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Laurence Maréchal-Drouard

Laurence Maréchal-Drouard

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
44
Citations
9311
World Ranking
2907
National Ranking
113

Overview

Laurence Maréchal-Drouard is affiliated with the University of Strasbourg in France. Their research spans multiple fields within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. The focus primarily lies on Molecular Biology and Plant Science, with additional involvement in Renewable Energy, Sustainability, and the Environment.

Their scientific work covers various topics, including:

  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research

Maréchal-Drouard has published frequently in several notable scientific journals, with the highest number of publications appearing in Nucleic Acids Research. Other common venues include Current Biology and PLoS Genetics.

Their recent papers include:

  • "Chromatin Organization in Early Land Plants Reveals an Ancestral Association between H3K27me3, Transposons, and Constitutive Heterochromatin" (2020) in Current Biology
  • "The nuclear and organellar tRNA-derived RNA fragment population in Arabidopsis thaliana is highly dynamic" (2020) in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Steady-state levels of imported tRNAs in Chlamydomonas mitochondria are correlated with both cytosolic and mitochondrial codon usages" (2020) in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Correction: Co-Evolution of Mitochondrial tRNA Import and Codon Usage Determines Translational Efficiency in the Green Alga Chlamydomonas" (2020) in PLoS Genetics
  • "Plant mitochondria use two pathways for the biogenesis of tRNA His" (2020) in Nucleic Acids Research

The scientist collaborates frequently with various researchers, including Valérie Cognat, Thalia Salinas-Giegé, Claire Remacle, Sean A. Montgomery, and Yasuhiro Tanizawa, with the highest number of joint publications being with Valérie Cognat.

Best Publications

  • The Chlamydomonas Genome Reveals the Evolution of Key Animal and Plant Functions

    Sabeeha S. Merchant;Simon E. Prochnik;Olivier Vallon;Elizabeth H. Harris

  • Isolation of plant DNA: A fast, inexpensive, and reliable method

    Pierre Guillemaut;Laurence Maréchal-Drouard

  • Chromatin Organization in Early Land Plants Reveals an Ancestral Association between H3K27me3, Transposons, and Constitutive Heterochromatin

    Sean A. Montgomery;Yasuhiro Tanizawa;Bence Galik;Nan Wang

  • Dual targeting is the rule for organellar aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Anne-Marie Duchêne;Anatoli Giritch;Beate Hoffmann;Valérie Cognat

  • The duplicated chalcone synthase genes C2 and Whp (white pollen) of Zea mays are independently regulated; evidence for translational control of Whp expression by the anthocyanin intensifying gene in.

    P. Franken;U. Niesbach-Klösgen;U. Weydemann;L. Maréchal-Drouard

  • Import of several tRNAs from the cytoplasm into the mitochondria in bean Phaseolus vulgaris.

    Laurence Maréchal-Drouard;Jacques-Henry Weil;Pierre Guillemaut

  • Mitochondrial tRNA import: are there distinct mechanisms?

    André Schneider;Laurence Maréchal-Drouard

  • Import of tRNAs and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases into mitochondria.

    Anne-Marie Duchêne;Claire Pujol;Laurence Maréchal-Drouard

  • Transfer RNAs of potato (Solanum tuberosum) mitochondria have different genetic origins

    Laurence Marechal-Drouard;Pierre Guillemaut;Anne Cosset;Michèle Arbogast

  • Recent advances in tRNA mitochondrial import

    Thalia Salinas;Anne-Marie Duchêne;Laurence Maréchal-Drouard

  • In vivo import of a normal or mutagenized heterologous transfer RNA into the mitochondria of transgenic plants: towards novel ways of influencing mitochondrial gene expression?

    I. Small;L. Maréchal-Drouard;J. Masson;G. Pelletier

  • The voltage-dependent anion channel, a major component of the tRNA import machinery in plant mitochondria

    Thalia Salinas;Anne-Marie Duchêne;Ludovic Delage;Stefan Nilsson

  • Plant RNases T2, but not Dicer-like proteins, are major players of tRNA-derived fragments biogenesis.

    Cyrille Megel;Guillaume Hummel;Stéphanie Lalande;Elodie Ubrig

  • A global picture of tRNA genes in plant genomes.

    Morgane Michaud;Valérie Cognat;Anne-Marie Duchêne;Laurence Maréchal-Drouard

  • A family of RRM-type RNA-binding proteins specific to plant mitochondria

    Matthieu Vermel;Benoit Guermann;Ludovic Delage;Jean-Michel Grienenberger

  • A potato mitochondrial isoleucine tRNA is coded for by a mitochondrial gene possessing a methionine anticodon

    Frédérique Weber;André Dietrich;Jacques-Henry Weil;Laurence Maréchal-Drouard

  • A single gene of chloroplast origin codes for mitochondrial and chloroplastic methionyl–tRNA synthetase in Arabidopsis thaliana

    B. Menand;L. Maréchal-Drouard;W. Sakamoto;A. Dietrich

  • Editing and import: strategies for providing plant mitochondria with a complete set of functional transfer RNAs.

    A. Dietrich;I. Small;A. Cosset;J.H. Weil

  • A single base change prevents import of cytosolic tRNAAla into mitochondria in transgenic plants

    Andre Dietrich;Laurence Marechal-Drouard;Vera Carneiro;Anne Cosset

  • The nuclear and organellar tRNA-derived RNA fragment population in Arabidopsis thaliana is highly dynamic.

    Valérie Cognat;Geoffrey Morelle;Geoffrey Morelle;Cyrille Megel;Stéphanie Lalande

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Small
Ian Small University of Western Australia
André Schneider
André Schneider University of Bern
Catherine Florentz
Catherine Florentz University of Strasbourg
Yasukazu Nakamura
Yasukazu Nakamura National Institute of Genetics
Takayuki Kohchi
Takayuki Kohchi Kyoto University
Frédéric Berger
Frédéric Berger Austrian Academy of Sciences
Georges Pelletier
Georges Pelletier INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Valérie Barbe
Valérie Barbe Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
John L. Bowman
John L. Bowman Monash University
Pierre Saumitou-Laprade
Pierre Saumitou-Laprade University of Lille

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