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Overview

Didier Vertommen is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research portfolio includes over 150 publications in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology and 83 in Medicine. Within these broader fields, they have worked on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Immunology, Physiology, Plant Science, and Spectroscopy.

The scientist's work spans a variety of main research topics, highlighting focused areas such as glycosylation and glycoproteins research, redox biology and oxidative stress, galectins and cancer biology, enzyme structure and function, protein structure and dynamics, advanced proteomics techniques and applications, and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Didier Vertommen include:

  • Spatiotemporal changes in mechanical matrisome components of the human ovary from prepuberty to menopause (2020), published in Human Reproduction
  • Specific post-translational modifications of soluble tau protein distinguishes Alzheimer's disease and primary tauopathies (2023), published in Nature Communications
  • TLR9 and beclin 1 crosstalk regulates muscle AMPK activation in exercise (2020), published in Nature
  • PKR activity modulation by phosphomimetic mutations of serine residues located three aminoacids upstream of double-stranded RNA binding motifs (2021), published in Scientific Reports
  • TheArabidopsismediator complex subunit 8 regulates oxidative stress responses (2021), published in The Plant Cell

Didier Vertommen has collaborated extensively with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Sébastien Pyr dit Ruys (33 joint publications)
  • Gaëtan Herinckx (23 joint publications)
  • Laurent Gatto (16 joint publications)
  • Joris Messens (15 joint publications)
  • Mark H. Rider (12 joint publications)

Their work appears repeatedly in various scientific journals, with a concentration of publications in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 18 publications
  • Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases Supplements - 6 publications
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry - 5 publications
  • Nature Communications - 3 publications
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences - 3 publications

Best Publications

  • Phosphorylation and activation of heart 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase by protein kinase B and other protein kinases of the insulin signaling cascades

    Johan Deprez;Didier Vertommen;Dario R. Alessi;Louis Hue

  • Activation of AMP-Activated Protein Kinase Leads to the Phosphorylation of Elongation Factor 2 and an Inhibition of Protein Synthesis

    Sandrine Horman;Gareth J. Browne;Ulrike Krause;Jigna V. Patel

  • 6-Phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase: head-to-head with a bifunctional enzyme that controls glycolysis

    Mark H. Rider;Luc Bertrand;Didier Vertommen;Paul A. Michels

  • Insulin Antagonizes Ischemia-induced Thr172 Phosphorylation of AMP-activated Protein Kinase α-Subunits in Heart via Hierarchical Phosphorylation of Ser485/491

    Sandrine Horman;Didier Vertommen;Richard Heath;Dietbert Neumann

  • Identification of phosphorylation sites in AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) for upstream AMPK kinases and study of their roles by site-directed mutagenesis.

    Angela Woods;Didier Vertommen;Dietbert Neumann;Roland Türk

  • 5-Aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide-1-beta-D-ribofuranoside and metformin inhibit hepatic glucose phosphorylation by an AMP-activated protein kinase-independent effect on glucokinase translocation.

    Bruno Guigas;Luc Bertrand;Nellie Taleux;Marc Foretz

  • A Cluster of Mutations in the UMOD Gene Causes Familial Juvenile Hyperuricemic Nephropathy with Abnormal Expression of Uromodulin

    Karin Dahan;Olivier Devuyst;Michèle Smaers;Didier Vertommen

  • Molecular Identification of Carnosine Synthase as ATP-grasp Domain-containing Protein 1 (ATPGD1)

    Jakub Drozak;Maria Veiga-da-Cunha;Didier Vertommen;Vincent Stroobant

  • A Periplasmic Reducing System Protects Single Cysteine Residues from Oxidation

    Matthieu Depuydt;Stephen E. Leonard;Didier Vertommen;Katleen Denoncin

  • Detecting Envelope Stress by Monitoring β-Barrel Assembly

    Seung-Hyun Cho;Joanna Szewczyk;Christina Pesavento;Matylda Zietek

  • Repairing oxidized proteins in the bacterial envelope using respiratory chain electrons

    Alexandra Gennaris;Benjamin Ezraty;Camille Henry;Rym Agrebi

  • Sulfenome mining in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Cezary Waszczak;Salma Akter;Dominique Eeckhout;Geert Persiau

  • Characterization of the role of the Escherichia coli periplasmic chaperone SurA using differential proteomics

    Didier Vertommen;Natividad Ruiz;Pauline Leverrier;Thomas J. Silhavy

  • Myocardial Ischemia and Increased Heart Work Modulate the Phosphorylation State of Eukaryotic Elongation Factor-2

    Sandrine Horman;Christophe Beauloye;Didier Vertommen;Jean-Louis Vanoverschelde

  • Identification of a dehydrogenase acting on D-2-hydroxyglutarate.

    Younes Achouri;Gaëtane Noël;Didier Vertommen;Mark H. Rider

  • AMPK antagonizes hepatic glucagon-stimulated cyclic AMP signalling via phosphorylation-induced activation of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase 4B

    Manuel Johanns;Y.-C. Lai;M.-F. Hsu;R. Jacobs

  • AMP-activated protein kinase phosphorylates and desensitizes smooth muscle myosin light chain kinase.

    Sandrine Horman;Nicole Morel;Didier Vertommen;Nusrat Hussain

  • Extremely conserved ATP- or ADP-dependent enzymatic system for nicotinamide nucleotide repair.

    Alexandre Y. Marbaix;Gaëtane Noël;Aline M. Detroux;Didier Vertommen

  • ISPD produces CDP-ribitol used by FKTN and FKRP to transfer ribitol-phosphate onto α-dystroglycan

    Isabelle Gerin;Benoît Ury;Isabelle Breloy;Céline Bouchet-Seraphin

  • Differential expression of glycosomal and mitochondrial proteins in the two major life-cycle stages of Trypanosoma brucei

    Didier Vertommen;Joris Van Roy;Jean-Pierre Szikora;Mark H. Rider

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark H. Rider
Mark H. Rider Université Catholique de Louvain
Louis Hue
Louis Hue Université Catholique de Louvain
Joris Messens
Joris Messens Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Luc Bertrand
Luc Bertrand Université Catholique de Louvain
Emile Van Schaftingen
Emile Van Schaftingen Université Catholique de Louvain
Jean-François Collet
Jean-François Collet Université Catholique de Louvain
Benoit Viollet
Benoit Viollet Institut Cochin
Marc Foretz
Marc Foretz Université Paris Cité
Christopher G. Proud
Christopher G. Proud University of Adelaide
Stefan N. Constantinescu
Stefan N. Constantinescu Ludwig Cancer Research

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