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Nancy Guillén

Nancy Guillén

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Microbiology

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48
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7614
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4702
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Overview

Nancy Guillén is affiliated with the Institut Pasteur in France and has a research focus that spans medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work encompasses a range of topics primarily related to infectious diseases, molecular biology, and parasitology.

The main fields of study represented in Guillén's research include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these fields, Guillén's subfields of study highlight a concentration on:

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Molecular Biology
  • Surgery
  • Parasitology
  • Biophysics

Their major research topics focus on several areas, including:

  • Amoebic Infections and Treatments
  • Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics
  • Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis

Guillén has published in diverse venues with a concentration in microbiology and infectious diseases research journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Microorganisms
  • Virulence
  • mBio
  • Patterns
  • Molecular Microbiology

Recent prominent papers authored or co-authored by Guillén include:

  • Pathogenicity and virulence of Entamoeba histolytica, the agent of amoebiasis, published in 2022 in Virulence
  • Signals and signal transduction pathways in Entamoeba histolytica during the life cycle and when interacting with bacteria or human cells, published in 2020 in Molecular Microbiology

Additional papers with collaborative authorship where Guillén contributed include:

  • Queuine Is a Nutritional Regulator of Entamoeba histolytica Response to Oxidative Stress and a Virulence Attenuator, 2021, mBio
  • Bioimage Analysis and Cell Motility, 2021, Patterns
  • Human intestinal models to study interactions between intestine and microbes, 2020, Open Biology

Frequent co-authors who regularly partner with Guillén's research efforts are:

  • Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marín
  • Jean-Yves Coppée
  • Hugo Varet
  • Rachel Legendre
  • Aleix Boquet-Pujadas

Best Publications

  • The genome of the protist parasite Entamoeba histolytica

    Brendan Loftus;Iain Anderson;Rob Davies;U. Cecilia M. Alsmark

  • Segmentation and tracking of migrating cells in videomicroscopy with parametric active contours: a tool for cell-based drug testing

    C. Zimmer;E. Labruyere;V. Meas-Yedid;N. Guillen

  • Structure and content of the Entamoeba histolytica genome.

    Clark Cg;Alsmark Uc;Tazreiter M;Saito-Nakano Y

  • High-quality genome (re)assembly using chromosomal contact data

    Hervé H Marie-Nelly;Martial M Marbouty;Axel A Cournac;Axel A Cournac;Jean-François Flot

  • 3-D Active Meshes: Fast Discrete Deformable Models for Cell Tracking in 3-D Time-Lapse Microscopy

    A Dufour;R Thibeaux;E Labruyere;N Guillen

  • An ex-vivo human intestinal model to study Entamoeba histolytica pathogenesis.

    Devendra Bansal;Patrick Ave;Sophie Kerneis;Pascal Frileux

  • Signalization and cytoskeleton activity through myosin IB during the early steps of phagocytosis in Entamoeba histolytica: a proteomic approach

    Sabrina Marion;Christine Laurent;Nancy Guillén

  • Dynamic instability of the intracellular pressure drives bleb-based motility.

    Benoît Maugis;Benoît Maugis;Jan Brugués;Pierre Nassoy;Pierre Nassoy;Nancy Guillen;Nancy Guillen

  • Sequence and transcription mapping of Bacillus subtilis competence genes comB and comA, one of which is related to a family of bacterial regulatory determinants.

    Y. Weinrauch;N. Guillen;David Dubnau

  • Myosin IB from Entamoeba histolytica is involved in phagocytosis of human erythrocytes.

    Heike Voigt;Jean-Christophe Olivo;Philippe Sansonetti;Nancy Guillén

  • Virulence and virulence factors in Entamoeba histolytica, the agent of human amoebiasis

    Daniela M. Faust;Nancy Guillen;Nancy Guillen

  • Calcium binding protein 1 of the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica interacts with actin and is involved in cytoskeleton dynamics.

    Nivedita Sahoo;Elisabeth Labruyère;Sudha Bhattacharya;P. Sen

  • Identification of the Virulence Landscape Essential for Entamoeba histolytica Invasion of the Human Colon

    Roman Thibeaux;Christian Weber;Chung-Chau Hon;Marie-Agnès Dillies

  • Double-stranded RNA mediates homology-dependant gene silencing of γ-tubulin in the human parasite Entamoeba histolytica

    Laurence Vayssié;Miguel Vargas;Christian Weber;Nancy Guillén

  • Molecular cloning and characterization of comC, a late competence gene of Bacillus subtilis.

    S Mohan;J Aghion;N Guillen;D Dubnau

  • Virulence and Functions of Myosin II Are Inhibited by Overexpression of Light Meromyosin in Entamoeba histolytica

    Philippe Arhets;Jean-Christophe Olivo;Pierre Gounon;Philippe Sansonetti

  • Role of signalling and cytoskeletal rearrangements in the pathogenesis of Entamoeba histolytica.

    Nancy Guillén

  • THE SMALL GTP-BINDING PROTEIN RACG REGULATES UROID FORMATION IN THE PROTOZOAN PARASITE ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA

    N. Guillen;P. Boquet;P. Sansonetti

  • Stress by heat shock induces massive down regulation of genes and allows differential allelic expression of the Gal/GalNAc lectin in Entamoeba histolytica.

    Christian Weber;Ghislaine Guigon;Christiane Bouchier;Lionel Frangeul

  • Myosin II and the Gal-GalNAc lectin play a crucial role in tissue invasion by Entamoeba histolytica.

    Evelyne Coudrier;François Amblard;Christophe Zimmer;Pascal Roux

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippe J. Sansonetti
Philippe J. Sansonetti Institut Pasteur
Jean-Yves Coppée
Jean-Yves Coppée Institut Pasteur
Neil Hall
Neil Hall Norwich Research Park
Pierre Gounon
Pierre Gounon Université Côte d'Azur
Matthias Leippe
Matthias Leippe Kiel University
Michel Huerre
Michel Huerre Institut Pasteur
Egbert Tannich
Egbert Tannich Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
David Dubnau
David Dubnau Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Claire Wilhelm
Claire Wilhelm Sorbonne University

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