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Alain Jacquier is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Molecular Biology and, to a lesser extent, Plant Science.

Their scientific work covers several specific topics including:

  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA regulation and disease
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Polyamine Metabolism and Applications

Jacquier has published multiple papers in recognized journals and platforms. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Degradation of Non-coding RNAs Promotes Recycling of Termination Factors at Sites of Transcription," 2020, Cell Reports
  • "Investigation of RNA metabolism through large-scale genetic interaction profiling in yeast," 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Xrn1 biochemically associates with eisosome proteins after the post diauxic shift in yeast," 2023, PubMed
  • "eIF2A represses cell wall biogenesis gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae," 2023, PLoS ONE
  • "YLR419W is the homolog of the mammalian translation initiation factor DHX29," 2024, PubMed

The publication venues where Jacquier frequently appears include:

  • PubMed
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cell Reports
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • PLoS ONE

The scientist often collaborates with several coauthors, among them:

  • Micheline Fromont-Racine
  • Baptiste Courtin
  • Abdelkader Namane
  • Maïté Gomard
  • Laura Meyer

Best Publications

  • RNA degradation by the exosome is promoted by a nuclear polyadenylation complex

    John LaCava;Jonathan Houseley;Cosmin Saveanu;Elisabeth Petfalski

  • Cryptic Pol II Transcripts Are Degraded by a Nuclear Quality Control Pathway Involving a New Poly(A) Polymerase

    Françoise Wyers;Mathieu Rougemaille;Gwenaël Badis;Jean-Claude Rousselle

  • Widespread bidirectional promoters are the major source of cryptic transcripts in yeast

    Helen Neil;Christophe Malabat;Yves d'Aubenton-Carafa;Zhenyu Xu

  • Comparison of fungal mitochondrial introns reveals extensive homologies in RNA secondary structure

    François Michel;Alain Jacquier;Bernard Dujon

  • The complex eukaryotic transcriptome: unexpected pervasive transcription and novel small RNAs.

    Alain Jacquier

  • Staphylococcus aureus RNAIII coordinately represses the synthesis of virulence factors and the transcription regulator Rot by an antisense mechanism

    Sandrine Boisset;Thomas Geissmann;Eric Huntzinger;Pierre Fechter

  • Human L1 element target-primed reverse transcription in vitro

    Gregory J. Cost;Qinghua Feng;Alain Jacquier;Jef D. Boeke

  • An intron-encoded protein is active in a gene conversion process that spreads an intron into a mitochondrial gene

    Alain Jacquier;Bernard Dujon

  • Complete Dna-Sequence Of Yeast Chromosome-Xi

    B. Dujon;D. Alexandraki;B. André;W. Ansorge

  • Staphylococcus aureus RNAIII and the endoribonuclease III coordinately regulate spa gene expression

    Eric Huntzinger;Sandrine Boisset;Cosmin Saveanu;Yvonne Benito

  • Nuclear Retention of Unspliced mRNAs in Yeast Is Mediated by Perinuclear Mlp1

    Vincent Galy;Olivier Gadal;Micheline Fromont-Racine;Alper Romano

  • Universal code equivalent of a yeast mitochondrial intron reading frame is expressed into E. coli as a specific double strand endonuclease

    L. Colleaux;L. d'Auriol;M. Betermier;G. Cottarel

  • Dealing with Pervasive Transcription

    Torben Heick Jensen;Alain Jacquier;Domenico Libri

  • Multiple exon-binding sites in class II self-splicing introns

    Alain Jacquier;François Michel

  • Extensive Degradation of RNA Precursors by the Exosome in Wild-Type Cells

    Rajani Kanth Gudipati;Zhenyu Xu;Alice Lebreton;Alice Lebreton;Bertrand Séraphin

  • Sequential protein association with nascent 60S ribosomal particles.

    Cosmin Saveanu;Abdelkader Namane;Pierre-Emmanuel Gleizes;Alice Lebreton

  • Cdc48-associated complex bound to 60S particles is required for the clearance of aberrant translation products

    Quentin Defenouillère;Yanhua Yao;John Mouaikel;Abdelkader Namane

  • Yeast RNase III as a key processing enzyme in small nucleolar RNAs metabolism

    Guillaume Chanfreau;Pierre Legrain;Alain Jacquier

  • Nog2p, a putative GTPase associated with pre-60S subunits and required for late 60S maturation steps

    Cosmin Saveanu;David Bienvenu;Abdelkader Namane;Pierre‐Emmanuel Gleizes

  • Nuclear architecture and spatial positioning help establish transcriptional states of telomeres in yeast.

    Frank Feuerbach;Vincent Galy;Edgar Trelles-Sticken;Micheline Fromont-Racine

Frequent Co-Authors

Abdelkader Namane
Abdelkader Namane Institut Pasteur
Bernard Dujon
Bernard Dujon Institut Pasteur
Bertrand Séraphin
Bertrand Séraphin Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology
Pierre Legrain
Pierre Legrain Institut Pasteur
Michael Rosbash
Michael Rosbash Brandeis University
Otto Berninghausen
Otto Berninghausen Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
François Vandenesch
François Vandenesch Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Lars M. Steinmetz
Lars M. Steinmetz Stanford University
Sylvain Blanquet
Sylvain Blanquet École Polytechnique

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