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Hélène Bierne is affiliated with INRAE, the Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with focused subfields including Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Endocrinology, Food Science, and Infectious Diseases.

Their work addresses diverse topics in microbiology and food safety, with main areas of research covering:

  • Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety
  • Vibrio bacteria research studies
  • Microbial Inactivation Methods
  • Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
  • Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • Gut microbiota and health

Key recent publications by Hélène Bierne include:

  • "Bacterial Factors Targeting the Nucleus: The Growing Family of Nucleomodulins", 2020, published in Toxins
  • "Targeting host epigenetic machinery: The Listeria paradigm", 2020, published in Cellular Microbiology

Other noteworthy papers in their network, though authored by close collaborators, include:

  • "The Viable But Non-Culturable State of Listeria monocytogenes in the One-Health Continuum", 2022, published in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • "Listeriolysin S: A bacteriocin from Listeria monocytogenes that induces membrane permeabilization in a contact-dependent manner", 2021, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The unforeseen intracellular lifestyle of Enterococcus faecalis in hepatocytes", 2022, published in Gut Microbes

Among frequent collaborators, Hélène Bierne has worked extensively with Goran Lakisic, Eliane Milohanic, Alessandro Pagliuso, Aurélie Derré-Bobillot, and Pascale Serror, contributing collectively to publications advancing knowledge in microbial pathogenicity and host interactions.

Their research outputs have been published in reputable venues such as Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Toxins, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Gut Microbes, reflecting an engagement with both preprint and peer-reviewed scientific communities.

Best Publications

  • Listeria monocytogenes: a multifaceted model

    Mélanie Hamon;Hélène Bierne;Hélène Bierne;Hélène Bierne;Pascale Cossart;Pascale Cossart;Pascale Cossart

  • A Circadian Rhythm Orchestrated by Histone Deacetylase 3 Controls Hepatic Lipid Metabolism

    Dan Feng;Tao Liu;Zheng Sun;Anne Bugge

  • Epigenetics and Bacterial Infections

    Hélène Bierne;Hélène Bierne;Hélène Bierne;Mélanie Hamon;Mélanie Hamon;Mélanie Hamon;Pascale Cossart;Pascale Cossart;Pascale Cossart

  • Diverse intracellular pathogens activate type III interferon expression from peroxisomes

    Charlotte Odendall;Evelyn Dixit;Fabrizia Stavru;Helene Bierne

  • Interaction between the protein InlB of Listeria monocytogenes and lipoteichoic acid: a novel mechanism of protein association at the surface of gram-positive bacteria.

    Renaud Jonquières;Hélène Bierne;Franz Fiedler;Pierre Gounon

  • InlB: an invasion protein of Listeria monocytogenes with a novel type of surface association

    Laurence Braun;Shaynoor Dramsi;Pierre Dehoux;Hélène Bierne

  • Internalins: a complex family of leucine-rich repeat-containing proteins in Listeria monocytogenes.

    H. Bierne;C. Sabet;N. Personnic;P. Cossart

  • Listeria monocytogenes Surface Proteins: from Genome Predictions to Function

    Hélène Bierne;Pascale Cossart

  • Sorting sortases: a nomenclature proposal for the various sortases of Gram-positive bacteria.

    Shaynoor Dramsi;Patrick Trieu-Cuot;Hélène Bierne

  • Inactivation of the srtA gene in Listeria monocytogenes inhibits anchoring of surface proteins and affects virulence.

    Hélène Bierne;Sarkis K Mazmanian;Matthias Trost;M Graciela Pucciarelli

  • Comparison of widely used Listeria monocytogenes strains EGD, 10403S, and EGD-e highlights genomic variations underlying differences in pathogenicity.

    Christophe Bécavin;Christophe Bécavin;Christophe Bécavin;Christiane Bouchier;Pierre Lechat;Cristel Archambaud;Cristel Archambaud;Cristel Archambaud

  • A role for cofilin and LIM kinase in Listeria-induced phagocytosis

    Hélène Bierne;Edith Gouin;Pascal Roux;Pico Caroni

  • Role of Lipid Rafts in E-cadherin– and HGF-R/Met–mediated Entry of Listeria monocytogenes into Host Cells

    Stephanie Seveau;Hélène Bierne;Stéphanie Giroux;Marie Christine Prevost

  • A Bacterial Protein Targets the BAHD1 Chromatin Complex to Stimulate Type III Interferon Response

    Alice Lebreton;Alice Lebreton;Alice Lebreton;Goran Lakisic;Viviana Job;Lauriane Fritsch

  • LPXTG Protein InlJ, a Newly Identified Internalin Involved in Listeria monocytogenes Virulence

    Christophe Sabet;Marc Lecuit;Marc Lecuit;Didier Cabanes;Pascale Cossart

  • InlB, a surface protein of Listeria monocytogenes that behaves as an invasin and a growth factor.

    Hélène Bierne;Pascale Cossart

  • Species specificity of the Listeria monocytogenes InlB protein

    Nadia Khelef;Nadia Khelef;Nadia Khelef;Marc Lecuit;Hélène Bierne;Hélène Bierne;Hélène Bierne;Pascale Cossart;Pascale Cossart;Pascale Cossart

  • When bacteria target the nucleus: the emerging family of nucleomodulins.

    Hélène Bierne;Hélène Bierne;Hélène Bierne;Pascale Cossart;Pascale Cossart;Pascale Cossart

  • The use of host cell machinery in the pathogenesis of Listeria monocytogenes

    Pascale Cossart;Hélène Bierne

  • When replication forks stop

    Hélène Bierne;Bénédicte Michel

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascale Cossart
Pascale Cossart Institut Pasteur
Marie-Anne Nahori
Marie-Anne Nahori Institut Pasteur
Marc Lecuit
Marc Lecuit Institut Pasteur
Javier Pizarro-Cerdá
Javier Pizarro-Cerdá Institut Pasteur
Shaynoor Dramsi
Shaynoor Dramsi Institut Pasteur
Francisco García-del Portillo
Francisco García-del Portillo Spanish National Research Council
Olivier Dussurget
Olivier Dussurget Université Paris Cité
S. Dusko Ehrlich
S. Dusko Ehrlich University College London
Jean-Yves Coppée
Jean-Yves Coppée Institut Pasteur
Andréa Dessen
Andréa Dessen Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory

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