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Overview

Muriel Delepierre is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with contributions spanning related subfields such as Molecular Biology, Environmental Chemistry, Ocean Engineering, and Genetics.

The scientist has published works dealing with various aspects of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, marine toxins, and ion channel regulation and function. Their main topics of study include:

  • Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study
  • Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
  • Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
  • Ion Channel Regulation and Function
  • Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies

Muriel Delepierre's recent publications include investigative studies on marine toxins and venom peptides:

  • "Cyclic imine toxins survey in coastal european shellfish samples: Bioaccumulation and mode of action of 28-O-palmitoyl ester of pinnatoxin-G. first report of portimine-A bioaccumulation.", 2020, published in Harmful Algae
  • "The three-dimensional structure of the toxic peptide Cl13 from the scorpion Centruroides limpidus", 2020, published in Toxicon

Their collaboration network includes frequent coauthors such as Rómulo Aráoz, Paul Barnes, Véronique Séchet, Sophie Zinn-Justin, and Jordi Molgó. This reflects a multidisciplinary interaction with experts focused on marine biochemistry and toxinology.

Most of Muriel Delepierre's publications are found in the journals Harmful Algae and Toxicon, both of which concentrate on chemical biology, toxinology, and environmental impacts of marine organisms. The research outputs cover both molecular mechanisms and environmental consequences of toxic substances produced by marine life.

Best Publications

  • The crystal structure of HasA, a hemophore secreted by Serratia marcescens.

    Pascal Arnoux;Richard Haser;Nadia Izadi;Anne Lecroisey

  • Galactosaminogalactan, a New Immunosuppressive Polysaccharide of Aspergillus fumigatus

    Thierry Fontaine;Aurélie Delangle;Catherine Simenel;Bernadette Coddeville

  • Cell Wall β-(1,6)-Glucan of Saccharomyces cerevisiae STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION AND IN SITU SYNTHESIS

    Vishukumar Aimanianda;Cécile Clavaud;Catherine Simenel;Thierry Fontaine

  • Chemical Structure and Translation Inhibition Studies of the Antibiotic Microcin C7

    J. Iñaki Guijarro;José Eduardo González-Pastor;Françoise Baleux;José Luis San Millán

  • A novel beta-(1-3)-glucanosyltransferase from the cell wall of Aspergillus fumigatus.

    Robbert P. Hartland;Thierry Fontaine;Jean-Paul Debeaupuis;Catherine Simenel

  • Purification and Characterization of an Extracellular Heme-Binding Protein, HasA, Involved in Heme Iron Acquisition†

    Nadia Izadi;Yann Henry;Jean Haladjian;Michel E. Goldberg

  • The Dual Activity Responsible for the Elongation and Branching of β-(1,3)-Glucan in the Fungal Cell Wall.

    Vishukumar Aimanianda;Catherine Simenel;Cecile Garnaud;Cecile Clavaud

  • Mechanisms of hydrogen exchange in proteins from nuclear magnetic resonance studies of individual tryptophan indole NH hydrogens in lysozyme.

    Randall E. Wedin;Muriel Delepierre;Christopher M. Dobson;Flemming M. Poulsen

  • Aerial Exposure to the Bacterial Volatile Compound Trimethylamine Modifies Antibiotic Resistance of Physically Separated Bacteria by Raising Culture Medium pH

    Sylvie Létoffé;Bianca Audrain;Bianca Audrain;Steve P. Bernier;Muriel Delepierre;Muriel Delepierre

  • Characterization of a new β(1-3)glucan branching activity of Aspergillus fumigatus

    Amandine Gastebois;Isabelle Mouyna;Catherine Simenel;Cécile Clavaud

  • Thermodynamics of heme binding to the HasA(SM) hemophore: effect of mutations at three key residues for heme uptake.

    Clarisse Deniau;Robert Gilli;Nadia Izadi-Pruneyre;Sylvie Létoffé

  • Electrostatic effects and hydrogen exchange behaviour in proteins: The pH dependence of exchange rates in lysozyme☆

    Muriel Delepierre;Muriel Delepierre;Christopher M. Dobson;Christopher M. Dobson;Martin Karplus;Martin Karplus;Flemming M. Poulsen;Flemming M. Poulsen

  • Solution structure of a non-palindromic 16 base-pair DNA related to the HIV-1 kappa B site: evidence for BI-BII equilibrium inducing a global dynamic curvature of the duplex.

    Carine Tisné;Edith Hantz;Brigitte Hartmann;Muriel Delepierre

  • Isolation and Characterization of an Endogenous Peptide from Rat Brain Interacting Specifically with the Serotonergic 1B Receptor Subtypes

    Jean-Claude Rousselle;Olivier Massot;Muriel Delepierre;Emilie Zifa

  • Zinc, a novel structural element found in the family of bacterial adenylate kinases.

