J Seitlinger, V Lindner, A Olland, PE Falcoz… - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Synthetic 3D multicellular systems derived from patient tumors, or tumoroids, have been
developed to complete the cancer research arsenal and overcome the limits of current …

A34. 5, a nonessential component of yeast RNA polymerase I, cooperates with subunit A14 and DNA topoisomerase I to produce a functional rRNA synthesis machine

O Gadal, S Mariotte-Labarre, S Chedin… - … and cellular biology, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
A34. 5, a phosphoprotein copurifying with RNA polymerase I (Pol I), lacks homology to any
component of the Pol II or Pol III transcription complexes. Cells devoid of A34. 5 hardly affect …

[PDF][PDF] The Tudor tandem of 53BP1: a new structural motif involved in DNA and RG-rich peptide binding

G Charier, J Couprie, V Meyer, E Quéméneur… - Structure, 2004 - cell.com
Abstract 53BP1 is a key transducer of the DNA damage checkpoint signal, which is required
for phosphorylation of a subset of ATM substrates and p53 accumulation. After cell …

Engineering cyclophilin into a proline-specific endopeptidase

E Quéméneur, M Moutiez, JB Charbonnier, A Ménez - Nature, 1998 - nature.com
Designing an enzyme requires, among a number of parameters, the appropriate positioning
of catalytic machinery within a substrate-binding cleft. Using the structures of cyclophilin …

Screening of human serum proteins for uranium binding

C Vidaud, A Dedieu, C Basset, S Plantevin… - Chemical research in …, 2005 - ACS Publications
About 20% of uranyl ions in serum are associated with the protein pool. A few of them such
as transferrin have been characterized, but most still have to be identified to obtain a better …