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Monica Thelestam

Monica Thelestam

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
46
Citations
5776
World Ranking
19016
National Ranking
302

Overview

Monica Thelestam is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Their research spans multiple scientific disciplines including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Materials Science.

Thelestam's main subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Surgery, and Materials Chemistry. Their work notably covers topics such as Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research, Pancreatic function and diabetes, and Enzyme Structure and Function.

Research publications are primarily found in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, reflecting focused contributions in molecular biology and related fields.

One recent paper authored by Thelestam addresses cellular metabolism and biochemical pathways: "Defects in Galactose Metabolism and Glycoconjugate Biosynthesis in a UDP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase-Deficient Cell Line Are Reversed by Adding Galactose to the Growth Medium," published in 2020 in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

Frequent collaborators in Thelestam's work include Christelle Durrant, J.I. Fuehring, Alexandra Willemetz, Dominique Chrétien, and G Sala, who have co-authored research publications alongside Thelestam.

Best Publications

  • Large clostridial cytotoxins — a family of glycosyltransferases modifying small GTP-binding proteins

    Christoph von Eichel-Streiber;Patrice Boquet;Markus Sauerborn;Monica Thelestam

  • Ras, Rap, and Rac Small GTP-binding Proteins Are Targets for Clostridium sordellii Lethal Toxin Glucosylation

    Michel R. Popoff;Esteban Chaves-Olarte;Emmanuel Lemichez;Emmanuel Lemichez;Christoph von Eichel-Streiber

  • The Haemophilus ducreyi Cytolethal Distending Toxin Induces Cell Cycle Arrest and Apoptosis via the DNA Damage Checkpoint Pathways

    Ximena Cortes-Bratti;Christina Karlsson;Teresa Lagergård;Monica Thelestam

  • Toxins A and B from Clostridium difficile differ with respect to enzymatic potencies, cellular substrate specificities, and surface binding to cultured cells.

    Esteban Chaves-Olarte;Manfred Weidmann;Christoph von Eichel-Streiber;Monica Thelestam

  • The Haemophilus ducreyi cytolethal distending toxin induces DNA double-strand breaks and promotes ATM-dependent activation of RhoA

    Teresa Frisan;Ximena Cortes-Bratti;Esteban Chaves-Olarte;Esteban Chaves-Olarte;Bo Stenerlöw

  • The cytolethal distending toxin from the chancroid bacterium Haemophilus ducreyi induces cell-cycle arrest in the G2 phase

    Ximena Cortes-Bratti;Esteban Chaves-Olarte;Teresa Lagergård;Monica Thelestam

  • Classification of microbial, plant and animal cytolysins based on their membrane-damaging effects on human fibroblasts

    Monica Thelestam;Roland Möllby

  • A Novel Cytotoxin from Clostridium difficileSerogroup F Is a Functional Hybrid between Two Other Large Clostridial Cytotoxins

    Esteban Chaves-Olarte;Esteban Chaves-Olarte;Peter Löw;Enrique Freer;Thomas Norlin

  • GTPases of the Rho subfamily are required for Brucella abortus internalization in nonprofessional phagocytes: direct activation of Cdc42.

    Caterina Guzmán-Verri;Esteban Chaves-Olarte;Christoph von Eichel-Streiber;Ignacio López-Goñi

  • Revised nomenclature of Clostridium difficile toxins and associated genes.

    Maja Rupnik;Bruno Dupuy;Neil F Fairweather;Dale N Gerding

  • Cytolethal distending toxins.

    M Thelestam;T Frisan

  • The Haemophilus ducreyi cytolethal distending toxin activates sensors of DNA damage and repair complexes in proliferating and non-proliferating cells.

    LiQi Li;Anatoly Sharipo;Esteban Chaves-Olarte;Esteban Chaves-Olarte;Maria G. Masucci

  • Internalization of Clostridium difficile cytotoxin into cultured human lung fibroblasts.

    Inger Florin;Monica Thelestam

  • Cellular internalization of cytolethal distending toxin: a new end to a known pathway.

    Lina Guerra;Ken Teter;Brendan N. Lilley;Bo Stenerlöw

  • Cellular internalization of cytolethal distending toxin from Haemophilus ducreyi.

    Ximena Cortes-Bratti;Esteban Chaves-Olarte;Teresa Lagergård;Monica Thelestam

  • Staphylococcal alpha toxin — recent advances

    Monica Thelestam;Lennart Blomqvist

  • Cellular internalisation of Clostridium difficile toxin A.

    Birgitta Henriques;Inger Florin;Monica Thelestam

  • The projection structure of Perfringolysin O (Clostridium perfringens θ-toxin)

    Anders Olofsson;Hans Hebert;Monica Thelestam

  • Clostridium difficile toxin A and its effects on cells.

    Carla Fiorentini;Monica Thelestam

  • Effects of Staphylococcal Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Gamma-Hemolysins on Human Diploid Fibroblasts and HeLa Cells: Evaluation of a New Quantitative Assay for Measuring Cell Damage

    Monica Thelestam;Roland Möllby;Torkel Wadström

Frequent Co-Authors

José María Gutiérrez
José María Gutiérrez University of Costa Rica
Roland Möllby
Roland Möllby Karolinska Institute
Patrice Boquet
Patrice Boquet Grenoble Alpes University
Richard W. Titball
Richard W. Titball University of Exeter
Tomas Bergman
Tomas Bergman Karolinska Institute
Bruno Lomonte
Bruno Lomonte University of Costa Rica
Hans Jörnvall
Hans Jörnvall Karolinska Institute
Teresa Lagergård
Teresa Lagergård University of Gothenburg
Edgardo Moreno
Edgardo Moreno National University of Costa Rica
Manfred Weidmann
Manfred Weidmann University of Stirling

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