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Overview

Richard Giegé is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. The main fields of study for their research focus on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular concentration in molecular biology.

Their work explores several scientific topics, including:

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Genomics and phylogenetic studies
  • RNA research and splicing

Recent publications by Richard Giegé include:

  • "The tRNA identity landscape for aminoacylation and beyond," published in 2023 in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Transfer RNA Recognition and Aminoacylation by Synthetases," published in 2021 in Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

Frequent co-authorships include work with Gilbert Eriani.

The primary publication venues for their articles are:

  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

Richard Giegé has been recognized as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Universal rules and idiosyncratic features in tRNA identity

    Richard Giegé;Marie Sissler;Catherine Florentz

  • An operational RNA code for amino acids and possible relationship to genetic code.

    Paul Schimmel;Richard Giege;Dino Moras;Shigeyuki Yokoyama

  • Search for characteristic structural features of mammalian mitochondrial tRNAs.

    Mark Helm;Hervé Brulé;Dagmar Friede;Richard Giegé

  • Crystal structure of yeast tRNAAsp.

    D Moras;M B Comarmond;J Fischer;R Weiss

  • A Watson-Crick base-pair-disrupting methyl group (m1A9) is sufficient for cloverleaf folding of human mitochondrial tRNALys.

    Mark Helm;Richard Giegé;Catherine Florentz

  • The presence of modified nucleotides is required for cloverleaf folding of a human mitochondrial tRNA

    Mark Helm;Hervé Brulé;Hervé Brulé;Françoise Degoul;Claude Cepanec

  • tRNA structure and aminoacylation efficiency.

    Richard Giegé;Joseph D. Puglisi;Catherine Florentz

  • Relaxation of a transfer RNA specificity by removal of modified nucleotides.

    Véronique Perret;Angela Garcia;Henri Grosjean;Jean-Pierre Ebel

  • Mutation of the mitochondrial tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase gene, YARS2, causes myopathy, lactic acidosis, and sideroblastic anemia--MLASA syndrome.

    Lisa G. Riley;Sandra Cooper;Sandra Cooper;Peter Hickey;Joëlle Rudinger-Thirion

  • Factors determining the specificity of the tRNA aminoacylation reaction. Non-absolute specificity of tRNA-aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase recognition and particular importance of the maximal velocity.

    J.P. Ebel;R. Giegé;J. Bonnet;D. Kern

  • Identity elements for specific aminoacylation of yeast tRNA(Asp) by cognate aspartyl-tRNA synthetase.

    Joern Pütz;Joseph D. Puglisi;Catherine Florentz;Richard Giegé

  • Structure of transfer RNAs: similarity and variability.

    Richard Giegé;Frank Jühling;Frank Jühling;Joern Pütz;Peter Stadler

  • Ribozyme processed tRNA transcripts with unfriendly internal promoter for T7 RNA polymerase: production and activity

    Pierre Fechter;Joëlle Rudinger;Richard Giegé;Anne Théobald-Dietrich

  • Toward the full set of human mitochondrial aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases: characterization of AspRS and TyrRS.

    Luc Bonnefond;Aurélie Fender;Joëlle Rudinger-Thirion;Richard Giegé

  • The crystallization of biological macromolecules from precipitates : evidence for Ostwald ripening

    Joseph D. Ng;Bernard Lorber;Jean Witz;Anne Théobald-Dietrich

  • Diagnostic of precipitant for biomacromolecule crystallization by quasi-elastic light-scattering.

    V. Mikol;E. Hirsch;R. Giegé

  • Conformation in solution of yeast tRNA(Asp) transcripts deprived of modified nucleotides.

    Véronique Perret;A Garcia;J Puglisi;H Grosjean

  • A historical perspective on protein crystallization from 1840 to the present day

    Richard Giegé

  • Enzymatic Formation of Modified Nucleosides in tRNA: Dependence on tRNA Architecture

    Henri Grosjean;Johan Edqvist;Kerstin B. Stråby;Richard Giegé

  • Yeast tRNAAsp tertiary structure in solution and areas of interaction of the tRNA with aspartyl-tRNA synthetase. A comparative study of the yeast phenylalanine system by phosphate alkylation experiments with ethylnitrosourea.

    Pascale Romby;Dino Moras;Marc Bergdoll;Philippe Dumas

  • Molecular recognition of the identity-determinant set of isoleucine transfer RNA from Escherichia coli.

    Osamu Nureki;Tatsuya Niimi;Tomonari Muramatsu;Hideo Kanno

  • Toward a more complete view of tRNA biology

    Richard Giegé

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine Florentz
Catherine Florentz University of Strasbourg
Jean-Pierre Ebel
Jean-Pierre Ebel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Dino Moras
Dino Moras Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology
Eric Westhof
Eric Westhof University of Strasbourg
Pascale Romby
Pascale Romby Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Mark Helm
Mark Helm Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Gérard Keith
Gérard Keith Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Henri Grosjean
Henri Grosjean Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Valentin V. Vlassov
Valentin V. Vlassov Russian Academy of Sciences
Joseph D. Puglisi
Joseph D. Puglisi Stanford University

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