Sylvain Blanquet

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• Extent of N-terminal methionine excision from Escherichia coli proteins is governed by the side-chain length of the penultimate amino acid.

  P H Hirel;M J Schmitter;P Dessen;G Fayat

  1116
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• Methionine as translation start signal: A review of the enzymes of the pathway in Escherichia coli

  T. Meinnel;Y. Mechulam;S. Blanquet

  298
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• Sequence similarities among the family of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases

  Codjo Hountondji;Philippe Dessen;Sylvain Blanquet

  250
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• Disruption of the gene for Met-tRNA(fMet) formyltransferase severely impairs growth of Escherichia coli.

  J M Guillon;Y Mechulam;J M Schmitter;S Blanquet

  217
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• Metabolism of D-aminoacyl-tRNAs in Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells.

  Julie Soutourina;Pierre Plateau;Sylvain Blanquet

  186
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• Zinc(II)-dependent synthesis of diadenosine 5', 5"' -P(1) ,P(4) -tetraphosphate by Escherichia coli and yeast phenylalanyl transfer ribonucleic acid synthetases.

  Pierre Plateau;Jean Francois Mayaux;Sylvain Blanquet

  176
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• Sequence of a 1.26-kb DNA fragment containing the structural gene for E.coli initiation factor IF3: presence of an AUU initiator codon.

  C. Sacerdot;G. Fayat;P. Dessen;M. Springer

  170
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• Crystal structure of methionyl-tRNAfMet transformylase complexed with the initiator formyl-methionyl-tRNAfMet.

  Emmanuelle Schmitt;Michel Panvert;Sylvain Blanquet;Yves Mechulam

  160
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• Extracellular Production of Hydrogen Selenide Accounts for Thiol-assisted Toxicity of Selenite against Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  Agathe Tarze;Marc Dauplais;Ioana Grigoras;Myriam Lazard

  152
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• Control of peptide deformylase activity by metal cations

  Stéphane Ragusa;Sylvain Blanquet;Thierry Meinnel

  152
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• Characterization of the Thermus thermophilus locus encoding peptide deformylase and methionyl-tRNA(fMet) formyltransferase.

  T Meinnel;S Blanquet

  145
  Citations

• Crystal structure of Escherichia coli methionyl-tRNA synthetase highlights species-specific features.

  Yves Mechulam;Emmanuelle Schmitt;Laurent Maveyraud;Charles Zelwer

  142
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• The mechanism of action of methionyl-tRNA synthetase from Escherichia coli. 1. Fluorescence studies on tRNAMet binding as a function of ligands, ions and pH.

  Sylvain Blanquet;Motohiro Iwatsubo;Jean-Pierre Waller

  138
  Citations

• Escherichia coli phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase operon region: Evidence for an attenuation mechanism. Identification of the gene for the ribosomal protein L20

  Guy Fayat;Jean-François Mayaux;Christine Sacerdot;Michel Fromant

  138
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• The mechanism of action of methionyl-tRNA synthetase. 3. Ion requirements and kinetic parameters of the ATP-PPi exchange and methionine-transfer reactions catalyzed by the native and trypsin-modified enzymes.

  Françoise Lawrence;Sylvain Blanquet;Maryse Poiret;Malka Robert-Gero

  135
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• In vivo synthesis of adenylylated bis(5'-nucleosidyl) tetraphosphates (Ap4N) by Escherichia coli aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases

  Annie Brevet;Josiane Chen;Francoise Leveque;Pierre Plateau

  134
  Citations

• The large subunit of initiation factor aIF2 is a close structural homologue of elongation factors

  Emmanuelle Schmitt;Sylvain Blanquet;Yves Mechulam

  132
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• Nucleotides of tRNA governing the specificity of Escherichia coli methionyl-tRNAfMet formyltransferase

  Jean-Michel Guillon;Thierry Meinnel;Yves Mechulam;Christine Lazennec

  129
  Citations

• Structure-function relationships within the peptide deformylase family. Evidence for a conserved architecture of the active site involving three conserved motifs and a metal ion

  Thierry Meinnel;Christine Lazennec;Stéphane Villoing;Sylvain Blanquet

  124
  Citations

• The mechanism of reaction of methionyl-tRNA synthetase from Escherichia coli. Interaction of the enzyme with ligands of the amino-acid-activation reaction.

  Sylvain Blanquet;Guy Fayat;Jean‐Pierre Waller;Motohiro Iwatsubo

  123
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