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Isabelle Martin-Verstraete

Isabelle Martin-Verstraete

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Genetics

D-Index
50
Citations
7571
World Ranking
3949
National Ranking
205

Overview

Isabelle Martin-Verstraete is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France and specializes in research at the intersection of medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work focuses extensively on infectious diseases and molecular biology, contributing to a broad understanding of microbial pathogenesis and host-microbe interactions.

The primary research topics covered by Martin-Verstraete include:

  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Nosocomial infections in intensive care units (ICU)
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies
  • Streptococcal infections and treatments
  • Pharmacological effects of natural compounds

Key publications provide insight into the scope of their scientific contributions. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Responses of Clostridia to oxygen: from detoxification to adaptive strategies," 2021, Environmental Microbiology
  • "Genome-Wide Transcription Start Site Mapping and Promoter Assignments to a Sigma Factor in the Human Enteropathogen Clostridioides difficile," 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • "Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron uses a widespread extracellular DNase to promote bile-dependent biofilm formation," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Metabolic adaption to extracellular pyruvate triggers biofilm formation in Clostridioides difficile," 2021, The ISME Journal
  • "Listeriolysin S: A bacteriocin from Listeria monocytogenes that induces membrane permeabilization in a contact-dependent manner," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist collaborates frequently with several researchers, notably:

  • Bruno Dupuy
  • Claire Morvan
  • Nicolas Kint
  • Marc Monot
  • Filipe Folgosa

Martin-Verstraete's work has been published primarily in the following scientific venues:

  • mBio
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their research contributes to understanding molecular mechanisms underlying infectious diseases, with an emphasis on hospital-associated infections and microbial biofilm formation processes. The spectrum of study extends into critical care medicine and public health contexts, where microbial dynamics play key roles.

Best Publications

  • CotA of Bacillus subtilis Is a Copper-Dependent Laccase

    Marie-Françoise Hullo;Ivan Moszer;Antoine Danchin;Isabelle Martin-Verstraete

  • The Bacillus subtilis crh gene encodes a HPr-like protein involved in carbon catabolite repression

    Anne Galinier;Jacques Haiech;Marie-Claude Kilhoffer;Michel Jaquinod

  • PRD — a protein domain involved in PTS‐dependent induction and carbon catabolite repression of catabolic operons in bacteria

    Jörg Stülke;Maryvonne Arnaud;Georges Rapoport;Isabelle Martin‐Verstraete

  • Genome-wide identification of regulatory RNAs in the human pathogen Clostridium difficile.

    Olga A. Soutourina;Olga A. Soutourina;Marc Monot;Pierre Boudry;Pierre Boudry;Laure Saujet;Laure Saujet

  • Global transcriptional control by glucose and carbon regulator CcpA in Clostridium difficile

    Ana Antunes;Emilie Camiade;Marc Monot;Emmanuelle Courtois

  • Induction of the Bacillus subtilis ptsGHI operon by glucose is controlled by a novel antiterminator, GlcT.

    Jörg Stülke;Isabelle Martin-Verstraete;Monique Zagorec;Matthias Rose

  • The Regulatory Networks That Control Clostridium difficile Toxin Synthesis

    Isabelle Martin-Verstraete;Johann Peltier;Bruno Dupuy

  • The key sigma factor of transition phase, SigH, controls sporulation, metabolism and virulence factor expression in Clostridium difficile

    Laure Saujet;Laure Saujet;Marc Monot;Bruno Dupuy;Olga Soutourina;Olga Soutourina

  • Reconstruction and analysis of the genetic and metabolic regulatory networks of the central metabolism of Bacillus subtilis.

    Anne Goelzer;Fadia Bekkal Brikci;Isabelle Martin-Verstraete;Philippe Noirot

  • CcpA-mediated repression of Clostridium difficile toxin gene expression.

    Ana Antunes;Isabelle Martin-Verstraete;Isabelle Martin-Verstraete;Bruno Dupuy

  • S-box and T-box riboswitches and antisense RNA control a sulfur metabolic operon of Clostridium acetobutylicum

    Gaëlle André;Sergine Even;Harald Putzer;Pierre Burguière

  • The Spore Differentiation Pathway in the Enteric Pathogen Clostridium difficile

    Fátima C. Pereira;Laure Saujet;Laure Saujet;Ana R. Tomé;Mónica Serrano

  • Two different mechanisms mediate catabolite repression of the Bacillus subtilis levanase operon.

    I Martin-Verstraete;J Stülke;A Klier;G Rapoport

  • Levanase operon of Bacillus subtilis includes a fructose-specific phosphotransferase system regulating the expression of the operon

    Isabelle Martin-Verstraete;Michel Débarbouillé;André Klier;Georges Rapoport

  • Catabolite regulation of the pta gene as part of carbon flow pathways in Bacillus subtilis.

    Elena Presecan-Siedel;Anne Galinier;Robert Longin;Josef Deutscher

  • The Bacillus subtilis sigL gene encodes an equivalent of sigma 54 from gram-negative bacteria.

    Michel Debarbouille;Isabelle Martin-Verstraete;Frank Kunst;Georges Rapoport

  • Genome-Wide Analysis of Cell Type-Specific Gene Transcription during Spore Formation in Clostridium difficile

    Laure Saujet;Fátima C. Pereira;Monica Serrano;Olga Soutourina;Olga Soutourina

  • Carbohydrate Uptake and Metabolism

    Josef Deutscher;Anne Galinier;Isabelle Martin-Verstraete

  • Conversion of Methionine to Cysteine in Bacillus subtilis and Its Regulation

    Marie-Françoise Hullo;Sandrine Auger;Olga Soutourina;Olga Soutourina;Octavian Barzu

  • Global Control of Cysteine Metabolism by CymR in Bacillus subtilis

    Sergine Even;Pierre Burguière;Sandrine Auger;Olga Soutourina

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno Dupuy
Bruno Dupuy Institut Pasteur
Antoine Danchin
Antoine Danchin Institut Cochin
Georges Rapoport
Georges Rapoport Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Josef Deutscher
Josef Deutscher INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jörg Stülke
Jörg Stülke University of Göttingen
Anne Galinier
Anne Galinier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Adriano O. Henriques
Adriano O. Henriques Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Jean-Yves Coppée
Jean-Yves Coppée Institut Pasteur
Pierre Boudry
Pierre Boudry French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea

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