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Dominique Bourgeois

Dominique Bourgeois

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Chemistry

D-Index
48
Citations
7704
World Ranking
15307
National Ranking
659

Overview

Dominique Bourgeois is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and has made significant contributions primarily within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans a variety of subfields including Biophysics, Molecular Biology, Structural Biology, Materials Chemistry, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The research focus of Dominique Bourgeois encompasses several advanced scientific topics. These include:

  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

Dominique Bourgeois has published research papers in a range of journals and venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Nature Communications
  • ChemPhysChem
  • Communications Biology

Recent papers by Dominique Bourgeois include:

  • Photoswitching mechanism of a fluorescent protein revealed by time-resolved crystallography and transient absorption spectroscopy (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Nanoscale dynamics of peptidoglycan assembly during the cell cycle of Streptococcus pneumoniae (2021, Current Biology)
  • Mechanistic Investigations of Green mEos4b Reveal a Dynamic Long-Lived Dark State (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Extra kinetic dimensions for label discrimination (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Rational Control of Off-State Heterogeneity in a Photoswitchable Fluorescent Protein Provides Switching Contrast Enhancement (2022, ChemPhysChem)

In their collaborative work, Dominique Bourgeois frequently coauthors papers with:

  • Virgile Adam
  • Oleksandr Glushonkov
  • Martin Byrdin
  • Jip Wulffelé
  • Angela Mantovanelli

Best Publications

  • Photolysis of the carbon monoxide complex of myoglobin: nanosecond time-resolved crystallography.

    Vukica Šrajer;Tsu Yi Teng;Thomas Ursby;Claude Pradervand

  • Protein Conformational Relaxation and Ligand Migration in Myoglobin: A Nanosecond to Millisecond Molecular Movie from Time-Resolved Laue X-ray Diffraction†

    Srajer;Ren Z;Teng Ty;Schmidt M

  • Energy transduction on the nanosecond time scale: early structural events in a xanthopsin photocycle.

    Benjamin Perman;Vukica Šrajer;Zhong Ren;Tsu-yi Teng

  • Structural characterization of IrisFP, an optical highlighter undergoing multiple photo-induced transformations

    Virgile Adam;Mickaël Lelimousin;Susan Boehme;Guillaume Desfonds

  • A molecular movie at 1.8 A resolution displays the photocycle of photoactive yellow protein, a eubacterial blue-light receptor, from nanoseconds to seconds.

    Zhong Ren;Benjamin Perman;Vukica Šrajer;T.-Y. Teng

  • Complex landscape of protein structural dynamics unveiled by nanosecond Laue crystallography.

    Dominique Bourgeois;Beatrice Vallone;Friederich Schotte;Alessandro Arcovito

  • Chromophore twisting in the excited state of a photoswitchable fluorescent protein captured by time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography.

    Nicolas Coquelle;Michel Sliwa;Joyce Woodhouse;Giorgio Schirò

  • Laue crystallography: coming of age

    Zhong Ren;Dominique Bourgeois;John R. Helliwell;Keith Moffat

  • The crystal structure of a llama heavy chain variable domain.

    S Spinelli;L Frenken;D Bourgeois;L de Ron

  • Raman-assisted crystallography reveals end-on peroxide intermediates in a nonheme iron enzyme.

    Gergely Katona;Philippe Carpentier;Vincent Nivière;Patricia Amara

  • A pancreatic lipase with a phospholipase A1 activity: crystal structure of a chimeric pancreatic lipase-related protein 2 from guinea pig.

    Chrislaine Withers-Martinez;Frédéric Carrière;Robert Verger;Dominique Bourgeois

  • N-terminal arm exchange is observed in the 2.15 A crystal structure of oxidized nitrite reductase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

    Didier Nurizzo;Maria-Chiara Silvestrini;Magali Mathieu;Francesca Cutruzzolà

  • Reversible photoswitching in fluorescent proteins: A mechanistic view

    Dominique Bourgeois;Dominique Bourgeois;Virgile Adam;Virgile Adam

  • Advances in kinetic protein crystallography

    Dominique Bourgeois;Antoine Royant

  • Intrinsic Dynamics in ECFP and Cerulean Control Fluorescence Quantum Yield

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

  • Extended subnanosecond structural dynamics of myoglobin revealed by Laue crystallography.

    Dominique Bourgeois;Beatrice Vallone;Alessandro Arcovito;Giuliano Sciara

  • Structural basis for the phototoxicity of the fluorescent protein KillerRed.

    Philippe Carpentier;Sebastien Violot;Laurent Blanchoin;Dominique Bourgeois

  • Time-resolved structures of macromolecules at the ESRF: Single-pulse Laue diffraction, stroboscopic data collection and femtosecond flash photolysis

    Michael Wulff;Friedrich Schotte;Graham Naylor;Dominique Bourgeois

  • Feasibility and Realization of Single-Pulse Laue Diffraction on Macromolecular Crystals at ESRF.

    D. Bourgeois;T. Ursby;M. Wulff;C. Pradervand

  • The structural dynamics of myoglobin.

    M. Brunori;D. Bourgeois;B. Vallone

  • Reverse pH-Dependence of Chromophore Protonation Explains the Large Stokes Shift of the Red Fluorescent Protein mKeima

    Sebastien Violot;Philippe Carpentier;Laurent Blanchoin;Dominique Bourgeois

Frequent Co-Authors

Antoine Royant
Antoine Royant Institut de Biologie Structurale
Michael Wulff
Michael Wulff European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Maurizio Brunori
Maurizio Brunori Sapienza University of Rome
G. Ulrich Nienhaus
G. Ulrich Nienhaus Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Keith Moffat
Keith Moffat University of Chicago
Martin J. Field
Martin J. Field Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Joel L. Sussman
Joel L. Sussman Weizmann Institute of Science
Franck Fieschi
Franck Fieschi Grenoble Alpes University
Israel Silman
Israel Silman Weizmann Institute of Science
Raimond B. G. Ravelli
Raimond B. G. Ravelli Maastricht University

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