Entries by Eric

Tail length

Santin Y.G., Doan T., Journet L., Cascales E.. 2019. Cell width dictates Type VI secretion tail length. Curr. Biol. 29, 3707-3713 PMID: 31630952 see more >

01 February 2019

Welcome to Amaury and Dukas ! Amaury got his PhD from the University of Montpellier (team of Alain Givaudan), working on DNA methylation in Photorhabdus. Dukas got his PhD from the University of Brussels (Belgium) (team of Laurence Van Melderen/Abel Garcia-Pino), working on toxins/anti-toxins. They will work together to decipher the role of a T6SS […]

22 January 2019

Yassine presented a poster on his work on the T6SS baseplate at the 13thannual Salk Fondation/ Ipsen science symposium on biological complexity.

05 January 2019

Yoann‘s article on TagA was awarded “Article of the month” from the Société Française de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire (French Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology).

10 December 2018

The team was awarded the “Coup d’Elan pour la Recherche Française” of the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller. The ceremony was hold at the Institut de France. Here is the link for the team presentation.

T6SS-Review ASM

Cherrak Y., Flaugnatti N., Durand E., Journet L., Cascales E.. 2019. Structure and activity of the type VI secretion system. Microbiol. Spectr. 7, PSIB-0031-2019 PMID: 31298206 see more >

TagL

Santin Y.G., Camy C.E., Zoued A., Doan T., Aschtgen M.S., Cascales E.. 2019. Role and recruitment of the TagL peptidoglycan-binding protein during Type VI secretion system biogenesis. J. Bacteriol. 201, e00173-19 PMID: 30910811 see more >

Cryo-EM TssJLM

Rapisarda C., Cherrak Y., Kooger R., Schmidt V., Pellarin R., Logger L., Cascales E., Pilhofer M., Durand E., Fronzes R. 2019. In situ and high-resolution cryo-EM structure of a bacterial Type VI secretion system membrane complex. EMBO J. 38, e100886 PMID: 30877094 see more >

13 November 2018

Eric gave a talk on T6SS for the Microbiology PhD program at the Federal University of Rio (Brazil). (Invited by Leticia Lery).

12 Novembre 2018

Eric gave a talk on T6SS at the Departamento de Microbiologia of the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) (Invitation by Chuck Farah and Cristina Alvarez Martinez.