Publications

2023

2023
Molecular Determinants of Fibrillation in a Viral Amyloidogenic Domain from Combined Biochemical and Biophysical Studies

Juliet F Nilsson, Hakima Baroudi, Frank Gondelaud, Giulia Pesce, Christophe Bignon, Denis Ptchelkine, Joseph Chamieh, Hervé Cottet, Andrey V Kajava, Sonia Longhi

International Journal of Molecular Sciences 24:399 (2023)10.3390/ijms24010399

2022

2022
Experimental Evidence of Intrinsic Disorder and Amyloid Formation by the Henipavirus W Proteins

Giulia Pesce, Frank Gondelaud, Denis Ptchelkine, Juliet F Nilsson, Christophe Bignon, Jérémy Cartalas, Patrick Fourquet, Sonia Longhi

International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23:923 (2022)10.3390/ijms23020923

2022
Functional benefit of structural disorder for the replication of measles, Nipah and Hendra viruses

Frank Gondelaud, Giulia Pesce, Juliet F. Nilsson, Christophe Bignon, Denis Ptchelkine, Denis Gerlier, Cyrille Mathieu, Sonia Longhi

Essays in Biochemistry 66:915-934 (2022)10.1042/EBC20220045

2021

2021
The HelQ human DNA repair helicase utilizes a PWI-like domain for DNA loading through interaction with RPA, triggering DNA unwinding by the HelQ helicase core

Tabitha Jenkins, Sarah J Northall, Denis Ptchelkine, Rebecca Lever, Andrew Cubbon, Hannah Betts, Vincenzo Taresco, Christopher D O Cooper, Peter J Mchugh, Panos Soultanas, Edward L Bolt

NAR Cancer 3 (2021)10.1093/narcan/zcaa043

2020

2020
2′-Alkynyl spin-labelling is a minimally perturbing tool for DNA structural analysis

Jack S Hardwick, Marius M Haugland, Afaf H El-Sagheer, Denis Ptchelkine, Frank R Beierlein, Andrew N Lane, Tom Brown, Janet E Lovett, Edward A Anderson

Nucleic Acids Research 48:2830-2840 (2020)10.1093/nar/gkaa086

2019

2019
Optimised oligonucleotide substrates to assay XPF-ERCC1 nuclease activity for the discovery of DNA repair inhibitors

Adam M Thomas, Sanja Brolih, Joanna F Mcgouran, Afaf H El-Sagheer, Denis Ptchelkine, Morgan Jones, Neil Q Mcdonald, Peter J Mchugh, Tom Brown

Chemical Communications 55:11671-11674 (2019)10.1039/c9cc05476f

2017

2017
X-ray crystallography and NMR show that 5-formylcytosine does not change the global structure of DNA

Jack S Hardwick, Denis Ptchelkine, Afaf H El-Sagheer, Ian Tear, Daniel Singleton, Simon E V Phillips, Andrew N Lane, Tom Brown

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 24:544-552 (2017)10.1038/nsmb.3411

2017
Intracellular immunization against HIV infection with an intracellular antibody that mimics HIV integrase binding to the cellular LEDGF protein

Leyuan Bao, Clare Hannon, Abimael Cruz-Mignoni, Denis Ptchelkine, Mei-Yi Sun, Ami Miller, Wilawan Bunjobpol, Camilo E Quevedo, Mariliza Derveni, Jennifer Chambers, Alison Simmons, Simon E V Phillips, Terence H Rabbitts

Scientific Reports 7 (2017)10.1038/s41598-017-16742-2

2017
Unique architecture of thermophilic archaeal virus APBV1 and its genome packaging

Denis Ptchelkine, Ashley Gillum, Tomohiro Mochizuki, Soizick Lucas-Staat, Ying Liu, Mart Krupovic, Simon Phillips, David Prangishvili, Juha Huiskonen

Nature Communications 8:1436 (2017)10.1038/s41467-017-01668-0

2017
RPA activates the XPF-ERCC1 endonuclease to initiate processing of DNA interstrand crosslinks

Ummi B Abdullah, Joanna F Mcgouran, Sanja Brolih, Denis Ptchelkine, Afaf H El‐sagheer, Tom Brown, Peter J Mchugh

EMBO Journal 36:2047-2060 (2017)10.15252/embj.201796664

2012

2012
Structural Framework for Covalent Inhibition of Clostridium botulinum Neurotoxin A by Targeting Cys165.

Enrico A Stura, Laura Le Roux, Karine Guitot, Sandra Garcia, Sarah Bregant, Fabrice Beau, Laura Vera, Guillaume Collet, Denis Ptchelkine, Huseyin Bakirci, Vincent Dive

Journal of Biological Chemistry 287:33607-14 (2012)10.1074/jbc.M112.396697

2011

2011
Mass Spectrometry Reveals Stable Modules in holo and apo RNA Polymerases I and III

Laura A Lane, Carlos Fernández-Tornero, Min Zhou, Nina Morgner, Denis Ptchelkine, Ulrich Steuerwald, Argyris Politis, Doris Lindner, Jelena Gvozdenovic, Anne-Claude Gavin, Christoph W Müller, Carol V Robinson

Structure 19:90-100 (2011)10.1016/j.str.2010.11.009

2010

2010
Structural Basis of TBX5–DNA Recognition: The T-Box Domain in Its DNA-Bound and -Unbound Form

Christian Stirnimann, Denis Ptchelkine, Clemens Grimm, Christoph Müller

Journal of Molecular Biology 400:71-81 (2010)10.1016/j.jmb.2010.04.052

2008

2008
Structural basis for LEAFY floral switch function and similarity with helix-turn-helix proteins.

Cécile Hamès, Denis Ptchelkine, Clemens Grimm, Emmanuel Thevenon, Edwige Moyroud, Francine Gérard, Jean-Louis Martiel, Reyes Benlloch, François Parcy, Christoph W Müller

EMBO Journal 27:2628-37 (2008)10.1038/emboj.2008.184