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Antoine Royant is affiliated with the Institut de Biologie Structurale in France, where they engage in research across biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience. Their work has a strong focus on molecular biology and cellular and molecular neuroscience, with additional contributions in materials chemistry, plant science, and spectroscopy.

Their research primarily addresses topics such as photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, enzyme structure and function, light effects on plants, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, hemoglobin structure and function, and advanced electron microscopy techniques and applications.

Royant has published numerous papers in a variety of scientific journals. Recent publications include:

  • Mechanism and dynamics of fatty acid photodecarboxylase, 2021, Science
  • mScarlet3: a brilliant and fast-maturing red fluorescent protein, 2023, Nature Methods
  • Ultrafast structural changes within a photosynthetic reaction centre, 2020, Nature
  • Molecular mechanism of light-driven sodium pumping, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Aequorea's secrets revealed: New fluorescent proteins with unique properties for bioimaging and biosensing, 2020, PLoS Biology

Their work frequently appears in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
  • Science

Collaborations are a significant aspect of Royant's research, with frequent coauthors including Sylvain Engilberge, Nicolas Caramello, Kirill Kovalev, Alexey Alekseev, and Gleb Bourenkov.

Best Publications

  • mScarlet: a bright monomeric red fluorescent protein for cellular imaging

    Daphne S Bindels;Lindsay Haarbosch;Laura van Weeren;Marten Postma

  • Structure-Guided Evolution of Cyan Fluorescent Proteins Towards a Quantum Yield of 93%

    Joachim Goedhart;David von Stetten;Marjolaine Noirclerc-Savoye;Marjolaine Noirclerc-Savoye;Mickaël Lelimousin

  • Mammalian expression of infrared fluorescent proteins engineered from a bacterial phytochrome.

    Xiaokun Shu;Antoine Royant;Michael Z. Lin;Todd A. Aguilera

  • Protein, lipid and water organization in bacteriorhodopsin crystals: a molecular view of the purple membrane at 1.9 Å resolution

    Hassan Belrhali;Peter Nollert;Antoine Royant;Christoph Menzel

  • A three-dimensional movie of structural changes in bacteriorhodopsin

    Eriko Nango;Antoine Royant;Antoine Royant;Minoru Kubo;Takanori Nakane

  • High Resolution X-Ray Structure of an Early Intermediate in the Bacteriorhodopsin Photocycle

    Karl Edman;Peter Nollert;Peter Nollert;Antoine Royant;Antoine Royant;Hassan Belrhali

  • X-Ray Structure of Sensory Rhodopsin II at 2.1 A Resolution

    Antoine Royant;Peter Nollert;Peter Nollert;Karl Edman;Richard Neutze

  • Helix deformation is coupled to vectorial proton transport in the photocycle of bacteriorhodopsin

    Antoine Royant;Antoine Royant;Karl Edman;Thomas Ursby;Thomas Ursby;Eva Pebay-Peyroula

  • Bacteriorhodopsin: a high-resolution structural view of vectorial proton transport.

    Richard Neutze;Eva Pebay-Peyroula;Karl Edman;Antoine Royant;Antoine Royant

  • mScarlet3: a brilliant and fast-maturing red fluorescent protein

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  • Mechanism and dynamics of fatty acid photodecarboxylase

    Damien Sorigué;Kyprianos Hadjidemetriou;S. Blangy;G. Gotthard

  • An improved monomeric infrared fluorescent protein for neuronal and tumour brain imaging

    Dan Yu;William Clay Gustafson;Chun Han;Céline Lafaye

  • Stabilizing Role of Glutamic Acid 222 in the Structure of Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein.

    Antoine Royant;Marjolaine Noirclerc-Savoye;Marjolaine Noirclerc-Savoye

  • Advances in kinetic protein crystallography

    Dominique Bourgeois;Antoine Royant

  • Snapshots of enzymatic Baeyer-Villiger catalysis: oxygen activation and intermediate stabilization.

    Roberto Orru;Hanna M. Dudek;Christian Martinoli;Daniel E. Torres Pazmiño

  • Intrinsic Dynamics in ECFP and Cerulean Control Fluorescence Quantum Yield

    Mickaël Lelimousin;Marjolaine Noirclerc-Savoye;Christelle Lazareno-Saez;Bernhard Paetzold

  • Structural determinants of spectral tuning in retinal proteins - Bacteriorhodopsin vs sensory rhodopsin II

    Shigehiko Hayashi;Shigehiko Hayashi;Emad Tajkhorshid;Eva Pebay-Peyroula;Antoine Royant;Antoine Royant

  • Structural and electronic snapshots during the transition from a Cu(II) to Cu(I) metal center of a lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase by X-ray photoreduction.

    Mikael Gudmundsson;Seonah Kim;Miao Wu;Takuya Ishida

  • Bacteriorhodopsin: Would the real structural intermediates please stand up?

    Cecilia Wickstrand;Robert Dods;Antoine Royant;Richard Neutze

  • Crystal structure of plant light‐harvesting complex shows the active, energy‐transmitting state

    Tiago Barros;Antoine Royant;Antoine Royant;Jörg Standfuss;Andreas Dreuw

  • Structure of Superoxide Reductase Bound to Ferrocyanide and Active Site Expansion upon X-Ray-Induced Photo-Reduction

    Virgile Adam;Antoine Royant;Antoine Royant;Vincent Nivière;Fernando P. Molina-Heredia

  • A three dimensional movie of structural changes in bacteriorhodopsin: structure obtained 40 ns after photoexcitation

    A. Royant;E. Nango;T. Nakane;T. Tanaka

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominique Bourgeois
Dominique Bourgeois Grenoble Alpes University
Richard Neutze
Richard Neutze University of Gothenburg
Marco W. Fraaije
Marco W. Fraaije University of Groningen
Andrea Mattevi
Andrea Mattevi University of Pavia
Michael Wulff
Michael Wulff European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Theodorus W. J. Gadella
Theodorus W. J. Gadella University of Amsterdam
Ernst Bamberg
Ernst Bamberg Max Planck Society
Thierry Prangé
Thierry Prangé Université Paris Cité
So Iwata
So Iwata Kyoto University
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Tomoyuki Tanaka University of Dundee

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