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Overview

Damien P. Devos is affiliated with the Pasteur Institute of Lille in France. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work encompasses several subfields, including Ecology, Genetics, Plant Science, and Parasitology. Their main research topics include:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors
  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

Damien P. Devos has contributed to numerous scholarly articles, with a recent selection of papers illustrating their diverse research interests:

  • Comparative Genomics of Peroxisome Biogenesis Proteins: Making Sense of the PEX Proteins, 2021, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Origin and Evolution of Polycyclic Triterpene Synthesis, 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Non-essentiality of canonical cell division genes in the planctomycete Planctopirus limnophila, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Reconciling Asgardarchaeota Phylogenetic Proximity to Eukaryotes and Planctomycetes Cellular Features in the Evolution of Life, 2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • The squalene route to C30 carotenoid biosynthesis and the origins of carotenoid biosynthetic pathways, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The venues where Damien P. Devos frequently publishes include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Microorganisms
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Frequently listed co-authors include:

  • Carlos Santana-Molina
  • Elena Rivas-Marín
  • Rubén García-Domínguez
  • Ida J. van der Klei
  • Olga Maria Lage

Best Publications

  • The molecular architecture of the nuclear pore complex

    Frank Alber;Svetlana Dokudovskaya;Liesbeth M. Veenhoff;Wenzhu Zhang

  • Practical Limits of Function Prediction

    Damien Devos;Alfonso Valencia

  • Determining the architectures of macromolecular assemblies

    Frank Alber;Svetlana Dokudovskaya;Liesbeth M. Veenhoff;Wenzhu Zhang

  • Proteome Organization in a Genome-Reduced Bacterium

    Sebastian Kühner;Vera van Noort;Matthew J. Betts;Alejandra Leo-Macias

  • Prediction of human protein function from post-translational modifications and localization features.

    Lars Juhl Jensen;Ramneek Gupta;Nikolaj Blom;D. Devos

  • Components of coated vesicles and nuclear pore complexes share a common molecular architecture.

    Damien P. Devos;Svetlana Dokudovskaya;Frank Alber;Rosemary Williams

  • Intrinsic errors in genome annotation.

    Damien Devos;Alfonso Valencia

  • Simple fold composition and modular architecture of the nuclear pore complex

    Damien Devos;Svetlana Dokudovskaya;Rosemary Williams;Frank Alber

  • POTRA: a conserved domain in the FtsQ family and a class of beta-barrel outer membrane proteins.

    Luis Sánchez-Pulido;Damien Devos;Damien Devos;Stéphanie Genevrois;Miguel Vicente

  • Insight into Structure and Assembly of the Nuclear Pore Complex by Utilizing the Genome of a Eukaryotic Thermophile

    Stefan Amlacher;Phillip Sarges;Dirk Flemming;Vera van Noort

  • BRICHOS: a conserved domain in proteins associated with dementia, respiratory distress and cancer

    Luis Sánchez-Pulido;Damien Devos;Alfonso Valencia

  • Determining the bacterial cell biology of Planctomycetes

    Christian Boedeker;Margarete Schüler;Greta Reintjes;Olga Jeske

  • Endocytosis-like protein uptake in the bacterium Gemmata obscuriglobus

    Thierry G. A. Lonhienne;Evgeny Sagulenko;Richard I. Webb;Kuo-Chang Lee

  • ANOLEA: A WWW Server to Assess Protein Structures

    Francisco Melo;Damien Devos;Eric Depiereux;Ernest Feytmans

  • Evidence for a Shared Nuclear Pore Complex Architecture That Is Conserved from the Last Common Eukaryotic Ancestor

    Jeffrey A. DeGrasse;Kelly N. DuBois;Damien Devos;T. Nicolai Siegel

  • Cultivation and functional characterization of 79 planctomycetes uncovers their unique biology

    Sandra Wiegand;Mareike Jogler;Christian Boedeker;Daniela Pinto

  • A composite score for predicting errors in protein structure models

    David Eramian;Min-yi Shen;Damien Devos;Francisco Melo

  • Subunit architecture of intact protein complexes from mass spectrometry and homology modeling.

    Thomas Taverner;Helena Hernández;Michal Sharon;Brandon T. Ruotolo

  • The Compartmentalized Bacteria of the Planctomycetes-Verrucomicrobia-Chlamydiae Superphylum Have Membrane Coat-Like Proteins

    Rachel Santarella-Mellwig;Josef Franke;Andreas Jaedicke;Matyas Gorjanacz

  • A conserved coatomer-related complex containing Sec13 and Seh1 dynamically associates with the vacuole in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Svetlana Dokudovskaya;Francois Waharte;Avner Schlessinger;Ursula Pieper

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrej Sali
Andrej Sali University of California, San Francisco
Brian T. Chait
Brian T. Chait Rockefeller University
Michael P. Rout
Michael P. Rout Rockefeller University
Mark C. Field
Mark C. Field University of Dundee
Ida J. van der Klei
Ida J. van der Klei University of Groningen
Robert B. Russell
Robert B. Russell Heidelberg University
Joel B. Dacks
Joel B. Dacks University of Alberta
Manfred Rohde
Manfred Rohde Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta
José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta Spanish National Research Council
Mike S. M. Jetten
Mike S. M. Jetten Radboud University

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