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Christophe Léger

Christophe Léger

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Chemistry

D-Index
56
Citations
9492
World Ranking
11820
National Ranking
459

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Christophe Léger is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Energy, with over 90 publications contributing to this area. Within this domain, they have specialized extensively in the subfields of Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Energy Engineering and Power Technology, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The central topics of Christophe Léger's work include Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, Advanced battery technologies research, CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts, Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems, Hydrogen Storage and Materials, as well as Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation.

They have authored numerous scientific papers, some of the recent notable publications are:

  • Second and Outer Coordination Sphere Effects in Nitrogenase, Hydrogenase, Formate Dehydrogenase, and CO Dehydrogenase, 2022, Chemical Reviews
  • Reversible H2 oxidation and evolution by hydrogenase embedded in a redox polymer film, 2021, Nature Catalysis
  • A safety cap protects hydrogenase from oxygen attack, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Reversible catalysis, 2021, Nature Reviews Chemistry
  • Formate Dehydrogenases Reduce CO2 Rather than HCO3: An Electrochemical Demonstration, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Christophe Léger has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, which include:

  • Vincent Fourmond
  • Andrea Fasano
  • Nicolas Plumeré
  • Steffen Hardt
  • Dawit T. Filmon

Their work has appeared repeatedly in several key scientific publication venues, such as:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics

In recognition of their professional achievements, Christophe Léger was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Architecture of succinate dehydrogenase and reactive oxygen species generation.

    Victoria Yankovskaya;Rob Horsefield;Susanna Törnroth;César Luna-Chavez;César Luna-Chavez

  • Direct Electrochemistry of Redox Enzymes as a Tool for Mechanistic Studies

    Christophe Léger;Patrick Bertrand

  • Enzyme electrokinetics: using protein film voltammetry to investigate redox enzymes and their mechanisms.

    Christophe Léger;Sean J. Elliott;Sean J. Elliott;Kevin R. Hoke;Lars J. C. Jeuken;Lars J. C. Jeuken

  • Effect of a dispersion of interfacial electron transfer rates on steady state catalytic electron transport in [NiFe]-hydrogenase and other enzymes

    Christophe Léger;Anne K. Jones;Simon P.J. Albracht;Fraser A. Armstrong

  • Relating diffusion along the substrate tunnel and oxygen sensitivity in hydrogenase

    Pierre-Pol Liebgott;Fanny Leroux;Fanny Leroux;Bénédicte Burlat;Bénédicte Burlat;Sébastien Dementin

  • Experimental approaches to kinetics of gas diffusion in hydrogenase.

    Fanny Leroux;Fanny Leroux;Sébastien Dementin;Sébastien Dementin;Bénédicte Burlat;Bénédicte Burlat;Laurent Cournac

  • Inhibition and aerobic inactivation kinetics of Desulfovibrio fructosovorans NiFe hydrogenase studied by protein film voltammetry.

    Christophe Léger;Sébastien Dementin;Patrick Bertrand;Marc Rousset

  • Membrane-Bound Hydrogenase I from the Hyperthermophilic Bacterium Aquifex aeolicus: Enzyme Activation, Redox Intermediates and Oxygen Tolerance

    Maria-Eirini Pandelia;Vincent Fourmond;Pascale Tron-Infossi;Elisabeth Lojou

  • Mechanism of O2 diffusion and reduction in FeFe hydrogenases

    Adam Kubas;Adam Kubas;Christophe Orain;David De Sancho;Laure Saujet

  • Enzyme Electrokinetics: Hydrogen Evolution and Oxidation by Allochromatium vinosum [NiFe]-Hydrogenase†

    Christophe Léger;Anne K. Jones;Winfried Roseboom;Simon P.J. Albracht

  • SOAS: a free program to analyze electrochemical data and other one-dimensional signals.

    Vincent Fourmond;Kevin Hoke;Hendrik A. Heering;Carole Baffert;Carole Baffert

  • Introduction of methionines in the gas channel makes [NiFe] hydrogenase aero-tolerant.

    Sébastien Dementin;Fanny Leroux;Laurent Cournac;Antonio L. de Lacey

  • Understanding and tuning the catalytic bias of hydrogenase

    Abbas Abou Hamdan;Sébastien Dementin;Pierre-Pol Liebgott;Oscar Gutierrez-Sanz

  • Structural and Electrochemical Properties of ω ­ Li x V 2 O 5 ( 0.4 ⩽ x ⩽ 3 ) as Rechargeable Cathodic Material for Lithium Batteries

    C. Leger;S. Bach;P. Soudan;J.-P. Pereira-Ramos

  • Changing the ligation of the distal [4Fe4S] cluster in NiFe hydrogenase impairs inter- and intramolecular electron transfers.

    Sébastien Dementin;Valérie Belle;Patrick Bertrand;Bruno Guigliarelli

  • Hydrogen‐Activating Enzymes: Activity Does Not Correlate with Oxygen Sensitivity

    Carole Baffert;Marie Demuez;Laurent Cournac;Bénédicte Burlat

  • Original design of an oxygen-tolerant [NiFe] hydrogenase: major effect of a valine-to-cysteine mutation near the active site.

    Pierre-Pol Liebgott;Antonio L de Lacey;Bénédicte Burlat;Laurent Cournac

  • Fast voltammetric studies of the kinetics and energetics of coupled electron-transfer reactions in proteins

    Fraser A. Armstrong;Raúl Camba;Hendrik A. Heering;Judy Hirst

  • The oxidative inactivation of FeFe hydrogenase reveals the flexibility of the H-cluster

    Vincent Fourmond;Claudio Greco;Kateryna Sybirna;Carole Baffert

  • Determination of an optimal potential window for catalysis by E. coli dimethyl sulfoxide reductase and hypothesis on the role of Mo(V) in the reaction pathway.

    Kerensa Heffron;Christophe Léger;Richard A. Rothery;Joel H. Weiner

  • Enzyme electrokinetics: energetics of succinate oxidation by fumarate reductase and succinate dehydrogenase.

    Christophe Léger;Kerensa Heffron;Harsh R. Pershad;Elena Maklashina

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno Guigliarelli
Bruno Guigliarelli Aix-Marseille University
Philippe Soucaille
Philippe Soucaille Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Laurent Cournac
Laurent Cournac Aix-Marseille University
Luca De Gioia
Luca De Gioia University of Milano-Bicocca
David Pignol
David Pignol Aix-Marseille University
Antonio L. De Lacey
Antonio L. De Lacey Spanish National Research Council
Pierre Richaud
Pierre Richaud Aix-Marseille University
Fraser A. Armstrong
Fraser A. Armstrong University of Oxford
Victor M. Fernandez
Victor M. Fernandez Spanish National Research Council
Jochen Blumberger
Jochen Blumberger University College London

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