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Overview

Jacques Laval is affiliated with the Institut Gustave Roussy in France. Their research spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with particular focus on Molecular Biology, Oncology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The scientist's work concentrates on several main topics, including:

  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research

Jacques Laval has contributed to multiple research papers. Some recent publications include:

  • Insight into DNA substrate specificity of PARP1-catalysed DNA poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • Role of Base Excision Repair Pathway in the Processing of Complex DNA Damage Generated by Oxidative Stress and Anticancer Drugs (2021), published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • A noncanonical response to replication stress protects genome stability through ROS production, in an adaptive manner (2023), published in Cell Death and Differentiation
  • Abasic site-peptide cross-links are blocking lesions repaired by AP endonucleases (2023), published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • The Arabidopsis thaliana Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerases 1 and 2 Modify DNA by ADP-Ribosylating Terminal Phosphate Residues (2020), published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jacques Laval include:

  • Murat Saparbaev
  • Nikita A. Kuznetsov
  • Olga S. Fedorova
  • А. А. Кузнецова
  • Bakhyt Matkarimov

Jacques Laval has published extensively in the following venues:

  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Cells
  • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

In addition to journal articles, Jacques Laval has contributed to book publications, including a title published by the Royal Society of Chemistry: DNA Damage, DNA Repair and Disease (2020).

Best Publications

  • The multifaceted roles of nitric oxide in cancer.

    D A Wink;Y Vodovotz;J Laval;F Laval

  • 8-oxoguanine (8-hydroxyguanine) DNA glycosylase and its substrate specificity.

    J Tchou;H Kasai;S Shibutani;M H Chung

  • Substrate specificity of the Escherichia coli Fpg protein (formamidopyrimidine-DNA glycosylase): excision of purine lesions in DNA produced by ionizing radiation or photosensitization.

    Serge Boiteux;Ewa Gajewski;Jacques Laval;Miral Dizdaroglu

  • Clustered DNA damages induced in isolated DNA and in human cells by low doses of ionizing radiation

    Betsy M. Sutherland;Paula V. Bennett;Olga Sidorkina;Jacques Laval

  • Reaction Kinetics for Nitrosation of Cysteine and Glutathione in Aerobic Nitric Oxide Solutions at Neutral pH. Insights into the Fate and Physiological Effects of Intermediates Generated in the NO/O2 Reaction

    David A. Wink;Raymond W. Nims;John F. Darbyshire;Danae Christodoulou

  • Formamidopyrimidine-DNA glycosylase of Escherichia coli: cloning and sequencing of the fpg structural gene and overproduction of the protein.

    S Boiteux;T R O'Connor;J Laval

  • Substrate specificity of the Escherichia coli endonuclease III : excision of thymine- and cytosine-derived lesions in DNA produced by radiation-generated free radicals

    Miral Dizdaroglu;Jacques Laval;Serge Boiteux

  • Excision of hypoxanthine from DNA containing dIMP residues by the Escherichia coli, yeast, rat, and human alkylpurine DNA glycosylases.

    Murat Saparbaev;Jacques Laval

  • The type of DNA glycosylase determines the base excision repair pathway in mammalian cells.

    Paola Fortini;Eleonora Parlanti;Olga M. Sidorkina;Jacques Laval

  • Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, rat and human 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylases repair 1,N6-ethenoadenine when present in DNA.

    Murat Saparbaev;Karol Kleibl;Jacques Laval

  • Enzymology of the repair of free radicals-induced DNA damage.

    Laurent Gros;Murat K Saparbaev;Jacques Laval

  • Clustered DNA Damages Induced by X Rays in Human Cells

    Betsy M. Sutherland;Paula V. Bennett;John C. Sutherland;John C. Sutherland;Jacques Laval

  • The Fpg protein, a DNA repair enzyme, is inhibited by the biomediator nitric oxide in vitro and in vivo

    David A. Wink;Jacques Laval

  • 3,N4-ethenocytosine, a highly mutagenic adduct, is a primary substrate for Escherichia coli double-stranded uracil-DNA glycosylase and human mismatch-specific thymine-DNA glycosylase.

    Murat Saparbaev;Jacques Laval

  • Clustered DNA damage, influence on damage excision by XRS5 nuclear extracts and Escherichia coli Nth and Fpg proteins.

    Marie-Hélène David-Cordonnier;Jacques Laval;Peter O'Neill

  • Physical association of the 2,6-diamino-4-hydroxy-5N-formamidopyrimidine-DNA glycosylase of Escherichia coli and an activity nicking DNA at apurinic/apyrimidinic sites.

    Timothy R. O'Connor;Jacques Laval

  • Ring-opened 7-methylguanine residues in DNA are a block to in vitro DNA synthesis

    Timothy R. O'Connor;Sergio Boiteux;Jacques Laval

  • Coding properties of poly(deoxycytidylic acid) templates containing uracil or apyrimidinic sites: in vitro modulation of mutagenesis by deoxyribonucleic acid repair enzymes.

    Serge Boiteux;Jacques Laval

  • HU Protein of Escherichia coli Binds Specifically to DNA That Contains Single-strand Breaks or Gaps

    Bertrand Castaing;Charles Zelwer;Jacques Laval;Serge Boiteux

  • Two enzymes are required for strand incision in repair of alkylated DNA

    Jacques Laval

Frequent Co-Authors

Serge Boiteux
Serge Boiteux Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Miral Dizdaroglu
Miral Dizdaroglu National Institute of Standards and Technology
David A. Wink
David A. Wink National Institutes of Health
Robert P. P. Fuchs
Robert P. P. Fuchs Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Marc M. Greenberg
Marc M. Greenberg Johns Hopkins University
Helmut Bartsch
Helmut Bartsch German Cancer Research Center
Henry Rodriguez
Henry Rodriguez National Institutes of Health
Anthony E. Pegg
Anthony E. Pegg Pennsylvania State University
Orlando D. Schärer
Orlando D. Schärer Institute for Basic Science
Andrew Collins
Andrew Collins University of Oslo

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