    Philippe Glaser;Elena Presecan;Muriel Delepierre;Witold K. Surewicz

  • Comparative Study of Purine and Pyrimidine Nucleoside Analogues Acting on the Thymidylate Kinases of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and of Humans

    Sylvie Pochet;Laurence Dugué;Gilles Labesse;Muriel Delepierre

  • Glycosylinositolphosphoceramides in Aspergillus fumigatus

    Catherine Simenel;Bernadette Coddeville;Muriel Delepierre;Jean-Paul Latgé

  • An α-Helical Signal in the Cytosolic Domain of the Interleukin 2 Receptor β Chain Mediates Sorting Towards Degradation after Endocytosis

    Agathe Subtil;Muriel Delepierre;Alice Dautry-Varsat

  • Kinetics of Secondary Structure Recovery during the Refolding of Reduced Hen Egg White Lysozyme

    Pascale Roux;Muriel Delepierre;Michel E. Goldberg;Alain-F. Chaffotte

  • Histidine pKa shifts and changes of tautomeric states induced by the binding of gallium-protoporphyrin IX in the hemophore HasASM

    Nicolas Wolff;Clarisse Deniau;Sylvie Létoffé;Catherine Simenel

  • Direct-detected 13C NMR to investigate the iron(III) hemophore HasA.

    Célia Caillet-Saguy;Muriel Delepierre;Anne Lecroisey;Ivano Bertini

  • Studies of beta-sheet structure in lysozyme by proton nuclear magnetic resonance. Assignments and analysis of spin-spin coupling constants.

    Muriel Delepierre;Christopher M. Dobson;Flemming M. Poulsen

  • Protein folding intermediates with rapidly exchangeable amide protons contain authentic hydrogen-bonded secondary structures

    J I Guijarro;M Jackson;A F Chaffotte;M Delepierre

  • Toward a better understanding of the basis of the molecular mimicry of polysaccharide antigens by peptides: the example of Shigella flexneri 5a.

    Marie-Jeanne Clément;Antoine Fortuné;Armelle Phalipon;Véronique Marcel-Peyre

  • Phosphorylation mechanism of nucleoside diphosphate kinase: 31P-nuclear magnetic resonance studies.

    Anne Lecroisey;Ioan Lascu;Anthony Bominaar;Michel Veron

  • Exchange of individual hydrogens for a protein in a crystal and in solution

    G.A. Bentley;M. Delepierre;C.M. Dobson;R.E. Wedin

  • Deciphering the Structural Role of Histidine 83 for Heme Binding in Hemophore HasA

    Célia Caillet-Saguy;Paola Turano;Mario Piccioli;Gudrun S. Lukat-Rodgers

  • C-Terminal Secretion Signal of an Erwinia chrysanthemi Protease Secreted by a Signal Peptide-Independent Pathway: Proton NMR and CD Conformational Studies in Membrane-Mimetic Environments

    Nicolas Wolff;Jean-Marc Ghigo;Philippe Delepelaire;Cecile Wandersman

  • The isolated C-terminal (F2) fragment of the Escherichia coli tryptophan synthase beta 2-subunit folds into a stable, organized nonnative conformation.

    Alain Chaffotte;Yvonne Guillou;Muriel Delepierre;Hans Jurgen Hinz

  • The crystal structure of the secreted dimeric form of the hemophore HasA reveals a domain swapping with an exchanged heme ligand.

    Mirjam Czjzek;Sylvie Létoffé;Cécile Wandersman;Muriel Delepierre

  • Conformational studies of the O-specific polysaccharide of Shigella flexneri 5a and of four related synthetic pentasaccharide fragments using NMR and molecular modeling.

    Marie-Jeanne Clément;Anne Imberty;Armelle Phalipon;Serge Pérez

  • Mapping the interaction between the hemophore HasA and its outer membrane receptor HasR using CRINEPT-TROSY NMR spectroscopy.

    Célia Caillet-Saguy;Mario Piccioli;Paola Turano;Nadia Izadi-Pruneyre

  • Correlation of hydrogen exchange behaviour and thermal stability of lysozyme

    M. Delepierre;C.M. Dobson;S. Selvarajah;R.E. Wedin

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher M. Dobson
Christopher M. Dobson University of Cambridge
Michel Véron
Michel Véron Institut Pasteur
Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus Harvard University
Cécile Wandersman
Cécile Wandersman Institut Pasteur
Abdelkader Namane
Abdelkader Namane Institut Pasteur
Jean-Louis Virelizier
Jean-Louis Virelizier Institut Pasteur
David Prangishvili
David Prangishvili Institut Pasteur
Jean-Marc Ghigo
Jean-Marc Ghigo Institut Pasteur
Philippe Glaser
Philippe Glaser Institut Pasteur
Christine Petit
Christine Petit Université Paris Cité

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