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Joris Messens is affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. Their research predominantly centers on the interdisciplinary field of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with an emphasis on molecular biology as a primary subfield. Their work spans additional subfields such as immunology, biochemistry, cancer research, and materials chemistry.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics including redox biology and oxidative stress, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, enzyme structure and function, cancer, hypoxia and metabolism, heat shock proteins research, sulfur compounds in biology, and protein structure and dynamics.

Selected recent papers illustrating their contributions are:

  • Ultrasensitive Genetically Encoded Indicator for Hydrogen Peroxide Identifies Roles for the Oxidant in Cell Migration and Mitochondrial Function (2020, Cell Metabolism)
  • Peroxiredoxins wear many hats: Factors that fashion their peroxide sensing personalities (2021, Redox Biology)
  • A role for annexin A2 in scaffolding the peroxiredoxin 2-STAT3 redox relay complex (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Redox Modification of the Iron-Sulfur Glutaredoxin GRXS17 Activates Holdase Activity and Protects Plants from Heat Stress (2020, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY)
  • Efficiency of the four proteasome subtypes to degrade ubiquitinated or oxidized proteins (2020, Scientific Reports)

Joris Messens frequently publishes in several venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Free Radical Biology and Medicine
  • Redox Biology
  • Nature Communications
  • Antioxidants

The collaboration network of the scientist includes frequent coauthors such as Daria Ezeriña, Khadija Wahni, Didier Vertommen, Julia Malo Pueyo, and Esteban N. Gurzov, illustrating an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to research.

Best Publications

  • Structure, function and mechanism of thioredoxin proteins

    Jean François Collet;Joris Messens;Joris Messens

  • Anticoagulant repertoire of the hookworm Ancylostoma caninum

    P Stassens;P W Bergum;Y Gansemans;L Jespers

  • European contribution to the study of ROS : a summary of the findings and prospects for the future from the COST action BM1203 (EU-ROS)

    Javier Egea;Isabel Fabregat;Yves M Frapart;Pietro Ghezzi

  • Protein sulfenic acid formation: from cellular damage to redox regulation.

    Goedele Roos;Joris Messens;Joris Messens

  • Surface Expression and Ligand-Based Selection of cDNAs Fused to Filamentous Phage Gene VI

    L S Jespers;J H Messens;A De Keyser;D Eeckhout

  • Ultrasensitive Genetically Encoded Indicator for Hydrogen Peroxide Identifies Roles for the Oxidant in Cell Migration and Mitochondrial Function.

    Valeriy V. Pak;Daria Ezeriņa;Daria Ezeriņa;Olga G. Lyublinskaya;Brandán Pedre;Brandán Pedre

  • Understanding the pK(a) of Redox Cysteines: The Key Role of Hydrogen Bonding

    Goedele Roos;Nicolas Foloppe;Joris Messens

  • High-level secretion and very efficient isotopic labeling of tick anticoagulant peptide (TAP) expressed in the methylotrophic yeast, Pichia pastoris.

    Y Laroche;V Storme;J De Meutter;J Messens

  • Pathways of disulfide bond formation in Escherichia coli

    Joris Messens;Jean François Collet

  • A Periplasmic Reducing System Protects Single Cysteine Residues from Oxidation

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

  • How Proteins Form Disulfide Bonds

    Matthieu Depuydt;Joris Messens;Joris Messens;Jean François Collet

  • Arsenate reduction: thiol cascade chemistry with convergent evolution.

    Joris Messens;Simon Silver

  • Oxidative post-translational modifications of cysteine residues in plant signal transduction

    Cezary Waszczak;Salma Akter;Silke Jacques;Jingjing Huang

  • Sulfenome mining in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Cezary Waszczak;Salma Akter;Dominique Eeckhout;Geert Persiau

  • Low-Molecular-Weight Thiols in Thiol–Disulfide Exchange

    Koen Van Laer;Chris J Hamilton;Joris Messens

  • Interactions of CcdB with DNA gyrase. Inactivation of Gyra, poisoning of the gyrase-DNA complex, and the antidote action of CcdA.

    El Mustapha Bahassi;Mary H. O'Dea;Noureddine Allali;Joris Messens

  • Arsenate reductase from S. aureus plasmid pI258 is a phosphatase drafted for redox duty

    Ingrid Zegers;José C. Martins;Rudolph Willem;Lode Wyns

  • The fimbrial adhesin F17-G of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli has an immunoglobulin-like lectin domain that binds N-acetylglucosamine.

    Lieven Buts;Julie Bouckaert;Erwin De Genst;Remy Loris

  • Cysteines under ROS attack in plants: a proteomics view

    Salma Akter;Jingjing Huang;Cezary Waszczak;Silke Jacques

  • Mining for protein S-sulfenylation in Arabidopsis uncovers redox-sensitive sites.

    Jingjing Huang;Jingjing Huang;Patrick Willems;Bo Wei;Bo Wei;Caiping Tian

Frequent Co-Authors

Lode Wyns
Lode Wyns Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Remy Loris
Remy Loris Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Frank Van Breusegem
Frank Van Breusegem Ghent University
Didier Vertommen
Didier Vertommen Université Catholique de Louvain
Jean-François Collet
Jean-François Collet Université Catholique de Louvain
José Martins
José Martins Ghent University
Kris Gevaert
Kris Gevaert Ghent University
Rudolph Willem
Rudolph Willem Vrije Universiteit Brussel
George P. Vlasuk
George P. Vlasuk Navitor Pharmaceuticals

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