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2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
83
Citations
20237
World Ranking
3010
National Ranking
76

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in France Leader Award

Overview

Yves Mély is affiliated with the University of Strasbourg in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a specialization in Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Virology, Infectious Diseases, and Biophysics.

Their research encompasses several main topics, including:

  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms
  • HIV/AIDS Drug Development and Treatment
  • Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies

Yves Mély has coauthored numerous publications with frequent collaborators such as Ludovic Richert, Pascal Didier, Nicolas Humbert, Éléonore Réal, and Julien Godet.

Publications by Yves Mély have appeared frequently in several scientific venues, notably:

  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Methods and Applications in Fluorescence
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Viruses
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Yves Mély include:

  • Fundamental photophysics of isomorphic and expanded fluorescent nucleoside analogues, 2021, Chemical Society Reviews
  • What Makes Thienoguanosine an Outstanding Fluorescent DNA Probe?, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Upconversion in a d-f [RuYb3] Supramolecular Assembly, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Controlled Synthesis of NaYF4:Yb,Er Upconversion Nanocrystals as Potential Probe for Bioimaging: A Focus on Heat Treatment, 2021, ACS Applied Nano Materials
  • Multiband emission from single β-NaYF4(Yb,Er) nanoparticles at high excitation power densities and comparison to ensemble studies, 2021, Nano Research

Best Publications

  • Switchable nile red-based probe for cholesterol and lipid order at the outer leaflet of biomembranes.

    Oleksandr A. Kucherak;Sule Oncul;Zeinab Darwich;Dmytro A. Yushchenko

  • Monitoring biophysical properties of lipid membranes by environment-sensitive fluorescent probes.

    Alexander P. Demchenko;Yves Mély;Guy Duportail;Andrey S. Klymchenko

  • Fluorescent biomembrane probe for ratiometric detection of apoptosis.

    Vasyl V. Shynkar;Andrey S. Klymchenko;Corinne Kunzelmann;Guy Duportail

  • Monitoring of the Formation and Dissociation of Polyethylenimine/DNA Complexes by Two Photon Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy

    Jean Pierre Clamme;Joel Azoulay;Yves Mély

  • Fluorene Analogues of Prodan with Superior Fluorescence Brightness and Solvatochromism

    Oleksandr A. Kucherak;Pascal Didier;Yves Mély;Andrey S. Klymchenko

  • Role of endocytosis in the transfection of L929 fibroblasts by polyethylenimine/DNA complexes.

    Arlette Rémy-Kristensen;Jean-Pierre Clamme;Constance Vuilleumier;Jean-Georges Kuhry

  • MemBright: A Family of Fluorescent Membrane Probes for Advanced Cellular Imaging and Neuroscience

    Mayeul Collot;Pichandi Ashokkumar;Halina Anton;Emmanuel Boutant

  • A family of plasmodesmal proteins with receptor-like properties for plant viral movement proteins.

    Khalid Amari;Emmanuel Boutant;Christina Hofmann;Corinne Schmitt-Keichinger

  • Collective fluorescence switching of counterion-assembled dyes in polymer nanoparticles.

    Andreas Reisch;Pascal Didier;Ludovic Richert;Sule Oncul

  • Common architecture of nuclear receptor heterodimers on DNA direct repeat elements with different spacings

    Natacha Rochel;Fabrice Ciesielski;Julien Godet;Edelmiro Moman

  • Convenient method to access new 4,4-dialkoxy- and 4,4-diaryloxy-diaza-s-indacene dyes: Synthesis and spectroscopic evaluation.

    Chouaib Tahtaoui;Cécile Thomas;François Rohmer;Philippe Klotz

  • Picosecond Time-Resolved Fluorescence Studies Are Consistent with Reversible Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer in 4‘-(Dialkylamino)-3-hydroxyflavones

    Vasyl V. Shynkar;Yves Mely;Guy Duportail;Etienne Piemont

  • Novel Two-Band Ratiometric Fluorescence Probes with Different Location and Orientation in Phospholipid Membranes

    Andrey S Klymchenko;Andrey S Klymchenko;Guy Duportail;Turan Ozturk;Vasyl G Pivovarenko

  • Liquid Ordered and Gel Phases of Lipid Bilayers: Fluorescent Probes Reveal Close Fluidity but Different Hydration

    Gora M’Baye;Yves Mély;Guy Duportail;Andrey S. Klymchenko

  • Conformational behaviour of the active and inactive forms of the nucleocapsid NCp7 of HIV-1 studied by 1H NMR

    N. Morellet;H. de Rocquigny;Y. Mély;N. Jullian

  • Nucleic acid sequence discrimination by the HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein NCp7: a fluorescence study.

    C Vuilleumier;E Bombarda;N Morellet;D Gérard

  • Highly lipophilic fluorescent dyes in nano-emulsions: towards bright non-leaking nano-droplets

    Andrey S. Klymchenko;Emilie Roger;Nicolas Anton;Halina Anton

  • Flexible Nature and Specific Functions of the HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein

    Jean-Luc Darlix;Julien Godet;Julien Godet;Roland Ivanyi-Nagy;Philippe Fossé

  • Giant light-harvesting nanoantenna for single-molecule detection in ambient light

    Kateryna Trofymchuk;Andreas Reisch;Pascal Didier;François Fras

  • Bimodal Distribution and Fluorescence Response of Environment-Sensitive Probes in Lipid Bilayers

    Andrey S. Klymchenko;Guy Duportail;Alexander P. Demchenko;Yves Mély

  • Bright and photostable push-pull pyrene dye visualizes lipid order variation between plasma and intracellular membranes

    Yosuke Niko;Pascal Didier;Yves Mely;Gen-ichi Konishi

  • HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein activates transient melting of least stable parts of the secondary structure of TAR and its complementary sequence.

    Serena Bernacchi;Stoyl Stoylov;Etienne Piémont;Damien Ficheux

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrey S. Klymchenko
Andrey S. Klymchenko University of Strasbourg
Bernard P. Roques
Bernard P. Roques Université Paris Cité
Alexander P. Demchenko
Alexander P. Demchenko National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Thierry F. Vandamme
Thierry F. Vandamme University of Strasbourg
Maurizio Botta
Maurizio Botta University of Siena
J.-L. Darlix
J.-L. Darlix Grenoble Alpes University
Otto S. Wolfbeis
Otto S. Wolfbeis University of Regensburg
Manfred Heinlein
Manfred Heinlein University of Strasbourg
Roland Marquet
Roland Marquet University of Strasbourg
Patrick Schultz
Patrick Schultz Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology

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